The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-04-09
His Forty.Third Anniversary.

On the 1st inst. Editor Hugh Wilson
completed his 43rd anniversary as ed
itor and proprietor of that excellent
newspaper, the Abbeville Press and
Banner, and to him we extend our
congratulations aud hope he will live
to celebrate many more anniversaries.
The issue of his parer of March 20 CON-
tanned most interesting historical ar
ticie from his pen on the editors and
publishers of upper Carolina who
were in the business when he entered it
in 1859.
From his article we clip the follow
ing paragraphs in reference to persons
who were connected With The papers
published in Anderson during the fif-
ties:
james A. Hoyt, who was publishing
q, paper at Anderson ut the outbreak Of
the civil war, has participated in all
the exciting events since 1850. He vol
untcered in ar Anderson company,
which suffered perhaps more severely
than any. other. lie was Lieutenant,
and was badly wounded. After the war
he started the publication of tho An
dcrs0n lntclligcnccr.
1. II. Russell, of tho Anderson Ca
Zette, quit journalism in the tifties,
moved to the country and has since
thcn devoted his energy and skill to
farming. lie still writes for the news
ppiaR' pnReFS' He is now about eighty years
Archy Todd was one of the first mail
clerks on the Gre4nville and Columbia
Railroad. In 1860 he was stricken with
paralysis at BcltOn and was taken from
the train on the mnin limo to Anderson,
where he died Mt his home within the
next, few days surrounded by his
family.
The Anderson Gazette was an old
paper, and it seems to be q pity that it
should have been allowed to dic, and
it's fame to be- bl0ttcd from memory
and its name to be forgotten. Mr..
Todd was connected with the Ander-
son Gazette certainly as far back as
1845, when the Office was DESTROYED
and the town suffered 80 severely
by fire. His partner then was Mr..
Wyatt.
It is said that in the early fifties an
ola woman from the mountains came
wanted q Bible printed. She brought
her Emitting along and would wait for
1t. The Obliging printer told the wo-
man to be seated. lie went out to O
bookstore and bought the Bible.
with which she was we'll pleased, and
said that it didn't take long to do the
work.
The first dollar paper, Of which
have any recollection, was printed ut
Anderson in the early fifties by Cole
man =. Puckett-the Southern Rights
Advocate. My recollection is, that it
did not make money. In those days
religious matter was generally omitted
from secular newspapers. 1t has been
only OF late years that local newspapers
published sermons. The Southern
lights Advocate was among the first
OF the county papers to have q religious
column. 1t was kept up for n time
with little success. After the "relig-
lOus column" had appeared for time,
q! man slightly under the influence of
liquor came into the office and with
more or less profanity told the editor il
ne published any more of the religious
column" he would stop his subscription
to the paper-nnd the religious column
appeared no more in the Southern
Rights Advocate.
Now, l believe, all the newspapers
publish more or less religious matter.
Many of them publish sermons. The
habit OF blowing" or growing over a
little success dates far back. Con-
gressman j. l.. Orr, being much pleas
ed with an editorial utterance of the
Southern Rights Advocate, handed the
editor twenty dollars to send copies of
the paper to twenty names. The next
week the number of "new subscribers
received last Saturday" was noted with
a great flourish.