The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-15
A MYSTERY OF THE SEA.
The Fate Which Overlook the ..City
OF BOston.-Captain Murray's
Ideas and ExuerienCes.


A few years ago, the City of Boston sailed
from harbor, crowded with an expectant
throng of passengers bound for q foreign
shore.
She never entered port.
The mystery of her untimely end grows
deeper as the years increase, and the At
lantic voyager, when the fierce winds howl
around and danger is imminent on every
hand, shudders as the name and mysterl-
Gus fate of that magnificent vessel are al
luded to.
Our reporter, on recent visit to New
York, took lunch with Captain George
Siddons Murray, on board the Alaska, of
the Guion line. Captain Murray is man
of stalwart build, well-knit frame and
CHEEKY, genial disposition. He has been
constant yoyager for quarter of
century, over half that time having been
in the transatlantic service. In the course
of the conversation over the Widespread
| table, the mystery of the City of Boston
was alluded to.
eyes," remarked the Captain, 81 shall
never forget the last night we saw that i'll
fated vessel. | was chief officer of the
City of Ant,cerp. On the day we sighted
the City of Boston furious southeast
hurricane set in. Both vessels labored
hard. / he sea seemed determined to sweep
away every vestige of life. When day
ended the gale did not abate, and
everything was lashed for a night
was turned to the south to avoid
the possibility of ice-bergs. The CITY OF
Boston, however, undoubtedly went to the
north. Her boats, life-preservers and RATS
were all securely lashed; and when she
went down, everything went with her,
never to reappear until the sea gives up its
dead"
| sCyKTbo+ l., x,o,,r op;nion Capto;, woo
the cause of the loss of the city of BOs
tonf'
THE City of limerick, in almost pre-
cisely the same latitude, a few days later,
found the sea full of floating ice; and
have no doubt the CITY of Boston collided
with the ice, and sunk Immediately"
| Captain Murray has been in command of
the Alaska ever since she was put in COM
mission and feels justly proud of his noble
ship. She carries thousands Of passengers
every year, and has greatly popularized the
Williams & Guion line. Remarking upon
the bronzed and healthy appearance of the
captain, the reporter said that sea Life did
not seem to very great physical trial.
"No? But persons appearance is not
always trustworthy indication of his
physical condition. For seven years have
been in many respects very much out of
sorts with myself At certain times | was
so lame that it was difficult for me to move
around. I could scarcely straighten up. |
| did not know what the trouble was, and
though performed all my duties regularly
and satisfactorily, yet | felt that | might
some day be overtaken with some serious
prostrating disorder. These troubles in
creased. l felt dull and then, again, shoot
ing pains through my arms and limbs.
Possibly the next day / would feel flushed
and unaccountably uneasy and the day
following chilly and respondent. This
continued until last December, when was
FRUSTRATED soon after leaving Queenstown
and for the remainder of the voyage was
a helpless, pitiful sufferer. In January last,
a friend who made that voyage with me,
wrote me a letter urging me to try new
course of treatment [ gladly accepted
his counsel, and for the last seven months
have given thorough and business-like at
tention to the recovery of my natural
health; and to-day, | have proud satisfae-
ton of saying to you that the lame back,
the strange feelings, the sciatic rheuma-
tism which have so long pursued me, have
entirely disappeared through the blood
purifying influence of Warmers Safe
Rheumatic Cure, which entirely eradicated
all rheumatic poison from my system. In
deed, to me, it seems that it has worked
wonders, and I, therefore, most cordially
commend it"
"And you have no trouble now in expos
ing yourself to the winds of the AtlanticF'
Not in the least. Il am as sound as a
bullet and / feel specially thankful over
the fact because / believe rheumatic and
kidney disease is in the blood of my fam
ily. l was dreadfully shocked on my last
arrival in Liverpool to learn that my
brother, is a wealthy China tea merchant,
had suddenly died of Bright's disease of
the kidneys, and consider myself extremely
fortunate in having taken my trouble in
time and before any more serious effects
were possible"
The conversation drifted to other topics,
and as the writer watched the face before
him. so strong in all its Outlines and yet SO
genial and thought of the innumerable ex-
posures and hardships to which it's owner
had been exposed, he instinctively wished
all who are suffering from the terrible
rheumatic troubles now so common might
know of Captain Murray's experience and
the means by which he had been restored.
Pain is common thing in this world, but
far too many endure it when they might
just as well avoid it. 1t is false philoso-
ply which teaches us to endure when we
can just as readily avoid. So thought the
hearty captain of the Alaska, so thinks
the writer and so should all others think
who desirehappiness and long life.
For Throat Diseases and Coughs,
Browns Bronchial Troches, like all really
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