The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-28

him and secured his acquittal, refusing to
receive anything for his services In the
last Congressional race the squire actively
opposed Johns denomination. He was
especially prominent in the primary cleo
ton held in Prentlss county Aliens
friends were indignant Tney protested
against his conduct and accused him of in
gratitude.
Don't you think, SQUIRE" he was asked,
THAT you do wrong in working against
John Allen after his kindness in getting
you out of trouble, and not charging you u
centp'
mo, don't,'' replied the Squire ''Fd
have appreciated what he done for me if
he'd got me out o. trouble in the right kind
o way. But, blast him, he treated my case
like as if it wuz big joke. He got up and
poked fun at me and had the hull court and
everybody else a laughin' at me. Id rather
o. paid fifteen or twenty dollars to have
got ont of the scrape fair and square. l
don't want to be laughin' stock for nc
man. He could ha done it right if he'd
tried, but he wouldn't do it. These funny
fellers ought TO be treated in funny way.
He had his little o re then, and I'm havin'
mine now Blast MIN. I'll beat him and git
even with hun"
As good story as the Mississippian told
was of an incident that happened eight or
ten years ago. There was pig mass meet
ing at Okolona, Miss. Both parties were
out in strong force. A Well-knoWn Repub-
licanl led off. He was followed by a Demo-
crat. Among the listeners was a Northern
drummer. A day or two afterwards he
was telling a friend in Tennessee what he
saw and heard at the meeting at Okolona
lit WIS a great tiiue,'' be remarked.
There must have been two thousand peo-
pie there They had a barbecue and pro-
cession, and things were just a-hummin'.
What surprised me, though, was to find so
many negroes among the Democrats. a
Republican talked first He made good,
telling speech. thought it would have
good effect But its force was destroyed
by little yellow Niger who got up and
made democratic speech that literally
tore the Republicans into bts'
what was the negro's name,' his friend
inquired, land where did he come from"
His name was Allen,n the drummer re-
piled. II heard somebody say that he
came from place called Tupelo."
Another story told by the Missssippian
was concerning 4 big squirrel hunt at
Tupelo. A prize was offered to the hunter
bringing in the most game for dinner.
Allen hired several trusty negro hunters
to go into the woods on the day before the
hunt. to shoot all the squirrels they could
for him. On the following day, John put
in an early appearance. He started of
with his gun upon his shoulder, and his
belt filed with shells. He appeared at
dinner time, loaded down with game He
threw about forty odd squirrels upon the
ground with sigh of relief, but seemed
somewhat disappointed because he had not
done better.
"rhere you are bcys,n he said: II
didn't have much luck this morning. I'm
not feeling very WE'LL
Itturned out that there were twice as
many in his pile as were killed by the best
of the other hunters. He was reaching
for the prize when one of his competitors
protested.
Hold hard,' he said. Don't give up
the trophy If that man killed those
squirrels he must have scared them to