The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-13
CAICHI>G A TRAIN.
How an Alabama Man Tried 1t With Dubious
Success.

Success.
The following amusing incident, which
happened few days ago, will show
wherein ''vaulting ambition o'erleaped
itself and fell on the other side" An
influential voter, MI. R., from pre-
cIuct in this county, was III the city
few days ago on business, when he fell
into the hands of jXJa-Warder, who
for som time past has been looking with
longing eyes upon several fat municipal
offices. The political aspirant, after
treating Mr.. Il. several times, proposed
game OF ten.ptns, winch was ac-
cepted. but tie political aspirant
managed 10 let his country
frienu beat him in the games, and
otherwise made the evening SO pleasant
| that his Trend missed the O'Clock ac-
| cummOdation train, and so time passed
until near time tor the IL o'clock mail
train to leave, and then the trouble be-
gan. Mr.. r. had a bundle of sToyr-pipe
and a jar of oysters to take home, and,
feeling tired alter the severe exercise OF
five hours at ten-pns, he sprang into
| cab and told the driver to drive rapidly
to the Mobile s. Onio train. Oh they
sped, but when halfway to the depot
| they suddenly remembered that the train
| left from the New Orleans depot at the
| foot OF GoYernm street; so they
turned down St. Louis street, and just
as they got to Commerce street they saw
the tram coming slowly by.
Mr.. r sprang out, and, with jar OF
oysters and bundle of stoVepipe under
his arm, he grasped the nan, rail- OF
car and scrambled aboard the moving
train all breathless and bruised. He
was about comfortably seated in car
when he discovered that he had gotten
aboard the wrong train and was on his
way 10 Montgomery. AT this moment
the train was at the outs kirts of the city
and rapidly increasing its speed. There
was nothing left for Mr.. Il. to do but to
gather up his oysters and stovepipe,
rush out on the platform, and jump of
He did so, and as he landed in tue marst
he went knec-ieep into the mud
and water - oysters, stoyeplpt
and all. BY extraordinary effort ne
succeeded in extricating himself from
the entangling II fldence of marsh-Weed
and the soft embrace OF the mud ina
forms the happy abode of swamp moe
casins, alligators and butlfrogs, just IL
!, time to see the Mobile s. OHIO tram com
ing toward him arount the curve. IL!
Gathered himself for another desperate
effort, and succeeded oAce more IN get
ting aboard the train, TINS time the rlgh
one, Pretty soon the conductor cams
along and Informed him that his was /
!, way station, and it was impossible 70
= that express mail train to stop there.
Here was another dilemma, but beini
5 determined to get nome, when The traiI
got 10 Whistle he went forward TO i'll
= duce the engineer to stop az his station
All his powers OF argument and pei
suasIon we're IN vain, SO X said:
"You are forbi den to run faster thar
. tx miles an hour over frogs an
ii switches, and when you come down Il
hat speed in passing my house viii
lump off in the sand bank"
y SO he got out on the platform Of tht
). car and made leap, but the momentum
= OF the train threw his heels up, and IL
went into the sand bank head foremost
# When he picked himself up he had on
, leg through joint OF stovepipe, a
- oyster in the lett ear, his eye
full of sand, and his hair
" matted mass of oysters and saud
. and, worst Of all, the tran had come
y Il full atop TWO hundred yards beyon
'e o cool down a hot-box. r. says le ha
:, leysters planted for fifty ieet along ths