Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1878 — Turkish Journalism. [ARTICLE]

Turkish Journalism.

Constantinople is not well supplied with news, although that city supports eighteen daily papers printed in English, French, Turkish, Greek, Armenian, Spanish, and Bulgarian. Beporters are unknown. The editorials of the Greek and Armenian newspapers are on chnrch matters alone, while the Turkish papers are filled chiefly with translations from the European press. The way news items are bandied about is amusing. The Turkish paper, Bassiret, publishes an item in the morning, which is served up in slightly altered garb in the Levant Herald in the evening, and is copied next morning into the Bassiret as inde pendent testimony to its truth. On the third day the Bassiret learns that it is false, and says so. The American export trade is assuming larger proportions with each succeeding month, and is destined to set our financial matters all right in spite of the Congressional wranglers. Among the piano exports to Europe and the South American States the popular firm of Geo. Steck & Co., of New York, figures largely, because instruments have gained the reputation of standing the most severe climate better than those of their competitors A Southern paper regrets that something cannot be done to induce the blacks in some of the overcrowded sections to emigrate to Liberia. It never occurred to the editor to start a report that they raise watermelons as big as a cow over there. —Ureal fast Table.