New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-17
GENERAL NOTES.

A singular accident recently occurred at the
Inverness or East Coast Sea Lock of the Caledonan
Canal. which resulted in the temporary closing OF
through canal navigation, and In the wreck OF two
schooncrs The Progress. OF Castleton Isle OF Man,
with potatoes for Cardiff. and the Regent OF Inverness
with coal entered the Lock food tide and started
to 20 through canal together both racing In the lock
nj the time. The lock however proved To be too
narrow the vessels got wedgod together between the
piers and while in this position the tide ebbed aud ieft
thr -chnnnrrs hanging IN md-ar. They were greatly
strained and the sides were broien. when the lido
flowed t,y were covered with water, and II was feared
That they must become total wrecks and be broken up
before mas il,siion could DE resumed.
After three months work one Of tie most
important operations Of the kind record has resulted
I'm floating tl, roncad chcieu which took fire be-
ccilr - and .cuitled in Tonon harbor The vessel
ga. m first lh'cm.d by the removal Of the iron plating
~ The turrt~ ~ openings were then cosed, the water
Was pumped oui and air pumped IN by means Of I'M
r..u-, tubes The rcnoating proper began fortnight
no Two pu.urs were placed ON the ~i'ylle and
ihil ou ihc Toar,illc capable of pmuine oar 10000
Iur,, 600 hour Tackle fastened to th" Ina.is and
tr-r.t- OF To- Rirh.l.'u and connected Win ihc ~.
rI.. NO. .- tuugliIr TIE 'iIrilrn; $50 harrti-
rt,A tnufuiri.r lOHp lfrs Of air. F"rt ~ vessel ~
t.tl nnd t.c ulinp- hcing sci to v'rk he tr',d
r..1,.r' : 10 ono day hu' ihr pnirlth nl'- Wrfr TOO
short 20 lf ile water hon i'' bod. i"c i'."' iiRs
i.rnif. operations were rsiHitd, AMI nt B. H. iie
,r-.. doatcl.
Sergeant Bates, tie American Aag-canier,
r.pr. To- m g. lp- iu ahicct poverty IN saybrook. li.
VIE visited f,r diys ago by r porter. who fonnd ban
3D. ad,aila''d co,,", without carpets o. curtain ~
furniture worth mentioning The man whose strange
fr ha- made h.- name known To all the country,
Poo, 81 i., pa .rlrl and cmacaiei bat ~ the miisi ~
It -f,'tiu and with dr1tl staring him in the facr
lr sfiV cins 10 the d.lason that h, name would hc
,.nr.,l lurs after hi, uucratcfnl generation had
rom, d,, 20 ohli,or For years Bates has been lying
nom band TO month. and since his return from ENGLAND
ipa not been known To de- kind ~ work except 10
yri, qa.cr ng- about his 1agcarryng Schemes, or To
fi o, 20 some net III boring town and deliver rctue
or ih same subject Wh'r In Enr'ani he wa@ made ihe
g., lpi,ft oi q large number 81 p'r''I'. hr"lhs w
,fr, book uaiutin-- Al the hy have
h l.-fo-,d of 20 flrni,h Tie mcans ~ subsistence Tor
th, d, u,l,d creature hi vie and BIS -iN c'"r'i"
\ story not less romantic and more probable
'hiu tlni Captain John Smith. "a- told Win never
fin. animation hy Abram Johnson who died IN Salem
t,,.,.hip Wayne County Penn. foa days aco, at he
aer.l. .. himself sid aud d"uhtlcs- hlr'rl ~ "no
lrpl- f 81 .t years He father sodi'r In the
ou fl. family then u ing near Lake ham lain.
Alrl, ,fi..t, Do gle var of l>l2 private soldier
it Az. soon n... captain OF hani az oneida Indians
u.l p Do, comm lud ~ General NAlnub. In the Da'is
f l.,,-hre "a. f,. i,.I = sabre cut I'm the neck. and
VA. knocked down by the blow. lie lay perfectly SUM-
a,lu. DEATH. and dill not vince when British soldier
thrust b,.ol,t into hi- knee 10 ascertain II be ~ere
,..rly load Tn, voung daughter OF an Indian chi'l
to ncy 20 tli woundrd soldier. AMI tenirfly nni''d
lima back o health Naturally enough they i'I ~ "'''
ana az the close al the war werr married Johnson
lr.-t hs VIE to Ncw-Nork and from here they went
T., ~..-rN County y j. MI. Johnson becoming III was
,.,'n 20 some ~ her tribe. whore sho d'd ana WIS
buried with indian p'nr Nj johnson tAth h'''l"u
o. '.,ii ,,r,,r. P,aI~vl, an!a WHARF De aii'rvaiR
r....i supporting himself for many years hf iat"if.
n, I..t a'l h.. money and property through umhrN
.r.uI. rs. aud WIS not long before DE- was i""l
a. .. .r iou-h entitled 20 pension hrncNtft IN" ''fl
d. . died . paIucr iI- mind vas sound up 10 Ne tc
M and Nf r A.tifh atilNi 10 80 ''i,i'
i li, Ter. after .hs grow mp. Joined tie oneida III
diam. .ltl l.irI,i th. -ou OF a chcI.