Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-04-07

middle Of the (eighteenth) century young
West had an obscure lodging in Strawber-
~ alley, and painted portraits at guinea a
head-painted signs, too, for few shilliDgs,
when portraits or guineas were not to be
had Mad Anthony Wayne, then a hand
some, gallant, showily dressed young fel-
! low, was often seen on the streets with the
mild-mannered, apple-cheeked Quaker lad.
He brought as many of his fashionable
friends as he could persuade to sit for their
portraits to the hungry young artist, and it
Is Linted not only made military man of
him, but introduced him to charming Miss
Betty Shewell, with whom West, in his
orderly, proper way, fell in love. Miss
Shewell's brother, however, being q man
with an income, had no mind that his pretty
sister should marry a man who had none,
and whose occupation was held to be not
half so genteel as that OF a tailor. He there
fore locked Miss Betty up in her room, Just
about the time that one Of the Aliens, who
was sending a ship laden with grain to the
starving Italians offered Benjamin a passage
on her to Leghorn. But love laug ghed at
locksmiths then as now. The Quaker
Romeo and his Juliet saw each other,
though one was in the garden and the other
in the window, and vowed eternal faith.
West promised to win fame and money, and
his sweetheart, promised to come TO him to
the ends of the earth as soon as he should
send her word be had enough Of the latter
necessary TO keep them from starvation.
The remainder OF the story Bishop White
told to DR. Swift, of EastOn, Pennsylvania
West, as we all know, succeeded rapidly in
winning both the fame and the money, and
a. soon as he was established first fayorite
at Hampton court, sent to Miss Shewell 10
claim her part Of the promise. Her brother
was stll inexorable, and did not consider a
painter, though he were Georges own,
tit match for the daughter Of a blue-blooded
Philadelphia family. lie locked Miss Betty
up again in her chamber. The story went
out through the town. Popular sympathy
was with the lovers. Stephen Shewell was
denounced as tyrant and many glances
Of pity and encouragement were cast at the
high-lat.iced window behind which was the
fair captive maiden. The ship was in the
harb0r, ready to sail, in which West had
arranged that his bride should come to him,
under the escort of his father. The day
arrived Tor her departure. At this crisis
Dr Franklin appeared as the good angel,
and proved himself quite As competent to
direct love affair as the lightning or the
draught in a stove. With Bishop White.
then lad OF Is, and Francis IIopkinson, he
went 10 the ships captain. and arranged
with him to delay starting until night, but to
be ready TO weigh anchor at a moments
warning. Old Mr. West was then taken on
board, and at midnight Franklin, Young
White, and Hopkins0n, repaired to
Stephen Shewell house, fastened rope
ladder to Miss Betty's window held it while
she descended, and conducted her safely to
the ship, which set sal as soon as she was
on board. The lovers were married when
she landed, and lived long and happily
together. But Stephen Shewel never forgaye
his sister, nor did She or her husband ever
return to this country The story is roman
tic enough for fiction, but bears every weight
Of authority. DR. Swift states that when he
rallied the venerable bishop on his part as
knight-errant TO this modern DOlorida. be
replied that he had done right, adding,
with warmth, that ''if it were to DO over
again, I should act in precisely the same
way. God meant them to come together. -
Rs5ecca Harding D11s, la HGrprs for
APrll.
ErELEss FIsH THAT LIVE II Hor WATER.
A most singular discovery was yesterday
made in the Savage mine. This Is the find
ing of living fish IN the water now flooding
both the Savage and Hale and Norcro-S
mines. The fish found were five in number.
and were yesterday afternoon hoisted up the
incline in the large iron hosting tank and
pumped into the pump tank at the bottom
Of the vertical shaft. The fishes are eyeles>,
and are only about three or four inches in
ength. They are blood red in color
The temperature OF the water in which
they are found Is Is degrees Fahrenheit
almost scalding hot. When the fish were
taken out Of the hat water in which they
were found, and placed in bucket Of cold
water, for the purpose OF being brought 10
the surface, they died almost instantly The
at one chilled their life blood.
Ia appearance these subterraneau mem
bers OF the fnny tribe somewhat resemble
gold fish. They seem lively and sportiyc
enough while in their native hot water, not
withstaniing the fact that they have no ewes
nor even the rudiments of ewes The water hv
which the mines are flooded hE0ke in AT Il
depth Of 1900 feet in a drift that was being
pushed to the northward in the Savage. Ii
rose in the mine-also in the Hale and Nor
cross, the two mines being connectet-to
the height OF 400 feet: that Is, up to the
l, ,s00-ioot level. This would seem 10 prove
that great subterranean reservoir or lake
has been tapped, and from this lake doubt
less came the fish hoisted from the mine last
evening.
Eyeless fishes are frequently found in the
lakes OF large caves, but we have never he
fore herd Of their existence in either sur
face or subterranean water the temperature
Of which was 50 high "a Is the water in these
mines. The lower workings Of the Savage
mines are far below the bed of the Carson
river, below the bottom of the washoe lake
below any water running or standing
any where within distance of ten miles Of
the mine.