, 1876-09-02
The Dead Journalist.

At the very outset of the campaign
against the Sioux one journalist ia
correspondent of the New York Her.
adj was killed whilst discharging
his perilous duty, and it is to be
feared his misfortune was but the
harbinger of many in store for his
fellow -scribes engaged in the same
dangerous occupation. A young and
promising journalist has met vio-
lent death at the hands of the In
dians, so dispatches from Fort Lar
annie inform us. According to them,
the body of L. P. Richardson, spe-
cial of the Springfield Republican.
was found in the woods, between
Fort Laramie and Deadwood, rid
died with bullets and scalped. A
note book contained in the pockets
of the clothes served to identify the
remains. Such as these are the
more salient sacrifices made by
newspaper men in the service OF tn
public and their profession. But
since it is rarely man is called to
make such a surrender, the violent
deaths of journalists in harness rep
resent but a very small part OF the
self-sacrifice incidental to their call
ing. The career of the newspaper
man is one replete with hard work
badly paid for, the irksomness OF
which is indifferently understood by
the outside world. There is no pro-
fession which fructifies more advan-
tageously to the public; but there is
none for the support of which that
same public is less called upon to
contribute. Yet men there are who
hold that journalism exists solely
because those behind it are actuated
by those motives which impel other
men to commerce. True they are
few; truer still, their opinions have
no weight with others, because it is
clear as day they have their source
in the unwillingness of those hold
ing them to believe that men there
are who labor from higher motives
than they themselves; but it is com
noteworthy that such creatures do
exist, and it is consoling to reflect
that the improvement out OF exist
ence of this yenuS will be contempo-
raneous with the development of
that higher education hich teaches
that he is richest who ,,,es greatest
good.
DIAMOND CUT DIAMoND.-Trnly, the
ways of the sharper of to-day are past
finding out. Sometimes even they
meet their match, however. Some little
time ago a person was sent to bank
Cor the purpose of drawing money to
pay the wages of hands in mannfac>
tory. Two men stood near the place
where he was counting the amount he
had received, some eighteen hundred
dollars. One of the men remarked TO
him. You've dropped one-dollar
note. sir. pointing to greenback OF
that denomination on the floor. "All
right, SIR was the reply, I'm just put
my foot on it for the present" which
he did, and continued counting his
money. 1t was not until the sharper
learned that they were playing their
game on an experienced customer,
that they informed him that the one
dollar note was dropped by one of them.
Any thoughtless person would have
stopped for the note, and in all probab-
| ility, have lost the eighteen hundred
dollars.
A gentleman in Maine on enter
ing his house the other day was
agreeably surprised to hear from
his wife that she had a health lift in
ne parlor. He stripped himself for
ractice, but was taken down peg
or two when he ascertained that the
LIT was in the shape of huge par
lol stove, which the lady wished
h dear husband to carry to the at
tic.
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