Titusville Herald (Newspaper) - August 30, 1877, Titusville, Pennsylvania June MONTHLY ANNUAL K 11BVIEW of entire dutifully compiled from reliable a specialty tba C l Advertising Medium In Northwestern from all of Iho O il unit if used will IM paid lor ouo of tho AND HC J AN AKIK lid 1 of tho Courier CINCINNATI August 26 The lifo of a editor is neither so iull of incident nor so brilliant ts f hat of u giot but it H not I hi less of popular attention Both are of great bodies of men but while the one is displayed with n background of and banners and glittering with blato of the of and the of amis tin other is an unseen spirit moving its by words ad to not tho ear and winning his buttles with the gentle weap ons of persuasion and argument without nnd without display newspaper which to other nations in tho luxury of affluent ease ia to the American the earliest of It is incident to his every conquest whether of man or of nature The click of his rilli is by that of types and thn roar of his has hardly til you hear the roll of his press On this account the editor of a great newspaper becomes an ohjeet of interest to all classes of the people They like to see this impersonality personalized this mysterious loader whom they have fol exhibited in tho everydayness of his lifo In the front rank of American editors stands of the A brief sketch of bis caroer inay servo to show young aspirants to the tripod that in as in all other professions or even occupations position is not obtained without years of patient and apparently poorly rewarded labor Learning and the skill of the accomplished writer are not all that is required to make a good editor Many of the brightest names in our literature have failed when they have attempted to conduct a news paper skill for that purpose is gained by patient and constant attention that by great scholar or superior literary abilities though last arcs most valuable auxiliaries At unit Halstead was born September 2 at Paddys Run Butler county Ohio His parents were Colonel Griffin and his wife nee Wil litts Colonel was born in North Carolina in 1802 and still resides at the old homestead where ho has lived for seventy years Murat attended the com mon schools and an academy taught by Rev B W Chidlaw during the winter and worked on his fathers farm during the summer In these schools he ed and sur At tlie ago of nineteen he entered Farmers Collogo at College Mill near Cincinnati whero he graduated in the class of It was his intention to tit himself for the law but while at college he began to write for the Cincinnati press and his stories moral sketches accounts of Indian antiquities etc so successful that he was induced to come to the city and try his hand at earning a subsistence by literary labor At first as we learn from a letter written by hin in response to the inquiries of a friend and published in an Eastern journal he wrote for all the daily papers the more numerous than now and for two weeklies that passed away long ago lie wrote for the Gazette Commercial and At luf and for the and Great West and a temperance papar edited by General Jury In connection with a printer named he started a Sunday called the Leader but it was shortlived when the outside of tho third number was printed His first regular engagement upon a daily newspaper was as news editor of the Allan whose proprietor at the time was Air John D Caldwell This lasted until Henry came from Columbus to edit the after which it speedily be came an evening edition of the Gazette He retired just as Reed came partly be cause the Whig paper of Butler county bad attacked him for writing a letter to the expressing pleas ure at the election of John U Wellor to lus a from California Ho is not so sensitive now His engagement was as assistant editor of the to take the plane of John who was off on a six trip to New Orleans for bis health and when Mr Sharp returned Micro was no further 1130 for In a fuw days however he found employment as assistant editor of the winch was a nourishing literary weekly dealing about month edited by W B tick and published by K Penrose Jones His first task was to condense tho nows of tho tiny for once a week appear ance and then to write editorial and book and contribute literary matter A gentleman named Irwin who resided in Covington wrote a great many novel ettes under the namo of t 11101 e He contributed to tlie Columbian and the and when Aaron Tang Hamilton who wrote largely for Commercial removed to York Jrwin represented to Air II Potter that lie thought it would be well to make IIil an offer and lie did so Thn proprietors of the Commercial were Lee and Pol ter The Loe was Richard Henry Lee from Kentucky was engaged to use Air Potters phrase at the time as general utillity man lie had some local work to do and wrote a variety of paragraphs Col lard Alartin was just retiring from his labors as river editor and he sometimes helped him He also explored Covington and Newport for a few weeks Mr Potter was in very delicate and early in the summer at the urgency of his physicians left home for a long stay in thn Kastern States Mr Lee very kind to Halstead and accepted his editorials on minor topics with words that wore pleasant Lee was thoroughly 1 gentleman and his praise was the butter part of the pay for long nights of hard work for Halstead Lee fell ill and sent for and he undertook to write an editorial article f i r each days issue of the Commercial and also to keep up ft which Mr Loo had adopted of condensing the news His experience on the Allan and Columbian had fitted him for this He entered the Commercial office in March 1853 nnd this promotion took place in the following July Mr Lees illness proved fatal Mr Potter was summoned in all when the gravity of the was made known and reached home just in time to see his partner dip Potter of the illness of Lee ho was dis turbed about the affairs of tho office nnd on his return he congratulated Halstead upon what ho had accomplished in the emergency nnd gave Li in an advance in salary The rest WILS easy comparatively XLV NO 64 TITUS AUGUST 30 1877 Halstead liad nothing else to do and bias band ami knife But sixteen koma a Atlas tons of smoked are 4t on In a ion the evening edition of the Gazette was close rosy The edge of the skirt has a dead and Henry Reed had left the city wide bcx plaited flounce banded with the NO 4447 u VI Ul The friendly offices of Judge M brown The coat has similar Key secured his return and Jio was em bands and flat silk bows with but ployed to the leaders of the tons on each The brown silk vest has Halstead strove to get all tho rows of three buttons in a row upon the news into the paper and established a foa front which is fastened in Breton style ture of selections from tho midnight mails all of was acceptable Mr Reeds writings at this period were and brilliant and were probably worthy to rate above any subsequent performances known on the Cincinnati press The Com gained ground handsomely and fter tho closi the services rendered at the laboring oars were intelligently and generously to the United States i a good deal was of it Air Potter the winter of 1853 to the capture of III Ol UAVIS ul wii M Flow tlie M j Soon tho close of the civil war in and Johnston the United States NATIONAL WES f ORES CO Air Potter during the winter of 1853 fil purchased the Lee interest and on the 2on of the Confederacy liHu of May 1S51 the linn of M 1 Ins capture James H a Potter Co was announced Henry man who was with Mr Davis or Reed John 11 Straus the bookkeeper during nearly the whole time and Mr Halstead were the Co of wai m capacity of coachman Tho price at which interest were sold Mf who with him when ho was taken to them was not extravagant and the press m Georgia furnished a statement was just beginning to reap the benefit of P Recently a request has n j T n tlm Thv to of Ull PlP Mass ail of 10 railroads and tho telegraph The fast of high standing Newspaper property I C y to H rew wonderfully in value and aftur liv statement of the whole matte ig four years on his small salary Hal w cll has Sven and eads newspaper interest had paid for to below But before Sving the statement we will take occasion With this period in his newspaper his taa author is a native of this ary Mr letter to his friend and ras as an colored eases j but this is tho period at which his m the fatato for truth and integrity influence as an editor begins most to be Ho been for ten years captain felt Ha had gone through all the hard oi fire company of this city work of the initiatory steps iu his busi 113 recently ness and was now ready himself to take of Kaleigh Rilles a colored the helm How he has managed his craft volunteer company of this city The since he took the quarterdeck the Is Slven aa possible to world well knows He has made one be and is as follows the great papers of the country to lion Jell Davis S to ll 7arli joint nnl ami prove willi tlic iu 11 of to with our trailo AlU iNU PATENT COUPLINGS Arc to In lit all nf mil two id POLE AND CO ESTS TA of which is city road and and town Of admired any note in iu tho atutes and which is the best herald of its good qualities But Halstead has not ceased to labor HB through he war and was with capture which oc or n is prompt in his hours and as constant in on a WJ X his work as if ins were yet m the days of j tramping of the horses of the Fedora lL o e orses o the Fedora escence Hw at always find as they were the at his desk and t is long after mid Camp and awoke Mr Davis and 1m it when he hs dd labor adolescence VF V 11 night when he ceases his daily labors He the Yankees were nearly on UB BUU is emphatically a busy man This habit his wife had been sleeping in their tent of constant and unremitting employment When I went in he got up and JV the marks Mr manner and gives time he got his clothes on the him an appearance of abruptness which ln nnd only He loves to work and them were standing at his tent door loves to play The shell of his could thick but there is a genial Ms Bavis and the children had not had and almost boyish freshness which to dress Mr Davis went to the tent and delights you As a writer Mr door nnd was b H Halstead is rather forcible nnd vigorous surrender He replied that he would not than refined and graceful He knows that ho would die first At tin Mrs what he to say says it and quits Davis to and t His idea once expressed ho does not care aima around hia neck begging th to go back and revamp it m finer words not to kill him both she and the he it as it was first minted in his crying piteously brain Hia sense of humor Is very keen I lt has been stated that Mr Davis had and he has a way of expressing his fun 6n a and was otherwise dis hesitantly as if hke Charles Lamb he I J Woman This is wholly fale stammered t out Mr Halstead is devoted fro was dressed in his ordinary clothing ro boots drawn over hto pants tempted by offers of high posi U over his droas coat a shaw tion Tins always his editorial thrown over his shoulders and on his head chair to the more brilliant and stormy life a broadbrim white or drab Texas hat He ift Trin L1 had not an article of female wear about work Mr Halsted is engrossed in it and his person to approach in his hours of I following gentlemen were in tho recreation he s a great overgrown boy I imd 01u the same time the of The r r Reagan Postmaster General that Mr is tall formed and very lino looking and that he Joseph Johnston of Kentucky Colonel has a sort of hoyden which Wood escaped next Mr they will find rery taking I grieve to bo William Howell brother to Mrs Davis also to them that he was and al of l doubt married in 1857 to Miss Mary Banks wili corroborate what I have stated second daughter of Hiram Banks then deceased and that he is the father of ten children nine of whom still bloom as olive branches around tho parent stem Great Western Railroad ITii New York Tribune The coming fashions as seen lately at n private exhibition are remarkable for ami superb beauty In the ex of adornment fringes occupy a prominent position The head ings of these fringes are wonderfully in some of the designs are an imi tation of Venetian point in devious of antique of interlined bars and scrolla and Moorish arabesques Tho colored jets for trimmings linii and cut as diamonds are Hashing with coloring seen a great den of old silk hand embroidery upon wraps as well as The pure and beautiful tone of color silk have succeeded in making is comparatively more soft and brilliant than any that hiva hitherto been seen Damasso Beurette and silks striped and figured the latter in serolls and patterns are all equally employed nnd make charm ing toilettes united to plain silks Tlian thoro are of barw stripes and granules in re lief on a dark or black ground The fancy woolen fabrics are endless Among them are softest and thickest wool for Buttons remain in enormous profusion There are buttons to tho right of you buttons to the left of you to the amount of COO apparently really to the amount of twelve down The sizes from a silver dime to a made of pearl and real French shell Many of these nre carved in facets wheels checks and bars in light and dark shades The princess dress and polonaise retains its position notwithstanding rumors to the contrary The addition however of com plicated drapery adds grieo and freedom of action to this dress A superb brown gros grain is relieved with ivory white pipings This lias a basque overskirt and skirt Tho basque long at the sides deepens with a sharp cut at the back Them are ninny bows of gros grain lined with ivory silk and fastened with three pearl buttons each Tho overskirt has n very complicated drapery nnd bows and plait ings The skirt lias syveral rows of side plaitings A trimming on ono side takes tho place of a pocket and is made of plaited silk orna with rows of pearl buttons and long looped lined bows The street accompanying this suit lias a wide plastron front with rows of but tons placed in parallel lines The sleeves have flowing and piped bands Its j price is A of silk which is displayed in relief on a twilled light ground with dark Oriental 1 designs has a scarf overskirt laid in deop i plaits caught at tho sides with bows of brown silk united to the Tho drapery is Inid in plaits and carried grace fully back where it is arranged low on the skirt in an easy knot with long j falling upon thu train edged with a brown Blur sr NiiT Up I i Ar UiLy Wry NKW Vork l 5 Hill II aTmi 4 00 pm 5 I 110 a mi pm U IS 10 IIS pin 11 21 pni j III HIM lf alii 3 a I mil I ui tf 20 am e us nm ID IB in 12 20 pm 7 20 pm 6 lf tin 0 pm 12 U I 13 am 1 50 aui 3 lll am mil fi 20 am 0 ns inn B 21 Hill U III am III 211 inn 11 If mi IJ 27 pm IJ 1 ri pm 2 M pm r m pm HI It lr j 1 15 4 D u 8 40 ptn 0 n pm 0 HO am ro pm lip City Akrin No Nu 10 10 ain 11 77 nm I Hi pin 11 20 pin 12 27 Hill I Jl Hill 1 nm 2 am t in u m 4 M I I pm 17 am i 12 piji G i i im t 27 pin l 11 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Solo of Lliu new Patent Balance Valve Engines DOWNING 1ATKNT unit Kopc Clamps PATENT ADJUSTER Climax Mower and Reaper and for thn KNOWLES STEAM PUMP in 1llHiiyn foi Oil las etc lion anil lo of alt oil RE ED OIL Refined Oil Teege A ic now out at Oil of 110 to 150 Degrees Standard Test Which they on cnrs for anv part of the or In OA At Market Price Good empties cin lio returned bv onr at at which wu them AND Corner of 1rniihMil I 0 Kox Wo SODEMAN TEEGE TITUSVILLE PA Capital iu Government Bonds tlic Slates to Secure Kill Hold ers n AISLES fi C M K II CHASI Wil M IT J D ANG 1 Kit W U n n ROBERTS STUEET Pa Liable nud Soil 1orolKit luul Domestic Muku on In tlic Oil and ilo a Hanking ut aii wr allowed oil CLINTON BANE VENANGO CO PA McKEIS A V U W at Individually Do n Collections in nil parts of GEHMAN NATIONAL BANK a p PA Capital CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK I Capital paid in I M II A K K S V A i N H a of the HI rr will not to tiny on their not from A j U Have from lo NO d noit door tr vo 2 S n CoriH Naila attended H rP A rP A D AT LA W No 1 Pi A In LANDS Han IIH Block 10 r No A tr S t g WASHINGTON t will thin piper on e In tha Kealm nit I ly Method ol SL of lately been Patent for an in and laborsaving method of liy of onn only Air anvin by this plan arnno of which uro 075 and 400 lect d Uitt Irom tho well thn apil at a saving fifty po cunt In fuel call iwo 10homo and They I Iu of the at tho Clark Farm ta will Sc who are Iv availing of or Invention are that they delay from tho lo Iho A K U 0 10 1B71 BLOSS all c i Term Patent Derrick IrveM exclusive use wu hereby give notice that said Link or of its purls wi ol the law hr dui iu PITTSBURGH Eight Twentytwo i witU tho ColloK Superior French Gorman Iw n 8nv n n I C uv I C nvi D 1itlabiirch la Tor September PIANOS AND C A BROWN BROS PIANOS 1 t r I r For the Million 200 of these Celebrated Instruments to be distributed in during this Centennial al Lower Prices than First class Pianos have Wen offered lor tlie last 25 years p j COTTAGE BY US TOIt Every porson who wishes to purchase a Piano or j i 1 i v within two yearn and will send us their address and particulars they wish together with one copy of this adver will bo registered and a receipt of 00 to apply on the purchase of the same sent them by return mail Agents Send for j c A IV Iron Mm AND rrT of nd EWINES AM BOILERS TOOLS 1UOXS and OIL WELL Stills Storage Tanks and Tank Sole tC the SNOW 1UIEP VALVE JIMI TITUS VI LLK PA SO Advances Made Certificates MODERATE RATES NOTICE To nil Sand res pec I fully fill of Pro and iho public to tlie thit we ac of Sand adit that Colo i Co ethen arc the of uid im t e and af in n Patent Pump SELLINO J not made or od by TM itut tre them lor ft our to the law t JAMES SMITH A chirer DOOM nj etc Second promptly Uled ol t tr
