Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-06-04
CONSIDERATION,

serves, Dcsluco uu uc9Atss"' aSA bto
yalor, the plaudits Of ~ admii,lng
public.
CONSIDERATION.
That tho nerves and sensibilities of
McCarty should not be disturbed by |
the. presence of yugar policemen
sitting around his bedside, several
youthful members of bis club Ind
themselves sworn IN % special po-
licemen, and they are now going
through the form of keeping watch
and ward over him. Though repre-
sentcd to tho sufreringsgreatly from
his wound, McCarty isahrdly SO sick
as to be inscnsible to friendship SO
disinterested.
THE orHEh sIpE.
| The written law of Virginia makes
the survivor of o duel anurdercrsnd
the seconds accessories before the
fact. An influential aud Intelligent
portion of the people heic are in favor
of carryingsOut the provisions of the
law on the parties if5the offence be
proved, or, in default of its non-exc-
cution in plain cases, or its being
erased from the statute book. Capt.
George d. Wise, commonwealth
attorney, is said to be willing TO do
his duty, leaving OH the jury the
onus of violating the law. There
never was duel in which the evil
dence was clearer and moro direct.
In fact, the weapons with which tho
law was violated are even now re-
posing at the bottom OF Gillie's creek,
where they were hastily thrown just
after the last fire and before the ap-
proach of Major Poe, chief of police.
i okfGIN OF THE AFFAIR.
| AS stated heretofore in the Herald
account, shortly after Feb. 5, when
the verses which were alleged to
refer to q certain belle of this city
appeared in the Enquirer, and were
denounced in the clubhouse by
Mordecai, McCarty, the author, was
not present. Ho did not hear the
bitter words used OH that occasion
: by Mordccai, nor did anybody tel
him. though Pat McCarty, nephew o.
, his, was present. and heard them. Ill
finally heard Sthem through the gos
slipping of his lady friends, they lav
ing heard them from members of TIT
club, of course. These tattlers hat
. already made up their judgment ant
were spreadingit with busy tongues
McCarty failed, they said, TO rcscn
: an imputation OH his honor; he wa
> bitterly denounced and would 10
take it up, SC. AS 4 matter of cours
this avalanche Of social scandal com
on him with the force and suddcnnes
= of tidal wave but he was equal 1
the occasion. A note from him
- Mordccai inquiring the nature of Iii
i language and to whom it was refer
- red, elected from Mordccai the il
=, formation that he meant his remark
for the author of the poetry if the
~ alluded to a certain young lady, an
>, that he would retract none of his d.
nunciations.
y. M'cARrY's sfaGNASIa,ITY.
- McCarty extricated himself fro
. the dilemma of seeming to make
- lady the pivotal point ofa publ
v quarrel by magnanimously disclain
- =, ing to her friends and to Mordec;
~ that the lines in the Enquirer had al
reference whatever to her. Aft
er doing this he was at liberty to ca
"a Mordccal to account for his denunc
# atoms, for which no apology hs
p. been rendered. Mordccai dec!inil
k to make any concession, arrang
rs mcnts were in progress for mcetil
Pm when the police nipped the affair
,o the bud by an arrest. Being di
,s. charged OH the ground Of insut!icicl
w proof, the friends Of the parties /
w. tervcned and after considerable neg
H. tiation truce cartel was drawn I
eI and signed by both. BY its terms,
no brief, neither party was ever again
in recognize or speak 10 each other {
X any pretcnce, at the cIub-room
,st elsewhere. They were TO be to ca
III other as if neither lived. Had I'll
Id agreement been kept there wou
IT. have been no bloody sequel to fot
de ish Wrangle.
I'm THE LAST QUARREL.
ge Thus matters rested until t
IL memorable night of the 5th ins
ed when the fisticuff encounter to-
al. place in the bar of the club-roo
rly Now, i'll justice to the living as W
r.- rs tho dead, it may be remarked IL
ret this very encounter places McCal
tc. in an entirely different light frt
ere that i'll which he has hitherto figur
: a in the public prints. twill be
ion membered that on this occasion,
the Carly was complaining to his friel
mis- Mr.. Charles Hatcher, Of the unki
her way in which his name had b'
of heretofore handled not onlIby
to lauics but by their husbands
ned brothers. He was saying that
MIA would i'll another affair of the k1
wis hold all men who used his name I
his personal accountability, when,