Phenix Gazette

A Brave Wife.—The family of a Mr. Diamond have been for some time the only inhabitants of Calf Island, situated at the extreme outer edge of Boston harbor. Last week, the father, having been for some time in a feeble state of health, died. The only persons present on the Island at the time of this melancholy occurrence, were the wife of Mr. Diamond and her family of seven small children.
In this afflicting situation, being destitute of any other means of sending intelligence or procuring assistance from the neighbouring islands, the wife, leaving the corpse of her husband to the care of her children, launched a small boat, and though the sea was quite rough, the wind blowing, and the rain falling, she effected her passage to Gallup's Island, a distance of more than three miles, where she was fortunate enough to find two men, who returned with her. Such had been the energy with which the peculiarity of her situation had inspired her, that she actually consumed a shorter time in passing from her home to Gallup's Island, rowing cross handed all the way, than her friendly assistants did in returning by the same passage.—Boston Atlas.