Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-06-11
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A TERRIBLE DUEL.

A few years since, as New England gen
tleman whose name we shall call Brown was
passing few days at hotel in one OF our
Western cities, he had the misfortune unin-
tentionally to offend the susceptible honor OF
tall militia colonel, who was one of his fel-
low boarders. His apologies not being sat-
isfactory, challenge was sent to him which,
however, he declined upon conscientious
scruples. The colonel, who, by the way, had
won in two or three encounters quite repu-
tation as a duelist, at once conceived that
his opponent was 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 du-
elist, armed with cowhide, and advancing
to Browns chair proceeded to dust his jack
ct for him in the most approved style
Brown was astonished. Luckily he had
been lieutenant of militia in his native State,
and he knew the Importance of incommodlng
his enemy by diversion. So, siezlng
gravy tureen, he tossed the contents into the
face of the belligerant colonel, and before he
could recover from the drowning sensation
thus occasioned, he spraug upon the table
table and began to shower upon him with
liberal hand the contents of the dishes
round.
"You are an internal"
"Coward !" the colonel was about to say,
but at that moment plate of greens struck
full upon his mouth, and the word was block
aded-lost forever!
"Hap' cried the New Englander, whose
blood was now up, fond Of greens, are you!
take potatoe too?" And he hurled vol
ley of hard potatoes at him. Excellent eggs
here-capital with calf's head, and crash!
came plate of soft boiled eggs against the
side of his Uranium.
The blows of the cowhide which had hith-
erto descended upon the Yankees head and
shoulders, now began to fall more weakly
and wildly, and it became evident that the
assailant, half stunned, choked and partially
blinded was getting the worst of it. His cou-
rage was oozing out.
tsTake turkey?" shouted Brown as
noble old gobler descending fairly upon the
colonel's head, and bursting, filled his hair
and eyes with delicious looking stuffiug,
"here's the 6xins," he continued, as the
squash and jelly followed after.
By this time the colonel was irretrievably
defeated; and as his merciless opponent sell
zed huge plum pudding, steaming hot and
holding it above his head with both hands,
seemed to bury him beneath it, he quailed
in terror, and throwing down his cowhide
turned about and made rush for the door.
s'Stop for the pudding, colonel, stop for
the pudding" shouted Brown. "Pudding
colonel, pudding" screamed all his fellow
boarders, amid convulsions of laughter
But the Colonel was too terrified, and did
not cease running until he had locked him
self up in his room.
But although the colonel escaped from
the pudding, he did not escape from the ridi-
cule which the affair occasioned. He sub
sequently challenged four persons, against
whom his ire was particularly excited, and
they all consented to fight, but aVaillng
themselves of the privilege of the challenged
party, appointed pudding bags for their wea-
pons. At length the unhappy duelist, fin
ding no one who was willing to shoot or be
shot at, was obliged to quit the State.