The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-06-04
journalism In Deadwood.

journalism In Deadwood,
"1'm an editor myself" said he, as
he planted his feet on the Eagle EDITORS
desk and lit that functionary's pipe. IL
throw ink on the Up-Gulch Shorter at
Deadwood, and you bet make some
reading matter for the boys, Take the
Shorter on exchange herep'' ''''''S''' '''s''
* think not" replied the edition.
"Don't know that l ever heard of it. y
"You amt been long in the ink bust
ness, have you?" asked the stranger,
quickly. "You don't seem to be up in
the literature of the day. The Shorter
throws more influence to the square
foot than all the papers in Deadwood.
Let me show you the style of that peri
odical," and he drew a file of back
numbers out of his pocket. "See them
advertisements All cash. Meeting Of
County Board fist tight in the Common
Council; mine caved in on nineteen
men; four women lynched; Mayor of
town convicted of burglary; raid by In
dians--all live news items. See the
editorial? This is what say about the
Rapid City Enterprise: 'rhe distin-
guished consideration in which
we hold the three-ply jackass who
edits our noxious contemporary is only
equaled by the rapidity with which the
tumble-bugs will roll him out of town in
the spring. Spicy, Ell? You bet!
There's some poetry. Wrote it N.Y.
self. Made it up out of mp head.
How's this? ~ Nx
" The opposition have nominated
That lousy drunken, dissipnted,t9
Cock-cyed horse thief, Jim McFadden:
Our candidate is Fatty Madden! AZ
"And we elected him, too, sfor old
stock! We 60 in for poetry out our way,
from way back" s-"'
"We don't do it in just that way
here" said the Eagle editor, with
smile. "Our folks
"That's where you're off. You
haven't educated your folks up to high
taste. Where | live we're cultured clear
to the root. Here's my remarks about
the editor of the Vernillion Repeater,
when he wanted to split, the territory,
'We don't want to reflect on the press. but
we IRE compelled tosay that the editor
of the Repeater has stolen Government
mules so long for living that he begins
to tlatter himself that he too is an asst
That busted his business r,,o
Now here's a little criticism on our op-
era-house that was regarded very high:
Manager Whitney is giving a high
tonder performance than our citizens
have right to expect for two bits. He
has engaged the beautiful Gambetta for
two weeks and her standing jump shows
careful thoughts and study, and her toe
whirls are nnprecedentetl'ins the history
of the ballet. Mr.. Whitney, hes stored
up the east end ofhis minstfel troupe
with the justly celebrated Patsy Magin-
mis-, the bones of modern ems. We ale
sorry to chronicle afoW. ak hisAem pie ii
Thespian virtue last night, and we fec-
ommend Manager Whitney, if Shang
johnson comes monkeying around there
again, to crack his nut with bottle
And he did it, too. It shows the power
of the press ,.rs '.... ''''' .7'"''
II suppose your paper is confined to
local matters. You don't do much in
the way of general literature said the
Eagle, by way of keeping up the con-
versation. -.-....-.-,-.. ...-..n.1
"There's where you 81 're es 81 yoddf back
again. 1t comes high, but our people
will have it. See this story from lHar-
per's boiled down TO half . column, but il
gives all the facts Then here'sa poem
by my daughter. She's powerful
singer when she's fed up toit.Y Rolled
beef sets her going, and a bottle Of beer
fetches the balance. How does this
strike you? This is bern. It's called
ode To Night
The Evening for her bath of dew
Is partially undressed. g..r -
The sun behind q boltail 14sh,vs
Is setting in the west.
1h %h esas ss u s ths fns ssssens with
The sky has put its night shirt on,i
And buttoned It with starGs
Hove this timid, shriaG1agMSAt,
Its shadows and its dew; "a
Hove the considerations Bright -
SOOld and yet 50 new;f tY ~
love night better thtnthedss
For people looking on,
Can't see me skinning round toh9et
My own. my darling John.
"You don't get any batter tru3ks than
that in the East. Yod see, 6df people
have got to have the first crop or bust,
1t livens q paper up, too, this pdetry.
and it's fat for the printers. } Herbs
little thing I dashediIright off on the
Yankton Vindicator. tor claiming that l
swindled the government on haY con-
tract: Wv '"'
"A delirious Yankton reporter -
Has been pitching INTO the Snorter.
We find he's Che nlahsS~
Who adopted the plan
To XIV his wife rathern support her.;
= "He amt been seer since. Y We'll,
pard, I must get out IN the traa. If
you're ever out Deadweod way drop
down the chimney and see me. YOU
might as we'll put me on your exchange
list, and if you ever pick up an item yon
can't use, drop me a line and I'll pay
you a little something. So long +"p-+-f|
Brooklyn Eagle. .'0'aae'rot eas ooo, q
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Wars Of the HimAipg Birds. ~o 4
1Ml'l
Whenever it happens that two of the
species meet among my flowers, sthey
signal the encounter with shrill war
cry, and dash at each other in fierce an
tagonism. The spirit Of Bellona in
flames their souls. For an instant they
close together, then give each other
chase, and with the speed of meteop are
lost to view. Shortly after. the return
OF one alone announces that the victory
has been quick and decisive. Diqinu.
tive as are these ruhy sprites, they are
heavily charged with combativehess.
The entire race are -pugnacious and
quarrelsome to an extraordinary degree
impudently assaulting each 6ther,| ana