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Show A JOIE ON A NKWSriPKIt Sprint;- I field, III., has been convulsed with, laughter over a trick play d 011 tin-' Hfiite Gazette, which attempted lo CfitabliMh iue;lwjfn the State Journal suspended. It hid no press franchise but daily scissors and reprints of the despatches of rival sheets, including the head-liufs. At lust it opened negotiations in writing with a ItejisUr pressman for one of the earliest copies of that paper, so that the Gazette could get oat an hour later with the .icepatcbes cribbed. The Rojiitcr prepared and ineerlcd a bogus dispatch in U iiBue, purporting lo give pu account of a severe slurrn at W,u-ciicdter, W,u-ciicdter, which it said kiiled the pastor ota German church in his study, and that with hia last breath hn utlerfi! the words, "Ich babe diese Xachiicht geetohlen." The Gazette had ils hJ vauce copy of- tbe Register duly delivered by its supposed confederate", and stole not only ihe genuine dispatches, dis-patches, but alao published very con epicuously, and with displayed head lines, the bogus telegram. When t!:e public read and translated "Ich hah? dicso Nachricht gestohlen," meaning "I have stolen this dispatch," th t joke was seen. Cincinnati Gr:tl. |