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Ever since last June, when the truant British trawler Girl Pat, whose crew ran away with her on All Fools' Day, was finally nabbed at Georgetown, British Guiana (TIME, June 8, 22 & 29), England has been kept atwitter by a series of Rover-Boys-at-Sea personal accounts by the Girl Pat's doughty Skipper George Black ("Dod") Orsborne spreadeagled across the pink pages of London's sensational Sunday newspaper The People. Other excerpts...
When Skipper Orsborne and his three freebooting cronies were lugged cursing to the Georgetown jail at the end of their jaunt, they were mysteriously released at once. Seamen John Hector Harris and Howard ("Ginger") Stephens presently journeyed home to England via New York. The Brothers Orsborne landed back in jail for street-fighting, were kept there on complaint of the Girl Pat's owners, Marstrand Fishing Co., who have already collected ?3,000 insurance for her loss...
...Born in Georgetown, S. C. and brought up in Newport, Tenn., Mrs. Eisele and her husband settled on the Minnesota farm with which his prosperous Iowa father dowered them. For the nearby Blue Earth Post they collaborated on The Post Chaise column, which Mr. Eisele carried on when his wife branched out in the Fairmont paper...
...January 1816 there debarked at Charleston, S. C. a French fencing master who said his name was Peter Stuart Ney. From Georgetown he fled to Brownsville three years later when some French refugees insisted he was France's late, great Marshal. In the next few years he wandered from town to town in North Carolina and Virginia teaching school. Years later one of his pupils told how he had fainted on reading a newspaper report of Napoleon's death at St. Helena. Found next day with his throat ineffectively slashed, he explained: "With the death of Napoleon...
...editorship of the Jesuits' able weekly, America, run for eleven years by Rev. Wilfrid Parsons S. J. This slight, grey-haired father yielded his place to Rev. Francis Xavier Talbot S. J., lecturer and bookman. Last week Father Parsons was appointed professor of European history at Georgetown University's graduate school, turned up there at once...