Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-28
Railroad Miscellany.

The Toledo, Wabash and Western
road has been seriously damaged by
freshets.
The new Chicago, Leavenworth and
Southwestern road will be running by the
10th of September.
The Little Rock Railroad stock
set been Hypothetical.
The Illinois Central Railroad Com
pany sold 5246 acres of land in June,
amounting to the sum of sos, IA.
The joke of the season is the COM
plant OF Pittsburg that the smoke of the
Fort WAYNE Railroad locomotives de-
posits scot on the flowers eff B%ittsburg.
Mr.. Morris informs his friends that
he is still engaged in preparing a reply to
those who have criticised his essay upon
the Pacific Railroad affairs,
The first passenger trains on the
Newark and New York Railroad were
run on Friday last, when passengers were
carried over the route free of charge. 1t
was expected that the regular business OF
the roa would begin on Monday last.
OF the six men who own the Central
Pacific Railroad, eN-GOv. Leland Stan
ford, e.. d.. Huntington, Mark Hopkins,
Ehas. GIoese e 'aHd 81. i. GLasker belong
To Sacramento, Gal, It is estimated that
the Government paid them so well for
building the road that they cleared at
least S15, 900, eco.
The Indianapolis, Danville and
Charlottesville Railroad has been consOli-
dated with the Danville, Urbana, Bloom
ington and Pekin road, under the name
of the indianapolis, bloomington and
y esteFg Railroad. The road is. nearly
ready for the cars between Danville and
Champagne City, Ill.
Mr.. H. l.. Shepherd, General Su-
pe~rintendent of the Evansville. Hender-
son and Nashville Railroad, saws that he
is making arrangements and is putting
this road in good condition fran tie track
to the Locomotive and coach. Mr.. Shep-
herd has gone to the Evansville end of
the road for the purpose of looking after
the interests of the same.
A party of railroad men, e~ngipeers
aud biologists, are prospectiEg the eQun=
ny iTata lrnntdu, Irah county, to st,
MarY's landing, on the Mississippi river,
the object being to find the most practical
bic route for a railroad to connect the iron
regions of this State with the coal fields
in the vicinity Of Chester, III.
The North Missouri Railroad bridge
at st. Charles will be 220O feet in length,
though the iron trestle work at each end
will give il a total Of 650j feet. 1t viii be
fifty-three feet above the highest water
mark, uinety-thrse akoYe low water, and
EightY-three aboye ordinary water, and
KlT cost 81 LOCO, 900. The time fixed for
its completion is January l, 1870.
A correspondent of a California pa
per, writing from Georgia, gives the fol
lowing novel mode Of furnishing a Fmi-
t0ad nHpan5i last evening, at the house
Of a resident of this town, where a goOdly
mpa were assembled, l met a gentle
man from Northern Georgia who weighed
five hundred pounds avoirdupois, and to
whom locOmotiOn in hot weather seems
remarkably arduous. He was inveighing
against railroad management, and against
the rcaa which runs nearest to his resi-
dence in particular. After exposing the
transgressicns of the offending company,
he wound up by swearing that they Ghe
company should never get a dime of his
money in the future. knowing that he
cannot walk, and that no team of horses
can draw him any distance, a friend of
his stated the fact, and asked him what
means Of locOmOtion he intended to use.
He replied, Il mean TO travel or the
GaFB, Int, for al THAT, tbs pamPaay snail
not receive a cent of my money, for /
shall make Il a point 10 pay tie conductor"
This mode of punishment struck me as
novel, ingenious, and, perhaps. effective.