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Show Curse That Was Fulfilled. ! M A famous Gaelic curse put upon th j JM family ot Dalrymplo at the tlmo ol ,WM tho massacro of Glcncoo, lri the 18th M century. Is recalled by tho death ot Mm tho Karl ot Stair, head of tho Dal- '1 rymplo family. Tho first earl ot the H lino took part In tho massacro, and h Vm Jean MacDonnld, tho solo survivor ol 1 mm a largo family that perished through H H tho carl's cruelty, delivered a bitter Mu curso upon him, wishing that no iuo f.'l cccding carl should havo children. A ' M startling comment on this mnlodlctton I Mm Is that tho second, third, fourth, sixth, M ,Mt soventh and eighth carls of Stair all L jlled without Issue a circumstance ;hEH probably unique in tho annals of the B L necrage. Tho family ot tho first earl 81 jM becamo entirely extinct In 1840, and H m tho succession passed to tho doscend- M WL nnts of hla noxt brother, Sir James jtfl'IQ Dalrymplo, from whom camo tho poer S 1m Just deceased. Evidently tho curso M ,H did not pass with tho tltlo, for th'e gt Jl two earls ot tho present family had ft II sons. m L |