Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1869 — Page 1 Miscellaneous Column 3 [MISCELLANEOUS]

I was greatly surprised, when I got on the-platform, at being asked for xpy card by a very officious person; still more so, on receiving a magistrate’s summons in the mornthg. The officious person deposed that he was the Secretary of the Anti-tobacco Alliance, and applied for a conviction against the undersigned, under one of the by-laws of the company, for smoking in a railway carriage, the property of the D. E. F. G. Company, contrary to their regulations. He declared to have seen me (only think I) —me leaning out of the carriage as it came into theChelchester Station, smoking a meerschaum pipe! The guard gave evidence that the carriage certainly smelled very strongly of tobacco on arriving at Ohelchester, ana that I was the only first class passenger. A meerschaum pipe, answering the offioioua person’s description, was found on my person. Case was clear. Fined forty shillings and costs. Nay, more: the case of smoking in a railway carriage has been gibbeted at all the stations on the line—where I am hung up as a caution and warning to the British public, in a solemn black frame, with my name and address, and the amount of the penalty enforced, at fall length 1 It would have been useless to attempt to dispnte the case before the magistrates. It is something to have set one’s self right with the public.— Chambers' Journal.