Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-01-27

nalist in Grass Valley, CAL, to meet hel
Win pistols according TO tho prev ,ilins
rules governing such meetings; and, OF
MS reIusai to do SO, thrashed With q
co~hide on public street. In 1s45 she
was witness In the trial Of NJ Bouval
lon for killing n. Dujarier. at Paris. ant
salo In Der testimony: "I was a bettsl
shot than Dujerier, and. il Bouvallor
only wanted satisfaction, | would have
fought him myself." Dujarier was the
friend OF Lola Montez. and in his will
written the evening aefore his death. be
bequeathed to Lola (afteru ard Countess
OF Lansfeidt) one hundred thousand
francs.
On the 2Ist of August. 1777, Made.
molseiIe Leverrier, a younQ lady Of good
family, who had been Tilted by naval
ofnc-r nfmed Duprez. met the latter in
the street and handed him a pistol and
told him tn defend himself; at the same
time she drew \ weapon and shot the
false one IN the face, while he discharged
his pistol the air.
An extract from Georgia paper, pub
lished In 1917, says:
Last week point Of honor was de-
cided between two ladies' near the South
Carolina line, the Gauss Of ths Quarrei
being the usual One-love. The object
of tie rival affections of these fair cham
pions WAS present on the field as the mu-
tual arbiter in the dreadful combat, and
he had the grief of beholding one of the
suitors for his favor fall dangerously
wounded before his eyes. The whole
business was manaQed with all the de-
corum and inhexibility usually practised
on such OCCASIONS, and the conqueror was
immediately married to the innocent &C.
cOnd. conformably to the previous con-
ditions OF the duel"
A Buffalo On. Y.) paper OF August.
1853, gives An account of the arrest of
Catherine Hurley and Jane Hall, "who
had met on the toll bridge on Ohio street,
In the presence of vast assemblaoe, to
fight duel with Aliens revo,vers." No
other accounts of similar performances
have come under the observation of the
writer.
HKRorsM or COUNTESS DE ST. BELMONT.
very interesting anecdote, however,
touching female heroism, IL related of
the COUNTESS de st. Belmont. When NJ.
de st. Eelmont, who defended a feeble
fortress against the arms of Louis XIV,
was taken prisoner, his intrepid wife,
who WAS of q very heroic disposition.
still rem iiued upon the estates to take
care of them. An officer Of cavalry hav-
ing taken up his quarters there without
invitation. the Countess sent him very
civil letter Of complaint On his ill beha-
vior, which he treated with contempt.
Piqued at this, she resolved he should
give her satisfaction, and sent him
challenge, which she signed LIE Cheva-
lier de- st. Belmont" The officer at
once accepted the challenge and repair
ed to the place appointed. Madame dc
Belmont met him dressed in male attire.
L ey Immediately drew their swords,
and in short time the heroipe disarmed
hin, when she said. with gracious smile:
You thought, sir, that YOU were fight
ing the Chevalier de st. Belmont; but
you were mistaken-I am Madame de
st. Belmont. / return you your sword,
spect to the request Of a lady in future"
The heroic woman then took her depar-
ture, leaving the vanquished officer c0v
cred with shame and confusion.
rAE HEROIC AGNES HoroT.
The most singular co nbat, says an
Engl,sh writer, by which arms were ever
gained, WAS one which happened in the
family of Hotot. The family of Dad
lev, in Northamptonshire, bears for a
crest a woman's head, with q helmet;
her hair disheveled and her throat latch
loose. The occasion Of this crest was
singular. In the year 1890. HotOt, hav-
iny n dispute with one Ringsdale about
the title to q piece Of land, they agreed
to meet on the disputed ground and de
eide il by combat. On the appointed
day Hotot WAS laid up with the gout.
Rather than be should suffer in his hon
or or lose his land. his daughter Agnes
armed herself cap-a-pie, mounted her
fat hers steed and went to meet Rings
dae at the place appointed. After
stubborn fight she dismOunted her ad
versary, aud whom he was on the ground
she looseued her throst-latch, raised her
helmet and let down her hair upon her
Agnes afterward married
into the Dudley family; and, in honor
Df her heroic action, her descendants
have always used the above described
crest, with the motto. "Gal@a spes ga
Iutis."
YOUTHFUL Affairs.
Among the youthful affairs of honor
vi ich have been settled upon the hsld
are two that deserve mention here: That
meeting in England, in 1875, by Cooper
a son of the Earl Of Shaftesbury) and
Wood, Ia nephew of the Marquis Of
Who first fought with
,words and thsn with their fists, until
cooper was killed; and that affair in
Poland. in 1851. bet v cen two boys aged
thirteen and seventeen, with
pistols, in which the former WAS killed
ind the survivor aud two seconds. aged
Iourteen and fifteen. we're arrested, tried
and acquitted.
WHITE AND BLACK.
There came pretty near being a modi-
aoation Of the Virginia cod. during the
political cam mpaign Of 1888 IN that State.
md there would have been, surely, had
Win. Flanagan( one Of Senator Mshone's
proceeded as promptly to
An acceptance OF the cartel OF defiA
sent him by the negro whom he had AS
saalted for expressions OF political diff
ference. IL has been stated that Senator
Malone, in launching his readicster
crafS, took in the SeueRambian AZ "a so
cial equal; and the point Is made, there
fore, tnat the white adherent aforesaid
political hari. kari ny dsclin-
ing 10 meet the colored +. F. V. on the
" ground Of race, color, and previous
condition OF servitude. lac New
York Times of August 18th discusses
this slightly mixed affair felicitously
thus:
.The quarrel between Mr.. William
Flanagan, q candidate for the Virginia
Legislatures, and a chivairous colored
whose name il not yet announced,
bids far TO modify the Virginia code OF
honor. Mr.. Flanagan, having knocked
the colored man down for differing With
him in political opinion, WAS challenged
20 fiahs duel hy the aaRrieved man and
brother. Mr.. Flanagan not only refused
to fight, bat appealed to the law for pro
tecsiou. Of course, Mr.. Flanagan bases
his refusal to give the colorsd man the
satisfactiou OF . gentleman ON the
ground that the code is silent IN regard
10 Oolored challenges. and that bence =
challenge sent by . cOlored man can be
ignored. But IL 10 always open to col
ored man whoss challenge 10 naR 10
treated With disdain 70 post his enemy,
aud it 10 we'll agreed among Virginia
Qentismen that 70 be posted u worss
than death"
Egg beaters, worth Soc, you can buy
At the Golden Rule Bazaar for lOc
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