The Cecil Whig., 1882-05-20
THE MYS YSrERIOUS EJEL.
Newspaper Men IT Sear,h Of an Interest
ing Item.

The little circle of l+ik:ou scsiu : VII.
,iahhlr III news iict, fer the Guy ,iailirs,
and to whom = murder j. Il godseud and i
daol honanza, wa thrown clear OF it.
equilibrium On Monday evening. by u teie-
gram Ia u.r OF th" uu..:par conveying ihc
startling Intelligence that a pair ut n.oo}-
thirsty New Workers wrrs ruru;IDr f"r This
locality, each intent upon filling ,ha Other
with bullet holes, as Il S:lye for wuuudc,i
honor. The announcement acted like an
eler@ric shock, and IN less than no time the
lirtle circle oi reporters, reinforced by ar
rivals trom other points, We're bnzzirg
around this way and that in search OF more
definite information. All sorts Of rumors
We're soon atloat in regard to the affair. and
speculation of ali kinds INDUCED in as to
who the parties We're, when they would
arrive and where the encounter would take
place.
y litt!c later in the evening it tTanSDired
that the principals i'll the Surr-to-h happen
duel were one j. i. Loubat and IA Mr.. Turn
bull, both members of the Union Club Of
New York, and that the ct&US LeNi was Il
woman. About this time it seemed 10 he 4
settled lact that the meeting would take
place on Gray'S Hill, the -rounI made his
tnrir hy the Belmont III Htywtr, duel fought
there many years ago and that th" time
ha,i been set for sunrise on Tuesday. About
this time numerous notwithstanding young
men, each we'll supplied with pocket tab
lets and lots OF lead pencils appeared to
have urgent calls in the direction of the
turnpike leading to the spot named, and all
night long the brow OF Gray, Hill was
haunted by specter like figures loIg giug here
and there among III. trees, each anxious to
b. in ut the death.
The only irouhle about the matter, and
the one single reason why the duel didn t
come oil, seems To have been the failure of
the principals IL pat ii: an appearance: for,
as it afterwar,i proved. while The reporto-
rial corps was nhvcring in the frosty morn
ing air upon the Gu".iu@ ground, Mr.. Turn
hull was Serenely Surveying matters from
his home in New lori, through the medium
of the New York newspaper, while Mr.
Ioahat was prospecting some where down
i'll Virginia, endelvorins, apparently to put
as ..reaL 4 distance between himself and his
adversary Us possible. Louaat failing 10
find Turnhull in the wildS of Virginia, re-
turned to New York and posts him as a
coward, while Turnhull retnrts hy averring
that he never had the slightest intention of
shooting or being shot by I-onbat, and seems
TO view the whole matter rs 4 nauScOuS
affair. With this ending of the affair, the
poor reporters, minus 4 nights rest, failed
to get an item.
1t now seems that the ducii,tS We're ex-
pected at several other points, and their
arrival anXiously awaited rs il WAS here.
Marysdale, the scene OF the May-Rennctt
war. wanted them. BladenSbHr-h WIS also
named as the ground selected, and crowds
Of reporters and curious people tlnckrd :"
that point. 1t hasn't been explained vet
why Mr.. Louhat went oil to Cedar Point
Virginia, or how he expected to have the
little affair come oil at all in this part of
the world, while his adyerSary-Nr. Turn
hull-remain"d in New York. The E.oubar
party attempted To get off pun at the ex-
penSe OF the other side, by averring thar
Turnbull turned tail: hut :tS the bovine did
not leave his home at all, this would not 90
down. Loubat seems to partake something
of the nature of his leathcr-wing namesake,
by the manner in which he sailed around
the country searching for his opponent every
where, save where he would be likely to find