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FRANK P. BEARD, Editob utd Pbopbietob. .DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF KERSHAW COUNTY. TERMS :?$2.00 pkr annum, in advasci! VOL. I. CAMDEN, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17. 1874. NO. 37. Urandma'a Second-Sight, It Isn't so many jmti, my p?t, Since grandma ?u young like you ; Tia only?well. lei me think a bit Why, bless me, I'm a?Yenty-two! Well, yed, 'tvu quite a long time ago, Perhaps some sixty odd years or so. Bat the years they go like a flash, you see, When a body is young and gay, And before you know it, Old Time oomes up And sprinkles our head* with gray ; And the eyes that were onoe so strong and bright Grow wearily dun in the fading light. Ah, well! there's one comfort for us, my dear, And I've always found it so: There are plenty of little ones in the world To care for the old, you know. There ars plenty of strong young hearts to bear And"^ift from the old full many a care. There's a pair of merry dark eyes, I know, That will lend their aid te me, And & dear little girl who will gladly help, When her grandmother cannot see ; She says she is " grandma's second-sight"? And I think my woe little pet is right. THE DAM GIVES WAY. [Fonr years ago Charles Reade in on? of his uotoIs gave a graphio description of the burst ing of the Ouseley reservoir. In hia descrip tion be clearly foreshadowed the fearful calamity that occurred in the upper Connecticut ?alley. We re-produce it a? pertinent to the present time ] A mounted policeman brought Ran some a note from the major, telling him word had come into the town that there was something wrong with Ouselej dam. Ho was to take the major's horse, and ride up at onoe to the reser voir, and, if there was anj danger, to warn the vallej. A smart cantor brought him in sight of what seemed a long black hill, with great glow-worms dotted here and there. That hill was the embankment, and the glow-worms were the lanterns of workmen examining the outer side of the embankment and prjing into everj part. The enormous size and double slope of the bank, its apparent similaritj in form and thickness to natural barriers with which nature hems in lakes of large dimensions, acted on Ransome's senses, and set him wondering at the timiditj and credulitj of the people in Hatfield and Daxnfiask. This senti ment was uppermost in his mind when he rode up to the south side of the embankment. Here was a lake nearlj full to the brim on one side of the barrier and an open desoent on tho other. He had enoountered a little wind 03ming up, but not much ; here, how ever, the place being entirelj exposed, the wind was powerfal, and blew right down the vallej, ruffling the artificial lake. Screws were Applied and the valves of the doable set of sluice- pipes were forced open, but with infinite difficultj, owing to the tremendous pressure of the water. This operation showed all oonoemed what a Riant thej were dealing with ; while the slaioes ware befog lifted, the noise and tremor of the pipes were be yond experience and conception. When, after vast effort, thej were at last got open, the ground trembled violently, and the water, as it rushed out of the pipes, roared like discharges of artillerj. 80 hard is it to resist the mere effeot of the senses, that ne&rlv everjbodj ran bade appalled, although the effeot of all this roaring oould only be to reli^ve the preeaora; and, in fact, now that those sluioes were opened, the dam was safe, provided it oonld last a flav or two. Lights were seen approaching, and Mr. Tuoker, the resident- engineer, drove up ; ho had Mr. Carter, one of the eon tractors, in the gipr with him. He oame on the embankment, and signified a cold approval of the sluices being opened. Then Ran some pounded him about blowing up the waste-weir. Tuckor did not refly, but put some questions to a workmen or two. Their answers showed that thej considered the enlargement of the crack s fatal sign. Upon this, Mr. Tuoker ordered them all to stand clear of the suspected part. " Now, then," said h?, *? I built this enfbankmcnt, and 111 tell vou? whether it's going to burst or not. Ran so me put in his word, flpA begged . them to blow up the waste veil. Tucker thought that it wq? a stronger measure than the oocasioo required: there was no imaedfote danger: and the aluioe-nipas Voold lower the Water considerably in tw*nW-four hOOTS.1 1 Farmer Ives put In his word. " I can't learn from anj of joa thai ah en larging crack in a new embankment is a, common thing. I shall go home, but, mj boots won't go off this night" jRnoonraged bj this, Mr. Tfointein, Ike contractor, spoke out. " Mr. Tncker, said he, ?? don't de ceive jours?If; the si pi pee are toe slow 1 if we don't relieve the dasa, 1 Iketsil be a blow-up in belf an "tel. ** said Mr. Taeker. oeotion bee been neglected in Ibis dem ; provision hse been even fee blowing ftp the waste** , _ kole bee been pdt in the masonry, end there's dry powder and fuse kept L el the valve-boose. _ HIj blow op the waste-weir, tboogh I thmk J am eor.vinr^d thut rrrank is above lbs V level of the water in the ree*rrol*? I Jt Tah ebewvsHei rireeh Ransoms, and he asked if it ooold not be ascer tained by measurement. "Of oourse it can," said Tucker, " and 111 meaaure it as I oome back." He then started for the weir, and Carter sooompanied him. The j crossed the embankment and got I to the weir.' Ives went home, and the workmen | withdrew to the side, not knowing ex actly what might be the effect of the explosion. By and by IWnsome looked up, and observed a thin sheet of water begin ning to stream over the center of the embankment and trickle down ; tho quantity was nothing ; but it alarmed him. Having no special knowledge on these matters, he was driven to com parisons ; and it flashed across him that, when he was a boy, and used to make little mud-dams 'in April, they would resist the tiny stream until it trickled over them, and from that mo ment their fate was sealed. Nature, he had observed, operates alike in small things as great, and that sheet of water," though thin as a wafer, alarmed him. He thought it was better to give a falee warning than withhold a true one ; he ran to his horse, jumped on him, and spurred away. His horse was fast and powerful, and carried him in three minutes back to Emden's farm. The farmer Lad gone to bed. Ransome told him he feared the dam was going ; then galloped on to Hatfield Mill. Here he found the miller and his family all gathered out side, ready for a start; one workman had run down from the reservoir. " Ths embankment is not safe." " So I hear. I'll take care of my flour and my folk. The mill will iake oare of herself." And he pointed with pride to the solid structure and granite pillars. Ransome galloped on, shouting as he went. The about was taken tip ahead, an he heard a voice crying in the night "It's coming! It's ooming !" This weird cry, which, perhaps, his own gal loping and shouting had excited, seem ed like an independent warning, and thrilled him to the bone. He galloped through Hatfield,, shouting, " Save yourselves 1 Save yourselves!" and the people poured out, and ran for higb ground, shrieking Wildly. ' Looking back, he saw the hill dotted with what he took f6r sheep at first, but H was the folks in their night-olothes. He galloped on to Damflask, still shouting as he went. ? j At the edge of the hamlet, he found a cottage with no light in it; he dis mounted and .thundered at the door. " Escape for your lives 1 for your lives ! A man called Hillsbro' Harry opened the window. " The embankment is going. Fly for jour lives 1" " Nay," said the man, ooolly, "Ouse ley dam will burat noane this week," and turned to go to bed again. There was a sharp explosion heard up in the hills. Ransome pulled up and said aloud, "It will be all right now, thank good ness I they liavo blown up the weir." The words were scarcely out of hit mouth when he heard a loud, sullen^ roar, speedily followed by a tremendous hiss, and a rumbling thunder, that shook the very earth where he stood, two miles distant. At that appalling sound, thai hissing thunder, the like of whioh he had never heard before, and hopes never to hear again, Kanaome spurred away at all his speed, and wa ned the rent of the vil lage with loud inarticulate cries ; he oould not wait to speak, nor was it neoessary. At the top of the hill he turned a mo ment, and looked up the valley ; soon he saw a lofty white wall running down on Hatfield Mill : it stmok the mill and left nothing visible but the roof, sur rounded by white foam. Another moment, and he distinctly saw the mill swim a yard or two. then uisappeur, and leave no trace, and on came the whit? wall, hissing and thuik dering. llansome uttered a cry of horror, and galloped madly forward, to save what lives ne might. Whenever he passod a house he shrieked his warning, but he never drew rein. As he galloped along, his mind work ed. He observed the valley widen in places, and he hoped the flying lake would spread, and so lo?e some of that tremenaous volume and force before whioh he had taen Hatlleld stone mill go down. With this hope, he galloped on, and reached Pome Bridge, five mi lea said a half from the reservoir. Here, to his dfemav, he bemrd the hinnmg thunder sound aa near to him aa it was< wfca^hs halted on the hill above Dmfpfcy bat be oowld see tUadift* *?*<>* hit ten staring wttd* **Hs yaj?d*to this man, "Dam is burst, iwarnihajrillafe?lor their lives I the bridge, he caught ?igf.t rf I ssora; he had (one bat he had i ?one no while wmll strike wan a light. in the poor H" galloped behind him, and, even in that terrible moment, he recognized?Shifty Dick. " The flood! the flood ! F'y ! Get on high ground, for your lives f" * ? * * At the first blow, the hoase that stood nearest to the flying lake was shattered, and went tc pieces soon af ter ; all the houses quivered as the water rushed round tnem two stories high. Fearful as the situation was, a sick ening horror was added to it bj the homd smell of the water ; it had a foul and appalling odor, a oompound of earthiness and putrescence ; it smelt like a newly-opened grave ; it paralyzed like a serpent s breath. As Henry Little, the hero of Reed's story, left the barn in which he had taken refuge, he tried to find his way to the road, which he knew led up the bill to Woodbine Villa. But all land marks were gone ; houses trees, hedges, all swept away; roads oovered three feet thick with rocks, and stones, and bricks, and carcasses. The pleas ant valley was one horrid quagmire, in which he could take few steps, bur dened as he was, without sticking, or tumbling against soma sure sign of destruction and death. Within the oom Eass of fifty yards he found a steam oiler and its appurtenaces, (they must have weighed some tons, yet they had been driven mere than a mile) and a dead cow, and the body of a wagon turnod upside down ; [the wheels of this same wagon were afterwards found fifteen miles from the body.] He began to stagger and pant. Boon after this, they came under a short but sturdy oak that had survived; and, entangled in its close and crooked branches, was something white. They came nearer ; it was a dead body ; some poor man or woman hurried from sleep to eternity. They shuddered and orawled on, still making for higher ground, but sore perplexed. Presently they hoard a sort of sigh. Thev went towards it, and found a poor horse stuck at an angle, his efforts to escape being marred by a heavy stone to whicl^he was haltered. Round a great fire in the Town Hall were huddled a number of half-naked creatures, who had been driven out of their dilapidated homes ; some of them had M?a ehiWwn or relatives portSfi tn the flood they had themselves so nar rowly escaped, and were bemoaning them with ohattering teeth. Little spoke them a word of comfort, promised them all clothes as soon as tho shops should open, and hurried off to the lower part of the town in searoh of Ransome. He soon found the line the flood had taken. Between Poma Bridge and Hillsborough it had wasted itself con siderably in a broad valley, but still it had gone olean through Hillsborough twelvo feet high, demolishing and drowning. Its terrible progranp was marked by a layer of mud a fooTthick, dotted with rocks, trees, wrecks of house*, machinery, furniture, barrels, mattresses, carcasses of animals, and dead bodies, taogt of them stark naked, the raging flood having torn their clothes off their backs. Four oorpses and two dead herses were lying in a lake of mjid about the very door of the railway station ; three of them females" in absolute nudity. The fourth was a male, with one stock ing on. This proved to be Hillsbro' Harry, warned in vain up at Damflask. When he aotaally heard the flood oome hissing, he had decided, on the whole, to dress, and had got the length of that one i>tooking( when the flying lake cut short his vegetation. Not far from this, Little found Ran some, working like a horse, with the tear in his eve. He uttered a shout of delight and surprise, and, taking Little by both shoulders, gazed earnestly at him, and said?" Can this be a living man I see?" Strange sights they saw that night. They found a dead body curled round the top frame of n lamp-post, and, in the suburbs, another jammed between a beam and the wall of a house. They found some houses with tho front wall narried clean away, and, on the second floor, suoh of the inmates as had survived huddled together in their night clothe*, unable to get down. These, Ransome and his men speedily relieved from their situation. And now came in word that the whole village of Poma Bridge had been de stroyed. ? Liittle, with Jtansome and his men, harried on at these sad tiflings as fast ae the mud and niina would allow, and on the-way one off the poHeetnen trod on something bo ft. It wm the bod y of a woman, imbedded in the mad. A little farther thej saw, at aome dia* tanoe, two oottagea in a row, both fat ted and emptied. An old man was alone in one, seated on the ground-floor in the deep mad. They went to him, and asked what they ooald do for him. ''Do? Why, let me die.** he said. They tried to enoourage him ; bat he answered them in words that showed how deeply old Shyloek's speeoh is founded in nstnre: Let the water take me?it has taken all I had." When they anked after his neighbon, he said he beliered they were drowned. Unluckily for him, he hsd been oat when the flood oame. little el am bared into the other eot tage. and fonnd a little boy and girl ^fiddly wlwp in a onpboard up stairs. ' Little Z?Ued with delight, aud kissed them, and cuddled them, as if they had been his own, so sweet was it to see and told him the room had been full of water, and dada and mamma had gone oat at the window, and they themselves had floated in the bed so n gh he had put his little sister on the top shelf, and got on it himself, and then they had both felt very sleepy. " You are a dear good boy, and I take yon into cnstody," said Ransome, in a broken voioe. Judge if this pair were petted, up at 4he Town Hall. At Poma Bridge the devastation was Jiorrible. The flood had bombarded a row of fifty houses, and demolished them so utterly that only one arch of one cellar remained ; the very founda tions were torn up, and huge holes of incredible breadth and depth bored by 4he furious eddies. Where were the inhabitants ? Ransome stood and looked, and shook like a man in an acne. "Little," said he, "this is awful. Nobody in Hillsborough dreams the extent of this calamity. I dread the dawn of day. There must be soorea of dead bodies hidden in this thick mud, or perhaps swept through Hillsborough into the very sea.'* A little further, and they came to the "Reindeer," where he had heard tLe boon companions singing?over their graves ; for that night, long before the ?" oock didoraw, or the day daw," their mouths were full of water and mud, and not the " barley bree." To know their fate needed but a glance at the miserable, shattered, gut ted fragment of the inn that stood. There was a chimney, a fragment, of triangular piece of roof, a quarter of the inside of one seoond-floor room,* i with all the boards gone and half the ioists gone, and the others either hang ing down perpendicular or sticking up at au angle of forty-flve. Even on the aide furthest from the flood the water had hacked and ploughed away the wall so deeply, that the miserable wreck had a jagged waist, no bigger in proportion than a wasp's. Not far from this amazing ruin was a little two-storied house, whose four rooms looked exactly as four rooms are represented in sections on the stage, " e front wall having been blown clean -ay, and the furniture and inmates t out: the very fenders and flre had been carried away; a bird a dock/ anfl a grate were left hanging to the threee walls. As a part of this village stood on high ground, the survivors were within reach of relief; and Little gave a ooliceman orders to buy olothes at the snop, and have them obarged to him. This done, he begged Ransome to cross the water, and relieve the poor wretohes who had escaped so narrowly with him. Ransome oonsented at onoe ; but then came a diffloultv?the bridge, like every bridge that the flying lake had struok, was swept away. However, the stream was narrow, and, as they were already muddy to the knee, they found a place where the miscellaneous ruin made stepping-stones, and by passing first on to a piece of masonry, and from that to a broken water-wheel, and then on to a rook, ther got across. They passed the ooinsr s house. It stood on rather high ground, and had got off cheap. The water had merely oarried away the daors and windows, and washed everything mevable out of it. And now the day began to dawn, and that was fortunate, for otherwise they oould hsrdly have found the house they were going to. On the way to it they oame on two dead bodies, an old man of eighty and a child searoe a week old. One fate had united these extremes of human life, the ripe sheaf and the spring bud. It transpired afterwards that they had been drowned in different parishes. Death, that brought these together, disunited hundreds. Poor Dolman's body was found scaroe s mile from the house, but his wife's eleven miles on the other side of Hillsborough; and this wide separation of those who died in one place by one death, Was con stant, and a notable feature of the tragedy. At Inst they got to the house, and Little shuddered at the night of it ? here not only wm the whole front wall taken ont, bat a part of the baok wall ; the jagged ohimnern of the next house ?till olnag to thl^ miserable shell, whose upper floors were slanting sieves, and on im lower wm a deep lay ex-ef mad, with the earcass of e nnge lying on it, washed in thsee all the way from HatftaWrillage. ran away from the ?for it seemed in stant a single bed rain oome ?then stopped, be done hers, to Htlls-I the wfcfcer. feafa ; ret art >Bere and there, a head fane appearing abeee the ornst be hidden harried heme to | ? to disin J net before th? snbnrb of Allerton the ground is a dead flat, and here the flying lake had covered a space a mile broad, doing frightful damage to prop erty but not much to life, because wherever it expanded it shallowed in proportion. In part of this flat a gentleman had a beautiful garden and pleasure-grounds over night; they were now under wa ter, ana their appear an oe was incredi ble ; the flood expanded here a^d then contracting, had grounded large objects and left Bmall ones floating. In one part of the garden it had landed a large wheat-rick, which now stood as if it be longed there, though it had been built five miles off. In another part was an inverted sum mer-bouse and a huge water-wheel, both of them great travelers that night. In the large fish pond, now much full er than usual, floated a wheelbarrow, a hair mattress, an old wooden cradle, and an enormous box or chest. Little went splashing throngh the water to examine the cradle ; he was richly rewarded. He found a litile child in it awake but perfectly happy, and enjoying the fluttering birds above and the buoyant bed below, whose treacherous nature was unknown to him. Little and Ransome carried the child away, and it was conveyed to the hospi tal and a healthy nurse assigned it. Ransome prevailed on Little to go home, change his wet clothes and lie down for an hour or two. He consent ed, but first gave Ransome an order to day out a thousand pounds, at his ex pense, in relief of the suffers. Then he went home, sent a message to Raby Hall that he was all right, took off his clothes, rolled exhausted into bed, and slept till the afternoon. Among the Chinese Beggars. Like most classes of laborers in Ohina, the beggars are very clannish, and are associated together in guilds, all of whioh have their head-men, who exercise a species of contrq) over them. These head-men are well-known, and are registered at the offioe of the magis-i trate. They were originally appointed by the authorities to lossen the trouble of keeping the beggars in order, and they have now beoome a recognised in ?titntian. and their offioe is, we have heard, hereditary in certain families. Like numbers of other Chinamen, who, outwardly at least, hold a respeotible position in life, these worthies live on perquisites, and the contributions of the fraternities whioh they superintend. In the "Social Life of the Chinese" we find an amusing aooount of the manner in which the affairs of the beg gars are regulated. " A bead-man of the beggars," we are told, " may make an agreement with tho shopkeepers, merchants, and bankers within his dis trict, that beggars shall not visit their shops, wharehouses, and banks, for money, for a stipulated time, and the beggars of the locality are obliged to conform to the agreement. Religious mendicants, refugees, exiles, &o., from other provinces, who take to begging for a living, do not ooxne under these regulations. The head-man receives from each of the principal business firms, with whioh he oan come to an agreement, a snnrof money as the prioe of exemption from the importunities of beggars ; and in proof of this arrange ment he gives a strip of red paper, on whioh is written or printed a sentence to the effeot that ' the brethren muBt not come here, to disturb or annoy.' This paper is pasted up in a conspicu ous part of tne shop or bank, and the money is taken away and professedly distributed among the beggars oon oerned, though there* is little doubt that .their chief appropriates the lion's share to his ovji use. After a business man has mad* this agreement with the head-man of the beggars, should any local beggar apply lot the usual pit tance, it Ml only necessary to point to the red slijVof paper and bid him be gjne. If heHtill not depart at once, he may be beaten with impunity by the master of the establishment, which )>eating the latter would not d*re to give unless he had proof of an agree ment at hand ; and it is said the head man nrfght, if the* beggar repeatedly violated the agrees ant, flour or beat the oulprit to death, and uo notice would be taken of the matter by the higher authorities.'*?All the Year Round. A Nervous Lot. American men and women are ner vons, and naturally have nervous HnWlreu, of slender physique, and easily excited into precocious intelli fence, whioh it considered genius. Bmtoad of letting the little creatures suck its fists and grow fat it is jump ed, and danced, and confused, and made to repeat like .a parrot. The English method of placing young chil dren in the hands of experienoed nurses and making them responsible is much better. A large, airy nursery at the top of the house ; a good, clean, whole some Belg i ?n, Swiss, or Bwedish woman to take onarge of it; breakfast of oat meal porridge and .ftflk ; dinners of roast or boiled beef or mutton, and rioe pudding ; tea of bread and butter, fmilk and fruit, with no confectionery or "ptooee" between meals, and no liate visits or rifles with mamma. In i snob a quiet, uneventful atmosphere 'the baby grows and thrives best., the fAiWd is subject to lefts excitement, and wilh healthy and regular habits leys the foundation of an sseellent constitu tion, while the mother is not worm out by its eoustant presence, or made ner V'.na by being oonsUntl J haraimed with giving direoMons to ignorant and inex i*naed nurses. ril V* ***"?' i' bfe. ' ?* ft* Items of Interest. Silenoe is the fittest reply to folly. Sorrows are the shadows of past joys. Better is a portion in a wife than with a wife. A near lantern is better than a dis tant star. Qnarrel with dead men and yon get hurt. "Wherever a fire has been, yon will find ashes. Mnch corn lies nnder "the straw tl is not Been. Yon will not find a deep fox in a si low bnrrow. At Whito Pine, Nevada, mahogany is! nsed for fueL Water forms nearly three-fourths the entire weight of the body. Heaviness, headache, nausea, result from the respiration of impure air. One farmer in Monmouth county, N. J., who has six acres in blackberries, sold last season fruit to the valne of 83,000. A clover root was torn up by a Cam bria (Michigan) farmer, while plowing, which measured four feet and six inches in length. Tyndall informs us that solar light iu passing through a dark room, reveals its track by illuminating the dnst float ing in the air. Hard words aro like hail-stones in summer, beating down and destroying what they would nourish if they were melted into drops. The hot blast is now used in den tistry. Nothing will dry a cavity of the gum so quickly. It is blown in by means of a syringe. A Paris letter reoords it as a strange fact, that undes the rule oi a republic, the q}d and beloved song of the Mar seillaise is once more forbidden. The sage has said, "He alone is a true friend who will Berve thee with his means in time of distress, and with his soul in time of need and danger." " Infusorial Animalcules," may easily *be detected with the aid of a microscope in water containing soluble organic sub stances, exposed to an ordinary temper ature. Exoespive exertion often leads to a oongMtad atata nf the lnng/t, and defi cient emroise is capable r>? producing tubercles in the same organs through nutritional altarations. The Amoeba round among the inuf soia, represents the lowest form of ani mal life . It has no particular shape, al tering its form, momentarily, and moves by thisourious means of progres sion. ^The Vermont State Agricultural So ciety has voted that a herd of cattle shall oonsist of one bull not less than one year old, two oows, two two-year old heifers, two yearliqgp heifers, and two oalves of either sex. Astronomer Proctor has small faith that the millien dollar telescope which the wealthy Oslifornian, Mr. Lick, pro poses to have built, oan be made pow erful enough to bring the moon within thirty miles of us, as fondlj hoped by the enthusiastic projects. j. The Devil Fish. The monster so common to fhe Ti ters of our southern coast, and particu larly in the Golf, known as the devil fish, is a harmless creature, so far an is known. It belongs, I suppose, to the ray family, although it laoks some of the peculiarities of that genus. It at tains to great size, some having been taken nearly twenty feei in length and seventeen or eighteen feet broad. They are famished with arms or flippers, one on each side of the head. These arms are flexible and of great strength. They are employed for taking the foo^of the creature, and probably for defensive purposes. But the Ann use them for picWpg np any object of a portable size whicn they find in the water. A gen tleman living on the Savannah river, Georgia, was in the habit of sending his negroes down the river to fish with nets, as th<a tide served. Gn one occa sion, two of hie boys reached the fish ing ground before the tide had fallen sufficiently for their purposes. CufTee always goes to sleep when he lias noth ing etae to do. Bo pushing a pole into the mud, they tied the canoo thereto, and lying down intended to sleep until the tide served. But along came a huge devil Ash, whioh grabbed up the Sole, and tucking it under his flipper, egan towing the oanoe and it* con tents toward the deep water. the negroes awoke they ..were tefcifled well-nigh eut of their wite. They wore {trooeeding.to sea at the rate of abont our miles an hour, but the power pro pelling the canoe wan wholly invisible. The first impluse was to jnmp over board, but it occurred to them in time, fortunately, that they were nnable to ?wim. Finally the rope bv which mas ter deril fish was towing tnem was cut, and they reached the land in a pitiable state of terror. Aa individual of this speoies has been known to lake up the kedge of a small schooner and oarry it awa^y for a mile, towing the teeaei that distance, when he dropped tha anchor, apparently fa tigued with the amusement. 4 large deril fish was streak with a tJyou ta the lowar part of tha river 81 John by the boil's crew of a small armed tMMlt.qmgld.ia the pro tec ran for ig the ? e,8hl _ fr*e to clioek nis rd. They wete compelled to out the ll last, aa there was danger of his fouling with the hawser of the reeael.