The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-02
80 er05Ms or S vENTY YEARS.
- coolest Inhabitant' Tells OF Old
~ Time Gales.

Abort TIL e. and three quarter miles, as
.oods are laid ous, from the Old Colony
'' De-ood station in bingham, there is an old
sosbiooed yellow residence, which tradltl-
10. cen standing for nearly 100 years.
T rE 'located on South Pleasant street, the
i,,I - ty which Scituate is reached from
IIIte-.roIn and is built in a style which
ND cause admirers Of antique architect
70 rsO dead in love with 1t, Standing
W. o00 feet from the street, the passeT-by
soo. What is apparently house two stories
o. hipbt. hu5 walk 10 the rear
L1ous gable roof descending Directly
aimost to the ground, which, couid IL
,n,'.ed for that purpose, would make the
&c toboggan slide imaginable. Once
- .t,ro was front yard to the estate, but
all business is transacted via the rear
.ronce: the front door is securely fastened,
en' the once fine and level lawn now is torn
anU rsgoed wagon ruts and choked by omnl-
:. .I1ossnt weeds In the yard can be seen
t'ro wells of a bygone date and stable
,rhich vas sty fish seventy-five years ago.
Tbe Mace is scrupulously clean, but sentl-
ort has undoubtedly had to give way to
r L.orn necessity. The old house has his
go which can only be touched upon. 1t
~ 'huilt by the brother-in-law of Gen.
tsniao,in Lincoln, the farmer-soldier OF
i've revolution, who fought so calamity IN
.Lo south. and upon whom was conferred
w. Gan Washington the great distinction
~ receiving the sword of Gen. C0rnwallis
~ the conclusion of the siege of orktown.
Many time has this gentleman, when later
Teutenant governor of Massachusetts,
Ivan into the now weed grown lawn in
his coach and four, the reins handled by
Jsrkv dressed in livery of red and gold.
Navy a talk between the colonial COM
handlers was held here, too, when the Brit
;ab soldiers harasse1 Boston, and the result
nf these consultations, with others, was the
evacuatiou of the Hub by the English sol
diers
ing and his wife. and there they have re-
SIDED for more than half a century. Ask
them if marriage is a failure, and their only
reply will be to point to a marriage certiti-
cota dated in 1884 Ever since Mrs. CuSh-
INC was wears old has she lived in the
same old house, and she is rs now, while
"TTnclen Stephen has resided there off and
on ever since he was married. There it
was that he left his bonny young wife to
worry while he went on trips to the banks
after nackerel, and there he stayed in the
winter weather when it was too cold to go
after the swapping, sparkling fish, and he
worked in the big Weymouth shoe factories
for means of sustenauce He and his wife,
espsciallv, have good cause for remem-
bering
THE STORMS OF EARLIER DAYS
when he was out on the water, and she at
home praving for him, and wondering if
she sh0u Id ever set eyes on him again.
In answer to the reporters rap a tall,
stawar5 looking old gentle man opened the
door aud said that he was Mr.. Stephen
Cushiug. Time has not succeeded in bend
ing his back to any appreciate extent, but
it has succeeded in disposing of every hair
on the top of his head and has effected his
eyesight somewhat. HIS face is smooth
slaven, except for two-weeks' growth of
stubbv beard, and the fringeof hair around
the side of his head has turned almost a
pure white When the Herald representa-
tive had made known his errand, ne called
his wife and with a freshenlng of memory
ouc. in a while from his petite white-naired
helpmeet, he told the story of a few of the
big storms he remembered during the past
sixty years.
Il don't think l ever saw so much flood
with storm since | can remember" he
said, land am 81 years old, but l don't
think there has been much of blow within
the past two or three days compared with
what we have had There was more wind
last March than we had Saturday or Sun
day, and remember particularly, becauS Sc
an apple tree of mine over 100 years old
vas blown down, and several limbs of big
tress were broken off. l remember hearin'
my mother tell of tremendous hurricane
they bad when | was nine years old-lets
see that would be i'll 1915; ! recollect, be-
cause that wasthe year was first put out to
work, bound out, as we boys in them days
called it. She uSeter tell us that the storm
was 50 strong Ct at for a day or two people
daren't go out for fear they'd get bowed
up against something and get burt. A
great many roofs were blown away and lots
Of trees were blown down But, of course,
can't think much about that storm, bein'
IS was pretty young. The first real big
gale that | recoilect happened along some
where between 1882 and 1888. l was run
mig then on a packet from Weymouth
You know in them days they used to run a
line OF vessels from Weymouth to New
YORK and Albany, and when | was a boy
mats where | got my first sailoring
experience. sailed some with Capt.
quincy Lane at first, and for a
number OF years with Capt. Peter
Lane, his son. We used to carry what pas
'engers we could get, and freights of plaster
o. paris and manufactured goods from
weymouth, and would bring back fiour,
gram, and such stuff 1t wa, on one of our
return trips, think in '33, that this big
Storm broke. 1t was bluff, short moth
easter, and good many sailing vessels were
wrecked. We got around Cape Cod and
,nto harbor before dark, and our anchors
1eIu, nut 1t was all they could do. | never'll
forget that night on deck. We might as
wen oeen wrecked for all us fellows went
HMrough, but when morning cane we were
on a. TSnC IL was that year that Capt Seth
0ardner Of bingham and
HIS CREW WERE DROWNED
On yes, lnterpOlated Mrs. Gushing. ~
olneuoer used To 20 to school where he
taught. Afterward he gave up teaching
eehd got married, aud weat to sea One time
ue never came back
lucy never knew what became of him. y
continued he Old gentleman. at was SUD.
P.seu That the vessel sunk with all on
oo4rd' as only pieces of wreckage with the
nolie on them came ashore. There were a
so.d many other vessels lost then. and il
known" 'N' "0@ 'ieN' s'oi las
ne biggest gale for real damage done
na ai suffering caused within my recollection,
49, eyeh excepting the one which tipped
sbo,.. n,ilotS light, came along somewhere
i et 40 For twenty-one years after ]
H., packet sailing / was out mackerel FISH
vs. vs., suu I've seen some big storms, but this
k,oe worst by all means. You must
ant t.e mat at that time things were differ
The Nm Nm what they are now. All along
ana t coast from Eastport 20 Portland
Sslar.u ms state around Cape Ann, In
ho,n boston, Weymouth, Cohasset, Hing
tbsro ocltuate and about Cape Col,
trsI were huDdreds of mack
vs.soI Issuing vessels, aud each
1.s Neu IRON ten to twelve hands. There
W. Immense business done i'm tina fish