Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-03-02

all right, but I've railroaded too long to

"Did you try the Methodist 2" said.
"Now you're shouting" he said, with
some enthusiasm. mice road, eh ?"
Fast time and plenty of passengers.
Engines carry power of steam, and
steam gauge shows a hundred and
enough all the time. Lively road
when the conductor shouts "all aboard"
YOU can hear him to the next station.
Every train lamp shines like head
light. Stop.over checks given on all
through tickets passenger can drop off
the train as often as he likes, do the sta
ton two or three days and hop on the
next revival train that comes thunder
ing along. Good, whole-souled, COM
panionable conductors; amt a road in
the country where the passengers feel
more at home. No passes; every pas
senger pays full traffic rates for his tick
ct. Wesleyan-house air-brake on all
trains, too; pretty safe road, but didn't
ride over it yesterday"
| "Maybe you went to the Congrega-
tional Church 2" I said.
| popular road" said the brakeman,
Tan old road, too; one of the very old
est in the country. Good road-bed and
comfortable cars. Well managed road,
too; directors don't interfere with di-
| NlSlOu anu Jill O1uClSs
Roads mighty popular, but it's pretty
independent, too. See, didn't one Of
the division superintendent down East
discontinue one of the Oldest stations
on this line two or three years ago?
But it is mighty pleasant road to trav-
ell on. Always has such a splendid class
of passengers"
"Perhaps you tried the Baptist ?" I
guessed once more,
"Ah, ha !" said the brakeman, ''she's
a daisy, isn't she? River road beauti-
full curves; sweep around anything to
keep close to the river; but it's all steel
rail and rock ballast, single track all
the way and not side track from the
round house to the terminus. Takes
heaps of water to run it through; dou-
BILE tanks at every station, and there
isn't an engine in the shops that can
lpull pound or run a mile with less
than two gauges. But it runs through
lovely country; these river roads al
ways do; river on one side and hills on
the other, and it's steady climb up the
grade all the way till the run ends where
the fountainhead of the river begins.
Yes, sir, I'll take the river road every
time for lovely trip, sure connections
and good time, and no prairie dust blow
| = y
when the conductor came around fol
the tickets with little basket punch,
didn't ask him to pass me, but paid my
fare like little man-twenty-five cents
for an hours run and little concert by
the passengers thrown in. I tell you
Pilgrim, you take the river road wher
you want"
But Just here the long whistle from
the engine announced a station, and thu
brakeman hurried to the door, shout
ing:
"Zionsville! This train makes NJ
- stops between here and Indianapolis y
GOING FOR BRUIN-SEvEN IN Two
WEEKs.-During the past two week.
seven bears have been killed and cap
tured in East Rockingham, and in future
). we shall call David Boyers the "Davy
Crockett" of the Valley, as we think he
certainly deserves the title, having
made four bears bite the dust at foul
shots.
On February 4th, David Boyers, Geo
y Boyers, Geo. Faucet, and Harvey his
son, and Stephen Chapman, who live
. the Peaked Mountain for a fox hunt
and after being out for short time, in
stead of finding sport in fox chase
= were very much surprised and enthuset
at finding themselves suddenly con
fronted by a large she bear, who was
disputing the entrance to her den with
q the dogs. Mr.. D. Boyers stepped to The
q front with his shot gun, and dispatched
4 the mother bear with one shot, and
r Harvey Faucett on entering the den
i found three cubs, perhaps q month old
. which were taken home alive.
2 On Wednesday, the 18th, Dave and
Il Geo. Boyers, and Harvey Faucet, wen
q out again, and their dogs soon ran uf
q on three bears, one old one and two
cubs, about year old, which they foun(
in bed made of leaves, something sim
4 liar to hog bed. The old one thi!
d time, as before, stopped to fight the dogs
in order to give the cubs an opportunity
to get away, and while the fight wa
7 still in progress, David Boyers came ul
and brought her down with the first shot
n She was killed on what is known as thu
T Dividing Ridge. The CUBS were ther
. pursued, and one of them killed il
q Runkle's Gap and the other on Mile
Mountain. One Of the bears, which
weighed about 12O lbs. net, was bfough
q to town and sold to Mr.. Ludrick Hirsh
q and quite number of our citizens hav'
been disregarding Lent by taking beal
meat.-Rockinghdna Register.
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