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Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 264, 20 October 1874, Page 7

Paul Boynton, a somewhat noted pearldiver of Atlantic City, is soon to go to I New York to make arrangements for what I might reasonably he termed a hazardous I undertaking. C. S. Merrirmm, of New i York, the patentee of the life dress, has j offered ROOdols. to Mr Boynton to make a j sea-voyage in his suit, in order to demonstrate to the public its merits as a life-pre | server. He has accepted the proposal, anr) ion or about the 25th September [he I past month] he will be carried from New York by an ontward-hcmnd steamer to a distance not less than two hundred miles from land, when he will he dropped and left to the mercy of the waves until he shall meet a passing vessel. He will carry with him in a rubber bag sufficient rations, consisting of dried meats, <fcc., for one week, as well as a good quantity of fresh water. He will also carry signal - lights and flags, with a sectional stuff 12 feet long for raising them, all of which are to be stowed away in the unlimited portals of the rubberbag, which is about two feet square, and is little or no inconi venience, strapped to and floated at the side of the swimmer. The feat by many may be considered as deliberately challenging death,' but Mr Boynton is, very sanguine of success, and even says that he would willingly allow himself to be left a j thousand miles out if necessary, In order I to test the invention thoroughly he has chosen the mentioned date as the one when he will be most likely to encounter the severe equinoctial gales. Some one wrote to Horace Greeley inquiring if cmano was good to put on potatoes. He said it mi?ht do for those whose tastes had become become vitiated with tobacco and •Kim, 'but hopref erred .gr*vy and butter.