Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

QullACN a. AtIlA, Iol., ICoAlCiIt vi
the Kentucky Central Railroad, died in
COvington on Sunday last.
The North Missouri Railroad Com
pany has commenced h erection of a
large depot near the Missouri river bridge,
opposite Kansas City.
Over fifty new bridges, to replace
temporary bridges on the Union Pacific
! RailrOad, have been built at Chicago, and
shipped and put up this season.
A significant item in connection
with the opening of the Pacific Railroad
i the fact that the steamer Constitution,
which left San Francisco May, 18Th for
Panama. carried only 260 passengers. At
! this season of the year it is usual for
| steamers TO take from 500 to 1000 pasSen-
gers for the Atlantic States, 1t is prob
able, therefore, that the Constitution was
affected by the railroad to the extent of
six or seven hundred passengers.
W. learn by a circular from f. III.
Kingsburv, superintendent, that T. ).
Van Alstfne, formerly General Freight
Agent of the Memphis and Louisville and
Louisville and Nashville Railroads. has
been appointed Southern Agent of the
Star Union Line, with Office at Louisville.
Mr.. Milton II, Smith, formerly Local
Freight Agent at Louisville, succeeds Mr..
Van ALstine as General freight Agent of
the above named railroads.
Nj, Quincy \. Keith, President of
the Kentucky Central Railroad Company,
died at his residence on Gerard street, in
CovingtOn, Monday morning, of rheUma-
tism of tin heart. The sad event has cast
a gloom over the entire community. No
man in Cpyington was more highly es-
teemed than Mr.. Keith. He has been
President of the Kentucky Central Rail-
road Company for about five years, and
under his management the road has been
brought to a high degree of prosperity.
A dispatch from st. Louis of the
first saws that the Illinois Central Railroad
will, in a few days, put on a through train
between this city II Cairo, TO run over
the track of the new st. Louis Vandalia
and Indianapolis road to Vandalia, the
connecting point on the Central road, and
by the middle of the month a through
train to Chicago, via Effingham, the con-
Meeting point on the road and the Illinois
Central branch to Chicago. This will, on
the one hand, give the Illinois Central
Company a direct competing line for st.
Louis and Chicago business, with the st.
Louis, Alton and Chicago road, and, on
the other hand, bring the same company
into the field as a competitor with the
Iron Mountain road for St. Louis and
Southern business, via the Mobile and
Ohio roads and its connections. st. Louis
now has eleven direct reilroad connections
with different points, and seven mOre'are
in process of construction-an increase of
twelve roads in two years.
The committee of thirteen gentle
men appointed by the citizens of Massac
county, IN. TO report on the proposed
railroad which is TO cross the Ohio at Me-
tropOlis, have submitted a synopsis Of Il
report, from which wetake the following:
South OF the Ohio yigeT charters have
ueen secured for the extension Of these
roads from the point OppOSitete the city Of
Metropolis southwark through Kentucky,
and via Union City to Memphis, Tenn,
under which companies are now about TO
oganize, viz: the Mississippi River Rail
road Company, for a road from Memphis
through the riy~cGGHties west of'the
line Of the MobileSKd Ohio road, looking
direct toward Chicago, via Union City,
Tenn, and the Metropolis and~Southwest-
ern Railroad Company, from the point
across the Ohio river to Union City. This
line of road, when completed, il the opih-
ion OF your committee, viii he the SnOSt
important North and South road in The
MisSiSsippi Valley; securing a direct rail
COMMUNICATION to the Gulf cities and to
the Pacific ocean by way Of Memphis on
the projected southern Paeidc Railroad.
II VIII be perceived by a glance at the
United States map that the entire line of
road from Chicago TO Memphis, BY way of
the bridging point at Metropolis, is near
ly an air line"
Ia Hereafter the Adams Express COM
paw viii run over the Cincinpati apd
GAINESVILLE Road. the Illinois Central,
south from 0din, the Panhandle route TO
New York, the Central Ohio, the Ohio aud
Mississippi and Kentucky Central Roads,
for way and through business, and the
Little Miami for through business only
Louisville, Frankfort and Lexington, |
Louisville and Nashville, and continue
their all-rail route to Louisville and
Evansville and Madison. They also re-
main temporarily on the Indianapolis and
Cincinnati. The United States Express
Company will Withdraw from the Dayton
and Michigan Road for local business, but
viii RIM Il for through. This company
viii run the Atlantic and Great Western
and OonnersVille and Indianapolis June
ton Roads exclusively, and win do the
local business IN the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton and Dayton Road. The American
Express Company will do the local and
through business on the Little Miami,
and VIII run the Whitewater Valley Road
exclusively. The Merchants Unio# Ex-
press Company will withdraw frO9 the
Little Miami aud Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton Roads, for focal business,
running over these roads for through
business only. withdraw entirely from
the ConneTsVtlle and Indianapolis, and
Whitewater Valley Roads, and win run
exclusively the indianapolis and Cincin-
natl Road, The Harnden Express con-
tinues to run the Marietta and Cincinnati
Road.