The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-03
BILLY KIRWAN'S AFFAIR OF
HONOR.

This capital and very M1leS1an story IS
from GA Few More Old Dublin Recol-
lections:
Few affairs of honor have been sur
passed In real Irish fun by the one which
took place in Dublin, in which the cele-
brated fre-eater and champion of the
Dublin corporation, D Esterre, afterward
shot by O'Connell, came out in &C a new
way to pay old debts, and had his over
strained notions of chivalry turned into
successful ridicule by an honest plain
dealing mans motheI-wit and common
sense. D'Esterre used to put his name
to paper without thought of payment.
One day Billy Kirwan, well-known bill
broker, was offered bundle of bills for
discount It was Mr.. Kirwan's boast
that he instinctively knew bad "paper !"
by the feel of it,
''There's bad paper in your lott
can perceive, Sir, without taking the
trouble to look over it se9'i-015-tin1 ct lite
qGI-tjqza, !" remarked Billy, who had been
originally intended by his pious Galway
parents for the church, and had in his
boyhood decent converse with the pre-
hminaries of the classics. F6B1aOn1 hG
bet IN cO771at, he continued, ''as body
might say to spawned horse. You had
better remove it, if you playse, Sir, be-
fore have anything. to say to you, for I
wouldn't touch it with pair of kitchen
tongs, much less dirty my hands with it. /"
!" I am astonished to hear you say SO,
Sir" said the merchant &c and would
you be pleased to mention what it is In
my hand that encounters your objec-
ton 2"
SWhy, certain acceptance signed H.
D'Esterre, and If you must know my
opinion, I would not advance the value
of brass button an all that jackass
could draw on the same security"
"Good Heavens J! and why not9"
'sFor rayson I have; and nobody
knows it better than Mr.. D'Esterre him.
self, /" answered Kirwan.
As Mr.. Kirwan was sitting alone after
dinner the. same evening, enjoying his
pipe and his glass of punch over one of
M'Ghee's late leaders in the Evening
Post, or, just as probable, one of Dan
O'Connell's earlier speeches in favor of
Catholic emancipation, the servant came
in with card from Colonel Henry
"Who's Colonel Henry?I demanded
Kirwan.
''Faith, and it's meself doesn't know
him from the man in the moon.'
s'Rowl in the Colonel and lay another
tumblerr' said the master of the house.
Colonel Henry, a tall and gentlemanly-
looking man of middle age was ushered
In.
s. Mighty glad I am to see you, colonel,
whatever you've come about" said our
host ''but before you begin I would
advise you to mix a tumbler of that ex-
cellent JOHNNY POaVer that's forenent
you. IF you take it. off at once, it will
pull you through the opening part of
your business pleasantly and comfort
ably ; and then you can mix second at
once to prepare you for contingencies. y
Col. Henry having taken Kirwan's adj
vice SO far as mixing, but not suddenly
absorbing, the liquor, opened his bust
ness with all the grandeur of perfect
Sir Lueius, as in days long gone by Jack
johnson used to enact the part, not
Tyrone Power. 30 S.
The Colonel very much regretted that
it fell to his lot to have to deliver hos
tile message toa gentleman of such re-
spectability as Mr.. Kirwan from one
equally respectable and estimable as Mr..
D'Esterre. He repeated the injurious
and insulting expressions which the
gentleman whom he had the homer of adj
dressing had made use of in speaking of
his friend during the day to certain
merchant in the Commercial Buildings,
and which had travelled the round of the
city before night-fall. He pointed out,
moreover, the utter impossibility of Mr..
D'Esterre allowing such AN outrage on
his name and character to be uttered and
sent forth to the world without demand
ing the satisfaction of gentleman.
ssThen, Colonel, honey, come to the
point. and Just tell me what it is that
you want, " demanded Kirwan.
"An apology or the alternative.