The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-08-09

More than forty years ago, man
then in the prime of his manhood, and
quiet and retiring in his habits, came
to Jackson, then small but growing
town, and engaged in the business of q
timer. Industrious and attentive to
his business, in few years he became
prosperous merchant. Engaging in
his manners, and possessed of true
nobility of soul that lifted him above
all that was sordid in Its nature and
selfish in it's purposes, he wound him
self in the affections of the citizens to
that degree that all came to love him.
Reared in the granite hills of Scotland,
his soul yearned for his native heath,
and in few years he returned to his
mountain highlands. Before leaving,
younger brother came and took charge
of q then prosperous business A young
and timid Scotch boy-with retiring
disposition like his elder brother-he
came and went among the citizens en-
deared to them by the high regard they
entertained for the elder brother, and
for the native simplicity and sweet dis
position of his own character, he too,
wound himself in the confidence and
the affections of the entire community.
But tits not of these traits that we have
been constrained to speak of these two
brothers.
A few years after the elder brother
returned to his own Scottish highlands,
his heart yearned for the friends of his
early years, and he determined to visit
them. The vessel on which he sailed,
for several days had q prosperous voy-
age, but one evening the clouds began
to gather, and at night a furious storm
set in. The vessel--a staunch steamer
of the "Cunard Line"-was lifted high
upon the maddening waves, and then
sank into their treacherous troughs only
to be lifted higher upon the advancing
breakers. At midnight, as the gallant
vessel was lifted high upon the surging
waves, cry came from the quarter
leck, "a ship ship I" then came a
plunge, and as the two vessels :
truck, every timber in the steamer
eemed wrenched, and heart-rending :
ry from more than two hundred and
fifty human beings arose above the rag
ng tempest. At first it was supposed
he steamer was uninjured, and it was
lot until morning that it was discover i
d that she was filing, and must go
lown. Far from human aid, with no
essel in sight, and beyond the reach of d
lope, moro than two hundred and fifty u
'assengors crowded upon the deck of "
he ill-fated vessel Oh what scene ID
yas that The storm had spent its u
nry, and the waters that were lashed lNf 4
nto mad pillows began to subside. 1t y
Don became evident to the mind of this
cotch gentleman, that the vessel must ="
o down, and in that quiet way which -" "
ad ever characterized his motions, he VI "
cyan to look about for some means Of ~
scape. Lashing two wide planks to-
ether he launched them, and with his II
ands padded out of the reach OF the 'c
mixing vessel. 1t was then that he
lrned his eager but anxious gaze on
le rapidly sinking steamer. More than a, a.
wo hundred and fifty human beings
rowded its deck. Young men and
laidens, old men and women, and ter tii
Or stricken children crowded together, y, ~
1me on bended knee, as if imploring gi
nat aid which could only come from bl
boye others with hand stretched, i'm n n
loring that human aid which was pow al