Daily News, Franklin, Johnson County, 19 February 1880 — Page 2
Daily News.
SEAMAN, LEWIS & CO, PUBLISHERS.
Publication Office, 501 1/2 Ohio Street, corner Fifth.
VOLUME 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1.
Entered at the Post Office at Terre Haute, Indiana, as second-class matter.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1880.
THE DAILY NEWS is printed every week day Afternoon, and delivered by carriers throughout the city at 10 cents per week—collections made weekly. By mail (postage paid by the Publisher) one month 45 cents; three months $1.25; six months $2.50; one year $5,00.— Mail subscriptions in advance.
THE DAILY NEWS presents itself to the people of Terre Haute is a candidate for their favor, proposing as its first object to furnish them every afternoon ail the local happenings of the city, given in as concise and comprehensive a manner as possible, for the small sum of ten cents per week. It will also give a summary of what is going on in the business, political, literary and religious world, and comment thereon with freedom—not pledged to fight any man's fight, or to do any clique's bidding. As a public journal, it will not claim for itself exemption from liability to err, or to commit wrong—but it will not knowingly be guilty of either. Its publication is entered upon as a business venture—and its dealings with the public will be conducted in a business way. It will not depend upon outward favor, but upon inward merit.
The editorial and general management of the DAILY NEWS will be under charge of FRANK SEAMAN. The business relations between the NEWS and the public will be be carefully looked after by WILLIAM LEWIS. git has been thought there is room in this city for such a paper as we shall earnestly labor to make the DAILY NEWS, viz.: bright and newsy, cheap and cheerful. We only ask for it a fair trial, which we feel assured it, \^ill receive.
SEAMAN, LEWIS & CO.
"IN 1809, just previous to his coming to Terre Haute, the edityr of the DAILY NEWS was for some months engaged in publishing the Journal, at Covington, Fountain county. On taking charge of the Journal, his "salutatory" contained these words: "To our editorial neighbors we extend a word of kindly greeting. Many'years among the types, in every position, from roller-boy to' editor, has created in us a fellowship for.every follower of 'the art preservative." While we maj' differ on questions of policy, we shall indulge in no personal controversies. It is not of the slightest importance to the readers of the Journal ^hat its editor may think of Jones of the Bugle Blast, Smith of the lnk-81inger. or Brown of the Guardian of Freedom. What the subscribers of the Journal will buy it for, is the information it contains the personal joys and griefs of its editor are of no consequence to them."
Reading these words a few days ago, the first time in eleven years since they were written, it occurred to the writer
IIIHI they were words of wisdom so no reprints them here, asking his journalistic friends to substitute DAILY NEWS for "Journal," and consider them asAvritten to-day.
To dissipate rumors of the street, and to 'give the exact status of the DAILY NEWS, we arise,to say that the NEWS is not
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ed as a "rival" to any other daily paper in the city. No feelings or design of rivalry have governed the proprietors in undertaking the enterprise of its publication, other than such as may honestly and consistently govern every man who embarks in any branch of industry. Every such man may and ought to desire to conduct Ids business in such a manner as to merit the largest measure of success arid in tills sense he may feel an honorable ambition to equal, OT. if possible, to excel his neighbors in the same calling.
llETrRNiNo prosperity manifests itself in all directions, and the Increasing revenues of the Government furnish substantial evidence of the progress made. The increase for January last amounted to $.1,000,000 over the corresponding month of 1»TR, and for the last half of the year they were ft7.000,000 in excess of those eeived for the same period in 1878.
IT is rather late to make the announcement that James Gordon Bennett* of the New York Herald, has donated the munificent sum of «*e hundred driftir* to the relief of Ireland, but this is the ftrst opportunity the DAILY NEWS has had to make it. His donation la more than all the English royal family And English and Jrish aristocracy ever gave to. that Cause.
TICS "POLITICS" OF THE DAILY KKWS. The question has been asked, "Is the ^NKWS to be a political paperf This is a question deserving ft plain, straight-for-ward answer: The DAILY NKWS will en denvor to be an independent paper in the highest sense. The desire to print and "control an "organ" finds not the slightest semblance of a lodgmeh&n the? ambition, or any part of the physical or mental anatomy of the proprietors. It is their ambition to publish an independent, enterprising and conscientious newspaper a newspaper frank and free-spoken upon all questions of public importance, and always in defense of what it truly believes to be for the common good and consistent in its endeavor to fill its self appointed mission in such a manner as shall do justice to all without giving righteous cause for offense to any in the community in which it hopes to circulate. Concerning the question of party politics, we will say, without hesitation, that the principles of tlie Republican party meet the approval of its editor, and shall, in the main receive the support of the DAILY NEWS. The mission of that party has been glorious the results achieved by its policy mark the steps in progress made by the Nation—future triumphs as glorious await it, if it is not allowed to pass into the hands of fence-corner politicians and office--seeking chronics. The NEWS believes in the highest form of liberty there should be no social or civil distinction in race, color or religion education should be universal American industry should be protected by a judicious tariff labor should be elevated, that the land may be blessed among the nations—let it be elevated by giving it opportunity. The NEWS believes, too, that this is a Nation with a big N that the men who, with their bayonets and swords, made theN big, should, other things being equal, be selected to fill the places of honor and trust at the disposal of the Nation that purity in public affairs is necessary to the perpetuity of our free institutions that "money" is gold and silver coin only, and National honesty»and sound political economy should recognize no other that the Chinese have a right to stay in this country, if they want to that any colored man is at liberty, if he so choose, to come to Indiana and earn his living without, consulting Mr Voorhees and that the city of Terre Haute should have a public library, the opinion of a majority of the present City Council to the contrary, notwithstanding. This is about all there is in the politics of the DAILY NEWS.
ABOUT SMALL NEWSPAPERS. "The NEWS is a little paper?" sity you, perhaps. Yes, it is not so large as the other Term Haute dailies, nor is it sold for so large a sum per week as are they. The DAILY NEWS is sufficiently large for the needs of this city in the daily newspaper line. There Isn't room for large "poster type" in its display advertisements this paper is intended to be held in he-hand and perused, not to be posted on one "of Dishon's bill-boards, that "he who rims may read" it. While there isn't room for columns of European news, Congressional proceedings and Washington correspondence, there is room for the news of the city, and such a "boiling down" of the events happening throughout the country, that the every day reader of the DAILY NEWS can make himself or herself an abridged encyclopedia of what is going on around them, without resorting to the modern cramming process. The management of this paper are firm believers'in the application of the theory "a little farm*well tilled" to newspapers as to tracts of land. The size of a newspaper should not be, an indication of the quality or the variety of its contents Tn of the best newspapers in this coitntir tare, unquestionably, the New ork Sun and the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, both small sheets. Its publishers may not ma]ke so good a paper of the DAILY NEWS as either of these, but they furnish excellent models.
Since writing the above, we find in a late number of the Chicago Daily News a paragraph which is so to the point that we reprint it:
CHEAP ANH CONDENSED KEWSLMRFIRS. The Tribune complains (perhaps its experience justifies the complaint) that owing to the recent advance in white paper, a newspaper can not be published at the present rates of subscription much profit to its owners. In*
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doe* not kike a proper new of the matter. The people of Chicago have been white papered to death. If the present advance will assist in cutting down the size of the morning papers, there will be general rejoicing. All that the Tribune, and papers like the Tribune, contain, morning after morning, year in and year out, might be given in a paper just half its regular size* Magazine articles are out of place in a newspaper, and a page of reportorial slobber on an item or news that could he fully covered in a quarter of a column, is something that is not desired. H'fott the public want %4 le«* white paper md more nem.
These are busy times, and the
paper that presents all the news in a condensed form, so that the evfents of the day can be taken in at a glance, is the paper
TUK public debt statemeat for January shows a decrease of over $11,000,000. To individuals just commencing to fill a "long felt want,*' by establishing a daily newspaper, such a trifling sum would not be worth mentioning, bnt even this financial bagatelle, we suppose, must be posted on the books, of Uncle Sam.
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under control of Mr L. H. BREWSTER. He will have entire charge of the Carriers, and all payments for city subscriptions will be made to him, or to the publishers. He is also authorized to make contracts for advertising, in the DAILY NEWS, and collect money due us for advertising
We cordially commend Mr BREWSTER to the patrons and friends of* the paper. We know him to be reliable, energetic and accommodating, and we congratulate ourselves on having secured his services.
SEAMAN, LEWIS & Co.
TERRE HAUTE, Feb. 19, 1880,
WE see that our old-time friend, George W. Harper, of the Robinson (Ills.) Argus, is looming up as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Secretary of State of Illinois. We always thought George would make a good Secretary of State ever since he used to manipulate an iron frame containing a cylinder of glue and molasses behind a hand-press, the "devil's tail" of which the editor of the DAILY NEWS swayed back and forth, in the good old Quaker town of Richmond, Indiana, some years ago. (If George will promise not to^11 the blank, neither will we?) Be that as it may, we hope he will be nominated, for that is equivalent to election. As an evidence to those who do not know him, that he is a good man to nominate on ai^ ticket, we copy what the Danville Daily News says of him: "He is a man of sterling honesty, devoted to his business, an unswerving Republican aud a Christain gentleman. What he lacks in showy blandishments is ten fold compensated for in solid qualities which never fail. He has succeeded by "hard work and good management in building up a prosperous business, and has made a good Republican paper in a Democratic stronghold. Mr. Harper is worthy the confidence and support of his party, and "should lie be nominated and elected Secretary of State, will perform its duties with exactness and integrity."
THE COMING NATIONAL CONVENTIONS. The Republican National Convention, which will meet in Chicago June 2,.will consist of 756 delegates, a majority of whom is required to nominate.''' Two delegates are allowed for each Representative and Senator in Congress and two from each territory and the District of Columbia. There are 293 Representatives, 76 Senators, eight territories and the District, and that number doubled makes 756. It will thus require 379 votes to nominate.
The Democratic National Convention consists of only 788 delegates, those from the territories and District of Columbia not being permitted to votei Under the present two-thirds rule it will require 492 votes to nominate. There has always been much objection to this, and several attempts have been made to rescind it. At the St. Louis convention of 1876, after the nomination of the ticket, a resolution wass passed recommending that the next convention require only a majority of the delegates to nominate a candidate.A
ON the third page of the DAILY NEWS to-day will be found a poem, "Doubt," written for the paper by Miss Mary II. Krout, of Crawfordsville, the author of "Little Brown Hands"—verses read and admired in every land where English is spoken. Among the sovenirs in possession of the editor of the DAILY NEWS, is an autograph copy of "Little Brown Hands," a gift from the author, which occupies the post of honor in the editorial room. We trust our exchanges who copy "Doubt/ will leave the name of the author attached, even if they do scissors off the name of the paper in which it first, appears.
THE proposal to permit National Banks to lend money on real estate mortgages is one of questionable wisdom. These banks have been the best the country ever had. chiefly because they have been compelled by law to be the most conservative we etfer had. Their assets were thus as a rule kept always within easy reach, and they weathered storms before which our former system of State banks would *have gone down like so many reeds. It will be a bad step to relax in the slightest degree the restrictions which have thus far produced such excellent results.
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BRICK POMKROY has been elected president of a Colorado gold and silver mining company. With all his soft, money principles we should suppose he would rather be president of a paper mill.—Indianapoli*
At present price of paper, the presidency of a paper mill ought to +e a f«i' position.
THE destruction by fire on yesterdaj of Keyes & Sykes' hub and spoke factory is a public calamity, and it is to be hoped our citizens will extend them every encouragement and aid in rebuilding^
Where He i» Wanted
Indianapolis Journal.
There are times when a strong man at the head of the Government is desirable, but the greatest need of the Republican party at present is a strong man at the head of the ticket i,
'BEFORE TAKRC."
What tlie *ew*papers«f Terre Haute and Elsewhere Say of the Dally *ews. g, in Advance.
Terre Haute Express. 1
A NEW DAILY.—Frank Seaman, in connection with Mr Lewis, his brother-in-law, will shortly engage in the publication of a daily evening newspaper this city. It will be sold for two cents a copy. Among all the newspaper projects talked of in journalistic circles this seems to be the only one that has taken definite shape for immediate consummation. The material for the new journal is now at hand. It 'Will not be an impecunious concern, it is understood, but means sufficient to sus.tain it until its practicability or impracticability shall have been demonstrated, will be used for that pmpose.
Terre Hante Evening Gazette.
It is reported that Frank Seaman, late of C. W. Brown's Globe office, anfl a monied brother-in-law, Mr Lewis, will start a daily paper here to be issued from Mr Brown's office. No announcements in detail have, as yet. been made of the enterprise/
Terre Haute National.
Elsewhere will be found an announcement of the DAILY TERRE HAUTE NEWS. the coming new daily. Frank Seaman, known to everybody in Terre Haute as a printer, is at the head of the firm, and will be editor. We learn from the Express and the Gazette that the enterprise is financially "well heeled." a very,necessary adjunct to success.
Terre Haute Banner.
fcgf^ranf "Seaman, beilaufig beirnrft, etn fe&r gcfdjicfter })ud?brucfer, getyt mit bem SJerne^men ua$ mit bem ^lane um, in ©emeinfdjaft trill feincm Sdijiraacr, etnern »errn 1'etmS, binnm Jffurjem ein englifdjeS Slbenbblatt ju 2c per Summer ^ctaufyugeben.
Saturday Evening Mail.
A new evening daily newspaper will be issued on Thursoay of next week by Seaman. Lewis & Co., who have established their office over the Globe printing office. The publishers make announcement on another page which tells what they propose to do. Of one thing we are sure— typographically, Frank Seaman will make it as neat as a woman's new dress.
Saturday Evening Ledger.
Frank Seaman and his brother-ih-law, Mr Lewis, Will soon commence the publication of a daily paper, to be issued every evening. Its political complexion is not knowiK It will be sold at "two cents per copy.
Frank Seaman, who will edit the DAILY EVENING NEWS, is an old time printer of this citv and is a first class one. He has worked hard and deserves a reward. He is a veteran soldier of the war, a straightforward man and a good citizen. The Republicans of this town ought to give Seaman a boom.
State Normal N«\v?.
Frank Seaman, until this number foreman of the Vlobe office, where the News is printed, has embarked on thi' stormy sea of Terre Haute journalism. He has mounted the editorial Pegasus, and will issue the first number of the DAILY NEWS in this city the 19th inst. The NEWS is to bean evening daily. We Msh Mr Seaman and it abundant success.
Vincenne* Commercial.
NEW PAPER.—By a postal card received yesterday, asking an exchange, we are informed that Frank Seaman, a friend of long ago of ours, will, on the 19th inst., begin the publ^ation of anew daily paper in Terre Haute—the DAILY NEWS. Frank is an old hand at the business, a professional, not an amateur adventurer without experience, and he will make a good per. The postal don't, indicate what pol ICS, or whether any or not, the paper will have.* The Commercial's best wishes for success are with Frank. We hope he has "struck it rich," for he is deserving.
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Peoria (IUH.) Call.
Anew daily paper, will be established in Terre Haute, Ind., next week, called the DAILY NEWS. It will be edited by Frank Seaman, a gentleman of literary taste and ability, as well as a good practical printer and business man. He cannot fail of making success of his new venture.
Crawfordnville Journal.
The first number of the DAILY TERRE HAUTE NEWS will appear next Thursday, under the editorial management of Frank Seaman. The NEWS will be a folio of 20 columns, its type and material all new, and in all departments it proposes to keep abreast of,the times.
Marshall (Ill.O Herald.
Frank Seaman, of Terre Haute, will commence on Thursday the publication of a new afternoon paper over there, entitled the DAILY NEWS. Frank is an old typo, and if any one can make a paper a paying institution he can. Success to the NEWS.
For the expressions of good opinion toward him personally in the above, the edi tor of the DAILY NEWS makes sincere acknowledgment^
The Ureal Xeed of Jonmallwiii. Springfield Republican, Feb. 14, "It will probably be discovered. in time that the great need of journalism at present is not in the increase of the size of the sheet, but in the improvement of the work done on itr-the independence, pith and soundness of the editorial opinion, the graphic quality, accuracy, compactness ana elegance of the reporting, the completentjss and brevity with which the essential facts of small news is presented, and the intelligence of the leading advices from the country at large.
'l^1 Nfnxiblr Polltlr*. Marion (tferonicle. In the campaign of 1880 it oiust be an tradeviating rule with Republican conventions to nominate no candidate from President down to constable who will antagonize any honest element of the party. Tliis rule can be strictly adhered to in all instances without the slightest sacrifice of principle, and at the same time insure success where it would otherwise jeopardize success, if not certain defeat.
*«The Wild Ifnnt far Oil!eer Frankfort Crescent. From the size of the mail of Hon I. N. Davis' census supervisor for this district, it may become necessary for Postmaster Hart to put on an eJrtra force in the office. Applications come In by the hundred.
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A Paragraph for Printers.
The "dress"' of the DAILY NEWS shows for itself. Every printer will mark its clean cut, its elegant finish and fit (This is speaking after the manner of a oneninth' part of a man.) We -who bought (and paid for it "sight unseen") are more than satisfied. We want to tell our printer friends that every article of material in tlie DAILY NEWS office—types, rules, leads, slugs, cases, stands, chases, stones, galley£ down to quoins and mallet, the complete outfit—was furnished, and shipped within four days after receipt of the order, by Messrs SChniedewend & Lee, 200-302 South Clark street, Chicago. Our order was filled complete to the letter, as correctly as if we had gone to Chicago and selected it in person. This firm are ready to do likewise for any printer or publisher who may send them an order. They have an extensive electro foundry, Mr Sliniedewend being one of the best electroty in the country while Mr Lee's rank thorough and skillful job printer was an enviable one a few years ago. before he went into business on his own hook. Their "leads" and "slugs" are about as near perfection as it is possible to make them. They furnish anything in the w» of type a printeitmay need.and are Westei agents for the Campbell press. We print ers don't, all agree as to which is the best press—but tliers is in daily operation at (!. W. Brown's Globe job office in this city, a Campbell country press, sold to him by Messrs S. & L., on which has been done as good printing, from a one-line script visiting card to a book form sheet poster, as was ever turned off ttny other make of press. An inspection of the work at Mr Brown's, will bear us out in this assertion.
Along personal and business acquaintance with Messrs Shniedewend & Lee, enables us to say tliRt. our printer-readers will find them reliable and square-dealing men—and that an order for a 25 cent article will receive as prompt and careful attention as an order for $100 worth.
NrliwiliiiK That lines Not Educate. Indiunapoli* News. The whole tendency of modern education is to lift bojfs and girls to places tliev are not fitted to till to disgust them with work which they are fitted to do, which •must be done, and which can be easily obtained. Our theory of education is continually losing sight of a fact which never permits itself to be ignored and teaching the young to lose sight of it, that the mass of people in every generation and under whatever form of government must be laborers. The old heresy that every boy has a chance to be President of the United States has done more injury in thb small brains of boys who, once bitteh with the personal application of the idea, are good for nothing afterwards. The boy should have an education which* when completed. Will make thfc subject better fitted Jo pursue the work for which he is adopted, which makes him not ashamed to do it, and which thus dignifies labor.
AflvantaifCM ot an Evening Paper. Columbun Dlnpatch. The advantages of an evening paper over a morning paper for advertising purposes is apparent on reflection. In tlie morning the day's w{ork is before the husband and housewife the paper is taken up and a hasty glance given to the telegrams and local news, and it is thrown aside for th'c cares of the day. There is no time to read further, and before evening the paper is transformed into a dress pattern or into a lire lighter. The evening paper comes at a time when the labors of the day are completed, and the hours between tea and bed time are given to reading. Tne telegrams, local news and miscellany are all read, and still there are hours to spare and the advertisements are read and re-read, and the bargains offered discussed in the family circle, and conclusions reached as to where to make the homo purchases. A hint to the wise is sufficient.
Fine WriEiiiK on ItllllnrdN. Boeton Transcript.
This is the way they play billiards in New York, according to the reporter who was in attendance at a recent tournament: "The globes crept along with a soft mil sical click, and, amid the cheers of the assemblage, crossed to the bottom rail, rambling leisurely on their way like two children wandering in a country lane, who sometimes separate to pick sweet flowers by the wayside and run back to meet each other with a kiss."
Maybe He Doeitn't Calculate to Mell It. Louisville Courier-Journal^ ,. It
has been calculated, they say, that in order to produce a single pound of honey a bee won Id have to make 2,500,000 voyages abroad in search of material And yet, for that one pound of honey'he probably won't get more than .ten or fifteen cents! Poor misguided and overworked little devil some benevolent somebody ought to point out the absurdity of the thing to him and persuade him to quit the husineM*«
The ttellfflou* Plea for Polygamy* Lonliiville Cotnraereial. One might say with as much reason that a man has the right to go to a Territory and set up the old Zoroastrian iron worship, and proce&l to sacrifice his enemies to Moloch without disturbance, as to claim the right to marry a dozen or more wives and seek justification in religion* and protection afterward underneath the snme head.
The Fortunes That l*«t. Boston Merchant,
fve stood here on State street for years, and I have seen men acctim Fortunes by speculation, and I've these fortunes disappear-* I have men go up in worldly wealth, an down, and I've always noticed that person# who were content with slow and six per cent, interest came out in the long run.
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