MISTAKES—REPORTERS OR PRINTERS.

Evening Star, Issue 4033, 29 January 1876, Page 6 (Supplement)

MISTAKES— REPORTERS OR PRINTERS.

(From Chamberss Journal.) Not long ago a tailor stood in the dock for misappropriating his employer’s property, and the latter, we were told, deposed that ‘ the materials were to be returned made up & Thursday, and on the Sunday following he discovered that the deceased had left his home, and he did not see him again until he was in custody. ” The “ deceased ” was sentenced to a month’s hard labor. The followmg is a curious sample of printer’s mixture [ which the ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ once set before its readers. This purported to be a report of a case in the Bankruptcy Court, and after stating that the Registrar ordered a receiver to be appointed, but declined to restrain the action of the creditors, went on thus :—“A good deal of evidence was given, and in the course of the case his Lordship expressed an opinion that a juror should be withdrawn, and that the case was only for a farthing damages. It was, the Judge said, a sad thing to see a young man in such a position, which there was no doubt had been brought about by habits of intemperance, and but for the recommendation of the jury he should have passed a very severe sentence. He advised him to abstain from drink for the future, and sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labor for six months. ” Some of the industrious gentlemen, whose avocation it is to hunt up news for provincial journals have a very odd way of putting things. Under the n ® << ® ea^i h from Drowning,” we read : On SaturdayMr J, C. Jarrold, deputy coroner, held an inquest at the Hazard Arms, Mill-lane concerning the death of Thos Shipp, who was drowned on the following night.” Chronicling the coming to grief of a young trapeze performer, the reporter says : “It was afterwards discovered that the boy’s collar-bone was broken, but unfortunately his injuries are not of a dangerous description.” Another announces, without a word of protest against the vivisectionists, that “ A British Workman is about to be opened at Morpeth.” A third tells us ; “A pony-carriage was passing along New Bond street, Bath, when, in turning mto Northgate street, it fell down and broke both of its legs.” Recording some steeplechase doings at Monaghan, days sport was carried on over an excellent course, all grass, over the lands of Mr Henderson, whose hospitality was uu« bounded. It consisted of two walls, two bank-drops, a water-cut, and two hurdles.” leUmg of a man who lost his life in a riot, ® Belfast paper ended the story with : They fired two shots at him; the first shot killed him, but. the second was not fatal. He was not blessed with a couple of lives, like the deaf man, named Taff, who • was run down by a passenger train and killed ; he was injured a similar way a year ago.” The Irish journalists, however, cannot be accused of monopolising the manufacture of bulls; their English brethren are equally clever that way, as they proved by sending the Princess Louise to Wimbledon to witness the shooting of her husband;” describing the Prince of Wales’s second son as “an amiable boy like his mother;” and announcing that the Duke of Hamilton would shortly take to wife “the late Lady Mary Louisa Elizabeth Montague,”