Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . s brief and it suspendedpublication on its twenty-eighth issue. Somethree months afterwards tbe twenty-ninth, andlast, number of The Test appeared. In thisissue the editors state that they have been un-able to collect the accounts due them, and havearranged with Mr. Fulks to take the plant offtheir bands. Publishing a newspaper seemed to have a fas-cination for Rushville politicians, and the nextto enter the field was A. R. Sparks, who issuedthe first number of The Illinois Republican, De-cember 14. 1S39. The paper was a six-columnfolio, with columns sixte
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . s brief and it suspendedpublication on its twenty-eighth issue. Somethree months afterwards tbe twenty-ninth, andlast, number of The Test appeared. In thisissue the editors state that they have been un-able to collect the accounts due them, and havearranged with Mr. Fulks to take the plant offtheir bands. Publishing a newspaper seemed to have a fas-cination for Rushville politicians, and the nextto enter the field was A. R. Sparks, who issuedthe first number of The Illinois Republican, De-cember 14. 1S39. The paper was a six-columnfolio, with columns sixteen ems wide, and wasDemocratic in politics. Mr. Sparks like hispredecessors soon grew weary of the financialburden the publication of a newspaper on April 9, 1S40, he sold the plant to JamesL. Anderson. Mr. Sparks afterwards went toWashington. D. C, where he held a Federaloffice for many years. The Political Examiner was the name gave to Lis paper, and it continuedunder this name until October 1, 1843. Mr. An-.
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