HISTOR Y OF B UCKS CO UNTY                           823

it was thrown for kindling. It had several young men for corres¬
pondents, among wdiom was Wdliam Godshalk, now assoeiate-pidge
of the county, and E. JMitchell Cornell, treasurer of the Second
and Third streets passenger railway, was the carrier. It had been
published nearly a year wdien Frank got on a spree, and the paper
gave up the ghost. One of the poeti(tal contributors was Eleazar
F. Church now the proprietor oftlie Neivtoivn Enteiprise, but then an
apprentice in the Democrat office.

After an interval of a quarter of a century a newspaper again made
its appearance at Newtown, under the name of Newtown Journal and
Working man'' s Advocate. It w^as the child of its parent. In Au¬
gust, 1840, Oliver G. Search and Samuel Fretz, who was afterward
the proprietor of the Intelligencer, commenced the publication of
the Literary Chronicle at Hatborough, in Montgomery county.
Fretz left the Clironicle in March, 1841, and soon afterward Search
removed the establishment to Newtown, where he resumed its pub¬
lication. It was edited at this time by Lemuel Parsons, a native of
Massachusetts, and principal of the Academy for about eight years.
In August, 1842, the Chronicle was purchased by Samuel J. and
Edward M. Paxson, the first issue of the ne^v firm appearing Au¬
gust 16th, and the name w^as changed to Newtown Journal in the
course of a few weeks. Both these new papers were handsome-
looking sheets, and w^ere the equals of the average newspaper of the
period. Edward M. Paxson assumed editorial control, and in his
salutatory he took strong Native-American ground. In tbe fall of 1845
the subscription price was reduced to one dollar. The Paxsons sold
the paper, August 31st, 1847, to Henry R. Nagle, of Newtown, wdio
was succeeded April ISth, 1848, by Hiram Brower, of Chester
county, and a graduate of the Yillage Record office. Brower made
the Journal an open political paper, and raised the Whig banner.
In January, 1850, Brower assigned his book accounts to Samuel M.
Hough, for a debt, and a month afterward (February 26th, 1850,)
the office w^as purchased by Lafayette Brower. The material soon
passed into the possession of Howard Jenks, and a job office was
carried on a few years, but in 1857 it was bought by Prizer &
Darlington, of the Intelligencer, and removed to that office.

Frankhn P. Sellers, who had brought out \X\e Public Advocate in
1837 or 1838, started a temperance paper in Doylestown in 1842,
called the Olive Branch. He had been a great drunkard, but hav¬
ing- reformed, he thought it his duty to dissem'nate the doctrine of