they would suffer harm. We believe, notwith- standing that argument, that we percieve no difficulty and dare to lay our proposi- tion for a third newspaper before the es- teemed public. Lancaster, where we have set up our printing press, lies not only more in the middle of the country, by which a quite

and Andrew Graff, Esquires, Associate Judges of the same Court. "Do by virtue of the Presentment of the Grand Jury and the Order of the Court made thereon at the last May Sessions, Consent that the Commissioners of the County of Lancaster erect the Public Offices on the Ground within al- lotted for

fixtyThousand Bushels of Corn for France. When the Ambaffadore at Conftantinople asked Leave for fuch an Exportation, the grand Signior's An. swer was, that he nor only confented to it, but that it should alfo be Duty free, gladly embrace. THE FIRST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN LANCASTER, 1752. (From Sachse's German

the time, and only came to light a few years ago through the discovery of cer- tain legal documents drawn up at the time. Franklin had been doing much of the printing for the Ephrata com- munity before it procured its own press, and for the other religious sects in the State. Lancaster county was the

Pocket Al- manac" for the year 1771, printed by John Dunlap, "at the newest printing office in Market street, a few doors below Second street, in Philadelphia," contains this notice: "The Lancaster stage wagon sets out from Rudolph Bonner's at the King of Prussia in Market street on Friday, and arrives

large- hearted liberality had instituted in this fair county a practice so beautiful, so praiseworthy and so poetical. For twelve successive years this revived payment has been made, with ever-increasing interest and enthusiasm. Men of high intelligence and culture have on the appointed day delivered

improvement of the public roads of the State," and or. September 30, 1790, a bill was passed for the ap- pointment of Commissioners to make proper surveys between Philadelphia and Lancaster. Finally, on December 10, 1791, Governor Mifflin discussed the question in his address to the Senate and House of

their waking hours at home. It finally dawned on some of them that perhaps Lancaster could in some way be turned into a summer resort, which would not necessitate their going else- where for rest and health, but by which an honest penny might be turned into their own pockets. True, we had no medicinal

received, excepting what was paid for prizes and expenses, to the paving of the streets in the borough of Lancaster. Meetings of the Commissioners. It is to be regretted that among the many papers relating to this subject there is none giving the initial steps, the town meeting, at which the Board of

longer, and must has- ten to the time when he came to Lancaster. I will make but one extract from the diary before that period. It is under the date of August 29, 1776, when he wrote: "My wife rose early to visit the wharves for wood; all bare. One vessel, with twenty-three cords of hickory and oak, just