Morning Star

Narrow Escape. As the cars of the mail pilot line were coming in on Sunday morning, says a Philadelphia paper, the engineer saw, a short way ahead, two horses and a sled on the track. He supposed that as it was a crossing place, they were going forward, so he did not reverse his engine. On approaching, however, it was ascertained that all were still. It was too late to stop, and the wheels of the engine came in violent contact with the sled loaded with corn-stalks in which were three men drunk and asleep. The sled was knocked into the air nearly twenty feet. and the occupants alighted on a snow bank. No injury was sustained by man or beast.