The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1892-04-28
The Hooking Sentinel Of Fifty Years Ago.

1t was our purpose to reproduce in tins
issue the fnc simile of the Oldest copy o
the HoCLlYG SENTINEL in our possession
issue of september 9th. 1912. But it i:
impossible to do so.
The types, the rules, leads, spaces
lnads, slugs, &c, &C.. constituting tht
things that make up a paper, are out O
use. AS well try 10 dress full grown
man in boys clothes. The best We car
do is to briefly attempt to describe tht
appearance and let this sheet show the
comparison. The old SENTINEL was q
sheet q by 2f inches in size. To days
is % by A. One column of matter" in
this issue contains more stuff, that is
more types than five columns or an en-.
tire page OF the pager of September 9th
lS42. The advertising OF that distant day
was confined Il most exclusively to pat
eDt medicines. cure of consumption
brief business cards and sheriff sales. To
od.s tbV III ts
eject the enterprise ard prosperity of a
veritabe Queen city. The old paper has
not a single personal mention, not an
item OF local happening, and but SIN.
gle paragraph of general news: "The
water was let on the canal at Meadyille p"
Only this and nothing more. The paper
is nearly all politics, nothing in the way
OF advocacy Of Democracy, but contin-
ued abuse of Wings, Coons. Tariffiies.
Bank Rags. Henry Clay.-
Oh the margin of the paper is written
the name IL. Adcock," evidently the
subscriber. How We go: this paper We
do not know.
Under the title head. The Hooking
Sentinel. then, as now, but in different
type, is the motto: Equal rights, equal
laws and equal Justice" Next below is
the date line nd Vol ]. No. l2. s. W.
Tucker and Robert Wright, proprietors.
The first column is poetry, The Mar
riage Vtw, by Mrs. Sigorney, followed by
Lines on The female MODE of wearing a
watch, (orig;naD. 1t is spring poetry Of
a kind We can lot venture at this age to
reproduce.
The next four following columns are
hot and getting hotter. The article is
headed Federal Frenzy" The first
paragraph we quote gives the text, q
performance that has since been re-
peated. notably bv cur Democratic
''squaw" senator rot long since.
Twenty eight Federslists of the
House Of Representatives Of Ohio have
dissolved :he body-conspiring to defeat
the making of quorum 1.-TWO thirds
being required) by simultuous resig.
nation
This wa; done TO defeat democratic |
rymander of the state. No modern
language current to day, caA
compare with Bro. fuckers philippe in
this momentuous OCCASION Then
follows an article entitled "whizzy."
About halt the heads are in capitols one
fourth OF an inch in length to express
e mphasis Then an article headed BE
Of goood cheer and all will end WE'LL"
This paragraph will give an idea OF the
temper OF The hopeful writer:
Tho thunders of heaven and the press
ire leveled NJ the hends pi the traitorons
,an.l who had the audacity 10 commit
he doS-lke unprecedented deed AID
heir very names will stink in doomed
niamy and disgrace, and their carron
:arcasses will hang from limbs for feed
or the crows. Democratic ireemen be
If good cheer and return the ballot box
o its prester'c purity.
The Ball is Rolling" is the the head
ns Of an article from the GAINESVILLE
recorder, a religious paper, rolls off this
wise, What is to be the issue. God only
.nows. 1t is plain Are we to have
government or not. The treason of the
Wigs must be crushed out, must be
iamped out and tie stain washed off if
ecessary with traitors blood" When a .
elgous paper goes Oft in that style,
that wonder the Hockin. Sentinel of ]
hat day, GO up OH its hiud Legs and .
made Hooking howl. "WHERE Is JUDGE ,
PEScgR?" is asked in several capital
zed headlines" II was advertised to |
ddress q whig ueeting here last night. j
nd promised Toast beef. Where is Judge {
pencer of CINCINNATI? He got drunk
I'D couldn't be here!' Ye editor of that
ay didn't have in his exculpating vo-
abulary. press Of business, slight indis-
osition, previous engageme'.t, train
eiaYed, missed connection, severe cold.
&C. He slung it out in plain talk.
Then we have IN article on Wing :
Tire government cf ]
an Buren, cost i2,300,000 to run it one
ear, give first Year Of Ilarrison's cor {
lpied extravagant p'undering in 1871 q
ost the enormous sum of $26, ,o00, 900.
nd Clay the chiei OF public robbers
'timaies :hc cost next year at twenty G
even millions, Democrats think at il" c
Several articles on Tariff and Wing
.obbery fill ont the first page The
ourth page is taken Up entirely with a
ierifi's sales, feature of advertising v
lat has been continued by democratic a
ieriffs ever since. Only once bef,re in .
lie long line of fifty years was the sher- O
"a natrouaye WITHHELD from tho Senti