Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-07

needs happen that adventure cannot alto
eetber be eliminated from any stage o
life. If 3 middle-aged man tumbles off BIZ
horse, or has his pocket picked, or is gar.
roted, or catches cold, he may call that an
adventure and after a certain age Thu
mild sort Of circumstance is taken as The
equivalent 10 such. But society about anc
around us may all the time be teeming
with the elements of adventure.
ADVENTURES OF TRAVEL.
The writer continues:
"a middle-aged man told me the other
day that he never yet witnessed on rail
way anything that partook Of an adven-
ture. He must have been unobservant,
think. Adventures Of this kind are not
very common on railways Some Of these
adventures, | grant are not at all Of a
cheering description. The other day a
man was journeying in the west of England
and he was talking long time with two
very gentlemauly men who were travelling
with him in the same compartment of a
first-class carriage. Suddenly he became
insensible. He next found himself lying
on the floor of a waiting-room Of a way
side station. They told him that two gen.
tlemen we're obliged to put him ouiloecause
he was 90 intoxicated. The gentlemen,
however, had eased him of his watch,
purse, and valise.
al is not unusual to be travelling with
a sick man or a lunstic. On several Occs-
sions, on arriving at a station, | have been
taken aside by some fellow passenger who
has thought it his duty to inform me that
he was In charge Of a lunatic. | met a
man once who had been travelling with a
violent lunatic, held down ia the carriage
by two keepers. The poor fellow had
lately come into large fortune. II was
too much for him. He was unab e to sleep
for days and days, and went raviug mad.
"Only the very day that my friend
made his remark some curious cirCum
stances came under my notice, which GER
tainly had a colorIug Of romance, or some.
thing worse about them. A lady got into
a carriage, we will say at Newtoa Jupc
ton. She was rather an elegant and hand
some woman, aged about hye-and-tweniy.
A specialized gentleman placed her in the
carriage, with a very ab:ruse ard absent
EXPRESSION Of countenauce. He talked to
her about her plans evidently speaking
with some degree of influence ard
authority; and / heard her FAY
that she was going TO stay fN three
or four weeks with her aunt at Exeter.
After a chase and sedate salute they parted.
He had scarcely moved away from the CIR
rage door when a young man entered,
and as soon As the train was in motion
began speaking with his companion, be
Il L.. HHf T.1a or
He said TO her: we will get out at Teign
mouth, ard catch the express 10 ToTqaay.'
At TeigEmouth they got out, evidently IN
pursuance of the expressed intention Of
getting back TO TOrquay. That Is to say,
the lady would have 10 traverse again all
abe ground which she had just passed over
from Newton. 1t was quite clear, first,
that she had found companion altogether
unknown TO the specialized gentleman;
secondly, that she had told the specialized
gentleman deliberate ialsehood in stating
that she was going TO Exeter; thirdly, that
in point Of fact, she was going, under qGes.
circumstances, to Torquay, prov
ipg that the Journey in the Exeter direc-
ton was simply 4 feint. The circunstan-
ces were certainly noticeable, though an
man might not have noticed
them. Such as they are they are very
much al the service of sensation noVelists
or of private detectives.
INCIDESTs.
Ii is an awkard thing when you meet
an agreeable man, and make some pro-
gress towards intimacy with him, to hear
Of him next in A condition Of penal servi-
tude. A man | know met tine, manly
fellow in n romantic district OF Wales.
They boated and cimed mountains to-
gether. and altogether he proved yery
interesting and agreeable fellow; one,
moreover, who had travelled IN many parts
of the world with an obserrant eye, \
wear afterwards this fine fellow was arrested
on the charge Of scuttiing a ship, aad got
Z long sentence Of penal servitude.
"IIemembcr dining ouce with an elderly
gentleman with whose parental and even
atriarlhal demcanOr | was strongly i'm
pressed. The dinner was excellent, the
vinCz old, and the stories new. lie was
surrounded by a charming family, and The
Landscape wa perfect in It's beauty and re-
pose. Aud yet, all the while, this man wa
surrounded with the elements Of passion
aud tragedy, aud got some female accom-
plice to personate a lady at the bank, auC
make the transfer Of large sum Of money
TOURISTS TROUBLES.
The tourist frequently meets with .
share Of adventures. The peripatetic phi
losopher has necessarily had his experience
How disgustcd l was when, having WORKED
through a different country, to see a fine
house and its famous gardens, | heard tha
the proprietor had changed his mind, ana
did 10. now intend that visitors should b,
permitted TO make any inspection Of hi
property. / began Indignantly TO consider
that a man has no right, az it were, to keel
nature under lock and key. While ! wa
smsrting under this injurious treatment
went 10 see another great shoW-plaCe in tn
country. The owner, man of high mar
in the world, detected the chance tours
and showed him every polite attention
He was Just on the point Of going abroad
the horses were champing al the gate-bu
his servants would show me every pointi
the abby and its grounds, and his mo;he
would he very glad If ] woull take iurc
with them afterwards.
Az ITALIAN ANECnoTE.
vOne dav, when was styling by d
sborez of email Italian lake, | was tol
that A visitor wanted 10 see me. il was
charming English lad, covered with Il
dust and soil Of travel, who was in niue
tribulalion. lie had spent or lost all h
money in some great city, and in great ie
ror he had journeyed to me. with whom
hsd passed some pleasant days not lor
before happening to have my address
ask me 10 help him. lie WAS 40 Thorough
Iy q gentleman. and had such good az
6sppy expression in his face, that al
chance traveller, or even any hotel-kcapD
would be harry 90 assist him. In his /
ncrauce. however, he had never thought
opening h!s case 10 any stranger, and h,
come on to the only Eagiishman who
whereabouts he knew in that part Of 6
country, and felt traly grateful 20 hi
Gcr giving 4ue the preference lie speU
few dave with me, and We then passed {
Alps together, and when We came to 4
rich he found ample emi,tanges await
him. and he acquitted himself OF his {
fling obligations to me-
A coNJUREE AT HOME.
A writer ia BeIgrayia describe v
70 the magician Hermann, Ct ais 7
yate rssideure near Loldon, and the tri
.bere piavrd for the entertainment Ct
guosts.
The dinner passed of handsomely
yiapds were OF the best 10 season the "
Wss Of hccuoige-t; conversation wss br
if not brilliant; and good hgmor tire
radiance oyer the whole rarty. !. Va.
fact, a merry meeting; aud there WAS
the number seated round ihe table TO
centraie the talk aud prevent the =,
from breaking up into kuut1 Herr