A Hard Man To Kill

Ex-GoV. Olarke, of Mississippi, who has just died at the age of 68, bas had a rcmarkable career. In the Mexican war he served as a volunteer. In the rebellion he led a Confedérate brigade at Shiloh. As he parted with Col. McArdlc, a veteran Mississippi journalist, he said, " I think you will have agood chance of publishing that obituary which you promised me thirteen years ago. I have outlived all the doctors, but I am not so confidont that I shall escape the Yankee balls and shells which I shall be compelled to face to-day." After the flrst day's battle Gen. Clarke was borne to the rear, wrapped in a blanket saturated with blood. "You can publish that obituary now; he ñas met with a soldier's death," was the remark of one of those who bore him, and the obituary was ehortly af terward lished in the New Orleans papers. Soon after the battle of Baton Bouge, however, Gen. Clarkewas seenagain at New Orleane. He had been shotthrough the body at Shiloh and lef ton the field to be taken prisoner, to r cover, and to be exehanged, and at Baton Éouge a minieball broke his thigh near the socket. Dr. Stone was the surgeon who now brought around the man he had condemned to a speedy death in 1848; and though his leg was shortened several inch es, Gen. Clarkelivedto be Governor of Mississippi, and to die fifteen years later quietly in his bed, having buried several generations of doctors, gone through two wars with only one lung, been twice left for dead on the field of battie, and seen his obituary published.