Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-10-25
AN EX-SENATOR LEFT.
Ths Psrplexing consequences Of stepping
for q Drink at French Railway
Station.


nenn Pistt says that a Eoo{ story IA
told OF ex-senator Cattall, and relates It
a. follows:
He was on his way from Liverpool 10
London, an escort for his niece, who had
Just LANDED. a stranger 10 strange land.
One Who tries tirst-class carriaPe on a
railway In Europe Is ANNOYED 10 tind that
no provision Ia made for the vaHous
warts Of humanity while travelling. Some
stV rid funkles In the United STATES call
ORR cars carriages. Here they are IN fact
carriages, shaped % such, and abo1 M
.neonvenlent The ex-senator, after
being locked lp and put upon his passage
at the rnies OF sixty miles an hour.
found, among other wants affecting his
Senatorial corpus, desire for a drink.
1t struck the Senator that II he did to'
get that drink he would most rertaltly
die. To avoid this national calamlty. at
ihe first stopping, where they were pto
missed five minutes, he opened the doorbf
his carriage as the train slowed up, aud
making a hying leap, ran into the restah
rant and ordered gin and water.
As the fair girl Of thls Mneby Junction
hended him the Intoxicating beverate
he fixed his eyes on the end carriage tf
the train aud drank. As the train df
not move. he ordered brandy and wate1,
and, still gazing, sent that down atttr
the gin. The dav was warm. the eat
rlage crowded aud dusty, and IS the trail
did not start, the thirstv Senator serr
down another glass, and then raying for
! all, walked out 10 an emotion made up
OF disgust and atoHishment. The car
riages, five In number, were yet motion,
less upon the track, but there was nc
locomotive attached, nor any passengers
shout, In or out, and the stotlon waa az
quiet as our senatorial fog hank half an
/ nour after adjournment. Where's The
London express Z" hastily asked the
American politician. "Gone these ter
| minutes responded a railroad official
The honorable gentleman. while refresh
ing, anchored to five carriages that hlat
been "shunted," as they saw there, swift, n
ed oil, as we term II. and his fair ME ce
without money, without tickets, whirl eI
away toward London, W here she was a n 7
feet stranger. The ex-Senator's tirst & N
pulse was to swear his second. tn retn III
and get blind drunk his last, and the n,
be acted on, was 10 telegraph to all hi
friends in London to hurry 10 the tn III
and rescue Miss G. Then he sat down Il
waiting for the next train. that came RI
hour later. On the arrival of the expr Is
in London all the ex-Senator's frieA
met him in the station. Their name /
legion. There were private carriage es
public hacks, hansons and dog carts PlnC
drags, but no Miss @ could be fennd, fo
the good and sufficient reason that sht
was not there. Advised by the guard
she had waited OF the next station /,
await her thirsty uncle. Unfortunately
when affairs get ont of gear in this ws,
there is no end to the tangle. The tele
gram TO the Senator. informing him o
the whereabouts of his nelce, arrived on
minute amer be had left, so he kept on Il
London, and spent the night In going u
house after house In search Of his miss
ing niece. We suppose the report to b,
exaggerated. but II Is said that after six
teen different efforts he succeeded in fnd
ing the young lady, very much faiguet
and terribly alarmed.