THE ESCORT.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 167, 17 May 1872, Page 5

THE ESCORT.

The following were the amounts forwarded to Dunedin from the various digging# by the last escort ozs. dwts. Mount Ida ... 1384 15 St. Bathans ....... 270 0 Queenstown ... ~.f 2227 13 Cromwell';.. "... ... 2138 5 Dunstan 550 0 Alexandra.. 641 5 Blacks ... • .. 350 0 Teviot... 617 10 Wools,tied . .... ... 337 14 Waitahuna 462 7 Waipori 371 3 . Switzers ... _... ... 500> 0 Tuapeka ... ... ... 2256 14 Palnieraton 203 11 Totil ... 14*079 I

"*°A. 'Tis t si£ o? .©rrrt-.ji stf. y.lfvTTfJ -«. i-» - me":—j— . ■." ~ ■••- -. r-.- " ■ ■ —■ ' mf **Ui. .*•»> . ■ The shitty« ana \ learned ,dmne, Dr. Thomas * iJfuUerj ft had [ over his? tombstone 0 twb 1 woVdsV>Y"^Puil'er's ~'A : A*. { ' f •t - " f . .J ->; " r U t'f * * •*..«- • - rr t ,r,' !•-•. t his turnj-and/has the following couplet:— " Foote 1 frcmcfJ 'his ¥/ eiirthly ; staige, * a|as ! is -t-i"■ <: **lrarlectf;i jri.l| >. j *, v \v -n Death- took ; himvoffr, ; who • . took; - off the - •A' .... . ' V" •■ ' ■' . On tfie' grave? of Jbhn Eisli lies* a 'large slab» with the- following lines: — v '* V'-:. -liift? Wiftßt I.'. if " V,' 'H.-y t Joh]i.Ksh ?> , ] vi'^,, ; earnestly * 3 ; ■'< V. 3&e jbait§ of. old. Satan to shun,. I JY<• Vi VAnd 4 if thatlie'siiould.- &*}*' 'it:,'Be*'caught in tKe'iaud: • ' 1 i laiot of Salvation'torruny .l : i Zi iI: i drawn by/death's hooki ■ >•*» • "From thislturbulent.brook, ;• - r The scenef of his' sorrow and strife,; -t •; 'k 5 r might not be crammed , u ....rOn'jtliei.cpaL the, damned, " ; " • jßat,swiia in' the waters of life." - ' •

* 7 < A "butcher/ whose' name <wa s Lamb,; lias ! over bis grave':— T ! " Beneath,this stone lies Lamb asleep, ■' > WHo /£ed;a lamb and'.lived a sheep. Maiiy aUainbarid-sheep he.slaughtered, ; But but cKer "Death the* s altered."; That* 'over 1 the? 'gratis 1 of-; iSir\ . "John .Strange, the was doubt- : 'fessfprpmpted and has a keen .V l ,-'*- ' .".1 •' if. ty V Jtiomt: —* ... • ' k.+: fi. - * - - i ** *\i . \ * Jit* 1 : * * " .-sfl" Here lies fan > ' i'irVr (. s . xStrange."r . # . t

/ %Hri^Ma^6r v of>Cprk/*'wasta of disposition^■ knd is (said: smallest, .soiil■'&£ any, man' * ittS>elarid. 4 A- monument- erected'to his. inscription/:—. r j«i «■ iw-*r K"t > Y V;,""*- *• ,* f . V : "Herelies. ! - £ r _ % -\Y .;■ 4 ' } ; iT Thrice Mayor 8f; honor/ : fii I'»• 5 sr' .»«•;f honor.'**' •. .!'if * / i 3 «'»' IWii'" v,r '' ' lite was not sunered,- -however, to bev U7i<i q-.rv. oi * h-.-k ■ . .*' h "v»'vputed,~js&ir. a; ft wrote,under the ; ,in--lines : < 7, / ,"Qh,\cruel Death,-more' subtle than, the* -jcKiii f ! £-. • t , ,; !tt r> . this : become' an v • :i . r. £ With /liis Fellows he might browse. j ftV, ,;aamong?the,thorns, ■ ■ * *s C£n<!U <write j his, Horns, horns, ey.t HjJiprns.;:, -A 'shoemaker, who v possibly had often*" «; Sisappointe'd. bis : either ■ by V/ "ii ! l'- : h'f •» •-ir * r -J ; »• j' I . »•» * 4 > -i« his promises- or- pincKiris.'their -<», • J ..j jV 6 , . f the;foUoTfpng t Vg r » " " 'this igray&"and : mosstcovered< 'stone 1 >.'*,• •<.'} i- - •j i, i The mouldering, ashes of a cobbler bold; f reader, think : i7 Alas .!; it is npt known Jpfow: many lies the rascal must have told." . , " f iriiv, xh> JDOBbTHY; PE&. . ; ; rtt; ;a-' lie v s Pqg,' • 5 •. .'{f& '-JfiOhp neyer had, issue"; except in herleg, r great, was Her, art, "so deep was'her V fl 1,, •*2 J i M • J ?> 1 ■ 1 ■■ 'i .•• . ■ J/-; „.y,. cuiimng, ; . r ; , "fThat while one tbejotlier kept' Sli •:f!f T 7T- -*t, i» r ' .... r • - \ r , >' jWEartha 'Dias, 'Shropshire, "England,' has' - ? ij Ifl TJil' 1i;, ' l>, . J'*'/!': -"J!rtK !• bv noimeans-envmble ' HJere -ii ethsthe body/off I\fkrtha r Dias, ' ."Always noisy, Inot.veryr.piolijjj,. •1. a'ge 3 o| three .score, and- t;enj And gave to worms what slie refused, to

In a coufitfj.' in the West ' '« ' of England we—have the following trite". lines?":— »«: f | " My wife's dead,. ; IL -IV] S! . > .stark .as© There let lier lie, ; *>l She is at Eest.jnucH/ *1 tS&Sf -'-AnAso ani(<L'A <i. .vg ! v Ero^&pto^— 'SCKamty, wife of Gideon Bligh, , this stone dofchj.lie, ,-j. * S N ouj|ht was she e'etf known to do •\ 2 ( "Thatcher husband told flier'to." lineS £ll< ' ; S 5 " my poor bed ] <& 'jblanlcet, r j - A ' :' ,«<*• Butjdea&as a door ;B'e^thanked^ ~ , of righteous indignation against scolding not con- ? fined to the English shore. We find them

beyond*thei-Atlantic. is t one, 4 frpm Texas '' ' '' r ' "* • - - •f' 'unti 1 •: ,i,i . t -ff y.i' U " Herel poor^wife, r , , .-Assad' slattern and shrew, ~. „ " 1 If If said liregretted her -.. : . s f ' ' I: shouldvlie too." o, , < - -•; ;. [j Another at-Burlington, Massachusetts; ruilsthus:—: . Sacred to the' niemory of Antliony Drakfe, Wh6( died 'for peace and quie,tne'ss' f sake; His wife •; was constantly 's'ccJl&ing ■ ! and f scoffing, ■'> So he sought,, repqse Jqi a .twelye-ddllai* ■■ , coffin.".-. 7 • -- ■ ... ... ■ i' «.• • . ' - fJ. ■ •-.. -In Ellon Churchyard:— * ' ■ - -v? , Here ,liqs. my .wife in ,eartlily im^pl'd,'' 55 •' ■■' .when, she. lived did nouglit ,but scold, .iPeaceilr.wakevnot h,er»for c no } w:. sliels still,;' .She had, but-now { ,'i

The following,' by Ben Johnson, dn the iGo.untess' of ( Piembroke,' breathes 'ai ; fine .thought f ■' " Underneathytfas marbleiearsa^" ; * . Lies;theTsubject of all .verse,' - ~ , * • " Sidrfey'S' sister,. Pembroke's mother.. ■Earth; ere,thou hast-slain- .. "Wise aridifeir and; good as she,'fvn r * "'Time shall throwa 1 dart at tliee:".