People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — HISTORICAL. [ARTICLE]

HISTORICAL.

THE emancipation proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863. WILLIAM PENN signed the treaty of peace with the Indians on November 4, 1682. A GRAY unsized blotting paper was sold in England, according to Rogers in his history of prices, as far back as 1465. DECEMBER 7, 1787, commemorates the ratification of the constitution by the state of Delaware, she being the first state to ratify.