Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1878 — Ye Deadly Duello. [ARTICLE]

Ye Deadly Duello.

Two young men loved the same lass in Kinderhook, N. Y.; one was accepted and the other rejected; and the unsuccessful suitor challenged his rival to a duel with pistols, which was fought last Sunday afternoon under the trees on the old Wild farm. There were two seconds. The ground was duly paced off, and the two rivals, with faces as pale as death, were beiDg placed in position, when the discarded lover demanded a parley. The seconds looked at the other man. A tumultuous struggle was raging in his breast. To die was not a pleaaant trick, and there was many a girl in the world. While these thoughts flashed through his brain, the courage of his opponent was rapidly oozing out at his finger ends, and simultaneously they cast down their weapons, and, to the intense surprise and disgust of the waiting seconds, rushed upon each other. A short, sharp struggle followed, and at its close the disappointed swain lay with a bleeding nose at the feet of his foe, who demanded the immediate surrender of all claim to the beautiful cause of strife. The jealous soul surrendered and the victorious lover went home to his bread and cheese and kisses.