Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1873 — A Brave Girl. [ARTICLE]

A Brave Girl.

Long Island has recently developed a heroine. The breaking op of the ice made the opportunity. Huntington Bay was the place. Two men had been making purchases at a town tome distance from home, and were returning In a skiff loaded down with goods. They were caught in the ice floes which were sweeping out in the bay and succeeded in capsizing their boat As nearly always lumpens one of them could not swim, sod seized upon a small cake of ice by which he was enabled to keep his head above water. The other clang to the skifl, righted it up, and was in a safer position than his companion, but could do nothing to help him. The other man began to cry for aid, and his voice was heard by three women, a mother and two daughters, who lived near the beach. They all rushed to the scene, and it was evident the man was nearly exhausted as well aa frozen. His fingers could no more grasp the ice, and he' used his elbows to retain his hold on it. No tima was to be lost, and there was a man to be laved* Hlal Lucinda Conklin, without sword to her mother and sister, waded out Into the bay, the beach being shelving, until ahe gained a point within twenty feat of the drowning man. She was then just able to keep her nose out of water, and the next step would take her oyer head and ears. She said a word of encouragement to the man, and made a desperate plunge toward him. She was a good swimmer, and a few strokes brought her to his side. She then told him what to do, not to impede her motions, and he promised to obey. This was simply to place his hands on her shoulder and hang on. He did if manfully, and she brought him safely to shore, The only misfortune about the whole business is that the man is married and Mist Lucinda U Imantiful. She may have to risk her life in fishing out some other drowning man. —Fashionable weddings in Europe now take place from ten to Seven o’clock in the morning.