Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-09-23


erasurcs and interlineations. Just as he
/ finished them hand-grenade came down
the stove-pipc, and the explosion shivered
the stove into thousand fragments. How
ever it did no further damage, except that
a vagrant piece knocked a couple Of my
teeth out.
"That stove is utterly ruined" said the
/ chief editor.
said ! believed it was.
"Well, no matter-don't want ii this
! kind of weather Now here is the way
/ this stuff ought TO be written"
/ took the manuscript 1t was SCARED
with erasurcs and interlneations till its
mother wouldn't have known it, If it had
one 1t now read as follows;
SPIRIT or THE TENNESSEE PRESS
/ "Thc inYeleratc liars Of the SAM Week
/ In r Y.Qq,take are evidently endeayoring
/ TO palm off upon noble and chivalrous
/ people another of their vile and brutal
| lalsehoods with regard to that most glori-
/ Gus conception Of the nineteenth century,
the Ballyhack railroad The idea that Buzz
/ 2ardylle was to be left off at one side
originated in their own illsOme brains
/ or rather in the settings which they re-
( gard rs brains They had better swallow
| this lie and not stop to chew it, either, if
/ they want to save their abandon-,,, reptile
carcasses the cowhiding they so richly de-
/ serve.
"That ass, Blossom, of the Higginsville
/ Ibuaderb0H and Battle Cry Of Freedom, is
I down here again, cumming his board at
/ the Van Buren,.
/ 1--WE observe that the besotted black
/ guard of the Mud Springs NorHjng H0,nJ
/ is giving out, with his usual propensity
/ for lying, that Van Werter is not elected.
! The hcaven-bOrn mission of Journalism is
/ TO disseminate truth to eradicate error
to educate, refine and elevate the tone of
/ public morals and manners, and make all
men more gentle, more yirtuous, more
charitable, and in all ways better and
/ holier and happier-and yet this black
I hearted villain, this hcll-spaWned mlscre-
ant, prostitutes his great office persistently
to the dissemination Of talsehood, cal
umny, yituperation and degrading yul-
garty. His paper is VIGOROUSLY unfit to
take into the peoples homes, and ought to
be banishcd to the gambling hcllS and
brothels, where the mass of reckng pol
luton which does duty as its editor lives
and moe and has his being
b!athcrsyillc wants a NicOls0n pave
mcnt--it wants a Jail and poor house more.
/ The idea of pavement in q onc-horse
! town with two gin.miIls and blacksmith
shop in it, and that mustardplaster Of a
newspaper, the D1Hy Htradi Better
| borrow of Memphis where the article is
/ cheap. The crawling insect, BuCkner,
/ who edits the HgTah, is braying about
/ this pavement business with his customary
! loud-mouth imhecility and imagining
! that he is talking sense, Such foul,
/ mcphitiC scum as this vCnomOuS BuCkner
/ are disgrace to journalism.
THAT degraded ruthan BaScom, Of the
Dying Shrek for liberty fell down and
broke his leg ycsterday-pity it wasn't his
neck. He says it was debility caused by
over-work and anxiety 1t was debility
caused by trying to lug six gallons of forty
rod whisky around town when his hide is
only gagged for four, and anxiety about
where he was going to bum another six.
/ lie tainted from the eXcrtion of walking
too much in the SUM- And well he might
say thal-but if he would walk straight he
would ret Just as far and not have TO walk
/ half az much. For years the pure air Of
this town has been rendered perilous by
the deadly breath of this perambulating
pcstilcnce, this pulpy bloat, this steaming,
animated tank Of mendacity gin and pro
,Anity, this Basccm Perish all such from
out the sacred and majestic mission Of
journalism"
Now that is the way to write-pcp-
perry and to the point. Mush-and-milk
journalism gives me the fan t0dS,
About this time brick came through
the window with Splintering crash, and
gave me considerable Of a Jolt in the
middle of the back | moved out Of
rangc--l began to feel in the way, The
chief said
"That was The Colonel, likely I've
been expecting him for two days, He
/ win he up, now right away
He was correct The Colonel APP
pcarcd in the door moment afterward,
with a dragon revolver in his hand. He
said
"Sir, have | the honor of addressing
the wbitcliycrcd poitroon who edits this
NANCY sheet"
You hayc-bc seated, sir-be careful
ot the chair, one of the legs is gone.
believe have the pleasure of addressing
the blWuG back.hcartod scouudrel, Col.
Bhlhc. kite Tccumschs'
The same have "a little account to
settle with you II sou are ut leisure, we
win begin.
81 have ap article ON Che Encouraging
Progress OF Moral and intellectual Dcvel-
opmgnt i'm America, to finish, but there
is no hurry Begin
Both pistols rang ont 'aeir fierce tlamor
Al the same instant The chief los, q lock
of hair, and the Colonels bullet ended It's
career in the heshy part otmy thigh The
Coibncl's ctt shoulder was clippeda lirle.
They fired again Both missed their men
this time, bat ] got my share @ Shot in the
arm. At the third fire both gentlemen
were wounded slight.Nmd had a inuckle
Clipped. then said believed Iwoull
rn out and take q walk, q. this was pri-
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