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THE PENNY ILLUSTRATED PAPER
Mr. on, secretary of the National Life-
boat Lust stution at Sutton, reports that during the
heavy gle on Saturday morning the ship Ouse, of
London, from Teignmouth for Wull, with cider and
pipeclay, was driven on Sutton beach.-. She is par-
tially dismasted, but will probably be got off. The
services of the life-boat were not needed,
LOSSES ON THE EAST COAST.
‘There was a violent storm of wind and rain on the
Lincolnshire and Norfolk coasts on Saturday morn-
ing. e tide rose very high, and flowed over a new
bank now making to inclose Fresh land belonging to
the Crown, at Wingland, Lincolnshire, on the Norfollx
side of the River Nene, opposite Long Sutton Marsh,
The tide broke through & culvert, and inundated 260
acres of land, the produce of it, eighteen stacks of:
_wheat, being surrounded by the sea water. - Great
anxioty prevails lest an interior bank should give way.
Mr. obinson reports that a fearful gale
had been blowing on Saturday morning on the
Li:colnshire coast. In the midst of the storm an
Italian barque, the Three Sisters, became a compleie
wreck, attended with a lamentable loss of life. After
a most determined struggle the life-boat North
Briton, belonging to the National Life-Boat Institu-
tion, rescued from an inevitable death the captain,
mate, and four of the crew; but, unhappily, the pilot
and eight of the crew perished. The captain’s name
is Antonio Cheese. He hada cargo of linreed, and
was bound from Queenstown for Hull. The vessel
belonged to Genoa, and the pilot to Hull, ' The con-
uct of the life-boat crew was very gallant. The
boat behaved herself admirably in the midst of the
immense surf, The hip is broadside on, and the
cargo washing out of her, The men saved are re-
covering from a state of all but death, some of their
companions having potually perished in the rigging
before succour could reach th)
he schooner Major » of mn, ran aground at
Holme on Saturday morning (states the Rev. A. W.
Waller). The life-boat Licensed Victualler, belong-
ing to the National Life-Boat Institution, was at
once dispatched to the distressed vessel, and was for-
tunately the means of rescuing the crew, consisting
of three men and a boy. The life-boat bebaved
admirably in this service, and- was excellently
naged..- This valuable life-boat was presented to
thel Life-Boat Society about four years ago by licensed
victuallers, and she has since that period rescued
thirty-six persons from different shipwrecks on the
Norfolk coast,
GALLANT RESCUES BY THE HERBERT INGRAM
| LIFE-BOAT.
On Saturday morning, during a very strong north-
ast gale, with a heavy sea, the Herbert Ingram
Tife-boat, of the National Life-Boat Institution, ren-
dered valuable service to distressed vessels and their
th ‘the first instance a flag of distress was seen from
f passing brig, called the Regina, of. London, ‘Pho
i t off and followed her, and eventually
stioeeoded i in + ewig the crew, seven in number, the
vessel being abandoned.
| Just on the arrival-of the’ boat on shore several
large chips with their sails a good deal tattered were
seen approaching, and two of them struck on the
Knock Sand., The boat again proceeded out, and
after a strong effort succeeded in-reaching the two
vessels, The crew of one, the James, of Dover, refused
to leave her, but seven quem of tho brig Ord, of Whitby,
were brought on -
mater in the day ‘the crew of the James were seen
to take to their boat, and were lost sight of fora time,
the sea being very rough, The .life-boat was again
launched, and the crew of the brig landed in Wain-
fleet Haven, ja their own boat, and-the Hifesboat’
crew, seeing them safe, followed the brig Orb, which.
had just floated off; they boarded ber and teok her
st a e brig James has become a
total wreck on the Knock
The lif ‘pont behaved admirably while performing
these servicer, and too much praise cannot be given
to the crew, for it was very rough, and they wero out
altogether nearly twenty-four “hours, being irstra-
mental in raving fourteen lives.
LOSS OF A BARQUE, WITH NINETEEN HANDS.
‘The solo survivor of a crew of twenty wen'belong-
ing to the harque James Booth was landed at B riz
ham, on Monday. ;.On the 27th ult., whilst in tho
Bay of Biscay, the ship was struck by a heavy s
and inmediately sank.. The name of the survivor i is
James Maker, the carpenter, who got upon a piece
of timber when the vessel-sunk, and was picked up
the: next day by ‘he Royal Tar in which ship he
arrived at Brixham,
FLOODS.
On Saturday morning carly the little river Rea,
which flows through Birmingham and joins the Tame
at Sutley, heeame so swollen by reason of the heavy
rainfall that a cousiderable number of houses in a
low part of the town were flooded. The ,inmates
were naturally very much alarmed on discovering the
condition of affairs, and many made their excape
with only their nightdresses on. They found refuge
in 2 yublic-house known as Noah’s Ark till the waters
f-ll, some hours afterwards, A considerable portion
“a the valley cf the Tame was flooded on Saturday.
All the meadows between Bromford Bridge and
Water Orton were under water, and it. was with
difticulty thot the sheep and cattle grazing on.them
were rescued. No ersualty occurred of a serious
nature.
The heavy rains caused the Trent, to overflow its
banks, and large tracts of land in the valley of the
river were submerged.
Great raipfall, extending over “two days, has taken
place in the north of Scotland. il the northern
rivers have overflowed their banks, and Breat damage
has been done.
A COURAGEOUS LADY.
A frightful accident was prevented, a few days
ago, by an act of bravery and intrepidity on the part
of a lady such as has rarely been surpassed, Miss
Howard, of London, was waiking in the direction ‘
the North Foreland, on the road from Ramsgate to
Broadstairs, when she saw coming -towards her, at
full gallop, two horses in a waggonette full of ladies
and children, but without a driver, Knowing that
if the carriage was not stopped before it reached the
hill they would certainly be dashed over the cliff, sho
rushed forward and, forgetful of the strength needed
for such an effort, seized the reins. She was carried
along some distance by the impetus, her arms being
nearly wrung out of their sockets; but by remarkable
dexterity and presence of mind. she managed to ti
the horses on the bank, and the carriage was thus
brought to a standstill. . Unfortunately, ‘she did not
accomplish this without sustaining such injuries as
-will confiné her to her bed for some time. The wag.
‘gonette belonged. to Major Hecles, an ‘American
gentleman, and the horses had started off whilst the
coachman was getting down to put right some portion
of the harness that had got’out of order.
WILD-DUCK SHOOTING.
Our Artist sketches this attractive sport, may be,
to remind town readers ot f Captain Lacy’s caution in
“s The Modern Shooter’
common trick played upon cockneys is
serve them out with a couple of shell ducks in tien
of wild ducks.”” The captain enthusiastically adds :—
If tame ducks were wan
This bleak world alone! ,
THE NEW YORK FRAUDS,
The New York Times has made public the most
shameless frauds, and in doing so deserves the grati-
tude of every true American. Such items as half a
million sterling set down to plastering the County
Courthoute; as £60,000 for carpeting the samo build-
ing; ,000 for printing and stationery, and
other & sume in the sime proportion, tell pretty ex-
actly, as well as forcibly, what becomes of a large
proportion of the £6,000,000 a year of municipal
taxation to which the New Yorkers havo deemed it
worth their while to submit... Facts of this character,
thoroughly: authenticated and ruthlessly expo-ed,
could not fail of making a deep and painful impres-
sion upon the minds of the bankers, merchants, and
tradesmen of New York. ‘The scaudal was too
flagrant to be put up with any longer, A public
meeting at Tammany Ifall, more Jargely attended by
the influential classes than) any political meeting has
been within. memory, solemnly denounced » these
frauds, and appointed a committee to take steps for
br: ringing home - retribution to the perpetrators of
Net
os
The New York Ring is now discovering to its cost
that the citizeus whom it has betrayed and plundered
for years past are terribly in earvest, and that the
aay of reckoning—too Jong. del ayed -- -has at. last
arrived, Tadge Barnard has contirmed and’ made
“perpetual” the injunction which he had preyfously
granted against the Corporation.
judgment is to restrain the city governinent from
issuing fresh bonds, or Ievying new taxes, or paying
away moneys—except. for eccrtain necessary pur-
poses until the charges agai ae the officials havs
been fully investigated. Thus
against both the past and the fatwe misappropria-
tion of the civic funds have been obtained ina quarter
where formerly an opposite decision might havebzen
anticipated.
The New York papers give details of the progress
of the inquiry no the city frauds, ording to
‘the New York Herald, “we have a ronnrkeable and
scarcely credible statement from the plaintiff in the ~
city injunction case, to the effect that Connolly bus
placed.in the hands of the committee of saventy
proofs which established his own criminality aud that
of other members of the Government, and has pro-
mised to make rostitution of all he ‘owes’ to the city
out of his private fortune”? Sweeny and Tweed, the
other parties implicated, seem disposed to throw in”
their fortunes with Mayor Hall, but are in great
uncertainty gna alarm. Meanwhile, the writer of the
City article in Fes roriarks, itis important to
notice that Nocere Gould and Fisk reem to rida tha
storm with perfect unconcern, still retaining their
hold on the Erie property, the condition of Jaw in
the United States being apparently such that ia this
case, even with all the aid of the Front revelations,
nothing can b2 dene on behalf of the
aud bondholders to obtain ever sn ie ioe } ‘otectian
for oe Property. In-the money articles of the
Jntest.d York journals the recent rise in Erie
ehares is "eset a3 the result of “a cunningly
devised scheme’? on the part of Fisk and Gould,
assisted, it may hénesumed, hy their colleague, Mr.
Tweed, to restore momentary covfiderce mati itm
be desirable to turn round aud sell at the en-
cement.
Che Haturalist,
THE PRAIRIE DOG.
Tins curious denizen of the Zoological Gardens
belongs to the same group of animals as the marmot
of the Alps, with which all who have talen a tour in
Switzerland, or read Tschudi’s or other descriptions
of the ** Alpenwelt,’” are probably familiar. Several
other marmots are found in North America; and
these apimals are, in fact, abundant in the higher
and more elevated districts of the northern parts of
poth hemispheres. They are properly classed in the
family of squirrels (Sciuridie), and are really not very
distantly related to the well-known squirrel of this
country, although the modification of structure, which
adapts them for a life upon the ground instead of in
the forest, readcrs them somewhat dissimilar in out~
ward appearance. The prairie dig, as the hunters
have named it from Rome fang ‘ied recemblance between
its chirping cry and a di s bark, lives in Jarge com-
munities in the boundless prairies of the Far West.
Dr. S. W. Woodhouse, who was attached as naturalist
to the expedition for the survey of the Zuni and
Colorado Rivers sent out by the United States’
Government, undcr the command of Captaia Sit.
greaves, in 1852, says that one of their “dog towns,””
as the trappers ‘call them, passed through in Texas,
must have been thirty miles in extent. Through-
out these the burrows of these animals are situ-
ated at nearly regular intervals—about twenty or
thirty feet’ apart. ‘Their ivhabitants sit at the en-
trances of the holes, ap an inces-
sant chirping, at the samo time jerking their tails.
On the approach of danger they retire ‘indoors’?
with such rapidity that it is difficult to secure them,
as, when shot at, they always manage to tumble into
their holes and disappear far underground. Their
nests, placed at the extremity of the burrow, are
composed of fine dry grass compactly put together.
The food of these creatures consists principally of grass
and insccts.
Two other animals, apparently very ill-assorted
neighbours, are commonly found sharing the parts of
the prairie ‘ceupied by the prairio dog. The rattle-
spake oftcn tenants the burrows, and seems to be no
subject of fear to the former, though it doubtless
preys on the younger animals, But the most con-
stant companion of the prairie dog is a small owl
(Strix hypogea), which builds its neet in the de-
serted holes, and keeps ‘‘ watch and ward” at the
entrance, like its former occupant. ‘‘On beivg ap-
proached,’’ eays Dr. Woodhouse, “ these birds, which
are seen standing on the little hillock of earth by the
edge of the burrows, retire, leaving nothing but their
heads above the ground. They commence chattering
and bowing, presenting quite a Indicrous oppearance,
On coming nearer, they either cisippear into their
burrows altogether or fim over the plain for some
distance, alighting at the entrance of another hole,
where they again commence their chatterivg.”
The effecs of his |
equate guarantees |
| THE PYTHON AT THE 700"
was a nine days’ wonder, it will be remember
some few years ogo, wheu it took to incubating,
This monster serpent, of which we give an En-
graving, has lately been engaged in |
A DOMESTIC BROIL,
| which has attracted almost equal attention, thanks
| to the following vivid description of tho sensational
inelient by Mr Frank Bucklaid in Land and
Vater
“ n fow days. since a rabbit was, in duc course of
things, put into a cage occupied by ‘two or three hoa-
constrictors and pythons at the Zoological Gardens.
Shortly afterwards, Holland, the inte ‘die ge nt and
obliging keeper of the snake-house, was 1 ve
by the excitcment of the visitors that som
usnal wes gongon. Runnisg round to the back of
the cage, he saw ina mieute what had happencd—
one
|THE LAROEST OF THR SNAKES WAD SWALLOWED
Ly No., DOWN WHOLE ONE OF HIS COMRADES,
| “Moilind was only just ia time, as the smaller
snake had almost disappeared down the throut of the
larger snake, there being only three or four inches of
+ bis tail hanging ont of one side of the mouth of this
voracious snake- cannibal. Jumping immediately
into the cage in a. most plucky maAnrery Holland
seized the cannibal tightly by the throat. The brute
at once opened his great wide mouth, and out popped
the rabbit, dead, of course. Why the rabbit should
come out’ first’ 1 cannot understand, but it did,
=
Tolland then, seeing snake number two ‘writhing
and kicking about inside snake number one, seized
onr inches f the tail cf the
hold of the protrading
Litter aud hauled ay
Buchco- just enough to geba grip with hi
prey the poor snake disappearing
Sei edb the bizzer snake by the veel, ho then
beg ries of i g, shakivg, punchivg ia tho
last he suce coded in
ssor,
When once the cniatler siike
¢ ypacious “stomach.
onhim, he sipped out casy evough, only
y
stern foremost, ef course, [ie was
= NOT HURT A RIT;
he simply lay on the floor of the den for ax hile, with
his mouth open, wondering, doubtiess, where he lad
been and what had happened.
coiled up on his hough, looking quite happy.
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