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FAMOUS KIKL1) OK HON'OH. Many of .Nations Most Notable Duels Were Kou^ht at Hlnnriensburg. The old Blandensburg dueling ground where the nation's great once fought to uphold their honor, is soon to be converted into building lots for happy homes, and the happy shouts of childhood will soon echo where once the murderous pistol barked, the swords clashed, the dying duelists moaned. The famous dueling ground bor ders a small brook and is about fifteen acres in extent, flat and low, and covered with weeds, grass, vines and an occasional cedar. It was convenient to Washington, close enough to Blandensburg. Md., for a night's lodging, and easy of escape from legal authority on either side of the district line. .More than fifty hostile meetings took place on the banks of this lonely and melancholy brook?some fatal, some bloodless. The first victim was Edward Hopkins, of Maryland, an ensign of infantry. He fell early in 1814. Two duels were fought on the ground that were especially desperate. One was between General Mason, senator from Virginia, and Golonel McCarty, from the same State. Although they were cousins they had a violent tilt at the polls t in Leesburg, Ya. Mason challenged MeCarty's vote and McCarty at once challenged Mason's life. Mason at first declined, was called a coward I and then determined to die. if need be. to refute the charge. Neither would consent to terms in which there was the least escape from death for the other. They proposed to leap from the Capitol dome together and fight on the way down, or to fight on a barrel of powder to be ignited by a slow fuse, but objections were raised by their seconds. They finally agreed to fight with muskets charged with buckshot and at ten feet distance. The parties spent the night previous to the battle in what is now known as the George Washington house at Blandensburg. At 8 o'clock on the morning of February 6, 1819, they 'repaired to the field of honor. The citizens of Blandensburg congre' gated in a snow storm to witness the event. The weapons were chosen, ground measured, choice decided antagonists placed, seconds and surgeons at hand, word was given both fired simultaneously. Mason fell dead and McCarty was badly wounaea. The other notorious meeting was the one that made the ground forever famous. It was fought by Jas. Barron and Stephen Decatur. Both were prominent in the navy, but Decatur was the "bright and shining Si'' star," the pride of the service, and when he fell the nation sorrowed and grieved. This duel is said to have been caused solely by gossip and 6lander, and came off without a formal challenge from either party. Commodore Decatur was a member of the court-martial and voted to suspend Barron in 1S07 for allowing the crew of the British ship Leonard to board and search the fri\ gate Chesapeake, which Barron commanded. Commodore Decatur opposed every application in after years that Barron made for restoration in rank, and although it is said Decatur acted the part of a true man at the court-martial and subsequently, nevertheless Barron naturally considered him his enemy. Some one reported that Barron had been challenged to combat by Decatur. Decatur denied the report and wrote: "I do not think that the fighting of duels under any circumstances ? can raise the reputation of any man, and have since discovered that it is ' /V not. even an unerring criterion of personal courage." From tnis report insuns aiiu tuirespondence accumulated. The following is an extract from a letter of Barron to Decatur, dated November 19, 1819, the original of which is in the possession of Mrs. Janie Hope Marr. of Virginia: "You acknowledge that you had formed and expressed an opinion unfavorable to me. and yet your conscience was made of such pliable material that because the then honorable secretary of the navy was pleased to insist on your serving as a member of the court-martial, and because I did not protest against it you conceive that duty constrained you to take your seat as a member, although you were to act under the solemn sanction of an oath to render me impartial justice upon the very testimony from which you formed an unfavorable opinion of me. How such conduct can be reconciled with the principles of common honor k and justice to me is inexplicable. Under such circumstances no consideration, no power or authority on earth could or ought to have force any. liberal, high minded man to sit in case in which he had a prejudice." The final result was that these two men, unquestioned in courage and holding the highest grade in the navy at the time, stifled their better judgment and on March 22, 1820, KLl'DKS AMAHS' WATCH. Another German Cruiser Puts Into Newport News. Newport News. Va., April 11.?The C.erman converted cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelin. another of tliose elusive raiders of comnierce in the South seas, slipped into this port today and asked for fuel and provisions. .Many times reported destroyed, the former North German Lloyd liner evaded evaded hostile warships for eight months while she sent fifteen merchantmen to the bottom, and her officers say she was forced to steal her way through a fleet of four allied cruisers off this coast in order to reach this refuge. "We got in without being seen by the enemy, and we can get out the same way," declared her commander, Lieut. Capt. Paul Thierfelder, formerly navigating officer of the German cruiser Karlisruhe. When she anchored off Old Point the Wilhelm had less than twentyfive tons of coal and scant provisions for the crew of ">00 men and 61 prisoners from British merchant ships sunk in the South Atlantic. Of the fifteen ships that the drab-painted 15,000-ton cruiser came with a record of capturing, fourteen of them sunk, nine were British, four French and one Norwegian. The British ship Chasehill. captured, was allowed to proceed, taking to shore more than 300 prisoners from previous raids. I The value of these snips ana meiri I cargoes officers of the Wilhelm to-1 j night estimated at $7,000,000. Ileinarkable lteronl. Since she slipped out of New York! ; harbor. August 3 last, as a German | merchant and passenger steamer, tiie I Wilhelm never touched land and took 900 prisoners from various vessels | destroyed. ^ Forcibly Feed I.ig Snake. . After being imported from India. | the largest snake caged in the Lin I coin Park zoo, at Chicago, steadfastly refused to take nourishment and was believed to be gradually starving | to death. In the several months of j his captivity his weight decreased I from 300 to 215 pounds. Numerous ! methods of rousing him were tried j without success, until a food gun was ' purchased and the reptile fed forci iblv. The instrument is provided j with a large cylinder and a plunger | actuated by a crank. The snake was : taken from his cage, given a hot Ibath, during which his summer coat j was removed, and then placed on a board, 50 feet in length, at. the end ;of which the food gun was with its cylinder, loaded with 20 pounds of 'chopped pork and beef % mixed with | fresh pig's blood, was mounted. The strength of 20 men were required to ' carry out this operation. A board 'through which a circular hole was 'drilled was then inserted between the; reptile's jaws, and a tube extending! from the nozzle of the food machine! I passed through this into his throat.! (The crank was turned, and the meat! ; forced into the snake. Before the! operation was finished 50 pounds of | the mixture was disposed of in this I manner, and the snaKe was tnen re-: turned to his cage.?March Popular! Mechanics Magazine. Pardon Petitions Considered. Columbia, April 10.?The pardon board met here today to go over the petitions for clemency. Over a score of convicts field petitions for pardons and paroles. The board went over each case carefully and will later make its report to the governor. This is the first meeting of the board of pardons under the administration I of Governor Manning. All of the | members were present as follows: Henry C. Tillman, of Greenwood: \V. E. Jenkinson, of Kingstree, and D. G. Ellison, of Columbia. Read Bamberg Herald $1.50 year. took their places eight paces apart ion the field Blandensburg. Face to j face they raised their pistols and I took deliberate aim although it has j been asserted that Decatur intendi orl nnlv trt wntinri his nnnnnent. The fact that Barron was hit in the exact spot Decatur had indicated seems to bear out his claim. Commodore Bainbridge was Decatur's second, while Captain Elliot acted for Barron. Before the command to fire was given Barron addressed Decatur: "Sir, I hope on meeting in another world we will be better friends than in this." Decatur replied: "I have never been your enemy, sir." Both fired at the same instant. Both fell, revived, forgave, regretted the act, and parted. Both were taken to Washington, Decatur to ms nome i near Lafayette square, where he soon ' died. Barron, after IS days of con-j valescent was removed to Hampton, Va. A few days later the two met and renewed their old friendship. Xo duels have been fought there since the Civil war. The superstitious say the place is haunted.?Kansas City Times. I'KACII CHOI' XOT DA.MAGKD. Tlio Department of Agriculture .Makes Statement. Washington, April !?.?No material damage has been suffered by I the peach crop in South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama since the freeze ! of .March 22, according to telegraphic, reports from growers made public j today by the department of agricul-' ture. In the .March freeze fifty to' sixty per cent of the crop was report-1 ed killed in the three States. A crop of 100 per cent, was report- j ed from these districts, where there was no frost damage: Cornelia. Adairsville. Woodbury, Thomasston, Warm Springs and Thomasville, Ga. | ^ I Reports from districts tnai sunered from the freeze showed forty to fifty per cent, of the crop left at Leesville. Modoc and Batesburg. S. C., fifty per cent at Byron, Ga., and Beachburg, Ala., forty per cent', at Fort Valley and Marshallville, Ga. A Noble letter. If the Germans know how to hate, they also understand the nobler sentiments of respect ana sympathy. While their bitterness toward the English has brought to the surface a certain hardness and bitterness, their attitude toward-the French indicates no such feeling. The tolerant contempt with which Prussian strength and pride looked upon France before the war has changed to admiration by the steadiness, courage and calmness with which the French have met their invasion. There is little doubt that today Germany would welcome an alliance with I France; ana uerman soimers ?omu gladly throw down their arms to rush across the trenches and shake hands with their antagonists. This respect for a brave foe has found admirable expression in a letter of consolation from a German army doctor to a stranger- -the widow of a distinguished Frenchman killed in battle, Pierre Lerov-Beaulieu. '"Honored Madame," wrote the doctor, in the midst of his overwhelming hospital work, "while expressing my deepest, condolence. T have the honor to acquaint you with the fact that monsieur, your husband, captain of a territorial section of the ?th artillery regiment, died yesterday in my ambulance station as a result of a severe wound in the head. Also that when he was brought in to me he had been fighting with the bravery of a hero. "After all his men had fallen he went on serving his gun with his own hands. When he was obliged to cease he continued to defend himself with his revolver, until he was brought down by the bullet which entered his right temple and damaged his eye. "He was wounded on January 13. The wound was so grave that he immediately lost consciousness, and did not recover it until his death, which was without suffering and gentle. The burial took place today in our military cemetery, with military honors, in the presence of German officers and soldiers. "The grave has been ornamented with a cross, and may be recognized by the number 76. The benediction was given by the Catholic priest of our army corps. I bend my head in sincere respect and profound admiration before the valor of this comrade, fighting heroically to the last extremity for his Fatherland. "At the same time it is my sincere regret that our medical science, which of course did everything that could be done for him. failed to preserve this life so precious to his kin. "Accept, madame, the expression of my highest esteem. May God comfort you and your children. "DR. GEISSLER, "Stabsarzt,?th Army Corps." One may read "war stuff" for months without finding anything so fine as this. For deep sympathy and | genuine nobility of expression, it almost deserves to rank with the famous letter written by Abraham Lincoln to the mother who had five sons killed in the Civil war. Little Willie Knew. Congressman Robert M. 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