GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 51, 21 September 1878, Page 3

GLEANINGS FROM THE PAPERS.

A low days a-,. three buys. aged reI"' lively eighteen, sixteen ami twelve, lipped into iliv house „f M,-. Stirling .l-.'iikins, wlin lives >,u ihe Tatliotl mi road, anil stole a watch ami some other valual K Mr. .1,-nkins tracked ami overtook them in llumili m. lie recovered his property, but did mil desire to put tie! ratals, in jail ; so he told them that if they would whip each other he wouhl not pnweute them. This thev ag 1 to ilo. They we'jv taken out, stripped to the waist, and provided with stout hiekory switches. (n„. , Vils t c-d to a tree, and the others laid on Ms hack lustily \\i!h the .switches until Mr. .1 nkius expressed himself satisfied. The one. There were, then dispersed with smarting hacks aad penitent hearts. They said thai their mother worked in the mills here, and thai theirfathei was dead. I'oluinl.Hs, t.ia.. Tim, ;. A mis-i iry -hip was strar.ded »n a reel m-ar i thi l-'iji ! land . i >:i nl I'acilic carried ii ..t i "_ i In the in rival of ihe iip in p at, the mi-.-i .narv toid tin natives that he had fertciit'lv piaved thai the .- iip migii! no! he worked, and : lal they had had oecular ,!• ■:.-, ■: -t rati-.11 "i ill ■ result of prayer. A few .lays ■a. • ■' ih- l.iov:nor ii-pii-d Ilia! il ml, li-n •. ■ lint did v.. i no! sav, when von liial" »S Mlhjeet- i,| [I,, !, :' „t !•;,,_,. I'.iat ii ii man mjui, |'i, he v.. aid he puu- | i.ve'.l i'.'.r hj. 'he h-jili. lip .'gain hy'i'iie ■l-sia.siieal'i.r logical a [, .•:. ■ Ai!a faliMiehael MclVnuiek. express driver, -ode l,iS hole to the | ~->,< ||] the he, 1 of ho river, above t1,.. railroad bridge, las! •veiling. Alter takim,' theaniiual into he water and wa.hiii-; it. lie hitehed I 10 a hil-:, on the hank and Went .wimming. lie was wiili Mr. liahlvin and his son. who remained near .he shore. Thev observed thai MeCorniek's large bulldog, which was balling with his ma-tcr. k, pt sp utively limbing upon him a ; he swam, tint lushing him under (he water. Thev tarted toward him, but he Ihr, w ih'o log ,■!.; and when ih.-v called ; , know vii.-l icr he wanted help he ..hook hiiead. Tl,e V then .-tailed to swim hack, nit when they looked soon afterward the log was on McCormick a.ain. and heore they could ns-ist him he sank and was drowned.- Terro Haute E\ori ■ >. A correspondent of the Helena (Monai,a, Herald, wiili (jei.-ral llrouke's oniimuid near ihe Canadian border, .rih- as follows concerning an old oldier on duly with the i-xjicilitioii .- 'ompaiiy Ii o| the Seventh lias the odd beep in its Hock in the shape of the hlcst soldier in the scrvi f I'nclc ■am, John < •. llciilietl by iiiiiiic. I Ic is iOW (17 years old, aad' has been in the iiviee thirty-six years eotisectilivolv. le twrved i'n the war with Mexico mid i the civil war, and al the buttle of Hig lole I'iiss he drove a mountain howitzer mm, and manly losl his life there by the dl of orro of the horses upon him ; and was mi act of uversighl thai the Inians passed him ern he was extricated ■ ■oni hw perilous position. He inarches it li the company always, never tiring, ( ad some uf (he young men fairly blush , boo the old man come inh, camp afl' r march of 2.J mile-, fresh; apparently, id always jovial .and n nd\ to crack ■> I ,ke. What he lias not seen in his time I hardly worth seeing, and although he innot road or write, his memory of * undents ii simply reraarkablo, ana ho in tell you how some ~f (ho grofttc t ittloithal are known to history were night, and wherein the failure lay. And, uei, iie e.m talk Into lligeatly on a I iy mbji :. and nut) very properly bo | a',!., , no ut tlio.iu win hat a " long ,

\ !.■ I a •] i ~1 h,r S,v,!n :. i ,i:.,,i,-, • lun |i rsis tently ,|.. lini • • vi r\ • ■!.'• r, and win u -h. • : i . \\ S., sll-l i-luc ami took t] ■• sti nmi-r to I'm [ami . U ■ . ill iol 111.11 tu 111 . I I !■:•)'. Ii" « n ii-,' iii AH .;.. ii r which : ■ ■ . Shu was .■; hail 1..-,-!, ilisk' ii • Sp wlinj} hor 1 Wi. . 1111 l iV. nine;. ;.t ■ ■; iVi ,■>..:;.' W il'c at length o : -.-. .. ;• •! tli il lie w, . , mplnycd hy a 1.-iru". firm in ('hicago. She wrote there lint will mi ivi red lliut In i-husband had gone away, nobody know where. '■ ' ,fic I w'ith this, she travelled to < hie-ago, and rair-aekod evorv con. in in ten-stud in tin- tailoring business there tm!;l Ii" in, t a fellow loiintrvnum who said thai 1; r husband, whan 'last beard from, was in Omaha City. IN;,- wrote there, but got no answer, bill went on. Then she heard that he Inul eertninly left f, r San Francisco, win-re he had obtained ;. li.-.i. |)]i.(... ns putter in a large linn. .She of course went thither, onlv to be told that her husband hud bri'ii'several days awa\ from work, anil was drinking hard. lie had not !„ n even to bis boarding house. This lul her to visit the stationhouse, and in one of them she ascertained thai her husband wan in jail for ten days. He was released and prevailed upon to return home after six years' absence. All this occurred eighteen years ago, and to-day the prodigal husband of y 'if is a strict teinperance nun in independent i-ircunistnnc-'-s, a model husband ami father, and :i iv-pccl. d • itizi-u.- N V. Sun.