Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-04
A TERRIBLE DUEL.

A few years since, as a New England gentleman,
whose name we shall call Brown, was passing a
few days at a hotel. in one of our Western cities,
he had the misfortune unintentionally to offend
the susceptible honor of a tall militia colonel, who
was one of his fellow borders. His apologies
not being satisfactory, a challenge was sent to
him, which. however, he declined, upon conscien.
tiuus scrul le The colonel, who by the way, had
won in two or three encounters, quite q reputation
as a duelist, at once conceived the idea that his OPP
poheht was Il coward, and resolved to disgrace
him in the face Of all the assembled wisdom Of
the house. Accordingly, the next day. at dinner
time, in marched the duelist, armed with a COW
hide. and, advancing to Browns chair, proceeded
to dust his jacket for him in the most approved
style. Brown was nstonished. Luckily, he had
been lieutenant of militia in his native State, and
he knew the Importance of incommoding his
enemy by p diversion. Sn,seizing a gravy tureen,
he tossed the contents into the face of the beliger-
ent colonel, and before he could recover from the
drowning sensation thus Occasioned, he sprang
upon the table and began to shower upon him
with q liberal hand tho contents OF tho dishes
around.
You are an Informal
Coward ? the colonel was about to say, but
at that moment n plate OF greens struck full
upon his mouth, and the word was blockaded, lost
forever!
'IIaY cried the New Ehglander, whose blood
was now IN. fond of greens, are you? Take a
potato. too ? and be hurled a telling volley of
hard potatoes at him. Excellent eggs here. cap
ital with calves head : and crash came q plate
Of soft boiled eggs against the side of his era
mum.
The blows of the cowhide, which had hitherto
descended upon the Yankees head and shoulders,
now began to fall more weakly and wildly, ard it
became evident that the assailant, half stunned,
choked. and partially blinded, was getting the
worst Of it. His courage was oozing out.
Take a t~urkey?' shouted Brown, as a noble
old gobbler descended fairly upon the colonel's
head. and bursting. filled his hair and eyes with
delicious looking stufing; there's the fxinss,"
be continued as the squash and jelly fcllowed
after.
BY this time the colonel was irretrievably defeat
ed and as his merciless opponent seized a huge
plum pudding. steaming hot. and holding il above
beneath it. he quailed in terror. and throwing down
his cowhide, turned about and made a rush for the
door.
Stop for tie pudding, colonel. stop for the pnd-
ding shouted Brown. Pudding, colonel, pud-
; ding screamed all his fellow.boarders, amid con
WILSON'S of laughter. But the colonel was 700 ter
! rifed, and did not cease running until he had
locked himself into his room.
But although the colonel escaped from the pud.
ding, he did not escape from the ridiculo which.
y the affair occasioned. He subsequently challenged
q four persons, against whom his ire was particular
n ly excited. and they all consented to fight, but
availing themselves Of the privilege Of the chal
lenged party, appointed pudding bags for theii
weapons. At length the unhappy duelist, fudinl
a no one was willing to shoot or to be shot at. wa
obliged to quit the State.