The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-06
were when Louis Phillip were king.

were when Louis Phillip were king.
~~' Well, as were sayin', we'd had light
weather, and finally, just to the west ard
! of the Banks, We gifts becalmed intirely,
and while we was a-layin' there helpless
we seen to the west ard the smoke of
steamer. Well, there she were, probab-
ly only three days out Of New York, and
you can list imagine how crazy all our
passengers was for to git a newspaper
from her, for we was forty days out, and
all our passengers was business men,
cause folks didn't travel for pleasure
! them days.
So they goes to the old: man, and he
says as how he dent care;zif Mr.. Hewitt
likes for it to git outs#a boat and board
her, and git some newspapers, why he
has no objections; and they goes to Dick
and he says, t'Sartainly WILL and he
orders boat manned, and then he goes
down and harnesses hisself up, so that
we hardly knew him when he up on deck
agin, and he jumps into the boat, and
settles hisself in the starn.sheets with
great dignity, cause he Rnow'd all the
wimmen passengers was alooking at him.
Sup oars,'' says he; ''lets fall F.; give
way and off we went, cause were one
Of that crew, and pulled the stroke oar.
swell. sir, when the steamer seen us
a-comin' she slowed down and then stop.
ped, and then we shot alongside. Then
Dick stood up in the starn-sHeets and
lifted his hat to the officer at the gang
way--I can reco]lect it as we'll as If it
were yesterday, and it we're away back IN
1916 or'47-and says he: Captain Sir
John Britton S compliments, Of the Amer.
lean Swallow-tail line packet-ship Con-
stitution, bound from Liverpool to New
York, and he wishes to know if you can
give him late paper or two!'
I Oh, holy moses, you ought TO have
heard that Frenchman go on, fust in Eng.
fish and then in French. Curse your
Yankee impudence,' says he, how dare
you stop one of His Majesty's mail steam
ers on the hig h seas on such frivolous
pretext?' and then he went off into
French, which Dick couldn't understand
word of. The Frenchman had rung
the bell for to 60 ahead, and away she
went, sendin' shower of water into our
boat from her propeller as she went on.
Dick were wild. If can git aboard
Of that ship, I'll lick that there French
nan within inch of his life.' Well, we
pulled, but Of course we didn't gain any
on him, and we soon Civ it up. Dick
stood up in the starn sheets and cursed
the French officer as long as he could hear,
and long after, and then he settled down
in the starn sheets, and we pulled back to
the ship. But all the way back Dick
puffed and swelled in a awful way and
tit to bust hisself. a - frog. eatin
Erpo III of o.oool- oG liant
term to hisself, to dare for to talk to me
like that-to me, Richard Hewitt, ESQ.,
mate of an American packet, as was sail
or atore that Frenchman know d how
for to knot rope yarn. He shall be
hammered if have to 60 to France for to
do it. | shall catch him in New York Wit,
and when l do To. think of me, Mr..
+. Hewitt, Esq, being treated like a
,,-loblolly boy by brass-hound beggar like
that: One of his Majesty mail steam
ers, hey, one Of hismajesty's steamers.
Give the old Constitution "a to:gallant
breeze a, pint free and if she scouldn 'tAbeat
the life out Of that whirlyggiigsthipg. I'd
break her up for trewoed, Well Dick
kept a-goin' on in this way all the way
back to the ship. While we was along
side Of the Frenchman some of the pas
sengers had pitched newspaper or two
into the boat, and Dick took these and
pitched EN- among the crowd of passen-
gers, and givin orders for to hyst in the
boat, he went in to the port side Of the
deck and walked there till dark. Every
once in a while he'd stop and square off
as if he. had somebody afore him pitch.
i in into 'em, and then he would resume
Ibis: work: w neither he ever met. that
Fren Gilman or not l never heard. but if
heidi you may depend on it there were
Frencn1nan, whaled.-Nev York World.
The Northern Pacific Difficulties
Settled.
An adjourned meeting Of the North.
ern Pacific bondholders was held in New
York, Wednesday. the Goth ult. About
twenty millions of the bonds were rep.
resented. There was large representa-
tion from all parts of the United States.
The objections hat have been urged to
the provisions to the decree for FORE
closure were obviated by an agreement
between all parties, which will be accept
ed by the court. The different objec.
tions to the plan Of foreclosure and sale,
known as the Livingston plan, were har.
monized by the adoption of series Of
amendatory resolutions. The meeting
closed in spirit of complete unanimity,
and with general feeling that the in
vestments in the road would be served
and the road completed.
A Novel Canadian Constable.
j. z..s~ [From the Ottawa Citizen ]S:.;.
A couple Of days ago, John Wilson,
concta HE from Thnrco arrival IN +ho o;+,