Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-10-08

Dom Piatt snys that good story
Ii told of the ex-senator Cattell, aud
relates It as follows: "He was OIL his
way from Liverpool 10 London, an
escort for his niece, who had just
landed, n stranger in q strange land.
One who tries q first-class carriage,
or any class carriage, oil railway in
Europe Ia annoyed 10 ma that no
provision :s mado for tho various
wants of humanity while travelling.
Some stupid fiunkies in the United
States call our cars carriages. Here
they are in. fact carriages, shaped as
such, and about us inconvenient.
The ex-senator, after being locked In
and put upon his passage nt the rate
of sixty miles an hour, found, among
other wants affecting his Senatorial
! corpus, desire for drink. 1t
struck the Senator if lie did not get
that drink lie would most certainly
die. TO avoid this national calamity,
at the first stopping, where they were
promised five minutes, he opened the
door of his carriage az the train
slowed up, and making flying leap,
ran into the restaurant and ordered
gin and water. AS the fair girl OF
this Mugby junction handed linn the
Intoxicating beverage, he fixed his
eyes OH :hc end carriages of his train
aud drank. As tho train did not
move, he ordered brandy aud water,
and, still gazing, sent that down al
ter the gin. The day was warm, the
carriages crowded and dusty, aud as
the train did not start, the thirsty
Senator sent down another glass, AUD
then paying for all, walked out to al
emotion made up of disgust and
astonishment. The carriages, five
i'll number. were yet motionicss upoi
the track, but there was 10 iocotno
tive attached, nor ally passengers
about, lin or out, and the station wal
as quiet as our Senatorial Fog Bank
half an hour after adjournment
l'Wherc's the London express hasti
iy asked the astonisheu American
politician. Gone these ten minutes,
responded o railroad official. Th'
honorable gentleman, while refresh
ing. anchored to five carriages tha
had been 'shunied,' as they say here
switched of, as we term il, and hi
tair neicc, without money, withou
tickets, whirled away towards Lon
don, where She: was perfect stranger
The cx-Senator's first impulse was Il
swear; his second, TO return and &c
blind drunk /; his last, and the one Ia
acted on, was to telegraph all III
friends III London TO hurry to tina
train and rescue Miss Z. Then Ii
sat dawn in waiting for the mex
, train, that came an hour later. o.
The arrival OF the express i'll Loudo
all the cX-Scmator's friends met in tn
station. Their nauc is legion. Thcr
/. were private carriages, public hack
hansolns, ard dog-caris~ aud drag;
. but no Miss Z. could DO found, 10
) the good aud sufficient reason tha
5 she was not there. Advised by til
guard, she had waited at the mex
, station to await her thirsty uuci,
. Unfortunately, when affairs get ou
f of gear in this way there is no end
: the tansie. The telegraph TO the Sci
= ator Informing him OF the where
5 abouts OF his niece, arrived one mil
y ute after he left, SO lie kept Oh
S London, and spent the night in g0in
4 To house after house III search of Ii
| missing niece. We suppose the r.
port to be exaggerated, bu. it is sal
c that after sixteen different efforts 1
: succeeded i'll finding the young lad.
y very mnch fatigued and tcrribl
: alarmed"