The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-03-07

10 bIoyCp, 1919. was pL 0rBt c0llectOf.
and afterwards book-keeper. I think I
1eramu book-kecper about the middle
ef January, 1871. (Wi.ncss referred TO
the ledger Of she Netos 4 Courier and
recognized entries in aary, 1871, as
In his handwriting)
The measurement Of :. Metcs and of
the Ne,cs and Courier, adopted as to all
their advertising custom, was nonpareil
measurement, excepting business no.
tices, which were inserted at fifteen
cents per line, by count az the lines, in
1871. At that time the rates which the
NerS yas charging the State we're ten
cents line by nonpareil measurement
for the daily, and FIVE cents per line, Of
similar measurement, for the tri.weekly
and weekly. The credit rates of the
Hews at this time for ordinary customers
were in the Daily NeDs fifteen cents
line nonpareil for first insertion and ten
cents d line nonpareil for each subse-
quent insertion, with q discount of 20
per cent. of for monthly payments O
regular advertisers. .a.es Of tn.weekiy
| and weeeIy were about the same as the
daily to ordinary customers. / was &C.
| customed to make the measurements,
and enter the charges for advertising in
the Office of the Ncars in 1871, and l
made out all of the bills against the State
for advertising, and I am satisfied that
the measurements are correct. CATER
measuring advertisements ct random, in
company with Mr. A. F. Melchers, from
the files Of the Ne,cs for the years 1871,
1872 and 1873, witness continued.l Pam
still satisfied that the measurements are
| correct. There ia one advertisement
charged rs 8, Alb lines, March 25th, 1911,
which, in cleasurerD unt, is only 1915
lines, and which, am satisfied, is mise
take in counting the hundreds. The
generality of the advertisements are
| charged one or two lines less than the
measurement. The measurement is the
same standard rs that of the Journal of
Commerce, and used to be the mode Of
the Charleston Courier also. II is the
custom Of newspapers to chArpe for the
space taken up, including CT and all
kinds of fet matter. The advertisements
of acts of this Legislature in the Ne,cs
had no cuts, aud were loaded in the same
manner as special notices. 1 do not
know of anything unfair in tho mode of
inserting those advertisements, or Of the
charges for the same, 80 far as the books
and the files are concerned. | made out
the bills, and 1 feel satisfied they CORES.
pond witt, the books and files.
j. H. SCHULTZ.
JOINT INVESTIGATING CoMMITTEE,
| CHARLESTON, 8. c., Feb. 18, 1878.
A. F. Melchers, being duly sworn,
says: My name is Adoiphus F. Melchers.
l reside at % Shepherd street. in the city
of Charleston, and / am the associate
editor of the Zeitung. / have, in com
pany with Mr.. j. H. Schultz, of the Jour
nal Of Commerce, gone over the advertise.
ments in the Ne,cs, at random, for the
years 1871, 1872 and 1873, charged
against the State for advertising, and
concur i'll the testimeny of Mr.. Schultz
in relation thereto, having read over said
testimony, 80 far as the mode Of measure
ment, the accuracy of measurement and
tie correctness Of the charges in the
books of the Nc,cs and in the bills pro.
duced are concerned; ard 1 know of no
unfairness in these or any other newspa-
! per accounts for public advertising.
A. +. MELCHERs.
JOINT INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE,
CHAhLEsToN, February 19, 1875.
State OF South Carolina, Charleston
County.
Personally appeared before us Thomas
c. Neville, who, being duly sworn, de-
poseth and says: That he was foreman OF
tho Charleston Ne,ps during the years
!6!l-72 and 1873, and that NIL acts and
jjc:3. resolutions oii the Gonerai Assem- Div
published in those years az advertise
ments In the Charleston Daily Nctps were
also published in the Charleston Tri.
Weekly Ne'rs and in the Charleston Week.,
| Netcs. II. G.. NEVILLE.
Sworn to before us this 18th February
1878. s. DisBLE.'
j. G. BLUE.
JOINT INvlisTIaATINa.C COMMITTEE,
CHARLESTON, February IL. 1873.
The State OF South Carolina.
Personally appeared before us Roswell
Z. Logan, who, being duly sworn, says:
That he Is and has been for ten years en-
Il gagged In the advertising agency bust
ness; that newspapers, except where
there Is q contract to the contrary, charge
iSr the advertising by the space occupied
Il linz, tho charge is for so many lines OF
the standard type as the space occupied
by the advertisement will hold; that
somo papers use agate, as their standard
OF measurement, in which case every
l inch occupied would be charged as four
i teen lines that is the usual standard In
4 Now York and other large cities. The
Il standard of the Charleston Neips and Cop-
Il rier and other Charleston papers, and OF
papers in many other cities, is nnnpareil,
go that each inch occupied by an adyer-
+ tisement Is charged ct twelve lines. This
is the usual standard Of Southern city
4 papers, and has been for years. When
an advertiser makes q bargain that an
advertisement shall be inserted for SO
/ ::;Gch per iiiio, without any otiler iimita-
ton: II means that sii5 advertisement
shall he set in tho usual style adopted by
the paper in which 1t is published for thst
y class Of advertisements, and charged for
I according to space occupied.
II RoSwELL T. LOGAN.
4 Sworn to before us this 18th February,
i 1873: j. G. BLUE,
i 8. DI1BLE..
JOINT INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE,
i CHARLEsToN, 8. c., Feb. l8, 1878. +.
\ General William Guruey, being duly
sworn, says: My nsme is William Cur
ney; reside at IL Queen street, City OF
| Charleston, and am by occupation a
merchant. In'the fall of 1872, I think Il
was, I cashed for Mesaxs. -Riordan, Daw-
a. 900 or $1,000 OF their accounts for al.
}-vertising for the State. cashed them al
par, dollar for dollar; that is, o part in
cash and q part In my personal acceptan-
cesat, think, sixty and ninety DAYS. and
] subsequently paid the .acceptalces at
one Of the city banks. know nothing
about the accounts, except that they wero
certified as correct and unpaid by the
clerks of the S5uato and House, respec-
lively. I WAS asked to do this by Frank
linJ. Moses, Jr., who was then, think,
| personal friendship for him. was after.
wards paid tia accounts in full at the
State treasury. did not then have. nor
haye I since had, any reason to believe
that thei was anything wrong about the
acoounts. If I had thought there was
anything wrong about them would not
have cashed them. do not know of any