Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-08-09
BEN. N,SGAZETTE.
What Was Read Through the
SDectacles of Our Great
GrandfatiIers-P iasieI-
pIia's First Paper.
Philadelphia Times. 7

Philadelphia Times.l
The Pennsylvania Gazette wa
; printed by B. Franklin, Postmaster
, at the New Printing Office, near th,
Market, and the issue of the dat,
mentioned was Numb. 962' From al
original copy, now before the writer
of May 81, l747, IL Is seen that th,
first and second pages were devoted to
European news, with a few American
items, and that the third and fourth
pages were set apart for the use of ad
vertisers
The first item, dated Hague, March
Z" tells of a melancholy Inundation
whereby Utrecht and Leyden suffered
severely. Following is bit of news
from Liege, around which Imperial
troops were marching just below is a
Parma item about fifty pieces of can
non to be used in the siege of Genoa,
and further down the column appears
the intelligence that France had spent
l89 millions of livres in the cruel war
with England An extract of Letter
from a very authentick Person at Stock
holm, dated March l2' gives particu-
lars to the effect that the Empress of
Russia will, before the End of June.
have above 10000 Men on Foot. !
Then, as if Roman types were unequal
to the proper telling of actual battle
news, there comes in italics the follow
ing paragraph:
| Genoa, March 4. Skirmisiing has within a
day or two begun again. OLe of the Austrian
detachments has attempted 10 sarprise, in
post near Nollri, the independent company of
| Barbaroffa, but that company defended itself
with so much bravery, that the enemy were
obliged to retire with the loss Of several Killed
and wounded their Commander being of tn.
| number of the latter.
From London are accounts of many
disasters TO shipping at the hands Of the
enemy and ofpirates as well, and on
the second page are found budgets
from Boston and New York. In the
Boston Neaos is the following
BY Letter frem tie Coast of Guinea dated
the iith of January last, by the Way of Bar-
bados we have Advice, that Capt. Bear of
Rhode Island, being of Cape Coast Castle with
Number of Slaves and a considerable Guam
tity of Gold Dust on board, the Negroes rose
upon the Crew, and kill'd the Master and all
the Men, except the two Mates who iump'd
overheard, and by swimming, sav'd Il cir
Lives.
Before quitting the news for the ad
vertisements poor Richard tells bis
readers the names of the vessels that
had Entered Inwards' at the Custom
House, and Immediately below is
list of the vessels that had Entered
Outwards.'
The many editors of this day who so
conduct their papers that the advertise
ment are more interesting than the
news and miscellany may be gratifed
to learn that the pioneer of Journalism
gave them an illustrious preced, Mt il
the matter. Whatever the Philadel-
phia reader of 1747 may have thought
of it, the Philadelphia reader of 1881
finds the advertisements in the Gazette
much more entertaining than the cor
respondence. A fair specimen of the
former is appended
PHILADELPHIA, May q, 1747.
Dun away about three wsoks ago, from the
' snow Bonetta-packet, Charles Lyon, mas
Ter, a sailor, named William Cross, an Irish
man, and has good deal of the hroyue on his
tongue, about 35 years of age, about foot and
half high, a well-set fellow, and much pock-
iretten Had on when he went away, an old
hat, a linnen cap, blue jacket, and white fan
mel ore under it, trowsers, good yarn stockings,
nd oil Shn faf,a-
and secures him, so as he may be had again,
shall have Forty-shillings reward, payed by
s.MVEL POWELL, junior.
n. b. lie had months pay from owners
of said vessel and is supposed to be lurking
about town.
NUTMEGS AND RATTLE PICTURES.
Smith and James must have been
among the leading mercantile houses
then for they required half-column to
tell OF o4nabrigs, 7-eight garlix, hol-
lands, cambricks, nutmegs, sets of flow
ers and butterflies, brass ink-pots, allom,
snuff-boxes, presentations of the bat
tie of Culloden, frying pans and other
articles too numerous to mention that
were Just imported from London, in
the ship Bolton, Edward bowers, CON-
Wanaer, And to be sold for Ready
Money, at their store on Israel Penn
berton's Wharf, Thomas Cadwal-
lader gives notice that 'all who have
any demands upon the estate of Martha
CadwalIader are desired to bring in
their accounts to Samuel Morris, tan
ner, at the lower end of Second-street'
In hn nf
robberies from the advertising columns,
as witness the following:
Philadelphia, May II, 1747.
w Hereas, on the 2lst day of April last, some
person or persons enter'd the house Of
Timothy scarth, of the Northern Liberties of
the city of Philadelphia, broke open his eseru
tore, and stole the following goods, viz: A
gold necklace and locket, and a gold locket
and a pair of gold buttons, six silver teaspoons,
and two large silver spoons, bed quilt and
some bed innen a set offine hugabag napkins,
and sundry other Things, to the value of 40
Pounds, or upwards. If the person in whose
possession the above mentioned goods are will
return the same to said Timothy Scarth in
eight days from the date hereof, there shall be
no questions asked concerning the same, or il
any person will inform said Timothy Scarth
where said goods are, he shall receive Five
/ Pounds reward, paid by
TIMOTHY SCARTH.
When the foreman of the Gazette of
fee came to make up the paper for that
issue he found he had five inches left,
and as if to lill out he bade goodbye
as follows:
VERY good LAMP.BLACK made and fold
by the Printer hereof.
Albert Chase, living near Manches-
ter, n. H., affirms that he has a new
ally in ridding his potato field of the
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