Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-20
OUT OF LUCK.
The Disappointments Of . worthy
Man.

We met q friend yesterday who had
just got in from q long journey from
Rush Lake, Utah Territory. We were
somewhat surprised to see him, as the
last we bad heard OF him he was on his
way to Br.zil, where he was going to
run n of his Majesty's Dom Pedro)
locomotives on one OF the Government
roads in that empire. A desire to see
Salt Lake bad led him to switch of the
track at Ogden, and the consequences
was that after vainly seeking work he
had returned to Eureka in hopes that
he might get a chance to wheel a Stag.
pot, or any other place where cOlnpe-
teOcy and strength would b. appre-
ciated. We write about him simply
because his history is that OF thou.
sand men we meet every day. They
are the embodiment, the very incarna-
ton Of bad luck. He is a railroad en-
gineer by profession and of the
very best Of his class-sober, compe-
tent, industrious and independent
in the knowledge of his capabilities.
At the beginning OF the war he Ell.
listed at Cairo, and in the very first
battle had his leg torn TO pieces, and
was strapped to q table to have it am
Putated, when the Doctor recognized
him, and by the bestowal of q little
care saved the leg as sound as over
the only piece of good luck that he is
able to recall. After u six-months' to
dious lingering in the hospital, he was
returned, as cured, to his regiment,
SEM out on a accommodating party, and
got a Minnie ball through his lungs
and another in the neck. That settled
him for a year, and finally brought
him his discharge, magnificently
recOmpeDsed for his wounds by the
princely pension of eight dollars per
month. He followed the army down
to Chattanooga and volunteered to run
a supply train from that point out to
the front. He was captured by a gusr.
rilla force the first trip aud barely es-
capped hanging, but finally got away,
and after a weary march returned to
Nashville, where he stayed until
after the battle with Hoods army,
and the subsequent close of the
war. Since that time he has followed
his profession with his usual luck. 1t
was a sure thing that if he got u posi-
tlOD TIE TOdO eltn0T went IDtO Udflk-
ruptcy or the brotherhood ordered q
strike and he found himself out of q
job. Coming to this a some two
years ago., he went 10 running on the
Los Angeles and Santa Monica road.
The second trip over the road the en.
CINE run into a ditch and our hero
crawled out with a leg and arm broken
and otherwise demoralized. Another
six months in the hospital, and after
being discharged cured, a wandering
to and fro over the railroad lines al.
ways Q day too late. He camped
down on the Narrow Gauge last sum
iner in an inferior position, content to
await the promised ad vancement, but
just as the position WAS rendered him
the official that he had tied his for
tunes to quit the road and a favorite
stepped in and left him out in the cold.
After four months wandering he is
back here, willing, like hundreds of
other good men, to turn his hand to
anything, from running an engine to
wheeling Stag or ore or digging bitches.
Any one in want of an honest, indus
trious and unlucky fellow in any posi-.
ton whatever can hear OF a good man
by inquiring at this office.