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mutual friends were negotiating; Smith withdrew the offensive card, and challenged his antagonist. They met on the 1 7th across the bay, a mile from shore, on a flat piece of ground, four seconds and two surgeons, with a county judge and sheriff being in the distance. Weapons, Colts' navy revolvers. Smith won the choice of ground, distance ten paces. Twelve shots were fired in all. Smith's third shot hit Broderick's ■ watch, passing through it and slightly wounding him. At the second fire Broderick's pistol failed to revolve, and from that time his whole front was exposed to Smith's fire, as he was compelled to use both hands. Both were cool. Smith was satisfied. No arrests were made, as in the case of McDougal a short time before.

On board the boat from San Francisco to Sacramento, in May, a dispute arose between W. H. Carter and H. A. DeCourcy, editor of the Calaveras Chronicle, in which Carter slapped DeCourcy 's face. DeCourcy then challenged Carter, and on reachhig Sacramento they crossed the river and fought with pistols twenty paces. DeCourcy was struck at the first fire and the battle ended.

The 16th of June a duel was fought by two Frenchmen at Sonora, California, in which one of them was killed. A mining claim was the matter in dispute.

Near the racecourse at San Francisco, the 8th of July, Wethered and Winter fought with Colt's revolvers at ten paces. After the first shot Winter's pistol revolved with difficulty, and at the fourth shot he received a ball in the side which struck his ribs and gliding round made a flesh wound which terminated the aftair.

At a banquet tendered to Colonel Magruder of San Diego by the Angeles citizens, in 1852, the question of great men came up, and a doctor made mellow with wine declared that his father was the greatest American. Magruder called the doctor a damned fool. A challenged followed: derringers across a