The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-08-27

Iney were all 1Our-paSe SneetS, WIFI
five or six columns to the page, when
they could get paper of the right size,
but it was a common thing to see them
issue half sheets of brown wrapping
paper, and sometimes they were printed
on cheap wall paper. Their telegraphic
news service was very limited, and two
columns of kilograms in an issue al
ways attracted attention. These tele-
grams were never padded, and the re-
suit of great battle was often told in
four or five printed lines.
In the local columns of these war
newspapers there was very little news,
but the editorial pages were always
well filed. Howell Cobb and L. Q. q.
Lamar frequently wrote the Registers
editorials, and Henry WattersOn was
for several months on the staff of the
Southern Confederacy, which achieved
great success under the management of
Col. Geo. W. Adair, who afterward
made a reputation as dashing officer
in Forests cavalrc.
At that time Watterson was a slim,
pale-faced young man, and he was any
thing but an enthusiastic worker. 1t
Is quite likely that he saw the hand;
writing on the wall and knew that the
cause Of the South was doomed. But
there were twenty writer's on the South
ern Confederacy, and among them were
some who felt hopeful and confident to
the last. One Of these was an old gen.
tleman named CardOzo, whose financial
articles would make interesting reading
| just now. Cardozo had scheme for
making Confederate money as good as
gold, and the surrender at AppomattoX
found him still explaining it to the pub
! lie.
Very little space was then devoted
| to miscellaneous reading matter, but
| the poets were well represented, and
some very promising short story writers
came to the front. War editorials, how
ever, were the chief stock in trade of
these newspapers, and they owed their
existence to the fact that the Confed-
crate leaders needed their aid in shap-
ing public opinion.
Fifty cents n copy for a newspaper
did not profit it's owners at time when
Confederate money was almost worth
less, and advertising did not yield
much. Material and labor cost great
deal, and each office had numerous
editors and compOsitors whose services
were not really needed. Some of these
Journalists never wrote line and were
| fn1 fn
were men Of some means or influence
| who connected themselves with news
papers in order TO evade the cOnscript
law, which exempted newspaper pro-
prietOrs and their employees.
Once when the printers on the Com
monwealth struck for higher wages
there was some trouble and cOnsidera-
ble fun. The business manager at once
discharged the printers and notified the
conscript officer, who Immediately or
Gered them to the camp of instruction.
| The printers were not slow to retail
late. They made a point that the pro-
pretors, business manager and editors
of the paper were idle in consequence
of the strike and were therefore not ex-
cmpt from military duty. The authori-
ties held similar view, and the result
was fresh batch of conscripts. This
did not suit either side and comprO-
mise was effected. The editors and
printers resumed work and the army
lost more than q score Of able-bOdied
men.
During the first two or three weeks
of the siege the newspapers either sus-
pended or moved southwark. The Ap-
peal retreated before the Federals until
it was finally captured In Alabama, It's
whole outfit having ben reduced to a
small job press and few pounds of
type. The Intelligencer continued to
issue little sheet containing column
summary Of the news until the day be.
fore the city fell.
Before the bombardment commenced
the Atlanta papers ridiculed the idea
Of q siege and predicted that Sherman
would never cross the Chattahoochee
When the Federals crossed the river the
Confederate editors declared that they
were rushing into trap set for theil
destruction. Then came the siege, ant
with 1t more editorial predictions to the
effect that the city could never be taken
Even when the exhausted Confederates
marched out, it was claimed by the
editors that the invaders would find the
place q second Moscow and would soOn
be forced into 4 disastrous retreat
They were jubilantly making these pre-
dictions when Sherman laid the town In
ashes and started to the sea.
Only few Of Atlanta's war journal
lists are now living. Henry WattersoT
is among the two or three survivors
who have stuck 10 journalism; the 9th
ers are real estate agents, insurance
men or retired capitalists. Not one OF
the old papers is now in existence, and
instead of supporting seven flourishinG
dailies this city OF over 100000 inhabit
ants is satisfied with one morning pa
per, the Constitution, and two after
noon papers, the Journal and CONNER
cial.
A great newspaper center was de
stroyed when Sherman turned Atlant:
into a pillar of fire by night and clout
by day to guide his marching legions.-
Wallace Putnam Reed, in the Chicago
Times-Herald.
Served in the Union Army.
One of the red, white and blue stakes
OF the Grand Army of the Republic Is
the only mark to show where lies the
body of Mary. Stevens Jenkins in the
village graveyard of West Brookfield
and was decorated on Memorial day
by the veterans, with honors equal t.
those bestowed upon any other of thu
grass-grown mounds. Mrs. Jenkins
90 far as is known, at least-was th'