An American Editor.

Bruce Herald, Volume IX, Issue 891, 23 March 1877, Page 3

An American Editor.

«. Recently (says the Winnemucca, ' Nevada Register '), as the editor of this paper waa quietly attending to his business, L. A. Buckner came in and excitedly asked—" Are you the editor of this paper?" "We answered, "Yep," He then drew a whistler, and pointing it in our vicinity, snapped it. We instantly threw him down, the stove going over at the same time. "We stooped down and began to wipe the floor with his cowardly carcase, not noticing the pistol which he was still trying to use. A printer jumped in and took the pistol from Buckner, when we allowed him to get up, and ordered him to go out of doors. He picked up a bar of steel about 20 inches long, and undertook to strike us with it, but was prevented by our gentle grip upon his windpipe. In shoving towards the dooiy we shoved him through the glass, a fragment of which cut a small gash in the editorial scalp. The article that we suppose the superannuated old fool took offence at called no names, and was a matter of common street talk, and was published as an item of newß. "We shall continue to publish all items we come across, regardless of who they hit, and hereafter be prepared to defend ourselves against whoever comes to assassinate us. We retract nothing, nor are we sorry for the mercy shown an " old man." " Lay on MacDuft! And banged be he who first cries hold ! enough." The '* old man " left his howitzer on the field of ] battle, and can have the same by calling properly, paying damages, and, apologising for his cowardly attempt at assasina* tion.