A LIVELY JOURNAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 212, 22 February 1872, Page 7

A LIVELY JOURNAL.

A young gentlotnan named Cunihs undertook to star* a paper in Can bria Oounty, Pennsylvania, a short time ago. He callecl it the "Cambria Milky Way." He said in his prospectus that he intended to make the "Milky Way" lively, ■ spicy, vigorous, fearless, aud entertaining ; and he did. In the first number he called the editor of the rival paper "A diabolical liar, an unmitigated scoundreh and a remorseless assassin." He alluded to the mayor in a cheerful paragraph as "a corrupt magistrate, whose torments from the remorse which festered in his soul were only surpassed by the physical agony which is always the punishment of the depraved and riotous debauchee." He soothed the feelings of the postmaster with the remark that " the peculations of this official Dick Turpin can be compared to nothing but to the. terrific robberies committed in the past by those dastardly Spanish buccaneers whom he so closely resembles in general •character." He announced under the head of " Social Gossip," that a certain young man had been rejected the evening before by the lady of his lpve, and volunteered the information that it was " the wisest thing she cbuld have done under the peculiar circumstances-" The next edition of the paper was not issued at the regular time. Finally some copies were sent out over the town in balloons, and they contained these editorial remarks : — "The editor has found it impossible to go out to-day to hunt for news items, because the mayor and the editor of " The Times," and the postmaster, and Alexander Jones, and a number of other individuals whose names we havo not been able to learn, have been sitting on the kerbstone and roosting around on the back fence all , the morning with shot-guns and other* raunierous weapons, and looking as if they were in earnest. We give notice here that we have moved the fire-proof safe against the door of our sanctum, and have lined the stairs with springguns and insme bull-terriers who have not been fed for a week. The privileges of a free press shall not be interfered with wlulij we wield a pen or possess a bull-dog." "The Milky Way," however, died next day, Mr. Gnmbs, having slid down the waterspout and taken the early train for Kansas. These outrages against editors will have to be stopped, or William Perm wijl have died for his country in' vain.