The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-10
ANOTHER EDITOR SHOT.

| ASO.GEN EBEIUR SHOT.
"A man for breakfast is a familiar
phrase in all mining camps 1t is the
usual formula for announcing that there
has been drunken row in the neiehbor-
hood, resulting in the fatal shooting of
som" one The affair is so very common
as to excite no great surprise, and rem
der stereotype the language used in Civ
ing the news. Journalists are assaulted
with intent to kill so often OF late that
the public is becoming quite familiar
phrase, Another editor shot"
Some months age Carruth wss shot by
Landis, in the famous and eccentric
town of Vineland. The name of the
place should be changed to Grapeshot
Col. Anthony, of Leavenworth, was
also conspicuous victim of cold lead.
The former finally died; the latter re.
eoverey-so far, at least, as to resume
his work. The latest editorial ''shootee,
was Charles T. Murray, of the South
Bend Qnd.) Herald. He was pierced
through the right lung by an ounce bull
let The shooting was done by William
A Palmer, a Justice of the Peace.
There was, as matter of course, a wo-
man in the case. The wounded man Is
a victim to that base pandering to sem
sationalism which is the especial vice of
current journalism. Had he not turned
the liberty of the press into unwarrant-
able license, he would never have been
shot. The same is true of the other edi-
tor named
The facts are briefly these: Mr.. Mur-
ray, the Herald editor, had in his en-
ploy lady by the name of Bayliss, who
was very good compositcr and come
thing of writer. She was sometimes
employed to do editorial work and was
allowed 90 cents an hour for all the time
thus taken from her "case" Such
''suh" service is not uncommon in news
paper offices. We never heard of its
leading to.trouble before, but in this in
stance a dispute arose over the amount
due Miss Bayliss for editorial service.
The amount involved was 81. Murray
ordered her out of the office, and insert
ed highly sensational article in his pa
per, rejecting upon the virtue of his late
employee and present enemy. She'd
manded a retraction. They met on tine
street. She held a rawhide behind her
back. He attempted to take it from
her, and, not succeeding in that, he gave
her jerk, which layed her fiat on the
sidewalk. TO the great disgust of the by
ISLANDERS, and the especial indignation Of
Justice Palmer. Murray, in another
sensational article, accused Palmer of
criminal intimacy with the girl. The
next act in the tragedy was the shooting.
1t was two days after the street scene
that the shooting occurred. Palmer
was standing in stairway opposite the
Herald office, waiting for his victim
WELCOME CHRISTMAS GIFTs.-The
usual practice in choosingC Christmas gifts
is to start out with full porte-monnaie
and come home with it empty, having
secured a dozen book and print and Gu
riosity shops meantime, Ito find enough
pretty things to go round" The gift sent
to one friend might have been offered
with equal propTiety to a hundred others.
Now, every yboGy worth remembering at
all on Christmas day, has q fancy, or
whiin, or association, which trifis win
recall and gretify. Now that we have
so little money, let us set our brains to
work to remember these whims and hob
bies, and to find the suggestive trifies,
and. our word for il, we will startie onr
friends with more real pleasure than il
we had sent them the costliest unmean-
ing gift. There must be nice discrimi-
nation, too, in asserting these trifles.-
There are certain folk whom we know to
be sOrely in need of articles for the ward
robe, and to whom we must therefore
give utterly useless follies, because they
know we know it; and there are other
and better folks in like condition, who
will receive a collar or pair of gloves
with as hearty AID sincere feeling as
though the Offering were q strain of
Christmas music. There is one cousin
whose gift must smell of the shops and
the dollars paid for it, and another, who,
if we sent her our worn copy of George
Herbert. or the little broken vase which
has stood for years on the study table,
would receive them both with wet eyes,
and find them fragrant with old memo
ries.-IHon and Society, in Seribntr for
December.