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ing, and put in an A, making it read, "Miller's Weakly Mes- 

 senger," and the old fellow did not find oat the trick until the 

 whole issue had been printed. 



The name of the paper was some time afterward changed 

 to the "Pendleton Messenger," and its size enlarged to 14 by 

 16 inches, price per annum $3.00, cash, or ^3.50, credit. The 

 press used was one that General Greene had in the Revolu- 

 tionary war, and looked like an old wooden loom, such as the 

 women used in those days, and two buckskin balls were used 

 to ink the type. 



After Miller's death, Dr. F. W. Symmes became editor of 

 the Pendleton Messenger, and 25 years later his son, Seb 

 Symmes, removed the old outfit to Hartwell,Ga., and together 

 with a printer named Hagan, started the Hartwell Messenger. 

 So the same old English type that printed the Junius letters 

 also printed the Pendleton and the Hartwell Messengers. 



Old "B." still has a copy of the original Junius letters in 

 book form, printed in England, but unfortunately the date is 

 torn from the front of the book with the cover. He has also 

 two copies of the old Pendleton Messenger as far back as 1818, 

 in good state of preservation, and the type of these old papers 

 and the English book are the very ^ame. 



Old 'B." says that the Rev. T. T. Christian, now of Atlanta, 

 and editor of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate, learned his 

 trade in the office of the old Pendleton Messenger; says he 

 has seen him in the office with ink on his face, and as full of 

 mischief as a pet coon. " I could tell a good one, too, on Tom, 

 about a speech he tried to make at the old Pendleton Academy, 

 but won't now," says Boh Thomson, editor of the Keowee 

 Courier, who has made his mark in South Carolina. Tom 

 H. Russell, who was the best speller in town and who could 



