The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-21
A Fight to the Death.

An "affair of honor is reported to
us from Paris, and its issue has been
that one of the combatants is dead of q
sword thrust through his heart, while
the other lies in a fair way to join his
departed adversary beyond the grave.
The defunct duelist was n NJ. Olivier,
Captain of the Garde Mobile, aged 33,
who was decorated with the military
medal for his ~gallantry on the sanguin-
airy field of Gravelotte. The moribund
man is n NJ. Feuillerade, officer of the
Lancers, seven years younger than his
opponent, but lately his rival, it APP
pears, for the favors of one described
rs ga worthless woman named Adri-
ennc Buisserct, sister of q danseusc at
the Gate Thuater in Paris" These mil
itary gentlemen quarreled, it seems,
over some incident connected with the
dancers sister, and, their wrath or jcal-
ousy being unappcasable, the matter
was referred to- the "arbitrament of
STEEL" in spite Of all that their friends
could do to prevent an encounter. II
was arranged that the belligerent,
should fight with rapiers on the ncutra!
territory of the grand duchy of LuNem-
bourg; the conditions being that the
combat should not he stayed until n
or the other was no longer able to hold
his weapon. Accordingly, on Tuesday
evening, last week, the "inccnscd OPP
posites" took tickets by the night train
for Longwy, and travelled through that
pleasant but memory-haunted country
by Scissors, Rheims and Charleville,
where one would say enough French
blood has been spilled in the last few
years to make what remains too pre-
cious to be poured out in libations to
vice. Every station along the line
might indeed have recalled to these
furious men the duty they owed to
France, and they had Il long journey in
which to bethink themselves, for it is
over two hundred miles to Longwy,
where they descended at precisely seven
minutes past seven in the chill March
morning. There they breakfasted, in
separate hotels, as we are carefully in
formed; but the shadow of impending
death seems to have already darkched
the spirit of the elder officer. "It
would be rather curious" he remarked,
with Il melancholy smile, "ifthis should
turn out to be the funeral repast."
Carriages were presently hired, and
the hostile pair drove. with their Sec
onds and the doctors, to Rodange, a
little village on the Luxembourg soil, OF
most peaceful character, forthc scandal
lized MARIE came forth with all his
gendarmes and vehemently forbade the
contemplated manslarghter, just as
swords were being crossed. The homi.
cidal party submitted with great polite.
ness, it is narrated, to the vigorous OBJ.
j%ections of the f~unctionary, and drove
back to the frontier, where they again
drew their weapons upon q patch OF
grass by the high road. Their first and
second assaults were without any Re.
suit; on the third engagement the blade
VI vi. reulllcIduc piSSCu 'ICHl lni'uSi
the breast of NJ. Olivier, who staggered
for an instant, but, gathering his forces
for q final effort of rage and hatred.
plunged his own point deep into the side
of his adversary, who thcreupon drop
ped his weapon. The seconds closed il
to put an end to the duel, bestowing
their principal attention upon the
younger man, whose linen was crimson
with gore, while M. Ollivier's shirt
front did not show a speck. Suddenly
however, the elder of the two fell to the
earth stone-dead, while the other faint
ed, and the doctors, after examination
pronounced his hurt probably mortal
The dead body was conveyed to the
hospital at Longwy, where it was laiC
out by the Sisters Of Charity, after tn,
fashion of France, with tapers burning
round the stone-white corpse, and thu
crucitix of the King of Peace" PLACED
at its head. Hard by, in another cham
Der of the little Maison Dieu at Longwy,
the wounded man groaned and gaspet
upon his pallet.-London Telegraph.
KEEPING THE HANDS SMOOTH
writer says that glycerine is not uset
in the right way. She asserts that t.
nrrcprve the smOOthneSS and SOftness a