The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-29
Two YOUNG MEN AND THEIR SWEET.

Two YOUNG MEN AND THEIR SwBEr.
HEARTS GO A BITHMa.-The tornado
that swept over the vicinity of New York
some days ago was the severest known in
Newark Tor many years. The Passaic
river rose suddenly and overfowed its
osnks. The shipping was greatly en-
oangered, boats were driven from their
moorlngs, trees were blown down. houses
unroofed and cellars flooded. Two
young men and their sweethearts were
out on the river boating. The girls had
not found 1t convenient to inform their
ma into whose company they we're
going' as the lovers would not have been
received with the best possible grace at
inc mouse. Tho party sought secluded,
sh"dy spot, and taking of their onter
garments, and like
Bryan OLynn, his wife, and his wifo,s M
ther, ~ ~ A'
All went into tho river together"
The girls sported like mermaids in the
quiet water, and enjoyed hugely the glo.
rioua iun, little dreaming of the terrific
storm that was; coming on. The waves
sported gently with their snowy robes.
nall disclosing the charms that the maid
ems usF.ngly tried to hide. Suddenly
the sky darkened, and the boat, which
had been fastened to bush on the bank
by the chain, was struck violently by a
pun OF wind-the prelude to the tenn
pest-and two mems strnw hats. two
ladies' bonnets, four pairs of boots. male
and female, half and half; two pairs of
ladies' hose, No. 4; two pairs of gents
do, two mems flannel suits, two pieces
OIL ladies' undergarments, q snowy array
OF rntfies. tucks. founces, etc. name
not known by the reporter-and some
wire contrivances resembling bird cages.
with q second story added by tackine on
copies of paper, all of these contents
OF the boat were gathered up by the gale
and tossed into the river.
Ine girls gave scream as the clothes
url1sed away. They declared, however,
they could swim like seals, and struck
out boldly for their duds. while the oan.
tlemen tried to right the boat. This
nautical expedition of the nymphs after
their treasures was O failure, though
their long yellow tresses foated like a
beautiful sea-weed upon the water, and
there was more graceful display of
limbs IN the poetry of motion than ever
appeared fettered by tights and pads in
the Black Crook; they failed to Keep up
with the clothes. Meanwhile few big
drops fell from the inky clouds, and in a
moment q continuous sheet of water
seemed to fall from the sky The girls
struck for the boat, which the Youths
managed to drag to the shore.
,On TIE, East bank of the Passaic.
around the Kearney mansion, is thick
grove OF evergreens: Here the half
ude and dripping party secreted them
serves, one OF the yo1ng men standing
sentinel. to hail any bcnevolent-looking
ip!aaitidnal who might pass along the
road, and who might furnish him with
some dry clothing in which he might 90
e. the city and procure raiment for the
others The girls might easily be taken
Tor statuary, embowered in the ever
green shades. There each one stood
dripping wet, sans everything but che.
misetts. =
The sentinel, after waiting couple
OF hours, to his inexpressible delight
he wanted pressibles-behe "a
solitary horseman" vending slowly along
the river road. and giving sign best
understood by the fraternity to which
ooth happened to belong, he procured
the necessary articles. A couple of
waterproof cloaks enabled the Young
ladies' to steal quietly home in the dark.
ness. and the first pale rays of the moon
stealing through the troubled clouds
INTO their chamber found them sleeping
| in their little bed.
They didn't go out on Saturday.
Their soreness may be owing to cold.
but their mamma knows best. She is q
stout female. with temper of her own,
and she often makes her mark in black
and blue.
"CAN'T GET OUT. Judge Teese. pre-.
siding judge of the Essex County m ~
Court of Common Pleas, finds it as diri.
cult to get ont of Office as some other
people find to get in. He resigned his
Office last April; the resignation was nc !.
cepted, and commission made out ap.
pointing successor. Before the latter
gentleman had qualified, however, the
Governor decided that under the consti-
tuition of the State, he had no power to
accept Judge Teese's resignation, and
consequently no rower to appoint an
other man. The resignation was re-.
turned and the Judge went back to the
bench, but subsequently vacated it, and