Clipping of the Day
From The Ohio Repository (Canton, Ohio), 04 January 1838, page 3:
PARLIAMENTARY USAGE IN ARKANSAS
On Monday, the 4th instant, a member upon the floor of the Arkansas House of Representatives having thrown out some allusion personal towards the Speaker, that personage sprang from the Chair with a drawn Bowie Knife, and laid the offender dead at his feet. The murdered member, before he received his death wound, almost severed the hands of the Speaker from his arm, and severely cut the other hand. The Speaker was forthwith arrested by the civil authorities, and his name stricken from the roll of the House, by a nearly unanimous vote. He is pronounced "an amiable gentleman." We are not aware of the standard of amiability in Arkansas.---Journal & Register.
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