Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-03-22

A BRUSH BETWEEN RAILROAD MEN
AND BUsHWHACKERS.

Trninmen who Saved the Ladies Of a
Good Old Southern Family From a
band of Marsuders-Comedy Contrib
utcd by q Negro Servant and Fireman.
All day the train had been waiting at
Shady Rill for orders Once in awhile the
engineer would ask the brakeman 20 cut
him of, and he would race up and down
the track in order to pump her. " for
there were no injectors on the locomotives
In 1869 All day the conductor sat in tho
caboosc, where an operator was working,
expecting orders to back away, for the
Johnnies were getting the better of the
anks. Once, when the engineer went
down the track into the pine forest he saw
band Of bushwhackers riding leisurcly
through the wood in the direction of Shady
Rill. These were not men Of the north
nor yet of the south. They were maraud-
ers, rhurderers, Incorporating as soldiers
and equally dangerous to each army. The
engineer told the conductor what he had
seen, and, taking u couple of muslets and
one of the brakemcn, the captain put
himself into the wood tank and set out TO
hunt tho bandits. It was an odd way to
go to work, but tho conductor considered
1t better than remaining at the run to be
pluDdored, If not murdered by the band.
The bushmen must have heard them com
ing, Tor they were sitting on their horses
AViii az a'atEes' when the Old wood burner
came creeping round curve, her links
and chains rafting like drav on cobble-
S'oi,es'
Halt" cried the leader, and the en-
gneer hooked her over.
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mai
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"P''' 'He PooPio oi 'he hor'h' hese mon
WIZ oUi,'o ihVo tne country inc women
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."c pr"pcrey Vi the people ana lay 'he couh-
3 waste 60 now "heh uho conductor
ln'eu MS hao III 'he presence Oh 'he ven
eI"pie onli'e anu her PROUD uaughter' me
women ureW themselves up ana looked
uoWn upon MN from 'he Verahda,
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YOU NJ = NIL us an 'heS an
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=, ,e,'nVr are lhcsc soiulerS LneS arc
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anu hlollcht ia'cr an o!u "h''e haireu
"on." o"iiic i"lii''s ro'ihu ,nc mousse ro!leu
up '''o NeEnilua Steps ana Threw hersell at
'nu reeV VI her young mistress;
uc L.'Wu' huhey' she hoWieu' oe
"o"o io' ~ iui YANKEES lought uey
" "H pcen our ioihs' vase nc! u"h nan Oh
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an ~ uc i'u"u' ue! ou'i TAX ne hear' OUT