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From the Titusyille Courier.
zach ting Incident.

Yachting Incident.
A TITUsvILLE YOUNG LADY SAVES THE
LIVES OF A PARTY OUT SAILING AT
THE THOUSAND ISLANDS.
We promised to give, in Saturday
mornings Courier, the particulars of an
adventure of one of Titusville's fairest
daughters, who, with party of several
ladies and gentlemen, was out sailing in
a small yacht off the Thousand Islands,
in the evening, when the clouded sky
rendered it impossible to observe on OBJ
ject on the water, unless there was light
to direct the course of that object. The
party had left the shore before dark in
their small sailing craft, and when far
out upon the water, darkness came on,
and they had no lamp or means of fire
to avoid collision except few matches
which the gentlemen had in their pock-
cts. Thoughtlessly they were sailing over
water, a careless, merry party, little
dreaming of the danger awaiting them,
and their narrow escape from watery
grave. A dark object soon doomed up
in the distance, which, Judging from the
direction of the headlight, was in their
course, which came nearer and nearer,
and it seemed impossible to escape col
lision, unless the coming vessel, which
proved to be large mail steamer, could
be signaled by light to take different
direction, which it was impossible for the
small sailing craft to do, owing to the
direction of the wind at the time. The
party were in terrible suspense, and the
gentlemen thought of every means posi-
BILE obtain light to signal the steamer,
but there seemed to be nothing at their
command. The young ladies commence
ed to scream, with the exception of one,
and she is the heroine of our story. There
was a rustic at the end of the boat, and
it being dark, no one knew what she was
doing, but suddenly roll of paper was
handed to one Of the gentlemen, and
without aquestion's being asked, match
was applied to it, and blaze was soon
ascending upward, which attracted the
attention of the man in the wheelhouse
of the steamer, when the course of the
steamer was changed, and was soon pass
ing by, leaving the yacht, with its pre-
cious freight, alone and undisturbed.
The danger was over, and when all had
sufficiently recovered from the fright to
realize the narrow escape which they had |
just experienced, there was a shower of
whispering among the young ladies, and
the gentlemen were wondering from
whence came the material that had serv-
ed so important q mission in the hour of
danger. The young ladies, being timid,
made no explanatirn to the gentlemen,
even after their arrival home, but it soon
leaked out that the young lady from tt
tusville stripped herself of her hustle,
composed of a roll Of newspapers, which
was handed to the gentlemen, and which
was used to signal the steamer to change
its course. We are not permitted to give
the young lady's name, but she has been
at Kingston and the Thous-
and Islands for the past two months, and
only returned to the home of her par
ents, In this city, on Tuesday last. She
is looking remarkably well, showing that
her summer tour has proved very bene-
hcial to her health. In Kingston and
on the Islands her exploit is the common
topic of conversation, and the act is
praised by all. Indeed, it
mas had SO deep an impression upon the
aides of that section that all patent
'ustles have been discarded, and they
nave fallen back ON newspapers, SO as to
Dc ready for any emergency.