The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-21
Press and Banner.
Wednesday, Feb. 81, 1877.
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The following, and a few Other
weekly newspapapers of the same ilk
have declared against "natcnt out
sides:'
The Orangcbu"g NeWs and Times ;
the Lancaster Lcdgsr; the BnrWwCi
Sentinel and we learn Of our cNcnan'
ees, the Athens (Gu.) Waterman, ha,
Joined the delectable host, though we
have never seen a copy of the last
named paper. Some Of which papers
as far a local news is concerned, might
nearly as we'll be printed beyond the
Potomac, inside and outside. And
this too in the face of the fact that nc
n Of the above named papers thai
we have seen, have set up rs much
matter in their office within the past
six months as has been set up in the
Press and Banner Office in the same
length Of time.
7 The following named papers OF &C.
knowledged enterprise and which arc
distinguished for the ability and vigOr
of the conduct of their respective edit,
orial departments as well as f0r
the taste and skill displayed
in the mechanical execution of the
work, (nearly all of which papers set
up more matter every day than we
set up in o week. do not pretend to
override or dictate to their country
neighbors how they shall conduct
their business. AS far as we know
tlley have never arrogated TO them
selves this right:
The Charleston News and CcWricr;
the Charleston Journal Of Commerce.;
the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel;
the augusta ConstHutiondtiSt; the At
lanto Constitution the Charlotte o.
server; the Coiumbia Register: the
Columbia Phoenix; the Gree"riAc
Daily News; aud many other first
class papers.
Among the weekly papers who have
not adopted the patent outside plan
and who have strictly attended to
their own business, and who have
never as far as we know, sought to in
terfere with the conduct of their
neiglIbors' affairs, we would mention:
The Edgefeld advertiser, than
which no newspaper in the State
would claim q better position in the
field OF journalism the Sumter True
SouthrOn, which is a bold and fearless
paper the Union Times, ~ Of the
best edited and best printed papers re-
ceived at this office the Ncu0c11y
Herald, q model of excellence in ev-
cry department; the LuurcnsUiUe Her.
ud, an old and honored journal,
which is edited with marked ability i;
the KeoWee Courier, which has al
ways been a credit to South Carolina
Journalism the Pickens Sentinel, a
first rate little mountain paper, printed
near the base Of the Blue Ridge the
.Spartanburg Herald, edited by the
distinguished Col. Stobo Farrow; the
Spartan6urg Spartan, edited by Hugh
S. Farley, Esq, the graceful writer,
and beautifully printed by Mr. Trim
mier: the Lexington Dispatch, which
is well-illed by carefully gotten-up
matter and nicely printed.
We feel like calling on the Lord to
help us when q paper half full OF ad-
vertisements Of Radical papers aud
"patent" medicines, while the balance
is set up in loaded long primer or
small plea. feels called upon to act as
censors for their neighbors who print
at least decent papers.
We apologize to the readers of the
Press and Banner for mentioning this
subject again, but we cannot help eX-
pressing our contempt for the arro-
gauce which sets up a lot OF "black-
smiths" as dictators to- their neigh
bors, as to how they shall conduct the
printing business. If, in the above
paragraphs, we have placed any paper
In the wrong list, We are ready to
make the amende.