THE OLDEST LIVING MAN.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 17, 11 May 1876, Page 2

THE OLDEST LIVING MAN.

A correspondent writes to the " Washington Chronicle " thus " ; You recently published an account •Gf aA'evohitionavy soldier 114 years old, mj to write the following -account of old For tune SnAv, ,wHo p years of age. ] visited him on July, 1862, anil learned from him hi£'\flßi|\ 'When I, ii company witlx a friend, -approached tli< house, a fifteenth amendment, sixty-tw( years old, came out and said his ' grarld papa ' was in the house. Snow s3onmaxl< .his appearance, tripping down the steps'ai nimbly as , a without even a stick He said li# was born jit Georgetown, S. R,j and was 25 ye u-s old when the levolutioi began. He was married at twenty, and became the father of thirteen children, tin youngest of whom, a daughter, fifty thre<> years of age, lixl two yeai's ago. He belonged to Captain Snow, who served undei General Marion. Old Fortune served wit! his master through the war. He moved from South Carolina to near Mobile, and lived the~:e near five years. At the dealli of Captain Snow, lie gave a Mr. Chapman, his son-in-law, 500 dols. to support old Fortune the balance of his days. This man lived forty-seven years and died, and left the old negro still hale and hearty, Oil examination with the ophamoscope, I found his eyes perfect in all their parts. The otoscope revealed a healthy condition of the ovgans of hearing. He told me that ho went totally blind at the age o{ about ninety, and remained so for about two years. His hair, white as wool, all came out. , Subsequently his sight returned, and a new growth of hair made its appearance, which is now about half gray. He never suffers with, toothache, not having an unsound tooth in his Taoutli. He enjoys good health, never wore spectacles, nor took a dose of medicine from a doctor. I opened his Bible at the Bt!i chapter of the book c-f Revelations, which he read loudly and distinctly without glasses. He says he lovos to fish and hunt, and can shoot birds and squirrels without the aid of glasses. He reads liia Bible and prays a good deal. He has been strongly urged to go the Centennial, but has refused all' solcitations, and says if the want to see him " let 'em come."