The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-01 00:00:00

PIGEON SHOOTING.

On Saturday there wa.sa very numerous attend-
ance at the Gun Club-ground, Wormwood Scrubbs,
when 36 noblemen and gentlemen contended in the
Oaks Handicap of £5 each on the usual conditions.
Captain E. C. Nevile, Mr. Alfred Hardy, and Mr.
T. Turner Farley scored all six birds, and in shoot-
ing off the ties Captain E. C. Nevile won the first
prize (£,120), Mr. Alfred Hardy the second (£45),
and Mr. T. Turner Farley the third (115). Thirty-
nine gentlemen afterwards shot a sweepstakes, when
Captain Godman took the first share, £25, and Mr.
F. H. Lovell the rest, £l4. _

At the New Red-house, Fulham, on Saturday,
54 members shot a £5 free handicap at five birds
each, when there were ten tied, the result being that
Viscount Andover, M.P., who killed 17 birds in
succession, took the first prize, £l5O ; Mr. Wroth
Lethbridge, who killed 16 in succession, became
entitled to the second prize, £BO ; and Mr. Henry
Peters, who brought down 12 birds following, tak-
ing the third prize of £4O.

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PILICIe 4d.
STAMPED 51.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
The San Francisco .Alta of April 9th, in an article
on " Pacific Railroad matters" says :—This week
vile employes of the Overland Stage Company are
at work surveying a cut-off from the crossing of the
11:• it to a point 85 miles east, ani as soon as
the cer% reach the crossing, the stages will take this
cut-off i.,nd ;avoid the long detour rui Virginia city
entirely. ft is curlidently prelicted that the Cen-
tral Pacific will reach a point only 150 mites this
side of Salt Lake by the clot; of the present season,
and by the same time the Union Pacific wi'l have
reached a point only 170 miles east of Salt Lake,
naving a gap of about 330 miles to be closed in
1869. _ _ _

The amount of freight tak It from Springfield
on the Boston and Albany Railroad during April
last was 5,519,493 pounds. The receipts for freight
forwarded and received at the Springfield Station
of the Connecticut River Railroad during the same
month amounted to $30,680, au increase of 42. per
cent. over the same period in 1867 ; and the total
receipts for four months commencing January 1
were $106,167.
The New Haven and Northampton Railroad
have 75 men engaged in putting the finishing
touches to the Williamsburg extension of their
route, which will be completed by July 20.
The recently built Eastern railroad bridge at
Newburyport cost $275,000. It used up 176 tons
of iron and 290,000 feet of lumber, and its granite
piers came from BiddefOrk Maine. It is a truss
bridge, 1,296 feet long and 19 wide, and 18ft.
above low-water mark. _ _ _

The New York and New Haven Railroad asks

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the Legislature to allow them to increase their capi-
tal to the amount of $3,000,000. To relay the
road with steel rails, which will last ten times as

long as iron, will cost $1,000,000, iron bridges in
place of wood will cost $250,000, necessary work-
shops will cost $lOO,OOO, and to buy the land they
now lease in New York will require $1,000,000.
We learn by telegram from Chicago that at a
meeting of the Illinois Central Railway yesterday
a dividend of 5 per cent. payable in August, and
a stock bonus of $8 per $lOO, were declared, mak-
ing, with the dividend paid in February last, a
distribution for the year equal in value to 22 per
cent.
THE DENVER PACIFIC RAILROAD.—Governor
Evans, President of the Denver Pacific Railroad,
reports that the contracts for completing the entire
road from Cheyenne to Denver were let on April
27th.
HELP WANTED FROM CONGRESS.—The following
is a list of subsidies demanded by eleven companies
from the present Congress. The total is startling :
Subsidy Demanded.
Northern Pacific Railroad 560,000,000
Oregon branch of Pacific Railroad
Idaho, Oregon, and Puget Sound Railroad
International Pacific Railroad Line 19,000,000
Mississippi Levee, Railroad, ad.d Steamship 23,000,000
Improvement of the Illinois River 2,000,000
European and New York Steamship Line 8,500,000
Atlantic and Pacific Railroild
Louisiana \d M -issippi Levees

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Port Royal Railroad - 750,000
Union Pacific Railroad, Eastern division

Total 5268,250,000
ELECTION OF RAILROAD DIRECTORS.—At the
election for Directors of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati,
and St. Louis Railroad Company, held in Steuben-
ville, on Monday, May 6, the following gentlemen
were unanimously chosen :—Thomas L. Jewett, Jos.
Means, Robert Sherrard, Jas. Parke, Robt. Mears,
Steubenville ; George B. Roberts, Samuel T. Canby,
Wistar Morrig,Josiah Bacon, Philadelphia ; Chaun-
cey Dewey, Harrison County, 0. ; Robt. H. Nugen,
Tuscarawas County, 0. ; Joseph K. Johnston,
Coshocton County, 0. ; Geo. W. Adams, Muskin-
gum County, 0.
A GOOD EXAMPLE.—O n the Hudson River Rail-
road there is a flagman to every mile. By day or
night, after the passage of every train, every rod of
the track is walked over, and every rail, chair, and
tie is inspected.

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