Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1886 — State Pride. [ARTICLE]

State Pride.

“Judge,” said an Arkansas man, who was arraigned for assault with intent to kill, “Fm no baby. I don’t whine and kick. I went for this Tennessee man) with a club, and that’s a fact. But, your Honor,-, there was provocation, awful provocation.” ; “Then you plead guilty?” “Certainly I do, but hear me. Tine long-legged, ganker-shanked, wilted-up specimen of humanity got right up on the head of a bar! in front of Simmon’s grocery and crowed like a rooster, and yelled out that Tennessee had two murders to our one! That ’ere statement touched my State pride, vour Honor, and I sailed in to defend old Arkansaw agin the world.” , ' The fury found a .verdict of “noil guilty, ” without leaving their seats. Let every man take care how he speaks and writes of honest people, and not set down at a venture the first thing that comes uppermost,— Cervantee.