All churches and benevolent societies that applied for reservation were given three lots each, subject to the approval of the legislature, which afterward confirmed the grant. A Congregational church was organized in 1866; German Methodist, '67; Methodist Episcopal and Roman Catholic, '68; Presbyterian, Episcopal, Baptist, and Christian, '69; Universalist, '70; African Methodist, '73, and Colored Baptist, '79. A number have since been added. THE STATE JOURNAL CO. On the 15th of Aug., 1867, the day following the announcement that Lancaster was _the place_ for the capital site there appeared in the _Nebraska City Press_ a prospectus for the publication of a weekly newspaper in Lincoln, to be called the _Nebraska Commonwealth_, C. H. Gere, Editor. But not until the latter part of Nov. did it have an established office in the new city. In the spring of '69 the _Commonwealth_ was changed to the Nebraska _State Journal_. As a daily it was first issued on the 20th of July, '70, the day the B. & M.R.R. ran its first train into Lincoln, and upset all the old stage coaches that had been the only means of transportation to the capital. In '82 the State Journal Co. moved into their handsome and spacious new building on the corner of P and 9th streets. It is built of stone and brick, four stories high, 75 feet on P and 143 on 9th streets. The officers are C. H. Gere, Pres.; A. H. Mendenhall, Vice Pres.; J. R. Clark, Sec., and H. D. Hathaway, Treas. The company employs 100 to 125 hands. Beside the _Journal_ are the _Democrat_ and _News_, daily; the _Nebraska Farmer_, semi-monthly; the _Capital_, weekly; the _Hesperian Student_, monthly, published by the students of the University, and the _Staats Anzeiger_, a German paper, issued weekly. On my return from Milford, Wednesday, I sought and found No. 1203 G street, just in time to again take tea with the Keefer family, and spend the night with them, intending to go to Fremont next day. But Mrs. K. insisted that she would not allow me to slight the capital in that way, and to her I am indebted for much of my sight-seeing in and about Lincoln.