course, we cannot com- pare in this particular with the great cities like New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. We are a rural population, only one-fourth of our inhabitants re- siding in this city, and this makes our record all the more remarkable. Few �of us ever dwell on this matter, al- though the

Bailey, did it in 1775. There was evidently no paper published in this city for some years prior to the Revolution. This seems certain from the fact that in 1772 the Burgesses of the town ordered some of their proceedings published in the Gazette and Journal, of Philadelphia. Had there been a home paper