The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-14

vas as good journalistic work as l
have ever done. In 1S6S-after June
i edited two papers in Memphis,
Tenn, one for seven months, and the
ether for month. l edited the Raj
eieh Daily Record, owned by my
friend. the late John II. Mills I diu.
al the writing, although living at
Warrenton. This lasted for four or
five months The paper did not pay.
/ edited the war monthly. our Living
and our Dead" for thirteen months,
when 1t suddenly failed. | edited the
Spirit of The Age for some three
months for the then owner. / edited
the Evening Crescent at Raleigh for
three or four weeks. I have been cor
, lespOndent of five papers in this State
the Roanoke News, at Weldon; The
Fayetteville Gazette (Some two or
three years for each), the Tarboro
Southerner for a few months, the
Charlotte Observer, for fifteen months,
and The Raleigh News and Observer
for about twenty-seven months.
was at one time, since the war, CORE
spondent of the Richmond Dispatch.
for a few months, and for the Peters
, burg News Ct believe it WaS), for some
year or two / Wrotes articles for
Dr. Deemss excellent New York
Weekly, THE Watchman,' and he
paid me better than | have ever been
paid save only. for one article ] was
asked to prepare for the New York
Herald on the Centennial of the Bat
tie of Alamance, in April, 1891. l
filled the first page Of the Herald, and
the proprietor sent me $50 for it, That
Is the only regular contribution / ever
wrote for or offered to q newspaper
outside Of my own State. | never
wrote a line or offered a. line to any
Northern literary weekly, monthly or
: 10 fot hot
as been stated covers my journalistic
work except nearly tWenty-siX years
spent in Wilmington in unapprCciated
toll with my Faber.
] thought with my long communica-
ton given above that | had exhausted
all of my efforts in journalism. But
after reelection brings to me Il few
other labors that to complete the re-
cord / Will beg leave to mention here
Some time about 1878 j reckon it was,
1 wrote editorials for two or three
months for my friend. Colonel Henry
G.. Williams. then editor OF the Wilson
Advance. he being absent at Raleigh
as a member of the Legislature. About
1874 | edited the Raleigh Christian
Advocate for Rev. James B. BobOitt,
he being forced to take a holiday for
rieS of articles for the Raleigh Spirit of
the Age. when it was under the con-
duct of that excellent newspaper team,
the late Rev. Drs. H. T. Hudson and
Thomas II. Pritchard. That paper was
never so good as when they had
charge. so far as ] remember. That
was about 1873, probably. L wrote for
the Wake Forest (College)
Student some six or seven
years ago four papers contain
ing in all about fifty pages, l sup
pose They were on Chief Justice
Henderson, General Thomas Person,
John Penn, the signer of the Philadel-
phia Declaration of independence, all
Of Granville county, and fourth pa
per on some events in that old, large
county. In 1866. / think it was,
/ wrote a series extending through
some thirty numbers for the Raleigh
Biblical Recorder, then edited by my
excellent friend. John "a Mills, and
at another and later time printed in
the same paper perhaps some twelve
OF more reports of short lectures by
myself. Some two years or more
since [ wrote for the Fayetteville
Daily Observer some nine or ten COM
munications. / do not recall any other
series of articles l have published.
Rut I remember to have written one
or more articles in the lsaleigh Regis