Democratic banner., 1848-11-27
THE BR1GGER oBTB8AaEEB.

msns 70 commenc Dragging on English saH.
roads, while the couple were -pr0greaaine
At the rate Of forty miles per hour 90 the
Birmingham railway. 'Why, mister, this
ere roadis purity considerable for England,
but it woH't do fos 'Msriky.d We fids
astraddle tslegrafs there, when ~e'reiba
hurIy-hut when we sin't, we take the r,a-
lroad.-Now them roads amt slow, as Iil
tell you. was comm from Philadelphia
Ito New York, when les to a feller sitlin'
by me-'who on airth owns This Bie psrden
with white palms around III, 10 iiFs ali G!
u don't see no white palms, ses hss 3 b
= don't see p9thip' else,' see / .snais
mighty tall fence it is, foo.'
the Teller burst out q larfn-swhy.' vou
|darned fool, ses he, sthem's the telegraph
|ic posts.' And sure enough. when the en-.
CINE Teller stopped, / saw them.posts d hun.
dred feet apart, and ve had been geia,sss
fred fast they looked for all the Norld Ike
white paiins.h .14'f.' I.
At this moment the bell rang a. q station
signal before the Cockney had fully rse6e
cred from Jonathan's last dose.a .'1HoassI
whats that bell ringin for7' inquired
the latter Of his English friend. 81
'Oo1S oppIUuSdIhR O--
swell, them kind of bell fxins does Tor
these ere slow cars, but We can't use them
are in 'Meriky.' .eeri,assegs4sr
tAh, why not?' r,.mzg
'Travel too fast-fact, beat sound ell O.
smash. We would be smack through q VII.
lage before the noise of a clapper was Il
the neiglborhood.' sig359 o - s nj
You don't say!' exclaimedths aston;sh.
ed Cockney. ~ f..,lg tasb
'Fact, again, by thunderl Why, I wss On
the York cars when them ere steam vhis.
ties was first tried. Maybe you've heard
of the terrible accident2 No! Well, oil.
we were going it strong HaTrycanss we're
no whar-all Datur seemed shakin to pieces
when several miles eff something was
seed on the track. The whistle was LET
loose, and she did scream awfuily-buti u
was no manner of use, for after tumblin1R
over a span of smart horses, and q big MAJ.
ket wagon. | was just rising from - ponds
when along come the whistles holler, mix
ed up with some big curses | mind to have
heard the engine man rip out when he FIRST
saw the wagon. But tbs poor teller We
dead when. his Soics arrived Faet2seot
the documents a-.f s.l; 10 liiw Sit
'Extraordiharyp exclaimed the .herscR
struck Cockney. "and you use vistles yetp,s
BLESS yer soul, no. Congress stopped
'esn rite Of, snd'nov we acts on the Phifo-
sophie principle that light travels an ell fred
sight faster than sound which will do per-
.haps for this generation. We now, tell ,em
we're comm by Dustin out a light that does
ast0nish animal creation, and reckon rath.
er surprised the planetary system at frst.
When it was FIRST tried at night; the ROSTERS
on the road commenced Growing, and hAs
chickens got down from roOst, thinking;t
was daylight
The cars suddenly stopped, when Jonas,
than having arrived at the point of Ills de-
barkatioD, looked around at the bewildefed
Cockney, nodded his head and with q lit-I
tie carpet bag chucked under one arm, and,
an umbrella under the other, took his leave,
sober as a deacon.
The railroad engine near Valley Forge,
Pa, where the road runs along the brink Of
a precipitous' ledge Of sbsrp rocks, more
loo feet above the Schuylkil, ran
over a COW andiwas thrown of the track:
The wheels on ore side felr into a hollow,
careening the engines far over, and when
stopped by the wheels sinking in the vet
it hung trembling over the fearful
PAeipice for nearly afmiaGte. ar dc list
on the safe side, and the Fpassengeff
were enabled to land without injury $50
al "a ...s s.s :7a.. (B0stoa Pass. ii
General Scott said to a gentleman . few.
days since, at his residence in New Jersey,
that the fifteen millions of 'dollors paid for
the acquisition Of our newly acquired Mex.
ican territory was but a drop in the bucket,
compared with the incslculabls bene6t
these possessions will prove to the United
States.--BOst0n Posi-.
DR.. Maranzells, of Vienna, has prsserib--'
I'd cuprum and velatrum album a. prevent"
to the cholera to 10000 peoples
not one of them fell victims to the Dig
Ease, .v ....s III ~ ai sIEyop E~U4ti1sq
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