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not only killed Burr socially and politically, but also killed The Chronicle. Its remains were purchased in 1805 by The Pough- keepsie Journal.

FIRST PAPER WITH TWO EDITIONS

The year 1796 saw an innovation in the shape of two editions, morning and evening, of the same paper. In that year Samuel H. Smith, who afterwards achieved more distinction in the field of journalism as the editor of The National Intelligencer at Wash- ington, published The New World at Philadelphia "every morn- ing and evening, Sundays excepted." In reality the paper had only one edition, for the sheet was printed all at the same time and was then divided; one half went to the customer in the morning and the second to him in the afternoon. The New World, being a novelty, attracted considerable attention for a short time, but subscribers, not satisfied with the paper, discon- tinued their subscriptions and the venture was abandoned after a few months. Nevertheless, here was the beginning of a system which, in the twentieth century, yields in some of the metro- politan cities an edition of the same paper almost every hour.

"COURIER" OF CHARLESTON

One of the most influential papers in the South during the early part of the nineteenth century was The Courier estab- lished at Charleston, South Carolina, on January 10, 1803, as a Federal organ. Its publisher was Loring Andrews, who had pre- viously been connected with The Herald of Freedom in Boston, The Western Star in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and The Sen- tinel in Albany. On the death of Andrews on October 19, 1805, The Courier passed into other hands and became one of the most enterprising newspapers of the State. In its calm discussion of political matters it set an example worthy of imitation by other papers. The Courier, though being one of the most influential papers of the State, refused to yield to the public demand for editorial support of the Ordinance of Nullification passed at the Nullification Convention, but being a real newspaper it did give its readers somewhat fully an account of the acts of the Con- vention.