Rhode Island American, Statesman And Providence Gazette

A CLERICAL BELLIGERENT.

A singular duel took place recently in a village near Grenoble.—Two officers having gone to a house to breakfast, seated themselves near a table where a priest was making a 'dejeuner maigre,' it being Friday. With a view to annoy him, one of them invited him to take a slice of a leg of mutton, which he declined. The officer then held to the priest's nose a slice upon his fork, and urged him to eat it. Upon a second refusal, the officer struck the priest a blow on the head, which the latter returned as hastily. A proposition was then made to settle the quarrel with pistols, but the priest chose swords. A duel was fought, and the officer receiving a wound, was conveyed to the hospital. —The other offering to revenge his comrade, a second was fought, in which the priest killed his adversary. He then went and related the whole affair to the Bishop of Grenoble, who ordered him to retire to the seminary.