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-FIRsT NEWSPAPER IN VIRolNIA.-lt was said
in Virginia newspaper, some years ago, that
the first newspaper in that State was printed
in 1880, at Williamsburg, the seat OF govern
ment. The conditions were conspcuously
placed at the head Of the paper, and ran thus !:
"All persons may be supplied with tins paper
at Fifty Dollars year. and have advertise
ments Of moderate length inserted tor ten
dollars the first week. and seuen dollars for
each week after" The paper was issued once
"a aoeek-which made lis cost TO subscribers
about ninety sir cents number!


This was l73 years after the settlement Of
Virginia GA years after il had been settled
Gov. VIM. Berkley, who exercised the magis
terial Office for SO years, in his answer to the
inquiries Of the lords Of the colonies, said 81
thank God we have not free schools, nor print
ing, and hope we shall not have these hun
dred years for learning has has brought dis
obedience and heresy and sects into the world
and printing has diyulged them and the libel
against the government. God keep us from
bo,h!" Lord Effinghan,, who was appointed
Governor in 1853, was ordained expressed :" to
allow no person to use printing press on any
occasion wlateyer." t N tB,


This violent opposition 10 the printing press
has been shown more recently upon the same
spot 1t will be remembered that the Hon. II
A. Wise thanked God that there was not ;
newspaper in that (this) district.-N, Z. Ex
press. sI.ss.sf 81 flI H .sssss t57g1fEi1
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LARGE AND SMALL NEWSPAPERS. II rs ont
Of the sorry errors of the world that the meri
and value Of paper is supposed 10 go up witt
its size. Nothing can be farther from the truth
and the world is "a c8nfonnded BOBBY head 10
entertaining it, Your mammoth sized paper
are terrible bores great diluters OF sense :
ghosts OF ideas. Their editors may be very
clever sort Of men expert at driving the gull
strade the scissors with marvellous skill ant
that sort Of thing, but they must necessarily
spread an idea over murderous extension
and fritter away its substance into foggy no
thing But he Of your small sheet, with co
lawns compressed into sensible coziness, mus
write nothing but ideas--and only the heart Q
them. Brief, concise terse, he must roll sen
fiment in every word. Never take, then III,
half years stock Of a steam paper mill Of idea
information, and those desirable. tits enoug
that they exhaust the language andgive a ,hric
printed dictionary more, you have not righ
to look for. cButii you want the mirror OF II
time-the spice OF age-live and recognizalb'i.
ideas--Iook in papers of moderate and smal
size.-Woodburn Gazette. ,..