An Unoccupied Grave

At the head of a grave in the Glen Dyberry cemetery at this place is a weather-stained marble slab containing this inscription: : Iu memory of Jonathan H. Salmón, ; : ond mate of the hip Arabeila. wïio was : : killed bv a wlmle off the southw5t coast : : of South America, DeaK, 184r,aged ii year : ■ The whailing1 ship Arabeila sailed from Sag Harbor on August 8, 1847; She feil in with a lof of Bperm whales on December 5 off the southwest coast of South America, says the Honesdale, Fa., correspondent of tho New York Sun. Three big fellows liad been killed, and the boat commanded by Second Mate Salmón started in pursuit of the foui"th. Salmon was a native of Honesdale. They g-ot close enough to the whalo for the harpooner launch his harpoon successfully at the monster. Bofore tho crew of the boat could pull away the wounded monster struck an upward blow with its terrible fluko. Tho boat was lifted out of the water several feet, so high that it turned entirely over in the air. The men dropped in the water. Salmón feil near the furious whale, still having his oar in his hands. The whale rushed upon him with its tremendous jaws wide open and engulfed both Salmón and his oar. It was the oar that saved Salmón for that time. The whalo's jaws came together on tho oar which stuck out on one side of his jaws so far back near the hing-es of the jaw that it kept the huge mouth from closing snfficiently to crush the seaman. Before the whale could change tho situation Salmón jumped from his mouth into the sea. Another boat, in which was the brother of Salmón, who was also a sailor on the Arabeila, had come up by this time, and Salmón succeeded in reaohing it and was rescued from the whale. But his safety was only momentary, for the whale treated this boat as it had the other. Salmón was thrown into the water near the whale, as he had been a few minutes before. The whalo took him in at onno. This time Salmón had no oar to stay the monster's jaws, and they closed upon him like a gig-antic trap. The whalo down out of sight, and none oi the crew ever saw it or their shipmate agaia. The story of the sea tragedy, tho menr.ory of hich is perpetuated by the stone at the tenantless grave in tlie Honesdalo cometery, is recalled by a recent visit to this villag-e of tho brotaer of Johnathan Salmón, who was with him on that fatal voyage, the brother having been for many yoari a conductor on the Erie railway. The grave was mado and the stono erecjed in 1849, in whieh year the ving brother returned with tho i'aws of the other's death.