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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1956, 12 April 1875, Page 4

AMATEirii.NEWSMON"GHEiN'G.--;'Tt is commonly thought'to be very easy to writein practical newspaper style ; but many an. "ever-confident young sophomore, as well as less learned journalistic scribe, has found by, experience that his " copy "required wholesale re-editing before it was fit for the humblesfcnews-column; " A-pro-pos" the gazette of Stockton, Cal., relates the foUowiEg: Yesterday we engaged a new " local," that is, a new assistant. The old one we had last week evinced almost human intelligence; but, as a general rule, his time was so fully occupied in - trying to throw four sixes against; some barkeepers' tray-full, that we didn't • receive much benefit from his labour?. We can't say, as a purveyor of news, that the one; is much better. He was out all day yesterday, and after the paper had gone to press he rushed in with his first and ' wily item,- We give it verbatim : — " Stabtiing Accident.—A horse rani away about half-an-hour ago, hitched to a buggy. If some folks who was crossing the "street awhile before he came along they would have got hurt at a tremendous rate speed at their legs, &c, would have got broke,: if they haden't got out of the; way.—American printers' Circular. Big Figubes.—According to a correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, who fully investigated the subject, the average receipts of the 'New York dailies for advertising amount annually to 8,908,000 dols. Of this sum the Herald receives upwards of 2,000,000 dols./ or about B,ooodols. a day, the Staatsi Zeitung 1,825,000, the Times, 1,460,004 dols., and so on down to the most obscure sheets, none of wliich receive less than 100,000 dols. The weekly papers take nearly half a million annually as their share of the advertising patronage, and perhaps fully 5,000,000 dols., is spent in posters, circulars, steamboat, and street car advertising, &c. The writer also shows whence this immense revenue comes, and quotes the following figures from the ledgers of tome of the leading business firms :—A. T. Stuart, for instance is said to spend 600,000 dols. a year for printers' ink; Lord & Taylor, 225,000; Arnold & Constable, 175,000 ; Kobert Bonner, 200,000 dols.; Babbitt, the soap man, 225,000 dols.; while Barnum pays out every year about 400,000 dols., and all have made their fortunes largely through this instrumentality. Electioneering Dodges in Amebica. —Our correspondent in Alabama sets in clear light the deplorable result in that state of negro legislation and carpet bag rule. The late election was almost a desperate struggle against these oppressions ; but close as was the contest and intense the feeling excited, there was no disturbances throughout the state except at Eufaula. Among the electioneering devices •mployed by the Republican leaders, the distribution of " overflow bacon," described by our correspondent, deserves something more than a passing comment. This "bacon was. appropriated by the Government for the relief of the sufferers by the Mississippi overflow last spring'; and has been kept by the politicians for distribution during election week. The food was needed before the harvest, but no elections were pending then. We have yet to hear of a meaner trick in American political history.-—New York Tribune. , What'b in a Name?—-The following story illustrates the disadvantage of having an article in common use called after one's own name. The chief of the clan M'lntosh once had a dispute with a cabman about the fare. "Po you know who I amP " indignantly exclaimed the High- . lander. "Mam the M'lntosh.' 1 "I don't care if you are an umbrella," replied the eabbys <([I will havemy 'rights.