The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-07-25

The following anecdote, incident of life
Arkansas, is copied fropa the Spirit of t
Times, for which paper it was written by @
OF It's numerous facetious correspondents
is, as the newspapers say, ';too good to be lost
About the year 1880, politics ran very hi
in Arkansas. Col. A. H. Sewer was cant
date for the office Of delegate to congress, al
Ben Desha was his opponent
Judge Andrew Scott w;:s warm friend
Desha, and bitterly hostile to Sewer. He hs
anelghbor living about fifteen miles from hir
on the far side Of Galley creek, named Loga
commonly called "stuttering Jim Logan" WI
was exactly "wice wersey"ii in his politics; an
SO frequent had been his encounters, that tt
two nelghbors had come to cordially hate eac
other.
One pleasant morning id the spring, whe
The sun shone out warmly, land all nature wa
green and fresh after a heavy rain of two G
three days duration, Logan went down fror
his house, in little strip of bottom, to the ban
OF the creek, and sat himself down on slic]
log musing as col. Jack M Carthy once said
con the evanethenthe of all these thublunar,
things" ...1.
The creek was about twenty yards wide ,anc
the rain had raised it so that 1t was SWIMMING
covered with foam, and running like mil
race with full head of water. Where the
road crossed, at the edge of which Logan was
sitting, was the only opening in the woods,
which fringed the stream on each side. Above
and below the trees leaned over and all their
branches hung gracefully in the water, and
swung to and fro in the swift current.
After Logan had sat there little while,
Judge Scott came riding down, the road on the
other side, but halted when The reached the
waters edge, and looked across without say
ing any thing, but looked as if he thought
"Den you, if it's swimming why don't you
say. so"' Logan took out his jackknife, split
piece off from the lick log, and commenced
whtt]lng it, looking steadily across towards
Scott all the while
Logan was large, stout, heavy looking
man; Scott small, wiry, passionate, petulant,
and as brave as bull dog. ;
a tter waiting moment-fof each hated the
other too much to speak-Scott frightened the
relns and rode into the water His horse had
not taken more than six steps before he plunged
In kerchung over head and ears In moment
more Scott was washed from lis back; the RI |
der went one way. the horse aAother, and the
saddlebags third. The horse turned towards
some little way below; the sad,llebaes foated
down stream, and Scott managed to reach Lo
gans side of the creek and caught hold of the
swinging branch of sycamord which dipped
into the water.
"Help, Loganp' cried ScotG, az shall he
drowned. Helpv'
"ss-s-say you will vote for sfvier!' bawled
Logan.
"Help, Logan, help! 1 shall ,arownl"
"S-s-s-say you'll v-v-vote fori Sevier!" again
oawled Logan, net rising from yhe lick log.
!, just then the sycamore limb snapped, and
the same moment Scott sung Out.
cpl see you id first, yoAl internal old
rascal" and away he swept rouhd che tree out ;
OF sight below, eddying round II; the concayity
at the upper edge of a sand bar, upon which {
Scott was flung and scrambled o,it He walk {
ed up the bank and towards Logan, suffering l
with rage and streaming with water Luckily
ne had no weapon but pistol and that was {
OF course, unfit for service; arid Logan was a
to big to be whipped by him. in a fair fist Q
"You old villain!'' cried Scott, as he oot il
pretty near him, edo you STOP to ask man [
now he's going to vote before you save him "
rom drowning?" aM0.. ....
Logan never stopped whiting, but looking h
up, slowly said: >a.1 9 n
"Every gentleman has a rightSo v-v-yote as q
re likes, and dd-drown when be liked: ard T b
ion't suppose any body's bound to dive into n
he creek to fish out v-v-yotes to k.kill his
wn.'' "" II
Down east somewhere, a psous lady was
qnhoneu as witness IN an important case, ia
LAYING lived in the backyoods |all her dave 70
he was wholly uHacquainted with the rules of &c
court OF justice. Being told that she must 81
swear the poor woman was filled with hor- d,
Or at the thought. After muck persuasion
ne yielded, and being told to 'ihtold nm her It
ght hand,' she did so, exclaintny. "well if le
must, must-damn!'' The cf.urt ;ron,ea;. h.
tely adjourned. ia
"What can you do?" asked a ,trave,er of !, isl
'untry urchn whom he saw in font Of far
er's house, tickling a toad with long straw W,
y, can do morn CONSIDERABLE rides tho w
rkeys to water, milks the geeses cards down 80
e old rooster, puts up the pigs taiIs in paper do
make 'em curl, hamstrings tile prssshon.
RS, makes fires for flies to court by. keens
lily for dad and nanny when they scold at 10
ark, and cuts the buttons off dad's coat when ",
IS at prayer in the mornin'!'' ~
The Terre Haute Courier saws abat the Wa.
Ssh country is large number Of pump ca
u.s. and cites the following in Ifoof thereof wi
LAST week a woman in Sibley township cave wi
rth to four children, three boys and girl de
of remarkable size too, the smallest being a
Thapper." Fertile country, thai Wabash. wi
"Have you the Exile Of Siberia here?" ask fro
lady, a few days since, Of l clerk in a abb
okstore. no, ma'am," was hhe answer;
e haint got no eggs-ile, but we've got a hir
me article Of bar's-ile, if that'ls answer" the
Poets seldom make good astronoI mars They |
} 50 in love with women, that 4hey cannot
any other heavenly body, oven if they ing
il to- I'D
The doctor who operates for ataracts, is boz
ng up to Buffalo, to see if he caa't do some +.
ng for Niagara. rul
There is a man in Troy 50 mean, that he his
he'd his landlord to reduce theIprice Of his
rd bill, because lie had two teeth extracted. rigl