Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-23
PERHAPS n DUEL.
Watching To See Sir Lucius O'Trig-
ger Garry Message to Maryland.
F,on. the PAiladelpAta Press.

from the Phild6elpbiG Press.
Society is looking for new sensation;
nothing, indeed. less than duel. The
parties IN interest are a Third street
broker who is very well known and papu-
lar at dinners and dances, and lively
scion of a Maryland family with head
iuil of 0id-fashioned notions of fiery
honor. The broker went down to Balti-
more recently as guest Of a young law
yer of that interesting town.
After dinner at fashionable club, he
and his host went out for drive. They
fell TO chatting--as Thackeray observes it
is only human TO do bout their neigh
bors. The host in the course or viva
cious discourse, 10 Is said, referred to an
other member OF fashionable Maryland
family as possessing "A mighty bright eye
to business and good mind Tor ealculat-
ing interest, even away up among the 10
per cents. month. He found his mathe-
NAUTICAL abilities, 1t as-observed, of great
use, frequently in casting up what was
due him by temporarily impecunious
friends to " hom he advanced much needed
loans.
1t must have been the reported rate of
interest that stuck in the mind of the
Philadelphia broker. When he got back,
he told the whole story TO some friends
here, but, of course, only as illustrating
what an excellent field Baltimore pre-
sented for the activities OF fashiona ole
Young men, who had strength of mind
enous ii TO keep themselves in good trim,
and money enough to advance 10 other
young men whose tendency to cards and
champagne made them quite oblivi0us
to the rate they might be ex-
pected to pay tor accommodation,
The intelligence was of SO great an in
! terest that II was not surprising TO hear
that IL soon went back from Philadelphia
! 10 Baltimore and created, perhaps, even a
| greater stir there than it did here. In
/ deed, the liveiness of the commotIon IL
/ made is TO be Inferred from the zeal with
| which the Baltimore youth of the first
/ part undertook TO refute the whole story
! lie, with IA townsman, sailed down upon
/ the broker while the latter, a tew DAYS
/ ago, was sitting IN his office casting up
/ the difference betweed an eighth II Der
cent. commission ana 120 per cent Il wear.
The Baltiinoreans hardly gave the Phil
! adelphlan chance to express the ordi-
! nary ciyIlitles before The most yivacious
/ OF the two, the alleged author of the story
/ after "Shylock." declared that be had
| never given out such a tale at all, ami de-
| manded the instant retraction of every.
! thing. But the broker, With an invinclble
! regard for what he considered the truth
| replied in a quiet Quaker City way, 81
cannot retract the story, because say
! you did tell it,"
| Then, SIR" replied the Baltimoresn,
| ~ AIN put TO the painful necessity OF OBJ
| serving that you are a -"
And with that ne rose from his chair
and tipped his Gm ber-c olored glove, three
lines OF stitching on the back, in the face
| of his guardian guest. He may at the
same moment have observed, IAN there. .
but authorities OF thai point conflict 80
much that the matter cannot be set down
| in veracIous chronicle without qualih-
cation.
1t is agreed on all sides, however, that
! he did say rs be and his friend were ieAV
Iug the office, before the broker had had
time TO recover from his amazement.
"Mv address, sir, is the Maryland Club, :"
and as he said II he posed for moment
leaning heavily on his lett leg, hts riguL
arm held gracefully elevated above mis-
head and ms um ber-oolored glove flntter-
ing dehantly between mis- long, white
fingers.
AS yet Sir Lucius O'Trigger has car
! ried no message TO the Maryland club,
and as the Philadelphia is looking upou
the action OF his visitor as something
akin to blackguardlsm, Sir Luclus Ia not
likely to find mis- occu patton revived.
"Ma'am," said tho domestic, al have
come 20 give YOU notice tnat / leave "A