Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-15
RAILWAY ITEMS SC.

The Springfield Republican says the
hrst through train on the Pacific Railroad
will be made up of one locomotive, six
passenger cars, two sleeping and one bag
gage car, and will start from Springfield
and run through to Sacramento without
change.
The Macon (Ga) Telegraph says be-
tween fifteen hundred and two thousand
hands are now at work on the Macon &
Brunswick railroad, and the cor tractors
arc. sanguine of completing the whole line
-one hundred and eighyy,fve mi'es-for
the crop of 1869.
The Lehigh Register states that "offi
| cial notice has been given that on and af-
ter the 1st of January, 1869, all editors,
schoolmasters and ministers of the gos-
pei will be passed over the Lehigh Valley
Railroad free of charge upon showing
their certificate of office"
An Association has been formed in
Mexico city, composed of representatives
from eight interested States, for the pro-
motion of a Mexican National Railroad
| Company, to connect Mexico City with
Mazatlan, after the plan of an English gem
tleman of the name Of Stephenson.
| Tho Pennsylvania Company proposes
to iron and equip road, to be graded and
bridged by the citizens, extending from
! New Philadelphia, Ohio, nearly due south,
by Dennison, through Guernsey and Noble
counties to Marietta, crossing, through its
entire length, the western out-crop of the
coal fields, and opening also very large
deposits of iron ore.
According to the New York Post, one
of the most fortunate escapes from q Sc
rious railroad accident occurred on the
Erie Railway, on Friday morning, the
18th ult. Train No. /, the day express
for Buffalo, which leaves New York at
eight o'clock, when approaching Middle
town, and travelling at the rate of twenty
| miles an hour, was thrown from the track
| by misplaced switch. Dashing along
! over the sleepers for distance of two
hundred feet, the engine finally struck an
iron frog, and was violently placed once
more on the rails of side track, having in
this distance crossed two sets of inter-
vening rails. The tender and all the cars
five in number-followed the engine,
and when the terrified passengers came
rushing out, the train was all prepared to
run back to switch and be transferred to
the main line.
"A newspaper correspondent writing
| from Georgia says: Railroads are being
completed, projected and talked about in
every direction. The Macon tS Bruins.
wick Railroad will be completed and in
running order by the fall of 1869. The
air line from Atlanta to Charlotte, N. c.,
| is about to be commenced. The North
eastern, from Athens to Rabun Gap
where it will connect with the Tennessee
roads, is seriously talked about, and will
| be probably commenced in the spring
The Macon & Augusta, which now stops
at the deserted village Milledgeville, will
be extended 10 Macon. The long-talked
of extension of the Milledgeville & Ea.
tenton road to Madison, in Morgan
county, where it will tap the Georgia
| Railroad, is now more talked of than ever
and it really looks as if it would be com.
menced Immediately. Things in general
are looking up"
-HerdpdthS RdRndV J0uTndl says
The entire extent of railway in operation,
in France September 80, 1868, was 1884
miles as compared with 9,G71 miles Sep
tember 30, 1867, showing an increase oi
263 miles. The entire amount earned on
all the French railways to September
! 80 this year was el9, ,6S4 405, as compared
! with fl9, -, ,09S in the CORE spOnding nine
months of 1867, showing an increase OF
/ t259,4Oi this year. This increase was en-
tirely attributable TO the new network and
the emiscellaneouslinos, the old network pre-
senting decrease in the first nine months
of this year of e1SS 1856 The general re-
suit of the working OF the French lines
for the first three,quarters Of this year was
decrease Of IS per cent. per mile
/ worked, rs compared with the correspond
| ing period of 1861; but a somewhat better
result may be anticipated for the last quar-
! ter of the year. Nevertheless, French
railway traffic has shown less elasticity in
1868 than in several preceding years"