Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-10-17
4lisfelIaneons.
An Arkansas Horo.

Some three or four years after the admis.
sion Of Arkansas into the Union, n young
man, whom we shall call Arthur Granger
native of Ohio, went to Little Rock, TO
set ap the practice of law. He was then
about three and twenty years of age, small
slender, and effeminate. looking, with light
hair, almost beardlcss face, and dark blue
eyes. His dress, though not exactly fop.
pish, was altogether too 6ne, neat and pre-
else to sult the taste of men who had al
ways seemed prepared for roughing it u
the backwoods as most Of them bad done
at one time and another and he was moro
over q stranger from tho North, who had
perhaps came there to display his learning
and pick up their money; SO that, from the
very first, he was regarded with suspicion.
aversion and contempt.
The first six or eight months he got no
practice whatever, notwithstanding he was
regularly at his Office, or the court room,
watching, waiting and hoping; and he was
about to give up in despair, aud betake
himself to some other locality, when one
day, tall. lauk individual came shufllng
into bis apartment, and, after surveying him
keeniy, from head TO foot, said, as he helped
himself 10 a seat:
See here, young hop-thump, is there any.
thing in you?
'Yrs-my breakfast!' replied the young
lawyer, with quiet smile.
The other stared ut him few moments,
aud seemed undetermined whether to cou.
slider the reply q joke or an insult lie
finally grinned at it, and proceeded:
| mean, do you know anything
Oh, yes, something. answ cred the lawyer,
pleasantly. know the differe zee between
chalk aud cheesc--a horse aud o horse
hack.
Can yon write
have written my name before now.
The stranger drew newspaper from his
pocket, opened it deliberately, pointed out
an article, handed it to the young man, aud
said: -
Read that
Aloud
Yes. ". ..-. .4t.
The young lawyer complied, aud read a
TRADE, Of the most scandulous aud scathing
nature, against Que Miles Gregory, the
Democratic candidate for the Stale Lesisla.
ture.
Well, demanded the stranger, when he
had finished the article, what do yon think
of that
1t is pretty severe.
believe you. Do you 'spect shnr's an
other man in the State of Arkansas thu,
can write as schorching thing ag'in the
Whig candidate?
If there were facts to justify it, I doubt
not such an article might be produced, re.
piled the young lawyer.
To thunder with your facts cried the
stranger excitedly; facts hant got nothing
10 do with politics; thar's no facts In that !;
it's oil lies, from beginning TO end. Pm
Miles Gregory, and ought TO know. IN
give fifty dollars to any body thAt'll write as
savage thing as that ag'in Jim Perrin.
When do you want tf
Now-to day.
Without regard to fsctsl .r@
They han't got nothing to do with il,
tell you.
Very well, II you will call In couple OF
hours, | will show you something TO match
it,
II you'll do IL or the half ont, said Miles
Gregory, rising to leave, I'll pct you 10 .
way 80 make o fortune. M f'rf~T
he vent out aud returned st the sp.
pointed time. aud the youag lawyer he'd ,hs
article ready. Without descending ss low
as the model in vulgar epithets. it was even
more terrible in its whitening sarcasm
Gregory could scarcely contain himself
while the young lawyer was reading it, aud
as soon as he had done he bounded from his
seat with yell of triumph, and, seizing
the delicate band of tho writer, almost
crushed it between his great bony fingers !.
you've done It, young man, he cried,
with an oath. and you'll soon have some.
thing better to do than sit here staring at
blank walls. Here is your moneyEtbe
only difference is, Pge concluded to make it
a hundred instead of fifly-but that's my
business, SO none of your nonsense.
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