El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-23
CURIOUS OLD PAPER.
Features of the Maryland Journal
Printed Before the Revolution.


One hundred and twenty-six year:
ago to-day, August 20, 1773, there was
issued the first number of the Mary.
land Journal and the Baltimore Ad-
vertiser, and a copy of it is in the pos
session of Mr.. S. D. Webster, of ST.
Louis. Yellow with age and queer
and quaint with its long SIS and verbose
style, one handles the soiled pages with
something akin to reverence, because
of the memories they evoke CT the
sacred past, in which our ancestors
strutted upon the stage and acted their
parts and then slipped away.
AT the top of the first page the coat
of arms of the State of Maryland ap-
pears, and on either side of it quota
ton from Horace. The editor, w.
Goddard, writes column communica-
ton, in which he takes the public into
his confidence, assuring them that I'M
less the entrance money" is in every
| case forthcoming 1.-The life OF the pa
per will be of short DURATION" and he
also assures them that personal ap-
plicatiOn will be very painful"
The headlines for the second column,
ga Letter from the Bishop OF G. to the
Earl of BeIlamont, on His Last Duel
with Lord Townhead," are obscurely
placed at the bottom of the first col
umn. The good bishop tells his lord
chip in the beginning: "Be not, how
ever, terrified, my lord, though an old
man, and that man of fame ecclesiasti-
cal consequence, too, breaks thus alb
ruptly upon your retirement. He will
talk to you as fashionably as if he did
not think religiously,.and make, the
better to answer his purpose. serious
question in morals, an object of polite
But the Bishops letter pales into in
Significance in the estimation of the
patriotic American, as he turns the
page and discovers communication
dated mount Vernon, in Virginia,
July Is, 1773," and signed George
Washington. The future father of
his country, in his peaceful occupation
of surveyor, having "Obtained patents
for upward of 10000 acres of land on
the Ohio and Great Kanawa, proposes
to divide the same into fixed tenements
and lease them upon moderate terms,
allowing reasonable number of years
years three acres of every fifty shall be
cleared, fenced and titled, and that five
acres of every hundred be laid off in
and fifty fruit trees for every
acres be planted"
He goes On to state the natural ad-
vantagss of the land and ends with the
statement that if ever new govern
ment is established on the Ohio it's
seat will likely be fixed at the mouth
Of the great Kanawha. Galipolis, on
the Ohio River, is situated near the
site to which he referred, but the |
''seat of government" is somewhat
distant, for the great Washington, in
his calculations, did not make allow
ances for railroads in the scheme he
A "Poetical Chronology" in coup
lets describes the attitude of royalty
from james 1. through George Ill, of
whom the poet wrote:
With noble sentiments he mounts the throne,
subdues his foes and makes the world his
own
May he still flourish, may he noble shine.
Nor north wind blast or fox corrupt the wine
Evidently the whole labored effort |
was for the purpose of hurting this |
shaft at Lord North, the Premier, and |
Fox, the junior Loro of the Admiralty, |
and the politics of the paper is not hard |
TO discern.
There is q very wise dissertation ad-
dressed to Mess" Chase and Paca, in
" hich the writer proves in more than
4 column of space that those who deny
;ithes are in danger of growing despe-
ate" and finally drowning themselves.
II is signed "Hononcrononthoton
,us.''
Mr.. Rathell, formerly of Annapolis,
advertised for pupils among such
young ladies and gentlemen of Bslti-
whom it has not suited to
inish their education at SCHOOL,
One of the best advertisers is Chris
opher Hughes, who takes lots of
rOuble to inform his friends exactly
Is to his wherea bouts, and it is to be
,oped that he succeeded, for he an
lounces "ChristOpher Hughes and Co..