The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-05-07

whisky and salt beef were consumed in
abundance SHELTON screwed up his
courage with two heavy drains. ant each
party took pistols. ''Blaze away, .boXs!'
beloved the seconds, and Shelton, mind
ing his instructions to loss no time, le'
fly " tn Que W. lpon. III slloo y shouted
the exciseman. I'm battered, by -"
''The devils cure to you," said Shelton,
firing his second pistol and bringing the
exciseman to his knees. Then, however,
judging that if he gave the excise man
time to recover his legs be might have to
stand to shots, he boted "a fast as his
legs would carry him, followed by his
seconds, who cursed him for coward.
''Sure it's better to be coward than a
corpse" However, he was dragged to
the ground and, luckily, the excisemae
was too much hurt to shoot. On his re-
covering the latter insisted on challeng
ing Shelton, who chose fists as the
weapons, and the aft 'ir dropped.
Cornelius O'Dowd in one of his in
imitable essays, tells US that once upon
time in the County of Glare quarrel oc-
CURED in the hunting field between two
gentlemen whom we will call Capt.
Robins aud ". Jones, Esq, Very hot
words passed between them. "Let US
settle the business at once,'' cried the
captain: II have pistols in the house"
"Nothing BETTER said the squire, "I'm
your man It was at length decided
that they should fight in the stable yard
at fifteen PAGES, each man to hold Ian
tern as a mark for his opponent. "Wnere
are you, you sco11ndrel?" cried the cap
tain, when they came out into the yard.
I'm here, you shoeblack," replied the
squire "Stanl out bold" said tn, cap.
tain. Its what I'm doin{,'' said tae
other Give the word aud no III ore
talking" Get behind the pump, yer
honor, get bshind the pump befors you
fra whispered the groom, pulling the
captain by the coat He did SO and
when they blazad it was the squire who
GOT il and it WIS more than three months
before he could get out again Apropos
Of this duel in the dark there is a beau
Jiful but pathetic anecdote of two men,
the one Il kind man and the other a
"rinid man" who, finding themselves
unhappily bound to fight, chose the
dark room duel. The 'skiud man" hap
to ire first and not wishing to hurt his
adversary, gropsd his way to the chin
ney.piece, and placing the u1uzzle Of his
pistol straight up the chimney pull5l
the trigger, vhsn, to his CONSERVATION,
with q frightful Yell dow , came his AL
versary, the "5in1id man" who had
selected that fatal hiding place.
Fl wv prevalent drelllng was in Ireland
may b gathered from the tact that nan
Of tbs highest dignity and most respon-
sible position we're ready TO eat fire and
taste steel. The lord chancellor, lord
Claire, fought the. MASTER OF tue rolls,
Curraa. The chief justice, Lord Clon
nnsl, fought L>rd TyrAwlsy AMI two
others. Thu aancellor Of toe exchequer,
Isaac Corey, fought Henry Grattan. The
provost of Trinity college Henry
Hutchinson. fought the IN lster in chan
cary, Mr.. Doyle O'Oonnsll fought an
killer N. d Esterre. the Oh am pic of the
Dublin corp ,ratiol, aud, as 3 arlington
says, the duel was fatal TO tbs cham oio
OF Protestant a5esad sncy," These are
not the only eminent Irlshm 30 who
fought duels, for Sir Jonah B arlington
states that during his grand climateric,'
227 memorable and off bal duels had
been fought. He tells of one man WAC
had fought no less than sixteen duels,
end S. G. Hall describes Fl Id near
Castelar, where it was stated that sixty
fatal duels had taken place, the last be.
ing that of an uncle who had shot his
nephew Or nephew who had shot his
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