Two young lovers met near Clay
mount, Delaware county, one of whom
was a Philadelphia and the other a
resident of the former place, and fought
a duel for the possession of a yonog
lady. The eight after the duel the
damsel left Claymount in company with
a Boston man whom she had met for the
first time only a few days before and
going to Chester were married, leaving
the two ardent duelists to congratulate
each other on the escape tbey bad made
from a fickle woman.
Pretty Melissa Smith, the belle of
Hatteras Island, was the daughter of a
light-bouse keeper, and was to have
been married on Wednesday last. But
on Sunday night just after she Lad left
her lover and was going to bed, she
opened the door of ber room io the
lighthouse to enjoy the sea breeze, and
her pillow fell opou the stairway out-
: side. Attempting to recover it, she
slipped and fell, sinking into the wai
ter. She gave three piercing screams
and was carried away by the surf just
s her father sppeared in the doorway.
It is scarcely more tLao 120 years
since Col. Francis Townley, George
Fletcher, and seven other Jacobites
were hanged on Kennington Common,
London, cut down, disembowelled, be
headed, quartered, their hearts tossed
into a fire, from which one of them
was snatched by a bystander, who de
voured it to show his loyality. VVal
pole afterward saw their beads on Tem
ple Bar, and sajs that people used to
make a trade of letting out spyglasses
to look at them at a halfpenny a look.
