-edited, cleanly-printed papers, a credit to the age and ambi- tion of their managers. Such papers �were original in literary features, with bright bits of poetry, editorials, puz- zles, wit and humor, etc. Great ingenuity was resorted to in printing these papers, and many were struck off from small lever

boundary between the United States and the Spanish posses- sions on our southern borders. That work accomplished, Governor McKean, of Pennsylvania, in 1801, appointed him Secretary of the State Land Office, which he held until 1808. Lan- caster being at that time the State Capital, he moved to this place

implements for its proper navigation, Mr. Ellicott used his own and carried the vessel safely to port. Upon the completion of the last- named Government work, Governor Thomas McKean, of Pennsylvania, ap- pointed him Secretary of the State Land Office, which he held until 1808. After his appointment to this

attitude he never abandoned of fellow- ship with the "poor plebeans" against the "aristocracy"; it betokens a lack of sympathy with the "Pennsylvania Dutch' with whom he later made profitable friendship, and altogether manifests an interest in the fair sex which his later career rather belied. Peacham, by

AN EARLY NEWSPAPER The importance and value of news- papers in the study of local history can not well be overrated. They come next in importance to the original records of State and county. In more recent times they have lost somewhat of their value from the coloring given to public questions as