The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-01-06

on account of the bad order in which the
house was kept, and went to board at
the company's boarding house. While
at uahn's there was suspicion that she
was woman. She was detained,
and taken to the First Precinct
Station.house 1T Astoria. She had an
examination before Recorder Parsells.
who decided to discharge her on her
promise to resume her proper attire and
to leave the city. She says she likes the
sea, is never sea sick, and prefers mems
clothing because she can see more and
earn more as man than as woman.
A THRILLING WAR INCIDENT.
Confederate Surgeons Letter to Chicago
Tribune.)
On the 18th day of June, 1863, wit
messed duel between a Captain Jones,
commanding federal scout, and Captain
Fry, commanding rebel scout, in Greene
county, East Tennessee. These two men
had been fighting each other for six
months, with the fortunes Of battle in
favor of one and then the other. Their
commands were camped on either side OF
Lick creek, large and sluggish stream,
too deep to ford and too shallow for
ferry boat; but there bridge spanned
the stream for the convenience of the
travelling public. Each of them guarded
this bridge, that communication
should 60 neither north nor south, as
the railroad track had been broken up
months before. After fighting each 9TH
er for several months, and contesting the
point rs to which should hold the bridge,
they agreed to tigh. duel, the conqueror
to hold the bridge undisputed for the
time being. Jones gave the challenge
and Fry accepted. The terms
were that they should fight
with navy pistols at twenty yards
apart, deliberately walking toward each
other and firing until the last chamber of
their pistols was discharged, unless one
or the other fell before all the other dis
charges were made. They chose their
seconds, and agreed upon a rebel surgeon
las he was the only one in either com.
mandy to attend them in case Of danger.
Jones was certainly fine looking fellow,
with ight hair and blue eyes, 1--WE feet
ten inches in height, looking every inch
the military chieftain. He was man
that soldiers would admire and ladies re-
gard with admiration. I never saw
man more cool, determined and heroic
under such circumstances. have read
of the deeds Of chivalry and knight.er.
rantry in the middle ages, and of brave
men embalmed in poesy; but when saw
this man Jones come to the duelists'
scratch, fighting, not for real or supposed
wrongs to himself, but as he honestly
thought, for his country and the glory OF
the flag, could not help admirine the
man. Notwithstanding he fought for the
freedom Of the negro, which I was opposed
to. Fry was man full six feet high,
slender, with long, wavy, curling hair, Jet
black eyes, wearing SLOUGH hat and
gray suit, and looking rather the demon
than the man. There was nothing fe-
rocious about him; but he had that
self:sufficient nonchalance that
said, II will kill you.'' Without doubt
he was brave, cool and collected, and al
though suffering from terrible flesh
wound III his left arm, received week
before, he manifested no symptoms Of
distress, but seemed ready for the fight.
The ground was stepped off by the sec.
onds, pistols loaded and exchanged,
and the principals brought face to face.
/ shall never forget that1neeting. Jones,
in his military, boyish mood, as they
shook hands, remarked that
A soldier braves death for fancifal wreath,
When in glory's romantic career.
Fry caught up the rest of the sentence
and answered by saying:
Yet he bends DER the Toe when in battle laid
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They turned around and walked back
to the point designated. Jones' second
said: Zone two three--firc !" They
had the word ''Firc,' and he slowly
turned at the word ''One'' and instantly
fred. Neither was hurt. They cooked
their pistols and deliberately walked to.
ward each other, firing as they went. At
the fifth shot Jones threw up his right
hand, and firing his pistol in the air, sank
down. Fry was in the act of firing his
last shot, but, seeing Jones fall, silently
lowered his pistol, dropped it to the
ground. and sprang to Jones side, taking
his head in his lap as he sat down, and
asked him if he was hurt. I discovered
that Jones was shot through the stomach,
the bullet glancing around that region
and coming out to the left of the
spinal column; beside, he had re-
ceived three other frightful flesh
wounds in other portions Of his body. I
dressed his wounds and gave him such
stimulants as had. He afterward got
we'll. Fry received three wounds-one
breaking his left arm, one in the leg and
the other in the right side. After months
Of suffering he got we'll. Neither of them
asked for discharge, but both resumed
their places as soon as they recovered, and
they fought the war out to the bitter end,
and to-day are partners in . wholesale
grocery business down south, doing
good business and verifying the sentiment
Of Byron that "A soldier braves DEATH"
&c.
A young man in Olathc, Kansas, who
is particular about his washing, the other
day wrote note to = washerwoman and
one to his girl, and, by strange fatality.
put the wrong address on each envelope
and sent them of: Tho washerwoman
was we'll pleased 1t an invitation to take
ride next day, but when the young lady
read. If you muss up my shirt bosoms,
and rub tho buttons off my collar any
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