The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-29

thing behind q wocdpile or 9TH retract
if ydh will asIIact," ofs':I didn't mean
what you thought I mesnt,,yg don't satisfy
the ppbliea Some years. ago one Of our
notable mon, called ,anoth herf notable man
/ a thief and e'gos challenged for it and
ne thought there was blood on the moon,
but friends interfered, and he retracted by
saying that he didn't mean that he was a
personal thief but was an official thief,
and that was satisfactory and the affair
was honorab bly, adjusted. When an affair
of honor is settled nowadays we can't find
sout who whipped the fight or:who was
right and who was wrong. The whole
matter is left 30 mysti6ed that the
stakeholder won't pay over thelmoney.
In fact st is sometimes hard to tell from
the newspap erszwhos we're doing the
fghting,sW6ethsr it ,wassthe principals Or
the seconds of.aa amateur performer who
recklessly rushes in where angels fear TO
tread
THE combat thickens--on ye brave
Who rush to glory, or the grave
Awful scenes terrific beyond express
ion! II reminds me of little specta.
cled Frenchman who was prancing
around the big hotel in st. Louis and had
"a little impudent terrier dog following
him about. The dog gave just cause Of
ofense to a big whiskered Kentuckian
who vas talking to a friend, aud with 8
sudden swing ofhis boot he sent the ami
NAL q rod or two out in the street. Quick
as lightning the Frencbman danced up
to the iKentuck, and with violent gesticu-
latiqnI exclaimed swat for you keek
mon leetle tog-vot for, me say? Here
is mine card. Idemand de satisfacshion
of de>shenteelnen." The Kentuckian
seized him gently by the nap of the neck
and lifted him up bodily to the door and
gave him kick onward, and then walked
back and resumed bis conversation; The
Frenchman spied an acquaintance who
Tas passing, and rushing up to him
poured ont bis Mysteries: swat you cali
dis American honeur ? He keek mon
Ieetle tog and I geeve heem mine card
and demand de sateesfacshion Of de shen-
telmon--de sateesfacshion of de sword or
de peeatole dear to de Frenchman's heart.
You tings he give me satisfacshion? No
sare-rare time, hut mondieu! he leefm me
up by d. collare. he speen me round and
round like Was one tam top and he keek
me-he keek me more harder tan mon
leetle tog. Vat you calls dis American
honour Bak I go pack to La Belle,
France. Ihoonts up some American and
81 fights him. Begar! I will have de sat-
,eesfacshion."
. If retractions are 20 be made they
should 5e very explicit. 1t is related Of
John Randolph that on one occasion he
expressed his contempt of man by say
ing of him that he wnsent. fit to carry
offal to bear. Aretraxit was demanded,
or a fight, and te promptly responded
that he would Withdraw the offensive dis.
qualification and would now say that the
gentleman was fit to carry-ofal to a
bear. This proved satisfactory aud goes
to show how small q retraxit will satisfy
wounded homer. But it seems to be a
matter Of great nicely as to the time
when the retraxit must be made. Among
all gentlemen it's admitted that an
apology should be made just as soon as
the gentleman has discovered he has done
another gentleman en injury, or has
without just cause wounded his feelings,
bat these mysterious affairs of honor are
very slow and precise about such things
and the retraxits are MOI allowed to be
made until q challenge has passed and
the seconds are chosen, and the pistols
loaded, aud everything gotten in readi-
ness for fight Then the retraxit-is in
order, and after that the honorable
adjustment. The whole business is
methodical, to sag the least Of it. It is
like bill in equity that. has nine parts
and there is the accusation, and the join.
der, and Tejoiuder, and surrjoinder, and
various reflections, and buffers and rebut
ters, and other mysteries. In fact, con
steering the funny snd fantastic, and
harmless character Of most ofthe modern
duels, I think that a Justices court woule
be the best tribunal wherein to- settle
such matters. + speak from some expe
rience, for the first case I ever had waa il
9 Justices court, where ! was employed
| to defend man who was sued for thirty
dollars worth of slander, because he hai
accused neighbor Of stealing his hog
aud re. marking him with a swallow forl
in the left ear. It WAS strickly an .affai
Of honor and had all its various part
and mysteries-aftez the joinder ant
.ejoinder and swore joinder and th'
butter and rebutter and swore butter, th
jury retired to 8 log and in course of tim
brought in verdict. ave, the jury, fn'
for the plaintiff ten dollars and fifty cent
for his character unless the defeudan
will take back what he said" I hav
always thought that this was just yer
dict and if ever any lunatic challenge
me, shall propose 70 leave the matte
to jury ia justice court. They give
man rharlca without bis having &