The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-27
tFrom Ludlow Gazette. ]
"Mislaid -

We gave notice last week that j. Bennett
| Anderson would lecture in town Saturday
night. Saturday morning hand-bills were
| thrown about town, that ~. Bennett An
derson had been mislaid," chs lecture
postponed" ETC., etc. The next we heard
Of the matter was that two very respecta-
| bic young men belonging to the /. o. G. T.
had gone to Rutland to bring this man An.
derson over with team. Saturday was a
bad day; Marchy in the extreme, and snow
enough TO fill breeze. The young men
arrived in Rutland all right and being
temperance men wanted to stop at first
class temperance house, so drove up to the
Bardwell. John Cramton used them
well, and in due time packed them all
three, the two young men and j. Bennett
Anderson, off for Ludlow. We will say
that all were temperance men and belonged
to the I. o. G. T. 1t was dark, as it is apt
| to be when there is snow on the ground
but they done well enough until they ar
rived at East Clarendon, when they took
the railroad and drove on short distance
when light hove in sight. "By crackey,"
said the driver, " if there amt the full
moon !" "No it amt, said his companion,
'full moon is not in order now." "By
crackey," said the driver, "you strike a
match while look in my diary and see
about that moon" While they were fun
bling their pockets for match and diary.
they heard a whistle; they had about ie
seconds to "climb,' and they "climbed,"
when the full moon went by them and
train of cars followed. "Well," says An
derson, ''mislad last night, and mscarried
tonight" They concluded to take the
| highway, and reached Cuttingsville, where
they remained till Sunday morning, when
they started for this place. They found
snow drift over in Mt. Holley, undertook
to climb it, and found it so steep that they
| fell out over backward. The humorous
Anderson here remarked, "mislaid again. 1"
They concluded to flank that snow DRIFT,
loaded up again and came along Soon
| they drove on to the side of another snow
DRIFT and were all mislaid. In due time
they arrived in town. We will not saw
how many times j. Bennett Anderson was
mislaid, but we believe it was seven, and
miscarried once in getting to Ludlow. The
livery men found the sleigh little dam
aged-the wood of one runner broke in
four places, every knee on one side and
the cross pieces broke. They did not know
whert they did this, although the cutter
struck hard enough at some time to bend
the braces out of shape. 1t is supposed,
however, that this was done when thew dis
covered that the head light of an engine
was in full moon.
The engineer, when he saw this team at
East Clarendon, shut off steam and set the
air brakes. ''Drunk," says his fireman.
As the engine past them, Sal" Pratt says,
''sorry for them fellows, bad night for men
to be out drunk" When we informed him
they were temperance men-al sober-he
said, 81 wonder if that amt the way with
this rum business, about one-quarter that
is laid to rum is rum, and the rest is poor
Judgment. But" he continued, sit it had
not been for those air brakes there would
have been a shower of flesh over there
equal to that of Kentucky"
No one thinks of calling these young
men drunk : yet when they had "kitchen
funk" up on the hill last fall and young
man tipped over and broke his wagon, 1t
was said that he was drunk. The conun-
drum of the town now is if these young
men had not met train when would they
have found out they were ON the railroad
N. B.-If we have neglected to say that
these young men are temperance men, We
wieh it SO understood.