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Show LUCKIEST SHIP AFLOAT. Danger ritrTMblThii hantleal Mt. Ttaer If a tcel now j Ing At 8n FiAtiefoootbat AtlrnttfAfrrent ileal of uttoUoa by tier queer ri and old fmli toned appearance. Sbe b the Itrltbh fonr inutc-4 lmrk Onieo, belonging to Melbourne, lit oM craft ha quit n Matorjr and was formerly a itrainrr Blio wat bulk In IBW, hi IlnjrlaiiJ, And U 7J3 ton During tli civil war alio wm umI a a Uockailo nmnrr and tnsda a iMimU r of trip to Chtrlfetott, wnplnr enpturomoro tlian onco fruui tlitflrdernl arvewK Tlie Lvt trip itiv in! wm a ro-natkabt ro-natkabt one. Htit pnwxl tlia (fiin toat Out wrraUuckndtna tli barber, and then crdit wore given b tin llnff-llilp llnff-llilp to kevp a fcharp Idokout for her Ttbfti alio Attempted t Iootc, and to MUli tier at all liaznnK Tbo dajn vreitt b until ill wmika had porno I, and the oniecm vera beginning to think that the it cm or r had given than the dtp and mails nwity without their knowing It, when ou night rockcta wero acoti from the) rrulMra u If tuiut ono wm rlgnaJing on thorn. A briKht lookout wa kc t for tho tit) pcrjr bluckadi mnn r, nu 1 Jtiit bo fori daylight i ho wai at n well In fthorc, paining out. Blip wai Ion d til to tho KunriU with cotton, and had neural hundred kite plteil on dock. Ilnlfn down tteninrr itartej after her nt once, and It wtnuwl at If alio would Lj ciitfJitM laL ltut alio mnntigrd to reach opifi water without coming In ran,- of th suns of tho wnrthlj, an I In h fow hours h.id tlMancoU all but one of her ptinucr. TliU waa on of tho new gunboat, n icrow Mcatuer of Kiwit aptvilf aulas lli two Tow tlirotigli 'tho water tin American captain hud tlm Mtbfactloti of noting tluit ilonly but lorely ho was orrrhiuDng lliJ hrurll laden block adcr TIib captain of tho ltrltUh i tenner abo p.rclod that tho gun boat uas italnlng on htm, and ho knew that It win pnly nqueftlon of time, unlM rotm thing tumM up to present It, when tho American would bo on his vny to New ork uIUi tho cotton 1 1 funic r In tow Ho looked at till deck load, which wai worth thoiihauda of dollar In Ilnr pool could ho land" It there, and then looked at tho Amnrlcan, which wu Ioly cmwllnj up nn4ilm, until ervry lulnut ho uxpoctud to net tho pull of imoko from fit r bow gun. 1 Ia dot Idud that tho decktoail mint go. Hut thcro wis great danger of crippling tho tteatner should ho drop tho bUf bates ur tho ildit, as on of tlirm might 1 caught In tho propeller, and then ship and cargo would go to hcvt orkultli out a doubt. In order to pro rent this, a long Mago was rigvod ovir tho item and tho bahi rollod out on It befurtt they worodroppetl Into tho ma. Tho plan worked lint clawIn fact, bUr than tho bold In plUhmen had dared to hopo. Iltla; after balo was dropped overboard, on 1 oon a long Hue of them Moated on ih water right In tho rool of tho American Ameri-can steimer, and no attention watpald to them by 111 ofllccrs of the gunboat until a crash was heanl and In a fow fteonnds her engines stopcd. Tho cap tain went down 1 tho cnnlno room to lwrn what was the lusttor, and a short Inveitlgatlon howel that tho gunboat wm helplessly crippled. Ou of tho Udos lud been caught by Uio proptolluT and U contents wound around tho ihaft hi asecuud, and to their chagrin tho rich prlro slipped through their lingers when they wcro nearly nlongIdo. After tho war Uio Ouieo wtmt to Auxtralli, and for a number of years ran from Mclbourno to Vrw Zealand, and waa then turned luto a falling rasrL She I rcpirdl as the luckleat ship aJloat, n well as otioot tu rMct, as, In splto of liir queer rig, ry ftiw ojji outwtU Iicr, Detroit Vn IVcm. |
