New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-22
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.


delet street line, has a driver famous in
locals, and well up in art. An unpopular
valetudinarian, who had no business out
at late hour, did bad thing in choosing
16 for the voyage home. With char
acteristic ill-temper, unheeding conditions
in the individual temperature of the Jehu,
he requested that the car door should be
closed, which produced an unmistakab!e
silence, to which remoEstrance would have
been complimentary and pleasing. Foolish
yaletudy instantly closed the door with
violence denoting resentment; whereupon,
the skipper flung it wide, and confronting
the offending night lark, demanded in a
voice in which what would have seemed
insolence in any other operator, produced
painful discord:
s.You have broken the change gate; are
you able to pay for it,"
Unhappy tudy put in demurrer to the tone
of the querist in vague words, but subsidized
out Of the brawl, inhabiting only the least
corner of the seat over which he had spread
himself with tendency largely populous.
Something not designed for the dialogue es-
capped him, feebly conveying his views OF
the impudence of some one commanding a
brake: when presto, down went brake,
while brakeman screamed:
.'Say, what's your name? Are you going
to pay for this gate?"
But the name remained obscure from
profound mental reservation in the mind OF
tudy. the sick man. There were no more
words from the reserved corner, and the car
went on; but q mile after, the brake re-
peated its pressing attention to the rail,
which brought everything to a stand. Some
of the voyagers had slept after the commo-
ton and found themselves beyond the proper
point for debarkation;. these preclpitably
left. Others waited for the rest of the ride,
but growing tired passed out into the dark
ness, and were seen no more. All the time
there was mysterious interview in pro-
gress at headquarters. Brakey was inter
viewing an NJ. P. At last it came to an
end, and the hand of authority touched the
arm of the felonious gate destroyer with an
impunity that at once caused general live
Illness among the remaining occupants OF
car 1e, Carondelet street line. 1t was high
strung temerity, in official NJ. P, No. 81 to
say aloud:
"You broke this gate; are you going to
pay for it, or what are you going to do?"
The breaker of the change gate now broke
the silence, and almost the peace, by stall
wart denunciations of NJ. P. 81. How did
the breaking concern him? and how dare
he! Whereupon 81 finding the price of the
injury was beyond present collection, ex-
horted Jehu in the following memorable
words:
Gle acknowledged it-drive on" and the
commander of the brake drove on, although
a,ho acknowledged it has never transpired.
After night of rest and comparative
tranquility, yet not undisturbed by dreams
of curious railroad disasters, valetudinarian,
or, as we abridged it, valetudy, or, as we
abbreviated it, tudy, informed the starter OF
the Carondelet Street Line, our friend Lang,
to wit; that when the Company discharged
the black mailist who commands the honest
mule of car sixteen from the further exer-
else of his important authority he, tudy,
would foot, in prevailing piastres, the entire
score of the broken gate.
But the obnoxious mailist still animalizes
car 16, Carondelet Street Line, and honest
mule expresses no Indignation; and tudenary
doesn't go to the captains office and settle.
This may be relied on as the latest.