Madison, Dane County and surrounding towns; being a history and guide to places of scenic beauty and historical note .. . umed the management in 1851, and at last consol-idated with the Express. The Wisconsin State Pal-ladium resulted. Atwood, Wyman & Buck did notharmonize, and the paper was suspended. The StateJournal made its appearance, with David Atwood aseditor and proprietor, in September, 1852, the Repub-lican party accepting the Journal as its organ. Sev-eral additions and alterations have worked no changein the politics of the paper. Mr. Rublee, Mr. Gary,Mr. Reed and Mr. Culver have s
Madison, Dane County and surrounding towns; being a history and guide to places of scenic beauty and historical note .. . umed the management in 1851, and at last consol-idated with the Express. The Wisconsin State Pal-ladium resulted. Atwood, Wyman & Buck did notharmonize, and the paper was suspended. The StateJournal made its appearance, with David Atwood aseditor and proprietor, in September, 1852, the Repub-lican party accepting the Journal as its organ. Sev-eral additions and alterations have worked no changein the politics of the paper. Mr. Rublee, Mr. Gary,Mr. Reed and Mr. Culver have supported the ven-ture, making it one of the best journalistic proper-ties in the state; with one of the most completeprinting offices west of Chicago. Earlier phases of newspaper activity are illustratedby a sketch from the State Journal. Mr. D. identified with this city, and the phrases ofCol. Bird are true to life: Twenty-six years ago, Dan. K. Tenney put up atthe United States Hotel, with two bits in hispocket. Col. A. A. Bird was landlord. Said Dan, Two bits sizes my pile; but Id like to stay here. 1IIST0KY OF MADISON. 115 over night and see what I can do to-morrow. TheColonel (good old soul as ever lived) looked at hisnew guest, and replied: O Gael, yes; stay as longas you like, hoy! Have some supper? O, Gad, yes;come in. Stay as long as you please. Dan hadsupper and a nights lodging, and in the morningstruck a printing office, and secured a sit. Gettinga little money, Dan next turned up in the got as much as they could spare in that institu-tion and returned to the printing office (the Journal,a wee hit of a paper then), working along, until toiland no fortune seemed foolishness. One day, all handswere jeffingon the stone to see who should get apail full of whisky, when Dan. spoke up: Who thed—Is got any money-in this crowd? Nobody, ofcourse; and the devil had to go down and standoff old Jackknife Robinson for a couple ofquarts. After this amoun
Size: 1282px × 1948px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, bookidmadisondanec, bookyear1877
