The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-07-18

The death of the former Is attributed to
the fever, and that of the latter to mea-
sles. All amusement is denied. Yes.er-
day / shota sea gull and one or two bon
itas, and this morning the oldest emigrant
aboard came, cap 10 hand, on the quarter
deck, and woke me from my hammock
with the petition that would shoot no
more, as he felt convinced that 1t would
bring us bad luck. The mortal remains
of tine slaughtered gull had, he said, been
noati,g about the bark all night. Two
"mar J-maids" had also been seen TO 70
by. "Ancicut colored individual" said
"Where %e lay
Were there lamentings heard i the air:
strange screams Of death:
And propheesying, with accents terrible,
or dire combinations, and confused events
New hatched to the woeful time! Did tic
Obscure bird clamor the livelong nightg"
He said that they were, and furthermore
averred that an ancient dame, full we'll
reputed fol. yeracity, had seen spectre
dire backed like a shark, but very like
horse (probably having some connection
with the mare-maid) about The ship,
which she supposed to be the diseinbod-
led and distorted spirit of the gull. This
is an actual occurrence, and bears but
what was said somewhere in the misty
past of this letter about the negro's
"ghost" and "Ku Klux" factories. The
latter is not available here, and they re-
turn to the former, repeating these horri-
BILE talea to each other.
1 fine on tho sheets Of my "cOpy"
strange thumb marks, which lead me tn
believe that somebody is surrept:-
tiouslly engaged in reading this commu-
nication. | sympathize heartily with
whoever it is, as I've had that Job to do
myself.
MAY 26.-Last evening, just before
dusk, black clouds began to pile up above
the western horizon. Before long the
the CLASSY surface of the sea WIS rippling
into .wavelets, and just as darkness was
coming OIL ; welcome and body and soul
refreshing gust OF wind came from the
west, being Immediately followed by a
steady breeze, which filled the hanging
sails, and awoke tho vessel from her
lethargy. and sent her gliding along
like thing of iife," leaving behind her
in the phosphorescent water long, shin.
| ing trail extending into the night. The
! clouds promised rain; and arrangen,e mtg
were made to secure ~ much water as
possible. Everybody seemed to be TAX
ing in great draughts of the fresh air,
which went rushing down through the
wind sails and doors scattering tho close
and fetid atmosphere tween decks, and
| hlling every place with, the very elixir OF
life. Cheerfllness and activity replaced
the apathy aud languor engendered by
the weeks calm, and in few minutes
| all hands had gathered about the decks.
j and tho joyful noise OF oId-fashioned
hymns and choruscs was heard from a
| huudred voices. The breeze held until
about 8 O'clock this morning, when il
suddenly changed to the east, filling the
sailsthe wrong way, taking her abach.")
The helm was Immediately put hard
down, the vessel brought before the
wind, and al! hands put to work Glowing
up everything. In the twinkling Of On
eye, amid the believing and crashing oi
thunder, the howling of wind, and the
flashing of lightning, which followed
each other very rapidly,
THE TORNADO
broke upon us in all its grandeur. The
excitement and eshilaration Of tie next
few 1iilutoo amply compensated for the
weary days of calm and discomfort. The
wind roared, shrickcd and whistled
through the rigging, the thunder dis.
charged itself in peal utter peal, the sails
beat with dull monot0nous thuds OF
cracked like O thousand whip lashes, the
rain pelted aud ratified, and the cries oil
sailors and orders of officers could be
heard fniptly as the wind swept them
away. Tho continuous vivid flashes OF
| lightning brought out alS the Surround
;nss Il! nioEieEitasy tabierux-the dark
figure of q sailor fnr up in the rigging
4 would be brought into startling relief
the captain at the helm standing out in
. flash and swallowed up by the darkness
/ "a grc.p os.sailoTs III the, Attitiidetto
running or hauling ut rope, disappear
ing before the motion or gesture could be
| completed-a knot of passengers crouch
ing under some shelter, with anxious,
startled faces. All Of these things would
come and go with elmoat iueonceivable
Irapidity, leaving themselves photo
graphed on the mind with their back
| ground Of Intense, sudden light and sur
rounding of dense darkness. What
added to the weirdness of the effect was
that the storm had come 80 suddenly that
there was no sea, snd AzGr, amid all
the crash and .confhAOn above, ran as
noiselessly through the water as if she
beirr haiphtened Nv the haIis nf noio
electric light which IodFed On the end df,of Of
each yardarm. and ON the TIM IF aach n
mast. "a phenomenon yerv ,oommon in
these .S.;5csl lThe iwo n1fer ;;ha went
as, aufsi tempS VIVA be,nS sn,eas % to nI h.nI
them IN q roDe nart;nV A iaroe n;aoa n,
of one Of the sjIia fnow hacom3nop p1so I;.o'
rdily'.i n asayins . Tiibl went fiv;ng s,uov n,v
| Thif, sight bein1 witnessed hv one me- or "y tIyo