The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1899-01-19

$1,000 SS~~~Sst W AANAA W.S
ed in the Oxford Mercury. When
not quite eighteen years Of age !
came to Raleigh in the stage
coach, and began work in the Star
office at eight dollars yer week in
the summer, and nine dollas in
the winter. The amount usually
paid to journeymen in that day
was eight dollars per week, and |
am glad to say it is now nearly
double.
During my stay in the Star
Office / read constantly the best
books, and studied law and OBJ
tanned my license on the first day
Of January, 1S41.
"On the first day of June, 1S4S,
/ purchased the Standard office
from Thomas Loring, Esq, and
ran that paper for twenty-five
years, and one month.
"Mr. Heart had as his boys to
work in the Office, his son, Edwin
A. Heart, myself, and Benjamin
F. Foster. He simply made a
support by his paper. He was
peyer extrayagant, He lived
comfortably, but had little TO spare.
l repeat what / have said else
where, he was the best man ]
have ever known.
CAT Christmas, 1882, when ]
was fourteen years of age, and
Edwin was thirteen, we determin.
ed to print a Christmas Address
We did so, compiling from othel
addresses of the same sort, ano
from miscellaneous poetry, and
carried it around town on Christ
mas Eve. | remember well, how
cold it was. Gov. Graham, then q
young lawyer, gave me a Mexican
silver dollar, at Gains corner
Edwin and myself gathered
twelve dollars in silver, met
counted, and divided it equally
And then | ran home six miles il
the darkness, full of fun, hearing
the Christmas guns all the way,
and with six dollars in my peck
ct, and "happy as a lord"
DENNIS HEARTT.
The foregoing is from an adj
dress which delivered before the
Editorial Convention at Winston,
in1ss1. | could not improve il
now.
ain Mr.. Hearts day the double
pull Ramage press was used, with
buckskin balls for linking the
form. Printing was executed IN
der many difficulties. Types wert
costly and were used from ten e
fourteen years. The forms wer'
sometimes underlaid with damn
paper to bring out the impression
Mr.. Heartt engraved the head o
his paper, and with leaden cuts o
r various kinds illustrated his arti
/ cles and advertisements. He mad,
his own composing stick Of walnu
{ wood, lined with brass. The!
!, were good sticks, and ! remembe
/ to this day the sound made BY th
e types as they were dropped by tn
a left thumb into their places. TIL
= latest news from China was prints
!, once in three months; aud North
S ern news, brought TO Hillsboro b.
e the tri.weekly stage coach, wa
J, condensed and printed once
n week. How slowly, in compari
!. son with the present, did th
}, world move at that day.
> "Mr. Heart was a good schola
i and wrote we'll, but he seldom
!, presented his readers with q col
L umn Of editorial in any issue. II
was a man Of refined taste, an,
= his selections were, therefore, ex
IS cellent. His integrity in al
+ respects was perfect. No consid
d Grafton could have induced him :
e abandon or compromise his prin
a ciples, or to do wrong knowingly
d / was a member Of his family D
/. one Of his apprentices for six .
}, seven years, and / knew hin
o thoroughly. There were man.
= features in his character and con
+ duct which / could not thel