Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1852-06-12
Gan1oroms.
POLITICS IN ARKANSAS.


sciencious voter, an up-and.down, no
favor show party man.
About tho year 1880 politics RAJ
very high in Arkansas. Col. A. II
Sewer was a candidate for the uilict
of Delegate to Congress, and Nct
Desha was his opponent.
Judge Andrew Scott was warn
friend Of Desha, and utterly hostile tt
Sewer. He had a neighbor, living a
bout fifteen milcs from him, on tht
far side Of Gallery Creek, nance
Lugan, commonly called suffering
Jim Logan who was exactly 'wice
wersy' in his politics; and SO frequent
had been their encounters, that the
two neighbors had come cordially to
hate each other. @
One pleasant morning in tho spring
when tho sun shone out warmly, and
all nature was green sud fresh after a
heavy rain Of two or three days du-
ration, Logan went down from his
house, through the little strip of creek
bottom, to the bank of the Greek, and
sat himself down on lick-log' mu-
sing, perhaps, as Col. Jack Mccarthy
once said, 'on the evanethcnthe of
thul,lunary thingth."
The creek was about twenty yards
wide and the rain had raised it, so that
it was swimming, covered with foam,
and running like a mill-race with q
full head of water. Where the road
crossed, on tho edge of which Logan
was sitting, was the only opening in
tho woods, which fringcd tho stream
un each side. Above and below the
trees leaned over, aud their branches
hung gracefully in the water, and
swung to and fro in the swift current.
After Logan had set there q llttlSS
while .JuIee Scotf ..>.a.ets edge ana
tiss,sa across without sayinganything;
but looked as if he. thought !" Hang
Won, if it's swimming. why don't you
say solp Logan took out his jack,
I Ll;ifa. split a piece off .he elisk.log, and.
Ecomneneel1 sisli;t,,iug sifouktHg sreuu
lily across towards Scott all the wh''e'
Logan was a large, stout, heavy
lnnkinr man; Scott, small, wiry, pas
sionate, petulcnt, and as brave as a
bulldog.
After waiting moment-for each
hated the other too much to speak
Scott tightencd the rcins and rode in
to tho water. His horse had not ta-
ken more than six steps before ker.
cdus +! he plunged in over head and
ears. In q moment more Scott was
washed from his back; the rider went
one way, tho horse the other, and the
saddle bags third. The lprsc turn
ed towards the side which he went in,
and got ashore some little way below;
the esaddle.hags Aoaled down tho
stream, and Scott managed To reach
Logan's side of the creek, and caught
hold of the swinging limb of syea-
more which dipped into the water.
sHelp, Logan, holp!" cried Scott,
81 shall be drowned! Help!
"S-s.s-say, you'll v-v-votc for Sc
vier Z" bawled Logan.
"Help, Logan,hclp! Ishall drown
Holp!"
"s-s.s.say, you'll vote for Sewer !!
again bawlcd Lognn, not rising IRON
the lick-log.
Just then the sycamore limb snap
ned, and the same moment Scott sung
out
"I'llsec you id first, you internal
old rascal!" and away he swept round
tho tree and out of sight below.
Luckily, the current made sweep
below, eiJying round in the concavi-
Ity at tho upper edge Of n sand-bar'
1pon which Scott was iung,and scram,
Ibiedout. He walked up the bank and
toward Logan, sputtering with rage
and streaming with water. Luckily
he had no weapons but II pistol and
that, of course, was unfit Tor service
and Logan was too big to be whipped
by him in fist fight.
"D-n it," cried Scott, as he got
pretty near him, "Do you stop to ask
a man how he's going to vote before
YOU save him from drowning!"
Logan never stopped whiting. bu
looking composcdly up, slowly said
"Ersry g-g-gmAemon has a r'sl
10 r.roic as he likes, and dromn ~hen u
likes; and / Id-lmt suppose aHy6o'ty
b.Jound to dire into tic creek, I" IN"
ont a v.v-rote to k-kW lis oV@."
"Why is the smile of a pretty wo
,,o, Ike n rnnnibal leyOurillg u lriS