A SAFE NAME.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3030, 24 January 1899, Page 3

A SAFE NAME.

In the year 1664, on the bth clay of December, the English ship Menai was crossing the straits and cax>sized in a gale. Of the eightyone passengers on board, but one was saved. His name was Hugh "Williams. On the same day, in the year 1785, a pleasure schooner was wrecked on the Islo of Man. There were sixty persons in the boat, among them one Hugh Williams and his family. Of the three score none but old Hugh Williams survived the shock. On the sth clay of August 1820 a picknicking party on the Thames was run down by a coal barge. There were, twenty five of the pickniekers, mostly children under 12 years of age. Litt.Je Hugh Williams, a visitor from Liverpool, only 5 years old, was the only one that returned to tell the tale. Now comes the most singular part of this singular story: On the 19th of August in the year of our Lord 1889, a Leeds coal barge, with nine men, foundered. Two of them, both Hugh Williams, an uncle and nephew, were rescued by Borne fishermen, and were the only men of the crew who lived to tell of the calamity. a. J proof-reader .•^^^CS^LV 05^T said with a sigh, dmak. ' IbJ»' If " * fc wou ld make 1^ JbR II me most happy iUfy £*W^& Could make up 0-J'i^\JL&lwL ~~ t Wv some things *&&jg&%%\ or pie.