Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-06-05
pray stay while step into the next
'oom, . and then. retiring, shot himself

Iray stay while step into the next
room, and then, retiring, shot himself
dead.
According to Walpole. three BROTH
ers, members of Whites, contracted a
gambling debt of f50.O0a, while Lord
iD1ey stwo sons had to bprroW money
to such an enormous extent that the in
terest Almost amounted % $40 pa
year. The same yiSacious chroaie lerof
the manner of histines gires an almost
issTsas; ;;. account o Of ep
Thirty-nine Articles, on February q.
1772, he spoke very indiferently, which,
Walpoie says, was not surp. ising under
the circumstances.
HE had sat up playing hazard at Al
mack's from Tuesday evening, the 4th,
till five in the afternoon of the follow
ing day. An hour before he had won
back tI2,00o thai he eh3d lost, but by
dinner time, which was at five O'Clock,
when play ended. he had lost fI2, 200.
On the Thursday he spoke in the above
debate: went to dinner after eleven at
night; from thence to Whites, where he
drank till seven the next morning;
thence to Almack's, where he won
f6, 900, and, between three and four in
bIlC StltClAoQAk uV cCGOut III 4NON LII Oh hOes
His5br other STEPHEN lost Ell, 200 two
nights after, and Charles f10, 600 more
on the 18th; so that, in three nights,
the three brothers, Che eldest not TWEEN
ty-five. lost f32.t0o.
Captain Gronows relates that, about
this time, Iofd Robert Spencer and
/ General Fitzpatrick were allowed to
keep a faro bank at Brookes', and that
f1nf f,..o- h hsa,. r,ff l,n
proeeeds, E1utsNgO afsef which he new
er again eambled. George Harley
Drummond. the banker. only played
+ onpe III his Iiie.swhen ha.l lost TT, 900 to
Brum mel. and Was Obliged to retire
from the firm, In the fist half Of the
Eighteenth century, ladies of title kept
/ An entry in The Journals of the House
of Lords, dated April y, 1745. shows
that Ladies bloomington and Cassius
claimed privilege of peerage in resisting
certain peace-onicefs IN doing their
duty Sin suppressing the public gam
lighthouses kept by the said ladies'" but
also, was INDUCED in at the clubs with
as much frantic zest as play. Anything
served as an excuse, and sometimes the
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that the men of the least decency
| would havessshrunk from associating
them with any form of amusement. A
man dropped down. at the door Of
| White and was carried into the house;
Immediately the betting harpies were
stalking large sums on the question
whether he was dead or not; and when
/ it was proposed to bleed him those who
had taken odds that lite was extinct
protested against such course on the
ground that it would affect the fairness
of the bet. Bad as this was, there was
worse case still, for which Walpole is
again the authority. a If true-though
one would believe it an invention Lit Is
su ficient to leave . stain of murder on
the very name OF Whites. A youth
bet Fl, 800 that man could live twelve
hours under water. He accordingly
hired some poor wretch. probably in a
most desperate plight. and sank him in
ship. Both ship and man disap-
peared and were never. heard Of more.
Walpole adds that these miscreants
actually proposed to make the expert
ment second time. 1t is a singular
fact that Lord Mountford, whose suicide
we have just related, bet Sir John Bland
that Beau Nash would outlive Colley
Cibber, and that both the persons, the
sub ects of the bet, survived the betters.
and that Bland, as well as Mountford,
! died by his own act.-N. Y Star
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