The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-03-15

Connecucut, nves tne nero OF the uuc nistorJ
am ABOUT 70 relate, Dut no longer 'nule, ~
the periious adsenturc, when msde MN 10
the time famous IN ms native 'own, hapPcnee
several years ago. Our nero was tnen bright
active boy OF fourteen years. the son Of me
chaMc; IN the severe winter q 20, .le is. !,
er worked in factory, about mile and nail
from his home; and every day the boy carried
him his dinner, across wide piece OF meadow
land One Keen frosty day, ne found the snow
on this meadow nearly two feet deep, ana no
traces OF the little foot-path remaining. lei
he ran on as fast as possible, plunging through
drifts, keeping himself warm by the most Wig
orous exercise, and brave cheerful thoughts =
When IN the midst OF tho meadow, full half q
mile from any house, he Suddenly felt himself
going down, down, down. He had fallen in
well. He sank down into the dark, icy water
but arose Immediately to the surface. There
he grasped hold Of plank which had fallen in
to the well as he went down. One end of this
rested on the bottom Of the well, while the 9TH
err rose about four feet above the surface of the
water. The poor lad shouted for help until he
was hcrse and almost speechless, but all in vain
as It was impossible for him to make himself
heard from such depth, and at such dis
lance from any house. So at last he concluded
that II he was to be saved at all, he must save
himself, and begin at once, as he was getting
extremely cold in the water. SO he went TO
WORK. FIRST ne drew himself up to the plank,
ana braced himseif at the top OF 1t and the Wall
OF the well, which was built OF brick, and had
become quite smooth. Then he pulled of his
coat, and taking out ms POCKET knife, cut on
MS boots, that ne might work to greater adj
vantage. linen with ms ieet against one sue
OF the wen, ana nus shoulder against thc other
ne WORKED ms way up, oy the most iearfui ex-
ertlon, ABOUT naiI the distance 10 tue Top
mere ne was oohged 70 pause, take breath, ana
gs.her up ms energies LOT the WORK yer before
nun. rar hsraer was u tnan all ne had gone
through; ior .he sues OF tne well oeing from
lna' pom. conP.s'eiy cosereo WIN lce' ne must
cut, WIN ms Anne, grasplng,Piaces Tor ms mn
gcrs, Slowly anu careiuiiy' al the way up. =.
was almost hopeless auemPs' put II was an
ela' he coulo ao. aua mere inc NIUE nero MT
gu W n.s nea1. W uou' anu p,ayeu ier'eh.y
| l1r he,p, iesl,ng Una. ne couiu nese, GET. out
alone. Oouo.iess 'he Lore neara ms voice
Gaining from the aeeps, anu Pi'ied nun ne
wrougn' no miracle 70 save hiln' out Dreamed
lnto ms neaft YET larger measure OF eaimness
anu courage, strengthening MN 70 WORK out MS
own aehverance.
aIer .nls' ths mute nero Gu. ms way upward
loo md lon, h;s s.o, ,ron, sI;nn;no hnt lie lie
shirt was oi,ite worn from his shoulders ere ha
reached the ton He did reach il Mt last
crawled ont into the snow and Law down a mo
ment IN rect nant;no ont his hreotb in l;t,Ie
b;to clouds a., ,bo cIoor fros., ON ~ NOD
boon two bonrs and ! hole in Tho we,i His
clothes soon fro,e 10 b;s hodv hut be No ,onr.
or spfF.rod with tha co,d ~ s,ll of io,, a,,d
tbonLf,,,na.s ha ra. 20 H. fs,,arr ,rSoso ~
rood fatbar ,,as v.;,;n, and .a,i.r;rr tn
&c. ,,;aa =. aau ~. h;s s;
tha, dar h hae uv 81 S.I L nsa ';..,a
-. a.. ,':,. =. nc oa,eu ii, wv:
auos ', III, III WIN ~ n,s
" tn ~ .alnns s.ory MS sun hau W reiu u
~ ~ niM e must nave oeea very Proua Oh tne
IVY 'na. way, as hs Mlappea nun III MS own
warn wal, o'e,ooa' anu 'ook MN nome 10 moth.
or. a anu now 'na' ne'ner must nave wep,
anu slieu over .he Tau, anu klssea nini' anu
'na m, ooa Ior mini Inc Little flgrlm.
Inc siAnderous report clrcuiated against the
lePutauon Oh TUSCALOOSA ID regard 10 the eiec'
tlon OF MRS. Nancy smith to the Mayorallty,
Is iaise. MRS. Nancy smith ddreceive three
votes from some Wags, while .: r. lngles re-
celved 100 votes 1or the same ONCE. The false
report came originally from the oskaloosa
Times, paper whose regard for truth is not
remarkably prominent. The Oskaloosa Her
aid ventilates the matter properly.