Volume 100 — UP-TO-TIME TABLE, FROM THE NORTH.
Reading edition
Morning Fast. Mineral and Parl. General Express. Traffic and Even. Mail.
Edinburgh (Waverley Station) 7 A.M. to 9.30 11 A.M. A Noon F 9 P.M. L
Carlisle 12.15 ... ... ...
Hawick 4.30 B ... ...
Galashiels 9.45 ... 2.15 G 1 A.M. M
Motherwell{ 1 P.M. (Stopped by riot) }4 P.M. C 3.19 H 3.20 N
St. Margaret's Works 3.30 5 D ... ...
Perth 9.45 A.M. ... 11.26 I ...
Glasgow 12.30 P.M. ... ... ...
Aberfeldy 6.13 ... ... ...
Dundee 1.12 A.M. 3 A.M.to 9 ... ...
Inverness 9.23 ... 3.5 J ...
Aberdeen 11.6 7 P.M.? E 1 A.M. K O
A—Takes delayed pig-iron and third-class passengers. B—Half of train stops here through breaking an axle-pin. C—Passengers, for protection, get under seats of carriages. D—Stops for repairs. E—Having had a collision at the junction for Aberfeldy, will come on, if there are any passengers equal to finishing the journey.
F—Starts under the management of a Director, and, owing to a misunderstanding, dashes off to Aberdeen, without stopping. G—Doesn't stop, but knocks over a station-master. H—Is pelted as it tears through the station by ex-employés. I—Knocks over another station-master. J—Meets a pilot-engine, which it splits in half. K—Goes at full speed through the end of the terminus, depositing the passengers in a heap in the middle of the town.
L—Train starts, made up of horse-boxes and luggage-vans full of three weeks' arrears of parcels, first-class carriages, Post-office van, fifty coal-trucks, and a wild beast show, the Directors wishing to make up for lost time. M—Train breaking down here, mail and passengers only forwarded. N—Train attacked by rioters. Pitched battle with the passengers. O—Telegram from Motherwell saying, that owing to police intervention, train starts the day after to-morrow.
ARBITRATION.
THE SEAL. "BELAY, YOU TWO JOHNNIES!—AVAST QUARRELLING! GIVE ME A 'CLOSE-TIME,' AND LEAVE THE 'SEA' AN OPEN QUESTION."
SHOCKING!
Fair New-Englander (spending the Winter in the Old Country). "OH, WHAT A LOVE! AND IS IT THE FIRST YOU HAVE SHOT THIS YEAR, CAPTAIN RASPER?"