Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . tantur! A wild outcry echoed through the land when one gallantyouth fell dead in his tracks and another, maimed for hismiserable remnant of life in that Richmond duel that usheredin a new era and made even a challenge a felony in Virginia. Duelling was born in the McCarty blood. One of thatpoor boys forebears had killed his own first cousin (a Mason)in fair and honorable combat. But the duel personalwas a child of the first trial by jury. We are all 1 things of heredity. As in duelling so havethere been gross exaggera-tions of the old Virginiansthirst. Gr
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . tantur! A wild outcry echoed through the land when one gallantyouth fell dead in his tracks and another, maimed for hismiserable remnant of life in that Richmond duel that usheredin a new era and made even a challenge a felony in Virginia. Duelling was born in the McCarty blood. One of thatpoor boys forebears had killed his own first cousin (a Mason)in fair and honorable combat. But the duel personalwas a child of the first trial by jury. We are all 1 things of heredity. As in duelling so havethere been gross exaggera-tions of the old Virginiansthirst. Great are the mis-comprehensions of the gentlemanly dissipationsof those days. The two-bottle man of a centurysyne was probably notmore thirsty than the famil-iar bibber of this day. Hedrank differently, how-ever, and with far differ-ent surroundings. Hemade the glass the excuse for and the promoter of hospitality,sociality and good-fellowship. He never took a public pledgefor its infraction in private, and he bade his fellow to stretch. PAGE MCCARTY 14 BELLES, BEAUX AND BEAINS OF THE SIXTIES his legs beneath his private mahogany and sip Burgundy andrare Madeira, instead of leading him into the vulgar publicbar to hist in doctored poison at two for twenty-five. Though the two-bottler sometimes succumbed, and slidgradually from his chair under the table, he may still have beenas good a man as any millionaire clubman of the presentwho lurches from his club to his Brougham in the small hoursof any metropolis today. The South has never cavilled at the taste of her NewEngland cousins, who drank and relished Rumblullion,or Will Devil, donated to the main land from the Britishsailors Rumbowhng. This the traveler Josselyn callsin his writings: That cursed liquor, Rhum, Rumbullion, orthe Devil! This favorite drink of old time tavern and post house, isfully described in local chronicle, and embalmed in Miss AliceEarles Stage and Tavern Days. She states that this worddid not signify Rum, bu
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