July 9, 1883, Monday

Heavy rain early in the morning and again at midnight.  It is becoming distressing.  But our cane on these places is all pretty clean and is growing fast.  Much of it 7 feet high and with 3 to 4 joints.
Wrote Nation about Southern dueling - Why are Elam and Beirne any more "ruffians" as the Nation calls them - than Frenchmen, Prussians, Austrians, Italians and Spaniards who fight duels?