The Arkansas advocate., 1830-05-26
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 was recently related to us, which by it's result might have proved 50 bepehcialto society as almost 10 induce one to ex- claim with Hamlet,
 eeOh that the Everlasting had not fx'd,
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 for such we consider duelling in all its forms. But the instance oi which we speak was 50 extraordinary in concep- tiof1 and eentrlyanee, eylnciag5 such deep | and regardless malice, yetso admirably suited to the parties engaged, and so perfectly fulfilling the design oi the un- christian custom, that we hold il a duty l to furnish it's details as useful lesson to the fashionable murderer, to whom we can give ho better direction than 'st5o 8 and do likewise"
 Ina populous town in New Y ork, two peace-breal<ing, riotous, dissolute men of middle life-the dread and abhof- renee of their Eeighborhood and almost nightly care of the watch, met at a small grog shop to earouse. They were jolly companions for an hour orso. So sweet and uniform a concord of sentiment ran through all their speech, that their bo- sons seemed the habitations of twin souls. With mutual mods of approba ton they drained the glass. but the incest instruments will sometimes jar, and so at last did these worthies. When about half tipsy they quarrelled, and as the bitterness of their wrath bore some proportion to its stimulus, would have fought, had they not been disabled by the depth of their potations. Their blows, 8l-directed and feeble, fell hurt less, while their anger was infamed by the consciousness of imbecility. They swore like madmen, and recled and ragged, and nourished thoughts of mur- der, till ina delirium of passion they pro- posed--to hang each other. The l thought seemed to spring in eitherheart, so instant was the acceptance. They procured rope, and with strange start l ing eyes, and fearful oaths they stagger- ed into the garret of the building, an unfinished room with bare beams and rafters. The rope was flung over a eross-tree beam, and each proceeded with unsteady hands to fasten an end to the neck of the other. One was mount ed on q bench and the other on a half bushei, each calling on his antagonist to
 take bis leap.
 At length, one confident that his su- perior weight would draw up the other, swung of; but the rope would not play ever the rough timber, and he had q fair chance of choking alone. Iemade Ia desperate effort, however, and dsucceed- cd in kicking the measure from under bis fellow, and they both swung fairly above the floor like two gallows birds paying their forfeit. They had been watched; a long as their movements were merely ludicrous the shop keeper allowed them to proceed-but when they were fairly strung up, and it got to be no joke, but downright hanging matter, he run up stairs and cut the cord and so "cheated the d-l of his
 due" The heavy man was terribly en- ragged by inc disappointment declaring
 the interference unfair, ungentlemanly, and contrary to the code of honor. la- menting that he had not been permitted
 to hang his neighbor by so equal and Impartial administration of the rope.-
 The fright, however, together with the
 gentle squeeze about the wind pipe had quite choaked the evil spirit of theother,
 who went away tolerably sober and en- tirely thankful.-.Acao HaUen Adg.