The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-06-14

stand and coming out place being right on the business street.
 When the hcrses appeared it vas a sight for painter. The boys had offered boots to the darkey. to put on his horse. and he had boots on every lex from the hoofs up as far as boots could ee Eaade to stick on, and the hcrse's tail had been neatly braided. and tied up ~ith oise ribbons. and when the horses scored up, there vas more fun than . barrel of monkeys The word vas given fo~ the fsst heat. and they came down the road neck and neck, at good nine minute gait, it vas estimated by horsemen. but the darkey thought they were flying. When near the judges stand. the driver of the poney held up . little, and the darkey went ahead, and won the heat amid as much excitement as was ever seen on . race course. The people fairly hosled. and while some of the boys took the darkey from the sulkey. and carried him on their shoulders, others detached the old horse from the sulky, sponaed his nostrls with . sponge as big as a wash tub, and acted just as they do at a big race.
 The liveryman insisted on walking the horse up and down she street between the heats, and when the darkey got loose from the boys and came up, the livery man told him if anybody offered to buy the horse. not to sci any price on him, as he wanted the hrst chance 10 buy him, ard wou' pay more than any live man, and the darkey agreed to give him the first show
 The second heat was taken by the pony, but the darkey claimed " foui," on the ground that the driver of the pony called him names, but the foul was no, allowed. The darkey vas a little fright ened, but he took the third heat easily and the boys made hero of him, and the crowd shouted themselves hoarse The man that held the shot bag of money was seen to start to cross the bridge, and somebody told the darkey he was a rob- Der, and vas making for the woods with the cash, and he took after the stake holder and overhauled him after qufse a chase, and came back with the shot bag, but on counting it over there was only six dollars, and he declared he had been robbed, and the boys sent the sheriff after the stakeholder and agreed to lynch him. The darkey vas beginning to reap the results of his success and enjoy his popu- larity, when he was arrested by a mock officer on charge of fast driving on the streets and taken before a mock cour.. where trial was held which lasted half the night. and the attorneys went into the history o! the darkey, and talked of viola ton of the constitution, until they fright encd him nearly to death. As the bell tolled for midnight the jury brought in a verdict of arson in the rrst degree, and the judge, after asking him if he had any thing to say why sentence should no, be pronounced on him, sentenced him to punishment from Neillsville, forever, the penalty of return being instan, death al the hands of the first man he met. He was escorted out into the open ar, the horse was produced, and a, one o'cloci in the morning he rode out of Neillsvill< forever, believing his escape from death at the hands of the kuklux was the resul, of direct interpretation of divine provi. dence. It was the greatest horse race that was ever seen, and created more fur than anything could have done.