New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-28
THE PASSING THRONG.

n. Dallas Smith. Of Austin. Tex, told the fol-
lowing story al the Hotel Imperial yesterday
"A short time ago there was
THE ONLY case tried at my home in which
ONE ON THE the Judge practically charged In
JUDGES favor Of the plaintiff. After being
SIDE. out for several hours the jury re-
turned and announced disagree
ment. the jury standing eleven to one. The Judge
very angry read the members lecture and sent
them back again This time they were out all
night. but again there was a disagreeSment me me
jury standing before. eleven 10 one. sent PACK
a third time the same old result ensued, ana tne
Judge gave It up. Before dIsmssing the jurymen
men in this case the evidence ran all one way
and practically charged for the plalntln, NoI 20
under such circumstances makes II a miscarriage
Of justice; while the manner Of disagreement leads
TO a grave suspicion that the jury In TINS case
has been tempered with You dismissed gen.
temen.' The jury slowly filed out Of the box save
sion ' to speak AK SAID affi's 'SNei anu
Your Honor you have been severe err ~ your
have implied that the one juror who stood out
might have have been ampered Witn AS S Mant n 10
say that I was the only man in the panel who
was your side and who stood for the plaintiff
Tn the days befo de wah.'" said F. A. Sykes.
Of Louisville yesterday. when dueling was com
mon, young man Of good family
EFFECT OF A in OF the Southern States
DUELLsT's killed his opponent the field
ADVICE His uncle. on account Of the prom
inence OF the dead mans family.
furnished him good horse and $1,000 in gold, and
advised him to go Texas until the affair blew
over This advice was followed. and In the course
OF his Journey. in passing through OF the
States lying upon the Mississippi the victor in the
duel came TO a place where large tree. blown
down by a storm. had fallen squarely across the
road. Several men were at work upon II. Their
rifles and number of rested against the
trunk OF hard by. They attempting
After watching them for few moments the duel
list said My friends, why don't you cut the trunk
Of the tree through at either side You could
then easily roll out the piece that blocks the road.
The 20 white trash of that day argued directly
from cause to effect with no intervening steps.
like a child The leader debated a moment. The
man with idea had come. All the men with
ideas he had ever seen had come from the North.
That enough Hank quotes he It's Yank.
by God! Hitch that rife. "
There 10 be more or less OF Byronic re-
vival on at present in London" said B. r. A.
Francis OF that city. at the Hotel
RYRONIC Manhattan yesterday You see
REVIVAL IN frequent references in the daily
LONDON pres when space can be spared
from news. and in the week
lies and monthlies longer articles. Byrons life
and his ancestry are gone into. and the pc
culiar phase OF his mental makeup and char
acter delineated and enlarged on And the fact has
been recalled that the fifth Lord Byron. who comes
tried for murder by his peers 1t was for the his
toric duel he had with Mr., Chatworth. VINO was
his neighbor and distant kinsman. Ihls Loro
Byron was a & eatuncle Of the poet"