Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1848-11-16
From the Buffalo Courier
Sleeping in the Cars-A Rich Joke.

\ A great many funny things happen,
and any quantity of amusing stories are
told ofoccurrcnces that take place on
railroads. A lnlle incident ,ranspired
last week Oh the road between here and
Rochester that is really about as good OF
ts kind as anything we have heard lately
and proves, concluslyely, that the iOng-
cst way round is the surest-ray homs."
!. One OF our fellow citizens" having
business to transact at Syracuse, took
/ the evening train, here ~ o'clock, and
deparied Oh his journey. Having been
laborously engaged daring the day, and
considerably ta'lgued, he fell sound n
sleep just the other side OF Auica, and
only stirred from his position when the
conductor came about 10 collect tickets
| Tcmpu> .tagit-sed-rapidIy and The cars
! soon reached Rochester.
i Here, as the traveller will remember,
/ passengers are transferred To another
train, which takes them east; and those
! who had come down from the west had
arranged themselves comfortably in the
other train-all except "our friend" -
lie was SO sound asleep that nothing
walked hih,. The consequence was that
the cars started promptly at the the time
and he was left. 1t so happened that no
one went into the car, AMI he remained
perfectly undistu'bed. The train from
the east arrived just as the other was
leaving, and passengers for Buffalo left
the cars in which they had been riding,
and stepped into those going west-into
the same train, in fact, by which "our
friend had gone TO Rochester. and where
he still remained, enjoying magnificent
nap. Another conductor was il charge
OF the train, and when near the water
station, six miles west Of the city, gave
the usual significant intimation: Tick
= dSn
"Our friend" had to be tapped on the
shoulder once or twice before he "took, "
and seeing new conductor, supposed
everything was all right.
"Do you 20 through, sir" asked the
conductor.
4 "Y-e-s," replied sleepy-head with a
yawn.
. IN take your fare"
4 How much :"
Eleven shllImgs."
"Wcll Mot's cheap.' (Supposing
doubtless that he was paying from Roch-
ester to Auburn.) And forking over the
amount he subsided into his former posi-
ton, to finish his snooze. Two hours
more brought them to Atica; but not
even the "noisc and confusion " at that
great point. nor the sonorous announce
ment ,ns.. ,nis. 1.-THE cars wiH stop fifteen min
utes and give passens sers p's"ty Of time
/ for refreshment," could disturb the slum-
/ bers of "our friend" Those fifteen
/ minutes, however, soon passed; the
! Engineers bell rung the conductor gave
a ,wi,ch of the BEDFORD" and the train
was o-p-h. Somewhere near Peters
milk metropolis, the conductor opened
the car door and exploded on the word
/" Iic-ETsn' But "our friend was
deaf to the intimation.
\ Ticket, SIR" said the conductor,
| giving hun good shake OH the shoul-
der.
\ "W-h-a-t?"
"Take your fare 'fyou please
Il "O-h!-Y-e-s BY GeorAe! I've
slept like a book all the way ;--never
had better nap in the cars in my life.
/ What's the fare p
Ninety-three cents, sir
4 "We,i that is cheap cheaper than
ever paid before" (the fare from Auburn
to Syracuse is eight or nine shllIings, }
and after paying up, he wiggled about
/ until he got 'quirled' up into about the
same attitude in which he had been re-
posing, and went at it again.
\ By and by the cars arrived at the de-
pot, aud lie was necessarily reused up
/ Twas no use to try and sleep amidst
such an uproar as there is when train
arrives here, and he accordingly slid
out" On alighting he stopped short
stared about-rubbed his eyes-s,ared
again-looked at the lamps-then at the
conductor, and finally exclaimed.-
4 wen by-thunder -
\ What's the matter ?" asked the con-
! ductor.
\ This is too bad"
4 What! p
I -" Look here, friend, | should just
! like to know, mherc lam!
4 Where YOU are %
1 "Yes"
4 "Why, in Bufialo, to be sure; YOU
can't 90 any further west on this road. u"
4 Veil, this is a pretty business
Last night took the cars here to 90 to
/ Syracuse, and now find myself at five o.
clock in the morning back at Buffalo -
| lf aint an ass then there never was one. "
/ Aud off he went. muttering and swearing
! to and at hims ,lf-the swearing being
done up in language nervous but very
Inelegant-strong but very unsentiment-
i al such as would be quite improper to
repeat TO ears polite. The fact is, its
Just as Reed told him, the only correct
way to 9, 20 Syracuse is to be sure and
take the right train at Rochester.
+. TUE MANCHESTER TRAcEDy.--At the
session of the Court Of Common Pleas
held at Nashua, \. H., last week, the
/. grand Jury found bills against DR.. Nc