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A HISTORIC HORN. 



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ROM the Constitution: «Mr. D. U. Sloan, of the National 



Hotel, has a historic horn, and on being asked the story 

 connected with it, furnished the following sketch : 



"This horn has been in my possession for one-third of a 

 century. Notice the perforations through its rim; see how 

 the worms have eaten it. It was presented to me by a man I 

 never saw, nor heard of in my life until after his death, and 

 who never saw or heard of me. His name was Kirkpatrick, 

 and it came about in this way : Kirkpatrick was on his death- 

 bed, and said to his friend Strohecker. of Charleston, who was 

 sitting by his side: ' Strohecker, there hangs a horn. I have 

 prized it much, on account of its superior tone. The delights 

 of the chase are all over with me. I shall never be able to 

 sound it again. Take it, and give it to some good hunter, 

 for me, and tell him I bequeathed it to him as a dying gift.' 

 Strohecker promised, and I became the favored one; and if 

 departed spirits have cognizance of what hapi)ens here bedow, 

 I trust the old hunter may be satisfied with his legatee. 



"I have winded this old horn in many a hunt on the Blue 

 Ridge mountains, with the Hamptons, Calhouns, Haskells, 

 Taylors, and many others of South Carolina's noblest sons. I 

 made old Charleston's walls ring with its shrillest notes, on 



