1 The Very Latest —All the Way
' from Brownsville. —" Well, I hope I
may die, Pomp, ef I kin underslau’
I all dis fuss de people are kicking up
'bout de new Georges Crick railroad
an’ de crossin' at Cumberland. Does
' you know anything ’bout it, Pomp ?"
1 “Yes, Caesar, I does. I tuk in de
sityashun at a glance. Its dis way,
1 you see : De new road was builded
1 olar down from Cony up to Cumber
lan’ an' when it got as far as de Balti
' more and Ohio -ailroad dar it was
stuck, for 'fore God, Caesar, dar was
! a passumeum car standin' thar wid
’bout two tons of stone piled up un
aer it an' four or six, seben or eleben
1 men wid hard fists standin' thar to
gard it. Den de new road tuk an
1 appeal, whatever dat is, to de high
' cort and de judge says ‘go ’head wid
dat crossin’, Mister Lubridge,’ but de
j B. & O. sed ‘I should smile if he
I does,' and dey tuk an appeal an’ de
judge he got stuck, but he was in
winoihle wid de new road an' 'elated
]in fabor. Well de planks or Bords
jof Public works, 1 forgot which dey
i j are called, were called in an’ Mister
. | Keelin' do '(roller obde State, he says
, ’go 'head, Mister Lubridge, ’ an’ Mis
ter Comton he says ‘hole up, Mister
| Lubridge,’ an’ de Gubner, Mister
llamiltan, says ‘I am completely com
pluded, an' I don’t care a continental
who gits It prowideJ dey will distri
bute my pamplets thro' de State whar
. de subsickdized press am.' Now all
dis time ;',e miners want to know whar
dey stan’. De Pennsiloumvany road
: sez dey can settle it by de new road
, mailin' a connection wid dem, an' de
. Cbespeak cnnawl sez “no" all de time
I’ to dat preposition an'de Cumh'rland
Times man be (inks he can settle it,
1 an' de hole truf of it is dat I don’t
kno’ how it is myself."
j Caesar was satisfied wth the ex
■ planation.
