Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1879 — Heavy Gaming. [ARTICLE]

Heavy Gaming.

At the Marlborough Club, London, Count Schouvaloff, the Russian Ambassador, played away in a few hours a sum equal to his whole salary; and one of the wealthiest Commoners has been so heavily bitten that he is going into bankruptcy for a total exceeding £500,000. Another young politician, heir to a historic coronet, who had been going at .a terrible pace, was dragged out of the club to the amazement of the members by his mother, who said, “You are not going to follow Hastings .and Newcastle.” “ ~ ‘