Connecticut western news., 1878-01-24

 wind or rain is strong enough to extin- guish it. When the light expires, he hastens back to the station with the news, and that quiet outpost is suddenly put into as tumultuous a state as the storm outside. The llfe-boat is placed or, 8 carriage, the carriage having very broad tires to it's wheels, 50 that they cannot sink in the loose sand, and the life-car, with ether apparatus, is placed in another vehicle, both being drawn to the point nearest the wreck, where efforts are made to obtain communica- tions with it. There are three possible means of communication-byt the life boat, the life-car, and the life-raft. The first two are in use at all stations, and the last has been adopted at @ few, but it is only under. very favorable circum- stances, or in extremities, that the boat is used. A line is thrown over the wreck either by rocket or mortar and shell, several efforts being made before success is attained, and the first line is attached to stronger one that is secured to mast of the vessel and to the shore. The life-car is suspended from the line and hauled on board the distressed ship j; three or four persons are put inside it, and it is hauled back again, repeating the journey until all are safely landed.
 But the work is much easier in the de- scription than in the performance. If l klo 1nl cu nt
 after rocket flies on it's meteor-hke course
 through the tempest, falling miserably
 short, or being carried too far astern or
 ahead by the wind; sometimes the rocket
 fails altogether, and the boat or life raft
 is the only resource left.
 The life-car resembles covered boat
 with few air-holes in the top, the per
 forations having raised edges to prevent
 the water from entering, and ring a
 each end, with hawser attached, enables
 it to be drawn through the surf. Th' boatswain's chair and the " "breeche buoy" are similar, though older and les etficacious, devices. The former is | simple loop of rope hung from a taut stout hawser that extends frem tn vessel to the beach, and in the loop persons sits and is pulled ashore. Tn . latter consists of common circular life preserver, made of cork, with short can vas brooches attached, through winch man thrusts his legs, and, thus sus l pended, is drawn ashore, as in the chail :; Both of these expose the passenger t l, the fury of the waves, and in the case ( women and children, they are not suits ble on this account, while the life co 8 lands its occupants without wettin @ or exhausting them, unless it capslze' 0 in which extremity it is liable to prov fatal. .5 F..
 Having seen the signal-man's 8 red ligl burning, the crew of the wrecked shi u utter glad cry of deliverance, and wa tor the brilliant spurt of the rocket bea 'O ing the line to them-wait until u ' synonym of the word seems to be Tiff
 long agony. The ship lies heavily - the leeward, and grinds deeper into u V sand as each sea strikes her and breal " over her decks, tearing away the hous .u and knocking the men off their fee o 'o The sails hang loosely and in pitiab S 5 shreds from the yards, and the mas a .a bend unwillingly in the fiercer blast \, and threaten to spring. The shore l a invisible, but the thunder of the breake ,S ?. tells the men that it IS near and pre- \, ently fire is lighted on the beac as m which fitfully shows the dreary bac o ground of sand hills. A rocket is fire
 and boCh those on shore and those n - the ship watch it unfold it's train ie sparks !; the wind sweeps it aside, al -. hopes go out like it's own scintillation e another follows, and the breaths of 6 the watchers are held until it is seen 7. fall over the deck of the ship, wh o they are released in a cheer that t - violent i'll nature of the wind canr ;r quell.