Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-02-27
D OLDEST PAPER.
Established In 1895 and supported by the
Government.

Established In 1885 and supported by the
Government.
A newspaper who's manager never has tC
to trouble about advertisement or circulation
whose contributions are furnished by the
government and the salaries of whose en-
ployes are paid by public appropriation-the
Oldest, usually the dullest, and yet in many
respects, the most important newspaper pub.
lished in the British Empire-such is the
London Gazette.
The official government organ-through
whose pages Lord Salisbury recently made
public the diplomatic correspondence in re.
gard to Venezuela-was established in 1865.
1t is a sort of a petty blue book, with some
newspaper features added. 1t has. always
been published in London, ex cept during
the year of the ereat plague, when the sea,
of government was temporarily moved to
Oxford. The present edit r, Bernard Har.
rison, is ~curiously enough, a lineal descend.
ant of the man who edited the paper in 1913.
sit is hardly to be called editing at ALL -
said Mr.. Hsrrison, speaking of his work. 81
merely have to see that I have proper au-
thority for whatever appears, and that every
thing goes in due form. My responsibility
is confined almost entirely to the production
Of the paper. OF course the Gazette varies
considerably as t. the number of its pages,
according to its contents. Here, for instance
is the sort of thing we have to get out in No
vember, when we have to put in all the par
liamentary notices for the ensuing season. -
and M Eavrseoa DroIu~nl . ke,ILs, .,clss,n~
running to several hundred pages. s.yet thil
is just an ordinary number Of the Gazette.
sit appears, you know, on Tuesdays and
Fridays. We take pride in the circumstance
that no information has ever leaked out be-
fore its time while the work has been in
trusted to US. OF course, attempts have
been made from time to time to bring this
about, but they have never succeeded.
"What is our circulation? l mustn't say.
That is q secret not to be revealed. A few
government departments, enc or two official
bodies, a stray lawyer or SO, you newspaper
people, ard the like, take US, but that il
all. We have no general readers"
Formerly the Gazette was quite a e W
paper, and contained regular foreign dis.
patches and local account of state functions.
At present, however, its contents are con-
fined to government notices, appointments,
official communications, partnership and
bankruptcy notices and occasionally some
importvnt diplomatic or military matter. II
is not allowed to receive advertisments of a
specific kind, but formerly it published
general advertisements, and some Of those
found in the old files are very amusing.
Here are a few:
MIR. Edward Maynwaringe. NJ. D., in an
early issue advertises ga Second impress
sion" Of
The Mysterty of Curing COMPREHENSIVE
Explained and Proved Argumentatively and
Practically in Three Parts. Approve the
Most Useful, Commodius and Comprehen.
sive Expedient; against Surprising Diseases;
and secret Decays of Human Nature.
v~ertisement:
The Concert of Musick in York Buildings,
will be on Monday next the 18th instant,
being tn" last time of Performing this Sea-
son; with Variety of New Musick.
The following from the issue of August 3,
is one of many such:
Thomas Finchly, a blackamoor, a lusty,
well fed Managed about twenty-five made
his escape from Woodford, in Essex, on
Monday, the 2Ist past, being in Custody for
robbing Edward Archer, of Woodford, OF
7oI, Whoever discover him SO that he can
be brought to Justice, and gives notice to
Edw. Archer, of Woodford aforesaid, or to
the Market Ostler at the Kings Arms Inn in
Leadenhall- street, London, shall have a
Guinea Reward, and charges.