Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-29
..n,rspApFR PRoPERTY.
-. Uncertainty and General Unrsmu-
i's ,erstfyeuess in New York.
-. - ohiLndalnhia TiMes.

.-,,,tlg the land of newspapers. They
s-.- an everywhere, and if they did not
'i nearly as rapidly as they are born
s.r. would soon be newspaper
'-rsr, hundred readers. The latest
"..,s-iosshow that the newspapers Of the
- states number 13, 494, or one for
-16 inhabitants, an increase in
LAVA wears Of S,241, or one tor
tNs 900 OF the population at that time.
- crow out Of all proportion TO the de-
- There is no single industry IN
-Sie5 there is uniformly such an OVerprO-
duct. .o,i, hos not considering
20 and Oyershadowing Importance,
Us.,v dailies. which are the sole Teri-
~. = n9vsuapers, as some other Ameri-
W. 5;tios relatively. The reason is their
& g' i.o'e, 5f constitution. More Of them
N+e6,rsa into being than anywhere
5sa mi competitiOn is 80 active that the
~rsfest steadily pass away. NOBODY
1Ntr,cn the most ObserVant journalist,
5 eosony idea how many enterprises OF the
soo as tiiI annually. Several new dailies
a--l- - begun and ended every year;
20 tbe weeklies and mOuthhes, they
s ~ Scarcely be reckOned. Hundreds or
81 oa-o,ls 81 dollars must be sunk each
.- In this greatly Overworked field.
rrsu those publications which are hrmly
as+,b1isDed and for while prosperous are
so+ sure of longevity. Papers that nave
o, baep influential and profitable are
Internally diving. OF the thirty-three
q allies Of all sorts issued here only one,
.5o SIN Commercial ddUertiSer and EgeH-
IT, DosJ pXcepted-was in existence halt
century ago and that was the Herdld.
81 Wes1 lbs first number was issued its con-
tsmDdrares we're SIX morning and six
evening papers, sold for DC. each, and
ann he. papers, tine names Of all which,
cave the three gpeGihed, have been forgot
.gn Rut one of those then circulated
ei00 oonies. the other circulating below
Kama down to 500. The population Of the
XIV was then 270,0S9 and OF the United
s,atas i'm round numbers, 15,OOO,OOO.
what a revolution metropolitan journal
Inn has since undergone and the whole
country, indeed.
Nm have different motives for starting
ppV papers. but the general motive Is
monetary gain, In nineteen out oil
twenty cases it is a regular business, IN
which thew hope to make money by selling
tbs news and procuring advertisements.
rgt NOT many Of them achieve their OBJ
iacL Ii is questionable II more than
# iwalve of the thirty-three dailies here are
clearly prosperous in a strictly legitimate
way. though they all claim to be prosper
Gus. of course. What proprietors have
81 grown rich in and by journalism! Precious
few. The number is less in this city, L
suspect, than in smaller cltIes-ln mia
81 lelphia for example.
Beginning with the Oldest, the EUentng
Post, aged 81 Nov. l6 next. There was,
By the by, an earlier EUenlng Post, first
published bv Henry de Forrest in ll46,
which lasted only twelve or thirteen
months, The present Post was founded
BY William Coleman, by profession law
yer and BY birth a citizen of Massaehu-
setts. 1t was Federal sheet, John Jay
and Alexander Hamilton, whose organ II
was. aiding in its establishment
A STRANGE AND DEADLY DUEL.
1t seems odd now and denotes the
change in the times that the editor should
have killed q man in a duel, which was sc
extraordinary as to deserve particulariZa-
ton. Coleman determined, at the outset
% avoid personalities and pen-and-inB
contests, but political feeling ran 50 high
in those days that he found it impos zlble
He speedily became embroiled with two
leading Republican editoTs-Cheetham, Of
the American Citizen, and Duane, OF the
durOrQ-aud during a violent controversy
was challenged by Cbeetham. Friends
tried to settle the difficulty without sue
cess and finally Judge BrockhOlst Living
g0a, to prevent a meeting, caused the ar
Iest Of the principals. This course
prompted Capt. Thompson, harbor mas
Ter and an ardent Republican, tOprOclaim
that Coleman would not fight. The ed
tor OF the Post was opposed to the code
on principle, and had denounced il in his
columns when Philip Hamilton, eldes
son Of Alexander Hamilton, had fallen il
aduel this fact is little KNOWN at HO
t0ken IN 1891. But no man can afford Il
have his courage questioned by persons
whose opinion is entitled to any respect
C0ieman's friends decided that Coleman
must challenge Thompson and he yielded
70 their decision, as so many men did be
fore and have done since. In order T.
old any repetition OF interference b.
tle police the affair was conducted VII
great secrecy.
A well-known surgeon. DR.. Mclean, re
ceiyet an anonymous letter to the eifec
thai he would find at O'Clock, the ever
ing of It's date, q horse and gig at pa
ucular spot in Bowling Green. de wa
% take IL and drive to designated plac
on the road skirting potters held, whei
Washington square now is. de did 9
Requested, and on arriving heard four pi
toi shots and saw by the light Of the moo
one man supporting another and two mol
figures near by. The supporting man Il
qured II he were DIR. Mclean, VINO a.
s~ered athrmatively. The doctor was to-
tlat the wounded man required aid an
ought TO be put in charge Of his friend
Inc speaker then gently laid the wounds
man on the ground and went away WI
the rest Mclean found the sufferer to
capt. thompson. He staunched the blot
uo"lng from bis side and brought him In
toWn to his residence. Placing him
NE door he rang the bell and departed :
ne the family had answered the SUI
mons. Thompson refused to divulge Z
name OF his adversary whom he special
"lsaed should not be sought for, said
had been honorably treated, and in fort
igul hours died. Coleman was not Il
rested, attended TO his editorial duties
gsua., and the fatal secret was preserve
: ~ is hard to imagine such thing 0cci
i4hg Ia journalistic circles here to-day.
THE OLDEST PAPERS.
william Cullen Bryant formed a Ct
necton with the Post in 1896 and Tema
90 Were until bis death. From his p
nelary interest he got most Of the So
" which ne LETT behind. Parke Godw
~ son-ln-law, had an interest at {
, ,llue IN the paper aud IL proved proAtat
isaac henderson, Bryant's partner, a
AlaQe money out Of the Post, but lost m
VI l1 IN real estate speculatiOns and q
e9mparatyely poor Since II passed Il
lev hands. 1t has not, IL IL said, been VI
'emUneratye, owing TO the immense pr
nearly ulg raa 80 90. tEa