Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1886 — Dickens’ Affront to the Secretary. [ARTICLE]

Dickens’ Affront to the Secretary.

Charles Dickens, when he first visited the United States, in 1842, was received with prodigal attentions. Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore vied with each other in showering adulation upon him, and the doors ol the most aristocratic mansions opened wide to receive him. Plays were written and performed in which he and his most prominent characters were personated true to nature. He was overwhelmed with invitations to balls, dinners and receptions, and the highest social honors were showered on nim, which he received like a conceited coxcomb, and repaid by writing a slanderous account of his tour. When in Washington he held a daily levee at his hotel, and the Secretary of War, calling to pay his respects, heard him say, while waiting in the ante-room: “My hour for receiving is past.” That night, at a reception at the White House, he told his friend, Christopher Hughes, to inform the Secretary that he was then willing to be introduced to him. “Tell him my hour for receiving him is past,” was Mr. Spencer’s reply.— Ben: Perley Poore in Boston Budget.

Mr. H. H. Fudge is evidently angry, as appears from the following card, which he prints in the Albany (Ga.) News: “Whoever poisoned my dog is a low-down puppy, and mean enough to do anything. lam Satisfied that it is a white man and of good standing in this town, and he ought to be found out. 1 am afraid of him only in one way, and that is he will burn me up while asleep. I hope whoever it may be when he reads this he will stop, as he is called a puppy, and is not man enough to resent it. I am satisfied it is a white man, as no negro could get so much poison from the druggist without some notice being taken of it lam responsible for every word in this card, and can whip the snan that poisoned ray dog. No man -will' resent an insult that will steal, lie, tburu houses, and slip around at night and poison a man's dog/* ,