Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-08-09
From the Republic.
An Interesting Story, Well Told

All AMScAcSuAS StVhy, "Oh AVAW
CHAT WITH THE CONDUCTOR no,
often man loses any thing by Kindness
know liuIe mater Of that sort saved my
life, and perhaps The lives Of many Others al
ihe same lme."
"How was lhaI2' asked we Of our friend
Rawlings, the model conductor.
"Why, We had an lrishman on this road
watching tunnel. 1t was warm weather,
SO he used 10 60 into the tunnel TO keep
cool. rather think he used 10 lake liule
liquor when he was lonesome; any way, he
laid down on the track one day 10 listen for
The cars. He fell asleep, and very impru.
DENLY got his head Gu. off by the express
train. Well, there was The last Of lha, Irish
man. There was The DEVILS own row in
his shan,y when we took The poor fellow up,
and we got OUT as soon as we decen,Iy could,
for you know It's not agreeable 10 be sur
rounded by distracted family when you're
neither doctor, nor nurse, nor preach
er. Somehow was always sorry when
passed that place; Of course, | felt as if moi
exactly the same ,hing-bul just as bad
might happen 10 me some day, and ,here'd
be another row in family. ] told my
wife about it, and she sent The family some
lule ,himgst The wdow;of the dead lrishman
was a Catholic, and, as | was then on q
very fast train, | would sometimes take up
the old woman on Sunday and carry her 10
church u. Marinsburg. somehow though,
ii was a satisfaction for her TO 60 10 church.
for she had but itlle chance in this world
any how. certainly did not expect TO gel
any Thing for it in this world, and expect.
ed they had so much scored aginst me in the
other that it wouldn't arounlho anything
there.
That was during The summer. One
night next " inter il was very cold, and the
mountains we're covered with snow; we were
running 10 make time, when, on turning a
curve, The engineer saw waving ligh. on
The track, and we soon heard some one ahead
shouting was then out on PLATFORM
The engineer Stacked up and stopped the en-
CINE, and we got out and went ahead IN The
dark 10 see what was the matter. There il
was. A large land slide had fallen across
The track, near The shanly Of that old Irish
woman. She had built a large fire and
watched for the train, for the curves were so
sharp that we might have been upon The
slide before we could have seen it. So,
when we ran up, there was The old lady with
her calico cap, swinging the chunk of fire
like revolving light house, and there were
the lhIle Irish carrying brush like so many
lille beavers She had watched all night
in the cold. BuI for her, in another minute
we should have run into pile of dir, and
stones as big as Barnum's Hotel. | should
have got pit ticket certain, for was on
the platform. What would have become oI
The passengers and train you can guess as
well as can"
We expressed hope that the old widow
had been properly rewarded
The passengers made up eighty dollars;
the company afterwards gave her shanty
rent free, the brakemen and engineers
bought her COW, and she made out very
well. But when | handed the money
to her that night, she said, Gentlemen and
ladies Pm thankful, and may ye niver know
the want Of what ye give me. But what
did was mostly on account OF him, there
He was kind and thoughtful 10 the poor and
afflicted, and l'da watched ill froze before
harrum should have come 10 him ii could
ha' helped IT,,
"D-n the thing, ii made me choke right
up"
"Passenjars for the Relu.a.y." "Don',
forget your umbrella, sirj there might be an
explosion, you'd need ii TO keep the cinders
off," Let me pass your band box miss. y
"Take caro- Of your lilile boy, madam, nc
insurance on him" "All right! 90 head!'