The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-03-06

sun ever rose upon. Mr. Lang has oec0m
ar elder In the church, and both hnsban,
/ snd wife are most exemplary in the dis
charge Of their religious, as well as relativ,
I duties God has blessed them with an am
pie competence and sure is the writer o
this narrative, that no fisherman or woman
ever applied to this worthy couple withou
Obtaining relief.
i One circumstance more, and my narrative
closes. As Mr.. Lang was one evening TAX
Ing walk along the sea-shore, viewing the
boats % they mustered for the herring fish.
ing, be was shot at from behind one of the
rocks. and severely wounded IA the shoulder
the bail cr slug-sAot having lodged II tb-
clavicie, and refusing, for some days, to be
l extracted. The bue-and-cry was immedi
ately raised but the guilty persor was no
where TO be seen- He had escaped in boat.
or had hIi himself IN q cTeylce Of the rock,
tor in some private and friendly house IN the
village. Poor Thomas lang was carried
h"ne 90 bis distracted wife more dead than
alive; and DR.. Goodsir being called, DIS
closed thai, IN bis PRESENT state, the lead
could not be extracted. Poor Sarah was
szygsf moment from her husband's sia@,
4 who ievered, aud became occasionally de-
lirious--taiking IDcoherently Of murder and
shipwreck, and Woodburn, and love, and
maTr;sge, d Sarah Black. All within his
brain was one mad wheel of mixed aud con-
fused colors, such as children make when
they wheel q stick, dyed white, black
aud red, rapidly around. Suspicion, from
tne first, Tell upon the brother Of The
boy Rob Patterson, whom Laing had killed
many years before. Revenge is the most
nawhapa IF ali nrI
rather feeds upon itself than decays. Like
lame, u acquires strength by time !" aud
iG was suspected that Dan Patterson, a reck
less ami dissipated man, had done the
deed. In confirmation Of this supposiuon,
Dan was nowhere TO be found, and it was
stroagty suspected that his wife and his son,
who returned at midnight with the boat, had
ser Dan on saore somewhere on the coast,
and that he had effected his escape. Death,
tor some time, seemed every day snd hour
Gearer at hand; but at last tue symptoms
soitened, the fever mitigated, the swelling
subsdsd, ard, aiitT mucn careful and skiliul
surgery, most admirably conducted by DR.
Goodsir's son, the ball was extracted. The
wound closed without mortinession; N and, IT,
a week OF Two, Mr.. Laing was not only out
Of danger, but out Of bed, and walking about,
as ne does 10 this hour, with his arm in a
sling IL was about the period Of his re-
covery, that Dan Paterson was taken as ne
MAS skuldlng about in the west country,
apparently looking out for = ship iD Which
to sail for America. He was Immediately
broognt back to Cellarjykes, and lodged ID
Ansuuther prison. Mr.. Lang would will
hngIY have iorborne the prosecution but
the Law beloved to have IT'S course. Dan
was triel for manning with the intention
OF murder" and was condemned to fourteen
years transportation. This happened ID
the year 1892, the year Of the Kings visit to
Scotland. Mr.. and Mrs Lang actually
waited upon his Majesty Kiug George the
Fourth, At the palace OF Dalkeith, and,
backed oy the learned JUICE and counsel,
obtained eommutation OF the punishment,
from banisnmeat 70 Imprisonment fUr linn
tied period. The great argument IN his Ia
vor was the provocasion he ha1 received.
Dan Paterson now inhabits neat cottage in
the village, and Mr.. LANG has quite set MIN
up with boat oi his own, rsady rugged and
fitted tor Use. He has entirely reformed,
g. become q member Of a ,snpcEAnce su-
e4etY, and ms wife and family are az happy
AS the uAy IS long. Mr. ard Mrs. Lang are
supplied with tue very b st OF fish, aud
stockings and mittens are manufactured by
the Patersoh's for the little Lang's, partic1.
larry during boasterous weather, when hsh-
ing is out Of the question. Thus has a wise
Providence made even the wrath of man to
praise hin. The truth Of the above nara
tive may be tested any day, BY watilg upon
tie Rev. Mr.. Dickson, o. rpon the parties
at Braehead Of Cellaroy kes.