The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-07-15

| his revolver ana DOWle-knllcL hnu oNoi
afterward depended upon double-bar-
relied shotgun. The only thing that
Julian had done against Harris was to
testify against him in Court, and he
took this way to settle with him Carson
City was crimson place. Murder was
an everyday occurrence, but no one was
ever punished. How could ajury be ex-
pected to convict a murderer when FIVE
sixths of them deserved hanging as
much as the man they were tryingY
Virginia City was blood-thirsty place,
and the first twenty men planted in its
buryil g.ground were murdered. Dueling
here was pastime. The man who
fought duel was more respected than
If he had murdered two men, | have a
tale to tell you about dueling which has
a moral in it. People who pay a dollar
for lecture ticket have right to some
thing with moral in it. For two years
/ was city editor of a newspaper in Vir-
ginia City. was then promoted to be
the editor, lasted week, but made
an uncommon lively sheet Of it while |
lasted brought on quarrel with the
editor of an opposing paper | suppose
called him a thief ora body-snatcher 1t
was customary for the man who offered
the insult to make the challenge. So
challenged the editor whom | had quar-
relied with. / will call him Mr.. Lord.
Nv party were anxious for me to fight
knew Lord wouldn't, so / sent the
challenge Shortly after | received a
note from him, declining to meet me-
This disgusted the boys and exasperated
them, but | was calm. l am always
calm. ! sent another challenge, and an
other and another, Lord began to grow
bolder, and at last accepted, ] was NOR
tilted, but began to practice. went out
to the barn, set up rail against the barn
door, first putting squash on the end Of
| it, This was to represent Mr.. Lord. In
regard to intellect, the chances between
Lord and the squash were in favor of the
latter. began to practice, first at the
rail and then at the squash, and at last set
tied on hitting the barn door, but missed
all three. Mr. friends were with me, but
after had shot away awhile, we heard
Lords party practicing on the other side
of the barn. II looked bad, for if they
should find out what had been doing,
there wasn't any sight for me. But just
at that juncture a small bird flew by, and
my second, who was a Major and was a
beautiful shot, fred at him, cutting away
his head as clean as a knife would have
done, He picked up the bird, and Lords
second came running up to see how the
thing had been done. Says he: That's
fine shot. How far was he when he
fired? About thirty PAGES, the Major
answered. The seconds face was pic
turesque at this. 1t was rich to see him
grow sick-to get blue under the gills.
Does he do that often the fellow nextin-
quired. Well, said my second, about
four times out of five. knew the Major
was lying, but i couldn't interrupt him.
Lords second returned to his gang and
took his man home. On examining it
was found that Lord had hit the mark
fourteen times out of seventeen, and if
he had fired these fourteen shots about
my system my skin would not have held
my principles. Now l think dueling a
bad custom, and want to warn all the
young against it. wouldn't fight duel
now. If man should send me chal-
lenge, would take him by the hand and
lead him to quiet place and kill him.
One of the peculiarities of Nevada is that
there are only few indigenous animals
there ! want to emphasize that word
indigenous. 1t isn't often that you get
lecturer who has such fuency as that.
Well, the only indigenous animals are
rattlesnakes, Indians, and the horned
frog. The horned frog, they say, spits
vitriol at you. 1t doesn't make any
difference whether he has seen you be-
fore or not. They never did so to me,
| wouldn't take that from a frog. You
may think / have exaggerated. differ
from George Washington. He couldn't
tell lie. can, but won't.
After S, eaking OF several other pecu-
liarities oil the country in this same eX-
cessively funny way, half its humor
arising from his manner and attitude on
the platform, he related number of en-
joyable things about the silver mining at
Virginia City His description Of the
famous Comstock lode has all the raci-
ness of the language put into Col, Sellers
mouth as he recounts project after pro-
iect with "millionsin it." He closed the
lecture by relating his experience with
Mexican plug which he bought for his
bucking qualities. l wanted him to ex-
Gel in something, said Twain, but didn't
know what bucking was. After had
bought him, with great difficulty got
him out on the street One man held
his head and another kept him near the
ground by hanging on his tail, while
mounted. As soon as ] was on him he
brought his four feet closely together,
arched his back downward, and then as
quick as a shot reversed the arch, and
sent me flying FIVE hundred yards into
the air. In falling alighted on the sad
die, and the same operation was repeat
ed. This time / fell on his neck, when
he stood up straight as man on his hind
legs. He then reversed his position,
standing on his fore feet. Once more he
threw me into the air, and on coming
down found that be was gone. WANTED
to be left alone. was battered and
bruised into Jelly, AS it always hap
pens when one wants nobody to speak
to him, there are plenty who are anx-
ious to console him, and the crowd
gathered around me and told me that
was bucking, and that any man might
have seen that the animal was genuine
Mexican plug, and would outbuck any
horse in the country, This found COM
f0rting, but that was what had bought
him for, and | had not word to say,
The lecturer warned all his hearers
against making any such purchases as
that, and rendered them his thanks for
the generous response which they had
made to the call for help for the poor in
the city. ia alr|