The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1878-04-05
ACKsON COUNTY, MISS, April. 5, 1873.

mer of light visible in the vicinity.
Here and there, among the broken
and drifting clouds, Il star was TO
be seen, it's reflected rays dancing
I upon The waters for moment aud
disappearing. The two young men
had now reached the upper portion
Of Commerce street, and were near
the old bridge, the red stone plers
| of which were almost lost to sight
in the angry food, and whose long
black outlines we're quite lost in the
gloom of the opposite river-bank
far beyond. The current here was
so strong. and the locality appear.
ing so completely deserted by the
inhabitants, that the young men
now found no boats to impede their
progress. But one light was seen
in the vicinity. That, q faint slim-
mer, seemed to proceed from one Of
the tenement bnuses q little farther
on. Thither they were proceeding
when boatman from below halloed
to them: "Sayl don't go up any
farther, boys; there's an ugly cur
| rent that sets in from Charles street
up there at the corner; besides,
there are heavy timbers coming
down, and If one Of them should
strike your cockle Shell it would
swamp you in no time" ...... ....
ave had better go back now,
Charles; bad noidea of coming as
far as we have. We may be of
some assistance to somebody, or
somebody's pig, on our way back"
DO let us go just Il few strokes
farther up and see where The flicker
OF light comes from"
All right; go ahead. Hark
do you hear that |"
They ceased rowing, and listened
to clear, childish voice floating
with a strange sweetness above the
sullen roar of the waters.
"DocS it come from the sky I"
"No, George; it comes from
where that bit of light is, and
that's in that old house on the cor
ner there, and it's bound to go IN
the freshet. There's some one left
in it, sure. Hark again. 1t is a
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