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family, and barricaded the house. He then armed all hands, not a small 
number either, with guns, pitch-forks, cane-cutters, — everything, in short 
that might be of service in the emergency, and these all stood at their 
assigned posts, during the entire night, in the momentary expectation of 
an attack. 
Day came, and the piratical craft weighed anchor and left the bay, 
to the great relief of the wealthy planter and his domestic army. The 
excitement, fear, and suspense were too much for him however. He was 
taken sick, and sent for his family physician, Dr. Nettleton, who lived 
twenty miles distant. The doctor had been apprised of Audubon’s visit 
and had a good laugh at the expense of poor Gordie. — Dr. P. R. Hoy, 
Racine, Wis. 
— Our readers will be pained to learn of the sudden death by apo- 
plexy of Prof. Sanborn Tenney, July 9th, while on his way West to 
meet the members of the Williams College Expedition to the Rocky 
Mountains. We learn that the Expedition will consequently return. 
Professor Tenney was author of a Manual of Geology and of two on 
Zoblogy, which have been extensively used in schools ; he’also published 
a number of articles on geological and zodlogical subjects. He was born 
in Stoddard, N. H., January 13, 1827. 
—A dispatch to the San Francisco papers from Los Angeles, Cali- 
fornia, under date of the 12th of June, says: A volcanic eruption 
occurred in the mountains opposite Flowing Wells, a station on the 
Southern Pacific, about sixty miles from Yuma, at 9 o’clock yesterday 
morning. It was preceded by a violent vibration of the earth, about half 
an hour after which a dense volume of smoke and huge black and broken 
bowlders were observed to issue from the mountains. It continued in an 
active state all day, but became nearly passive at nightfall. Subsequent 
dispatches confirmed the above, and a recurrence of the eruption is re- 
ported. 
— After delays which the editors of Psyche, the only American journal 
of entomology in existence, except the Canadian Entomologist, could not 
avoid, the first numbers of the second volume have been issued to sub- 
scribers. The'second volume will be made superior in quality and in 
quantity to the first. Subscriptions are earnestly desired, in order that 
the almost inevitable drain upon the purses of the publishers may be as 
small as possible. We regret to learn that the first volume of this valu- 
able little journal cost more than two hundred dollars beyond the re- 
ceipts from subscriptions, and the editor had to pay most of the deficit. 
The subscription price to either the first or the second volume (embrac- 
ing three years each) is three dollars. 
— The Woodruff Scientific Expedition around the world proposes a4 
sail in October, and return in October, 1879. We have received the 
“ Final Announcement,” a pamphlet of thirty-nine pages, with a map of 
the route. 
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