Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-03-12

banks to reconnoitre the ford. They
saw that the stream was craggy with
rocks, some rising above the waters like
giants. The ford was dangerous, but
q deadlier foe than the swift waters
lurked in an old school house on the
opposite bank. Th~re, as unsupported
as were the Grecians in the wooden
house before Troy, stood twenty-six
rihemen ready to send the red shaft
of ,.eath into the b cart of the young
leader of the brigade. Thirty-two
times did those long rifles measure
him with their silver eyes, as he slowly
disappeared in the forest beyond it,
horsenan and horse were untouched.
A fortnight after this period, while
charging at the hes of his brigade in
the death-paved battlefield of Gull
ft I'd, Lit. Col. Webster received a rau-
dom shot in the patelta, or knee-pan,
and died of lockjaw
The wonderful escape of Alexander
the Great, when surrounded by the
Mali, said to be the most warlike peo-
pie of India, is well known to all
readers of history.
will conclude by relating one more
incident Of modern date.
Fifteen years after the battle of
Monongahela, Doctor Craik was with
Gen. Washington in what was then
called Ohio county, now Ohio. when
an old Indian chief came, he said, "a
| long way to see the General"
He informed them that he had been
in the above battle, and had fifteen
times fired his rifle at him, missing
him each time. Gen Washington was
| never wounded.
You remember-she continued-the
parting scene between Hector and
Andromache, where Homer introduces
the former as saying to his wife:
" Fixed is the term of all the race of earth,
Safe till the hour which dooms US to the grave
! No torne can then +. sist,
| No ght can save"
How many of us in grieving for the
loss of those dear to our hearts. suffer
yet more severely from the reflection
that had we been more watchful and
more careful, our beloved ones would
not have died 1t is now, if We Cal
accept this faith, that it brings to III
consolation and resignation to the vii
Of our All-wise and Omnipoten
Father. It is His measure of on
days that has been fulfilled, and no
, that We leave this world from accl-
! dental causes ;hat are adverse to us.
IN that subtim, aud m gnificent poem
the book of job. regarded by the learn
I'd as one of the most ancient, if no
tht' most ancient record extant, att
: thonght by some, to have ieen wrlti el
by Moses himself, We find thee
words; Seeing his days are deter
. mined, the number OF his months ar
? with Thee; T! Oh hast appointed hi
bounds. that be cannot pass"
4 ''Is there not an appointed time t
a man upon earth? are not his days ais
t like the days of an hireling?"-
o She rose and taking an Etrusca
e vase busted herself IL arranging to
: flowers
: Here, she said, is a little singl
+. petaled, snow white flower, can1elii
e sasanqua, called by the Chinese chau
l haw. 1t is used by them in the pre-
paration Of tea and imparts that fiji
e fragrance SO peculiar and SC geuerall
o admired. Like that "wee modes
;. flower" the violet, it possesses br
j little beauty, yet, it is graced wit
= such charms as to be sought for whe
T. gorgeous and magnificent flowers n
7 ce,ve but passing glance. Thr
4, might we be taught lesson fro1
9 these humble little flowers. Taugl
It to value the beauty of the soul and ,
Y the heart rather than the externals
|, this life
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