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Updated: June 6, 2025
Several dogs have been taught to go to the post-office for their masters' newspapers, or to receive them from the newsman. A neighbour of mine, who was fond of telling good stories which he did not always, perhaps, expect his guests to believe used to give an account of the cleverness of one of his dogs.
One morning, nurse being out on an errand and Christian Ann patting her butter in the dairy, I was playing with baby on the rag-work hearthrug when our village newsman came to the threshold of the open door. "Take a Times," he said. "You might as well be out of the world, ma'am, as not know what's going on in it."
The only intimation of the Queen's fate which her daughter and her sister-in-law were allowed to receive was through hearing her sentence cried by the newsman. But "we could not persuade ourselves that she was dead," writes Madame Royale. "A hope, so natural to the unfortunate, persuaded us that she must have been saved. For eighteen months I remained in this cruel suspense.
We learnt also by the cries of the newsman the death of the Duc d'Orleans. Billaud Varennes said in the Convention: "The time has come when all the conspirators should be known and struck. I demand that we no longer pass over in silence a man whom we seem to have forgotten, despite the numerous facts against him. I demand that D'ORLEANS be sent to the Revolutionary Tribunal."
The newsman of a country paper was in the habit of riding his horse once or twice a week to the houses of fifty or sixty of his customers, the horse invariably stopping of his own accord at each house as he reached it. But the memory of the horse was exhibited in a still more curious manner.
All his acts were open to investigation. "Do you know that Ruef has skipped?" Frank asked. "Wh-a-a-t!" the Mayor set down his grip. He seemed struck all of a heap by the announcement. "Fact!" another newsman corroborated. "Abie's jumped his bond. He's the well-known 'fugitive from justice." Without a word the Mayor left them. He walked aboard the ferry boat alone.
He warmed up, but on the side away from me. He recounted the enormous villainy of that newsman, and in conclusion said: "Perhaps, after all, the best way to do is not to allow you newspaper men to send a word at all!" Such an air of finality! He spoke as though he owned the navy; also the press. One now and again grows up like that.
The only intimation of the Queen's fate which her daughter and her sister-in-law were allowed to receive was through hearing her sentence cried by the newsman. But "we could not persuade ourselves that she was dead," writes Madame Royale. "A hope, so natural to the unfortunate, persuaded us that she must have been saved. For eighteen months I remained in this cruel suspense.
His good humor, his excellent spirits, which nothing could repress, and his drollery kept them alive, and nothing was so much regretted by them as his temporary absences from time to time; for, in truth, he was their messenger, their steward, and their newsman in fact, the only link that connected them with external life, and the ongoings of the world abroad.
On the re-opening of the theatre, a play, which was now in preparation, written by Mr. Gregory Lemuel, would be produced. "It is understood," continued the newsman, "that Miss Gertrude White, the young and gifted actress who has been the chief attraction at the Piccadilly Theatre for two years back, is shortly to be married to Mr.
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