| Show from the dally of november 17 A story about the rant goodew kilias ki liag n 0 B i kimt about colonel aal KD ue like a calf A pirty of gentlemen in conversation ast at be palace the fight at axing ton kenta ky cc a few daas ago aati aa a result of which two gentlemen of ahat scata lost lives mr W 0 B green of maysville kentucky the party and it was he who wed thea boie quotation bhae a letter from my father raid mr green in which he gihei the details of the fight ho rays that when colonel goodloe was being tarried out of the postoffice post office after he troi ibl was over he cooled back toward colonel ope and baid with evident daust at the moral weakness of his opponent lie squealed like a calf the fact is continued mr green that colonel swope actually cried out each time he waa struck hy colonel goodloe it is true hat almost from the first colonal goodloe 0 o have abo best of the fight his first act was 0 o cut colonel futol hand almost severing it from tha arm but his did not by any means prevent him from being the ati 1 and aba with fatal results aa vou know were you personally acquainted with the contestants asked a beald ABU reporter yes air si with colonel 0 olloe on of the in which existed alten hain ad roy altier at tier aliey were closely related kiy ties of triet dilip although aliey were opposed to aaili other in politics bat politics did cot cut any fenre in their friendship indeed Damo crata aa atell s in Kentuck yi held colonel woodloe in the lii glet gt eero I 1 am bore there wan no other roan in the detale BO generally gane rally and admired aa he his qualities were of alie most tinned gentlemen ilia adix aranca was that ol 01 and if I 1 may ba permitted the euprea eion be waa a handsome han diome a man as I 1 ever lie was not by his immediate amt be ethod foremost among the leading alro professional men and not only in tho state but in the nation allow me to mention the names of the lall bearers ex president R B haves lion 3 6 assistant postmaster general daniel sewart D U bell squire major IL 0 mcdowell McDo dr J W whitney general james F W W baldwin and thomas M green of maysville colonel E F clay ot bourbon senator beck aad general aaser you aea that colonel Good loes memory Is reveraa by some men in high the quarrel between the two men goes back to a time about the cloe of the war when colonel wai private secretary to liis uncle cossius M clay who was minister to cussia and there bad been a bitter neB be treen them up to the time of the trouble the knife with which the colonel defended himself I 1 have seen many a time it was a horn handle koife euch as is used by hunters and was to him a jew aro by a ep man named jack Chinn who purchased a dozen of the knives and gave one to each of a party of hooters with whom be waa on a trip china used one of the knives in a cutting scrape he had on the latonia race courte the dr ofed into the discussion of deeds of bravery and desperation when mr green re 1 I have seen eoma daring hinga done but there is one I 1 saw which 1 abail never forget and I 1 am sure I 1 could not for it made my blood almost still I 1 was bitting in a room in a mountain cooney listen to the evidence of a when the man he was testifying against came into the court room and quickly draw log a shotgun alred and scattered the braina of the witness a portion at beca lodging on my shoulder was I 1 scared no not inich but I 1 immediately made myself hard to batih I 1 was but a boy and while I 1 dont mind an ordinary fight that was each a horrible tiling that I 1 lout my balance 0 power kertacy Ken tacy appears to be gaining in notoriety in the fighting tine observed one 0 the party well replied mr green the act ta that the feuds you read about in the newspapers occur la ilia mountain districts where the people are illiterate and lire in poverty and they have no sense of refinement nor have they any du cation they are quarrelsome aad ill content with their lives of course it is true eliat anen of education aad in that stale aa in other avenue their wrongs sometimes to the deahl but the outlawry ia confined to the ignorant and lower dames mr green ts the eon of 11 green editor of the maysville layle and a of the cincinnati commercial over the cwm d the two years ago nave an account of a very hard tight in which that gentleman the victor it occurred on account ot anae newspaper articles and mr greene assailant met and threatened bia life draft ing a pistol mr green clinched with bia opponent whose name waa baldwin and after striking him a mow drew bis gun and shot baldwin through receiving a baiot in the back sir green staggered toward hotel and fell into the anni of his colonel goodloe ho ickov ered and v as honorary hono raMy discharged by court of abis briefly la the newspaper citory 0 the as is appeared at the time |
