The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-10-25
THE KICKER MAN.
Editorial Life Has It's Ups and Downs.
[ From the Arizona Kicker. i

IL IolH tne Arizona Kicker. 49,
"APoLoGETIcAL.
We hope our readers viii excpse tho
typographical appearance of the inside
pages Of The Kicker this week. We
were working them off as usual on
Wednesday having Joe TIE Digger
Indian as roller-boy, when Judge
Shackawacksen made us cal and
jumped on our collar. Greatly to our
suprlse I'VE picked the Judge up and
rnopped him all over the Office and
flung him out doors His boot heels,
hind buttons, spectacles and tobacco
book flew about and alighted on the
forms, and in our excitement we failed
to notice them.
"The big hole in our editorial on the
tariff was caused by boot-heeL The
blurr on the poem entitled: When
Baby Wakes Again. was caused by
two hind buttons. Such society items
as are unreadabIe owe their present
state to the judges spectacles We
hope it won't occur again.''
mot THIS EVE.
Our name IS being prominently
mentioned L. connection with the
United States Senatorshp from Arizo-S
ma. While we are fattered and feel
inclined to step high, We must beg our
friends to hold up.
"In the first place, VIC are too hon
est, sober and conscientious.
T "1n the second place, we are needed
at home. We proposed to run about
10000 human coyotes out of this terri
tory during the next twelve months
and put thousand others behind pris-
on bars.
"While we feel tick1ed all over and
can hardly sleep nights, we cart ac-
cept the Office nor leave Arizona Just
pass the place alongto son .eother man
and leaye us to do OH work,
IA DEcEIvER.
We owe no grudge to Col HASTINGS
because he once euffed our ears IN the
corridor of the Town Hall. We had
proved him liar, swindler and ans
absconder, and he had to cuff tessayeS
his reputation. The colonel is now
seeking the nomination for Sheriff, and
is promising, in case he is elected to-
secure our town a government appro-
priation of s250,00O to build public
building. We are actuated only by the
kindest motives when we say that the
colonel is a blooming deceiver. He
can no more secure dollar from Uncle
Sam than we can borrow one of the
hinges from the gates ofHeaTen. All
the influence he has in this world Of
sin and sorrow is confined to the Red
Hot saloon and its crowd of represen-
tatives. Do not be deceived in the
castor oil voice ofthe colonel
GAN EXPLANATION.
"The cause of the Kicker in opposing
the building Of bridge over Red
Horse River, to connect our town with
Dutch Hill, is being severely criticised
by some of our citizens, who declare
that we are opposed to progress and ina
provements. Such is far from being
the case. Any open bridge across the
river would be an encouragement to-:
suicides and accidents. Whena man
gets drunk on Arizona whiskey he
either wants to kill some one or jump
off bridge. There are fifty men in
town who would go over to Dutch
Hill, fill up, and fall of the bridge COM
ing back if it had a railing fifteen feet
high.
GAS to a covered bridge, itwould at
once be taken possession of by all the
old soakers in town who tried to get
home, and in month would devoted
public nuisance. While wejust mol
ler for progress and improvement, We
can't see our way clear on this bridge
question, and shall therefore opposeits
Until we have change ofheart."
$751;. "NoTIcE.
"We havein our possession about forty
deeds and conveyances belonging to-
as many different parties which we
picked up on the streets last night.
They dropped from the coat tail pocket
of our estimable and efficient Register
of Deeds, as he was weaving his way
homewards at a late hour. In the.
| East this would be called piece Of
gross carelessnes, and the Register
would be expected to resign. Outhere
in the glorious West no importance IS.
attached, and the estimable Register
takes an extra drink and pulls another
| wire for denomination. And the worst
| of it is that we owe genial Henry S14i
in cash and daren't go for him until it
| is paid.