Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-09-29
TEXAS JOURNALISM.
News and Notes Of the Newspapers Of IN
State.

The newspapers OF Texas 10 much for
the state, and many towns owe much OF
what they are TO their papers. "Special
editions" are features Of Texas Journal.
ism, aud contribute no little to the
progress OF the state. The Denison Ga.
zeleeF, the Gainesville Register, the
bsird Clarendon aud the Gordon Courier
nave, each, lately issued especial cdi.
nons" that Will prove of incalculahlc
pei'eht 10 their respective sections.
Ga Friday, the slth, J. ", Singleton
/ MN issue the iiIst number OF the Red
Man NJ De Port.
Inc gainesville Hesporlau talks right
out an meeting, thusly; Il has been whis-
peieu prel4y ,eeslS aiia brought 60 our
ears by reliable Authority that the saloon
men and few anti.prohibitlonlst had
ouereu Inducements 70 our old fossil CON
temporary, the Register, to start daily
paper aud burst the liespcriau without
( ceremony. This little contract OF squelch-
ing our paper has been tried times With
out number, but the new enterprise scares
us badly. Wcilnd thatwe can we'll afford
10 take $40 century for the combined
support oil the saloon men of this city,
ana VIII gladly sell TO the Register Tor
this amount Il they will consent TO plod
ON as weekly and not burst us IN with
a daily. II 1t is the wish of the saloon
men 10 draw Clearly defined line he i.
tween themselves and the moral, law
ABIDING element, make no mistake--the
hesperlan Is In favor OF the latter, heart
anu SOW, and would erioice at nothing
better than that the issue be made.
Mr. 4. +. Bunch has resigned the cdl.
torial control OF that excellent paper, the
Wichita Herald, and leaves Mr. A. ID.
Matheny as sole proprietor than whom.
says Mr.. Bunch, ono truer man lhes.n
Mr.. |. +. stevens has sold the Dodd
City Spectator TO stock company
Z Mr.. Frank Brakleton has been employed
to take the place so acccptahly filed by
Mr. Stevens in the past.
The Black Jack Post Is offered for sale
One-halt interest in the Austin States.
man has been purchased by Satteracld (
Brown, and the editorial management of
the paper will be under the control of j
IL. b. Miller, an experienced editor, MIR.
Gaines remaining as business manager.
The new editor of the Statesman saws
! "The life of an editor is useless and
wasted II he does not utter sentiments
that viii ripen into glorious truths in the
hearts Of the youth OF the land and teach
lessons that will break down the barriers
OF caste and cultivate common brother.
hood Commenting on this, the Dallas
Times says: every word OF that is SO
Yet we never could get the Texas editors
TO look at IL that way. A proud and par.
tisan class they believe In caste, and de
vote their energies to sustain Il instead
of creating general brotherhood and say,
Ing things that the rolling suns of time
would pop open and expose kernel
juicy with truths. They are hard and
high-spirited set OF barbarians- these
Texas editors.h
Tho numerous changes In journalism
prompts the Collinsville Times to say
There have been good many changes
made in the proprictorship OF Texas
newspapers this month Whether tn,
former owners have become rich enough
to retlreto private life, or were compelled
To sell out To pay their grocery bills, etc
we are not prepared TO say From cxpe
rience we would rather believe the lattel
was the reason.
The Labor Advocate is the name OF
new weekly paper, 81 year, published
at Galveston, this state, IN the interests o
the laboring classes, by Mr. w. j. Burk
The Dallas Times makes this announce
ment: "Ihe Daily Times and the Even
ing Journal are to-day consolidated. Ar
rangements will be perfected In n few day
TO issue the best evening paper in III
state. From to-day the price of the con
bined newspapers, under the name of tn
Daily Times, will be fifteen cents pc
week. Further announcements will b
madc.n What docs the Times mean b
the concluding sentcnceg Does il inten
to gobble up the Herald, the Monin
News, the Evening News, the Democra
and the lntelligencer, one by oneP
A. Il. Horton has sold the Harold Time
to l.. NJ. McDermott.
The Houston Post shows the work O
an experienced, capable management nm
Will thrive under Mr.. Johnston's able con
troll. The Post has this TO s.7 OF itself
"The Post begins anew this morning
freed 1t Is hoped, from all ENHANCEMENT
and preiudlces of the past. II Is intende
to be strictly business enterprise, an
If the people of Houston desire live an
loyal paper, they win Indicate as much.
All the papers in the state will apprecI
ate this, from the Philadelphia Times
'The country newspaper Is the most use
full of all the agencies which stamp tn
impress OF progress upon villages and In
land cities. With6ht the aid OF loca
: newspapers towns are, as rule, thrift
+. less and dead II is common for smal
,, great men to speak with contempt of tn
local newspaper, but the village ncwspa
per mikes greatmen out of less material
bricks without straws--than any ott
er factor In politics, and IL is the one LAD
der on which men climb 10 local distinC
tions as the beginning OF wider fame
The advent of the local newspaper has a
ways dated the increase Of thrift of III
: community. The local newspaper Is th
life OF the locality, and the measure OF II
! support, as rule, measures the advance
ment of the people"
Nayasota Tablet; son account Of th
unexpected demapd for advertising spac
IN our columns, both from local and foI
cign merchants, we have determined Z
issue mammoth edition OF the Table
on the 18th Of October. On that date IN
pnper viii come out ia cight-page form
with sixty.four columns of reading mat
ter. Five thousand copies will be issue
and circulated free N Grimes aud sur