Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1888 — The Great Mississippi Duelist. [ARTICLE]

The Great Mississippi Duelist.

A Topcka raw belongs to twentyseven lodger. , --,--..±l“' ’' t- , - I . r Turan are folly fifty centenarians known to be living ip New England al the prefect time. Of this number 11 live in Connecticut; 4 in Rhode Island, 10 in Massachusetts, 10 in Maine, 5 in New Hampshire and 5 in Vermont. The''ldeal in all is Giles Benson, of Castleton, V'.. 115 venrs of age. Ti»a veteran pontnun, b'cwuel J. Randal), of Pennsylvania, is beginning to loca bis age. IPs hair is sprinkled with gray, and his sharp eyes are hidden behind a pair of spectacles. He dresses in unbroken black, and holds hitnself as straight as an Indiab. He never speaks unless he has something to say, so that no t me is Inst, ao far as he is concerned, hv unnecessary talking." Pbcf. G. F. Wkigbt, in his recent visit to Alaska, discovered a queer passage in the Twenty third Psalm as trans latad into the language of the natives. The missionary who made the translation found some difficulty with the firsi five words “The Lord is my shepherd,” because in A.aska there are no domestic sheep and noshepherds. But he thought that he had got over the difficulty until he,heard an Indian read the passage: and then he found he had made it readc “The Lord is a first class-, mountain sheen hunter.” ,

A pkbso.v dependent on a lodge of the F. and A. M. is never known outside of the members of the fraternity, and often not outside the lodge he is connected with. Their charity is distribu ted in a different way from most other secret societies. When they learn of a member in needy circumstances, a committee of three is detailed by the lodge to visit him. They are are not given any particular sum but have authority to supply them with anything they may need. They get clothing, shoes, medicines, groceries, fu I, etc., and continue to do this, not for any stated time, but until the object of the chanty is able to earn a living.

latter to tbs Atlanta tontiiivtioa. In Monday’s Constitution yon gave an account of the meet noted duelist in the Gulf States. I lived fifty years in Mississippi and never heard of McClelland, a duelist Alexander K. McClung is evidently intended, whom I knew for twenty-five years. McClung’s first duel was in Kentucky; his second 1 was with young Allen; his third was with Manifee, at Vicksburg. They to Abe Mississippi River below town Manifee reproved McClung for slapping a boy for throwing mud upon him, whom McClung had ducked. Returntog to town, McClung challenged Manifee and they fought next morning at sunrise. McClung was Marshal of North Mississippi during Tyler’s administration, and mads a' good officer, abating his dissipated habits. He organised a company in Columbus for the Mexican war, and at the siege of Monterey was the first to scale the wall, where he stood long enough to shoot a Mexican, but which delay cost him two fingers. He had imbued his command with his desperation and the fort surrendered. For this he was promoted to colonel. He fought no duel after the Mexican war. ....His .duels weraseveii, in each of which he brought down his man, not wounded, but dead. He was the most despsrate and dangerous man I ever met, and the most truly wretched. About 185# be wound up his career by blowing bis brains out at Jackson, Miss.