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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 411
As late as October 30, 1834, Oran Follctt advertised in the Clarion
as follows:
"The subscriber wishes to procure for some Eastern friends a pair
of live wild turkies, male and female. Also six dead ones that have been
caught in pens and killed without breaking the skin below the
first two or three joints of the neck. A liberal compensation will be paid
for the above, if delivered at the store of M. L. Babcock & Co. in Sandusky
a week or two before the close of navigation in the month of November.
The live ones will be received if delivered immediately, and Avould be preferred
soon, so as to send them down the Erie Canal. O. FOLLETT. "
The Clarion had hard sledding. From November 13 to December 18,
1822. it was not published because the paper did not come from Buffalo.
in those early times Mr. Campbell printed the names of delinquent subscribers
in black type and made lively remarks about the fellow Avho
would not pay for his paper. In one case he hoped he Avould meet with
a better fate than he believed he Avould. He states the first number of
the Clarion was issued at the corner of Columbus Avenue and Water
Street, in a building yet standing (but since destroyed), next door south
of A. IT. & W. V. Moss' store, on Wednesday, April 24, 1822.
There were no neAvspapers Avest of Buffalo, except one at Erie, two at
Fredonia, one at Cleveland, and one at Detroit. The first number of the
Clarion Avas 18V-> by 23 inches, printed in small pica, with eight advertisements.
As late as June, 1847, one issue contained no editorial except
a notice that the editor had no time to write editorials. In 1878 F. D.
Parish had taken the paper and paid for it, including the Register, fiftysix
years.
On the — day of , 1822, the Clarion editorially declared
it would accept eight gallons of whisky as full pay for a year's subscription.
In 1847 he declares editorially that in these temperance times he
would not venture to make such a proposition.
During the height of the cholera the Daily Sanduskian, or Clarion,
was somewhat irregular in its publication, frequently missing a day or
more, and on one occasion not being published from July 11, 1849, until
July 23, 1849.
THE SANDUSKY REGISTER
The journal now known as the Sandusky Register Avas founded in
the year 1822 by David Campbell, a New England printer. An effort
Avas made, hoAA'ever, in the year 1821, by this same person, associated
with Adonijah Champlin, to establish a paper in Sandusky, to be known
as the Ohio Illuminator, but from lack of that substantial support so
essential to the successful conduct of a neAVspapei% or any other enterprise,
the Illuminator never sent forth its rays of light upon the people
of the county.
The Sandusky Clarion, a Aveekly publication, succeeded the Illuminator
project, and made its first appearance on the 22d of April, 1822,
David Campbell acknoAvledging its paternity and assuming its maintenance.
It Avas a four-page sheet, four columns to the page, printed on