South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-30

0Ne -tCUoUUUCT ICCtO1 3
for 1871, just issued by Messrs. Geo.
z. Rowen & Co., proprietors of the Amer
lean Advertising Agency, of New York
City, contains certain tables of statistics
which have been compiled with care, and
can be relied upon as substantially correct.
They cover q field of research which no
statistician has before touched upon, and
furnish food for reflection and wonder
ment. The following are a few Of the
many facts which a study of these tables
reveal: GfE
The Whole number of periodicals issued
in the United States is 5,9S3, with 70 to be
added for the Territories, and-353 are
printed ID the Dominion of Canada, and
~ IN The British Colonies, makinga grand
total of 6,43S, of which 637 are daily, rs
tri-weekly, 129 semi-weekly, 4,642 week
ly, 81 bi-weekly, 100 semi-monthly, '715
monthly, IA bi-monthly, and GO are issued
quarterly. New York has the largest
number of publications, S94, of which 81
are printed in New York CITY, and Nevada
has the smallest number issued in any
State-only Is. Nevada has more daily
than weekly papers, and is unique in this
respect, every other State having from
three to twelve times as many weeklies as
dsilies. Tn-weekly papers are more com
nor in the South than semi-weeklies
while in the Northern States the facts ars
reversed.
The largest number of daily papers pub
lished in any State is SO, in New York.
Pennsylvania is second, with 81. Next
comes Illinois, with SO, and California has
"a, being the fourth on the list ADelaware
and Florida have each 1 daily paper.
Kansas has as many as Vermont, West
Virginia, Mississippi and Arkansas COM
bined. Nebraska and Nevada have each
more dailies than either Oregon, Rhode
Island, South Carolina, Vermont, West
Virginia, Arkansas, Delaware. Florida,
Maine or Mississippi.
OF the 70 publications issued regularly
in the Territories, 10 are daily and 90
weekly, 3 tri-weekly, 4 semi-weekly, 1 ap-
pears monthly, / semi-monthly, and 1 BIZ
weekly. s rs s s.a G.
The papers of New York State have the
largest circulation, averaging TAIL each
issue. Massachusetts, is second, with 5 ,709
average; then comes the District of Co.
lumbia, with 4,323. Nevada has the small
est average circulation, only sic, while
Florida averages GIG, Arkansas $50, Texas
701, and Mississippi 753. The average
circulation of all daily papers published is
2,717, of the weeklies 1888, and of the
monthlies 40S1. The average edition of
all the papers printed is SO, which, null
tiplied by CABS, the entire number of pub
locations, gives 11,S5S, 796 as the number
of copies IN which an advertisement would
appear if inserted once IN all. The same
advertisement, if continued one year,
would be printed the enormous number of
1,499, 922, 219 times. The total number of
publications printed in an entire year in
North Carolina will supply only four cop
les to each inhabitant, equivalent to one
paper to every soul once in three months.
Mississippi, Florida and Arkansas do but
little better, furnishing five copies per
year. Alabama, Minnesota, South Caro-
lima, Texas and West Virginia all print
less than enough to give each %inhabitant
a paper once in five weeks, while Califor-
mia gives 80 copies per year, exceeding
every other State except New York, which
prints 113 copies per year for every soul
within its borders. As New York papers
circulate everywhere, while those of Cali
fornia do not go very much out of the
State, IT is evident that the papers issued
there have q better local support than in
any other State of the American Union.
In the District of Columbia we find that
One newspaper is published for every three
square miles of territory. Massachusetts
has one to 30 square miles, and Rhode Is
land n to so; then comes New York
with n to 81; Connecticut has one to
go, New Jersey to 63, Texas one to
2.345, Florida one to 1858; while in the
Territories one newspaper spreads its cir
culation over no less than 14465 square
miles.
There are 5S newspapers in the United
States which prints more than 5000 copies
each issue, and IL which print more than
100000. The NeW York Weekly has the
the largest circulation given; among the
political mediums the New York Weekly
Tribune takes the lead, and among the ag-
ricultural weeklies, Moore's RuraS NeD
Yorker stands first. The New York Inde-
pendent is the largest paper and has the
largest circulation of any religious paper.
Nearly 1000 papers are printed on the
auxiliary plan-that is, on sheets purchas-
ed from New York, Chicago and other
centers, with one side already printed.
This number has more than doubled with
in one year. More than 1000 new news
papers have been established since the first
of March, 1870, and the number of new
ones announced since January 1st 1871,
has averaged nearly four per day. The
number Of suspensions is about one-fourth
as large as that of the new issues announc-
ell. Messrs. Geo. P. Rowell & Co., assert
that the number of newspapers issued has
fully doubled within six years.
In looking over the publications devoted
to specialties, Tor class publications. we
find the religious largely predominant over
any other class, which shows the interest
the public press takes in the moral and
religious welfare of the country. There
are in the initial States 283 publications
advocating evangelical and sectarian ideas,
with % in the Dominion of Canada, with
non either in the territories or colonies.
OF this number New York City has A,
Philadelphia %, Boston 81, while Florida,
Kansas, Nevada and New Jersey are n
trely unrepresented.
The farmers, horticulturists and stock
raisers have their interests represented by
an agricultural press numbering no less
than 1O6 publications, many of which are
gotten up at great expense, and are very
extensively circulated.
The medical profession enlightens its
members through the columns of 70 pub
LEGATIONS, of which 5 are weeklies, so
monthlies, 8 semi-monthlies, 8 bi-month-
lies, and II quarterlies.
Nearly, if not all, the schools of medi-
N"S AofO sACA ICpICScuGht1NG organ,
which circulates among its admirers and
is criticised severely by its Contemporaries.
whose views differ from it about the
healing of the nations" while there are
a number that furnish intelligence of in
terest to all medical men, as well as the
general reader, without taking sides for or
against any particular school of medi-
cine.
Most of the colleges and many of the
State Boards of Education have their
representative organ, besides several publ
cations that treat educational matters in q
general way. OF this class we have 81 in
the United States and 6 in the Dominion
of Canada. They are mostly monthlies,
with an occasional weekly, bi-weekly and
quarterly.
Thelarge cities have their commercial
papers, which are nearly all issued
weekly.
Insurance is discussed through the
medium of 10 special publications, 10 Of
which are issued monthly, and a number
of them being noted for their superior
typographical appearance.
Freemasonry, temperance, odd-fellow-
ship, music, mechanics, law, sporting, real
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