EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES IN TEXAS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2015, 20 November 1886, Page 3

EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES IN TEXAS.

The following announcement, Sent from Texas, throws some ight on the dangers of journalism in that country. It was pinned on to f.lie d'or of the Record office: The Proprietor of the Sunken Va’ley ai y Record regrets to have to announce to his subscribers that the paper will not be issued to day, owing to the sudden decease of tlio editor, Mr E. J. L.Coker, Mr Coker was sitting in his office yesterday, engaged in his editorial duties, when Colonel Ralph Mac Gee suddenly burst into his room, and addressing Mr Coker as “You piebald dog walloper,” demanded to know what he meant by alluding to him (Colonel Mac Gee) as a whisky-absorbing, poison-purveying importation from Dublin” in last Fridays issue of the Record, Without giving Mr Coker time to reply he fired four shots at him from his sixshooter, the last of which struck Mr Corker’in the mouth killing him instantly. Under ordinary circumstances the proprietor would have no hesitation in characterising this as a dastardly and unprovoked outrage on an unarmed man ; but ns Colonel Mac Gee has since called at the Recorder office, and in the handsomest manner, offered “to serve any dogerned paper-spoiler on the staff the same way,” he feels loth to criticise too harshly the rash act of a man evidently laboring under a strong sense of injury. The proprietor has arranged with a gentleman (16st 41b) from “Down East”, who will in future undertake the editorship of the Record, and who hopes by a moderate but firm use of the revolver to cement and bind those bonds of mutual respect and esteem which have so long existed between the Record and its subscribers. The charge for announcing births, mirriages, and shooting parties remains as heretofore.