Daily national Democrat., 1861-06-21
Pistol Shooting---A Counter Challenge
by John PhRnIX.

by) will he readable, even to those VINO nave
read it before, in his published "Ph@nixiana:
SAN DIEGO, Cal Sept /, 1854.
copy the following paragraph from the
Spirit of the Times, for July 18th:
"pIsToL snoorISG-A ,onALLENGE.
Owing to the frequent and urgent solieita-
tious Of many Of uy friends, | am induced TO
make the following propositions:
!. | will fit a dollar to the end OF tWlS
two inches long and while "A second person
will hold the other end in his mouth, so as to
bring the coin within an inch and hall oi
his face, engage to tstike thedoIlar three
times out of five, at the distance OF ten Pnces
or thirty feet. ! will add in cXplanaiion' That
there are several persons willing and ready TO
hold the tWig or stick described above, wheh
required.
| will hit dollar, tossed in the air, or
any other Object of the same size, three tunes
out OF five on wheet and fire.
3. At the word | will split three balls out
lunce of thirty feet.
A. [ will hit three birds out of five, sprung
from the trap, standing thirty feet from the
trap when shooting
s. will break, at the word, five common
thirty feet
6 In engage to prove, by fair trial, that
no pislol-shot can be produced who will shoot
an apple off mans head, at the distance OF
thirty feet, oflener than | can. Moreover, l
will produce two persons willing and ready
to hold the apple on their heads me, wheh
required to do so.
7. will wager, lastly, that no person In
the United States can be produced who Will
hit quarter of dollar at the distance OF
thirty feet, oltener than | can, on a Wheet and
fire.
am willing to bet 5 5000 on any of the
above propositions, one fourth of that amount
forfeit So soon as any bet will be closed the
money shall be deposited in the Bank OF the
State of Missouri, until paid over by the
Judges, or withdrawn, less forfeit. | Will
give the best and most satisfactory references
that my share will be Forthcoming when any
of my propositions are taken uP. Any one
desiring to take up any of my propositions
must address me 10y letter, through the ST.
Louis Post Office as the advertisements or
notices might not meet my eye. Propositions
will be received until the first of september
next EDMUND W. PAUL.
40 Sixth Street between Franklin Avenue
and Morgan Street, st. Louis, Mo-"
am unable to see anything very extraor-
dinary in the above propositions, hy Mr. Ed
mund w. Paul. Any person acquainted with
the merest rudiments of the pistol, could GER
tainlv execute any or all Of the proposed
feats without the slightest difficulty.
"Owing" to my entertaining these opin.
ions "wilhout solicitation from friends, and
unbiased 10y unworthy motives" I am in
duced to make the following propositions:
l. l will suspend t,co dollars 10y ring from
a second persons nose, so as to bring the
coins within three-fourths of an inch from
his face, and with double harrelled shot
gun, at distance of thirty feet, will blow
dollars, nose and man at least thirty feet
further, four time out of five. | will add, in
explanation, tat, San Diego containing
rather intelligent community, | can find, at
present, no one here willing or ready to have
his nose blown in this manner; hut have 20
manner Of doubt | could obtain such per-
son from ST. Louis, by Adams d Co.'S Ex-
press, in due season.
.. will hit IA dollar, or anything else that
has been tossed in the air (of the same size, J
on a wheel, on pole or dreitree, or on the
| ground, every time out of five.
g. At the word, l will place five balls on
the blade of = penknife and split them all
4. | will hit three men out of five, sprung
from obscure pareutage, and stand within ten
feet of steel-traP, (properly seD while shoot
ing
s. / will break at the word, whole box Of
common clay pipes, with single brick, at q
distance of thirty feet.
G. | engage to prove by a fair trial, that
no pistol-shot Tor other person. can be pro-
duced, who will throw more apples at man 5
head than | can Moreover, can prod ce
in this town more than sixty persons willing
and read TO hold an apple on their heads for
me provided they are allowed to eat the ap-
pie subsequently,.
7. viii wager, lastly, that no person in
the United States can be produced, who, with
a double barrelled shotgun. while throwing
a bnck-handed summerset, can hit oftener, Il
dollar and IL half, on the perimeter, of a re-
rolyinq wheel, in rdpid mottoa, than can.
ANY one desiring to take up any of my
propositions will address me through the
columns of The Pioneer Magazine. PROPOSE
tions will be received on the first of April
next JonN PnGNIX,
1884, Seventeenth Street Nallecito.
"Se eomp1a ORC dqui, mp stairs"
P. S. Satisfactory references given and re-
quired. A bet from a steady, indusiliou,
person, who will be apt to pay if he loses
will met with prompt attention. j. Z.
A PAPER states that the congregation of a
church in an interior town of Pennsylvania
were recently edited hy discourse against
! the sinking of oil wells, on the ground that
God intended these oil deposits for some gen
eral conflagration, which was being inter-
f,ro1 with Lv tho wall lnrore