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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-08
UPPER COAST,
WHITE STAR LINE.
1870 Fau & Winter Arrangement 1850

1870 Eau & Winter Arrangement 1850
TRI, WEEKLY UPPER COAnT PACKETS TO
BAYOU G0ULA AND BEN TUREAU ..
i. III - THE FINE AND FAST PAsBEN-
A. Oomst1Gk J master Goo. NJ; Woods clerk;
Leaves EVERY nh MnTbAi :, and WERNEsDAY
Gonla. returning down tho const on alternate
days
The fine steamer rr,,p
'? n7FhY TUESDAY THT 1SsfS Y's ard
SATURDAY ut II y. m for Bon Tureaud. max
ing all landiugs in daylight.
s. HENO, 30 CONT street.
Bienyle street to receive freight for either Of
the above boats. oc26 If
NEW oRLE.Sss i hNp Won bonnet oARRE
go qngRCH DAILY PACKET,
IT. Toh BoNNhT G Cli Il - CHURCH.
- Habnyie. Kennsryille and all inter
mo sl'e-wh ciT Ras OF ar s:in%s.
VII E RsSS %sss For Af1 rss9st ssss
No. II Delta street up stairs.
A clerk will be found during the day at the
bend of Cont street receiving freight. oc22 tx
NEW ORLEANS AND UPPER COAST TRI-
leaves EVERY wE MoNbA gAQ WEbhiEspAY and
FRIDAY. at II am.
H~% H. FOR LONG VIEW REACH AS
Es1as8 far as Welham's St. James. New Va
VIZ cherie Road. Bonnet Carre. Hahn
Vile. Kennerville and ell way landings-The
steamer
CLARA s.,
VIM. Wepzel master W. J. Comeaux clerk.
nf or n fhE1n 1nG
Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday in daylight.
For freight or passage Apply on board or to
w. J. CO1EAUX, 30 Cont street
A CLERK always on the levee to receive freight.
foot of Cont atraet oc24 If
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-08
MORHAN'B LOUISIANA AND TEXAS RAIL
ROAD AND RTNAMRHIP co


rough rioe Hirsoh Adler &co-,io do SCOTLAND
sundriea to order-Tota | bale cotton sacks seed
cotton ~ hhds sugar 90 hbs moiasses l66 sacks of
rough rice
From 1ndianela-Per steamship Hutchnspn-1
bbls pc aus ,Ino King dco-,7 pkgs do SO bales OF
cotton II Dapnee &ee--41 do u bales Wfo 3e6 aaekH
wool 81 bales skins $3.50 in specie A Whitney &oo
Total lc6 bales cotton
From Cnton-Per steamship Hutthinstn-46l
bales oott on q A Whitney 2s do .po L kstdie
6oo-20 do kirkpatrick &oo-3 II Damned &co-ta
head cattle l. Brandt-sundrles TO order-Total 512
bales cotton
From Galyestnn-Fsr steamship Hutchinson
2qH bbs oil A A Maginns Sons-sundries 10 urder
Train No "a bbls syrup Robert Hare-5 hbls
lasses 4 hhda sugar Beer-lp do Richard Miliiken
10 do ~ bbs mois 2u berhies & Behan-G do TO
keitier e. G. ardner--s M Wsls,--a 2 Eevin-2a
do j bbds sugar Lattte. Dufitho &eo16 do htas of
molasaes John Cader-t0 do / hind sugar Clapp Bros
Geo. do Ja bhs molasses Bush Il Levert-ai hhia
sugar Seannell q Lafsye-t hbls molaasaa CnHger IL
Kally-s5 bales cotton A Tertsou-2 do Hirseh, Ad.
Ter &oo-2 Clapp Bros Goo to jno Chaffe L. aons-a
Lehman Abraham &eo-l Berkson Bros-92 q w
Sentel &co- Dbl hides Is bds green hides pkg of
eggs Beer22 do 10 sacks rough rice to Rykoski d
| Manade q dry hides pigs eggs Laoassagns-7 TO
l. Terrebonne-a do bales moss + Sevin-s pigs
moss Ritoet-4 pkgs eggs .asse-3 do Isabn-
L. Sutle &co-6 bales moss 0dell-2 do Lacaste Il
Uhassaignsc-54 head cattle Ayoonk Mitchell asnp-
50 do Baudier -sundres to order-Totst o. bales
cotton 81 hhls suEar LAG bbls molaases G sacks III
rough rice
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-08
CHICAGO. RT. LOUIS AND NEW ORLEANS
RAILROAD


November 7-'o2 car loads. aa fcllowe-ia2 bales
cotton % Riohar dsou May-l7l 40 ~ order t6a ID
| Rinsham n Moore--iss Meyer, VETS &co--isa Val.
| dem Haw ains II Isobsrts-ai Allen West Il Hnah-
| NJ j i Harris &ca-T5 Hyman A. Lichenatain- Ga 4,
| Il 7. Arey Aoo--R3 Jno Il Harie Aoo-H Lehman.
| Abraham &oo-hs tn Gleason, Day 4 Frondtit ID To
w Ii Thompson &cG--62 TO kefar n Gardner 81 to
Stewart Bros &co--a4 X Nj WRmaley &oo44 Muir,
| Duckwo,th &ro--tl Allen Nugent 5000 Ghaie,
| Kennedy &oc I'D y Humhel--ll Kirkpatrick Aeo-2a
Moore & Coleman 5 q II Newman Gco-2t u arfen
| Y Atknssn--ta Beadles. Wood &no-ls q Thomas
| Aro-lHJ Il Fsrsuson &ao--l5 Rrittcu Il Mayaun
Jno ChatIe X Sona--f2 IA N a Newman II March a.
| Schlenher-1t g w sentell Aco1o II Allison 500
q Gotjin &oo-5 Inrey n GilliH--5 to ~ Garver-4
| \ n II Wilson Coos DIR j 4 Knapp Hon Hersen
| a SoE-2 Vale 4 Bowling PIE j hart &ro--i fapp
| Hroa &ao-lH6 phgs beer MefE Panlff casas "
| matches wizard &Cr-~a2 40 Burke 4 Thompson iu
| Queyroute " Bois-Nt NJ Mciraw-h0 to Schmidt u
| Iieger-a J Nelson &co-2h Rauyet ~ To Hart
well Il Chamhers-Io w II Merkel-36 to John ] Alt
| aus &on-46 bbls potatoes ChAa PIaassnts-s5 caaes
| shoes Vincent &co-p do II Ros nbetg-6 i Marti-
nez-l3o pkga beer to- 1ieger2n crates cabbage tn
| j Hertucc &co-2o do 8 II AMIGO &oo-Jn u nohertv
20 do laa bbls potatoes 5s bbls turnips g W nayi.
son &oo-l4o b6ls potatoes Do,erty--i7a do $50
bbls apples Joseph Keller oar cattle j Warnett-
| do r Nj Fantt-4 A yoock. Mitchell aCo-T head of
cattle J Lsgrcue-l cabbage A Il Dazet-a
cars cotton aeed to N o Cotton Seed Assoeiation-1
Of hoop poles Flash. Preston &c024 bhIs apples
| u Cefaln 4 son-2&0 hbls lime g Clark-3 empty
beer kegs IL Kedwitz-1 oar poultry coop poultry to
| Miller d Meyer hf Dbl moasses NJ Waln,ssv Il
oo-t1 eacks rice j K Kent &eo-4 rolls leather Win
teller & I,cks-a boxes cheese sohwabaoher d Hilsoh
is plles ros to G Ii Stewart pkgs anndries 10
Leohte& Cordes-25 sacks rough rice Meysrs-aon
| oases canned goods J Armsby &oo-2 boxes hats
| Che ynaydre-f2 bhla potatoes Grave Il Wildermann
II pkgs mdse Il Vinet-$s hbls potatoes bhs beans
, bb,s apples nj Stitch & Son-l0n bblofour Glover
d Odendahl-i car hay Geo I1eek-as pkes meat to
Miller Griesby &oo-40 do Prevented Il ffeifer-t
bdls hoop iron Baldwin &co-l5o hbls potatoes TO
| NJ Stitch & Sou-,undres to order-Total 2055 bales
cotton
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-08
EgDOrte.

VERA CRUZ VIA BAGDAD. TAMP1CO AND
TUXPAN-Per steamship City OF MeSieo-For
Vera frns 5ta bales cotton III bbs beer r boxes OF
beer 100 hos rai.ins 40 tierces lard terces hams
t4a pkgs sundries 40 bdls shocks. For Ismpco, 81
bbs POTATOES kbls apples bales leaf tobacco For
Tuypan, Is bbla apples terces hams ~ pkga mdse
KEY WEST VIA CEDAR KEYS-Per steamship
Lucy 7 MilIer-For Key West 100 bbls -four bbis
whisay $50 bbs soap stock 300 sacks -four 300 sacks
bran GIG sacks oas 600 sseka corn l20 terces hams
$50 pkgs sundries. For Cedar Keys 1856 bbls flour
100 sacks corn 10 sacks coffee 20 sacks salt 25 sacks
oats 9n0 pkgs anndfes
FALMOUTH Per bark Regina s25 sacks oil
cake o pos slaves
IuXPAN-Per schr ,JnantR Julia 30 sacks corn
1907 rrs pine lumber 40 ,als shingles IS boxes yer
mice ia pk "a mnse
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-08
Merneran da.
AMERICAN PORTS

Memoranda.
AMERICAN PORTS.
New York Nov 3--sailed for New Orleans
steamship Cbalmstte Read.
New York Nov 3-Loa ling for New Orleans. brig
S i Smith, Trim.
FOREIGN PORTS.
by Gable to the N. Y. Herald.
Liverpool Nov Failed for New Orleans Brit
steamship Montreal. Theatre
Oporto, Got 27-SaiIed for New Orleans Ital batk
Noe, Capco.
Rotterdam. Oct we'd from New Orleans, Hr
steamship + w Harris Shedrake
Greenock yet al-Sailed for Pensacola, Rus ship
Arvio, JosteIlund.
by MALL
Matan5aa, Oct 29-Saed for New Orleans. Sp bark
Futphet, Farea
G,eenoek, OCT - Sailed for New Orleans. steam
ali II Drnim,ntf
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-08

,dfss FOR BRAZOS SANTIAGO VIA Gal
- y kksasssaes veston-The Iron steamer
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-19
The National Issues Clearly Defined.

The State elections in Ohio and New
York naturally turn on National issues
this year, because it is agreed that the
result of those elections will exert an
important influence over the Presiden-
tiaf nominations and contest next year.
1t is fortunate, therefore, that the New
York Republican platform defines the
National issues of the day with such
admirable clearness and accuracy. The
preamble sets forth in single sentence
the radical points of difference between
the Republican and Democratic parties.
The Republicans of New York pledge
themselves to "National supremacy,
equal rights, free elections, and honest
money" That brief statement COM
prehends the entire political cOntro-
versy of to-day. 1t is not generaliza-
ton for party buncombe, but declara-
ton of principles that are explicitly
denied by the Democratic party. The
success of the Republican party next
year will signalize the vindication of
these principles, while the success OF
the Democratic party would inaugurate
persistent effort to establish State
supremacy, unequal rights, fraudulent
elections and dishonest money. The
formal declarations of the Democratic
party and the utterances of its chosen
leaders warrant the statement that the
Democrats are seeking the very oppo-
site of the declared purposes OF the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-19

rous southrons! ah, gallant knights of
revolver and buck-shot! what a glorious
war was this! A hundred to one, and
that one poor girl with blood-stream-
ing face, shattered arm, and pleading
for help for a dying father. What a
manly hand was that which pulled the
trigger upon this bleeding, shattered,
unprotected grill
The sickening drama is about ended.
Johnnie weltering in his death blood in
the Jail above. The mother aided by
another son, and the poor daughter
carrying home the riddled but not yet
dead father. A little later and the
spirit of the son is joined by those of
father and sister, and then the curtain
falls. And this is what there is of the
Chisholm tragedy as related by the wife
and mother before the jury that is try
ing the man whose shotgun was fore
most in this assassin work. Will he
be found guilty, and if so, choked to
the dogs death which Rnch gnilt has n
thousand times earnedP tits doubtful
We know how hard it is to hang a
murderer even here in Chicago; and we
can imagine how much more difficult
the task in a community where such a
horror as the Chisholm slaughter could
occur Chicago Times (Dem.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-19

in attendance. A resolution was adopted de-
mandlng free transportation through the
mails of all books and papers irrespective of
the religious, irreligious, political and scien-
tihc views they may contain, The President
OF the. League was authorized to call a Ma
tional convention at his discretion to nomi-
nate candidates for President and Vice. Presl-
dent In 1880.
Preparations are being made at San Fran
cisco for the reception Of General Grant on
his arrival in that city on the steamer City of
Toxic, about the 25th inst.
The Grand Lodge L. o, o. f. began its fifty
fifth annual session at Baltimore on the 18th.
Representatives were present from all the
States and Territories and provincial iurisdlc-
ton. The report of the Grand Sire gives the
condition of the order at the present time as
follows: Number of Grand Lodges, so; sub
ordinate lodges, 6,975; Grand Encampments
and subordinate encampments, 1868; lodge
limitations, 33,S50; lodge members, Az, ,291
encampment members, S2,40S; total relief,
81, ,740 405; total revenue, $4 2G6 9s6 decrease,
S156O65.
The Corbin Hotel, occupied by Henry Cor
bin, at Westerville, Ohio, was blown up on the
night of the 14th by gunpowder, and although
the building was occupied bya number of peo-
pie no one but Corbin was hurt, and he not
fatally. 1t is not known who placed the pow
der In the building, but COrbin asserts that it
was done by some of the villagers and is the
outcome of his refusal to cease selling liquor
in the village. Four years ago a building he
occupied as a saloon was demolished by gun
powder and be left the town, only returning a
short time ago. The damage to the hotel and
numerous adjoining buildings will be about
$1,000.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-19

painstaking examination of the records,
tells the whole disgraceful story. We
believe the true inwardness of this
shameful showing to be that the South
steadily broods over the idea that in
losing its slaves it lost large proper
ton of the property on the strength OF
which it obtained the since repudiated
loans. Reputation thus assumes, to
the Southern mind, the form of a
righteous indemnity, only partial, but
good as far as it goes, for the losses
wickedly inflicted by the North. AS q
matter of National honor, apart from
the greater question of human rights,
how does the country view the possi-
bility of full Bourbon restoration next
year, with Democratic President at
the White House, and Democratic
majority in both branches of Congress,
dominated by the Repudiating SouthP
AS business stroke, to put it on no
higher ground, will it payP-BoSton
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-19
Too Clever to Live.

John Barretier is declared to have
been master of five languages when he
was only nine years of age. In his
eleventh year he published learned
letter in Latin, and translated the
"Travels of Rabbi Benjamin" from
the Hebrew into the French. Four
years later the fame of his learning
and writings attracted the notice of the
King of Prussia, who sent for him to
court. When passing through Halle
on his journey, he so distinguished him
self in his conversation with the pro-
fessors of the university that they of
fered him the degree of doctor in phi
losophy. The whole university was de-
lighted and amazed with his wit and
knowledge, and on his arrival at Berlin
the King honored him with peculiar
marks of distinction, declaring that
such abilities properly cultivated might
exalt Barretier in ten years to be the
greatest Minister of State in Europe.
But the young philosopher was not daz-
zled by such prospects, and returned to
Halle to pursue his studies. His health
unfortunately gave way in his nine
teenth year, and after lingering for
eighteen months he died; another IL
lustration of the expression, " too cley-
or to live. ~ Chambers Journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-19
YELLOW FEWER ITEMS.

There were ten deaths and twenty new cases
at Memphis on the 9th. The ex-Fedcral sol
diers, by Capt. H. f. Hill, chairman Of their
relief society, appeal to all Federal soldiers
for aid, as the Howards nor the City Govern
ment provides for them. They need money,
provisions and blankets.
There were sixteen new cases and nine
deaths at Memphis on the 10th.
The appeal to the ex-Federal soldiers for
aid, sent from Memphis on the 9th, signed by
H. A. Hill, as chairman of the Relief Associa-
tion, and stating that neither the Howard AS
ISOLATION nor the City Government provides
for them is denounced as utterly false by Gen.
W. j. Smith, prominent ex-Federal officer
and acting president of the Howard Associa-
tion, and N. L. Porter, chairman of the Com
mittee of Safety. There is not now nor has
there been at any time any distinction made
in the dispensation of charity. There were
seven deaths and fifteen new cases on the 18th.
Five new cases of fever we're reported at
Morgan City, La, on the 18th.
Jay Gould sent an additional IS 900 to the
Howards at Memphis on the 12th. There were
twelve deaths and twenty-one new cases.
The total number of cases reported at Mem
phis up to the 14th was 1877.
Greenvine, Miss. specials, on the 18th, re-
ported the prevalence of malignant fever at
Concordia. Several deaths had occurred.
There were nineteen new cases and eight
deaths at Memphis on the 18th.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-19
Will Democratic AsOendsnoy Pay2

The frequency with which the an
nouncement is made that one or other
of the Southern States is about to hold
a Constitutional Convention" for the
purpose of scaling down its debt, has
famiharized us with the general fact
that repudiation, more or less open or
concealed, is a settled financial policy
with the people of that section. Few
Northern readers, however, could form
ANYTHING like correct estimate of the
extent TO which the public creditors of
Southern States arranged" and "com-
promised" The New York Tribune, in
an exhaustive article, prepared evil
IDENTIFY with great care and upon a
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-19

ernment, as the party-platform taught
it, they says that the States is not a
Democratic paper!
Othe inconsisteney--the naked, nasty
neutrality-suspicious. cringing craven
hearts!
But, high Heaven be praised! the
heart and soul of the old Democratic
party are still clean and white;
Its masses will keep step with shoul-
der-touch to the trumpet-blast and
drum-beat of the Fathers;
And they will restore the Republic to
its ante-bellum status at whatever cost
and hazardl-OhaIo1a MISS. Southern
States (Dent.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-19

provides for the evacuation OF Kuldia by the
Russians by instalments during tlree years,
aud the payment by the Chinese OF 100000
roubles.
General Noyes, American Minister at Paris,
gave grand diuner party, on the 18th, In
honor Of Hon. Fernando Wood.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK
WASHINGTON.

Secretary Sherman denies the report that
he had directed that the silver dollars should
not be received by the Treasury in certain
cases. The law makes the silver dollar a legal
tender for all purposes, and It has always
6een received by the Treasury on payment Of
demands of every kind, and as fully and free
ly as gold coin.
The trust and diminished reserve lands OF
Kansas are now offered for sale to actual set
tiers.
The aggregate internal revenue receipts from
all sources, up TO and including the 18th,
show an increase of S72,OOO over the CORE
spending period of last year.
Mr. Burchard Director of the Mint, has is.
sued circular with view to preparing statis-
tics relative to the production and consump-
tion OF gold and silver asking those employed
in arts and manufactures to furnish state
lnents showing their yearly or monthly aver
age consumption of United States coin, ma
tive bullion and of metals obtained from old
manufactured articles. The fullest specific
Information on these points is regarded Of
vast Importance in its bearing upon the eco
nomic history Of the metallic currency of the
country.
The printed report OF the Commissioner of
Education for 1873 shows the school popula-
tion for thirty-eight States and nine ierrito-
ries to be IA, 727, ,74S. The total expenditures
Tor school purposes was $50, ,233,4 ,45S There
are l52 Normal schools in the United States,
with l,lS0 instructors and 81 ,OS2 pupils. Ohio
reports the greatest number OF Normal schools.
Up to the 10Th $4,000, 900 had been paid out
10y the Government under the arrears OF
pension act. Nine million dollars to the ac-
count OF this fund still remained in the Treas
ury, but 1t is thought that by November it
will all be distributed
a Washington dispatch says the silver GER
tihcate bids fair to take the place of the stand
ard dollar to great extent. In paying out
ten per cent. OF checks in silver dollars the
Treasurer is generally aske' for certificates in
their stead. This is especially the case with
banks. The banks then pay them out over
their counters the same as greenbacks.
September returns to the Department Of
Agriculture show the average condition Of
corn to be 9j against 90 in August
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-19

THERE is scarcely any trouble with
out a woman being at the bottom OF 1t,
so when you pass house and hear
youngster yelling like blue blazes, you
can make up your mind that the fore
going fact accounts for the noise
WbitshaH Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-19

WEST AND SOUTH.
President Hayes left Washington for Ere
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-15
charged with various robberies committed

charged with various robberies committed
in the vicinity of Eaton, Ohio, were arrested
near Terre Haute, Ind, on the 9TH inst
after both had been shot by officers. while
running. Riley has two balls in the arm
and Harrison was shot in the back. The
latter will probably die.
At Vaughan's Station, Miss. on the 7th
inst, Jas. w. Rykelt shot and killed 3. G.
Bell, prominent citizen.
Frenk Semmerman gave a colored man.
named Henry Walker, his quietus, with a
butcher knife, at Memphis, Tenn, on the
9TH.
Edward parr, aged 60, fatally stabbed his
daughter, Susan Irving, aged 30, at Phi!a.
delphia, on the 9Th inst. The murder grew
out of an old feud.
A letter received at Boston on the 9th
inst, says: "While the bark Chelmsford
was lying at Hiogo, Japan, Chinese hand
killed the cook and a seaman and then
jumped overheard"
At New Preston Hill, Conn.,, on the 5th
inst, Albert Cogswell, while drunk, killed
his wife and himself.
Lewis Coons, of Toghkanic, N. Y, in Aft
of jealousy cut his wife's throat and then
his own, on the 5.h inst. The woman is
dead. Coons will live. Both we're young
| and recently married.
As the congregation was leaving the
Methodist church at Galveston, Texas, on
the 4th inst, Colonel Jared E. Kirby shot
dead John Steele who, in quarrel fourteen
years ago killed Kirby's father.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-15
A Haunted Society.

Where a Yankee would suspect a
practical joke, Welshman stands in
awe of the supernatural. In Swansea
Valley there is friendly society among
whose rules is one that the funeral al
lowance on account of deceased men,
Der shall not be paid in cases of suicide.
One of the members recently died by
his own hand, and the club accordingly
refused to pay the death money. The
members are now complaining that they
are subjected to serious persecution from
a ghostly agent. The manifestations
began on a recent Sunday, when one of
the officers, returning home over a lonely
road, was assailed by the spirit of the
late member, who failing to obtain a
satisfactory reply to his demand for the
money, actually tore his clothes to rib
bons." On the following Tuesday even
ing, while the members were assembled
in the lodge-room, the usual knocks were
heard at the door as Of brother seeking
admittance. The door was opened, but
no one was co be seen. The members,
however, are all very certain that they
heard the voice OF The deceased utter the
words: "Pay my widow my funeral
money, and then I shall be at rest"
The meeting was broken up, the brothers
being unable to determine how they
should subject the deceased member to
discipline.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-15
Some Curious Duels.

After the decline of chivalry, when
duels were no longer fought in the lists,
or in the presence of the Judges
Of the field, but in lonely and
sequestered places, inequality Of arms
were not regarded, however great might
be the superiority of one side.
"Thou hast both a sword and dag
ger" said Quelus to Antragues, as they
we're about to fight, "and 1 have only a
sword"
"The more thy folly" was the an
swer, "to leave thy dagger at home; we
came here to fight, not to adjust weap
ons."
The duel accordingly went forward,
and Quelus was slain; his left hand lin
which he should have had his dagger)
being shockingly cut in attempting to
parry his antagonists blows with that
weapon. The challenged person having
a right to choose his weapons, often en-
deavored to devise such as would give
him a decidedly unfair advantage.
Brantome records with applause the in
genuity of little man, who, being chal-
lenged by a tall Gascon, made choice of
a gorget, so constructed that his gigantic
adversary could not stoop his neck 80 as
to aim his blows right. Another had
two swords forged Of temper SO ex-
tremely brittle that unless used with
particular caution, and in a manner he
daily exercised himself, the blade must
fly in pieces. Both these
ingenious persons killed their men with
very little risk or trouble, and with no
less applause, it would seem, than if they
had fought without any rule; such was
the degenerate spirit of the times.