The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1860., [Electronic resource], The last man.

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The last man.

‘ --That doleful "Last Man" story is again going the rounds of the papers. Seven medical students in Cincinnati, thirty years ago, formed a club, and agreed to dine once a year at a stated time. A casket, containing a bottle of wine, to be drank by the last surviving member, was entrusted to one and another, according to lot. They all lived and were able to punish their liquor for seven years. The eighth year, one had dropped off, the ninth year another, and, finally, the other day the last surviving member dined all alone, drank the bottle of wine, wept to find himself a club of one, his companions all in the grave, and be a practicing physician, still able to bleed and blister.--’ Boston Post.

The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1860. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. November 5, 1860. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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The last man.