Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-27
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Passenger ears will, commencing
next week, run between indianapolis and
Baltimore without change,
The lease flor one thousand years.
of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chi
caro- Railroad, 10 the Pennsylvania Cen
trail Railroad Company, was consum-
mated on the -24th inst. by the bond and
stockholders of the corporation. Out of
fifteen million dollars of the stock voted,
only a single million was entered in the
negative; and the principal part OF that,
il was thought, was polled by the Presi-
lent of the Pittsburg, Fort WaVne and
Chicago Company, who is said to have
consistently opposed the measure from its
inception.
The Iron Mountain Railroad was
opened on Monday TO FrederickStowns
one hundred and five miles from st. IDu-
is, Mo, which leaves only a gap OF tWenty-
FIVE miiest To be ironed bel cen that city and
Belmont, and which viii be finished in a
feVS days. 8lr. Allen the President Of the
road, viii start for New York ina few
DAYS on business connected with the con-
structiOn of the road from Morley, Mo-,
along the western bank of the Mississippi
River too point opposite Memlhiz. Large
grants of land and of stock have been
guaranteed to be taken by the counties
through which the road win pass, The
citizens generally are alive to the inlpOr-
lance Of the project,
The lately chartered indianapolis,
Delphi aud Chicago All Line Railroad
Company has been rapidly arranging the
preliminary business for that important
undertaking. All the cOunties-ClintOn.
Carroll, White, Jasper and Lake-in Indi-
ana, on the line, excepting Marion, have
taken the neSSary steps to provide the
assessment of taxes for their respective
proportions of the bonuses. Besides this,
the Commissioners of the counties named
have provided the requisite funds for sur
veying and locating the line. There will,
it is hoped. be by this new line a direct
through route from Indianapolis TO chi
-agQ Gnuer one management and under
lOcal control The officers, Whn,i We he
lieVe, have been before named. arc! }. NJ.
Ridenour, of Indianapolis, President u,
7, ScheFmerhOru, Secretary, and A. IL.
Campbell, Engineer. 1t is claimed that
the work Will be promptly put through.
The terrible accident at Carr's Rock,
in April. 1865, on the Erle Haiiruad, re-
ia suih wholesale slaughter. is yet
fresh, From the fact that many thieves
were Oh the ground who were kn0Wu 10
been on the train, the great number
al dead and wounded who were robbed, |
the subsequent finding of certain articles
III the ndlu~ Ol SNSDttlGu BdTllCS. tOu-
at least one man that the accident |
1t OaFFis fogk was lot the result OF a de
fective Hail, but a deliberate attempt at
for the purpose Of plumber, Act
upon his theory, and having placed
at his disposal every possible facility by
the managers Of the road, the matter has
undergone a thorough investigation under
the direction of n skilled ia the aetec-
ton of crime. Night and day for ten
mont hE an GnnrtAH naPtinG haNvn haan np1ar I
the closest surveilaI2e. Twelve men have
been engaged in this work. At last. on
the I'd of june, sufficient evidence having
accumulated 10 hope fer 4 clps iltiOa, the
suspected man, John Bowen hy name.
was arrested and confined in the county
at Milford, Pike County, Pa. After
bsing cqEned iiftee7 days, Bowen con-
fessed his guilt. He is now awaiting the
action OF the grand jury, which meets at
in September.
The Executive Committee of the
Cincinnati Board Of Trade, Chamber Of
and City Council. addresses the
people of their city on the subject of the
proposed Southern Railroad. 1t is quite a
document, agd ClSses Fith this
paragraph. No city on this continent has
had such a magnificent prize within
is grasp. BY the expenditure of less
han hye( d) per e on your eipataL, you
IAN extend your markets over 200, 600
miles of territory, which without
his effort you can not get; because others
Sill go there if yOudo not. Youmay bring
Jour millions of people within the area Of
your trade, who are now diverted from
to the cities of the Atlantic. You can
Increase the demand for your manufac-
.ures to fOurhOld the present extent!
lOu can thus give employment to thou
of mechanics and laborers, who are
passing on TO the other cities Of the
You may increase the profits ofall
'%usinese, increase the upmberof the peo-
lie, expand the limits of the city, crown
Is hills with new structures, and adOrn
hem with new works of art. In fine, YOU
nay renew in Cincinnati the powerful inn
lulse of progress, and maintain its posi-
ion as the metropolis of the mighty West.