Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-19
AN OLD NEWSPAPER.
.'The Maryland Journal and BaIti
more Advertiser

first number of the Maryland Journal
and baltimore Advertiser, dated Au.
gust 20, 1913, three years prior to the
Declaration of Independence. The
publisher, w. Goddard, in his saluta-
tory to the public, gives as a reason
why the paper was not issued at an
earlier date the difficulty in establish
ing a special post between Philadel-
phia and Baltimore, but having sue
ceeded in making arrangements for a
rider, who would set out from the first
named city on Monday morning, ar
irving at Baltimore on Tuesday even
ing, he would thus be able to procure
the latest Mass achusetts, Connecticut,
New York, and occasionally British
and Irish papers, and lay before his
readers the freshest intelligence. The
paper was to be published every
Thursday morning, unless some other
day proved more agreeable to his SUBJ
scribers, and contain all the public
news, unless there was a failure of an
ecdotes of that sort, when its place was
to be supplied with moral pieces,
which would inculcate good principles
and humane behavior. He further
says: That / shall always publish
whatever is sent to me i'm favor of lib
erty and the rights of mankind, pro-
vided the language Is decent and com
pstible with good government, but l
am resolved that my paper shall be
free and of 10 party"
lie appeals to his subscribers in this
wise: Having entered upon a very
arduous and expensive undertaking. |
must now earnestly entreat the assist
ance OF every subscriber in advancing
the entrance money according to on
tract, without which the life of this
paper will be OF very short DURATION"
The leading article is a letter from a
Bishop to the Earl of Bellamont on
his late duel with Lord Townshend.
Another article expostulates with the
women OH their extravaganza in dress.
pointedly abiding to their tortured
hair, superiiuity of ribbons, and idle
gems with which they adorn their
persons, and entreating a return to
sweet simplicity.
The news columns contain the fol-
lowing items:
A few weeks ago a large rattle snake
was killed, in the belly Of which was
found three middling sized rabbits.
From Accomack, Virginia, that there
lately died there n Eleanor Spieer,
aged l2l years, who retained her senses
to the last, and worked at her spin
ming wheel with great dexterity to
within six months of her death.
The price current OF various staple
articles are quoted as follows: Wheat.
6 shillings per bushel; corn2 s.; super
fine flour, 20 s.; London pipe slaves,
IS per m; West India rum, 3 =. per
gallon; Muscavado sugar, As ;. per 100
lbs; Irish beef, 10 =. per barrel, etc.
by vessels arrived at Boston foreign
advices are CLEANED. The Russians
had taken the City of Corinth and the
island Of Gambia from the Turks.
There had been several bloody on
| fiicts between the Russians and Turks
in the neighborhood of the Danube.
Count Rornsnzon had crossed the
Danube at the head OF the grand Rus
sian army, and news of the greatest
importance was hourly expected. The
Divan OF C~onstantinople would come
to no terms without the mediation Of
France. The Emperor of Germany,
King of Prussia. and Empress of
Russia had plundered Poland aud di-
tAa1A INV ~ - tttNas I
The news given above reads like the
cable dispatches of to day. The ad-
vertising columns contain man quaint
notices. Take the following descrip
ton Of a runaway man servant for in
stance: "Runaway-an Irish servant
man. . . . He had on, and took
with him, a short brown coat Of our
try manufactured cloth, lined with red
flannel, with metal bLttons, oznabrigs
tro wsers patched on both knees, "A
homespun shirt, an old pair of shoes,
and a felt hat. Whoever takes up said
servant and returns him to the sub
scriber shall receive u reward of five
pounds"
A Philadelphia advertisement re-
counts that Anthony Fortune, at the
Fountain and Three Tuns in Chestnut
street, has opened a large and commo
dious passage between Chestnut and
Market streets, by way OF Elbow lane,
where he has accommodations for sixty
horses, with coaches and chaises, and
that the houses and gates are under
locks for the safety of wagons.
A long notice, dated Mount Vernon,
July 18th, 1873, that George
Washington has obtained patents for
20 900 acres of land on the Ohio u
kanbawa rivers, which he is prepared
to divide up into and sell to
settlers on reasonable terms. AS an
extra inducement it is announced that
there is a scheme on DOT TO establish a
new government on the Ohio, in which
event the lands would prove very
valuable.
There are many other items OF in
terest in this old paper. yellow with
age, and dating back more han a CEN
fury. We fancy hat if the publisher
and Subscribers could wake from their
sleep, and survey the country that AL
that time was little more h a wilder
ness, their establishment would be IN
bounded as they noted the progress
and Improvement in what was, al that
period, a new world, in fact.
y~gystertOus AmlictiOu.