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DdIEOu, WAOs
wounded, survived. The weapons used
in three of these duels were pistols.
while Messrs Cilley and Graves fought
with rites. Hamilton was a General in
the army, and Burr was Vice President
of the United States. Decatur and Bar
ron were Post Captains in the navy.
Cilley and Graves were members OF Con-
gress from Maine and Kentucky. Brod-
erlck was United States Senator from
California and Terry eX-Chief Justice OF
the Supreme Court of the same State.
MAYNE REID'S DUEL.
Captain Mayne Reid, the we'll known
novelist and boy story writer, once
fought duel. During the Mexican war,
after the army hnd entered the city of
Mexico, the young officers had little to
do except shine their boots, dress we'll
and call upon the senoritas. Among the
kentucky troops was Mayne Reid. One
day he was shining his boots, and at the
same time repeating the lines:
s.At midnight in his guarded tent
The Turk lay dreaming OF the hour
When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent,
Should tremble at his. .Dower.'
Wien Ed. G. Marshall, afterward
Attorney General for California, put in
with "Grease her knee, ReidI" "Now,
why did she grease her kneel" "That's
the question that agitates the whole
continent" Reid looked at him with
glance of whitening contempt, and made
the laconic remark: You are fool"
A duel followed, and Marshall lost a
finger and got the worst of it all around.
PREACHERS DUELs.
It may seem strange that men of the
cloth would fight duels, but so late as
1893 Rev. Henry Bate, an Episcopal
clergyman, had fought and killed three
men in duels lie died in 1921, holding
high position in Ely Cathedral, Eng
land. He was dead shot, but was
winged at last by Captain Stoney Robin
son, who was dangerously wounded by
the unclerical parson, a lady having
been the cause of the trouble.
In 1882 an Episcopal minister, named
Rev. Bennett Allen, challenged aud
killed Marylander named Lloyd De-
lany. The duel took place at Hyde
Park, London, shortly before midnight,
and was fought with pistols at eight
PAGES. Delany fell to the ground, rose
like flash, and tottering backward, fell
into the arms of his second mortally
wounded. The difficulty was caused by
the publication of anonymous articles in
London paper rejecting upon Delany
and other American loyalists, and SUBJ
seauent publication where the writer
was called a scoundrel and coward. The
most interesting Christian fighter, how
ever, was I?ev. DR.. Blackburn, who, in
the early part of his life, was buc-
cancer in the West Indies. During one
of their cruises tho First Lieutenant
had difficulty with the parson, and
said that if it was not 'or his grown
he would treat him in different man
ner. "Oh," said the parson," and strip
ping off the garment, added: Now l
am your man." AT this it was agreed
that they should fight on small island
where the ship lay, and that the one who
fell should be rolled into the sea by the
survivor, so that it might seem that
while he was walking onthe cliff he had
stumbled and fallen in. The lieutenant
fell, to all appearances, as if shot.
Blackburn at once rolled the PROSTATE
man down the cliff, but just as he reached
the last shelf of the declivity the lieu
tenant recovered su ficiently to cry out:
"For God sake, Blackburn, hold out
YOUR hand"
s'Aha!n said Blackburn, "you called
just in time, for in another moment you
would have been in the sea-"
WOMEN DUELIsTs.
AS general thing, women have been
as opposed to duelrng as preachers; yet
still there are some noteworthy excep-
tions. Lola Montez was handy with the
pistol and rapier. Once she challenged
a Journalist of Iron Valley, CAL, to meet
her with pistols according to prevailing
rules, and upon his refusal 10 do so
threatened him with a cowhide on a
public street. In 1S45 she was witness
in the trial of NJ. Bonvalon for killing
NJ. Dujarier, at Paris, and in her testi-
mony swore: 81 was better shot than
Dujarier, and if Bonvalon only wanted
sati faction, I would have fought him
myself" Du jar.er was the friend of
Lola Montez, and in his will, written
few days before his death, he bequeathed
the afterwards Countess of Lansfeldt
100, 0)Of, or S20,000..
A Buffalo On. W paper of August,
1873, gives an account of the arrest of
Catherine Hurley and Ion Hall, who had
met on the toll bridge, on Ohio street, in
the presence of vast assemblage, to
fight duel with Allen revolvers.
ady de Nesle and the Countess de
Polignac once fought a duel in the Car
dens of Versailles, France. The ladies
had engaged in most disgraceful quar-
rel two evenings before at grand fete,
over which the Duke dc Richelieu pre-
sided. Lady de Nesle lost all control of
herself, and, springing like .tisress
upon her rival, attempted to take her
diamond necklace from her. Failing in
this, she snatched the roses from her
bosom and flung them in The face of her
rival The Countess of Polignac now
took a hand in the fray and attacked
Lady de Nesle. Hair, diamonds and
Jewels were strewn upon the floor, and
the enraged anna ons were finally sepa-
rated by Marquis de Malbuisson and
Mile. Nathalie de Copdaccnt. Out of
the quarrel grew the dnel, the Countess
of Polignac being the challenging party.
The Indies met OF o'clock in July, 1921,
and fired one shot at each other without
effect. The seconds rushed in to prevent
further hostilities. but the fair demons
would not have il, but, calling for fresh
pistols, biazed away, this time with sat-
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