Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1883 — Webster Wanted Cider. [ARTICLE]

Webster Wanted Cider.

Daniel Webster visited Cbambersburg in the summer of 1834. He had been at Bedford Springs, and upon reaching this place on his way to Washington, was taken sick and confined to his room in the Franklin House, where he remained for several days. The late Dr. Samuel Culbertson was summoned to prescribe for the “King of the Senate,” as he ’vyas then fondly termed by his admirers. The doctor readily discovered that his patient was not seriously indisposed. When Mr. Webster was convalescing, he expressed a strong desire for some cider, and inquired whether any was to be had in Cham* bersburg. Dr. Senseney replied thafl he had no knowledge of any, but it wad possible that John Hutchinson, who kept a tippling-place around the corner, might have some. Swallowing the contents' of the first bottle brought to him, and declaring that it was the nectar of the gods, he turned to Carson, an old servant, and said: “Now, Ned, you and I will want a good deal of this stuff, and you mnst instantly go down to Hutchinson’s and engage all he has in stock, whether it be fifty barrels or less,” which was accordingly done.— Chambersburg (Pa.) Opinion.