Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-03-11

elegier previously. At length the police
got hold of him on account Of a pamph-
let he had published. Condemned to
months imprisonment, he was so rough
ly treated that he became violent; he
was then thrown down, put in straight
] jacket, and tied by the neck and feet
like madman, or wild animal as he
was.
LITERARY DUELLIsTs.
There have been literary as we'll as
military bullies. Martainville used to
abrogate to himself the right of insulting
people in his journal, and then of killing
them if they ventured to complain. This
} gave, however, chance to the complain
ant, and was, therefore, perhaps. prefer
able to the system pursued by certain
hebdomadals in our own times of doing
an author an injury, and if he complains
reserving to themselves the right Of ad-
ding insult to it. Benjamin Constant,
: who like M de Montlosier, used to dis
cuss the right of the conquering and the
! conquered with sword as we'll as pen in
/ hand, was called out by jealous royal
, ist, Forbin des Issarts, at time when
he was so unwell that it was agreed to
/ fight with pistols seated in arm-chairs.-
The two deputies aimed so dexterously
that they did not even hit the chairs.
: General Gourgaud called out Count
Phillip of Segur for certain passages in
+ the latters well-known History Of the
3 Campaign Of Russia" but nothing came
E of it. The ex-aide-de-camp and author
: were not animated with the same demon
ical fury that induced two officers, after
t wounding one another in single combat,
to lie down and finish the affair on a
mattrass. M. Beaupoil de Sainte Au-
laire had to fight two duels, for squib
t entitled "Oraison Fu,,ebre du Due de
5 Feltre." He got safe through the first,
which was with the son of the deceased,
but was killed in the second by cousin
/ M. de Pierrebourgh. No sympathy
n was expressed at his fate by his literary
e contemporaries, for he was sent ont OF
the world with all the requisite formali-
ties.
q LEGAL DECISION.
# The Court of Appeals decided in four
u cases of homicide by duel-in one Of
which, that of Roqueplane and Durre,
If the first had fred in the air, the second
insisted he should fire at him, which he
did, and missed him, whereupon Durre
shot his antagonist dead-that in all
d duels there isprevious agreement, com
# mon intention, reciprocity and simulta.
o neity of attack and defence, and such a
It combat, when it takes place with equal
d chances on one side as the other, without
y disloyalty or perfdy, does not come
E within the cases provided for by the law
But in the case of Triens, who had killed
his antagonist at six PAGES he was con
II demned, as having been the provoker
). and having fred the first, and that at 8
distance at which he was sure of hitting
In another instance, a verdict was giver
:. because one Of the parties had aimed too
4 long time. AS to Durre, he was alse
punished for having killed his antagonis
| at time when he no longer ran any
l. danger.
e WITTY REToRT.
l. A distinguished and well-known no
It tary of Paris, while breakfasting at tn
'e Cafe de Foy, indulged in some loud an
t. imadversions upon Marshal Marmot'
d conduct at Essonne.
"Sir, you shall give me satisfaction,
said, suddenly another consomnaateu
s. present, and who hastily approached tn,
IS table with his mustache erect with an
y ger.
' "Are you Marshal Marmont ?" quiet
is ly inquired the notary.
a al have not that honor but an
d his aide-de-camp."
il "Give me your card, then, sir j; vii
h send you my head clerk"
O Jules Janin declares that nothing sue
ceeded in life with M. Mira after he ha,
IS slain-albeit with all the formalities
S. the young poet Dovalle in a duel
It He lost his situation, lost his fortune
d and dragged an amiable young woman
,e with him down into the dregs of power
al ty and obscurity. Jules Janin also re
al lates a story of young man of tn
at name of Signol, who began his literar,
a. career by successful piece at the Port
d st. Martin. Unfortunately he had
le bad temper. Being at the Italian ope
er era, he took seat vacated between acts
k but which was shortly afterward claime'
ce by young man who happened to b
70 the officer on duty that night, and VIII
70 asked for his seat with perfect polite
of ness. Signol, however, not only refuses
N to give up the seat, but struck the off