. Savannah and its surroundings . 7^t^^7 ^^. THE MORNING NEWS. ^*i Savannah has had a newspaper since 1763. In April ofthat year the G^■orgia Gazette was established, and it livedthrough the days of the colonial government and those ofthe revolutionary period down to the closing years of thelast centur3^ From that time to the present there have beenmore than a score of newspapers published in this city. Themost prominent of these defunct papers were the Bepnblican,the Georgian, the Courier, the Mirror, the Journal, the Eve-ning Express, and the Advertiser. The Morning News was acontemporary of
. Savannah and its surroundings . 7^t^^7 ^^. THE MORNING NEWS. ^*i Savannah has had a newspaper since 1763. In April ofthat year the G^■orgia Gazette was established, and it livedthrough the days of the colonial government and those ofthe revolutionary period down to the closing years of thelast centur3^ From that time to the present there have beenmore than a score of newspapers published in this city. Themost prominent of these defunct papers were the Bepnblican,the Georgian, the Courier, the Mirror, the Journal, the Eve-ning Express, and the Advertiser. The Morning News was acontemporary of all those mentioned, and is the only sur-vivor of the newspapers of ante-bellum days. Leaving outthose that died previous to 1861 we mention onl}^ those pa-pers which are remembered by the present geneiation. TheRepublican, which was established in 1804, survived until1874, when it was consolidated with a younger rival, theAdvertiser, under the name of the Advertiser Republican. Thenew venture was not a success, and the rights and franch
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