The Forrest City times., 1891-09-04

a man and rubs his fur the wrong way, we want him to show up with club or a gun and have it out with us. and most of 'em are men enough to do so.
 Now and then, however, when we observe that such or such a man ought to be strung up by the vigilance com mittee to make more room for coyotes and rattlesnakes, he hunts up Hank Brown, the one-eyed, one horse shys- ter lawyer and sues us for libel. Such man is Pete Foster, who began n Sl0,0o0 suit against us yesterday for defamation of character. Ye gods. but think of it! A capper, d thief, liar and ex-convict injured in his character in this town. and in- iured Sl0,0o0 worth Why didn't the old coward come in with club and show his manhood? Why didn't he bor row gun and pop at us through a window? Why didn't he send us word he'd pop us on sight, and then skip out of town on the pretense that his mother was dying?
 It's our turn now, We give him
 three days to withdraw the suit. If he doesn't do it we shall go to huclxle- berrying. He will be our ckleberry. If we happen to run across Hank Brown we shall gather him in as well. Whats left of the pair after we get through had better leave town or we shan't try to hold the boys in. We've been very patient and kind with this libel suit business. We've let twenty different people sue us and bother and annoy.
 We've got through now. This is the end. We are willing to be shot at, but we won't be bothered with lawsuits.
 If you won't shoot, we will.
 A WORD OF ADvIcE.- Wednesday
 afternoon, when Mai Thomas rode
 into town and brought the news that an unknown white man was lying
 dead in the hall, our coroner was sd drunk that he could not take charge of the case. This is only one of several occasions, and we think the time has now arrived for us to observe that if Dick Blodgett doesn't brace right up and head in a new direction something will happen. Out this way we never wait to impeach an incompetent official, nor is a com- mittee appointed to ask him to resign. He is pulled up to limb and then given chance to git. If he doesn't take it, the next pull leaves him up there.
 In this instance the dead man turned
 out to be old Jim Carnahan, who ought to have turned up his toes long ago, and who went out and died to get rid of his own company. But that's no excuse for Dick. Business is business,
 and he has got to be sober enough to
 tell the dead body of a man from mule
 and proceed accordingly or shadow will fall across his path.
 NEVER DID IT.-Our esteemed con- temporary came out in double-leaded editorial yesterday charging us with many bad things, and advising ,ae peo-
 pie of this town to shoot us full of lead. We think he wrote the article under a misunderstanding. He knew that
 we knew he had been in the
 Ohio penitentiary for stealing two cows
 and lot of pork He supposed we were the only one possessed of the
 knowledge, and when he found the
 story all around town the other day he
 jumped to the conclusion that we had
 betrayed his confidence We never did
 it. Bill Overton spouted it while half drunk, and the way Bill came to know
 was because he went to the same prison
 at the same time for stealing forty bushels of wheat> of the same farmer. We think we know what editorial courtesy is, and we aim to practice it. l Our contemporary ought to have known that we wouldn't give him away in any | such fashion. We are sorry the facts 1 came out, but they won't hurt his cir
 culation any. He's got seventy-six
 subscribers anyhow, and as they are
 all relatives, they will stick by him. No. 10.--As is we'll known to our To-
 cal readers, Reube Smith, general