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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 24, 30 January 1888, Page 7

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icorrßßpandenfc in America of " Vanity '.fiff* frites: —"IVed May is a handsome ljom%<W2ai abont town,' tall, of splendid jibjiM proportions, and a champion piKlgtp He foaghfe a duel some years ago triili James Gordon Bennett, ia said to have vMppedßnfialoßlll in a rough-and-tumble fjjhVamris generally the terror of the $ew York masher.

"On the other hand, Colonel Mike Duffy, flffißotDrinaK Southern gambler and sporting mm, is the terror of New Orleans. ftnfry is thirty-three years old, of slim hoild and gentlemanlike appearance. He hMparticakriy fine eyes ; is calm, resolute, iiri dangtrooa. ."Sot long since he sat conversing at a 'late and early' hour in Walhenberg's fiakam in New York, when Fred May talked in. After talking awhile, those present began trials of strength —putting down arms, each elbow, on the table, lifting chairs at arm's length, in all of which feats May's tremendous muscle placed him first. He forced the arm of Police-Inspector Hickey, who is a very strong man, to tie table with ease. Duffy smoked and looked on. Finally the conversation turned on Mrs Langtry. After she had teen discussed for some minutes, -Mr May, drawing himself up to his full height, and glaring at Duffy, who happened to be ■speaking, said (banging the table with his fet)~

"'I don't care to have that lady talked about here.' "There was a dead silence for a moment or two, then Duffy, looking across the table «fc May, quietly remarked— " 'Mrs Langtry is a pulbiccharacter, and therefore public property; any man has the right to talk of her when and where he pleases.'

'"Noman shall do it here,' thundered May.

"Oh ! yes, he can,' said the Southerner, calmly. ' I can, and I will. I have a good j?wd to send round to her house now, and Kejf s(h e w&n't come to supper with me.' As he spoke, the Colonel leant forward on the table, gazing directly into the eyes ra May, whilst the rest of the crowd pushed weir chairs back. ]]' £o. you won't,' said May. . Yes, I will,'said Duffy. Yon are a liar,'said May. J Everybody rose. Inspector Hickey and «aers instantly threw themselves on May, wo had rushed at Duffy. Captain Morgan ™°lc the hitter's arm and endeavoured to r* w h"a away, but Duffy shook himself ™°»» and walking up to the crowd who *»c straggling with May, said— ,-ji. S°thobigman: he is a coward "A bar. He is afraid you will let him so. ihe whole thing is a bluff. If you let him ioo;e he u-on'tcotne near me.' fa/. hls7 as sPoken within a foot of May's r*; and as the crowd forced him sWly ".the door, Duffy, preserving the r™e careless attitude, continued to wont.him. They were finally separS\l i S co"sideied a 'close call' -nay. Had it happened in New Orleans nnt I**' W here the crowd would certainly haye L interfered, it would have been conßde rably closer- . Further developments'are expected." aW ? apers have been full of anecdotes cXS a 7 Lind « bufc> as «sual, they have gjwed to miss the best of all. It is con--1847* !t^ a ?ejiter ' written from Paris in Ac ft nli • ess of ifc > and an actor in it. there w-T^f Gem 'an town last autumn Und u4 a trf lnend°us./itf-ore about Jenny aad'K af(? r drivin? tlie wll°le place ioa' <n °ncr travels early one mornthe a^ mon »ant her carriage was outside c^ort!/^* y °[ ram Panfc students, who \raßhed back to fche inn« de' «whifLftr o hr bedi a", u ' ewept Mleated> K. ■ fcali'S into the room ■ ™ "^Wtpi, up tHe Bheets, and

wore them in strips as in decorations. An hour or two afterwards, a bald old gentleman of amiable appearance, an Englishman, who was staying in the hotel, came to breakfast at the table d'hote* and was observed to ba much disturbed in mind, and to show great terror whenever a student cams near him. At last he said, in a low voice, to some people who were near him afc the table, ' You are English gentlemen, I observe. Most extaordinary people, these Germans. Students, in a body, raving mad, gentlemen !' ' Oh, no,' said somebody else,' excitable, but very good fellows, and vei'y sensible.' 'By God, sir!' returned the old gentleman, still more disturbed, r ' then there's something political in it, and 11 am a marked man. I went out for a walk this morning after shaving, and while I was gone'—h<j fell into a terrible perspiration as ho told it—' they burst into my bedroom, tore up my sheets, and are now patrolling the town in all directions with bits of 'em in their buttonholes.' " It is needless to add that they had gone