Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1858-09-29

mortal of the Massacre of Elgg. We fnd,
too, further marks of visitors in the single
bones separated from the heaps, and scatter
ed over the area; bnt enough still remains to
show in the general disposition of the re-
mains, that the hapless islanders died under
the walls in families, each little group sepa-
rated bv a few feet from the others Here
and there the remains of detached skeleton
may be seen, as if some robust islander, rest
less in his agony, had stalked oat into the
middle space ere he fell; but the social ar
| rapgement is the general one.
And beneath every heap we fnd, at the
depth as has been said, Of few inches, the
| remains of the straw bed upon which the
family had lain, largely mixed with the
smallest bones of the human frame ribs and
the vcrtebre, and hand and feet, feet bones;
| occasionally, too, witt fragments of unglazed
pottery, and various other imp dement's of rude
housewilery. The minister found for me.
under one family heap, the pieces of half
burned unglazcd earthen jar, with narrow
mouth, that, like the sepulchral urns of our
ancient tumuli, had been moulded by the
| hand, without the assistance of the potter's
Wheel and to one of the fragments there
stuck minute pellet of grey hair. From
under another heap he disintered the handle
stave of child's wooden porringer (6icker,
'
of the cord that had hung it to the wall; and
beside the stavc lay few Of the larger, less
destructible bones of the child, with what
for time puzzled us both not little-one
of the grinders of horse.
Certain it was, no horse could haye got
there to have dropped a tooth-a foal of
week old could not have passed itself through
the opening; and how that single grinder,
evidently no recent introduction into the
cave. could have got mixed up in the straw
with the human bones, seemed an enigma
somewhat of the class to which the reel IN
the bottle belongs. / found In Edinburgh an
unexpected commentator on the mystery, IN
the person of my little boy, an experimental
philosopher in his second year. | had spread
out on the floor the curiosities of Eigg, among
tie rest, the relics of the cave. including the
pieces of earthen jar, and the fragments OF
the porringer; but the horses tooth seemed
to be the only real curiosity among them in
the eyes of little Bill, He laid instant hold
of it; and, appropriating it as toy. contin-
ued playing with it till he fell asleep.
Il have now little doubt but that it was
first brought into the cave by the poor child
amid whose mouldering remain Mr. Swanson
found it. This little pellet Of gray hail
spoke of feeble old age involved in this whole
the island; and here was a story of unsus-
pecting infancy amusing itself on the eve Of
destruction with Its toys. Alas for man
Should not | spare Ninevsh, that great city,
+ said God to the angry prophet, wherein arr
o moro than six score thousand persons tha
cannot discern between their ri sht hand anc
their left" Gods image must have beol
, sadly defactd in the murderers of the poo
i inofensive children of Eigg. they coult
have heard their feeble waiiings, raised, n
: doubt when the sitting atmosphere within
y began first to thicken, and yet ruthless
{ persist in their indiscrlminate destruction.
Z
g ''Some hundreds Of years ago." says Nj
% Wilson, ga few of the McLeods landed i
- Eigg from Skye, where, having greatly mis-
4 conducted themselves, the Eiggites strappe
"a them to their own boats, which they 81
II adrift III the ocean. They we're, however
III rescued by some c.ansmen; and soon after
- strong body of the McLeods set sail fro'
ST Skye, to revenge themselves on Eigg. Th
: natives of the latter island. feeling the
! were not of sufficient force to offer resis
re ance, went and hid themselves, Omen, W,
: men and children, in this secret cave, whic
~ is narrow, with exceedingly small ell
trance. 1t opens from the broken face of
/ steep bank along the shore; and, as the who
. coast is cavernous the particular retire;
y would have been sought for in vain by stral
oi gers. So the Skye-men, finding the Islam
g uninhabited presumed the natives had fet
d, and satisfied their revengeful feeling by raj
~ ~ sacking and pillaging the empty house
y Probably the mOuaJles were of no great va
III ue They then took their departure, al
up left the island, when the sight of solita
- human being among the cliffs awakened the
suspicion and nduced them to return. u
u fortunately slight sprinkling of snow h;
1n = fallen and the footsteps of an individual We
u' traced to the mouth Of the cave. Not ha
wv ing been there ourselves at the period allud
Gu !. to, we cannot speak with certainty to t
IS nature of the parley which ehsued, or t
ng terms offered by either party; but We kn'
Gu i that those were not the days of protoco
cd The ultimatum was not satisfactory to t
ho Skye-men who Immediately proceeded
lat adjust the preliminaries in their own wa
TN which adjustment consisted in carrying a Vi
Ills collection of heather, ferns, and other col
'es I, bustibles, and making huge fire just in t
W. very entrance of the Uamh Fdatngh, whi
!. o,h they kept up for length of time; aid th1
10; by 'one fell smoke they smoothered the e
II lui tire population Of the island"
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ls- PRESERVING FRUIT WITHOUT SUGAR.
nd preserve fruit fresh for winter use, put it
bottles, fill them up WITH cold spring waite
in tie down with bladder tightly: put them
les kettle or copper of cold water up to
cry neck of the bottles. with hay TO steady the
nes let them simmer for quarter of an hour,
nd not boil let them cool in the water; W
the bottles and put away in cool place.
,ed no account open them till wanted for eati
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ed; ~ The best way 20 treat SANDER is to
ate it alone and say nothing abou. it, 1t s
any dies away when fed op silent contempt,