The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-25

about 1s5S-ss. when the outfit was pur- chased by the proprietors of The AZ. .yerttser, who kept the paper in the neao as an evening edition of the latter.
 During the forties The Mobile Daay reer by Mir, H. Bailantyne and about the same time The Alabama Tribune. tL. A Middleton, editor and proprietorl, ap- peared. followed pretty soon oy me .s Ais- iication of which Wesley ". McGuire vras editor and proprietor. These three papers were merged during the oecane aS The Herald ,and Tribune. ana became bune. the name Alabama Planter being fetained for a year or two as the desig- nation of the weekly edition. which, nov ever, was shortly discontinued. The Mo bile Tribune lived until 1872, and then died. Two or three efforts were made to revive 1t, but the new paper under an old name in each case was short lived. the last publication being about 1880, A. e. Horn and J. H. Gindrat com menced the publication of The Mobile Daily Mercury. This paper lasted two pr three years. leaving the held to the three daiiies, Mobile Advertissr. Mooale ing News having become the afternoon edition of The Daily Advertiser. as pre- yiously stated.
 When the Federal troops entered Mo bile in Aprtl, 1885, the newspapers were suspended. E. o. Halle. better known as "A. Head" obtained an order from General Canby to take possession or any abondoned printing material that ne Der for general circulation. He took the old Register ohice tthat paper having been moved up the cNer upon the evoc- uation of Mobile) and started The Daily News. That was about April 18th. iS6S. aft rA Nav l9t. lS65. Major Henry St. Paul. gallant soldier or a Louisiana command, returned to Mobile and met Halle, who was very anxious to have Southern man, returned soi- came to an agreement, Halle giving St. Paul a full partnership. and good sal ary, for his services. The name or the paper was changed to The Times. Jno. 1865 In April, 1866, Halle sold his inter- est to st. Paul and Napier. Early in 1867, one-third interest in the concern was sold to W. D. Mann. who in 1s6S ers the sa whSs Ss Tns o RfE esrf then retired from the business. Forsyth edited The Daily Register and St. Paul The Sunday Times. In 1873 MT Forsyth went to Europe. and MaJor St. PauI edited both papers tThe Sunday Times having been meantime changed to The Sunday Register.) MT. Forsyth died May ?. 1877. Then. Joe. Hodgson became Edi. tordn-Chief. St. Paul having resumed the practice of law although he ire quently wrote for the paper and occa- sionally edited 1t for three or four months at time. when called. upon to do SO Major St. Paul moved back to New Or leans in isss and died in that nat, o,ty G m s aSso: fin 1893. Mir. Erwin Craighead then be- came chief editor.
 Jno. L. Rapier has been at the head of the business of the concern virtually Y..t.. Alxy av. Halle & O., Henry St. Paul & Co. w. D. Mann & Co.,, Isaac Donovan & Co.,. Forsyth & Rapier. Jno. l.. Rapier & O.. and The Register Co.,. always as junior of Colonel Forsyth. then as senior of J. L. Rapier & Co, and then as President of The Register Company. The,elder gen. tlemen always did him the courtesy of consulting him on the conduct or the always valuable.
 The Registers history from 1s20 as to owners. is as follows:
 1S2o--Jonathan Battelle and John W. Townsend.
 ls25-Thaddeus Sanford.
 1s37-Jno. Forsyth and P. Ribbey.
 1S41--T Sanford and S. F. Wilson.
 1s49-C. A. Bradford & Co.
 1s5o-T Sanford & Co.
 1s54-Thompson, Harris Go. ,,
 1S54-Middieton. Harris & Go.
 1S55-Jno. Forsyth and Jacob Harris.
 1S59-Jno. Forsyth.
 1ssl-Wiiiis C.. Clark and Jno. Forsyth.
 1S6S--W. D. Mann.
 1S71-Isaac Donovan.
 1S72-Isaac Donovan, President.
 1s74-Forsyth X Rapier.
 1s76-Jno. L. Rapier & Go.
 1sSs-The Register Co.,, Jno. L.. Rapier.
 In all this time there have been five editors: J. Battelle, five years: T. San- ford. twenty-five years: Jno. Forsyth. teen years, and E. Craighead. nine years.
 The Morning Chronicle was established in 1878 by a joint stock company; Leslie E. Brooks, Editor. but its period of ex- tstence was lets than 3 year. The Tele- in 1884. The Monitor in 1880.
 veteran of the Alabama newspaper contingent Is John F. Cothran. President of The Mobile Item Company.
 His advent into the printing business was in the year lS45 in the town of Ma rion. Ala. Col. Samuel A. Towns, a lawyer and most excellent gentleman, was the editor of a paper called The to him for situation in his ofice. He tried to dissuade him, saying his father intended him to be lawyer. The youth wanted to be in the paper business. and appealed to him so strongly that he fin- ally consented and he was duly in- stalled ''Devir' in the office of The Ma rion News.
 Upon entering the office he found a disciple of His Satanic Majesty pres ent in the person of a schoolmate, Sum- ter Lea, who is now resident of Birm- ingham, and was one or Alabamas great orators until disabled by blindness
 After the lapse of a year or more The News suspended and Cothran was duly | tr srsferred to The Marion Common wealth. edited by MT. John Garland Markham, a most excellent gentleman. | He remained with The Commonwealth | until 1S49. In the days when he was | with The Commonwealth the "deWr was l allowed to publish a paper on his own | account to assist in paying his expenses. l The title of Cothran's paper was 'The | owl" It was about the size of an or and work it off on an old Hoe hand press. It was issued every Saturday | evening and sold for 25 cents per copy. | It was noted for it's correspond ence. He got along swimmingly until