The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-08-03
DAILY DISPATCH.
RECOMPENsE OF A DUELIsT.
,, 1887.

4 frenchnan, lately arrived, went into restau'
rant and called for a glass Of beer. AZ the BOY
brought IT, a tall man. uns nown to him, who had
eyed the Frenchman rather insolently on nus en-
trance snstchcd the glass from the table aud drank
II OF.
Il have not the honor of Your acquaintance, sir"
remarked the Freuchman, surprised at tho famil
iarty.
Nor I Of yours" retorted the other.
"Yoa are seeking quarrel with me, them
Il should he sorry to leave you in doubt of the
fact was the nsoent response
Look you, sir" said tho new conner 81 am a
az peace, and mind my own business. med
die with none, and receive no unpToVoked insults.
pass yours by for this time. Boy, bring me
anotheT glass :"
The Creole broke into haunting laughter, and
when the second glass brought. stepped np
and seized il, drank part Of the contents, ana
threw the remainder away The Frenchihah
would have rushed upon him. bat was held back oy
the bystanders. "Hoid, SIR they cried or you
are LOST IL he does not kill you % the spot he
will In the duel for he is the most skiiini dueis'
in louisiana With pistol, or rifle or win the
sword, he il uncqualled. lie his killed thirtS-ionf
men. and wounded over sixty more
What Won till me" replied the Frenchman,
''convinces me the more that he ought to be dealt
with"
IIe then drew near the who had insuted
hin, and said-"Sir, happen 10 be in a psrticu-
larry good humor, today. and am not disposed TO
take offence You have taken away two glasses of
. beer had ordered; il is now my turn, and hope
my f,rhearancc may teach you better behavior
Rpy--anotbcr glass;
The hoy brought it. trembling, as if anticipating
catastrophe. Scarcely had he placed il the
table, when the bnlly again sefycd it, aud tossed
of its contents At tho same instant. ike tiger
on his prey, the Fronchman threw himself on his
enemy. and assaulted him in the face. breast, and
side, with a tempest of blows and kicks. The bull
~, who had not time to recover himself.
stretched on the floor and pommelIed still more
numerically till bleeding and quite insensibc-
The victor then quietly drew forth his pocket
book, took out a card and pinned 1t 10 the vest of
ia fpp He fhan said m fltn ctnfa
of the ARRAY:
III there is present any friend of this indivil-
nal. would inform him that he may find mo at
my lodgings every morning from eight to eleven.
Eny. another glass of beer
This time he took the glass, and drank it OF
conlposediy Then, paying for the four glasses he
turned and left the place, amid the wonder Of all
the company.
As they lifted the vanqushed bully, it was found
that two Of his sbs were broken. and one of his
eyes was seriously damaged. Tho card bore the
inscriptions "LUCIAN PETIT Fencing Master. from
Pars-will give instruction in fencing. boxing. and
in the various methods of fighting. Terms mod
crate"
Some six weeks after this scene the door of NJ
PctIts apartment was flung open, morning.
and man STROBE in, without announcement.
"Do you know me?" he cried, in voice choked
with rage.
'Perfcctly.' responded the fencing MASTER
What il your wish"
TO xiii YOU" thundered the bully who had just
recovered from his wounds, of which, however, he
rel; on that account give you tho choice Of wea-
ppns. But make haste, for you or l must be
corpse before sunset"
Let us rather talk the matter over coolly." re-
piled the Frenchman. II have no more desire to
day to kill you, than to boat you the other day
But if you are bent on picking a quarrel, you will
find ready
.Wretched boaster. we shall see! | have killed
thrty-four men already in duels, and you are
much mistaken if you think to make me afraid of
YOU"
ed to fight out their quarrel. Petit dcferrnG to
the bully, who chose the sword, in the use of
which he was very expert. He received wound
in the arm aud the fencing master proposed adj
luinent; but tho Creole insisted that the enCoun-
tor should be- fatal to one the other. 1t not
long before no foil mortally wounded. The COM
munity delivered from Il nuisance and Petit's
fame widely established professor of the
science Of battle, that pupils came to him from
cry quarter.
THE HOME TIE PoET PEEcIvAL-The quaint
looking house occupied by the late James G. Perci-
val. at New Haven, c. sold at auction on
Wednesday last, for Sl,7oO, to satisfy a mortgage.
The poet State GeolOgist of Wisconsin at the
tmo Of his death, in May, 1856, but died without
property except his poems, house and library, all
Of which were Inortgaged. The house, like its
owner and occupant, WAS among the curOsties of
New Haven. Both were nearly inaccessible to the
public The dngy, brown stone tenement, located
in the suburbs of the city, built in u manner
to secure the most effectual retreat from that socic
d " nor door is visible TO the passerby, and the
"uly entrance is at the rear, which is approached
by path winding from the road. Two small win
dvws, well protected by heavy shutters, are in
serted in the gable ends In this retreat the poet
lived alone with his library seldom permitting an
intrusion upon his seclusion. The library, which
contains some 10000 volumes, will probably be
purchased Ly the State of Wisconsin, which has ex
pressed a desire to obtain it. 1t is now stored in
the hospital ut New Haven, in one room of which
ForcIvai passed several years Of lonely life He WAS
never married.
CHUnCH BUILDING IN New YoRK.-The rage for
church building is very great this season. ON the
With Avenue, near 18th street, the Dutch Re
formed Church is about to erect white mar
bic church, on hit of land costin. fI2O 900 Thi.
church is tho richest corporation ia Ntw York at
ter trinity Church. 4 new PRESBYTERIAN church
is to hr reared Murray Iiil this cdiice spriugs
out of the society Of Rev. Mr.. Alexander Rev
Dir. Sprigs new church will be of brick. with a
stone sicepe, 220 feet high, with clock and bell il
will hold about 200o people, and cost $40, 1000
Rev. Mr.. Thompson, of the Tabernacle Church.
will have a church of white marble. which will
cost Sl20,0oD. On sthe Fourth Avenue, the Metho-
dist are to erect a magnificent church, and they
- for white marble, with the bost. They have
just sold their house in Mulberry street, and Ego
up town This church will have steepe 300
feet high The Baptists to build an elegant
charch Oh Eighth Avenue and It'd street. This will
he composed of brown stone and iron And the
Catholics under the lead of Archbishop Hughes
are to put up, on Fifth Avenue and 5lst street one
Of the most magnificent churches IN the CITY,
american Presbyterian.
Coal TRADE OF GREAT BRIrAIN.-Tho coal trodc
of Great Britain is becoming quite an important
branch of the industrial movements of that king
dom The total quantity OF coal shipped from
ports in England, ireland, and Scotland to other
ports in the United Kingdom was S,SS2a37 tons
besides 81 go tons of cinders and 1S9 S43 tons of
culn. new article of fuel appears in the British |
parliamentary returns called patent fuel" much
used in steam navigation, ofwhich there were ex. |
ported coast-wise in lS56,S6,.S5 tons. The grand
total Of coal, cnders and cnlm exported in the |
cogsting trade of the United Kingdom in 1856 was
3,ilur,6 tons, against S53, li2 tons in 1850
NoRE Poisoning SHOOTING IN LOUISVILLE
There was oac case of poisoning family and only
one al shooting in Louisville on Tuesday. The |
poisoning Of Mr. COmStock and wife who |
lived Washington street, near shelby The |
poison placed in their coffee, and the perpetra
tor is not discovered They were not vet dead nj |
last accounts but there faint hopes of
their recovery. They had been only a short time |
married. The shooting was of q woman. and by "A |
woman. A Mrs Mann, living on shelby street |
shot her next door neighlor, Mrs. King. The
wound Is ia the neck and is not considered danger
Gus
FIRST FRUITS OF TIE DUDLEY ORsERvAToRY-Th. |
Editor Of The Astronomical Journal announces the
discovery Of a new comet, by Dir. c. H. 4. Pesers
at the Dudley observatory, in Albany at midniebt
of the 2027th of July. At that time its right as
ccnsion three hours and forty five minutes and
it's drcnaton SO degrees north 1t IL quite faint |
AMI ltS motion Is INCREASING tho rGnt ascension by
apnut twenty minutes, and diminishing the decIi- |
nation by about one degree daily.
Mr. Richelherg gave his one thonsandth concert |
in the lager beor saloon of Mr.. Warner in Beriu !
recently. The proceeds of those one thousand CON
ccrts, Amounted 10 the pretty sum of forty seven |
thousand Prussan tha!ers twenty seven thousand |
dollars) As the admission was only two cents
these concerts therefore, must have been visited y
one million two hundred thousand persons II Wa |
calculate that each person drank at least two mug,
OF beer nearly ten thousand barrels of beer were
consumed.