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THE HAMILTON WEEKLY VISIT!*!,
From the Randolph (Ala.) Enterprise.
A TALL DUEL.
BY SANDY HIGGINS.
Of all the barbarous, inhuman, un
christian, and altogether “cussed”
customs which have been handed—
or kicked—down to us from the days
of darkness, wickedness and general
devilment, it seems to me that duel
ing is about the top of the market.
When men fought with swords,
spears and other cutting and jobbing
instruments, and when they had no
more sense than to be killed at such
foolishness, there might have been
some excuse for fighting. Then,
there was a chance for the best man
to whip t’other fellow, and to be done
with it, but when “ villainous saltpe
tre” was invented, things changed,
and men can no longer fight on an
equality, for a rascal or a fool is just
as apt to shoot straight as a good
tnan, and a little more so, because
“ the devil protects his own,’’ some
body says, and I’ve heard of more
good men being killed by mean ones
than the other way. Besides, we are
a Christian people, now, as the last
Congress most effectually proves, and
suould set a better example to pos
terity (whatever that is) than to be
killing each other in any but a legiti
mate way. The wars and the doc
tors can kill off all the surplus popu
lation, if we’ll only give them a fair
chance. But I’ll stop moralizing,
which I’m not good at, and go on
with my “ continuation.’’
There was a crowd of us assembled
iu a bar-room of a country town, and
as is usual with men when they have
nothing to do, we got to talking, and
each one spread himself to see which
could tell the biggest tale, but I got
beat at it, of course. Among the
crowd was a half fool lawyer, who
thought he knew more than all the
rest of us, but who really didn’t know
more than half as much as I did,
which is putting his talents pretty
low, you think. Another of his pecu
liarities was that he had no more
spunk than a green frog, hut would
talk as big as if he lived on nothing
but gun-powder and hornets. There
was also a big Kentuckian, of the
alligator breed, who was real grit,
and as quarrelsome when he was
drinking as a bee-martin. The law
yer had told a huge tale about his
adventures in the Seminole war,
which we all knew was a lie, and
then “old Kentuck’’ did “a tale
unfold ” that so completely knocked
Blackstone’s pins from under him
that he got mad about it, as any
other fool w'ould have done.
“ That’ll do very well,” said he, “ if
there was any truth in it.’’
“Do you mean to insinuate that I
would tell anything that isn’t true ?”
“ Oh, no,” replied Blackstone, “ but
then, you see, none of us don’t be
lieve the tale.”
“ See here, my friend,” roared the
other, getting up in a hurry, “no
man ever gives me the lie without
getting whipped, so I’m going to
wallop you till your mother wouldn’t
own you.” So saying, he made a
drive that would have demolished
the lawyer, but that gentleman made
a hasty retreat behind the counter,
while the rest of us interfered. Find
ing there was no chance to get his
hands on him, Kehtttck opened his
mouth-piece on him in a style that I’ve
never heard equaled. He cursed him
from head to foot and back again,
till there wasn't a spot on him as big
as a postage stamp that hadn’t re
ceived its proper share of the bless
ing. All this time the lawyer was
undergoing a shaking process that
threatened to dispose of all his teeth,
and eventually, he stepped out and
made himself scarce. Then I took
Tom Beasely out, and said I,
“Tom, there’s a chance for some
good sport.”
“ Thar’s no sport in old Kentuck,”
replied Tom. “Jest listen how he
roars! A bull ain’t a circumstance.”
“That’s just the thing.’’ Kentuck
is mad through and through, and
would fight a locomotive. Now, yon
know the lawyer is always bragging
about his spunk, so we’ll persuade
him to challenge Kentuck, and have
guns or pistols loaded with powder
only, and there’ll be a rich time.”
“Yes,” assented Tom, “we might
have a rich time, if it could only be
done, but don’t you know what a
coward Jack is ? He wouldn’t chal
lenge a tarrapin.’’
“ I’ll bet a quart of red eye, I can
persuade him to send the challenge
before bed-time,” said I; “and as
HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1873.
you and Kentuck are pretty thick
you can act as his second, and we’ll
fix it all right.”
After some more palaver, Tom
agreed, and went back to the bar
room, while I hunted up lawyer Jack.
I found him in his little oflice, still
scared half to death.
“Jack,” said I, “if I had been you,
I should have walked into that gen
tleman, boots and all.”
“ Oh, hang it, Sandy! ” said he, “ I
wouldn’t fight such a chap unless I’d
had my pistol.”
“If you’d had your pistol,’’ said I,
“ you’d not had the chance to shoot
him unless you took him ou the wing,
lip’s the worst coward about bullets
I ever saw. He was shot once, and
says he’ll never give a man a chance
to make a target of his carcass
again.”
“Is that so, Sandy ? ” he inquired,
brightening up. “If I had only
known it I might have settled him.”
“It ain’t too late, yet,” said L
“ He’s been cutting up entirely too
high anyhow, and I want somebody
to make him drop his feathers. You
just challenge him to fight a duel,
and that’ll be the last of his ripping
and snorting in these diggings.”
“By George!” replied he, “if i
wasn’t afraid he’d shoot me, I’d do
it.”
"Never fear,’’ said I, “I’ll go bail
that you never hear a bullet whistle
from him, and stand by you.”
A little more argument and a stiff
drink of brandy, brought him to the
point, and the challenge was written
in due form, with which I proceeded
back to the bar-room. I found Ken
tuck, with one or two others, talking
over the affair; he was still in a boil
ing condition. When he had glanced
over the paper I handed him, he
broke out:
“ Yes, by the Eternal Jupiter! Tell
him I’ll fight any lime, anywhere and
with anything, from a spaying needle
to a battery of artillery! Tom, will
you be so good as to settle the ar
rangements for me! ”
To this Tom agreed, and he and I
quickly settled the preliminaries.—
They were to fight next morning at
sun-rise, with rifles, at thirty paces,
at the quarter race track, near the
river.
“Good!” said Kentuck, when we
informed him of the terms. “ I can
cut out a crow’s tongue and not touch
his bill, if he opened his mouth to
crow!’’
With this comfortable information
I posted back to Jack, who was still
wide awake, but not “ duly sober.’’
“ Well, what did he say?” inquired
he, “ and what is he going to do ? ”
“He says he’s going to fight,” I
replied, “ but I don’t believe a word
of it, for he’s the worst scared fellow
you ever saw.”
“What sort of weapons did he
choose ? ” he asked.
“Rifles, at thirty yards,” I replied.
“Why, God Almighty, Sandy!”
said he, “what did you do that for?
He’ll bor6 a hole through me the first
pop 1 ”
“Narry hole,” said I. “He can’t
hit a bed quilt thirty yards, and
chooscd them because he heard me
tell Tom that you could kill a bumble
bee with a pistol every fire.”
“Well,” said he, with a long sigh,
and a face as loDg as the twenty-sec
ond day of June, “ he’ll kill me, sure,
and that’ll nearly ruin me.”
“Don’t you be uneasy,” said I;
“ he’ll not be in this country in the
morning. If he does, he’ll not stand
to be shot at, and couldn’t hit you
in a week. All you’ve got to do, if
he comes to taw, is to blaze away
like you was shooting a squirrel, and
you’ll fetch him.”
After a good deal more of such
talk I got him somewhat pacified,
hut I could see plainly that he’d
rather loose a good fee than take
chances at the Kentuckian. Telling
him to be np iu good time next morn
ing, I left him to his reflections, which
were not very pleasant, I imagine.
Next morning I called at his office
about daybreak, and found him up,
for he hadn’t been down all night,
and looked as though he hadn’t slept
any in a month. He was in no mood
for conversation, so I provided my
self with a bottle of brandy, saw that
his rifle was in good order, and we
set out for the race-track, where we
arrived before sunrise, and Upmd no
one there.
“ Well, old Kentuck don’t seem in
much of a hurry to be phot. I expect
he’s out of the State by this time,”
said I.
“ We might as well go back, hadu’t
we ? ” inquired Jack.
“What! and have no fun?” I
asked.
“Fun be hanged!’’ he replied,
“I’m no man for foolishness) nohow.
Do you believe in dreams, Sandy ? ”
“None to hurt,” I answered.
“ I do,” said he, “ and I dreamed
last night I saw my grandmother. I
was nodding in my chair, and sho
came up and tried to wake me, and
I believe I’m going to be shot to
death, if that fellow comes. I’ve a
great notion to go back home, For
the sun is just about rising, and he
won’t be here.’
’Yes, yonder they are?’ replied I,
as the Kentuckian, Tom Beasely, and
half a dozen others came up. ‘ We’ll
have our sport yet.’
* Don’t talk that way, Sand}',’ said
he, his face getting longer and whi
ter, while his teeth fairly rattled. I
was almost sorry for the fool, but
didn’t let on.
* Let us measure off the ground,
Sandy,’ said Tom.
‘Yes, and be in a hurry,’chimed
in Kentuck. ‘I want to pink him
and get back to breakfast 1 ’
‘Sandy,’ whispered Jack, ‘don’t
you think it would be a good idea to
put one of us at each end of the track,
and let us advance and fire! ’
‘ Thunder! ’ said I, ‘ you’d fire
away all your ammunition before you
got in two hundred yards of each
other. You musn’t show the 'white
fea! her at thiß stage of the game.’
‘lt don’t make no difference,’
said he. ‘ I’d rather bo called a cow
ard than a corpse, anyhow, and if
you hadn’t told me he was a coward
I’d never sent him that infernal chal
lenge. If he does kill me I’ll haunt
you! ’
* All right—l’m not afraid of spir
its,’ said I. ‘Go on Tom and step it
off.’
Thereupon Tom placed a peg in
the ground, and stepped very deliber
ately down the track, while Jack
watched the proceeding with un
bounded interest.
* Look at the fool! ’ muttered he.
‘ He don’t step ten inches at a time 1 ’
‘ Here’s the place, Sandy,’ said Tom.
‘ Take your places, gentlemen, and
I’ll give the word.’
‘Hadn’t we better wait awhile,
Sandy ? ’ inquired Jack, as the Ken
tuckian advanced to his post.
‘No—time’s up,’ said I, ‘Take a
pull at the bottle to steady your
nerves.’
He grabbed tho bottle and drank
about half a pint, and handed it back
to me, saying:
* I’m a gone goose, Sandy, certain.
You’ll find my will in my desk.—
Tell Molly I died like a man.’
‘ Pshaw! ’ said I, as I helped him
to his post. ‘Take good aim and
you’ll bring him the first fire.’
He managed to bring his rifle to a
present. Tom commenced, ‘One— ’
when bang! Jack’s rifle went off, fir
ing straight up in the air, while the
Kentuckian took deliberate aim and
blazed away, and down tumbled
Jack.
* See where I’m hurt, Sandy,’ said
he instantly.
‘Get up,’ said I; ‘you’re not
touched.’
‘Load up again,’ said the Ken
tuckian. ‘ I’ll pop him next time 1 ’
‘D’ye hear that?> said Jack.
* There was a double handful of slugs
in that cussed gun of his’n. llow I
wish I hadn’t come here!’
‘ Never mind,’ said I, as I loaded
his rifle; ‘you’ll have better luck
next time. Here’s your piece.’
’ I’ll hit him right between the eyes
this time,’ said the Kentuckian, as
Jack staggered to his feet.
‘l’ll be hanged if I stand this!’
said Jack, and throwing down his
gun, ho put off down the track like a
yearling deer, jumping about ten feet
at a bound.
‘Come back and be shot!’ yelled
the Kentuckian, raising his gun and
banging away.
This seemed to add wings to his
feet, and the way he flew was amus
ing. The Kentuckian gave a whoop
that would have shamed a Mohawk,
and started after Jack; bnt he might
as well have been whistling to a
March storm. Jack jumped higher
and farther every time he heard that
awful voice behind him, which he
seemed to consider the voioe of doom.
He ran as never man ran before, and
the Kentuckian soon gave up the
chase, and earne hack blowing like a
porpoise and swearing he’d have him
yet.
When wo got him cooled down a
little, we went bnok to town, for I
was anxious to know what had be
come of Jack.
I found that he’d already got to
his office, where he was lying on the
floor, breathing like a tired cun
‘Where is he, Sandy?’ he en
quired, as soon .ns he could speak.
‘Gone,’ said I, ’and glad to be
out of it.’
‘Do you think I came any ways
near hitting him ? ’ he asked.
'Yes,’ said I solemnly; ‘ho says
your ball went by his head like a
grape-shot.’
‘He’d like to been the death of
me,’ ho continued. ‘ I tell you, the
way his bullets sung was distress.,
ing 1 ’
I could hardly help laughing at tlio
blockhead, and had a good notion to
tell him aU about it, but didn’t.
As soon as ho got over his fright,
he commenced bragging about his
spunk, till I got disgusted, and left
him, telling him he’d better say aB
little about it as possible, for duelling
was against the law, and we might
all get our feet into it.
But we had a harder time with
‘Old Kentuck,’ who was the moat
unreasonable man I ever saw. Even
tually, however, we persuaded him
to let the matter drop, and a few days
afterwards be -left for home, never
having seen Jack sinoe the row.
As for the latter, he couldn’t keep
his mouth shutf Finally somebody
told the affair, and threatened to havo
it put into the'papers. This finished
him. ‘The Duel’ was in every
body’s month, and they carried him
so high about it that he actually left
the country.
That was the only duel I was ever
interested in, or ever expect to be, as
long as I keep what little sense I’ve
got now.
Curious Story about a Hawk.
A curious incident occurred a few
days since a short distance from this
city. One of our well known mer
chants had gone out on a visit to a
friend, at whose house there was a
bright little boy, and one day, to
please the child, he manufactured a
very large kite, and as the wind was
strong enough, the kite was raised at
once. After it had gone up nearly
half a mile, a large crowd of country
people collected to admire it, aa such
a magnificent toy had never been
Been in that section before. While
tho spectators were admiring it, a
very large hawk was seen to fly
slowly out of a neighboring grove
and go directly toward the kite. The
hawk approached within a few feet
of the strange looking object, and
then circled about under it for, per
haps, five minutes, when he flew
just above it and again circled around
several times. Suddenly he hovered
directly over the kite, and after look*
ing at it intently for a short time,
darted downward, and striking the
paper, passed directly through the
kite, coming out on the under side.
After this strange experience, which
no doubt puzzled the hawk vastly,
he flew off a short distance for reflec
tion, but still keeping the kite in
view, Not being disposed to give it
up so, he quickly returned to the
charge, and this .time fastened to the
long string of rags that were used as
a tail to the kite, which ho tore and
scattered in the air in a savage man
ner. Finding however, uo resistance
on the part of the kite, he became
disgusted or scarod, and flew away
toward the woods from whence lie
came. The gentleman says that
whenever the hawk made au attack
he would retroat a little, as if he ex
pected the strange bird was going to
return the assault. —lialtimore Amer
ican.
Thb Sanguinary Duel. —Two men
fought a duel. Let us distinguish
them by the names of A. and 8., re
spectively. It was a real, bona fide,
powder and ball affair. A. meant
business; so did B.
It was a terrible encounter.
A. had all the local part of his jaw
shot off, and several useful portions
of his epiglotis carried away. To
tally unfitted for his business as auc
tioneer, he died some years after of
dyspepsia of the brain.
B. parted company witli his left
arm, so he was compelled to pass
himself off as a disabled hero of the
rebellion, and accept a snug little of
fice in the United States custom house,
where there was nothing whatever
to do.
That is nil.
The dispute grew out of something
A. had said about B. B. said A. said
that B. said something, and B. said
he hadn’t said it.
Moral: Don’t duel.
From the Tans (Texas) North Tcx;in.
CODE OF ETHICS.
Duties of Physicians to Patients.
A physician should not only be
ever ready to obey the calls of the
sick, but his mind ought aiso to be
imbued with the greatness of his mis
sion, and the responsibility he habit
ually incurß in its discharge. The
obligations are the more deep and
enduring because there is no tribunal;
other than his own conscience, to ad
judge penalties for carelessness and
neglect; Physicians should, there
fore, minister to the sick with due
impressions of the importance of their
oflice; reflecting that the ease, the
health; and the lives of those commit
ted to their charge, depend on their
skill, attention and fidelity. They
should study, also, in their
incnt, so to unite tendei*ii||s and firm
ness, and condescension with author
ity, as to inspire the minds of their
patients with gratitude; respect and
confidence.
Every cose submitted to the Charge
of a physician should be treated with
attention, steadiness and humanity*
lieasonable indulgence should be
granted to the mental imbecility and
caprices of the sick. Seoreoy and
delicacy, when required by peculiar
circumstances, should be strictly ob
served ; and the familiar and confiden
tial intercourse to which physicians
are admitted in their professional vis
its, should be used with discretion;
and with the most scrupulous regard
to fidelity and honor. The obliga
tion of secrecy extends beyond the
period of professional services: none
of the privacies of personal and do
mestic life, no infirmity of disposition
or flaw of character observed during
professional attendance, should ever
be divulged by the physician, except
when he is imperatively demanded to
do so. The force and necessity of
this obligation are indeed so great,
that professional men have, under
certain circumstanoes, been protected
in their observance of secrecy by
courts of justice.
Frequent visits to the sick are, in
general, requisite, since they enable
the physician to arrive at a more per
fect knowledge of the disease—to
meet promptly every change which
may occur, and also tend to preserve
the confidence of the patient. But
unnecessary visits are to be avoided;
as they give useless anxiety to the
patient, tend to diminish the author
ity of the physician, and render him
liable to be suspected of interested
motives.
A physician should not fee forward
to make gloomy prognostications,
because they savor of empiricism, by
magnifying the importance of his ser
vices in the treatment or cure of the
disease. But he should not fail, on
proper occasions, to give to the
friends of the patient timely notioe
of danger when it really occurs; and
even to tho patient himself, when it
is absolutely necessary. This office,
however, is so peculiarly alarming
when executed by him, that it ought
to be declined whenever it can be
assigned to any other person of suffi
cient judgment and delicacy. For
the physician should be tho minister
of hope and comfort to the sick; that,
by such cordials to the drooping
spirit, he may smooth the bed of
death, revive the expiring life, and
counteract tho depressing influence
of those maladies which often disturb
the tranquility of the most resigned
in their last moments. The.life of a
sick person can be shortened not only
by the acts, but also by the words or
the manner of a physician. It is,
therefore, a sacred duty to guard
himself carefully in this resjmet, and
to avoid all things which have a ten
dency to discourage the patient and
to depress his spirits.
A physician ought not to abandon
a patient becanse the case is deemed
incurable; for his attendance may
continue to bo highly useful to the
patient, and comforting to the rela
tives around him, even in the last pe
riod of a fatal malady, by alleviating
pain and other symptoms, and by
soothing mental anguish. To decline
attendance under such circum stances,
would be sacrificing to fanciful deli
cacy and mistaken liberality that
moral duty which is independent of,
and far superior to, all pecuniary con
sideration.
Consultations should be promoted
in difficult or protracted cases, as
they give rise to confidence, energy,
*d more enlarged views in practice.
The opportunity which a physician-
$2 A YEAR
not unfroquently enjoys of promoting
and strengthening the good resold
lions of Ilia patients, suffering ttnd. r
the consequences of vicious conduct,
ought never to be neglected. Ilia
counsels, or even remonstrances, will
give satisfaction, not offence, if they
be profferred with politeness, and
evince a genuine love of virtue, act
compafaied by A sincere interest in'
the welfare of the person td whom
they are addressed.
Some general rtiles should be
adopted by the faculty, in every town*
or district, relative to pecuniary ac
knowledgments from their patients j.
and it should be deemed a point of
honor ti) Adhere to these rifle* wit If
as much uniformity as varying cir
cumstances will admit.
By order of the Board;
J. F. Hooks, SeCrGlarJfc
The Meanest Yet. —Some gentle
men were talking about meanness;
when one said he ImeAr A man off
Lexingtoli avenue, who was the
meanest man in New York!
“How mean is that?” asked t
friend.
“Why; he is sd mfeari that ke
keeps a five cent piece, with a string
tied to it, to give to beggars,' ana,
when their backs are fumed, jerks it
out of their pockets 1 ’’
“ Why, this man is so mßatl, (s cOii
tinued the gentleman, “ that he gave"
his children ten centß apiece the
night before the Fourth of July, but
during the night; when they were
asleep, he went up stair*; took the
money out of their clothes, And then
whipped them in tho morning fof
loosing it! ’’
“ Does he do any thing else ? •*
“ Yes; the other day I dined witli
him, and I noticed the poor little ser
vant girl whistled gaily all the wa/
up stairs with the dessert, and when'
I asked my generous friend whrft
made her whistle so happily, he said:
‘ Why, I keep her whistling so she
can’t eat the raisins Out of the cake.”
An editor discussing “col
leges,” mentions an instance where a
far-seeing parent proposed to make* a
great international lawyer of his son,
and at Harvard and Heidelberg his
whole attention was turned in that
direction; He studied law in the
best schools in Europe and Ameriba/
graduated with the highest honors,
and is now a wealthy and successful
machinist, and plays the organ id
church every Sunday—the one valu- r
able remainder of his German school*
ing. The final product of ill this
legal and linguislio lore is a gentle-'
man; a mechanic, and a musician, ac
tive in all the better paths of life/
ripe in scholarship, but not s law
yor.
ty A dispatob tt> tie New Yor*
Sun says there is an excellent author*
ity for saying that President Grant
has determined to offer the place of
Chief Justice of the United States to
the Hon. Roscoe Conklin, Of He#
York. This compliment he
ers to be only a due reward for thrf
services of Mr. Conklin in list year’s
presidential campaign and for his un<s
hesitating support of the administr**’
tion in every respect.
Whother Mr. Conklin will accept
this honor is regarded as doubtful/
He is a Senator and a politick#, in<|
is believed to have his eye fixed u]ponf
the pole star of aU American states!*
men.
A Portland sea captain, who hi#
been absent from home some eighfr
years, arrived tho other day. Call-*
ing upon a lady friend soon after hie
arrival, he was pained to see what btf
supposed to be the result of somer
terrible injury to the spine. He del-*
icatcly questioned her on the subject,
but she was apparently at a lew fo*
comprehend his- meaning. Finally
after much canvassing at cross- purr-*
poses, the lady discovered that the’
salt seriously supposed her panier to*
be a tumor or some other unsightly
uxcresence caused by disease of the*
spine.
The latest verdict recorded
was upon a gentleman who expired
in a fit of inebriation. The jury re--
turned, “Death by hanging—round
a rum shop.” This was savage, and
devoid of regard for the gentleman’s
fainily. In a similar case in Califor--
nia the verdict was more gracefully'
and considerately put: “Acciden
tal death while unpacking glass.”
B&T A Connecticut paper solemnly'
asserts that a man fractured the eeii---
ing just above a chair in which there- 1
had been placed a hot poker.-