The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1852-11-24

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ton l;si gives more publicity 10 the advertise
tnent, but by establishing Uniform rate Of
prices, the advertiser has no room for COM
plaint and thus no bitter feeling will be en-
gendered between one publisher and anoth-
er.
1t is the opinion of some Of our up coun-
try bretheren, that the up country papers
should charge equally as much ns the
harleston papers. In Charleston the price
for advertising is cents per line, or 81 for
single insertion ofa square ofthirteen lines.
We charge seventy-fve cents for the first in
sertion, and thirty-seven and half cents for
every subsequent insertion. This is the
price charged by number of our up.country
papers. It will at once be seen, that this is
lower than the Charleston papers, for were
we to get cents per line, every subsequent
insertion would amount to sixty cents, in
stead OF thirty-seven and half-almost
double. It is an erroneous idea of some
people, to suppose it costs le IS to publish a
paper in the country than in the city. The
fact is, we think it equally expensive. In
the country we derive good portion Of our
profit from job work, and in order to le pre-
pared for this job work, We are necessarily
compelled to keep printers, whether We have
immediate work or not. We are unable to
procure hand for q. day, week, or n month
as they do in cities, but as printer expects
to stay several months, being at expense to
get here, We are bound to keep him thus
long. We hear Of some Offices being kept
up by apprentices. and we doubt not this is
the case, and we are confident, this fact can
not better be asccrtained, than by an examin-
ation of the paper and job-work coming from
that office.
A gentleman brought US a job the other
day, which we agreed to do for S25. He
said he would give US that amount-that last
year he had a similar job done for $40, but il
was so badly executed he was ashamed to
show il. ...
Not long since we printed job for So
ciety for which we charged $40. We have
been very sorry to hear since, that the socie-
ty arc Of opinion that we charged too much.
Now this job could have been done in some
offices for twenty dollars, and the probability
is that the publishers would have realized
more profit than we did, but the question is,
how would it have been done A man can
buy coat for seven or twenty five dollars.
We are thankful for the patronage we
have received, and in all cases have charged
accordingly rs the job cost u.s. We have
very much that some jobs have
been so much delayed, but in consequc of
one of our printers going to the North, We
have leen very much pushed--we hope af-
ter this to be more punctual. We expect on
our return to have budget Of news for our
readers. We intend to have more reading
matter in the paper, and at the beginning of
the year make those improvements we spoke
Of The recent accession to our subscrip-
ton list, justihcs US in doing so. Everything
goes to show that Lancaster is floating in
the tide Of prosperity. Real estate ;mmands
a high price, our merchants have Il. tho last
two weeks sold immense quantities of goods.
They bought large stocks, and now many Of
their shelves are bare. Messrs. Emmons
and Adams have been busy court week, and
must have sold vast amount Of goods
These gentlemen arc old merchants, and
know where to buy. and what. to buy. They
still have numerous articles to dispose of
and rs they will soon repenish, now is the
time to give them CALL
We need Schools here, and trust an effort
will be made to procure teachers We pro-
pose that meeting be held some evening
this week, to further this object.
We sat down only to tell orr readers we
would he absent few days, and we have
been talking about other matters. Before
We conclude, We must say word about an
other matter. In recent number Of our
paper, we spoke about the improven ents in
Lancaster, and suggested that our citizens
should rub up their old rusty houses and thus
add to the appearance Of our place. We re-
gret to see that this has not been done. There
are several houses on our main street in
very delapidated condition. Also, fences
Of various hues and colors, not from paint,
but age and smoke, others not so much
discolored from the fact that there is so lit
tie Of them left
Surely our citizens possess sufficient prids
to 90 TO work at once, and remedy the evil.
We hope 30. SO mote Il be.