The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-07
SENTIMENT AND FUN.
"a little nonsense, now and then,
Is relished by the wisest men,"
A CHAPTER ON THE "PASSED."
Grinating Editors In 3 fx--FO More
Dead Heads. 1y
TFronn the CINCINNATI Times. !

From the Cincinnati Times.I
The New York Legislature, last
session, passed law prohibiting the
free pass system on railroads in that
State. BY provision of the law all
passes were taken up on and after the
LIST of May. The law must have been
rather heavy on such editors as were
caught away from home. We under
stand that large number OF those
Wretched creatures accumulated at the
points along the line of the New York
Central Railroad, principally at Utica
and Syracuse. Their passes playing
out, and having no money, of course
they had to stop over until they could
hear from home. u8a et
The Union Telegraph Company
kindly permitted them the free use of
the telegraph wires to send their dis
patches home A friend has forward
ed to us copies of some of the dis
patches sent from Utica, where
large number of country editors were
stuck" Through the benevolence
of some of the citizens, the Soldiers
Home,'n' which had been vacant for
months past, was fitted up for the ac-
commodation of the impecunious edi-
tors, until money could be forwarded
| to them. Some of them, rendered
temporarily insane by the decapitation
of dead heads" had to be quartered
in the Lunatic Asylum.
One editor telegraphs to his part
ner: a-e1orI 1 fiw
Send me some money. Five dol
lars will do if sent Immediately. Don't
suspend the paper in consequence, if
you can possibly avoid it. isf ag
Another, rendered savage and pro-
fame, telegraphs his foreman m
Sell that Office stove and send on
the proceeds; we don't need. it in
warm weather. Discharge the devil.
Give our legislature hell for this. "
One poor fellow, who is caught a
long way from home, it being in a
small town on the Illinois River,
nearly despairs of ever getting back
again This is his dispatch: @
utica, N. Y, May 13, 1866 I
--.-. BLUE LION TAVERN.
DEAR WIFE:-Sell my tother
clothes for what they will bring and
remit at once Had my linen buster
for supper, and my spare shirt will go
for lodgings May be able to make a
light breakfast Oh a German silver
comb and pair of shears that [ hap
pened to have with me. Don't know
when / shall get home. 1t will de-
pend good deal on the walking,
Don't marry for few months yet
there is bare possibility of my get
ting back. SIMON"
A st. Lawrence County New York;
editor telegraphs his assistant editor
IF my letter isn't printed cut out
that puff of the New York Central
Railroad. Give them something
about 'Swindling Monopoly Danger
Gus Roadway, Retton Bridges, &c.
Send me ten dOllors.''e o ossa
"P Stake any advertisement
that offers at the present, whatever its
IT The editor Of the Poaus.k Stuffed
Club telegraphs his pardner:
DEAR SAM: Forward. me all the
money You have, even if tits five dol
lars"
"P. S.-The editor of that hireling
sheet whose puny efforts to rival the
Stuffed Club have so often excited our
derision, the cringing tool of the OPP
position, whom / threatened to horse
whip if he dared to address me, has
7 Just refused me the loan of half dol
lar. Ye Gods! Review his disloyal
course during the war in a column
leader, double loaded. Make it as
able as you can. ISIS SIS
"P. S.-Bring down the lStufeo
Club with all its weight on the head
of that Giant Monopoly, the New
York Central. - PIN"
A Buffalo editor, who had his pas:
taken up at Schenectady, attempted
to make his way home on foot HI
got as far as Syracuse, when he gave
out (his shoes gave out two or three
days before, and he had hoofed i
along bare -footed), and dropped By
the way-side. He is performing the
remainder of the journey on board O
bull-head canal boat Walking
, from Schenectady to Syracuse on the
railroad Che said he was never passed
so much before-every train passed
him) he has obtained some interest
ing statistics He says there are nint
thousand four hundred and sixty
two ties laid between those two points
e only one hundred and thirty-two O.
them show signs of decay There are
one thousand seven hundred and ont
telegraph poles, all being pealed o
their bark, except two hundred anC
thirty-one.
The Atlantic and Great Western
Railway Company were even more
strict than the Central in enforcing
the new law IF an editor was caugh
with pass and no money, the pas
was taken up, the train stopped, AM
the editor put off-frequently in tn