Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1868 — A BIT OF A SPHER. [ARTICLE]

A BIT OF A SPHER.

Last Monday, Patrick p.Mien, an JindießH eitUa n of IlibcruiAu descent, and the “ilkgent? propi ietoi' of the “Whosalo I.iqudr JStoro” I cottier of WasbingtoH and Front i Streets, avent into John* Hindus’ sa- ! looq on Front Street and, with two I or three ofliers, calkdfor thodrinJcs, ■ While, befog waited upon, and ns • Baldiis bad partially hiAuJd around I frbm him. Put improved the interim in throwing his at -him, bat missed his aim however, au<l the missel struck the wall beyond, knocking oil - the At once comprehending the situation, B-.ddus,* who is heavily Teutonic, seized an ax-helve standing behind his bar, caino nutanJ grasping Bar.tQn_c<yfP menced “whaling away.” lie- was interrupted in his pla) fu.l froiie by one of the bystanders stepping be tween and wrchchiiig the club from his hands. The, coftibatrtiils then clinched and Baidas partially stuof bled over some einjity beer kegs in one corner of the room But immediately recovering himself brougWt up his reserve and by a powerful effort Succeeded in getting the better of Patrick, who hastily scrambling up saw an opening and “struck out” of doors and down the street. Baldus gathered his club and “went forTiim” nnj succeeded in striking the die aprue just as he was clearing they ««4*er, bringing him to a painful sense of the situation, and tnen “repeated in good order’’ witliifr. hfo Htdoon. -- Finding the enemy had “withdrawn his forces,” Barton gathered a couple of dornicks, changed front and marched up street to his owfi saloviij where he quietly; awaited the coining of the officers of justice, and enn ployed LLUei<ayq tile blood horn an Ugly gash over his left eye.