JOURNALISTIC ENTERPRISE IN AMERICA.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2618, 11 August 1881, Page 3

JOURNALISTIC ENTERPRISE IN AMERICA.

A correspondent writing to a contemporary says “We all regard the Americans as a go-ahead people : and indeed, not without reason. I have before me a copy of the Chicago “Times” of May 22, 1881, and if I had never heard anything of America before, and was never to hear anything of America again, I think I should be able from this paper alone to get a tolerably good idea of America and American character. The copy of the “ Times” before me consists of 17G long columns of closely printed matter, on almost every subject under the sun. Special telegrams are there by the score, and amongst them is one which is nothing less than a marvel. It consists of the New testament (the revised version, of course) word for word, from the beginning of Matthew to the end of the Revelation. This immense telegram occupies nearly 89 columns, and is a feat- in the art of telegraphy that has never been equalled. The time occupied in its transmis-sion-from New York to Chicago was •from 5 to 11.30 o’clock p.m., 19 wires being used up to 9 o’clock, and 21 after that hour. Tne number of words transmitted was 88,715. After this I shall be surprised at nothing I hear respecting America. When a paper of 176 long columns of closely-packed matter, including amongst many other things of great interest a special telegram of 83,715 words, can be had in America for 2-]-d, it really does seem as if nothing was beyond the enterprise of the ’cute Yankee.”

The Rev Dr Beatty, of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Lawrence, Kansas, lately told his people that the new prohibitory law absolutely forbids the use of wine at the Sacrament, punishing the minister who so administers it with two years’ imprisonment and shutting up the church as a nuisance. He said, however, that ho should use wine for the Sacrament uothwithstanding. A witness in the District Court, yesterday, (says the “ Lyttelton Times”) caused s me little surprise by stating, upon oath, that wholesale grocers made no profit on any of their goods except tea. Upon tea he said ibc profit is about- 20 per cent. A letter full of the usual highly interesting local tittle-tattle was picked up near Tmtaru on Wednesday addressed to the office of a society journal, published at the Cathedral City. Tire letter was duly stamped and ready for the post, but the sagacious correspondent had taken the precaution of omitting to append his name to the precious production. We have received from Messrs Miller and Sayers, of Collins street, Melbourne,-I. -I. Millers’ sporting pamphlet for 1881, (second edition), containing a list of last season’s principal performance.-, of all horses nominated in lire Hawkesbur. Handicap, Sydney Metropolitan, and Melbourne Cup and Champion Stakes, together with a record of notable athletic and oilier feats and a quantity of information interesting to (lie “ hor-oy man ” The paraphh t (price (id) h well printed and of a handy size for the pocket.