Coun. said with regard to the printing, matters of more of [or] less interest are taking place every day, and if the press would support it he was in favor of having a reporter to report speeches at the sundays meetings and other meetings in the . With regard to news he never had much fault to find more than he would like to have seen these local matters in the papers. He is fond of seeing a great number of short articles in the papers. He is too lazy to read a long article unless it is very interesting, and he scarcly ever would notice a long article unless it [p. [227]]