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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-07-07
COTTON REPORT
Market quiet
Tobacco Market.
RICHMOND, VA. July 6,

Sales a; auction to-day, "A packages
out of s. offered-ali or nearly ALL sun
cured stock. Prices were well sustained,
md some thought sitter than they have
Deen.
Privately there WIS little done, few
packages of wrappers were sold TO manu-
fsclurers, and Some looking at old filters.
which NAV have resulted in a sale, while
radng in darks seemed on an equally
United scale, and nothing Of special in
crest TO report.
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FINANCE AND COMMERCE
Neu York Stool, MtriSet.
Reported b. q. ". i;s-rr ''. 'nDSers
md brokers, 40. lili SEA-. .'f,rf


vr.I.--
NEw YORK, july CT irs been re
pored for some lime 'l" 'here was Il
arge short interest ~ ." marAef, ana
this was Indicated III i'e ""iiowIngf.
mand on the iiOor. tt..f u''tdIy there
is some, but much les lh,n al. an,ici-
Dated, and he daI su.hr.> b,ve largely
alenaied what was l,f. tnr the plain
fact is that he dealing, ! li.@ DAY were
more Of twist on tic sao,is than alb
.OIbtiou for inv,-imen. hi vas plainly
indicated by the buyirl Il WAS con
med entirely 10 iEc >,t,ri he report
was pool had been ua %, ." lnii so X,
ut today they got n e. rciras' mem
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-07-07
Their Gifts.

Hubby, dear, | can't wait to tell you
what I'm going TO buy you for your
iirihday gift"
Darling wife, what is it :"
We'll, dear, | am going to get you a
liver card-tray and bronze Hercules
OF The mantle, and lovely Russian
able Tug 10 lay in front Of the dressing
sse What are you going to get for me,
'ootsy?'
I've been thinking, Jane, and ! have
usl settled TO get you new shaving
rush"
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-07-07
His lung Trouble.

Brown-You don't look well lately, Robin
son.
Rob.nson-So, can't sleep at night on ac-
count Of lung trouble
Brown Nonsense your lungs are al
right
Robinson Yes, mine are; the trouble i,
with the baby ; Lille
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-07-07

Older the Negative, Newer he Picture.
Il am going t. have some ncw l.tho-
graphs remarked the greatest American
actress. An replied her ls9pLis,icated
friend, you have been sitting for a new
photograph, theur No, indeed" replied
the greatest American actress, Il have just
found one sat for twenty-five years ago -
Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle
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Evidence OF 1t.

Jones-l consider Brown a yesT cole man.
Smith-You dof
J-Yes, sir.
S.-Why, man, he never opens his mouth
III company
THAT'S where no shows his ability
Boston Courier
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-07-07
OFFERINGS REPoerEp 40 ssCRETARS-

Gom.-White, "a bushels pnme at Doc,
go bushels y.ry good at tic; 800 bushels
good at &c 80 bushels fair at &c. 1 tai
,ales OF corn. Ia q bushels.
Oat. -MixeG 90 bushels very Oh on
private terms
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-07-07
Valuable House and Lot

On the north side # Perry street. between
Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, Ia the city OF
Manchester, Va. on
MONDAY. jury VI, lsss
st d o'clock m. on the premises. This
valuable property should attract he attention
81 investors. 1h.- lot fronts ll0 feet on Perry
sire, by Nv feet deep. There IS AZ good name
iwciling thereon. cOmparHt yely new.
TERMS Cash as 10 expenses Of sale. aid an
mount sufficient Ia pay of am discharge
three negotiable notes past due, amountin.
~ 5000, aud Interest STAGE May - 1873. balance
upon such terms AS will be- known ON day Of
ale. GEORGE X. MACON,
ijyi ,6.7.S.9l0l2l3.A 1Iu-iee.
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Grain aud Cotton Exchange.
RICHMOND, Va. July ..


Wheat 20 bushels.
Corn B 10 bushels.
Oats i go bushels.
Mil Otial-3 tons.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-07-07
AUCTION Sales.--future DAYS.
BY Augustine Royal a Co,
Real Estate Agent and Auc' !oneers.
Office No $40 Hull street Manchester. Va.

DY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF
- TRUST 10 THE UNDERSIGNED
I SHALL EXPOSE FOR SALE Al PUBLIC
AUCTION (BEING REQUIRED So 40 DO
BY TIRE NEFICIAhYJ THAT
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RAILRoAn RON
Reported by John J. Williams son
bankers an broker, 80 Main -trttt
RICHMOND |A., July 8.


$500 Richmonc J 'leurksbury *
Potomsc Div dend Obligation a, 10.
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FANCIES ABOUT HORSES.
FOLK LORE CONCERNING THE WELL
KNOWN DOMESTIC ANIMAL.

The IIcrsr ia Water sprite- Scotland
Water kefry Horses Ridden by Witches
and Fairies various Omcns sri Re
ficfs-As an Emblem
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-09

growing circulation demands faster print
Inc aud a double-cylinder Hoe is pur
chased and finally, increased advertiS-
iug patronage and the demands of read-
ers require more space, and trains depart
ing ut ali early hour make increased
facilities for rapid printing necessity,
and then come smaller type and per-
fectng press, which prints all the pages
of the paper at one time, and turns them
out at the rate of many thousands an
hour. Al first an editor, cOmpositor
ana Hdevil' do all the regular work,
while here and there voluntary CORE
spoudent sends in the "itemS - which he
can find and manufacture III his
neighborhOod; ut last, bust
ness manager, with clerks, book
keepers AID assistants, runs the counting
room, the editorial and news matter is
prepared by editors and correspondents
counted by hundreds, and set up by COM
positors numbered by the score. Such
has been the history of the Fort Worth
GAZETTE.
THE OLD DEMOCRAT.
In October, 1871, MesSrs. X. NJ. Van
Zandt, Sam Evans, W. H. Overton and
John Hanna bought a small plant and
founded the Fort Worth Democrat, 4
weekly paper of which J. w. Cleveland,
a country school teacher, was made etii-
tor. Early in 1872, Joha d. Templeton
became editor of the paper, continuing
in that capacity until January |, 1873,
when B. B. Paddock, who had purchased
the whole outfit, assumed entire control.
The Democrat had been established by.
philosophical men, for the public good,
and Captain Paddock did not let It ta!ter
: in the good work for which it was or
dained. Early and late, from one year S
end to another, in season and ont of sea-
ton, it labored for the upGuilding and
general prosperity of Fort Worth. The
Weekly Democrat was continued with
success up to July. ls7G, when 1t was
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-09

the pace. As it had been the first paper
in Texas to print an eight-page paper
every day, SO 1t was the first to add spe-
cial features to the Sunday edition. 1t
ran up to twelve pages on Sunday then to
sixteen, and finally, on Sunday,
March G, 1886, twenty-page edition
was printed. A serial story feature was
added, articles from special writers were
presented, and the Sunday GAZETTE be-
came the paper, par excellence of the
Southwest. OF course, all this cost
money but no newspaper was ever built
up in the face of strong opposition with
out money. So it was with THE GA
zETTE. 1t cost money to put it on solid
basis, but the enterprising men who
backed it had faith in their undertaking;
they neither stopped nor faltered,
and the foundation was Z laid
broad and deep and strong
in the minds and hearts of the people.
The policy pursued by the Democrat Pub
fishing Company has been productive of
the best results, and the paper, from be-
ing charge on its owners, has been
made as solid financially as. it has ever
been popular. In 1887 it cleared large
percentage on its capital stock, and from
that time it has gone on "from strength
to strength, conquerinS and TO con-
uuer -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-09
VOL. XIII: NO. 159.

soft, wet paper uache is in six minutes
made perfectly dry and hard. AT the
end OF, six minutes the press is unscrewed
the form slipped from under IL. the
blankets removed and the nihtrix taken
off, dry and hard. and presenting 10 view
the full front page of THE GAZETTE. each
letter cut sharp and clear into the matrix.
The stereotyper trims the edges of the
matrix with a pair OF heavy shears. and
then arranges it inside the "casting
box a machine which resembles half a
cylinder fixed in a heavy iron frame.
When the matrix has been put in and
fastened in place by steel rods on the
sides, the casting box is closed I'D BY
large half cylindrical shaped piece of
casting which fits into it, leaving space
of about an eighth of an inch between
the face of the matriX and its own sur
face. Standing near is oauldron
filled with stereotype metal in
molten state. a large ladle,
with two handles, is dipped up full by the
stereotyper and his assistant, and the
liquid metal poured in the casting box on
top of the inatriX. 1t takes it moment
only to harden, and then the box is
opened, and the wOrkmen, using thick
cloths to protect their hands, take out the
cast, with the matriX sticking to it, The !
matrix comes off without trouble and
there, in the form of Il half cylinder, you
have perfect counterfeit of the form
brought down from the composing room,
with every letter every comma, every fig
ure perfect. The type has been sent back
to the composing room by means of the
elevator, and the plute, after being prop
erly trimmed, is sent down to the press
room. The making of this plate from
the time the form came down until the
plate itself is sent out completed has oc-
cupied just eleven minutes, including the
six il took the matrix to dry in the steam
table.
THE ILLUSTRATIONS.
But there is one other department
which we must investigate before the pa
per goes to press. 1t is that in which the
pictures used to illustrate THE GAZETTE
are made As the artist keeps his work
''dead secret we must investigate
his den in his absence, and late Mt night
is the best time to do it. So here we go:
The Illustrations in THE GAZETTE are
engraved on what are called Hchalk
plates. These plates are made of steel,
about an eighth of an inch thick, and are
coated with plaster composition another
eighth of an inch thick. This plaster has
the property of adherins closely to the
smooth surface of the plate, very soft
and easily cut through, but does not
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.creasins number of volumes in the book
Neases Next comes the den of the liter
airy editor, followed by that of the city
sand OF the railroad, editor, and last, that
OF the telegraph. live stock and colnIlSer77
ciaI editors. ~
If our visit is made in the day time, we
will find these rooms almost vacant. The
telegraph editors have nothing to do I'M
til night, when the press reports and spe-
cials begin to arrive, and the local men
are at work on the street, working up
the occurrences of the day We will fine.
the managing editor at his desk, the eds
torial writers busy with "leaders and
paragraphs, - and the literary editor
deep i'll the last new novel or the late
magazines. We must not interrupt these
workers with too long q call. The man
aging editor is plotting the campaign for
tomorrow paper-fOr the work for
each issue must be laid out
as the plans for battle-the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-09

capable of being in several places at the
same time, and doing half dozen things
at once. We may engage him
in conversation, for if he has anything to
do he will let us know, politely and
firmly, and there is no danger of our in
terrupting the work while he is about.
He won't allow it. The reporters, if
they are in, are all busy writing up what
they have gathered; the telegraph edi-
tors are rushing through the Associated
Press stuff and the "specials. -
which are laid npon their tables by the
telegraph messengers. THE GAZETTE
takes all the report sent into Texas by the
Associated Press, gathered by its CORE
spondents the world over, and embracing
1000 to 5000 words. 1t also has about
800 special correspondents, located
throughout Texas and at prominent
points in other states. The matter sent
in by press and special must all he
"handled, =" condensed or filed out, as
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the case may be, heads written and
marks put upon it donating the depart
ment for which it is intended. 1t is then
put into dumb waiter and sent to the
composing room upstairs.
..- AMONG THE TYPESETTERs.
.f..Let. us hurry upstairs, - says the ac-
commodatiRg night editor, 'and we will
see what become of the matter just sent
up. t-.........
We do hurry, and :, arrive in
the composing room JUST as the
foreman takes it from the dumb waiter
t4Iere we see twenty-five or thirty men at
work n>silence-nothing being heard but
the ttIicsfY,'. .'click," of the types
against the 'estioks. - Everyb ody knows
how type is set, and it is done in large
Office just as in small one, so we need
nosiaformation on that point ;s..
"But, where so much matter is SET up,
how is everything kept in order, so that
it will appear in its proper placer you
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-09

is on top. compositor takes it, goes
to the ahead letter case' and sets up
the "head ~ He then goes TO his own
"cases' and sets the body of the article
When that is completed he carries his
stick to the "dumping stand, - takes
the matter out and sets in a brass galley
putting numbered f'Slugh at the end i,
TO show who set it, and laying by it a
slip of paper upon which is marked ! A .
The man with > A viii set his matter just
below it, and this will be continued by
those who have ''A' matter, until the
article is finished or the galley filed ),
when it will be proved by the
"galley boy, - the proof read aud
marked, and the matter carried TO each
compositor who has made two errors,
that he may correct them.
If you will stop and consider the fact
that each letter, each punctuation mark,
and each space used in newspaper must
be handled separately, you will see that
the work of type-settin@ is one that must
be done with great skill. Let us take the
Sunday edition of TIE GAZETTE. There
you have eighty-four columns of matter,
each column of which contains about
5000 different pieces of type metal, or
672 900 pieces in all And yet some peo-
PIC toliip lillI VI y pOSIdRIlICiti SIIOIs, anu
smart reporters call the composing room
the 'butchery - The wonder is there
are not more mistakes
Well, when the proof has been read
and the galley corrected, il is carried
to the man who makes up the forms.
Here we find 4 brass table built on q stand
which moves on wheels. This is an
''imposing' table, and has a steel chase
upon it, just the sizeof one page of the
paper. Suppose the article of which we
are keeping track is an important one
and is intended for the first page of the
paper. The "makeup'' has the "head'
of the paper, the "date line' and the
first page advertisements placed III po-
sition inside this chase. As fast as he
gets matter for the first page he puts it
in tie chase, until finally it is full. He
then Cocks it up, - that is, tightens it
with screws i'll the sides of the
chase so that every piece of type will be
held in its place. When this is done the
table, with the ''formr ~ on it , is wheeled
upon the elevator and carried down to
the
STEREOTYPE ROOM.
Be it known that THE GAZETTE is not
printed from type, but from a counter
felt presentment' made right here i'll the
building. And in the work of making a
newspaper there is nothing of more in
terest than the making of the stereotype
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-09

Be it known that THE GAZETTE is not
printed from type, but from Il counter
felt presentment made right here i'll the
building. And in the work of making a
newspaper there is nothing of more in
terest than the making of the stereotype
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-09

added TO the list of correspondents, built
up the special service, ana prepared to
give Fort Worth such n newspaper as had
never been published in the city. Shortly
afterward the name of the company was
changed to the Loving Publishing Com
pany, but the paper remained i'll the
same hands. In 1888 another change
was made and the Fort Worth Publish
ing Company became owners of THE GA
zETTE. In 1884 the paper was sold to
George 3. Loving, and early i'll 1885 he
sold it the The Gazette Printing COM
pauy. Under this ownership it
was run until August Is, 1885, at which
time, owing to numerous complications,
the paper was suspended. As soon as
THE GAZETTE suspended, number of
enterpTising gentlemen formed COM
pany under the name of the Democrat
Publishing Company, obtained charter
and began the publication of the Fort
Worth Daily Democrat. Mr.. Loving,
however, only allowed Tue GAZETTE
property TO lie idle for two weeks, and OIL
September / the paper was started up
again. Ten days later THE GAZETTE
plant, books, franchises and good will
were purchased by the Demecrat Pub
fishing Company, and on September - it
took charge with the announcement that
next day the paper would appear rs the
Democrat-Gazette. During the day,
however, the plan was changed, and
the old name Fort Worth Daily GAZETTE,
was adopted instead of the hyphenated
affair.
b, UNDER THE NEW DEAL.
With the new company The GAZETTE
took on new life The newspaper bust
ness was very lively in North Texas dur
ing the latter part of 1855 and the first
part of 1856 The Dallas News was es-
tablshed and the old Dallas Herald made
squirt forIife. Then the Herald went
down and the field was left 10 THE GA
ZBrTE and the News. TIE GAZETTE set
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-09
THE PAST AND PRESENT OF THE FAVORITE
NORTH TEXAS NEWSPAPER.
THE HUMBLE BEGINNING AND THE PRESENT GRATIFYING
PROSPECT FOR THE FUTURE
The History OF The Gazette the History the
Twain Are One.
PRETTY CLOTHES Do AND THE GAZETTE
WILL ACT ON THE MAXIM THAT PRETTY AS PRETTY DOES

Few newspapers attain prominence or
power without passing through MANY
vissetudes and encountering many obsta-
Giles. The history of most of the great
journals of the country is the history of
hard work and patient endeavor hpon the
part of those who made them great, and
all too often, the history of ruin and de-
spair. The cause for this is found in the
fact that your true newspaper maHIs too
enterprising for his surroundings. He
tries, as the prints are wont to ey
press it, to "run Il nonpariel paper in n
small plea town. - The result is wears
OF hard work, with poor returns. and
frequently the necessity of letting 20
just rs the ''boom'' is coming which en-
ables some other to reap what the MO
neer has sown. Some newspapers have
sprung INTO existence full panoDlied like
Minerva from the brain of Jupiter: but
newspaper growth usually has been slow
-hrst weekly with a few hundred
pounds of long primer and Washington
hand press; then a Small daily, turned
OIL by hand on country Campbell: a
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plates upon which the printing is done.
As soon as the ''form'' which
we have seen "made up'' reaches
the stereotype room the table is
seized by the steTeotyper and his as
sistants and whisked off the eleva-
tor. One of them seiZes Il wrench and
loOsens the screws in the chase while the
other grasps q mallet and 'planer.
When the "'form'' is loosened sufficient
ly, it is "planed' down-that is block
of wood with q smooth surface is run
over it and at the same time pounded
with mallet until no piece of type
stands higher than its fellows. After the
''planing'' process the form is again
Nightly s'locked. - A brush is then
worked over the face of the type
to clean it, and some sort OF
preparation put upon it to keep
the E'matrix'' from adhering. The
steretoyper then takes what looks like
piece of thin paste board thoroughly
VET and little larger than one page Of
THE GAZETTE. 1t is made of alternate
layers of papier inache and tissue paper,
glued together. They are kept damp,
and are perfectly soft and pliable. This
is spread smoothly over theiface of the
type. Then the stereotyper and his as.
sistant each takes 4 large Hat brush,
made of heavy bristles, and with steady;
downright blows, pounds upon the
surface of the papier mache. The
hgiStles are set so close together in these
br1tsAes. that the "beatiug" makes
noise like pounding with mallet. They
drive the soft piapisF maehe down into the,
open spaces in and bStweep the letters
until the impress of every pefntsis made
in its plant surface. Two or three
pieces of blanket, just large enough to
cover the "form'' IRE taken from wire
overhead and spread over the ruFw, The
fSTIa, with papier machscTand blaffkets,
is teen Sfaish on to asIarge table with
kyynd9th sur and aaying upohT what
Srhe forlff*r issN still ufiAsy
the9.. pressss. which IL ssewfd
EEsdowh. up6es it with al the'sstfenkth dS
txsnbl8 bodied men AFhis Is a ssssteanf.
table. - That is to say it IS hollow and
pipes frdm the boiler down stairs Carly
Steam into it, rendering it so hot that the
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ask. 1t is simple enough, and we
will watch the foreman to see
how it is done. The articles he
has just received he cuts into Stakes, I"
each of which he marks witl.a figure and
a letter. For example, the first will be
] A, the second 2 A, and so to the last.
These takes vary in length according to
the time the copy Is received .s<lf it is,
early they are longer, perhaps eaehSone.
viii make 1000 ems; they are made ..shofts
e.. rs The hour is later, and after AL L.
each one will make but four lines. Afsag
being cut and marked, they are plSeedt
on hook, from, which they are takg by
the several eompositors as they finish
the takes already lin hand !" let us
follow one. The arst to 80 is A (which
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converted into morning daily. But
Fort Worth was not yet ready for paper
such as Editor Paddock published, and
after hard, brave struggle for few
years, the daily edition was suspended
1t was only allowed to lice dormant few
months, however, and early in
1881 1t was revived in the
form of four column folio g,
and the announcement made that it
would be enlarged and improved as bust
ness justified. 1t grew in popularity and
soon increased in size. The Associated
Press report was printed and a special
service created. In short time instead
OF four it was an eight-column sheet
During the suspension of the Democrat Il
daily called the Advance had been
started. The two papers were soon con-
solldated and the Democrat-Advance was
the only morning daily in Fort Worth.
THE GAZETTE
In August, 1882 the Stock Journal Pub
llshlng Company, with George b Loving
as manager. purchased the Democrat
Advance and, changing the name to Fort
Worth Daily GAZETTE, Increased the
plant, multiplied the editorial force
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-09

assistants are deep in the facts and fig
ures, the premises and conclusions of
economic science; literature, fresh from
the press, more interesting to the literary
editor than the gossip of idle visitors
could possibly be. All the editorial mat
ter, svae that upon important matter
contained in the Geographic reports, is
prepared in the day time and put in type
early in the night, so US TO be out of the
way of important news that may arrive
late
Suppose, however, we so at night.
Then there is work, TO be sure. The
whole establishment is in charge of the.
night editor, a lynx-eyed, ready -witted
fellow who knows newspaper business
s.from the ground up and who is