The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-02-19
CAPTURED CAR FACTS.
The Well-Loaded Railway News
Train of the BazoO in
On Time.

| An average of two hundred yards OF
muslin are cut into strips fer bandages
every month for use at the railway hOspi-
/ tai here.
| An "extra" brakeman on a south K. &
| I. rain, Robert Lindsay, conductor, had a
! finger crushed yesterday afternoon while
attending To his duties. He was taken TO
/ the hospital. He lives at Windsor, and his
/ name was not ascertained.
The railroad bows are talking Of max
ing a Lively and united effort To place =
| W. Maddox In the office of city collector at
The next election Mr.. Maddox was for
merly the city assessor. He is now the eff
/ cient way bill register clerk Of the K. & l.
road
james VI. Fleming, r.ilroad cOnduc-
! tor, is an aspirant Tor aldermanic honors in
| the Third ward The man that fills Alder
man RickmiE'S place. when ne is elected
mayor, will have to be 81 right good one
/ Hickman does.
Yesterday was "pay day" with the
/ boys of the Missouri Pacific railway at this
place. At j. &. Rickmau's, Spray Il Sons,
and other trading places in East SedalIa,
The ch'Ek of silver and the rustic OF green
backs IN settling accounts was prominent
feature OF the days business.
1t is published that jaw Gould wears
very plain suspenders. A man worth $780,
/ 100000 ctn 90 without suspenders alto-
&c! her II he wants To, simply substituting
a piece of lath-yarn He IL not compelled
| to take his coat off To- earn a living
brakes Travellers Magazine.
Ben Blythe has gone To Kentucky on
business, and will take pleasure trip
through the southern states till March.
Jim L. ffler, tie popular brakeman, takes
his place as acting conductor until his re-
turn, 1t has been long since Ben has taken
holiday, and he will enjoy the trip
| Warsaw Times
HOSPITAL ARRIVALS
Yesterday tire. new arrivals were regis
tered at the railw " hospital here.
Richardson Patterson, section laborer at
| Ninits mumps.
Michael WEIGH, section lsborer, Vinita;
severe cold and cough.
Harry McManus, laborer at Wellington
| Mo. On the morning OF st. Valentines day
he Was laying steel rail on n trestle, and
the ties being covered with ice and sleet
! his foot slipped and he fell through the
trestle To the rocks below, breaking tive
ribs on his right side.
ABLE TO STAND 1T.
III r-gret to iuform you" said railroad
superintendent To one Of the conductors OF
The line, that after the first of the month
all salaries will be reduced 10 per cent"
"Ah, indeed, replied the conductor in.
| Al tiaranfly and tuNII c2laRy h.a C11h
/ iected To the same reduction ?"
"Certsinly"
"Well, feel sorry for the engineers and
We can stand it, ell, old boy?" and tbs
lishthearted puncher OF tickets pOked the
Superintendent playfully in the ribs
Philadelphia Call.
sTINGY MAN.
Talking about stingy men," said the
conductor of Pullman car as he sat In
| the smoking room while the porter was do
| ing the work, "the worst specimen / ever
saw cane out of Detroit the other night.
/ His wife, great lat woman, was with him,
and they took seats in the ordinary coach.
| Pretty soon he came back, selected berth
/ "A single upper-and thea went to his
vile Pretty soon he returned and went
| To bel alone. About an hour after this |
was going through the train when the fat
woman stopped me and wanted TO know ii
| had any empty bertbs. / told her there
were plenty OF them when she brought her
| lips IOget her like a wise and clenched her
ia. hands as she said Il thought as much
Here take my bag with you, and make me
| up the best section you have. I'll he back
as soon as the train stops again You see
that selfish cuss OF husband of hers had
told her there wasn't an empty berth left
but he had found chance to share bunk
with an acquaintance. He was the msddest
man you ever saw next morning, when he
had to hand over $500 fer her nights
RESI-, in addition to the $3.50 he had paid
for is own. He gave the porter only two
cents for shining his shoes, and scowled SO
the porter didn't dare to kick for more
Oh, but he as a tough one"
HE GOT THAR
| Going down the great Jackson route from
Grenada, Miss, regular hOmespun native
of the state entered the sleeping car and
paid for berth. He had never been In
side OF car of the kind, and everything
astonished him. When the porter came to
make up the beds | saw the Batiye was
Sreatly perpieXed, out as ne made no OIL
rect appeal, it wasn't my duty to post him
! He was the first one to make preparations
for bed. He glanced anxiously around
pulled off one boot, and then took
rest for five minutes. When the
other boot came off be had solved the
problem, Pushing his bosot under the berth
he started for the rear platform, and moth
| ing was heard from him for about ten min
utes. Then he put his head into the door
and called out
Gall you'uns in thar, look out, for I'm
coming"
! And come he did. He had disrobed while
standing on the platform, made bundle o.
coat, vest and pants, and as he shot into
bed after run up the isle be gurgleC
1 out
"Old Mississippi may be little slow bu
she alias gets thar jrsI the same "-Ex.
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