The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-06-08
THE SOUTHERN TELEGRAPH
COMPANY.
An Able and Efficient Body Of Direc-
tors.
The Project Destined to be a Speedy
Success.

We mentioned some time since that books
for the subscription Of stock TO the Southern
Telegraph Company would be opened at
the Second National Bank in this city. In
consequence OF the sale Of the United States
Telegraph Company's lines TO the monopoly
North Of Louisville, IL was deemed by the
agents here, simple justice to the people,
until other arrangements could be made
with other opposition companies North, for
connection beyond Louisville and Cincinnati,
aud IN such manner as to prevent any
future swindling of the public by sales Of
lines to the existing monoPolies by either
the Southern or those companies with
which they might connect.
Such a contract has now been effected
with the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph
Company, TO connect with the Southern, %
at Cincinnati and during the period fixed
for the continuation Of this contract-which
is fifty years-it IS not possible for either
Company party thereto, to a5rogate By sale,
tease to, or consolidation NTH any Company
not aparty thereto, any Of the lines owned
or 10 be owned by either Company.
The books for subscription Of stock to this
company are now opened, and we would
call the attention Of our merchants, bank
ers, aud capitalists of Nashville, to the
Board Of Directors, all Of whom are well
known in our city, by our business men,
and are most of them men of capital, snd
enlarged business capacity and some are
practical telegraphers, during the past six
teen years, having commenced the business
in its infancy, and worked their way fro IN
messenger boy up.
As regards investment, nothing will pay
better than telegraph line reaching from
Cincinnati through Louisville, Nashville,
Memphis, Mobile and New Orleans. At a
meeting held in New York, January 81,
1866, 1--WE quote from the Telegraph, March
lst.), DR.. Norvin Green, Of Louisville states,
the net earnings of his com pany South
western Company, reaching from Louisville
to New Orleans--capital one million) was
three hundred and twenty thousand dollars
for the year 1865 and that too with about
one-half OF his communications cut off.
The Southern Telegraph Company with
halfthe stock capital, will get large por-
ton Of this business, and must, according
to DR.. Green's statement, pay from twenty
to forty per cent. annually, when the bust
ness is divided.
The Board OF Directors are
JG Boyle, President, Louisville.
E Huffman, VIM II DeGroye, Gel.
ger, Louisville.
VIZ Cornelius, Nashville.
FM Speed, George W Wicks, L Hyatt,
Louisville.
A B Reading, New Orleans.
M Wicks, Memphis.
Arthur Peter, Louisville.
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For fine Carte de Visites, or large Photo .
graphs, plain or elegantly colored, call at
GERS GALLERY,
may 29-lm AZ Union Street.
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SERIOUS AND PERHAPS FATAL ACCIDENT
1e1ltIGhF evening dDcuJ I'VE % tlJGhJ n W.
man named Mary Jane Scott, about twenty
years Of age, was run over By freight car
near the Louisville depot, and so severely
injured that it is believed her wounds will
prove fatal. She lives at her mothers on
Front street, opposite the Work-house, but
yesterday afternoon she was visiting some
Of her associates at house Of no enviable
repute, adjoining the switch, and while
there, imbibed too freely Of the ardent, and
in her intoxication concluded TO try the ex-
pertinent Of jumping cut the window, which
is nearly on a level with the street, on the
track, when a train was backing up. Her
Cypriaus tried to induce her to desist, but
she refused, and made the leap, and just as
she reached the ground she stumbled and
fell and before, in her inebriate condition,
she could rise, the cars struck her, nearly
severing her left arm, and bruising her so
severely that she can scarcely recover. No
blame is attached to the managers Of the
road.