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Between 10 and 11 o'clock the schooner Alice M. Ridgeway, Captain Snow, from New Bedford, passed between the rock on which he was standing and Gooseberry neck. She was at the nearest point, from a quarter to half a mile away from him. Rupert made all the signals of distress that he could in his exhausted condition and Captain Snow saw them. But the Ridgeway had a deck load of empty barrels which the captain says would have been jeopardized if he attempted to lay to and lower a boat. And he passed on without any attempt to render...
...rope, showed that Elsie was safely down; and in a few minutes I was by her side at the bottom of the shaft. Here another "pard," covered with dirt and wearing a lamp in his cap, took us along a low passage, explained the different strata of soft sandy rock and the methods of working them, and pointed out two or three veins of silver ore, and then the last vein, which was rich gold ore. After splashing around in the mud, bumping our heads against the low ceiling formed by the rock, and collecting specimens, we returned...
...Little Rock University, Kansas, is the latest infant born into the great American family of colleges...
...steamer Cedar Grove, from England for Halifax, sunk off Canso, N. S., Wednesday night in the midst of a heavy gale, after striking a rock. A boat's load from the ship are missing...
...final sets in the doubles were played off yesterday. Sears and Beals defeated Gardner and Warren, and also Winslow and Rock well, thereby winning the championship...