28-10-1836 Clonmel Advertiser. A Rale Broth of a Tipperary Boy, alias, a beau ideal, model for drunkards. We publish the following to the Bacchanalian world--As other towns have been challenging their neighbours to produce rivals for their beauties, we cannot remain silent on the merits of a real beauty of this town. But, reader, our phenomenon is not of the fairer part of the creation-no, it is the "rale broth of a Tipperary boy", and we will stake our Editorial crow-quill against that of any member of the "fourth estate" that no town in Ireland will produce a rival for Martin Power. The far-famed Martin Power, a "sky farmer" of great notoriety, but of Bacchanalian fame still greater, is now 72 years of age; for the last 50 years of which he has drunk on average (for it frequently exceeded) 30 glasses of whisky per diem. On one occasion he drank 23 pints of cider in less than an hour; on another, he and four others, between 4 o'clock in the evening and daybreak the following morning, in a house where they were hired to take cider, consumed 63 gallons of that beverage, together with two quarts of spirits, of which our life on it, our friend martin had not the least share. On another day he drank to himself four quarts of raw whisky; and no later than Saturday last he became "a case" for his worship the Mayor, having taken according to his own admission, 40 glasses, an excess of 10 beyond his usual complement. Our hero Martin, was never known to be ill an hour, or in bed after four o'clock in the morning. It is not a fortnight since he walked a distance of 40 miles, and his youngest child is but four months old. Now, calculating the 30 glasses a day for 50 years (as to the other items we throw them into the "Tilly"), the total will be found to be 137 hhds.,?(think this might be hogshead) 23 gallons (about as much as would float a man of war", the average cost of which might be, at the lowest calculation, 8s., per gallon, as for many years of the above it was 16s.thus, then, on the "leprous distilment" this man has expended £3421, which if realized, would make him an independent man;; whereas, at the present moment, he could not command, perhaps, the odd shilling. There may be some of our readers sceptical of the foregoing facts, but we can assure them that the "character", is well known to us, and that what we have above recorded has been corroborated by his own acknowledgment, and the assurance of the gentleman in whose employment he is now, and of whose family he has been an ancient follower.