The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1902-03-07
INTERESTING DUELS.
THE YANKEE AND THE ENGLISHMAN
WHO DIDN'T FIGHT.

A Citrate Who Was Made n Dean
and Who just Missed n BIshoprIc.
| Dancing Under COmpulsiOn-A Fa-
nous French Female DueIist.
The stories of American duels are OF
| great interest and are among the most
| famous in the whole history of dueling,
but they are too well known to be re-
| peated. The majority have been desper-
ate tragedies when good men and true
| have been led to kill each other often
through misrepresentation that lost the
world many a noble and helpful life.
One, however, that was not so disastrous
was between an American and a hot
headed foreigner. What the quarrel was
history stateth not. Perhaps it was so
small as to be quite overlooked, but at
all events it was arranged that the two
take their places on kegs of powder, with
a lighted fuse placed in the bunghole of
each. The kegs, Of course, were empty,
but as the foreigner saw the fire slowly
burning down to the supposed volcano
below him his courage failed him and he
fed.
Still nIore interesting is the story of
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love lost between tbp two factions con-
vocuontIv II wos M verv hard motter to
n;oIy a ,,orroI asron;oIIr y,bon oocb
tho,,,L. r. anotb 20 H. otho, ,,,o,,IJ b.
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nointed +imo tho EngIisbmon onnaarad
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~ veil sbornonod bornonns Tba En-
Esbman of course nrn,ostnd brt no tho
choice of weonons Ala not liz rritb hin,
bo Voc ohIi,od 10 oooont tho hornoons
Whom tho Yankee roised tho murderons
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tho Sitnotior
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or+ tho ,so ~ orI;na,- 800 hos e.
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~ IN, 'nen ,ieeio! VI lreiunu; ms u'ie
~ lanne rests on the Iact OF MS Deing
great uuemst ana SIX pottle man, able
u urink al MS stan ana gentlemen guests
under the table. On visit to friend
III Tue west OF lreiand the DUKE complain
gu tnat ne nad no one TO drink with him,
enu Ills nost' Wishing 10 remedy thls de-
nclenc!, sent LOT curate famous for his
nquor urlnklng. After hye bottles had
peen disposed or by each the curate COM
planned that 1t was too slow work and
proposed bumpers OF brandy. These were
Immediately filled and as quickly emptied.
Fresh bumpers We're then filled for each,
but as the representative of the church
stretched out his hand to receive one he
fell helpless to the floor. On the follow
Ing day the duke made him dean, re-
marking that if he had been victorious in
the drinking duel his curacy would have
been exchanged for q bishopric.
A little earlier than this the famous
DR.. Young going with some ladies to
Vauxhall. then the rendezvous of all the
beauty and fashion of London. PLAYED
on the German flute to amuse them, Just
behind them came boatload of officers.
and when the doctor ceased playing one
of them insisted that he should continue
or be thrown into the water Wishing to
avoid dispute before his friends, he con-
tinued; but, arriving at his destination,
be sought out his tormentor and demand
ed satisfaction with swords and without
seconds early the following morning.
When they met, however, and had taken
their places, the doctor instantly drew out
a huge horse pistol and, pointing II at the
officers head, compelled him to dance a
mnuet The officer had no choice but to
obey and for a quarter of an hour kept
up the dance. The doctor then lowered
his pistol, saying as they were quits they
might now arrange another affair with
seconds and the officer might have salts
faction.
But il England was an uncomfortable
place to live in those days, France was
still worse. Such state of affairs ex-
listed that in 1041 was instituted the "Sa-
vior's truce" whereby duels were prohib-
tied from Wednesdays until Mondays.
But, like all other forbidden things, the
duel rather grew in favor than decreased.
Montaigne says, IF three Frenchmen
were put into the Libyan desert, they
would not be a month there without