Year: 1873

tell and that she ought to have bee broken up for
frewood any time during the last 10 ye.'S' IL was
80 notoriousy unseawortby that at last the owners
could not got any man TO go aboard Of her. The
captain himself stuck TO her because he was an old
man, and had largo family, and the choice for him


was that or destitution. He bad sailed many
years her aud had always escaped that he thought
no would risk 1t. The captain and owners put their
heads together and what did they doi After they
found they could not get men 10 sail in her they
actually sent the ship to sea with O crew Of young
boys, the eldest Of whom not more than II, and
sho went TO the bottom and drowned them all,
Very naturally, there were cries Of Shame ~ at
this recital which were still emphatic when he
told them that ship. the name Of which he had
tho piece Of paper he held in his hand sailed from
port so overladen that the seamen shortly after
wards put into port and refused to work her. They
were taken before tho magistrates and the mags-
trates sentenced each OF them 20 six wooiIs mpris-
onment Another crew was obtained, put on


board tho same ship, and she went to sea the day
after On the day after that she put into Falmouth
the second crew refused TO 20 on the voyage, and
they were sent TO prison, one and all, for thres
months Then q third was mustered and pus
on board, and the vessel was again sent to sea.
Who the first and second crews were still in jail
the ship went down, and the third crew was
drowned. While the state OF things which these
statements disclose is alarming 1t Is satisfactory to
find that Mr.. Plmsoll is meeting much support in
bis movement against the sailing OF oyeriaden or
rotten ships. He seems the man for the occasion
having been once sailor boy himself Following
the example Of our Abolitonists, be has a band Of
trusty men employed, who have duties somewhat
similar TO those of the agents Of the underground
railroad.0


Into tho arid atmosphere Of politics and bread-ani-
butter sometimes comes bit Of romance Of melting
sweetness OF such is the story Of two lovers and
remorseless father which, it has just been told by
Bostonian must of course be true. Ten years ago
beautiful young Boston girl was sent to
the Vermont hills to arrest, If possible, the indi-
cations of approaching consumption. she To
covered her health. and meantime inflicted
cureless wound upon the heart Of an intelh-
gent and well-educated young farmers son. Unlike
Lady Vere do Vere she did not scorn his tnid aec-
ton, but returned it heartily, referring him to her
father. That additionally unrOmantic parsonage
would MT hear of it. "Never-r, neyer-r shall base
mechanic wed me child!' The young man retired.
went West, and made large fortune, and the young
woman married the man prescribed by her iather.
She went to live in France; her husband died IN two
vears. and her parents also dying she remained
abroad. The memory of her first romance faded
with her as with its object, who though unmarried
was too busy in making money for tender tholghts
Last year his business took him to Lrr)pe and one
night found him on a little steamer plying between
Marseilles and Leghorn. storm came up, and
lady who lad risen from her seat deck to go be-
low was thrown overheard by sudden lurch Of tho
vessel The "base mechanic" jumped after, land
though in the dark the steamer drifted away from
them. they clutched prOyidental plank and Hoa;ed
until morning, when they were picked up by
another vessel During that night, in the cold and
the darkness, they discovered in each other the
loved and lost of earlier years. The old feeling
came back in that fearful hour, and on their arrival


at Malta they were married. End OF the poetry.
The rest is prose.


Mr.. Love- the English Chancellor of the EI'
chequer, is singulary unromautic and by no
means inquisItive person We suppose that he does
not care twopence for the Troad Barrows which
have recently engaged the attention of Sir John
Lubbock and other travellers, the supposed site
of windy Troy. The Society of Antiquaries Is COM
posed of gentlemen who feel great deal of curiosity
to know whether the Barrows really the site OF
Ilium but they do not feel like putting their hands


into their pockets to defray the expenses of exeaV
tion no matter what might be dug up. 30, as they
were burning with curiosity they went to the Cham
cellor of the ExcheQuer and asked him to let them
| have little of the public cash. He met them with
a sort of astOnished scOrn, and politely informed
them that he would not give them penny. The
| souare- headed way in which Mr.. Lowe put the mat
ter is sufficiently amusing. 1.-The question Is" be
wrote are excavations undertaken for the purpose
of illustrating the Had q proper object for the ex
| penditure of the public money! And lie really
did MT think that they This kind of digging.
he considered, "a new head of expense" Why
should the Exchequer engage in satisfying the
minds of those who believe the narrative Of Homer
to be true historyi What has 1t TO do with Con-
soils 7 or the Funds generality Then Mr. Lowe IN
bis letter-writng grew sarcastic. If you wealthy
English gentlemen feel these doubts, why should
you employ for their satisfaction money wrung
from the earnings of the poorest of the community
With which rap over the knuckies Dir Lowe ieit
the antiquarian gentlemen to 90 and dig the Troad
Barrows at their own expense.