The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-05

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raj lodges Of Knights of PstiliassfNe are ,al.
Knightsl were said to be discussing the pro-
prlefy Of goiH2 en- masse, and il, was stated
with great accuracy Of authority that Go
vernon Walker hod said confidentialIy to Co
lionel Owens that ii ever there was public
occasion into which he felt like throwing the
weight Of official and personal favor il was
this excursion. The city of Petersburg was
represented 10 fe much agitated over the
matter, and 100 was the least we could pu,
the excursiOnists OF that city at. Et was true
oiir tickets on sale at the stores were
not going off, but this was attributed
to the lack OF energy on the part of the
storekeepers, who, some of the boys with
some bitterness remarked, "eoud have
sold them If they bad tried" We know
better than this now.
| TIE STARTING DAY. ~,
But take everything as 1t came We were in
fine spirits, and Saturdays dawn found us ey-
ultantly crying Liberty or Death." Atnoon.
with the remembrance of our contract hang
ing over us, we cried for Liberty. and at the
hour for staftiBg we uttered united wall
for Death. During the day the weather had
turned cold, and our tickets at the stores
were still there. Things began to look
gloomy, but we all assembled at the ticket
Office abUut-5 o'clock with comparatively
cheerful faces. jim mounted the stool and
commenced selling tickets, or rather would
have commenced If anybody had come up.'
Most of us We're posted on the sidewalk,
straining our eyes anxiously up and down
Broad street. Every approaching hack be-,
came al object of interest, and man with
u carpet-bag aroused tbe most intense feel
| hot h. IL,
and not a select few should enjoy themselves
on our excursion led lis to do citizens some
injustice. \ hack drove up with two
citizens, and only one got out to
60. The remaining traveller was in.
slautly denounced as mean-sprited sneak.
One case remember in particular, where the
one who remained told bis companion that
he was fool for going. don't think ever
heard such maledictions US were launched
after that man. :
| THE "JARGE CROWD FROM PETERSBURG"
| Towards lalflast 6 the affair became DIES.
perate. Our hopes were now centred Oh the
large crowd to come from, Petersburg, anu
for which he had, at great expense sent two
omnbusses to the depot. Should that full
Us, starvation stared us in the face. At Inst
the omnibusses were seen Approaching.
and drove up, and the large crowd gOi
out. lie was dressed iu Il iincu dus-
ter and straw hat, and refused. to pa,
his omnibus fare from the Petersburg
depot. This was Notwithstanding. This
closed all our hopes, and nothing was now
left but to prepare tor the funeral. Charlie
was appointed 4 committee to wait on Mr..
Perry. tile general superintendent, aud see
Whit tcrnfs-we rould surrender OHIO car
range" with him. We gathered mournfully
IN the ticket ofiire to await the terlis Of ciptll-
lation. II. said with hollow hugh that
"tl.crc was one hundred doll,irS worth OF
fun in the thing anyhow" Billysremarked
with much asperlty that he,s,kpew ii
hundred places where he could yet more fun
for u hundred dollars than this. We all began
yciouslv, Us Eve had been betrayed into the
thing, especially that Que who had beguiled
lis by repeating the la.er-bccr iH,ls story
about the 32J. ...
"ARRASGISG' WITH SUPERINTENDENT FERRY,
Presently Charlie came back, and we
swarmcd around him.
Charlie W ell, Mr. Perry SAYS il will be
all right. Everybody frightened up.I All
you have to do is TO give him ull the money
you have taken in--
Billy: That's fair.
Jim Oh. thought PER-, would u" the
right thing.
| H.: Somehow | always liked that fellow.
Charlie (coutinungl-a brip. The other
S42l around Monday morning.
Billy :Oh HI.
jim: Well, this is downright burglary.
H.: Oh my poor family. ... ...
Chorus l'y the stockholders "All now i
lost"
| About the closing notes Of the chorus
jim scrambled with much agility off the
ticket-Stucl. SAYING "There he comes now
And inaminutc Superintendent Perry p)kcd
his head around the door and ramc bearing
La double-barreled gun, which he stood
against the casb-drawer. That settled tim
matter. Everything was arranged.' {.
.. TIRE DEPARTURE. - .,laa
In five minutes the train was TO start.
Jim, plucky to the last, said he would go
with it. Thp other three all proposed to go
home and explain TO their wives how il was
that no new bonnets nor new carpets zone
was already promised) nor new anything else
could be had off that excursion. As the
train moved off II. and Charlie sang with
much feeling that plaintive duet, "Pllt me
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platform to Billy, who was sitting on the
curb-stone buried in thought:
"Bill, amt you going TO suppfr?"
"Suppef! supper The ID; give me
arsenic" :,
| INCIDENTS ALONG THE Route. n
All the way up Jim was figuring up on
paper how to make $120 add up SO that it
would he 1925. He found much difficulty;
| h,k I fod b.lf{ hp
Franklin Stearns, or Corc0ran, or A. T.
Stewart, or Astor, they might help him to
add It I'D SO that we could pull through. He
remarked rem flat if he didn't have any more
sense than had it wouldn't make much diff
ference whether we "pulled through" or
not. / reapsed into silence. Later in the
tourney went in IL front car and found Su-
perintendent Perry asleep. Iwent back and
suggested to Jim that we could kill bim and
then swear we had paid him all. Jim was
pleased with the, idea, but said he had never
seen anything like 1t In the Sunday-School
books, and he ielt doubtful as TO It's morality.
HOW WE MIGHT HAVE SUCCEEDED. -
rot out at Stalnton with a friend, and
when we got to bed / said: ,
Major, what did you leave your peaceful
hon,e and come on this excursion and lose
your sleep and get bumped about and set
full of dust for!
because bad free ticket" be said.
thought saw my way now to some in.
formation, and said: s.
"Wel, why didn't all those people that
staid at homo come z ,.,... -
"Beca.lss they didn't lrye amy free
ticket" ...
went TO sleep -t
CANE TO THE Last. ne ft- rf
Monday morning Jim cauie along with his