The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-05-12
Southern Pacific Railroad.

TIE PROPOSITION OF THE STOLAHoLDEsS
We give place, not only with pleasure, but with {
sincere hope of its adoption and success, OF an oca
and defnitive proposition of the stockholders of the
Southern Pacific railroad, to the citizens, merchants
business and property holders Of our city, to
tend the road beyond Marshall. Can we, all the
classes enumerated all alike interested in this project
all alike involved in its success failure, hesitate for
moment, pursue that course alike marked ont by
duty and INTEREST," To fail or fter now in this good
work, is to refuse to lend hand at the pumps when
all hands on sip-board know that the safety of
the ship itself depends cheerful and ready coop
Grafton We do not pause to bubble over the terms
proposed-they may not be exactly what We preferred
hey may not be exactly what you would PREFER but,
the whole question sums itself into this Can anything
else be done? We assume from the subscriptions al
ready offered that it is understood by those having
the largest interest involved that the proposition sug
gested is the most feasible, and, such, we urge
hearty cooperation. As an earnest of the good will
already manifested the subscriptions below were made
BY our citizens who were present. They are liberal
and reflect credit upon them. Let every man, who
has even dollar to spare, come forward and show
like liberaIity and the amount required will be
made up, small subscriptions numerously made, an
swcring in the aggregate for large amounts and this
is the way to give interest to commercial future,
by each doing the best Of his ability and that
is all now required to give sixty instead Of forty
miles of road. and to from the inevitable
losses attending the tapping of our back country and
the diversion Of our trade. The security proposed is
amply sufficient to protect the lender and the interest
is amply sufficient TO reward the Investment.
We, the undersigned, agree to loan to the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company the sums of money set OPP
pose respective names, for the space of two and
three years. at ten per cent per nnnum interest paya
bic seml-annuag, sccused either by the bonds Of the
company mortgage on the road as the subscriber
may prefer Onethrd of the money to be paid to
the company when the first lot Of iron rail is delivered
at Shreveport one-third in thirty days thereafter and
the rest in sixty days.
EOrignal signed.
Is. NJ johnson 5000
". /. Scott 10000
A. II. Bufnham.. 10000
john n Howell .... ..........,.,....... 10 900
John j. 5000
IEDE0ruoDIA We have been Informed that a
number Of persons in This city have been bitten by
mad dogs lately but have heard Of serious results
so far. 1t would be well for our people to be on the
alert for there doubt quite number Of rabid dogs
are running around the city. We think the matter
demands the earliest consideration of our and t
energetic Board. The New Orleans Times in speaking
Of the alarming increase Of hydrophobia throughout
the country says: "Scarcely day passes without
some journal from abroad recording an additional
victim to this most frighlu and most repusive of all
naades Examination into its symptoms has been,
lp to the present time unproductvc Of any discovered
emedy, but the other hand, has developed two
acts fatal to before generally accepted theories, and
greatly lleightcnng the danger daily First
hat cases frequent in winter in summer; and
ccond that the disease be inroculated by dogs
lot suffering from rabies. This would seem to ndi,
ate that dogs should be cxterminated that they
AIRY with them venom liable at any moment to be
developed, and more rghtully fatal than that Of the
obra or rattlcsnake No doubt with dogs as with
nman beings, vagabond life, exposure, bad and insult
cient food likely to corrupt their nature and make
hem venomous. For the accommodation Of the first
re have bolts and bars; but the community is left en-
ire}y at the mercy Of the latter The faint efforts
made every summer to poison few dogs is entirely
inadequate TO the danger every day undergoing,
nd the city authorities should Immediately adopt
eme regular system by which, through the agency Of
laughter and heavy taxes, the evil may be partially
not wholly, corrected. 1t is certainly a startling
election that every dog in contact WITH
whether sick well, in summer or winter, bears Il
Doth capable of nhictng madness and death--a virus
lore malignant than that of the adder the Scorpion
lie taranua, and the centipede combined Let the
wners who fondlc these hcecy darlings reflect upon
lis fact and much of the opposition to dog destruc
on will necessarily be withdrawn