HOW AN OTAG0 EDITOR GOT RID OF A ROUGH CUSTOMER.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1155, 3 March 1874, Page 4

HOW AN OTAGO EDITOR GOT RID OF A ROUGH CUSTOMER.

There are other methods of settling libel cases without the assistauco of intellectual jurymen, and as the following incident occured in au editor's room not a hundred miles from Dunedin, it will probably be read with interest (says the Otago Daily Times of February 11th). As a certain editor was busily employed in his room writing a leader, a loud thumping was heard at the door, and in came a roughish specimen of a regular Down Easter. Addressing himself to the editor, ho said: —"Say ain't you the cuss that drives the uibs iu this rag factory ? " "I'm the editor, if you wish to sec him." "Precisely, you are the man I'm looking for. I intend to go for you. Fact is, I've travelled overland to pound you." "Indeed, sir," the editor cooly replied ; " how have I given you offence?" "Well you've called me an assinine abortion of stupidity which slightly kind of riles me." The man of letters looked at the Yankee, and theu requested him to wait till he had finished his article on "The Advantages of the Noble Art of Self Defence." The object of tho leader was hardly in accordance with tho strangers idea of the man he had travelled overland to pound, still ho was determined to see the matter out. On the leader being completed, tho editor rang the bell, and then turning to the Yaukco, said, "Now, sir, 1 will atteud to you." " Well," said the stranger, " as I want this little affair to be private, what have you pulled that hell for ?" " Oh, that is to send tho boy for some lint, and bandages, aud a cab, for, to tell you the truth, the last three men that I have thrashed here have lain iu the office two or three days laid up with wounds aud fractures. Now as the directors meet here to-morrow, I want to get you out of the way sharp." This remark flabbergasted the wouldbe bruiser. Ho turned to the editor and said, " Why, you must bo tho man that whipped tho 'Slasher.'" "I'm the identical party." '"Well, as he tan give me two stone and a licking I'm sorry I spoke. Good day." The above incident is strictly true, and is undoubtedly a much better way of settlcingalibol than all tho publicity aud expeuse of law.