The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-04-23
OCCASIONALS.
ON AND OFF THE RAIL.
BY FoGY.

said good-by at our journeys end
You may wonder, kind reader, what wa
the object of our trip. Remembering
that it was occasioned by the receipt ot
telegram, your curiosity to know may
have deepened into desire if not intc
anxiety. 1t was sad errand on which
We went; one of the shafts of the grim
remorseless, unerring archer who sends
his arrows about with apparent indiffer
enee and want of aim, had smitten down
an only sister, the last but one of fam.
lily of six, and we were called to assist
in the lamentable but precious funeral
rites. She left family of five who
deeply bewail the loss of a wife and
mother whose lasting absence they must
each succeeding day more intensely and
sorrowingly realize. A little church
will look in vain for one of its brightest
lights and community mourn the tax
ing away of the dispenser of benefac-
tions and blessings simple and unosten-
tatious, but too rich and precious even
to be forgotten. Peace to her ashes,
and may the author of all good raise up
Others to take her place in the Christian
and social circle.
The demands of business could no
longer be resisted and it was time to re-
turn to our Western home. One morn
ing the stage drove up to the front gate
while we were hastily partaking of
breakfast in anticipation of its arrival.
We spoke volumes in few moments,
promised to write, shook hands, said
farewell, hustled abroad and were gone.
1t had rained during the night, the sky
was overcast and sullen, there was a raw
breeze and we looked for little pleasure
in the road to Lockport. Not forgetting,
as we doubtless never shall forget, the
rOughing it when we came, we had, as
we hoped, determined to return by an
other and usually better route. Our fell
low passengers were few and mostly un.
known to Us, and we soon fell into q mo-
notonous silence. The road makes a
Tightangle quite frequently and traverses
two sides of nearly every farm which it
passes. When we had been on the way
some time, perhaps reached half way,
nature overhead changed her mood
from sullenness to sadness and went
cold, disagreeable tears; but being shut
IN by a tarpaulin covering, we little
needed her freaks and pushed TRANQUILITY
on At one point we noticed a little
ahead a young man standing by the
roadside, saehel in hand, watchful and
expectant. He thought to ride to the
city with us, but we had passengers
enough and the driver loosely refused
his request. He was disappointed evi-
IDENTITY, and I could bat think that he
might thus be prevented from fulfilling
some important engagement. We were
jogging along leisurely when on reach
ing more stony portion of the road,
the of, forward wheel struck a boulder
3 loud crack was heard and the off side
OF the wagon-box dropped to an alarm
ing depth. Ihad just been noticing the
neat, strong, stone fences and the hard
heads Of which they were in part built
remembering the geological theory Of
their being brought to their present To-
cality by q glacial "drift, and musine
~ to from what particular rocky ledge
4hey had come; when my scientific rn-
limitations were thus abruptly interrupt
ed and my thoughts suddenly brought
down TO less exalted themes. We men
hal to dismount and aid in repairing
damages. was glad that the freak had
not happened on my side Of the vehicle,
as it would have been charged to my
ponderosity; but when it was found
necessary to use lever for raising the
box 70 its normal position, my 22O
pounds eame just in play, and I was not
nahamed Of my solidisy nor Of the hearty