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A HUMOROUS INCIDENT

The disaster on the river was not without its humorous features. The ferryboat Andrew Christy, of the Wig. gins Ferry Company's fleet, was one of the many crafts that drifted helplessly down the stream and lodged against the eastern bank. Afterward, the steamer Belle. of Calhoun and a wharfboat floated down, and, after bumping against the Christy, passed on. Several persons were on the wharfboat and a few on the ferryboat, among them the engineer. When the boats touched, some one on the wharfboat asked the engineer if he wanted to get off his boat.