New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-14
Telegraph Blessings.


! which we ara obliged to buy our news. The
hucksters, those who gather words and ped.
die them to the press, come regularly with
loads, but their wagons are often filled with
most iusipid trash. The peddler is not
troubled about his stock, TOR TIE press
IS bound to pay Cor it whether it Is
used o. not. Type setting bills are
sometimes saved by filing the waste basket,
instead OF the papers columns, with the
manifold stupidity called dispatches, but
that is only half a remedy Two morning pa.
pers IN this city yesterday took IN the whole
dose. A glance at the matter as it stands
is a FAIR sample of what the newsgatherers
consider important news. The M0ntgonl-
cry man contributes column and half
OF stuff about the election of Senator
Spencer IL Alabama 1t would scarcely DO
worth printing n the village newspaper of
an Alabama town, get it was hurried over
the country on the expensive wings Of
Lightning, set up By tired compos;tors and
charged TO publishers On tha. the Mont.
goasry man can draw his salary for May,
and his town will reiapse again into silence.
Mempdis contributes police station item
about a quarrel between two colored
girls. We were prepared for that,
Il d measure. because Memphis has
been tor some years vtcy regular
and liberal in furnishing murder accounts.
The Louisville man gives the opinion OF q
doctor regarding tho liver OF General
BrechinriLge. From Savannah We learn
that the underwriters had a meeting at
which Ma jor Livingston Mimms delivered
an address, The agent, fortunately, did
aot send the words dropped from tho mouth
OF Major Livingston Mmms. but we have
no doubt the address was a good one and
properly represented the merits of the par
t.cuiar insurance company which tavors
him and which he tavors. Nashville gives
Us a touch of the meeting Of the college
of bishops Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, and sends the names
Of ;le committee on fraternization.'
There IS a touch Of IRONY in send
ing tratern;zation Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South as news; but we
let that pass and Jump over to Cincinnati.
Cincinnati is very weak. The pork city
dispatch was rot at all fat in the quality of
news. Like mercy, It came unstrained.
The quantity, however, panned out abun-
dainty. The Cincinnati man gives half
column from an evening paper, and it is
principally loosely written account OF
matinee concert. 1t gives the programme
full u,fh of Nd oil
Just as our hve-dol!ar reporters write of
amateur musical soirees when they are
writing in wrestle with space. At that
Cincinnati matinee, We learn by telegraph.
a Mr. Winck tore an aria from "Crea-
ton, and then somebody gave some
thing from Mr.. Mozart; after that MIR.
kayser disturbed clarionet. and
Mrs. II. NJ. Smith appeared amid the wild
est applause, accompanied by two flutes.
The Initials of the front name of Mrs. Smith
ire sent at a cost of four cents each, to dis |
,inguish her from the other Smith over the |
way. After that tho matinee performers |
saded into another oratorio. and we ara
reated by telegraph to an exact account OF |
low Mr.. Whitney and Miss Whinnery-
What name for a sopranO-conducted |
themselves and their voices in the recita
i've "hetween the widow and Elijah" The
Vidow and Elijah are finally divorced from
he telegram to make room for details of
ther singing and fGdling, and a more
rofound paragraph TO the. effect that
'eorge Pendleton will take supper with Mr..
thurman, and that On Friday evening Rich
rd Smith, a truly good man, will entertain
enatGr Sherman. We are informed by
eiegraph that these lunches of great men
re wholly without political significance
robably so for the reason that Mr.. Smith
: NJ Pendleton are without significance.
cen transmitted by wire at great expense
e might not have known of the important
rents Of which we have spoken.
ltil at least forty y-eight hours later
some Cases. These are some of !
lie blessings of telegraph, salted with I
3 abuses The local agents are not
idiotic, but they have brains =
Tilt for local purposes. What seems IN =,
ense n the towns where they act as news G
alters. they believe the whole world
ants 20 know Immediately. The total /
81, 60 all papers, is enormous. That we .
t such unsatisfactory dispatches is partly T
e result of laziness, and partly from stu f
ity. Very few men know what news is, =
how to get it, and good portion of h
ose do not know how to tell it. Good .,
:. Boss Press Agent, consider the feelings ',
the publishers you tax. and reform your :
re workers altogether. 6