AMERICAN JOURNALISM.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1172, 1 May 1874, Page 4

AMERICAN JOURNALISM.

The Is T cw York Herald is severe on the peculiarities of a few of the journals of the United States. It amused itself on the 16th February by giving twentysix ' : Journalistic Notes," in the course of which it remarks sarcastically that three " colonels" were proprietors and editors, and that a fourth was about to start a journal in Galveston under the name of the "Ante-Granger." A " Southern editor" is said to bo willing to name his first baby after the person who pays the largest subscription in advance. " Joseph 11. Barnum, editor of the Travellers Journal, of Hartford, Conn., has been sentenced to imprisonment in the workhouse for abusing his wife, but he appeals." " The Jackson (M'ss.) Pilot wants a new editor. The last editor ' went out with a revolver to uphold one of his editorials, and he returned in a wheelbarrow with a blanket over him.' " George Huntington took umbrage at an article that appeared in the Middleburg (Vt) Itegister, and went for the editor with an open jack-

knife, but ho speedily withdrew after receiving the contents of four bottles of ink. " According to their own estimate of each other the Cincinnati editors are all thieves, liars, and assassins. Ditto San Francisco editors."