The Tribune, 1874-12-02

whale she has hail alongside of her, and tried out, and if all the money she has arned was in my pocket or in yourn, or only halved between us, why, I, for one, make bold to say that I wouldn't be here stowing away coal-oil. The petroleum business is a kind of resting place for old-fashioned ships. It used to be the lumber trade, but now lots of the old stagers go into ooal-oil." " It is, then, a kind of cliarnel-houso for decayed vessels ?" " Well, that's it, pretty much. 1 Beed you looking at her stern. It's a real nice bit of work that carving. Them flowers is all buttercups and oowslips and sunflowers now from their color. Thero is a queer yarn about , this here ship which I don't mind telling. I* am fresh in her, that is to say, it will be a year this coming February sinoo I took hold of her. I ain't hud much luck, that is for my time of life, and had hoped at my age to be something more than captain of an oil-craft; but luck is everything. Now, we seafaring men keep the run somehow of all the ships and the stories about 'em. You see, some shipB bring luck and others don't. I've known a ship that moBtly always made money for her owners, but alw'ays killed her captains. I knowed one bark that made every Bkipper as sailed her take to drink. Yeu see, the story about this ship I got from the man as sailed her before me ; and during her whole life she ain't hud but Ave men to handle her, and four of 'em, of which I am one, has been on her during the lust ten years. Afore that, for nigh on to forty years, only one man sailed her. Before the keol of this ship was laid, thero was a seafaring man as sailed out of Maine. That man struck salt water nirly, and hadn't no education when lie was vmini;

her carriage at Charleston, and bid her good-bye, and didn't say nothing more. That rich man's cheild camo pretty near dying in Charleston, and Jack kept calling every day, with the captain's compliments, so he said, to see how sho was getting on ; but they wasn't the captain's compliments, but his own. She didn't get any better or much worse, but kept baoking and tilling. When it got to be time for Jack's brig to go home, the girl's fathor he came in person on board to thank the old man for his civility in sending so often to make inquiries about his daughter. Now, this made the captain stare, for the old skipper, after he had dumped the party on the Charleston wharf, had no more thought about 'em than of an odd cask of nails. 80 the story got about the ship, and the orew ran poor Jack about it, as shipmates will, until Jack got moBt wild. But they knowed Jack didn't allow much chaffing, so after a regular knock-down or so, they let Jack alone. Jack stayed by that brig all that winter, she going regularly on her trips, and he findiug out how the young woman was making out. She stayed South most a year, and then Jack learnt she was coming home in another vessel. What does he do but leaves his own craft and ships in the other one, und comob home with the young womau. Jack hod brushed up mighty in tko twelvemonth, though ho wasn't nothing more than a sailor. The father didn't know him no more than you could tell one link of a ohain cable from anothor, hnf. Ilia <1 oncrlifr.Ar T ^iovamnmKn*

we snail nan me a ay oi ^omaie ?uifrage, for then the monotony of seeing a rooster at' the head of every victorious aewspaper will be relieved 'by the occasional intersparsion of a hen. Without any desire to bragi the Detroit Free Press points to a ^Jichigan mnflower nineteen feet high, and reipectfully inquires after the health of >ther sunflowers around the cfofantry. Two ladies oanghi small-pox from rearing dresses which they had hired to go to a ball in, London. One died, ind the other brought suit against the proprietor of the costutoe-snop. The iatter at gues that he did not'irent the lis ease. The lady took it without his permission. Oase still on. r Twenty barrels entered as " salt meat " and " Australian beef " were seized at Portsmouth, England, and in each barrel was found the corpse of a lull grown negro. They reached England from the United States and were intended for disseotion in London ; but who sent them, and where did the sender get them ? The main features of a new plan, on trial in the British navy, for raising sunken ships are olosing hermetically the hatches and all openings in the upper parts and pumping down air. The air thus introduced rises toward the under side of the deck, and, not being able to escape, presses the water down and ont through the holes made in the ship's bottom. The vessel by this means will be rendered buoyant and rise to the surface. ?/ Suffering In Nebraska. ri.i \t a tr tv yi tt a a i ?

viva* womxkjv n it a v/uit .u auu pun uu nci. It ain't stuck on, sir, but is cut right out of tlio timber, so as to be everlasting. " Oh, he come back, sir ; but not at the end of thrco years, nor in his own ship. In Munila he took the fever, aud was left for dead, and she, the rich man's cheild, was made to believe that her sailor lover was gone, or didn't care for her, so after awhile she married another fellow. I never heard she was unhappy. My wife says ah? was ; but, then, women, you know, sir, has such strange ideas on them subjects. Jaok took to his ship again, and the old wooden basket of flowers, carved and painted on the stern of his vessel, was all that remained of his true love, and they do say, no matter how rnsty his old craft became, whether ont at sea or in port, he used to have them old flowers kept in a regular blaze and bloom of glory. He was a mighty restless old fellow, aud never staid a day ashore, always lived on ship board, and a-going all the time. Whaling he took np some time in 1840, aud kept it Tip for a long time, a-living in the ice, maybe a-trying to freeze the love out of him. Ho died mighty rioh, and singularly crusty aud cranky, a matter of eight year ago in Maine, where he was born. The yarn is a true one. because I heard tell how in his will he left some of his money to tho woman he had loved onoe, beoauso times had changed, and she and her family had tinnt* flnma #1/% uo*i fluif

place. Bat the general tone of tb6 market is decidedly improvod, and there TTCre is a bustlo and activity apparent which on are in marked oontrast with the stagna- ^ tion of a few weeks ago. The improve- mcre ment is still more marked in prints and was dress goods, owing, it is probable, to ?* P' the active demand that has ^set in for the retail trade, the requirements for w^?" which are likely to be much heavier a^OTP than were deemed either probable or possible a short time Binoe. The gen- PenB1 eral feeling now is that we shall have a afc ai large and active winter trade, especially if the season should chance to be an ro^ 0 open one. In confirmation of the im- namG proved tone of the dry goods trade of ^50,1 New York oity the news from the mann- there factoring districts is unexpectedly an<* c favorable. The short-time movement a^ an in the cotton trade appears to havo al- 195.5 ready reached the turning point. 4,572 Several mills which went on two-third sions time have resumed full work ; others are preparing to do eo. Now, this movement is chiefly important as illus- On trating the improved feeling and is by 551 3 no means on a scale to warrant expectations of important changes. * aBut from the West the news is more ?^eas decided of coming activity. At Chi- P.e cago, St. Louis, Louisville and Oinoin- o nati there is an active demand for money . for business purposes. The erain trade ?iune

of 3asket for bis true-love, and bad male a regular hot-house of bis ship witi queer kinds of China plants, whoh wasn't common in them days in lh( United States. So now, as captain, lie made bold to givo the basket to her, nul they both weuf to the old man and toll their stories. 4 No, sir, ho couldn't th nk of it. What, givo his choild to oib of them no-account Bhip captains ? Nit if he kuow'd himself.' Well, at last it was fixed up that Captain Jack slould make another v'yago, and then, i: she would have him, they should be narried. That was all the old man vould do, and them hard lines was tgreed to. Captain Jack had a new ship a-building for kirn, for the China :radc, as you know, was just busting in :liem days, and ho wanted his owners to let him oall his ship after his sweetheart's namo, but the old man wouldn't let him. So says she to him one day : ' My dear lovo, in remembrance of mo, you'll have that basket of flowers put on your ship, and just while your ship I floats I'll never forget you, nor must you forget me.' My wife, air, as is at Bridgeport, has got that part into rhyme, something about 4 your heart smoats,' and 4 the ship she floats,' but I never was good on poetry, and just as likely havn't got the hang of it. The ship was launched, and that there identi/tu 1 l\n olr lit vtron /latwtAil am/1 ?t

appears to have received a new impulse, &187 the receipts and deliveries one weeli r~ ..1 recently reaching to something near the iignres at corresponding periods in tue r former years. But the chief cause of the present activity appears to be the requirements of the pork trade. This will liberate a very largo amount of money, which will be distributed ali _er over the West in payment of hogs. . j The farmers who, from whatever cause, . held back their grain, will now bo in a dec_ position to realize on stock, and will bo . in a position to settle up their old store e<^C bills and make now purchases. a The South is harvesting her cotton llIU< crop with an activity whioh shows that ' the granger polioy of holding back ***. produco for higher prices has made Pqic very little headway in that part of the ?> * country. The proceeds are put into "eat immediate general circulation ; and al- * ( though, owing to causes which are a ra disgrace to our country, they no longer widc flow back in a stream of wealth to the m. North, yet the money received for the fiirtSS crop is devoted to the wiping out of in- n-ig c dividual and looal indebtedness. Even at present prices planters receive a Z: good profit. * The general outlook, then, is not un- * favorable. It is true there is nothing

Items of Interest. The last thing a man should be oat i>f?Temper. To keep eggs through the winter? Don't eat them. A oorn-eztraotor that has never been patented?The crow. 1 Advertising costs money." So does store rent; so do all good and useful things. " Where is ' parts unknown ?'" asks a correspondent. "Where they don't advertise." Don't tell an editor how to run n newspaper. Let the poor fool flud it out himself. Performances in the Japanese theaters begin at siz o'clook in the morning ind olose at nine at night Glory iB well enough for a sioh man, but it is of very little oonseqqenoe to a poor man with a large family. 4 " I was very near selling pay boots the other day," said Joe to a friend. " How so ?" " I had them hhlf-soled." iVouldst thou be a rebel? Coma",Sebel then, For an experiment against thy heart! 3aet thon nevor been a rarer 7 well, then, Bale thyself, O man, whoe'er thou art. A Frenchman intending- Ao oomplinent a young lady bj. oal&US *-er tt jontle lamb, said : " She is <K)6 mutton is is small. An Englishman has 'just bought at Bordeaux, for $1,800 francs,'three bot;les of Medoo wine, of the-year 171)3? |120 a bottle. . >yi WWW v i * as w _ m l _ M