, 1873-10-26

At my ratio, Judge Scott drow tho stool from lilo
sWord-cnno, and, With all the force OF hiH right
arm, ,lrovo that thing three timea through llo.
gang broaas, 40 that 1t won't in and oaino out
olota Of. blood, and then lie foil forward
dentt In thu grocery. I am pretty sure that tho
people believed thai Hogan meant to do sonlo
violence to Scott, or tho lattor would hnvo boon
ground Of tho disparity In THOR sizes and tho
iittorncHs Of political fooling. Andrew SCOTT
had to loavo tho Bench, however, for TINT last
act, but 10 lived on groat many years, mud lled
Sn1;y Sn1;y, short tImo boforo the War Of the To-
"Andrew Scott had . brother,
GEORGE HCoTT, .. 49,.
who Was desperate man and good doa' dis
eipatctl, bnt ho was worry smart. Ho had 4 fight
peration anything In ArkanHhs history.
Bill Montgomery lived Just above tho month
OF White River, and gare tho namo to Mont.
gomery's Point. Ho had tavern thoro, about
% g4oa many hr gs w0r9 efara ea s9me
countorfeitors sought rofngo therd. 1lo waa
genoroua old fellow, however and vas bound to
command in politics. nna IN lis part Of the
country he waa yery useful iH generally enmo
aud thoro, as ut homo. ho would help any poor
char ont with now stake Once, at Little
Hook, Montgomery, George. Scott, and several
a1s otss mor n rcaovoa 81 them IN int nt0naS
long gamo. 'Thoy took . room tho floor
of which was covered with lbrlok. I think that
It waB .aomowhat romoto from othor hounos.
Thore they lad plenty Of liquor nntl au enormous
quantity Of money all being flush, md drinking
around thom md they kept up tile game the
whole cvoning and fnr past midnight, often quar-
roling up to tho verge Of dincu1ty:
Along toward morning, everybody fell over,
George Scott and Bill Montgomery. Thoy con-
them, and ihoy qunrrolod moro and more,
nnt =; last tho H. Pa1hsHd Ptah;n .ona and
othor. Montgomery was unarmed, Or at,any
rnte, he didn't uso his Weapons, md, as they
closed in tho acufle, George Scott poked aga!n
and Hgain VIII is knife Ind lo stabbed ont- ot
gomery was blood all ovor, running at tho arms
mud from tho sido Of tho bronst, but ho fought
on, and at lnat got George Scott down on tho
bricks with his belly to tho ground. Then,
he could scarcely 500, ho rallied I'LL His failing
enorges, and, taking Scott by the cars will, both
hands. ho beat lis face upon tho bricks until tho
foatures wore al gone, and then exhausted with
1eas. Their friends found them both, Just
nB they lay, and nobody thought TINT oithor
could I've. They took Bill Montgomery up to
yellow woman'o house, whom ho had owned:
poMoVe, anu aad het !Eee oh couultlou tha1 sne
should board him whenever ho came to Little
Rock. He lay thero asyoral months, but,
strange nB 1t seemed, got woll again, and WAS
familiar parsonage in our poltica. George Scott
was taken to tie house Of . relative, on the
north sido Of tho Arkansas River lie waa tenn
porarily blind, and Tor several weeks nothing
was dono with him but to poultice his faco. lie
recovered, too, and camo among III agaln, look
ing hardly tho rorso for wear than before tho
TOLD JOHN TOTE,
Of our State, WAS chivalrous man. Flo thought
]is Lad influence and station enough to mako him
yictoriously United States Senator, but Mr.
Seyior bout him. Tho soyicre, you know, had
not m been yory friendly to Gen: J1ac1son, lac. for
political competitor of Jackson in Tennessee.
Ssvier's father mas q naTal officer. Coy. Popo's
nephew, Fontaino Pope, was higl,lnottlea,
cehivalric young nap' who came ont to Arisausas
at Dates,lllo, and a humoriet at large got to
irritating tho Popos on tho woll-known parsi-
mony Of tho Governors wife. In Que Of
his comic effua!ons. Ing described her
sis ss!e'9SS sstans sna challenged s do' nm IN:
Noland killed him. Nolata novcr seemed
to fool at case after that duel, for 1t wasn't
right. Ho was slim, dyspeptic kind Of a man,
with plenty Of talent, and lie and Albert Pike
SPIRIT Of Tho Times.
" In ono Of your papers SEQ
sotoN DonIANo
roferrod to as dueli8s. tic wan never repntod
to DO very game amongst us. IIo, was cold,
calculating. ambitions man, and the only hight
editor Of tho Whig paper at Little Rock: They
fought At ten pnccs, nnd lie SHOT Borden through
the breast so s1at; the ball oan,o ont without lou
penetrating tho dlaphraen: It mado bor.
den migaty, sick. md ho thought
It vas ~ over Wlth him Tor
z; while. borlanda Wlfo WAS ono OF
tho sweetest women IN our State. Gov.
Sewer, wishing "a editor to Keep tEo party to.
gethor against the detection with which it was
threatened by old Mr. Woodruff and othors,
Hecured Dorlnndt whom ho brought up from
AeMPAlH' l haFo Alm S9oV Wnleu "ha va
hat1, to start hla paper anu had to'go on credit
myself: Ho was treated IN tho klndest manner
by Sewers friends nnd, although 1t Locked t9 10
30 al oyor with us IN 1Sa8, We got out Thomas
8. Drow rs tho regular candidate u time to
boat tho whole coalition. After hls election
against such odds, Drew Was aot m to believe
that It was hls vast popularity which had carried
him through, and he turned IN poriiulous WY
upon GOV. seyier, and mado l.eW coalition
With Woodruff, oditor Of tho Gazette.