The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-22
CHANCE FOR A DUEL
-,.rs ADDITIONAL EXCITEMENT
- THE ITALIAN IMBROGLIO.

- Then Denies His Statements
Is Given the Lie Direct.
r,,, the Pittsburg Dispatch Uldl
,,-.szryC;rOy, April l7.-Possibly the
:. hood spilled on account of the diplo-
=. .ifFiculty between the United States
/ p T,aIv. will be right here in Washington,
h . eo. doubtless on the famous and his
al dueling ground at Bladensburg.
4 ,srties involved are DR.. T. S. Verdi,
= the most prominent physicians of
| ,rr. an intimate and confidential friend
1 aiviser of the late Italian minister,
..,1 Fava, q gentleman who gets himself
/ - on occasion and without occasion, a
[.,tsnan Of elegance and pride and an
/ - family, an elderly dude in costume
| = action. and a figure of large proper
ms il society.
h r,a other party to the quarrel is George
L Esrries, for years reporter and COR
[.ooDdent for the EUening Star. He
[.sr,lv went through the Indian war, and
I'm the ground and in the midst of every
Exiting deed, dangerous episode of the
t. dances, fights, and has just been
a as,nS -'' '''''
ABAD, BAD MAN WITH A GUN.
Hs is one Of the best of the long range
| A narksmen of the world, can snuff a
LII at fifty yards with a revolver, is an
[rert swordsman, and one of the best anna
IN boxers in the district. Harries had an
[,srview with Verdi just after the recall of
[srnn Fava. Verdi INDUCED in some very
liter language against Americans, and
I-acIany those Of New Orleans, though he
s ostensibly been an American citizen for
tsny years.
Il for Italy and the Malta, and, if he had
[aen high mogul of the Malta himself, could
ID, have been more contemptuous of
Emerica.
That is. until he found his interviews
Fere about to drive him out of business
bid away out of the capital. No more
ronscientious newspaper man ever lived
han Harries, and he was naturally in
,snsed when he found that Verdi was try
gc to unteract the effect of his foolish
words by insinuatlng that the reporter
rrosslY misrepresented him. In a letter
Ierdi alleges himself the victim of re-
,orters, and, in professional language, de-
sc7ibes a reporter as "a comparatively new
animal which modern anthropologlsts or
psychologists have not been able to de-
fine
A BELIEVER IN THE DUELLO.
Harries retorts in an open letter which
wiI Dmpel Verdi to prefer a challenge or
be posted as q coward, as he mas boosted of
hls fgh.ing qualities, and believes in and has
hrac.iced the duello, If his friends speak the
Erlb about him.
n bis open letter Harries quoted from
Dr. Ierdl's denial. which concludes as fol-
Bows.
"Al can say is that the words reported
as ming from me, viz: What can we
Io&iOr from such a community as New
s0,ans when the mayor is a murderer, the
.bteati a murderer, the board Of trade and
Fbstubs are composed of murderers, where
murder has common and open possession of
Isheart, are untrue and unuttered."
Nr Harries then proceeds to knock DR..
gd! out in four rounds, after the follow
|1g fashion:
That denial is a carefully prepared doc
unent a series of utterances from which
tAege can be no retreat. For two weeks
past you have been circulating loose ointed
snd negative NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to which
pad no attention, but you have at last
lie Isl instant is false, and |, in
re1,y, declare most emphatically that
ite only apparent difference between
5nsnlas and yourself lies in the
fact that Ananias is dead. Not only
|tyOu say all that was attributed to you
I mat interview, but you said it with such
nee and evident passion that the primary
4st Of your denunciations could not be
|Guto type. Your manner was that of a
|lil whose interest in the question could
|teasily be measured by words, and your
Equation was at Italian fever heat when
ElTecited the sentence which you now
|Hfcally disclaim responsibility for
ben you charged New Orleans with be-
ga city of murderers you did so with
Eiomence that compelled belief in your
Iesty of assertion.
When you first attempted denial it was
|nttily done, and was done because you
|AS how impolitlc you had been. The first
/ YOUR alleged denials did not deny, and
p you rested there this letter would never
|Ave been written, but, emboldened by the
|sace Of those whose regulations were at
aoied, you proceeded to greater lengths,
pa have at last reached the end of your
npe-the moose end. For thirty years you
rad received your sustenance mainly from
zoe American people. and as soon as the
of your views spread abroad
Y was plain to your Machiavellian intellect
Dat somebody had talked too much. You
Mongly suspected yourself Of being that
-niortunate individual
THIS SURELY CALLS FOR GORE.
Your denial-in warp. wool, fiber and
Alsh-is a plain, unadorned lie, and not
De semi-excuSsble falsehood of a brave
nan, who denies to shield somebody else,
lC the lie Of a coward-of one whose SEN
IInents are stronger than their creator.
le interview you now complain of is
lAral and absolute fact, and you know it
De so, but American condemnation
leedlly convinced you that you had made
10 error of your life, and in your wild rush
VI shelter you abiured manly principles,
raped yourself in slavish fear as in
arment, and shiveringly testified to that
.eOuIous something. which might, in a po-
5oe court, be termed your previous good
1aracter.'n
With much bombastic flourish you have
5slefred to your alleged fidelity to the
.u.ted States during the past generation.
~ II matter of any real consequence
D1ether YOU are citizen of this land, or
'u9tLer you still owe allegiance to Italy
. ,lu uer rulert Would any nation be the
s,Vter for the possession of a citizen who is
lIIald OF his own words, and who arms
gJ5 with no more trusty weapon than
Vl'berate untruthgr
!, "; erd mlngles almost entirely with
~ fench, Spanish and Italian diplomatic
ICES, whose members invariably look
! rD n the duel as the only recourse, when a
Esn.ienan is offered so gross and public an
y, as Is contained in almost every sem
NJ 'Ics OIL this open letter. and it is their
s.ln Ifhous opinion that DIR. Verdi must
,aLs, not to fight means, at least, social
WI aclSm in these circles and at the fashion