The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-17
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some Items In Regard 10 Newspaper.
The London Times has "A subscriber
hundred years old who has read that
paper since it was first started.
Never send a manuscript to print
er unless you can read it yourself
The press gang of London numbers
1000.
"A country editor wrote an article on
hogs, aud n cotemporary upbraids him
for tntrudiug family matters upon the
public.
Geo. w. Childs, publisher of the
Philadelphia Ledger, is total absti-
nence man. He sets wine before his
guests, but never drinks himself.
The Chilicothe lOhio) Gazette is en-
larged to forty columns. tEF
The names of James Gordon BEN
nett and of his son. have been with
drawn from the head of the Herald
newspaper. a.z EE.
"A Buffalo judge has earned the
gratitude OF newspaper people, by re-
jecting petition on the ground of I'il-
legible writing" A "'t ~ q
-Bennett's reply to the city mission-
AIRY who asked him if he wanted 10 GO
TO Heaven-"NOt unless they adver-
tise in the New York Herdtd''
The Philadelphia Press says the
course of certain New York Journal is
"enough 10 make II hen smile" Just
think oft!
A Wisconsin paper lately suspend
ed lis issue because The printer girl and
apprentice boy had gone into neigh
boring county to pick hops.
Bonner commenced life at the COM
positor's case in the Hartford Courdmt
office.
There are eight newspapers i'll this
country owned and edited by negroes.
Seven of them are weekly. with an
are in San Francisco, Baltimore, New
York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and
Cincinnati. The Tribune, in New Or
leans, is issued daily, and il is said has
circulation. of $4,000 copies.
Persons addicted to what is called
SUNDAY reading" in newspapers, are
advised by an exchange that they
would find much new matter"' in the
Old and New Testament.
The first newspaper was published
In Nirginia in 1850. Its subscription
price was $50 per annum. Advertise
ments OF moderate length $40 first
week, and 81 each subsequent week.
-Inselecting a name for the new ho-
tel at st. Louis, suggestions were So
licited by advertisement. Three hun
dred names were sent in. The name of
Paschell was chosen in honor of the
laIe Nathaniel PascheIl, editor of the
st. Louis Republican.
The New York Ledger has now a
weekly circulation of three hundred
and forty thousand copies, and allow
ing that five persons read each copy, it
has one million seven hundred thou
sand readers.
The New York correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune, places :he Herald
first, not in ability or influence, but in
dimensions alone. He gives It's circu-
lation mt 81, GOO, and says the Herald is
the most consummAte instance in the
history of Journalism OF the success of
mere enterprise.
OF the Times, he says it is supreme
lY the apostle of common sense, and
has won an enviable reputation by
scrupulOusly avoiding sensations and
fearlessly denouucing official corrup-
tion." 1t is snid TO circulate 35,OOO.
The Tribune he calls the "Wild
Irishman" of the New York Press, says
II has II good many silly things and
good many keen things, and that no.
body cares 10 have the Tribune for an
enemy. The daily circulates $4,000,
and the weekly 10000.
Tile WOrId he eulogizea for lis lead
ers, which are written in the purestand
culatiOn is about 20, 900.
The San, the workingman's paper,
claims the largest city circulation, bat
this is considered doubtful.
The EUe1tin1 Gazette is character
iZed as a superior literary paper, with
constantly increasing circulation and
influence.