The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-05-23

flctOrlne Rnps is portuguese sdiiof,
wonderful strength and courage, He ha
followed tho water from the day of h
birth, which event happened within fe
feet of the waves. He is about 80 yeal
old. On the 23d of last month he shippe
on schooner, which left San Francisco
bound north, on seal buying voyage. Il
had eleven messmates. There was also o
board q pretty faced cabin boy. When 81
days out from the Golden Gate heav
southwest gale threw the schooner on he
beam ends and water-logged her. He
masts gave way, and as she righted up th
captain was swept from the deck and tiv
| of the crew were drowned in the forecastle
The:others got up to the foretop-gallant an
lashed themselves there. Their suffering
from hunger and thirst were beyond de
scription. On the second of April the
caught enough rain in an old oil-cloth Goa
during heavy shower to go around an
leave a drink or two for the next day
Again on the fifth it rained and this tim
they caught more. a few potatoes ha'
Leep washed about and these were pickle,
up. The mate, O'Rrien, died first, and wa
soon followed by Peter, pineteen-year oh
seaman then one after another died frop
hunger, Roper and the cabin boy remain
ing On the morning of the 18th of Apr
the boy died and was washed away. A
noon on the 18th Captain Harding, of th'
ship 0ntagro, sighted the water-logged
craft in latitude 40 degrees, IA minutes
longitude 1873 degrees, ~ minutes, and res
cued the survivor, who was mad from han
ger and thirst. 1t is believed that Roper
must have lived on the bodies of the dead
men from the 10th to the 18th, He wal
placed in hospital at Port Townsend, w
T., on April 23d, and is doing we'll.
There runs between Tampa, Florida, and
Fort Meade, ten miles apart, what is
known as the "telegraph road" AS Hen
ry Wellock was riding on mule, just east
of Tampa, and on tie telegraph road, last
Thursday week ago, he felt strange
sensation, as though the world were rolling
from under him. The mule also observed
that something was wrong and refused to
bulge. Wellock dismounted and the
ground trembled slightly under him, as
though he were walking on the back of an
elephant. He whipped the mule back
towards Tampa and aroused some negroes
on the route. A number of people, headed
by the Tampa Tribune man, rode TO the
spot upon Nellock's representation. They
found that the earth had sunk somewhat.
Towards evening the sink was deeper.
The Tribune says: The road ran near
about through the centre of the sink,
which is about forty feet IN diameter and
round as circle. A pine tree, fully seven
ty feet tall, that stood by the road, went
down, and its top is now few feet below
the surface of the ground. The sink has
been filed up to within six or seven feet of
the surrounding surface with water. There
seems to have been sinking also of the
surrounding ground for distance of fifty
yards all around the margin of the hole.
The water which has appeared ia the hole
is of deep azure color and very clear.
On account of the light rainfall since last
autumn the lakes are getting low, and it is
that the water support to the
vault of some subterranean passage to the
nearest lake gave way and dropped into the
vacuum.
William Langley, cotton planter of
9winnet county, Georgia, was standing
in field ON his farm on the evening of the
23d of April. Around him were several
men, a woman and three children, all break
ing the soil for cotton. The sky was clear
and the air quiet. there being about both
hint of sultriness. The children had just
stopped work and thrown themselves, as
;ired as could be, on the top of a pile of
yuano sacks, when peculiar roaring was
heard in the field. The sound bore some
'emblance to that of an approaching train.
but as no railroads were near the workmen
looked at one another in amazement. In
4 me ment they saw small column, not
larger in circumference than barrel, skim
,apidly along the ground. The wind col
INN or spout appeared to be filled with
lust, and in the centre contained what
ooked like u ball of fire. The mother
ushed toward the children, who crouched
low in fright, but before she could reach
hem the pile of guano bags, children and
III were scattered right and left. In it's
course, always eccentric, the column struck
stump fairly from butt to roots and tore
t from the ground, the wood splitting in
hree pieces and dropping twenty or thirty
,ards away. Mr.. Langley was sucked in as
he whirliug thing bolted by and thrown
nto ploughed gully some distance away.
n the next instant the strange visitor had
rome, passing up over the tops of the trees.
.t was plainly seen by the ladies at
he Langley house, appearing to them
ike the smoke that rushes up in cir
ular volumes from the smoke stack of To-
omotlve. Mr.. Langley related the circum
tances of his adventure to the Lawrence
lille Herald OF Iast week.
The recent matrimonial adventure of a
roupg Now York miss who went to Geor-
.ia in answer 10 the advertisement of "a
vell-to-do planter" but found broken
lown, lazy-bones bachelor in waiting, led
he Dallas Herald to speak of more sue
,essful affair of the kind which eliminated
n that Texas city the other day. A lady
# Dallas advertised in a literary paper that
{ Southern widow, not over 80 years of
,ge, of good family and we'll off in proper
y, desires to correspond with middle aged
Gentleman, with view to matrimony."
l contractor of Waterton, N. Y, answered
he advertisement and several letters.
in his arrival at Dallas the New Yorker
ound the lady what she had represented
lerself to be. She was not only the owner
Il rich farm, but what pleased him most
yas that she was the possessor of fine
,hysique, and Of more handsome face
han the photograph had indicated. The
New Yorker, as an evidences of good faith,
deposited 50, 900 in Dallas bank to her
redit, and they were married.
A -rnrr n;~bfc ar0 a hear aarried off a