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Show fo"tlV done thinking; and I got all abroad me) had lastei tetter thafa eight months 1 was among: mjrtiwn ciiutryujen iu W hen I came " back to my thoughts, or the Island of Trinidad the men at each fepi i" willJ iu the effing. be IC"whon they came back lo me ,..,,,.,. sul: (I can't say side of my pillow were my keepers, turn which,) the wick was awfully tall, the aud turn about and the gentleman ' ' rterofa" hour or more. were in my cars, flame was burning with a smoke ahove standing at the loot of ' the bed Vvus the K.Uoseund ml n . the candle. it, the charred lop was broad and red, doctor. What I said and did in those . eyes w and heavily spreading out to its fall .... eight months, I never have known, and It i,uJ i.tCli irsijr I woke out of it as if it had My despair and horror ut seeing it took never shall. lol uemcen ci.v n.iv4 bum ouU ..Mil vvus iwisi- - me 111 ,1 new way, which was good uml been one TJitt silo long sleep that's all 1 know. eveu u"' I was another two months or more It ,, tthoui a tuird ot the wy right, ut an. rate, for my poor soul. ,..! roua therefore the tlaine would be tried to pray in my own heart, you will before the doctor thought it safe to an,I..H'II, am swer the questions I askud him. re.ichniL' it mere 1 understand, for the gag put ull IUO UOiua out of my power, i tried, but the The brig hud been anchored, just ns I llOUllJ, lushed to the floor. my. g down wiili candle seemed to burn it up in me. 1 had supposed, off a part of the coast in own life buruiujr I 11.. d fainter ftS ,heJ aaiu. . - , - - BlV I IIon. A. P.Jtockwood came up from Salt Lake to day in search of mink, his object being to start a mink farm in connection with his fish farm, lie has facilities f .r obtaining a large quantity of fish suckers for mink, feed and believes that can be made a profitable buisines in this Territory. We believe so too, and hope M . llockwoed will be successful in he enterprise. He wants to obtain a score or two of live minks, for which which was lonely enough to make the he will pay, if delivered iu good order, Spaniards pretty sure of no interruption, double the value of the skin for mules, so long as they managed their murderous work quietly under cover of night. aud treble for females. My life bad not been saved from the shore.but from thesea. An American vesDosco. Bosco has not put in another sel bicalined iu the offing, hat made out the brig us the sun rose; aud the captain appearance at our Theatre, as he promhaving hh time on his hands in conse- ised to do. Dr. Congar offered to tie quence of the caliu, and see ng a vessel him with a long rope, but he made the anchored where no vessel had any reasame objections as he did here, when son lo be, hud manned one of his boms aud sent his mate w:th it, 'olook a little Mr. Wilson was called on to lie him. closer into the matter, and bring back a Dr. Congar said he had tied the Davenreport of what he saw. port brothers with such a rope, iu just What he saw, when he and his men found the brig deserted and boarded her, such a way as he wauled. Bosco warned was a gleam of candle-ligthrough the the rope cut into short lengths, and chink in the hatchway. The flame wus blustered as he did here, but tied himself within a thread's breadth of the in the cabinet, and released himself, when he lowered himself into the hold; and if he had not had the sense failing, however, to satisfy his audience. and coolness lo cut the match iu two Jugglers should not promise what they with his knife before he touched the can't perform. candle, he and hjs men might! have been blown up along with the bt fg as well ns mc. The match caught, and turned into sputtering red fire, in the very act ol putting the candle out; and if the com tnnnication with (he powder barrel had not been cut off, the Lord only knowx what might have happened. What became of the Spanish schooner and the piloK, 1 have never heard from that day to this. As for the brig the Yankees took her, as they took me, to Trinidad, au 1 claimed their salvage, and got it, I hope, for their own sakes. I was landed just, in the atue state as when they rescued me from the brig that is to say clean out of my sences. I5ul please to remember, it was a long time ago; and, take my word for it, I was discharged cured, as I have told you. L'les your hearts, I'm all right now, as you may' see. I'm a G-oxxt-s' little shaken by telling t he story, as is little shakeu, my gwod only na'urul-r--a friends that's all. READY-MAD- E MiXK. mink-breedin- g . l,iv. ah, lo be blown to atoms, doomed ,l,e "n. 8l.e'iui doom drawing on. noarei " fru.u second ot d nearer wi.h every wo hours to come: on. 1!ie u.rougU nigh and speech lcs to myself. help ,n.rleM The wonder J' Mil for help toother. (he name, cheat I didn't ;,.isth,t and the powder, and die i. ,., situation before my rfthe horror of the in the hold of the out was first half hour giow-matcl- 'Tcan't exactly say how long I kept of my senses after I bud ,he command hear the splash of the schoon-- r' I can trace sweeps in the water. and did I every thing buck every thing thought, up to a certain point; but, 1 get all abroad, and lose 0liue past that, now, much as 1 in iyin memory tint Uwyseif my feelings at was time. covered the haich The moment, man oiher as every over me, 1 began, u with in my place, would have ueguu In the bunds. to tree effort my iraiuic mad pan.c 1 was 111, I cut uiy ilesh with th'eUsUings us if they had been bui 1 never stirred them. There nuskss clnnce siill of treeing my legs, or oi tearing myself from the tasteuing that held me 10 the floor. Igave in when lor want of as all but educated breath. The gag, you will please to remember, was a terrible enemy lo me; I could only breathe freely througu niy that is but a poor vent when a nose-wan is straining his strength as far as ,.ned 10 1 nv-e- if knife-blade- s, I and ever it will go. quiet, and got my eyes glariug and. ull the time. caudle iiiaiuiugutlhe While I was staring at it, the notion struck me of trying to blow out the a long breath at it dame ny pumping It was suddenly through my nostrils. gave in and lay breatu again, my 1 and too faraway be.jeached in that fashion, ltriel, and incd, aud tried; and then I jav m agaiu, aud lay quiet again, always with my eyes glaring at the cau-i- k aud the caudle glaring at me. The splusii oi the schooner's sweeps was very above me, high 100 uie to lruiu could only just morning stillness. fainter aud fainter laint by this time. hear tbeni in the splash! Splash! 1 - '" pplash! Without exactly splash 1 feeling my mind goiit getting queer as eariy astlm. The snuff of the caudie was growing taller and tall, and the length of tallow between the flame and ike which was the length of my life, was getting shorter and shorter. calculated tuat 1 nad rather less than, au hour aud a half to live. Au hour uud a; half! Was there a dunce in that time of" a boat pulling off to the trig from the shore? Whether liie laud near which the vessel was anchored, w as in possession of our side, or in possession ot the enemy's side, 1 made out that they must, sooner or later, send to hail the brig merely because she was a stranger iu those parts. The question lor me was, how soon? The sun W not risen yet, as I could tell by looking through the chink in the hatch, lucre was no coust village near us, as all knew, before jve the brig was seized, bjMeingno lights on shore. There mm wind, as i could tell by listening, o bring any vessel near. If 1 strange "ad had aix hours to live, there might 'are been a chance for me, reckoning iwn sunrise to noon. But with an hour au'Uhulf, which had dwindled to an "our and a quarter by this time or, iu 'ier words, with the eorlmess of the morning, the uninhabited coast, and the www calm all Hgainst me there was not "e ghostf a chance. As I lelt that, 1 jw mother strugglethe lasi-- with my and onlj cut ,m the deeper for myselt mJ ng, 1 began to feel slow-matc- 1 . pains. gave in once more,: and lay quiet, od listened for the splash of the sweeps. Not a 80UQd could 1 hea" bui J Mowing of a fish now. and then on surface of the sea, and the creak of s craz7 old spars, ns she rolled little H?oa was81deonl0thetJewith:the quiet water. . .,aucJacluarlersr?,terflbl8 ' 8 the I r'antb thi wick quarter slipped Charred top ?f it begau to 8pread out " i11'1 off, soon. k it fall off 0' the brig giJe of tU)j candle r h? It it l7ftT,,Le ten minutes to live of an hour. discovery net my mind for a min-'- o 5 1'over i d iQs;' ?UW lhe Would 8'8 J. This - plPrn-- 1'erhaisi ,taCk, '"" rrv al,8w.,.l began for that! t0 fFR8h insile me. T bolh'and nlbi"g. "more! W.L 1J aide out- even , My If "1 U.,e ,9'it - D r.mah. .k... of th.s living 8cacring lion.of fier, sparks, ightaUW wout a. n n,3"um1 nU,j 1 coulda'f settle left;ii belorelUa4 halt haul 10 force my eyes from ihe slow, murdering flame, and to look up through the clunk in the hatch at the blessed dayiight. 1 tried once, tried twice; and gave it up. 1 next tried to shut iny eyes, and keep hem shut once twice un.l the second time I dd it. God bless old mother, nndsistcr Lizzie; God keep tiiein both, and foigiveme." That was ull I Lad time to say, in my own heart, before my eyes opened again, in spite of me, and the tlamv of the can die flew into them, flew all over me, and burned up the rest of my thoughts in an struggled I instant. couldn't hear the fish I couldn't bear the creak couldn't think; couldn't of my own death agony 1 1 blowing now. of the spars; feel the sweat 1 on my f.ice ht 1 could only look at he heavy, charred top of the wick. It swelled, toitered, bent over to one side, dropped red-ho- t at the moment of its fall black and harmless, even before the swing of the slow-matc- 1 br;g had canted it over into the bottom of the candlestick. 1 caught myself laughing. Yes! laugning at the sufe fall of the 15ut lor the bit of wick. gag I should have screamed with laughing. As it was, I shook with it. inside me shook till the blood was iu my head, and 1 was all but suffocated for want of breath 1 had just sense enough left to feel that niy own horrid laughter at thai awful moment was a sigh of my brain going at lat. 1 had just sense enough left to make nnoiher struggle before my mind broke I00-.like a frightened horse, and ran away with me. One comforting look at the blink of daylight through the hatch was what 1 tried for once more. The fight to force my eyes from the candle and to get that one look at the daylight was the hardest I had had yet; and I lost the tight. The flame had hold of my eyes as fast as the lashiugs had hold of my hands. I could not look iiwny from it. I couldn't even shut my eyes, when I tried that next, for the second time. There was the wick growing tall once more. There was the space of unburned candle beshortween the light and the tened to an inch or leis. How much life did that inch leave me? Three-qna- i tcrs of an hour? Half an hour? 'ifty minutes ? Twenty minutes ? would Stead' ! im inch of tallow-candl- e burn longer than twenty minutes. Au inch of tallow! the notion of a man's body and soul being kept together by au inch of tallow! Wonderful! Why, the greatest king that sits on a throne can't keep a mau's body and soul together; and here's nu inch of tallow that can do what the king can't ! There's something to tell mother when I get home whicu will rprise her more than all the rest of my voyages put together. 1 laughed inwardly ugaiu at the though of that, and shook mid swelled and suffecated myself, till the light of the candle leaped in through my eyes, and licked up the laughter, and burned it out of me, and made me ull empty and cold aud quiet once more. Mother and Liizie. I don't know when they came back; but they did come back uot, as it seemed to me, in my mind this time, but right down bodily before me, in the hold of the brig. Yes; sure enough, there was Lizzie, d as usual, laughing just as ul me. Laughing? Nell, why not: Who is to blame Lizzie for thinking I'm lying on niy back, drunk in the cellar, with the beer barrels all rouud me ? now spinning tstearly ! she's cryiug round and round iu a tiery mist, wringing her hands, screeching out for help fainter aud fainter, like Hie splase of the schooner's sweeps. Gone! burned up in the fiery mist. Mist? fire? no; neither one nor the other. It's mother makes the light mother knitting, with ten flaming points at the ends of her lingers and thumbs, and hanging in bunches all round her face instead of her own gray hair. Mother in her old and the pilot's long skinny hands hanging over the back of lhe chair, dripping with gunpowder. No! 110 gunpowder, no chair, no mother nothing but the pilot's face, shilling like a sun, iu the fiery mist; turning upside duwn iu the fiery mist; ruuniug backward and forword along the s in the tiery mist; spinning of miles in a minute, iu the fiery mist spinning itself smaller and smaller into one tiuy point, and that point darting on a sudden Btraight imo u.y head and then, all fire and all. tiistTr-n- o h.aring, no seeing, no thinking, no feeling the brig, the sea," my own self,ithe whole world, all goue toge;her!'y After what I've Just told you, I know 1 nothing and remember nothing, till woke up (as it seemed to me) iu a comfortable tied, with two men like myself sitting on .each side of my pillow, and a eentlemaa 'standing watchiue me at the foot of the Led." It wus about seven in the morning. My sleep (or what seemed like my sleep lo C blow-matc- h h C. BS. I., - : arm-chai- r, ed-ho- t, slow-matc- h, y - ...... Utah Centum. FitKiutir d Tbeappeu-de- statement came to hand last ' even-ing- : ' Salt Lake Citt, March 4th, 1872. The following is the classification of freight received and forwarded over the I'tah Central llnil Road during the month of February, 1873: rORWABPRD. RECEIVED. Mdse. - l.tK7,202 Mdse. - 211.293 Coal - 6,(io 1,100 Ore OsGJTJ C'hareeal - 330,000 Bullion - 317.C40 - IGO.OOO 1 J,000 Lead Wood Si lid's 1G.630 Produce - 80,773 Mafl 8G,J00 Sundries - 49,973 Lumber - li'ld g it '11 50, 767 R M 11. W nitons l'roduce Live St'k Wool CO'2,000 114,280 204,300 20.000 100,000 131,400 20,000 192.000 420,000 44,232 -- Bullion Iron Ore Hay Coke Ice - - -- Sundries 9,837,404 1,473,213 lhseret Evtniny Xeics. Ogden City. r 2.000 PIECES SPRING PRINTS! Alpneas, A r mure, (ihiharns, Tieltlng. Domesties, ete. Cassimeres, Tweeds, Cottoiiudes, Jeans, Ktc., Etc. Empress Cloths, Merinos, Wool Delnhies, Denims, dnd THURSDAY, 6. Estey Organ. We "Boys' CLOTHING ! - ' mm. direct attention to the new advertisement of the Estey Organ, by which it will be seen that Mr. C. V. Stayner, of Salt L.ke City, is appointed agent for this celebrated instru-menforitft'ati Territory, The Estey Organ has achieved great celebriety throughout, the United States, and Mr. Stayner is willing to compare with any other cabinet organ now offered for sale in Utah. Orders can be left at the Jl'nc-tio- x office. When you go to Salt Lake be siire to call in and see the Estey. f, Gadcebiks, Glass axd Varxisit. 0. F. Culnier and Co., of Salt Lake, call attention to a new stock of English Tarnishes, just received, ofcthe very finest quality. This house has obtained celebrity as the best place in the Territory for the purchase of window glass which is kept on hand of all sizes shapes and colors; also for brands of tea3, Chinese, Japan, ete. Culmer and Co. are doing a big business. See new advt. ' , ' Hats and Caps;, BOOTS AND SHOES! . Of Every Variety, E tSTI'RX and CALIFOKXI A M AlFACTlIl K. A General Assortment of jU y) LTD ......I V nils WWZrU INCLCMNQ Cntlery, Locks, Carpenters' and other Tools. A LARGE STOCK OK Plows, Hoes, Rakes, Scythes, Forks ETC., ETC. HAENESS AND HARNESS TRIMMINGS. A Full Line of Cabixet Work. We have had great pleasure in the inspec"IIomb-Made- " tion of a home made bookcase and desk combined, manufactured out of red wood, for Mr. Joshua Williams, of this city, by Stevens, It is splendidly made, exceedingly convenient, and cost 50 per cent, less than an imported article of a similar kind. The advantage of having ' a thing of this .kind made at home is not only that it is cheaper, and can be partially paid for in produee when cash is scarce, but .the purchaser can have it made just the size, shape and style that he wants, while if he buys an imported article he must take it as it is, whether what he, wants or,n,e.t. Mr. it is.exat Stevens ts: redy to receive orders. , hbme lnftnufactures. A dispatch from Tn Mam Lib. roano; dated this "day, from Marshal V. X. Fife to Justice C. F. Middleton states that the requisition of the Governor of Utah was presented, by Sheriff Brown to .the Governor' of'Neyada, demanding that It. A. Lee be retnrned to the aulhoritiea f this. Territory, .The requisit:on was 'duly honored. Lee is now in the costddy of the 'Sheriff and Marshal Fife, who will arrive on to morrow morning's train with the prison er. if ' Of All Descriptions. ' ' i V , All orders add rented to V, 11. rHlUtYf OgAen City, wtll waive prompt attention, eS-t- l T. H. B. CLAWSON, Superintendent f Dealers In t or au lunas, imported rurmture T 1 MAiisr mil-l.on- rough-and-read- o Wholesale Department.' light-hearte- slow-match- Skursadk. The members of the First Ward choir, "who sang-ssweetly last night, are tendered (he thanks of the Editor of the Jikctios for the serenade. Music is of heavenly origin, and wo sent to cheer the sons anJ daughters of earth through the darknesi aud trials of We are grateful for this lower world music in general and for last night's serenade in particular. ill fi TP 11 XT steeet,,6gden; ' " A I IIS, V"'", .V TABLEN, LOUXUEti, WASH 'STAND, - - Spring and Hair Jflattrasses. Cupboards and ISookeases Made to Order. Cabinet Work' and Kfmtiriiiir Done. Wood Turning In all its Branches. , . , 100 JUST RECEIVED, and other Good in JDOZ. projwrtlon, ricaic give us a call before purchasing elsewhere. . CIIAIltS ' ' dl-3- a |
