Daily Yellowstone journal., 1884-06-18
John BROWN, OLLIE.
The Passage at Arms Between Risn
and q London Times Reporter.

and q London Times Reporter.
Manchester Times
Donald M'Naughton, formerly q Lon.
don Times correspondent, writes from
Glasgow concerning the lately nab
lished paragraphs purporting to eman.
ate from the reporter Of Glencoe" re.
ferred to by her majesty: 1T is now
eleven years since the thing occurred,
and throughout all that time l never
wrote on the subject nor authorized
any one to do SO. The quarrel was
merely a personal matter between the
late John Brown and myself, no one
being near us the greater part of the
time"
Mr.. MNaughton continues: AT this
time Of day ! presume may be allowed
to tell the story myself. John Brown
was not more civil to us correspondents
than he was to the rest OF her majestys
servants and loyal subjects; il anything,
he was less so, bullying when he got
the chance. Evidently he knew he had
the queen to back him in any case, and
acted accordingly. When ! saw him
on his way up from the royal party,
making toward me, was fully half q
mile off, but ! guessed he was i'll
pleased at some of us, and | waited to
see the fun. l was in no way afraid of
him, though / was alone, and he
double nv weight. for | knew that his
stiff, almost perpendicular climb would
take fighting inclination out OF far
more slnewy man than he. | ne,e'
budged Soon he stood before ne
raging.
You move away out of there WAS
his first salutat:on.
WHO the - are you? | have aS
much right to b. here as YOU have,
said
He stood still for a while, as if re.
solving what to do next, while went
on with my work.
"'Wull you he ceev eneuch to move
out Of there in more pacified tone.
"'Not on your orders; bat II the
queen commands me fly.
Another moments rerection, and he
said: Yes; its ia queens com.
mands.
Il gathered up NY things at once,
aud moved alongside OF the mountain,
John walking close to my right. len.
deavored to open up conversation by
remarking what splendid day to be
outY
"'You had spying glass looking at
the queen, ignoring what l said.
al have, but l know how to use it
better than that
".By the by l said. after walking
about twenty yards without speaking,
you know. suppose. a countryman OF
mine, mentioning the name-'a piper
in the royal Householder
This drew him out He glared at me
for some time and then throwing in all
the dignity and scorn ut his command.
answered:
Me! what do know about pipers'
This riled me up bit, and as the
other correspondents were pouring in
from all quarters, felt stronger, SO !
faced him with:
"Mr. Brown, ! have nothing further
10 say to one of your sort; you can go
now
We both stood still, he ewing me
savagely.
well, am, but Ill fight you
Il have no time to spare Just now for
pleasure, but meet me in Fort William
at q quarter past ) tonight and we'll
see about il. I replied.
"Well, am, but l wull;' and with
that We parted, ! to divulge the great
court secrets to my companions, with
which they suspected John of supply
ing me, and he to Join the royal party.
When We parted il was 5 o'clock. Fort
William was over twenty miles away,
thus only leaving us fifteen minutes TO
do that distance. We're we Glencoe
eagles We could not keep our appoint.
ment, and perhaps neither Of us was
very sorry for it.
John, so eager for the fray, did not
seem to think much about the time till
when half way down something seemed
to strike him about the arrangement.
We saw him stop suddenly, take out
his watch, turn in my direction, and
shake his fist at me threateningly. He
evidently saw the trap he Was led into.
"The next time ! saw him he was too
busy lecturing Dr.. C, Of X, on
board the steamer which took the royal
party to Inverness, to notice me.
I'VE were always about half Q mile
NJ Least ont nj the wav-