The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-07-20

hut empty, might pursue and over
take them. Still the brave Ladbury
toiled on his own strength was rap
idly giving way. Once moro he was
obliged to halt neer stream.
"We must camp hero tonight,
mate," he said to Storey. "Perhaps
tomorrow my legs will be able to
move, to-day they can do no MORE"
The night passed away in silence the
morning usbered in with the strange
sounds Of the Australian bush, and
the sun rose, casting fiery heat over
the plain. Storey had not moved
Ladbury looked at him anxiously,
expecting to find him no longrr alive.
He reused up, however, and after
some breakfast, Ladbury again har-
messed himself to the sleigh, and NOV
ed on. Often he was obliged to halt !;
sometimes ho could move only few
hundred yards at timo, few min
utes' rest enabled him again to o on.
Still the stages became shorter and
the rests longer Us the evening ap.
preached. He felt that he could not
exist another night in the bush. The
station could not be far off. A faint
ness was creeping over him. Oh, on
he went, as if in dream. Several
times he stumbled and could scarcely
recover himself. A sound reached
his ear, it was dogs bark.
With the conviction that help could
not be far off, his strength seemed to
return. The roofs of the wood sheds
and huts appeared. No one could be
seen, Even then he and his friend
might perish if he did not go on. 1t
was tho supper hour at the station.
On he must 60. lie got nearer aud
nearer, stumbling and painting. The
door of the chief hut was reached,
and he sank faintipg across the thres-
hold. Every attention was paid to
the two men. Ladbury soon recover
ed. Poor Storey was conveyed to the
hospital at Albany but so great had
been the shock to his system that in
q short time, he sank under it's effect.
We read of the gallant acts of our
soldiers and sailors in the face Of an
enemy, but is there not also heroism
10 the character of this Australian
shepherd-heroism which never would
have been suspected, had no oircnm-
stances occurred to draw it QUIT ,tla,
a SAD AFrAIR.-It becomes our
painful duty to announce to-day one
of tho saddest cases of death by
drowning, that has probably ever fup-
pened in this section. Last Saturday
Mrs. g. p. Bolton, the daughter of
our friend, ~. w. Beatty, Esq, of Con.
way boro,' and we'll known to many of
our citizens as Miss Cora Beatty, while
bathing with her little sister in lake
near her fathers house, ventured too
far, and bo.h were drowned. A col
ored man seeing their danger, hasten
ed to their rescue and was drowned
About eighteen months ago, the de-
ceased, then Miss Beatty, lovely girl
OF sixteen, was married to Charles
Pelham Bolton, one Of the most prom.
ising young lawyers in this part of the
State, and when we saw thcm on their
return from their bridal tour, we
o"'"Suo Vhao d iouS anu nappy lllc
strewed with flowers was before them
But in this we were sadly disappoint-
ed, for in less than one month from
our announcement of this happy mar
riage, it was our painful duty to an.
nounce the death of Mr.. Bolton. And
to-day, ere the once happy wife had
laid aside the habliments Of mourning
for the one whom she had chosen as
the partner Of her life, we have to an
nounce her demise in the unfortunate
manner referred to. Truly in the
midst of life we are in death. The
Rev. Mr.. Cnnser. of this county,
preached the funeral of these lament
cd sisters at Conway yboro', last Sun.
day. TO the family we tender our
heartfelt sympathy and that of their
many friends in Marion, in this, their
day of distress and mourning.-.Mar-
ION Star.
SCARLET FEvER.-An emiminent
physician robs scarlet fever Of many
of its terrors, by prescribing for the