The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-11-17
A GAME OLD ROOSTER.
GENERAL CASSIUS N. CLAY, OF
KENTUCKY, SAHi

GENERAL CASSIUS N. CLAY, OF
KENTUCKY, SAHi
The Story Of His Wedding to Lite
Nora Richardson.
LEXINGTON, KY, Nov. l4,-In an
interview with General Cassius M.
Clay, who married little Dora Rich
ardson, he told the following sensa-
tional story Of his domestic ups and
downs. "Ever since / obtained a
divorce from my wife, who, togeth-
er with her relatives, was prejudice
ed against me because of my anti
slavery work, there has been a
steady and determined effort to
prevent me from marrying again.
When l brought home from Russia
with me the child who is now know
as Lonnie Clay, I did not do like
others have done-disown my own
flesh and blood-but had that
child adopted and made him the
equal of my other children as heir
to this vast estate. You will un-
derstand that my father, Green
Clay, who was a gallant soldier in
the war 1872, left this immense es-
tate to me during my lifetime, but
entailed to my children.
~ could have held my life inter-
est In the estate until the. day of
my death, but loved my children
and divided the land equally among
them, retaining only this house,
which I built with my own money
at a cost of nearly 100000, and 800
acres of land. In order to have an
annuity sufficient for my wants, 1
charge the children a rental Of 81
per acre per year. They lease it
out at from SO to $12 per acre, 80
you see, I am giving them the bene-
fit of the land when it really be-
longs to me until death. This much
by way of explanation.
"When Lonnie was brought here,
they began q systematic course of
poisoning by giving him some sort
of drug, which produced absolute
torpor. That is the reason that he
is no larger than you see him now.
He is 26 years of age and yet he
does not appear to be more than
about 1S. They retarded his growth
and tried to kill him in this secret
way, and failing in this, one of
their hired tools made that boy,
when mere lad, jump from the
second story, window of this house,
but by the greatest miracle his life
he was saved.
"I killed the man who tried to
destroy the boy. 1 shot him twice
with my pistol, either one of the
shots being sufficient TO kill him.
The facts were so much in my fa-
vor that the courts failed to indict
me. Several times when I was on
the point of marrying again they
have put obstacle in my way and
prevented me from choosing wife.
"This recent trouble dates back
three months. Up to that time I
had in my employ s. @. Moore and
wife, who were my overseer and
housekeeper respectively. They
grew SO arrogant that they seemed
to think they owned the entire
place and that / was their servant
OF course I could not stand that.
They also circulated stories about
to the effct that I was debauching
Mary Lee Bowling, young woman
who assisted in the housework, and
Dora, my present wife. There new
er was baser lie concocted under
heaven. AS God is my Judge,
never had carnal thought in con-
nection with that child Dora.
"Well they succeeded in inducing
Mary to leave, and they married
her to some young fellow. Had
they not lied to her and about her
she would be living here happily
yet.
"Then they tried to poison the
mind of Dora against me, but in
this they signally failed. Realiz-
ing what they were trying to do to
me, I drove them off my place, but
they were not SO easily disposed Of
They recruited q band of about
thirty men among their friends and
they came here to mob me, but
when they found that I was on
guard, prepared to shoot to kill
they very ssensibly left and have
never been back on similar mis-
sion.
~ had my cannon loaded and had
they attacked the house there would
certainly have been several funer-