The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-01-27
GRACE DARLING.
Where the Heroine ofthe Longstone Light
house Lies Buried.

Where the Heroine of the Longstone Light
house Lies Buried.
Fifty-three years ago, Grace
Horseley Darling, the heroine of the
Longstone lighthouse, died. The
heroic girl, small in stature, of d
cOnsumptive, fragile constitution.
accomplished the rescue of the steam
ship Forfarshire on the night of
Sept. I, 1888, by sheer, force of will,
pluck and determination. All that
now remains to tell the tale of Grace
Darling to those of this generation is
the modest tombstone in the old
churchyard of Bamburg, North
umberland. Upon it are inscribed
these words: Grace Horsley Darling,
born Nov. 20, 1915; steamship
Forfarshire wrecked Sept. 7. 1888;
died Oct. 25, 1912, aged rs years."
Under the canopy covering the
tomb Grace Darling's effigy lies carved
in stone. The face is sweet and
girlish, the pose Of the slender figure
is graceful as, with the hands folded
over her breast, her arm encircles an
oar, the emblem of her greatness.
In that little grass-grOwn church
yard Grace lies in lonely state, close
to the picturesque village, with it's
whitc-Walled, thatched-roof cottages
clustering at the foot of the grim old
castle on the verge Of the sea.
Standing within the castle keep,
dark as the night may be, one can
always see the revolving light of the
Longstone lighthouse shedding it's
intermittent CLEANS upon the black
water, to warn mariners of the
sunken rocks and perilous passages
surrounding the group of islands
known as the Outer and Inner Farne.
Here in this lighthouse tower Grace
was living in 1888, when the ship
struck upon the Harker's rock, and
it was from thence, aided by the no
less heroic mother, who pushed off
their little boat, that the father and
daughter set off through the binding
storm to rescue the shipwrecked
crew.
All Sorts.
The room in which Napoleon l died
is now stable.
Hypnotizers are not allowed to
practice their arr in Belgium.
Three thousand arriages are per-
formed every day all over the
world.
There is one Chinese, one Portu-
guese and one Cherokee newspaper
published in the United States.
The Austrians consume more
tobacco than any other nationality
or race on . the globe, civilized
or savage.
The British isles comprise no fewer
than 1000 separate islands and islets,
without counting any mere jutting
rocks or isolated pinnacles.
Howard Press: In local news, as
in everything else, it is quality
rather than quantity which is sought
for by the intelligent reader.
H. B. Chatfie, formerly editor Of
the Vermillion Republican is missing
and eastern relatives would like
information as to his whereabouts.
The standard price for beer in st.
Louis is four glasses for a nickel. The
question is: how do they manage to
issue their newspapers at all?
Delaware is able to meet all her
state debts and has more than
S347 900 left over. Now let Delaware
go in for good country roads and first
class country school houses.
The phrase mot in it" is not new,
as many would suppose, but was used
by Euripides more than 1000 years
ago in his Meleager, when he says,
"Cowards do not count in battle;
they are there, but not in it,"
Whittier was richer poet than
was generally supposed. His estate
has been appraised at $4,000, the
copyright on his books bringing
annually S., 500. But this is nothing
like the wealth accumulated by
Tennyson.
1t is told of Senator kenna that
on the return of his parents from
their wedding journey they held an
old fashioned Unfair, and while
standing on the steps of their new
home receiving guests five armed
men suddenly appeared and shot the
bridegroom to death. His mother
devoted him on his BIRTH to the
avenging of his fathers murder, but
he did not care to become murderer,
and by making friends instead
achieved a long and successful
career in public life.