The Portland daily press., 1896-01-25

also Plantation having on it a large
new Brick house, and another good house
by it for a Kitchin and cook house, with
a Barn, Stable &C., young Orchard
and 90 acres clear Land. The Mill is to
be Let with or without the Plantation.
Enquire of Mr.. William Bradford, Prin-
ter in N. York and know further.''
The other advertisement in this third
number is the offer of reward for stolen
goods, with an amusing account of the
supposed thief. "Stolen, the 4th instant
in the morning. out of the house of
James Cooper. near Charlestown Ferry
in Boston, several suits of Mems Appar-
el, both Wooden and Linnen, by an Irish
man speaks bad English; he is a young
man about % years of Age, low Stature,
dark k-coloured hair, round yisage, fresh
coloured, her ript small stirpt Tick
ing bolster and put some of Goods in
that he carried away: Whoever dis
covers said Person or Goods Stolen, SO
as both be secured, shall have sufficient
reward at the place aforesaid"
More than half the space in these early
News Letters is filed with foreign news
from three to four months old, to be sure,
but still new to the colonists. But such
esting There are, however, no black let
ter headlines to direct the reader to mat
ters of prime Importance. He has to find
them out for himself, as all the news
items are printed close together one right
after the other. A great deal of this linn
tied amount of home news is about the
Indians; and it is very curious at the
present day to read of soldiers going out
from Boston to fight the redskins who
were prowling about the vicinity. From
many of the small towns In Maine, New
Hampshire and Massachusetts, at that
time all in one territory. are accounts of
Indian barbariites. midnight attacks,
surprises while the settlers were working
in the fields, massacres and captiyes
carried away.
THE "SCULKING ENEMY"
is the term most frequently applied to
these Indian narauders. An account
| from Piscataqua, Me-. June /, 1904, saws
that some of the ''sculking enemy, Law
in ambush for the settlers as they went
to public worship, but being on horse
back they ran swiftly by them and es-
capped. Scouts were sent after them, and
found "some dryed beef and pewter bull
let's in the thicket where they lay
| A proclamation by Gov. Dudley calls
| e., ot dow, n
the wars in Europe and the "hostilities
acted against us by the treacherous, mur-
derous Savages within our own limits.n
| Massachusetts,, being then slave-bold-
ing colony, as were all Of she others, it
is not surprising, although it may appear
singular at this day, to read of negroes
advertised for sale in the same matter-of-
fact way as English and India dry goods
and other articles of merchandise. The
first notice of this character in The News
Letter appears in No. z, June 5, 1704.
and tells US: "Two negro men and one
negro woman and child: to be Sold by
Mr.. John Calman, Merchant: to be seen
at Col. Charles Hobbey, Esq, his House
in Boston,"
Here is a good example Of what the
am bilious editor probably received from a
generous out-of-tow correspondent in
Salisbury, Conn. 'On the Sd inst, Su-
sanna Griffin of this Town was found
dead in a small Pond of Water about a
foot and half deep, into which. it is
judged Through the Violence of Satan s
Temptation,) having first twisted her
neck cloth very hard about her Neck. she