Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1877 — Remarkable Feat of a Heroic Seven-Tear-Old Girl. [ARTICLE]

Remarkable Feat of a Heroic Seven-Tear-Old Girl.

The Town of Pictou has just been the scene of one of the most heroic deeds ever done by a young girl; and another name has been added to the list of noblest heroines. Last evening Mrs. C&pt. Ivy, a widow, and tenant in one of the houses of Mr. C. T„ Irving, on going out locked in the room her tWo children, Henry and Alice, aged respectively five and seven yeaas. About 8:80 p. m they arose from the bed and lit the lamp. There was some female wearing apparel hanging on the walk and directly under was a trank. On tnis they placed the lamp, which immediately set the clothes on fire, and filled the room with flame and smoke. The children were naturally excited in their dreadful position, hardly knowing what to do. The little girl knew that the key was in the lock, but how could she find a way to go out and turn it to let her brother out? She appeared to forget herself entirely, ana thought only of the brother under her care. Alarm for her brother’s safety overcame all- obstacles, and she formed the terrible project of jumping to the ground from the third-story window. The noble girl, instead of giving the alarm from the window, was unable to wait. Her brother must be let out immediately; she must open the door, md so she did; for crawling out on the shelf fastened to the window, and lowering herself the length of her short arms, sheHropped down to the ground—a distance of exactly thirty-five net by tape measurement. The air caught under her clothes in her descent and broke the fall, otherwise she must have broken some bones or been dashed to pieces. Bhe then rushed up the stairs, but upon opening the door was horrified at the absence of all signs of her brother. Her perplexity found vent in. cries as she ran fobhelp. In the meantime, the little fellow, scared out of his senses, did not heed the command to stay until she opened the door, but crawled oat to see where his sister had gone, and fell over the shelf to the ground. Mr. Thomas Harris, passing by just then, heard the jjroans, and by the light of a match found the insensible child. Upon eanying him up-ftaira, he discovered the fire. He immediately gave; the alarm, and carried the child into Mr. Hamilton’s hops?. The hoy’s face isconsiderably scratched by the gravel he fell on, but the internal injuries, so far as can be yet ascertained, are not very serious. Had be fallen slightiy to either side his back must have been broken or his head split by the stair-railing or the sharp angular corner of a large box. Crowds have been looking up at the dizzy height from which the one Jumped and the other fell, and cannot see how they were not both instantaneously killed. To-day the boy has been able to walk round the room and play while sitting on the bed. A comCete recovery is expected. The arm and g of the daring heroine are slightly injured, but die feels no other til effects from her perilous-drop. —Halifax (N. 8.) Chronicle.