Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1886 — Thackeray at Charleston. [ARTICLE]

Thackeray at Charleston.

Thackeray during his stay in Charleston met the famous Mrs. King, the daughter of James L. Pettigiew, a . great Unionist, who, on being questioned after the secession of the State as to what he intended doing, replied, “Well, the Stale is going to the devil, and I’m going it.” Mrs. King was at that time one of the leaders of society. Thackeray remarked, w th rather more brusqueneds than elegance, on his introduction to her, “I understand, Mrs. King, that you are very fast,” whereupon the Ipryiiant woman, whose forte was repartee, replied, “Ah, mr. Thackeray, we must not place too much confidence in what we hea ~ for I was informed that you were a gentleman.” It is said that the proud Englishman never forgot this" retort of the high-spiri ed Southern woman. Brooklyn Magazine. On a dark night, with four clotheslines stretched across the back-yard, the most sensitive part of a man is his high hat.