Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1887 — Western Journalism. [ARTICLE]

Western Journalism.

Western journalism is full of spice and enterprise. Not your ordinary adulterated mustard and pepper, but the genuine article, which makes the tears flow and gives you the whoopingcough. As for instance: “Owing to the ueath of the editor there won’t be any leader to-morrow, but look ont for a ripper the day after.” —New York Herald. . j Is order to locate of a man drowned at Abbeyville, Ga., the cither day, an old negro took a bundle of fodder and put it in the river where the man first sunk. It floated down about fifty yards and suddenly stopped and commenced to whirl slowly round and round. Here the old negro dived and secured the body. He claims to have recovered four or five other bodies by this mean*.