The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-07-02


OF an ape; and another wears a foods
cap OF the period.
The stranger will be impressed with
the extraordinary elevation Of tho soil
OF the tinv churchyard. When the
place was first quite filed with the dead,
the burial-place was covered over with
several feet OF sand, and interment went
on anew. Three times this was done;
when it was finally found tina: to have
repeated the process would have been
to bury the church itself, when a ceme-
terry was secured upon the heights.
OLD LEGENDS.
History, tradition and legend have
carved some grim pictures upon the
dim background OF the past in this old
Cornish fisher town. One historical
fact will be sufficiently illustrative. In
the Cornish uprising OF 1919, its object
being the restoration OF the Catholic re.
ligion, to which Corinthians remained
greatly attached long after the Reforma-
ton, John Payne, Portrieve Of St Ives,
was one Of the inferior leaders. After
the defeat OF the Cornish, Sir Anthony
Kingston, with a royal commission, was
seeking out and furnishing tho rebels.
He hung the mayor OF Bodmiu before
his own door. st. Ives Portrieve re-
ceived Sir Anthony humbly and pre-.
pared great dinner in his honor at the
venerable George and Dragon" still
standing in Market square.
During the dinner the Portrieve heard
the sound OF hammering outside and
being disturbed was quieted by Sir An!
thony with the remark that they were
only about to hang rebel. Dinner
over, history relates, the commissioner
invited the Portrieve outside to inspect
the gallows. :.
"What say you, Master Portrieve?"
quoth Sir Anthony. ais yon gibbet
duly furnished for the hanging OF
traitor?"
"All seems ready. ant please you,"
was the prompt reply.
"Then," said the commissioner, turn
ing to a man-at-arms, secure Master
Payne and hang him straightway, for
such is the Protectors pleasure!' -
Master Payne was hung straightway;
but the Cornish, who are Celts, like the
Celtic Irish and Celtic WEIGH unpleas-
antly remember these little after dinner
tests OF English protectors and kings.
Great was the olden fame OF St Ives
as u metropolis OF fish and fishermen.
It is still the metropolis OF all Cornish
fishing ports. Five thousand folk 1.-Two
here on what is harvested from tho
deep. For thousand years or more,
from father to son, from mother to
daughter, theline has remained unb-ok-
en-, has steadily increased, and SO mar
row is the life horizon OF all these
fishermen and families that not
score OF them, it is said, ever sec other
English land than the hills and head
lands OF St. Ives bay, save when at sea
in their own boats.
These boats are oil two-masted, lug
sailed, with round sterns, and range in
tonnage from twenty to thirty tons,
With complete outfits they cost from
$500 to 1850. Between GOO and 700
men and youths are employed the year
round in fishing. During the winter
the engage in line fishing for conger,
whiting and ling, also securing few
cod In March the spring mackerel
fishing begins; and tho St. Ives men are
always found on their own grounds,
from so to 80 miles northwest OF st.
Ives in the Irish sea. Here they re-
main until the last of June when they
set out for the east-coast Scottish hor-
ring fisheries, usually selecting grounds
in tho North Sea, opposite the Firth OF
Forth, or abreast OF Coldlngham and
Berwick.
PGLcHARD FISHING.
During August they will be found
along tho cast English coast in the
neighborhood Of Whitby, Scarborough,
and tho Yarmouth CT Dickens "Pog-
gottys," but are always back to st, Ives
for the autumn St, Ives herring fishing,
and q large number OF their tlcet arc
home in time for possible runs OF
"pitchcrs" (pilchards), tho "Fair Maids
Of st. Ives" for which the anciont sea-
port has been for half q thousand years.
As nearly as can be described the pill
chard is the sardine OF tho Medittera-
mean waters. It makes its appearance
ut St. Ives, when it comes at all, in ire
mendous shoals, during the months Of
September and October. From day.
light until sunset every day during
these months watchmen called "huers"
arc stationed at lookouts on CARING
gladen and Porthminster Hills, and
earn Crows Island. Their practiced
eyes never fail in discerning tho APP
proach OF shoal Of these fish. They
come in such vast numbers that the
surface of the bay changes its color and
often is broken into ripples and foam
from the movements fthe dense masses
On sighting a school of pilchards tho
"huer" first blows terrific blast upon
his speaking trumpet. Ono blast is
sufficient. All st. Ives folk tumble
from their homes and rush wildly shout
ing Heva!-heva!" to the shore. Mean
time the great seine boat, ready manned,
have put out and arc guided wholly in