The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1893-09-15
JournaIIsm b oIaIborne county.

in Mississippi that could boast Of q
home newspaper, Natchez being The
first. The Correspondent, tour.
page, six column weekly, was start.
ed here IN 1918 by w. A. A. CHS.
holm, father of our townsman, B.
If. Chisholm. He removed Ia
| Woodville iour or FIVE years later
and established the Republican, dy-
ing there in 1866. Mr.. Chisholm
was born and reared in New Mad
rid, Mo. In 1881, '32 and '33 the
Correspondent was edited by B. f.
Stockton. The subscription price
was then s.. After Mr.. Stockton
Ithe editors were Jas. III. Maury
/ 1884 A. w. w. Parker 1885 and
'36); Jas. Sharp 1885 and '37) ;
7. ID. Jeffers 1887, '3S and '39 J
A. S. Clarke (l839) Archibald s..
Cary and Robert L. BRENNAN (l840;)
t. ID. Jeffers (l841).
Mr.. Maury above named was a
young Tennesseean who became a
prominent lawyer here and died in
1874.
Mr.. Parker, also a lawyer, was a
Kentuckian. He died a few years
alter his connection with the Cor
respondent.
Cary was a lawyer and q native
of Virginia. He had been brought
up in the family of Thomas Jefier-
son, of whom he was a connection.
After stay Of five or six years in
this county he returned TO Virginia.
BRENNAN was a Kenluckian and
practicing attorney. Between
1910 and 1850 he and n brother, DIR.
Brenham, of Grand Gulf, removed
To Texas. The Furnishing town of
Brennan, in that state, takes its
name from one of these brothers.
In 1874 the paper fell into the
hands of James A. Gage and Sam
uel +. Boyd. AIR. Gage, a South
Carolinian, was a lifelong citizen
of Port Gibson, dying while OH a
visit to Texas in 1891.
In l845 w. b. Tebo became edi-
tor and proprietor and SO continued
until September, 1848, when he
sold the Correspondent 10 w. III.
Jacobs, editor OF the p. G.. Herald,
with which sheet il was consolidat-
ed under the title of Herald and
Correspondent. The Correspond
ent thus had separate and contin
uous existence OF thirty years, an
age that no other Port Gibson paper
has attained. Mr. Tebo removed To
Natchez and then to New Orleans
where bis descendants still live.
He was a br0lher-in-law of our iel-
low citizen, Mr.. John w. Andrews.
The Port Gibson Herald was
founded Sept. I, 1912, by Edwin
Junius Foster, who ten months
later sold out to w. II. Jacobs, a
young lawyer from Maryland. A.
bout the time OF it's consolidation
with the Correspondent, the size OF
The paper was enlarged 10 seven
columns, the price having previous
ly been reduced from $5 to SO. ia
cobs remained in the editorial chair
until June, 1851, when he SOLD the |
business to K. Bruuer and returned |
to Maryland. Mr.. Bruuer, who was
a native of New England aud for
some time a teacher here, retained |
control of the paper until his death |
about two years later. Soon after
this Mr.. Bridewell, editor of the
Reveille, bought the Herald and
Correspondent outfit, and that pa
per ceased to exist.
The Southern Reveille was found
ed in 1851 by L. o. Bridewell, n ma
tive of the county, and issued rs a
Democratic organ, the Herald and
Correspondent being controlled by |
the Wings. In 1854 Mr.. B. sold
the Reveille to the Democratic par
ty of the county, who made Rufus
Shoemaker its editor. After brief
editorial career Mr.. Shoemaker was
succeeded by Joshua s Morris, and
the latter in n short time by Jas. s.
Mason. In 1856 Mr.. Bridewell a
gain bought the Reveille and edited
1t for about a year. In 1867 hr.
Mason resumed control and contin-
ued in the editorial chair until 1861,
when the enlistment Of all his print
ers in the Confederate army forced
the paper to suspend. 1t was re-
vived by Mr.. Mason In 1876 and