Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1886 — When Hannibal Hamlin Was a Boy. [ARTICLE]

When Hannibal Hamlin Was a Boy.

A story of a yoxithful prank of Hannibal Hamlin is told. When the exVice President was a boy in Paris seven persons were baptized in a stream north of Paris Hill. Hamlin was one of a party of boys who, hearing of the approaching ceremony, smuggled an old cannon and seven cartridges into the woods near the stream. As the dripping converts, one by one, were lead out of the stream, one by one the cartridges boomed in the old cannon. The unholy salute caused great consternation and anger, but the mischievous youngsters were not caught. —Norway (Me.) Advertiser. <<