Show A scandalous publication OGDEN has been agitated for several days past over a domestic scandal floated boated by the union of that town it involved the family of a well known citizen the name of its head being so BO nearly given that there could be no mistake regarding identity the editor of the union C S king was subsequently invited into an office room by the enraged citizen the latter in formed mr king so it is stated that he had to do one of three things make a complete and unqualified retraction retract ioB OB otherwise be shot or shoot the person addressing him the editor chose the fl first mt the retraction was complete and abject being an acknowledgment that the scandalous statement was utterly and totally false in every parti particular culat this was published in the following issue of the union but under it was a qualification which amounted toan to an assertion that the t original assertion was true render ing the apology a great deal worse J 4 than the first accusation we do not know whether the t scandalous reflection made in the 1 union regarding a private family is true or false in the absence of we are bound to believe it to be a fabrication but even if there were truth in it the publication of the scandal was a contemptible piece of business it was of a nature which showed that if a wrong had been committed the principal haa done all that under the circumstances to repair it and public jour nals could under such circum stances let the matter slumber in the domestic circle concerned in it to do otherwise is not legitimate journalism the editor of the union ought to be ashamed of him self |