Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-11-09

a RACE WITH THE FLAMES-The Yankton
I'fess tells or lively race General and l.. A.
Carney had with the recent prairie fire. Tray
cling upon an unburned strip they came close
to the line of the fire, which extended miles
northwest and southwest. and was edging slow
twenty rods OF this line the wind suddenly in
creased and shifted some twenty degrees to-
wards the east and from the west, sweeping
the flames directly upon them. What was five
minutes before harmless fire, to be crossed
with ordinary care, was now mass OF contin-
uouS flame, often ten to fifteen feet high and
sometimes twenty feet across. IL roaTed like
nall dozen passenger trains at full speed.
They Sprang from the wagon and fired the
grass but il made very slow progress, and had
not burned ten feet square when a whrlwind
came down the lire with q high gale Their
only chance was flight. and they Sprang into
the wagon and whipped up their Texan horses
FOR a race northward TO some higher stony
ground The ponies understood that game and
went readily. 1t was all done in less time than
the telling. The very cause OF danger was at
last the means Of safety. The whirlwind. which
was twenty rods wide, passed by. IL had
changed all the adjacent currents OF wind
This had deadened the wind ahead and pre-
vented the IRE from spreading, and now that it
mao passed IL gave chance TO cross In its rear
upon the ground where the grass was thin, and
within ten minutes OF the first apprehension OF
danger they were among the smoking cinderS
on burned ground. The whirlwind went over
the Dluf and down the river bottom, filling il
with fire in places above the level of the bluffs,
and sending up column Of black smoke which
must nave been over half mile in length.
SAD END OF ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.-A
curious divorce suit now on trial in Bridgeport
introduces plenty OF romance with the moral
against runaway matches. Miss Elizabeth
Adams years ago lived In syracuse, y. Y. She
met clandeStinely one Charles +. Hill, who
soon after went as clerk 10 China. She kept up
a correspondence with him, but her parents
did not know she even had his acquaintance
One day she started on a journey with her
mother, but got left at way station and diSap-
peared. She was not heard OF for a week. and
then came letter that she had sailed to marry
Mr.. Hill. The ship was wrecked, and for fifteen
days she was tossed about in an open boat
Finally she was rescued and married Hill. Now
she sues for divorce after all that she endured
to get her husband. She came home twice after
marriage, and i'm 1866 her Chinese servants
were the wonder OF Syracuse. OF recent years
Mrs. Hill has been travelling abroad. Not long
ago at Bridgeport she filed a bill for divorce.
He heard OF 1t, and, being very rich, wrote TO a
Maine friend to give her $4,000 II she would
make II a quiet separation. subsequently hear
ing that the affair had become public he re-
duced his offer to 81, 600. His friend called at
the Sterling house to talk IL over with her. ami
forthwith she broke a pitcher over his head and
had him arrested for assault. He also COM
planned against her. They are at il yet. Hill has
He'd bill OF divorce and Is on the way home
to fight. and there 1t stands Scandal, dis
grace, dfsc0rd. &C., all the natural fruit OF the
one-sided elopement OF long ago.