The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 29, 1916, Page 8, Image 8
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWSPAPERS.
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Interesting Facts About Beginning of
Journalism in This State.
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This article, which was first published
in the Yorkville Enquirer
about eight years ago, is reproduced
because of certain inquiries that were
being made by Dr. Talcott Williams
and members of the State Press association
during the recent meeting in
York:
While examining some old docu
, ments not long ago in a desk that
was formerly used by the late Capt.
Jj. M. Grist, a member of the Enquirer
staff came across some written
pages in the handwriting of that
veteran printer and publisher that
contain some facts that will prove
of some little interest to the younger
printers and publishers of this generation,
and probably also to the historian
as well. The pages were written
July 31, 1899, and although not
intended for publication in the form
in which they were found, their contents
are reproduced herewith, sub;
* stantially without change:
"My father was a printer. When
lie caused me to enter the printing
office in May, 1840, it was for the
purpose of commencing the publica- ,
tion of the Yorkville Compiler, a
prospectus for which had been issued
sometime previous. He had arranged
to use a press that had been
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brought to YorKvine aoout iui
|:j ;y. the purpose of printing the lectures
of Rev. Wm. C. Davis, a learned and
jgf . able Presbyterian minister. The
press was what was known as a
"Ramage" and was similar in style
to that used by Benjamin Franklin,
in his day. The forms of type were
inked by what were technically
known as "balls," made of buckskin
bags, stuffed with wool. They were
^ d provided with wooden handles / and
the ink was distributed by rubbing
the balls together, and then pounding
them down lightly on the type.
?After a year after this we dispensed |
with the balls and instead used a
roller, made by stretching a piece of
woolen blanket over a cylinder and
covering it with buckskin. We first
commenced to use a composition rolli|^r
^r in 1849. When I went to the case
in 1840, the only daily papers printed
in the State were in Charleston.
They were th? Charleston Courier,
the Charleston Mercury, the Southern
Patriot, and the Charleston Evening
Transcript. The Evening Transcript
d-;v was issued from the office of the
8outhern Patriot. The Courier and
Mercury issued tri-weeklies* making .
h them up from the first and fourth
pages of two daily issues and send&^.:v
ing them out on each alternate day.
pj. ; "There was no caption across the
pages as at present. Besides the
, dailies there were in Charleston the
following weeklies: soutnern Jtsapttet,
Catholic Missionary, Southern
* ) "Christian Advocate. In Columbia
i , there were three weeklies, as follows:
P > South Carolinian, Southern Chronicle,
Temperance Advocate. There were
three weekly papers in Edgefield
gr county, two at Hamburg and one at
Edgefield court house. These were
V the Edgefield Advertiser, the Hamtmrg
Journal and the Hamburg Republican.
The Edgefield Advertiser
was published by W. F. Duriso.
There was also the Mountaineer, of^
7- . Greenville, the Compiler, of Yorkville,
the Journal, of Camden, the
Messenger, of Pendleton and the GaTn
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my recollection. there were no other
papers in the State. There -was none
If. x ? in Chester, Winnsboro, Newberry,
Union, Spartanburg, Abbeville, Anderson,
Sumter, Orangeburg, Barnwell,
Colleton, Laurens, Horry, Williamsburg.
lie Edgefield Advertiser
and the Southern Christian Advocate
? - are the only papers that have been
printed continuously under the same
name. - I remember the early numbers
of all the other papers in the
)- State not mentioned above. The
Pioneer was the first paper published
in Yorkville and the date of the first
? issue was August 16, 1823. The first
issue of the Yorkville Enquirer made
its appearance on January 4, 1855.
This was the.first South Carolina
. newspaper outside of Columbia and
Charleston to use a machine, press
and steam power."
Measuring Words With Deeds.
When Congressman Gardner says
that "the United States has talked
so much and done so little'' he must
be making a sly dig at his old friend,
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tne coionei. it is a saie guess mat
Mr. Roosevelt talks at least ten
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times as much as any other man in
the country.. Where the president of
the United States, its official representative,
says one word the rough
rider pours forth at least twenty in
speeches, interviews, magazine articles,
hooks and any other form of
communication open to him. Never
was there such a human geyser of
verbosity. Woodrow Wilson has accomplished
more in the past three
years in the line of important legislation
and diplomatic victories than
the colonel could do in thirty. And
still the latter loves to pose as a man
of action, not of words!?Philadelphia
Record.
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