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THE DONALDSONVILLE CHIEF.
VOLUME 1. DONALDSONVILLE, LA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1871. NUMBER 12.
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tor and proprietor personslly.
State Senator Wilbur P. Blakm ,
of Claiborne, is spoken of as the probi
able Democratic candidate for Gove'
nor next year.
The latest instans of editorial cour
tesy is that of uae of our southertt
Louisiana contemporaries calling an'=
other a " sore-headed lunatjc."
No doubt the author of "Write me
a letter from home" was expecting iu
remittance from the old folks, and
wrote that pathetic ballad to remind
them of it.
Terrebonne calls the present termi
nus of its new branch railroad Whist
key Point. No doubt a very popular
name among the denizens of that par.
ish, but we don't admire it.
We have received for the first time E
a copy of the Louisiana Farmer, pub
lished at Arcadia, in this State, but it
is so badly printed we are unable to c
read it. If the publishers expect us
to exchange they must send us reads- t
ble numbers of their journal. i
. ~ Ce
Mr. Daniel Dennett, for twenty-fve
years editor of the New Iberia Pltn
ters' Banner, has retired from that
journal, and it now passes into tt
hands of Messrs. W. L. Smylie and
A. Dennett, the latter a son of the re},
tiring editor.
A Cairo Coroner's Jury brought in
a verdict that deceased had " stultified
himself with green trash." It seen)s
the man had been reading the Demr,
cratic papers previous to the recelit
elections, and after returns came in
the stut' went back on him.
The telegraph a few days since
brought the heart-rending intelligeni e
that the Prince of Wales had passed a
sleepless night. Countless thousands
await with trembling anxiety to leahn
the cause of this fearful catastrophe.
Perhaps the Prince was up all night
playing "draw poker."
We mentioned a couple of week's
since that Hon. H. C. Dibble, judge of
the Eighth District Court of New Or
leans, had entered suit for libel against
Mr. J. M. West, publisher of the New
Orleans Patriot. The matter having
been brought before the Grand Jury,
that body found a true bill against the
ascused, and an order has been issued
for his arrest.
We leanm from the Houma Patriot
that the Banner, of that town, 'as
been suspended for the past three or
four weeks, but may soon be iss ed
again, as a large lot of Tax Collectdr's
advertisements will be ready for pub
lication in a short time. When he
funny man of the Iberville Pieonee is
again driven to desperation for wint
of something to write about, and has
to get off that "pap sheet" joke of his
for the twentieth time, let him m4ke
the Banner the objective point of `his
witless witticism.
And now some Democratic jour als
.are pr91agilng the name of Thoma4 A.
Scott, tie Delaware railroad autoctat,
as an available candidate for the r ext
Presidency because he can bring Lrto
the contest tye influence of some of
th largest ralroad and other coepo
rations in the e9u try. We fear Mr.
Scott's deas of the way in which this
country should be governed are of too
narrow gauge to suit a mmjority of the
people. But there is no denying he
would make a good President-of any
railroqn company in the cqq pry
Cheek's Exploit.
Seventy-five Yen Routed by One-Details
of the Attempted Lynching at Brook
ville.
[From the Cincinnati Gazette. Nov. 21.]
A dispatch from Brookville, Indi
ana, published in yesterday's Gazette,
announced that an attempt was made
on Saturday night last to lynch
McDonald Cheek, now confined in the
jail at that place, for the murder of
his father-in-law, Thomas Harrison,
I about a year ago. From parties resid
o ing near Brookville, who were cog
nizant of the facts at the time they
occurred, we have obtained the fol
lowing particulars, which bear the
impress of truth :
At about half past twelve o'clock
last Sunday morning, a mob com
posed of some seventy-five or eighty
residents of Aurora and Manchester
entered Brookville and proceeded to
the jail, for the purpose of hanging
McDonald Cheek. They had come
in wagons, in two bodies, from differ
eat directions, and, by preconcerted
arrangement, met in the outskirts of
the village, leaving their wagons
about a mile out of town, in the tim
ber on the west fork of the White
water. The persons composing the
party were clad in great coats, reach
ing the knee and long capes. They
were all masked and seemed to be
under command of a chief, whose
orders were carried one so far as the
unforeseen difficulties in the way of
their self-imposed mission permitted.
On their way to the jail they were
encountered by several citizens, who
were promptly ordered into their hou
ses under penalty of death. To one
who met them a short distance from
the prison, and demurred to the order,
they said : " Go back into your house
if you don't want to get shot." And
to another who questipned them In
regard to their errand: "We don't
want to hart anybody here, but we
are going to hang Cheek."
Arriving at the jail, sledge-hammers
and crowbars were produced, and the
work of breaking the outer doors
commenced. These were three in
number, constructed of iron, and
withstood the united efforts of the
mob for soap twenty minutes before
an entrance was forced. As the last
door fell, the party formed in military
order, and, bifore entering, indulged
in a little formality, which, under the
circumstances, seems slightly super
fluous. The leader, standing at the
entrance, repeated the words: "One,
two, three, in goes he," and stepped
inside, followed by his companions,
each one as he entered repeating the
cabalistic wel, which, in view of
the anexpected termination of the
attempt, when it became necessary to
reverse the movement and hurriedly
execute " out goes he," impart a
ludicrous tinge to what was intended
to be a tragic retribution.
A long ball runs through the jail,
upon each side of which are located
the cells. Cheek occupied the third
one from the outer door, on the right
hand side. The cell doers were open,
as is the custom, in order to give the
prisoners opportunities for exercise in
the halls.
With the first blow upon the solid
outer doors, Cheek roused from his
slumber, and knew intuitively that
an hour for which he has long looked,
had come. Alone, in the darkness of
his cell, knowing that there was but
little probability of the arrival of aid,
he made preparations for defence,
determined at least to sell his life as
dearly as he could. Wrenching a
post from the low bedstead, from
which he had but just risen, he took
his station neai the door, and awaited
the coming struggle. In spite of the
awful crime that brought him to a
murderer's cell, one cannot repress a
sentiment of admiration for the cool
ness and courage with which he pre
pared to meet what seemed his inevit
able doom.
The leader of the mob knocked on
the door of the first cell, in which
was confined a prisoner named Coul
ter, on a charge of murder. In an
swer to the inquiry " Who's there t "
Coulter replied, giving his name.
Said the spokesman of the party:
" We don't want you, Coulter; we are
friends of yours. Where's Cheek?"
Coulter, to draw them off the scent,
if possible, replied, " Cheek's up
stairs, I expect."
This answer did not seem to satisfy
them. After a word or two among
themselves, they proceeded direct to
Cheek's cell, knocked at the door
which was about half opened and
inquired, " Who's here t "
Cheek replied, " Harry "--the name
of a fellow-prisoner.
" Come out and show yourself."
He remained motionless.
They asked again, "Who's here ? "
and he replied as before, " Harry."
A member of the party cried,
"That's Cheek, now!" One of them,
raising the side of a dark lantern,
looked within the cell, and seeing the
desperate man standing at bay, like a
hunted tiger, withdrew with the cry,
"He has got a club ! "
"Shoot him! shoot him!" yelled
several of the mob.
" No, no; don't shoot him. Here
is a rope--let's hang him," said one
who appeared to exercise authority.
Said another: " Shoot him, if you
can't get him."
At this moment Cheek made a
movement, and one of the party
lunged at him with a crowbar, bruis
ing his side, but inflicting no serious
injury.
Another, who did not believe in
incomplete work, drew a navy revel.
ver from his breast pocket, and, hand
ing it to one of his comrades who was
flourishing a small pistol, said:
"Here, take my revolver ! Don'l
shoot him with that little one; it
won't kill him."
The man would have been a capital
officer of the Paris Commune.
The speaker then thrust his weapon
inside the door and fired. The muz
zle of the revolver pressed against
Cheek's side, but at the moment it
was discharged he dashed it aside, and
the bullet glanced across his knuckles,
inflicting a slight wound. The man
who had fired, then put his head
inside the cell to see if the shot had
killed, the prisoner, but as he did so,
the bludgeon with which Cheek had
armed himself, crushed down upon his
unprotected head, and he dropped to
the floor like a felled ox. His revol
ver fell from his hand, and was at
once seized by the prisoner.
Ae, they saw the senseless form of
their comrade, shd heard the crashing
blow, one of their number cried :
"My Godl he has killed Snyder, and
has got his revolver ! "
Then those seventy-five courageous
men held an impromptu convention to
decide as to the next step to be taken.
No-doubt, as they stood there in the
ghastly light of the dark lantern, with
one of their number lying senseless
and apparently dead at their feet,
they experienced the peculiar sensa
tions so graphically described in the
narrative of Bob Acres.
After a few moments of irresolute
suspense, eyeing the gloomy cell from
which came such a deadly check upon
their operations, one of the gang
standing securely behind the half
opened door, pointed his revolver
around the corner, but before he could
fire, the weapon was stricken from his
haud by Cheek, and he subsided.
Another consultation was held.
Somebody said, , Let us get out of
here," and they " got." Picking up
the prostrate form of their fallen com
Lade, they marched out, each one
repeating, as he stepped out of the
battered entrance way, "One, two,
three, out goes he "-very thankful
that, notwithstanding the failure of
the enterprise, they had come off with
such a slight loss in this well matched
encounter between one and seventy
five.
Cheek with his bed post in one
hand, and the captured revolver in
the other, harassed the rear of the
retreating column out into the jail
yard, where he met the Sheriff and a
party of citizens, who had been
aroused by an alarm from the jailer.
When the Sheriff saw them coming
out of the building carrying the body
of the victim,he hallooed them, think
ing they were bearing off his prisoner.
The only reply lie received was:
" Fire! tire! Shoot the-- !"
When the regulators reached the
street, and saw the commotion caused
by their attempt, they ran In every
direction. Several of them lost their
way in the timber and corn fields, and
were seen by farmers residing in the
vicinity, at daylight, with scared faces
and soiled garments, not in the least
resembhng the reckless and dare-devil
sort of fellows they imagined them
selves a few hours before.
Cheek surrendered himself to the
Sheriff with the remark: " John, they
ain't got me yet," gave up his trusty
bed post and revolver, and went back
to his cell.
On the way back he said to the
Sheriff: "John, get me a horse and a
posse, and I will follow them and
show where every - of them lives
before morning. I don't want you to
go into danger, I'll go."
When asked afterward, why he did
not attempt to escape, he replied: " I
am not going away from here until i
go free, or on my way to the scaffold.
This is three times they have tried to
mob me and failed."
After daylight the Sheriff went to
to the place where the horses of the
party had been left, found two or three
hitching straps, a halter and a bottle
of whiskey. The articles, with the
captured revolver, dark lantern,
sledge-hammer and a crowbar, are in
the Sheriff's hands, and are said to
have been identified.
While the would-be lynchers were
in the jail, several of them removed
their masks, and were identified by
Cheek as residents of Aurora and:
Manchester.
The New York Tribuae wittily says:
We read wonderful things of the talk
ing machine of Prof. Faber, lately
exhibted in Philadelphia. You see a
highly ornamented table, - and up
on it is a lifeless head which pro
nounces all the letters and elementary
sounds of the English language, with
phrases of six and eight words in
French, German and English. Sev
eral years ago we advocated in these
columns the adoption of one or more
machines to do the talking in the na
tional Congress, and now, just as we
were congratulating ourselves upon a
device which appeared, at first blush,
to meet the case exactly, we are told,
to our bitter disappointment, that the
Faber contrivance is defective in its
sounding of the letter " I." This is
fatal (unless it can be improved) to its
use by our representatives, who would
be nothing if not capable of sounding
the personal pronoun in a rotund and
f-rtissimo way. As the machine
speaks with a fine German accent, it
might be found useful on the' stump
in Pennsylvania, and we do not see
why, for city purposes, it might not
be arranged to discourse with a beau
tiihl brogue.
Large pantaloons threaten to be
stylish again.
War at Our Own Doors.
In addition to the three thousand
whisky shops and the thirty thousand
men who live off of them ; in addition
to the delicate brigade which is too
respectable to work and too weak to
rob; in addition to the army of men
who live off of office or the hope of
office, New Orleans is just now called
upon to support two stalwart prize
fighters and their friends, who have
invaded the community because their
practices were not endurable in better
ordered communities. We pay half
a million dollars to support a force
organized to suppress disorder, and
here we are called upon to foot the
extraordinary bill that pays for the
fancy living of organized and impu
dent disorder itself. If two men fight
for a reason on the streets, the police
gathers them under its clubs and
marches them to the calaboose, because
to fight is to disturb society and break
the law. And yet two men, capable
of earning an honest and reputable
living, aware of the expense at which
we are placed to prevent lawlessness,
boldly enter in our midst, engage
whisky shops, flaunt the colors of the
prize ring and openly advertise that
they intend to violate our laws and
spit upon our regulations at a time
and place appointed by themselves.
Right in the face of the entire police
force which costs well on to gight hun
dred thousand dollars per annum,
these two bruisers publish their in
tention to thrash each other, contrary
to every principle of decency, in the
very face of the law that prohibts such
disorder, and in spite of the police
that is paid to arrest them.
Mace and Coburn represent the very
principle that government was framed
to combat. In a state of nature two
men might attend and take a part, as
animals do; but in the social state
the privilege of fighting was sur
rendered, and penalities were self-im
posed upon members for any resump
tion of this barbarous and brutal char
acteristic. Violence is demoralizing
to the community and damaging to
the individual. It perverts the mind
that is not strong, and it destroys the
labor that should be profitably em
ployed for the general good. The
prize fighter is an eye-sore and an
eruption, offensive alike to the sight
and to the feeling. He lives upon the
industry of others, because he pro
duces nothing; he degrades his
strength and ability, because it is de
grading to descend even lower than
brutes, that never fight for wages; he
demoralizes humanity, because there
are people Who, seeing the blaze of
the bruiser's name in print, even fall
so low as to envy and to imitate bts
example.
New Orleans, to-day, is thronged
with hundreds of thieves, who are
here in attendance on the fight. They
are an additional burden upon the
community, for since they produce
nothing, they must be considered as
consumers only. They steal that up
on which they live, and they steal it
from industry; so that, although it
may be said they spend money in the
city, it must be considered that they
pilfer it from the city.
But the worst feature of this entire
paceeding is the crop of evils that it
leaves behind it..e . get the re
proach of the world for tolerating a
brutal and disgusting breach of the
law. Strong-minded criminals are
hardened in their wickedness by the
glamor which is thrown around this
tolerated erime,and weak-minded and
simple folk are taught that there is a
species of outlawry that is semi-re
spectable. The youth of the city hear
their father's discuss the merits of the
two law-breakers, and wherever con
versation is agitated about this fight,
even sensible mea refer to it in lan
guage of consideration. The prize
ring is thus elevated into a position of
recognized respectability by incon
siderate citizens, and the rising gen
eration accepts the suggestion that
there is a class of disorders that it is
not degrading to engage in. How,
then, are we to obtain peace, if society
tolerates acondition of individual war
fare such as this that Coburn and his
backers hpve declared against Mace
and his supporters T-N. 0. Republi
can.
The Politician of the Period.
What an instructive political life is
thatof A. O. Hall! First we find
him figuring in politics as a Whig.
Second, he coquettes with the Know
Nothings, and is found parading his
" American" sentiments as opposed
to persons of -foreign birth and the
Catholic faith. Next we find him in
the Republican ranks long enough to
be elected District Attorney of the
county. In this position he cleverly
engineers some municipal bills through
the State Legislature for the govern
ment of this metropolis, under " Com
missioners," instead of by popular
choice. Subsequent, on or about the
time of the capture of New Orleans by
the Union forces, the versatile Oakey
begins to make wry faces at the Ad
ministration of Abraham Lincoln.
And when Gen. Butler liberated some
slaves (said to belong to a near re
lation of the Halls, and which he hoped
some day to inherit, should slavery
not be abolished), he threw off the
mask and went body and boots into
the arms of Tammany where he has
been liberally rewarded for his treach
ery to a party be once professed to
serve with idelity.
This is the consistent politician,
who, as Mayor, would not allow his
old supporters, the Orangemen, to
parade on the 12th of July, for fear of
displeasing his new allies, before whom
he parades in a full suit of green
d cloth, just as though that garb were
d his former red, white, blue and black.
And now A. O. Hall, appoints almost
all our city officers including members
of the Educational Board of School
Trustees of the several wards--many
f of them for a term of years more than
d double that of his official existence
(unless in the meantime he shah be re
elected, which, from present indica
r tions, is by no means likely). Who
will say, with these facts before him,
if that the Democratic partyis not a par
e ty of principle, and that Oakey Hall,
its great high priest, is not the chief
e among ten thousand.
Curiosities of Memory,
John Kemble used to say that he
could learn a whole number of the
Morning Post in four days; and Gen
eral Christie made a similar assertion :
c but it is not known how far either of
them verified their statement. Rob
ert Dillon could repeat in the morn
ing six columns of a newspaper he
had read over night. During the
Repeal debates in the House of Com
mons, thirty-seven years ago, one of
the members wrote out his speech,
sent it to the newspapers and repeated
it to the House in the evening. It
was found to be the same verbatim as
that which he had written out. John
Fuller, a land agent in Norfolk, could
remember every word of a sermon,
and write it out correctly after going
home. This was tested by comparing
his written account with the clergy
man's manuscript. Sealiger could re
peat a hundred verses or more, after
having read them a single time. Sen
eca could repeat two thousand words
on hearing them. Magliabeechia,
who had a prodigious memory, was i
once put to a severe task. A gentle
man lent him a manuscript which was
read and returned. The owner, some
time afterward, pretending he had
lost it, begged Magliabecchia to write
out as much as he could remember;
whereupon the latter, appealing to
his memory, wrote out the whole
essay. Cyrus, if some of the old his
torians are to be credited, could re
member the name of every soldier in
his immense army. There was a
Corsican boy who could rehearse forty
thousand words, whether sense -or
nonsense, as they were dictated, and
then repeat them on the reversed
order, without making a single mis
take. A physician of Massachusetts,
about a half a century ago, could
repeat the whole of " Paradise Lost"
without mistake, although he had not
read it for twenty years. Euler, the t
great mathematician, when he-became
blind, could say the whole of Virgil's
" Eneid," and could remember the
first line and last line on every page
of the particular edition which he
had been accustomed to read before
he became blind.
One kind of retentive memory may
be considered as the result of sheer
hard work, a determination toward
one particular achievement, without
reference either to cultivation or to
memory on other subjects. This is
frequently shown by persons in hum
ble life in regard to the bible. An 'i
old beggarman at Stirling, known o
some forty years ago as Blind Aleck,
afforded an instance of this. He
knew the whole of the bible by heart; i
insomuch that, if a sentence were
read to' him, he could name book,
chapter and verse; or, if the book,
chapter and verse were named, he
could give the exact words. A gen- t
tleman to test him, repeated a verse,
purposely making one verbal inaccur
acy; Aleck hesitated, named the
place where the passage is to be
found, but at the same time pointed
out the error. The same gentleman
asked him to repeat the ninetieth v'
verse of the seventh chapter of the
book of Numbers. Aleck almost in
stantly replied: "There is no such II
verse; that chapter has only eighty- is
mine verses." sa
A man of seventy years, living
near Newport, Ind., quarreled with
his wife, and taking down his shot
gun, annunced that he would commit
suicide forthwith. He went into the
yard, lay down on the ground where
he could be seen from a frontg window,
fired the gun off in the air, and re
mained motionless for an hour, during
which time he slyly watched the door
and window for the appearance of his
grief-striken wife. " But he was sad
ly mistaken," says the old gentleman's
home paper. "They did not come
out to see whether he had blown the
top of his head off or not. This was
more than the old man could stand;
he rose up, went into the house, and
made things hot for the old woman
and the childrep for a while. He'd
show them wh Jther they wouldn't
come out when he had killed himself."
Old Rowe keeps a hotel in the
northern part of this State, which he
boasted was the best in them parts,
where, as he used to any, that you
could get everything that was made
to eat. One day, in conmes a Yankee,
sends his horse round to the stable
snd stepping up to the bar asked old
Rowe what he could give him for
dinner. "Anything from an elephant
to a canary bird's tongue." " Wa'l,"
said the Yankee, eyeing old Rowe,
"I guess I'11 take a piece of pickled
elephant." Out bustled old Rowe
into the dining-room, leaving the
Yankee nonplussed at his gravity.
Presently he came back again. "Well,
sir, we've got 'em all right, right here
in the house, but you'll have to take
ia whole one, 'cause we never cut 'em."
The Yankee thought he wou.4 take
some codfish and potatoes.
The Besttsthte of Paris.
The municipal authorities of the
French metropolis are most energetic
in their efforts to restore Paris in
some measure to its former splendor.
An army of twenty-five thousand ma
sons is at work under the direction of
competent architects, and the hope
may be now entertained that the un
rivaled city on the Seine will rise like
a Phoenix from its ashes at a not too
distant period. Recent files of Paris
papers, giving many details on the
subject, estimate the time when the
work of restoration will be finished at
about three years, although many of
the magnificent edifices destroyed by
the vandals of the Commune present
already quite a respectable appear
ance, which remninds the beholder in
some measure of the days of their
glory. Many of the old works of art,
that were deemed lost forever, have
since been found intact under the cin
ders, and it is a good proof of the so
lidity of the building materials used
that a great many of the old and
blackened walls have been found still
solid and fit for use. If Paris had been
built like Chicago, not a stone would
have been left standing, and the loss
of life would have been fearful. As it
was, the solid walls kept the fire flood
in proper bounds, and thus prevented
a disaster in comparison to which the
burning of Chicago would have been
a mere bonfire.
The two most magnifleent edifices
that were destroyed by the insurgents,
the Hotel de Ville and the Tuileries,
are in a fair way of restoration. It
had at first been the intention to re
build only the most ancient part of the
former, without the magnificent wings
added by Louis Philippe, but this
plan was abandoned, and it is to be
restored as it was previous to the in
surrection. All of the pieces of the
maid reliefs that adorned this magnifi
cent structure have fortunately been
found, and will be completely restored.
The bronze statues were also discov
ered almost uninjured among the cin
ders, so that we may soon see the old
city building in its former shape.
-The Tuileries, however, are to be
much reduced in size, as it would
prove too expensive to restore the
building to its original state. Never
theless, the new structure will be very
fine, and the plan is said to be taste~
ful and elegant. But an irreparable
loss to Paris is the fearful devastation
in the garden of the Tuileries. Dar
ing the siege it was used as an artil
lery camp, and the bad usage it re
ceived as such was mournfally main
tained by the Communists, who took
only pleasure in ruining it altogether.
The Vendcme pillar is umlergeing
a complete process of reconstruction.
Its completion is, however, prevented
by a singular fact. All the pieceshave
been found except those reliefs that
represented the victories of Napoleon
over Prussiaiin 1808. These are known
to be in the hands of foreign parties,
who ask exorbitant prices for the
same.
The same can be said of the Arch
of Triumph. Only the sculptures of
this splendid archway have been much
injured by missiles, and M.Etex,their
original maker, is at present engaged
in restoring them..
The Louvre, the palaces of the min
istries, the splendid palace of the Le
gion of Honor, and the Avenue de
l'Imperatrice have been almost com
pletely restored, but the other public
buildings are still being demolished.
A good sign for Paris is in the fact
that a great many of the private build
ings devastated by the fire were still
found to have solid walls, so that only
internal restoration has been found
necessary, which will materially has
ten the rebuilding of the city.-Louis
iville Courier-Jomral.
Ox SPRINGING OUT or BED.-Dr.
Halldoes not approve of the old-fash
ioned doctrine which was formerly in
stilled into the minds of children
that they should spring out of bed the
instant they awoke in the morning.
He says that "up to eighteep years
every child should be ailoiwa ten
hours sleep, but time should be allowed
to rest in bed, after the sleep is over,
until they feel as if they had rather
get up than not. It is a very great
and mischievous mistake for persons,
old or young-especially children and
feeble or sedentary persons-to be
come out of bed the moment they
wake up; all our instincts shrink
from it, and fiercely kick against it.
Fifteen or twenty minutes spent in
gradually waking up, after the eyes
are opened, and in turning over and
stretching the limbs, do as muc& good
as sound sleep, becaunse these oper
ations set the blood in motion by de
grees, tending to equalize the circula.
tion ; for during sleep the blood tends
to stagnation the heart beats feebly
and slow, and to shock the system by
bouncing up in qn instant and send
ing the blood in overwhelming quan
tities to the heart, causing it to as
same a gallop, when the instant be
fore it was in a creep, is the greatest
absurdity. This instantanebus boun
cing out of the bed as soon as the eyes
are open will be followed by weariness
long before non."
A young lepublcan candidate for
office, in Gseene county, New York,
took his defeat oo much to heart that
he went on-a drunken debauch to
drown his sorrow, and died in a week.
Before his nomination he had never
tasted a drop of liquor.
A Misouuri paper has publshed the
names of the,phy lsian Whbo have had
bud luck with their pasate.