Rutland Herald

Result of Folly—On Sunday last, several young men were assembled at a malt house at Socrates, when a young man named Delany, who was employed at the Ulster Iron Works, laid a wager that he could drink the contents of one of the decanters, which held a pint and a half of brandy, and several glasses more after it, but he very soon after fell senseless on the ground. An attempt was made to draw blood from his arm, which was unsuccessful, and he was buried on the following day. Before his burial, it appears blood oozed from the incision in the arm, and the fact becoming noised about the village, there was, on Saturday, considerable commotion there, owing to the belief of many that the unfortunate victim of folly had been buried alive, and that he had merely swooned instead of dying from the effect of the terrible draught he had so foolishly swallowed.