The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-03-06

| Ie6 us carefully ueATs Ills uO
BILE body with all honor to camp. 1t is
the fortune of war, gentlemen, and may
be our turn next" In o short time
afterward de Richelieu went to Paris to
acquaint his inamorata with the intel
| ligence that he had removed one of he,
| troubles from the world forever. But
what~was his astonishment to discover
that the frail and faithless Madame du
Rosiere had fed with an English noble
man to London. Quien Sabe!
Some few years ago Major Ben Pcrley
Poore, then Washington correspondent
ofthe Boston Journal, sent that paper the
following account of midnight duel
upon an island in the Savannah River
Among the many bloody duels on
record as having been fought by Con.
gressmen was one in which James Jack
son, of Georgia, who had been and who
was afterward United States Senator,
was the challenged party. He was an
Englshman by birth, but he went to
| Savannah when d lad, studied law, as q
| leading Free Mason and fought gallant
~ in the Revolutionary war. He killed
Lieutenant Governor Wells, of Georgia,
in 1880 in duel, and was en-.
| gagged in several other ''..,ffail
| of HONOR until he finally de-
termined to accept challenge on such
terms as would make it his last duel.
So, upon his next challenge, which was
from Colonel r. Watkins, also of Geor-
gia, he prescribed as the TERMS that each
party, armed with double-barreled
gun loaded with buckshot and with a
hunting knife, should row himself in d
skiff to designated points on opposite
| sides of the Savannah River. When
the city clock struck II each should
row his skiff to small island in the
! middle of the river. which was wooded
| and covered with unberbrush. On ar
| irving at the island each was to mool
| his skiff, stand by it for ten minutes.
and then go about on the island until
the meeting took place. The seconds
waited on the main land until after
o'clock, when they heard three gun
shots and loud and angry cries. Then
all was still. At daylight, as had been
agreed upon, the seconds went to the
island and found Jackson lying on the
ground, insensible from the loss OF
blood. and his Antagonist lying across
him, dead. jackson recovered, but
| would never relate his experience or
that night, nor was he ever challenged
again. He died in Washington City
| while serving his second term as Uniteo
States Senator, March 49, 1906.
In 1878 young gentleman name c
Benjamin Woodbridge was killed i'll &
duel with swords, late at night, on Bos
ton Common, by Harry Philips, after &
short combat Philips, who was not
hurt, made his escape from the city
next day, and later turned up in France
where he died in 1929.
Eugene Bonnemere, in his 'Hirtoire
DIES Peysans', tells the story of how 6
peasant by the name of Lebre, who LIVED
in the South of France, got more thar
even with sergeant of the Royal GuarC
(Which was quartered near Lebre's cab
I'M. It was toward the end of the sew.
enteenth century; and the sergeant
presuming upon his gallantry and his
manly beauty and knowing the proverb-
ial weakness of some women for ever
non commission officers of his profess
sion took occasion to pay marked atten-
ton to Lebre's young and pretty wife,
which, while being strictly agreeable tc
dainty Mrs. L., was highly unsatisfac-
tory to the incensed husband; who at
last, gave Mr.. Sergeant Duprez
piece of proper advice, and was
promptly knocked down for his
pains. Lebre at once challenged his
antagonist, who declined to recognize
common peasant as his equal, and shut
ting Lebre out of his own cottage, took
Immediate possession of it and its pref
ty matron, In day or two the SER
geant quit the place for good, and Lebre
returned, sold all his effects, packed
the erring wife off to her fathers, en-
listed in the army. and was seen no
more in that neighborhood for upwards
of eight years. He fought through two
campaigns bravely, but without a
scratch, and by gradual promotion
reached the rank of sergeant. "Aha!"
cried Lebre, ioyfully. at the end of six
years service, sergeant Duprez, Ser
geant Lebre is your equal! shall seek
you out, you villain, and punish you for
the wrongs which I suffered at your
hands six years ago." Lebre was two
years in finding his man. And when
he did find him they were at the point
of sitting down at the same dinner table,
with dozen other officers of about uni
form rank. As soon as the repast was
over Lebre arose, and addressing Du-
PREF, inquired: Suppose, sir, man
should give blow, what would you
do?" II would return it and challenge
him to fight" responded Duprez.
"Take that, them" exclaimed Lebre,
dealing his old enemy tremendous
blow which staggered him considerably;
and then addressing himself to his COM
rades, he recapitulated the story of how
Duprez had knocked him down for de-
Tending his wife, and thereafter refused
to fight him on the ground that he was
not Duprez' equal. ''Now, Sergeant
Duprez," calculated that fellows assail-
ant, turning around and facing his ene-
my, "you and I are equal. have re-
turned the blow you gave me eight
years ago, and now challenge you to
fight for your 1ife." And as quick as
lightning the two sergeants drew their
weapons, and. Duprez was killed in
three minutes, the duel taking place by
candlelight.
In 1719, in London, Eng, Captain
William Aldworth, of the army, and
Owen Buckingham, member of Parlia-
ment, met and dined, and quarreled and
fought all in one evening. It was so
dark that they could not see each other,
and they were SO thoroughly well in
toxicated that it did not make much diff
ference whether they did or did not see
each other; but, all the same, there was
one less member of Parliament the fol-
lowing morning, for Buckingham was
found by some friends shortly after the
fight pierced to the heart with his an
tagonist's rapier, and Aldworth near by
very drunk and covered with wounds.
University place, New York, was the
scene of fatal duel, one cold, snowy
night in the winter of 1904, the parties
of the combat being William Coleman,
editor of the New York Evening Post
ian organ of the Federalists), and Cap
tain Thompson, harbor master of the
port of New York. Thompson