Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-10-06
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
DAILY RESS.
COMMERCIAL BUSINESS NEWSPAPER, TO BE PUBLISH
THE Town OF NEwBERN
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COMMERCIAL BUSINESS NEWSPAPER TO BE PUBLISHED
IN THE Town OF NEwBERN.
An Appeal to the Citizens of Newbern.
4 THE REQUEST of many of your business men l
a have made the necessary ARRANGEMENTS to commence
the 2oh Of and the ss Of
The DAILY PROGRESS will be devoted exclusively to
your interest and to the interest of the citizens State
enterprise your commercial prspertye undertake
it, and pledge to you in advance what poor abilities
independent useful and interesting paper but without
your cordial and support can accomplish
aid and with your strong to assist me and
O carry the enterprise through to success and make it
of the permanent fixtures Of the place dear ALL
Daily Journal to enable you compete successfully with
other commercial towns in this and the adjoining States for
The people Of Sor
burg and Richmond commune with the interior through
their daily papers win you longer suffer them to
been brought by railroad your very doors and there
knocking with her rich productions for admittance The
already being felt No town can stand stit must either
advance in commercial and general importance, and i'm
in its moral and social character contnu
ally must decline. Now it is for you say whether
You will rise fall in the great contest for the Western
trade. You certainly cannot expect to maintain your
Experience proves that towns, sometimes like individuals
when shrSTn IN SPea s 8 @ those rey upon
natural advantages There is no reason why
Newbern should not again crowd her wharves with the
products of foreign countries which, in times
would be given in exchange for the products of the West
There why schools should not rise up among
rence, your Intelligence tells you that you cannot stand
still and witness these things You connot should not
inform the people Of the West that you
that you sc trade with them to equal if not to better ad
vantage than other market you nearer to
them transport goods and produce with greater
facility and less expense than others You cannot rely
upon the Journals of other towns point out and
advantages by Newbern Factories and Schools
which must and will spring into existence they
are properly and erergeticaly advocated.
Ali the worldly interest have now is, will BE-
identified with your community and with you intend to
sink swim. But in the publication of this Journal,
while shall all honorable gain your appro:
baton and give you satisfaction, both citizen and
editor shall eneavOr to do justice to our nelghbor and
mon welfare r of Of the % Good Old North State" "
Now to you people Of Newbern commit this enterprise
3s. that Will ss %
with you. Having practical knowledge of the printing
1
which citizens Of kswber point with vi
ments of determined to do my part, and
confidently expect yo1 to t1S DO yGrrs you , .
| on a press, and will be of respectable size
Gentlemen into whose hands copy Of this prospectg,
heg to
proprietor by the goth of August at which time or soon
thereafter the first number Of the paper win be is issued @
of Newben will take especial interest in procuring sub
scribers The subscription will not De demanded or
expected until the paper is successfully under way Let
Newbern raise hundred subscribers and the possibility
of failure is removed The editor feels confident Of being
able to secure very respectable circulation in the Western
Counties BY his exertiohs But being personally dn
with of the citizens he appeals to those in
teresed and especially to those who do know him. to
ert themselves.
| TERMS:
| Daily Paper, One Year. in odranos 500
Daily Paper, Six Months, 90
ApvER11sEMENrs will be inserted reasonable terms
| ~ Merchants, Mechanics, Manufacturers and Others
arc respectfully requested hand in their advertisements
by the 18th of August that they may appear in the first
| number of the paper. .r = =.
In connection with the above would announce that
g. Davenport, late editor of the Express" newspaper
formerly published in Newbern has arranged with to
fulfil certain specified advertising and subscription CON
tracts where he had received advance payments-whch
| far as specified. promise to fulfil. ~
Eewbern. N. c.. July 15 1883. So
JOB WORK.-Hsving arranged the Office and procured
the services 0f good wOrkmen ali orders for Job Printing
can be attended to- Work executed prOmpty and il
style and cheap the be done elsewhere
Orders solicited. -. -
Office on Pollock St near the Post Office in the building
/ where the Express was formerly published.
| SOUVENIRS OF TRAVEL, BY MADAME OC-
| - TAVIA WALTON LEVERT, -. y
Ay-7st --af "a ". POMEROY.
Raleigh, Dec. ls. l12-'