The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-10-08
CORNERED At LAST.
A Postmaster Nall, Petty he 70 the
Counter A Lovely uOupleHhOWn Up.
Only Two Copies Of The Commercial Re-
Oeiyod at Denton POstOffCe One Ad-
dressed TO the Review" the
Other 10 the monitor"
IFrom the Denton Rcviowa

From the Denton RoVlowI
The DalIns daily Commercial, of the
3Olh ultimo. contains communication
from this city under date Of September
the 29Lh, which, II we mistake not On
titles the fabulous sclibbIel to u short
notice at our hands The article rc.
lcrrcd to was evidently provoked by a.
nnlirinua diglikn far nm DIIAg | Iru.
AID the correspondent being 'spured
up by II letter written to TIM HERALD
from this place, II few days ago, which is
printed on the first page of to-dny's Re.
view, For the benefit of the "enr-
marks we will copy u portion Of the
Commercials very fabulous letter
"Iho Dallas Commercial has the great.
est circulation IN Denton county and
Northern Tcxns, Of any paper published
in this State, 50 far az my observation
extends, and have travelled extern
sivcly.' IT is the Invest paper that were,
cciyc from any quarter In 1T me ma
the latest tclepaphic news, and the
best miscellaneous reading matter,
Strange, indeed, how the writer came
into possession Of the incts (') set out N
the above. But let rs preach rom the
text Who penncd the above 'NbrIco-
ton, and Why For fear that we
might be mistaken about the paternity
Of lhcse facts, aud Wishing to ret the
postmastcrs statement oI the clrcui'r
ton of the Dallns papers, we called at
the postoIlicr to-day and was informed
by Mr. Dickson that o"ly nm r'P'cs q me
| fpaHG'ciM cdmc 10 The Dfatod Po"9iirG
me Hf,treSSH 10 Hc Rtrew and Mc mh@ u
| Hc DWioa Nomi0r Now, when we re-
member the language Of tins letter
where il says at is the livest paper
we receive from any quarter aud add
ing that in it We iind the latest tclc-
graphic news and the best miscellaneous
reading matter we see that the writer
receives and reads the Commercial reg
ularly We are the recipient of one oi
the two copies Of tho Commercial which
come to the Denton postoillcc, and We
wish to be understood ~ denying the
authorship OF the above statements.
True, it seems that no one except u
man who has had some kind OF expert
enco in the newspaper business would
presume to discuss the merits and cir.
cuation OF the different newspapers,
but, we repeat, we are not the writer.
Those who note how Ellbly the writer
handles the eve, will not forget that
this letter is no puff of "us or our, and
that we disclnim having written it,
u It u
But if these gentlemen wish to "sW0p
compliments we shall not complain,
But, in order to show how nicely these
gentlemen distribute thcir hyors, we
will copy one more of these sweet NOR.
sells
"Dr GnoRGE 4. CumgR-l see that
some one is writing from this place {,
Tue Herald, that that paper is m.
paper whit the people here It is "A mis-
| take The Commercial is REGARDED A
the best pnpcr
"lf agreeable | will drop you an occa
sonal letter from here, as events OF
sufficient importance trnnspiro"
The Doctor preInces the above with
thcremnrk, that the compliment /, the
moro appreciated because it is from &C
" Gecrs. ESQ. of the Denton Monitor
one of the leading editors of Northern
Texas" Very well, gentlemen. but n,
one is prouder than oursclr that tn,
ICnmmrrcml in its inordinotc yrecd lo,
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