. Editors I have known since the civil war (rewritten and reprinted from letters in the Clarion-ledger) . located a post office, a saloon anda hotel, the swinging sign reading, Accommodations forMan and Beast. The local postmaster waited for the driver to descendfrom his high seat and bring in his mail bags, but he movednot. There he sat with lines in hand, stiff and rigid as one ofMrs. Jarleys wax figures. He had frozen to death betweenHillsboro and Buck Horn—sometimes called Buck Snort forshort. The four horses knew the road so well they pulledthe coach on to town, and stopped at their accus
. Editors I have known since the civil war (rewritten and reprinted from letters in the Clarion-ledger) . located a post office, a saloon anda hotel, the swinging sign reading, Accommodations forMan and Beast. The local postmaster waited for the driver to descendfrom his high seat and bring in his mail bags, but he movednot. There he sat with lines in hand, stiff and rigid as one ofMrs. Jarleys wax figures. He had frozen to death betweenHillsboro and Buck Horn—sometimes called Buck Snort forshort. The four horses knew the road so well they pulledthe coach on to town, and stopped at their accustomed place,unguided by rein or voice. The reader may imagine what a sensation the incidentcaused in the town, which only received a ten-line notice inthe Argus. My! what a great story Frantz, Sullens, or Jaap—for \years my best local editors—would have made of that ^ event—two columns or more with a stud head in thirty-sixpoint. But those were primitive days in journalism, whenthe editorial dominated the local department, when opinions . were regarded with more favor than sensational i Simeon R. Adams EDITORS I HAVE KNOWN 11 III. Hillsboro was a fine place until Sherman burnt it as hewas pursuing Joseph E. Johnston eastward, after the fall ofVicksburg, who in his retreats did his opponent more harmthan he sustained himself. Johnstons men did enough damage to the people of Hills-boro while retreating before Sherman. They burnt up thefences and foraged on the community, killing such cattle andhogs as they found running at large; but they did not breakopen smoke houses and corn cribs and destroy the substanceof the old men, the women and children; neither did theyburn up the town. But Shermans soldiers—well perhaps they were not asbad as the Huns on their invasion of Belgium and France; butthey were bad enough, and at the time regarded as devilsincarnate, doing many acts of vandalism, wholly unwarrantedby the rules of civilized warfare. They robbed the stores o
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