Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1894 — A Chip Off the Old Block. [ARTICLE]

A Chip Off the Old Block.

D Isnatch, Lexington, Ky, Colonel Breckinridge is now serving his fifth term and is close to sixty years of age. He has a family ol grown up children, three girls, one of w-hom is married, residing at Stanton, Va.,, and two boys, one a lawyer,aiding in defenseof his father. The other named after his grandfather, Robert J. Breckinridge, is o' a wild disposition. Bob, tvs he is known here, got into frequent difficulties and figured in newspaper articles. Just before the breaking out ol the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal Bob got on a spree and had several lights. Col. Breckinridge telegraphed from Washington to put him in jail and keep him there until he returned, which instructions were followed. It was decided to send Bob on a sea voyage to be away for three years, and just as ho was boarding a vessel at San Franciscc he read an account of his father’s doings with Miss Pollard, and wired his brother Desha here: “Put the old man in jail and keep him there until I return."