Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-03-11
HUBBELL AS A PUGrLIsT.

HUBBELL AS A PUG1BIsT.
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Our Senator makes an Unsuccessful
Att@9nPt TO thrash q Correspondent
= Gets a Damaging BLOW on tn
SenatQEtG1 smelIer.-The Liberty o
the Press Vindieated.
From a special dispatch to the Commercial
/ COLUMBUS, March This svehint
Senator James r HubbelI- of the Del
aware District, appeared in The 'T0Ze of Z
| hghung character. HIS Setratic coursS
for the past few. months has caused The
various correspondents here to refer It'd
him in no particularly : Complimentary
manner. He has read these articles and
treasured up wrath against the whole
corps OF reporters. After a calm and
lengthy consideration, he came to the
conclusion that Something must be done
After carefully examining the physical
condition of the members Of the corps,
he finally selected Mr.. /, Curtis, cor
respondent Of the. Cmcinnad Chronicle,
as a victim. As Mr., Curtis has been in
poor health all winter, and weighs lust
one-haf what the Senator does, 1t was
thought that 1t would require no. -partic-
ular trouble to castigate him, and SO in
timidate the other correspondents. 7
As Mr.. Curtis was going to supper,
this evening, Hubben stopped him, say
ing that he had a message to deliver
from Senator Lev Campbell. AS he de-
livered this message, he took Mr.. Curtis
by the hand, IN an apparently friendly
manner. The message was that Mr..
Campbell thought if the Chronicle did
not pay Curtis specially for writing his
singular legislative course up, that he
tCurds) was a fool. ii IS -oe.t-,r,e4
Mr.. Curtis answered that he had not
made an attack upon Mr.. Campbell as
an individual, but as a legislator, and
that he had nothing to take back.
HubbeH then said, "You have also
attacked me. and I think, with Mr..
Campbell, that you are a damned fool.
You are a damned ST Of a. b-3iaa
Mr. Curtis thent without 1lHther ado
struck out framsthe shoulder naking1 a
carom on Mr. HubbelI's nose, causing
the claret to flow Plenteously9 .z
Hr. Hubbell struck out wildly, and
succeeded in getting in one blow, on
Curtis head, which did no other dam
age than to break the skin,b AftersOne
further exchanges the fraGas ceased, to
allow the combatants to get wind, and
an adjournment was had for supper, Mr..
Curtis agEeeing, at Hubbell IS Tequest, ito
meet after supper and continue thislelb-
quent discussion LltJ aorrEi IL l.a4
According to agreement the parties
met IN the ratunda of the State-houseg at
8 o clock this eyening9l Mr.. Cunts said
he had come to give Mr. HUbbellI any
he wanted = that thed quar-
rel was not one of his seeking that he
was not fighting character : yet did not
appear as seeking to avoid further en-
that before supper the encoun-
ter was an unequal one that Hubbell
was twice his weight was in splendid
condition, while Curtis was in
poor health, as MIR. Hubbell well knew
at the time he attacked, him that now
be was his equal, and proposed to take
care Of himself, and that if attacked
hereafter by a man twice as large as
himself he would know how to1act.s WI |
F1ubbeH answered that he was not to /
be intiwidated by threats Of personal
and would take care ofhimself |
when necessary, but that he regretted
exceedingly that the affray had taken
place; that he would not have attacked
Curtis if Mr.. Campbell had not called
l1Sl ldIuehLlOn 70 Certain OnenSlVe- teEtefS5
md that he hoped the matter would be
dropped; that he was excited, and as
ne had never done aught to harm Cur
is, he thought it wrong to attacls his
good name.
Mr.. Furay, of the Gazette, now step
oed in as peacemalIer, and said that Mr.. |
1ubbell acted as an honorable man in /
admitting that he was wrong in seeking /
o mend his grievances by a personal /
ncounter that if this plan was TO be
pursued by members who fancied they
lad been Wronged, the correspondents
would stand by one another, and so
make the affair interesting.d -ibisd
After some further quiet talk, Mr.. /
Iubbell again said he was exceedingly |
Orry the affair had occurred. ~ ,5l.IF
Mr.. Curtis again disclaimed any in
ention of attacking Mr. sHubbells as an
but said that at a1 tinaes he
to say what he pleased ata0nt
inn or any one else in their official ca
acify. 10 b9niEqma-1a iaad e1a5 7
6 The parties then Separated, and tie
fair endedaz gB3 ul ar.3 ,9n sEE s'1 /