The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-02-28

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4 flictsof evidence. The Injury occur
red thus, if it occurred at all, and
/ these facts are true, If anything In
the case is true. There IS no room
for a question as to the credibility of
I the witnesses who so testify, for the
plaintiff herself is the chief Of those
!. -Witaessess-99Ialb bis, plainly, was want
1 of. ordinary care, on her part, directly
contributing to the Injury, and In such
a state Of case the law is equally clear
that the plal1titf cannot recover. rr.-f
kdUnder such circumstances we can
mot hesitate 70 reverse the Judgment.
t7eJudgment reversed with costs,
| Caase re tIra fer new trial.
Railway enterprise on the PaeIflc
fedT ,siq 7l4 Coast. '-ni 7A f4Ht
II According to the California papers,
the ptessnt wear promises to be one
l of remarkable activity in railroad
in that section Of the coun-
|Itf5l The Central Pacific Railroad
Company intend, and are prepared to
push the line of their road three
hundred miles east of the summit
during the next twelve months,
making the aggregate length of the
track, by next January, about four
hundred anc FIVE miles. The COM
pany have organiz5d for this work
force of ten thousand laborers, and
will use one thousand mules and
horses. .Ifthe promise made is real
lied, there will remain about three
lhdndred and seventy miles more TO
reach Salt Lake, aud lromthat locality
about two hundred and thirty to Fort
Bridger. the objective point-in all
FIVE hundred miles Extraordinary
efforts will 10 lua4e to reach the Fort
as soon as it is reached from the other
side by the Union Pacific, as it is be-
lieved that the company which first
pierces the Utah basin viii control
the traffic Of the middle tier of
Rocky Mountain territories OF the
other enterprises, the San Francisco
Bulletin remarks:
1t is said further to be the inten-
ton of the successors of the Western
Pacific Railroad Company to resume
work on the railway from San Jose to
Sacramento via Stockton, at an early
day. The prosecution of this second
enterprise By the same parties who
have the Cent? Pacific in hand will
be a bold work. Connecting with it
at San Jose there is to be thirty miles
Of rail laid to Gilroy, southRard,
forming the FIRST section of line des-
tined ultimately to reach as far as
Los Angeles or San Diego, and to be
link in a southern trans-continental
road. Then positive promise is made
that the California Pacific, orValley 10
and Sacramento Railroad, sixty-two
miles long, will be completed and in
operation by next Fall. With that
will connect the Susc6l, Napa and
Calistoga Railroad, twelve miles of
which are already in operation; and
the Healdsburgh and Sonoma Valley
Railroad, the commencement of which
is promised for the ensuing Summer,
Some signs Of vitality are given by
the Company which secured from
Congress "a grant Of lands to aid in
the construction of railroad from
Marysville to Oregon. 1t has consol-
idated with the road from Marysville
to Roseville, looking to direct con-
neetion with the Central Pacific. No
intimations are given when the work
of constructing the first twenty mile
section north of Marysyille, or 0ro-
vile, will be commenced. The Ore
gon Central Road, which is to be con-
.structed by Oregonians and meet the
California ard Oregon at the State
boundary. is now receiving material
from the East, and will get to work
at an early day"
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REVENUE Observation-Disclosures
er Rollins, of the Internal Revenue