National Republican., 1874-07-13
4 PENKNIFE ALTERCATTON
TWO NICE YOUNG MEN FIGHT FOR 4

TWO NICE YOUNG MEN FIGHT FOR A
GIRL IN HER OWN PARLOR.
They wanted their names suppressed. We
don't blame them. Any one would want his
or her name suppressed who stood well in
society, but had engaged in disgraceful pro-
ceedings. Don't, for the sake of a broken
heart, use any names in connection with this
affair in your paper, will you! ! pray you
don't, for love nor money" This is what she
seized US frantically by the arm for, while great
tears stole down her pleasant face and her
frame was agitated with sorrow. Of course
we won't. Who wouldl Echo answers, ''No
one but q cast-irOn-hcarted old reprobate, who
has never known the happiness of having
large family" Echo is very correct and we
indorse its sentiments. Nevertheless, the story
should be told, in order to deter others who
may be tempted to stray into the same broad
path of destruction, and thereby get Mansard
roof and several bow windows put on his head
for mere trife. 1t don't pay, and anything
that won't pay isn't worth doing. 1t appears
that Charley s., who, by the way, is nice
looking gent, with an exquisite auburn mus
tache, was quietly reclining on sofa in Mary
B. s front parloT when it occurred. Just what
he was doing was not developed at the trial,
but it was definitely ascertained that he was
lying there with apparent ease and comfort
WOS0 JOluul VI. GuLGTeu. MARY D. Is bOlUll
girl; that is, she has resided with him and he
with her for the past few years. Johnny did
not come in like msu very much exhausted
from the heat or hard days work. He did not
scrRpe and bow and wait for the formalities of
an introduction to Charley. He merely uttered
q shrill whoop, and dashed, with an open pen
knife in hand, TO where Charles was reposing,
and without further warning stabbed him in
the face near the left eye, making serious
and painful wound.
Charley isn't the kind of man that Will sit
around and be cut to pieces without saying
something about 1t. Not much, if you please.
He got up and got quickly. He arose in all
the majesty Of his smallness and let loose his
right arm with vigor. It closed the eye Of
John NJ. in the solitude Of q bruised and
blackened darkness, and filed the apartment
with mournful walls OF fear and terror which
issued from the female inmates. And still he
felt encouraged TO prosecute his claim against
the man who had basely attempted to ruin his
eyesight with pen-knife, and before John had
the opportunity of requesting him to help him
up from where he had fallen, Charley settled
down on his knees first and commenced to
build . bridge over his nose, and construct forts
and baTricades, and all such military necessi-
ties, around on the prominent portions of his
countenance, and it wasn't until Mary had
gathered up Charley's back hair, and dragged
him to the other side of the parlor that the
work of construction ceased.
John looked very much damaged on SatuT-
day when he appeared at the Police Court.
His face did not look fl to be out. Everything
about bin had the appearance Of being unwell,
and at the close of the trial the court
announced that it would be compelled TO SEND
him before the grand jury for examination.
Mary, true in the hour OF his misfortune, gently
folded his paper collar in her arms and i'm
planted a sympathetic kiss on the only spot on
his face which was free from the landmarks of
the fight. The court smiled and proceeded to
other business