, 1869-07-18
the OLD TIMES.
A Boston Newspaper Of 1706.
The Way Of the Pnritaas with the
Sa1Vages.


I Ctk 4QuE A&V = AsEN As&A&L1 f4P%A al
nouuoed with some little e1ultsgfon, that It ha
toss completed tho one hundred and eleventh coz
seeuttve yeaE Of It's puhtfcatt and w&s now th
/ oldest living paper IN America Thia tafes on
! back quite distance but even before 17a5 paper
were printed IN Ane1Ica, md the coaytesy Of Nj
| Il. r. s. CeseIand-Fecentty Of Boston, but n17
Of this et5-has enabled MS to see one which dstes
back ve1 near the commencement Of the last cen
tuy-the Boston .Aeurs Letter.
Tne inst number Of this hrst Of American Jour
nals WIS Issued In 17n4z preceding by niteeC
Jears the Boston Gzetts and the Phlladelphia
dnaerieaH Faekly Mercury. How long 1t WIS pub
lhhed We do not know, but the nnmber bcfore IL
is the one hundred and tHenty.second, bearing
date August 10, 11o6.
The mt column Of this IItse two page and
twelve BY eight inches sheet IL deynted to foreign
neFa At that time war was raging In Spain,
Italy, and the low coupt,1ez. Marlborough VIZ. COL
fronting FHlesuy and Charles the Tnlrd, the Duke
Of Anjou. The intelligence, received directly from,
Paris and the Hague, comes down to the "a Of
April, and u consequently four hnd half months
old. An tntlnation Of the signal victory ut
Ranlles, which occurred month and half later,
Is given In another plaee, the news having been
carried BY Dutch vessel to curaeoa, and thence,
In eighteen days, to Rhode Island.
The news from New England IS mainly Of the
Indians, who we're then as seIatious anu as much
hated and set upon, on the Connecticut and Ncr-
ttnlae1, as they now are on the Missouri or the
A1sansas- The two weeks old aLyices from Hart
lord Hfe thal the towns In uAmpahlre County arc
"gzcatlJ infested by the aku!ttng Indian enemy,
We are Just sending out nltJ men With dogs, 1ho
are to divide Into Small parties and ranxe the
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AAaAuo' s0eo-lA 4'4o-TottnAaIeT denefal OF
he Colonies, addressed 70 the Postmaster at Bo8-
on: n observed In your lasa bill letter directed
b our Governor was not charued .r,,,,sa r-o,.
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= opiuioa .ass ne PAYS no POSTAGE 1~l1te this,
nelelofe, 70 n1oFm ypu that he Always paya there