Inter-State Commerce Bill Items.
Reading edition
The lightning-express train on the Illinois and Iowa route came in last night, three weeks overdue. The report that it had ivy and moss growing on the driving-wheels of its locomotive is not true.
J. Arthur Simpson, city agent of the Topeka and Tophet short line, who has been visiting Joe Bedee and Jake Aull in Omaha for a week, returned home yesterday with a beautiful seal-brown taste in his mouth.
Projectors of railway enterprises are cordially invited to come to Chicago, and to investigate our inducements. We have in the midst of us lands, riparian privileges, terminal facilities, a city council, and other advantages which are for sale at preposterously low figures. Before going elsewhere, give us a trial.
The community will be deeply shocked to hear that by the explosion of his lantern on train No. 11, last evening, genial Conductor Jerseybingle lost the left lobe of his whiskers; also the distinguished wart he had always worn on his right nostril. For some inexplicable reason, the Posey Grand Trunk line seems to have had a long run of bad luck lately.
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