Anecdote of General Gordon.
The Glasgow Mail relates the following:anecdote of General Gordon : — ln the last fortnight of his stay in England, before his departure for Khartoum, he met a beggar in the lanes of Hampshire, near Southampton ;. and that beggar, more sua, pitched to him a wounderf ul jjitif ul tale. Gordon had but. one coin in his pocket and that was a sovereign, which he readily subscribed for the benefit of the beggar. An hour later he discovered from a police constable that thebeggar was a hoary inposter. Gordon, imineditately proceeded to select the thickdp r ! ash cudgel his house could supply. ISy? walked fifteen miles, and succeeded in laying hands upon the delinquent, whom he ; trounc--ed within a few inches of his life. He forgot to ask for the sovereign back again ; and three days later he went to Khartoum. . At Timaru the E M. has given, judgment for £8 (printing and advertising)]- against a defendant who had, as an officer, of a/defuncfcathletic club, contracted the debt. Counsel pleaded he was not personally responsible,-, but this was over-ruled. ' '
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 335, 9 May 1885, Page 20
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181Anecdote of General Gordon. Observer, Volume 7, Issue 335, 9 May 1885, Page 20
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