Show The Headless The Headless people are still In the slough of despond and every day brings out new evidence of their desperate condition It became evident evi-dent to Mr Goodwin the gentleman whose guiding intellect i was desired should be purchased to make a vigorous attempt to steer the caress into fairer seas that he did not want to be connected with the concern Consequently while he was being supplicated t accept the euni they bad raked up together with the amount that hud been raised among I persona by begging he concluded to 1 put a stQP to all further tearful entreaties by announcing emphatically emphati-cally that before ho could bs induced to turnieh I much neeJed brain for that sheet he would have to be offered considerably more than 1001 over the pittance the proprietors bad scraped together to engage him This paralyzed them und their friends as up to tbat time but a little over 60 bad been by dint of unceasing begging beg-ging and oupphcatior > donated the payment of a considerable amount of which had been so conditioned that there us little hope of ever fulfil g the condition A further black eye was given the project by Mr Goodwin who stated that all other thing being satisfactory before be would consent to furnish intellect for the benighted and headless mali tution ho would himself impose conditions con-ditions which were enumerated the substance being that proprIetors must permit the journal to become respectable jurnal a desperate trait they were not 10 desperate that this did not appal them and without hesitation they refused to permit their sheet fo even approach a tone of respectability knowing full well that they had thus far existed in having adopted the opposite course and also knowing that to assent to such a imposition would be certain death |