AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE.
Some time since the editor of the ' Colorado Herald ' had occasion to leave town for a few days, and entrusted his organ to the care of a novice in; journalism, instructing him to pile it on as thick as he could wheniever he had a chance to advertise the ' Herald.' He then went away, and the following night his wife died suddenly. This is how the assistant editor mentioned the circumstances :
Gone, but not Forgotten.—We are compelled this morning to perform a duty which is peculiarly/painful to the able assistant editor who has been mgaged on this paper at an enormous expense, in accordance with our determination to make the ' Herald' a first-class journal. Last night death unexpectedly snatched away from our domestic hearth (the best are advertised under the head of stove? and furnaces, upon our first page,) Mrs. Avjatha P. Burns, the gentlemanly editor of the 'Herald-' (Terms three dollars a year, invariably in advance.) A kind mother and exemplary wile. (Office over Coleman's grocery, up two flights of stairs , knock hard.) "We shall miss thee." Job printing solicited. Funeral at. four and a half, from the house just across the street from the ' Herald * office. (Advertisements inserted for ten cents per square.) 13ut his efforts were not appreciated, and ' The Post and Mail' relates the sequel of the story with sorrow :—The editor arrived home that.day at noon. Slowly, and sadly he was observed to. arm himself wi h a double-barrelled fowling piece, into which he insertedabout two pounds and a halt of bullets. He.marched over to the office followed by an immense crowd. The assistant editor was busy in painting a placard to be tacked on the hearse. It bore the legend: " Buy your coffins of Simms, over the ' Herald' office." 'i he assistant editor cast his eye arrund and perceived his chief. Care sat upon that wan cheek, and thunder clothed his brow. He levelled his.gun. The assistant did not wait. With one wild and awful yell he jumped from' the second story window, and struck out for the golden shores of the Pacific. It is believed he eventually swam over to China.—' Danbury News.'
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 316, 19 March 1875, Page 3
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363AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 316, 19 March 1875, Page 3
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