Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1877 — Forrest and Kilpatrick. [ARTICLE]

Forrest and Kilpatrick.

Summer before last, -when Gen. Judson Kilpatrick was canvassing Indiana for the” Republicans, he spoke of the late Gen. Forrest in such a way that the latter challenged him to fight a duet As soon as the challenge was sent Forrest wrote to Gen. Basil Duke, of Kentucky, that in case his invitation was accepted—which he did not doubt for a moment — he would call on Duke to be his second. The letter further said that in the necessary arrangement he would like Gen. Duke to insist that the duel should be fought on horseback with sabers, as that was the proper way for two cavalrymen to meet. Gen. Duke at once engaged for his principal a steed for the encounter—a horse recommended by his owner to go over a church steeple if necessary —and awaited Gen. Kilpatrick’s reply. Kilpatrick, however, declined to fight, on the ground that he and Forrest “ did not move in the same social sphere.” Had this duel taken place it doubtless would have been conducted in a style delightfully dramatic. -New York World. The average annual increase in population per 1,000, among the chief nations of Europe during the years 1872-1875 was: In Switzerland, 7.5; in Italy, 6.3; in France, 3.8; in Austro-Hungary, 6.2; in Germany, 12; in England 13.9. A Cornell Sophomore, O'. reading ‘ Daniel Deronda,” remarked that the President of Harvard was a good writer.