"Gleanings From an Old News- paper:" On June 17, 1794, was issued the first number of the Lancaster Journal. Its motto was: "Not too rash. Yet not fearful. Open to all parties; yet influenced by none." The paper was issued weekly. The file for 1794 is missing, but after that the volumes are complete. Only in

red-hued ones to- ward the north. The scene vanished, and it was night." �Something similar is to be found on page 122 of Christopher Marshall's diary. Under the date of August 21, 1777, which occurred in this City of Lancaster, Marshall says: "I was at Dr. Neff's, where James Webb, a mason, came for

McDowell, and he launched his paper with the following announcement: "The first number of The Hive is offered to the ladies and gentlemen of Lancaster and its vicinity as a speci- men. The editor or some person au- thorized by him will call in the course of a few days on those subscribers who have not yet

Pennsylvanians, Benjamin Franklin, was the promoter and proprietor of the first printing establishment in the city of Lancaster. His name was not known in the matter at the time, and only came to light a few years ago through the discovery of certain legal documents drawn up at the time. Franklin had been doing

is haunted. For nearly a score of years an old log house, situated along the Manheim and Lancaster pike, near Mechanics- ville, had the reputation of being haunted by spirits. Tradition states that the last tenants of the house were disturbed by strange noises, accom panted by the peculiar habit to