The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1870-05-18
Rillsborougt Retor0sr,


D1-asiS 1AbAftl1A NHV Auullueu the HRS
boro Recorder the goth Of February 1871
and vho edited and published it up to The
22nl Of January 1869, at which time one
q the present proprietcrs assumed charge.
died at bis residence in this place, Frida,
morning, the 18th inst, At eight o'clock.
lis lamp wasput outin the glory 81 4 bean
tifcl morning +; no fell asleep like an old
pilgrim Who weariod Of his long Jour
liey falls to sleep under the shade of the
trees. He was ia his eighty,seycnth year.
4 good nlan has run his race and got hi.
prize.
Ills LAST MOMENTS
VFeso quiet and peaceful. In the exhsss-
ton d frame let down under ripe aud
temperate old age he slept in death rathor
than struggled to die. At eleven O'clock
the night before he died he thanked DR..
Strudwick for the kind attention he had
given him and badc him good night. {
Ills DEATH
Cast gloon over the entire town. The
news Fan from lio 20 liP Mr. Heart ii
dead and TIE sadness Of the tountenan-
anee bespoke tic deep respect Of each one.
Ills funeral was preached Saturday morn
ing, l o'cloek. at the Presbyterian church.
By the Rev. Mr.. Smith, from the text,
Asleep in Jesus. . Every store, drink
ing saloons and all, was closed the Re
cOnlef office stopped work and Grape was
lung upon the door.
AS An EDITOR.
1Ir. Heart came from Philadelphia ID
Hillsboro in 1920 and established the Re-
corder. As an editor he wrote as he lived !.
As there vas no decay about bis character
for honesty and integrity 50 there was nc
folly in his reputation for a polite and dig,
nifcd journalist. His style was logical
and nice. He generally wrote bis edito-
rials twice and three times over before Civ
ing them to press. Such was the eharac-
ter Of his paper for truth and high toned
morality that it was called 'the old Tes-
lament. .
he TAUGHT GOV. HOLDEN THE BOXES.
Holden served his time as a bound ap-
prentice under Dennis Heartt in the Re-
conler Office. He was then a pennies
boy and now he is Governor Of North
Carolina. Its bit due to the Governor
70 sly that IN his high place Of preferment|
he never forgot the man who fixed his feetl
for him on the bottom round. But after
the war when aIr. Heart waxed old and
tottered under the heavy burdens that stag-I
gered ffen the youngest Of US, Gov. HoI-l
den had lin appointed postmaster herd
and through Lis influence he retained the
Office till the day Of bis death for sIr.I
Heart was By no means a radical.
A SKETCH OF his LIFE.
DESN1s HEAETT was born in NORTH
Branfora. Connecticut, on the 9th Of No.
vcmber. l7s3. His family sometime af-
forward moved oyerto New Haven. There
vas printing Office near BY tl.at vas con. !
dustei by ". w. Morse, 4 brother Of lin
who started tie telegraph in this country,
and il SIS Office young Dennis was fre-
quently fond Of going. He conceived j
fancy for tie business and in 1898 lie ap- /
Trentieed himself forfour years in the Office
q Read and More at New Haven. HrI
duties were Dnerous indeed in those days
they used ink bails made ont Of green field
d INK tie form with and tie labor was
twice u irksome and protractcd a 4 i now
a.iays. Mr. Heart made such progress
ID Tie business that he after awhile could
81 FIVE thousand ems BY soon after dinner.
Ills application was indefaiigable. III
las TODD At his ease and clicked the typeI
~ uiglt l,ng and all day the next dayI
without ! wink 81 sleep o. rest. Willie ii
ills Once Mr. Heart was put once u i:
pamphlet written BY Noah Webster. I'll
rasding the proof IL the FIRST form. Noali
Webslor--the dictionary man--inarkedE
out de u fashion and wanted It spelled!
f.a-s-l-o-n = this was Of course a great}
deal d trouble. But in the proof-sheet a
Tie next form Webster marked n tho
II i" III Nr. IEeartt had ali the trouble
to ~ over again. We think Il was i,
1902 Ut. IIoartt wont from New HarenI
y Philadslphia. Iii 1910 he printed and
published ii Pliladclphia a literary pspef|
called The Philadelphia Repertory. .
lie also published while in Philadelphia .