Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-07-02
AN INTERESTING STORY, WELL TOLD.
FRog THE REPUBLIC.

Char wlrH THE CoYpUcToR.-'s It's not often a man
loses any thing by kindness know little matter Of
that sort saved my life and perhaps the lives Of many
others a. the time"
How was that Z" asked we Of our friend Rawlings
the medel conductor.
WAY, we had an IrishmAn on this road watching
tunnel It was warm weather, 50 be used to go into the
tunnel to keep cool rather think he used to take
little liquor when he lonesome any way, he laid
down the track day listen for the He fell
asleep and very mprudeny got his head cut of by the
express train Well there the last of that Irshman.
There was the DEVILS in his shanty when we took
the poor fellow up and getaway deceny
could for you know it's not agreeable 70 be surrounded
with distracted family when you're neither doctor
nurse nor a preacher. Somehow was always sorry
when passed that place; of felt f-not
acty the thing-but just bad might happen TO
me day and then there'd be another in family.
told my wife about il, and she the family
little things. The widow Of the dead Irshman n
Catholic, and, asI then very fast train would
sometimes take up the old woman Sunday and carry
her to church at Martnsburg somehow thought il
satisfaction to her go church, for she had but little
chance in the world any how certainly did not expect
get any thing for it in this world and expected they
had much scored against in the other that Il
wouldn't amount to any thing there.
/" That during the summer. One night the next
winter 1t was very cod and the mountains covered
with snow we were running to make time when turn
ing curve the engineer waving light the track,
and soon heard some one ahead shouting was then
out the platform The engineer Stacked and stopped
the engine and we got out and went ahead in the dark TO
see wnat was the matter There IL was large land
slide had fallen the track the shany Of that
old Irishwoman She had built up largere and watch
ed for the train, for the sharp that
might have been upon the slide before could IT,
So, when we up, there the old lady, with her
calico cap, swinging the chunk of FIRE like revolving
lighthouse, and there the little Irish carrying
brush, like many little beavers She had watched all
that night in the cold But for her, in another minute
should have into pile Of dirt and stone big
Barnum's Hotel. should have got 'pit ticket ceN
tain, for the platform. What would have become
Of the passengers and train you guess well as
can"
We expressed hope that the old widow had been pro-
pery rewarded
g The passengers made up about eighty dollars the
company afterwards gave her shanty rent Free tho
brakemen and engineers bough her cow and she made
out very we'll But when handed the money her that
night, she said Gintlemen aud ladies' I'm thankful
and may yc niver know the want of what ye give me-
But what did mostly account Of him. there. lie
kind and thoughtful the poor and the afflicted aud
I'd watched till froBe before harrum should have come
to him, if could ha helped it, y
/" DIN the thing, IL made me choke right up"
" Passen jars for the Rela-a ~ g Don't forget your
umbrella, sir there might be explosion, and you'd
want il TO keep of the cinders" {" Let me pass your
bandbox miss" Take Of your little boy madam
no insurance on him" All right 90 ahead II