The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-07-01
THE DAILY sDISPA vi
- e. the Waahington Repub.

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= .,;,er for the Washington Repuo'
-. ala me following story:
''e 80 ,rs THE CoSDocroe.-Is no.
ChAi ,,sn loses any thing by kihanes'; ,e
otteh Gr,,e matter of that sort saved ~. ~,
know ,s,hsns the lives OF many others az "'o
SAM m a was tha,1,' asked we OF our ''ieno
p.y,;nys. The model conductor. -, .1
aWhy. we had an irishman on 'ii's ,,hsr
wa,ching a tunnel. II was warm nnoi
40 he used TO go into the tnhhe' " ~, ,;ono,
Ira,ber think he used 10 take u II Ia aawn
when he was lonesome; any We" s:. ,hs cara He
ON the track one day TO listen ,oI u ", hi. hssd
S s"i, - and very imprudenily got nus heao
son 81 a.. ,se .rpress train Wen, theIe was
Su' on - ,h., Trishman. There was tne ae-
.ue 'as. - "a. in his shanty when we look IN q
wa ~, M, and we got away as soon as we
t r., could, for you know us MOI agreeaDte
~ 10 surrounded with distracted tamhy
10 vou're neither doctor nor a nurse, nor
aa,Se,. Somehow was always sorry
T nsssed that place; of course l felt as
80, exactlv The same thing-but Just as
II wight happen 10 me some day. and then
sA,ard lie another row in a family. l told my
,.fe about il. and she sent the family some
i;,.is Rings, The widow of he dead Irish.
msn was a Catholic, and, as was then on a
ye,y fast train, would sometimes take up the
old woman on Sunday and carry her to church
a, Mar,insburg. somehow thoughtit was a
satisfaction 10 her TO go TO church, Tor she had
I'm, little chance in the world, any how. |
certainly did not expect TO get any thing for il
much scored against me in the other, that il
wouldn't amount 10 any thing there. ~
"That was during the summer. One night
the next winter IL was very cold, and the
mountains were covered with snow; we were
running TO make time, when, on turning a
curve, the engineer saw a waving light on the
track, aud we soon heard some one ahead
shouting. | was then out on the 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 IT
was. A large land slide had fallen across the
track, near the shanty of that cid Irishwoman.
She had built up large fire and watched for
the train, for the curves were so sharp that we
might have been upon the slide before we
coulu see il. So, when we run up, there was
the old lady, With her calico cap, swinging the
chunk of fire like revolving Il clubhouse, and
there were The liiile Irish carrying brush, like
go many little beavers. She had watched all
that night in the cold. But for her, in anoth-
er minute we should have run into pile OF
dirt and stone as big as Barnum's Hotel. |
should have got "pit ticket" certain, for
was on the platform. What would have be-
come of the passengers and train you can guess
as we'll as | can"
We expressed hope that the old widow
had been properly rewarded.
"The passengers made up about eighty dol
lars, the company afterwards gave her shan
" rent free, The brakemen and engineers
bought her a COW, and size made out very
veil. Bat when handed the money TO her
that night, she said: Gentlemen and ladies.
Pm thankful, and may We niver know the want
of what ye give me. But what | did was
mostly on account of him, there. He was
Kind and thoughtful to the poor and the af
flicied, and I'd a watched till | froze before
harruin should have come TO him, if L could ha
helped it,"
"D-n the thing, it made me choke right
up"
"Passen hrs for the Rela.a "" "Don't
forget your umbrella sir; there might be an ex-
plosion, and you'd wantit to keep off the Gin
ders." "Let me pass you bandbox, mlss."-
"Take care Of your little boy, madam, no
insurance on him." "All right! 60 ahead.
ATLANTIC AND ONO RAILRoAD.-The War
zen (O.) Transcript states that books of sub
scription to the capital stock Of the Atlantic
and Ohio Railroad Company have been open
ed. That par er states that the necessary pa.
pers have been filed at Columbus for the or
sanizalion of the company, with a capital of
$6,000,000, and that the project has been
planned by some of the most wealthy and en-
ergeiic capitalists in Ohio. The line desgrat
ed is to commence on the Pennsylvania State
line in Franklin county, to Columbus, and
thence to the Ohio river. connecting with the
Maysvile and Lexington road. Lexington
and Danville, in Kentucky, are points of radia-
ton from within, by roads now in course of
erection. Charleston, s. c., Savannah, Mo.
bile, Nashville and Louisville will be reached
in the most direct lines possible. With char.
tered rights now in reach in Pennsylvania, TO
connect with the Sunbury and Erie and the
Catawissa and Easton roads, line will be
formed with saving of distance to New York
and Philadelphia of at least $50 miles, and,
with connections now in progress Of construc
ton, will give a uniform gauge from New
York and Philadelphia to the great South,
Cincinnati and Chicago.
The squadron of Gen Urquiza, in the River
Plate, which recently defeated the Buenos Ay-
rean squadron, was and is commanded by
Commodore Coe, an American. The Baenos
Ayrean squadron went out expressly to attack
him.
Mamma" said little fellow, whose mo-
ther had forbid his drawing horses and ships
on the mahogany sideboard with sharp nail
<.Mamma this ain't a nice house Ar Sam