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APPENDIX. 399 A Mr. C. D. Curtis, a printer by trade, and Mr. A. T. Bor- roughs, then a merchant at Deposit, originated a subscription for the organization of a joint stock company, for the permanent establishment of the paper. The necessary amount of stock was readily subscribed, and about three hundred and fifty dol- lars, paid in, with which amount, Mr. Curtis was sent to New York, to purchase the establishment. A few days after the departure of the associate proprietor, a letter was recieved from him, stating that the money had been stolen out of his pocket. Thus,'^ says our correspondent, the " Central Sun went down in darkness ere it rose.'^ THE DEPOSIT COUEIEE. In 1848, C. E. Wright, Esq., induced Marshal E. Hulce, Esq., brother of the present editor of the Democrat, to enter into an association with himself, and advance the necessary funds for the establishment and support of a paper. A purchase was made of a printing establishment at Montrose, Pennsylvania, where a paper had been published for about six months, and discontinued for want of adequate patronage. Mr. Wright commenced the publication of the Courier, in March 1848, as editor and publisher. The politics of the editor being of the Hunker democratic, the paper took that stamp also. The publication of the Courier was continued until May, 1853, at a loss to all concerned of upwards of two thousand dollars, at which time a sale was efi"ected to the pre- sent proprietor, who commenced the republication of the jour- nal in September of the same year, under the cognomen of THE DEPOSIT UNION DEMOCRAT. As we stated above, the politics of Mr. Wright, were