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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY,
 

CHAPTER   LII.
 

NEAVSPAPERS   IN   BUCKS   COUNTY.
 

AVithout newspapers one hundred and twenty years.—The Farmers' Weekly Gazette.
—Agricultural Magazine.—The Aurora.—Bucks County Bee.—Asher Miner.—
Pennsylvania Correspondent.—Poetic advertisement.—Monthly Magazine.—
Prospectus for Olive Branch.—The Star of Freedom.—Simon Siegfried.—Wil¬
liam T. Rogers, et al.—Mr. Miner retires and his successors.—Edmund Morris.
— Bucks County Intelligencer.—John S. Brown.—Prizer and Darlington.—Farm¬
ers' Gazette and Bucks County Register.—William B. Coale.—Lines to his sweet¬
heart.—Doylestown Democrat.—Lewis DefFebach.—Bucks County Messenger.—
Democrat and Messenger united.—Simon Cameron.—John S. Bryan.—Samuel
J. Paxson.—Bucks County Express.—Manasseh H. Snyder.—Political Examiner.
—Jackson Courier.—Der Morgenstern.—Public Advocate.—Newtown Journal.—
Olive Branch.—Independent Democrat.—Newspapers in Bristol.—Newtown
Enterprise, et al.—Democrat and Intelligencer a quarter of a century ago.
 

Bucks county had been settled one hundred and twenty years be¬
fore a newspaper was printed in it. In all that time probably not a
type or printing press had been brought within its present or origi¬
nal limits, and journalism had no history in the county. At the
present day a newspaper is one of the first appliances of civilization
caUed for by the settlers of a new country, and it generally precedes
the school-house and the church.

The first newspaper printed and published in Bucks county was
The Farmers' Weekly (^ase^f^f^, issued from the " Centre house, Doyles¬
town," by Isaac Ralston, July 25th, 1800, on a medium sheet. In
his address the editor assures the public "that nothing of a personal