Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

Passenger travel through Memphls
is very fair for the season.
Very few Transfer teams are now
seen upon the levee.
Barney Hughes came very near
missing a connection the other day, in
which event he woNld not be y. Hughes.
Harry Childers, the popular cOnduc-
tor on the Mississippi and Tennessee Rail
road reports crops looking tolerably wei
along the line of that road.
The New York Elevated Railroad
has progressed from Vesey to Thirteenth
street. 1t will be eighteen miles long and
run to Yonkers.
One thousand laborers, bridge build
ers and stone masons, are wanted on the
Memphis and little Rock Railroad. Two,
three and five dollars per day respectively
is paid.
The Aurora Record says the railroad
fever is just beginning to break out in
that city, and wants four or five new
roads. if it can get them, on the strength
of. the late increase Of tax law.
A charter has just been granted in
Ohio for the organization of the Cinein-
natl, Salem and Youngstown Railroad
Company. This company proposes by
the construction of about htty miles Of
railroad to secure a very uLTtCL me AIoIi
Cincinnatito Erie, Penn.
The Paducah Herald says: The ex-
tension of the Paducah and Gulf Railroad
to Troy station, Tenn, will be finished to
day, and in q few days our cars Will be
/ running through to Jackson, Tenn, where
they will make close connection with the
Mississippi Central r0aSto New Orleans.
The commissioners of OtOe county,
Mo-, have contracted with the Burlington
and Missouri River Railroad, that for the
consideration of $50. 600 in OtOe county
bonds. that company sh4l, within fifteen
months, complete and equip a railroad
thirty-eight miles long, from Red Oak,
Iowa, to Nebraska City.
The Ohio and Southern Railroad
Company-capitaI $500, 000-has been in
corporated at Columbus, Ohio. The
northern terminus of the proposed road is
to be at Newark, Ohio, and the southern
on the Ohio river opposite Maysville, nv.
1t is proposed to cOnnec this road with
the MaysviIle and Lexington Railroad,
now in course of construction. 2
Work is progressing On the Little
Rock and Fort Smith Railroad with an
energy of purpose that promises the
speedy completion of the enterprise. The
corps of engineers. with Gen. Meade as
chief. assisted by Mr.. Henry West II
Mr.. Geo. w. Hughes, are DoyOnd russell
vile, making good progress in selecting
the route.
The first locomotive used upon q
railroad in the United States was i'm
ported from England in the year 1929. 1t
was built by Foster, Rastrick &c Co, Of
~Stourbridge. and was run upon the rail-
road of the Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company, from the mines of Honesdale,
Penn, to the cana landing, in the SUM
mer of 1929. There were several railroads
in this country in operation with the use
of locomotives before the Philadelphia
and Germantown Railroad was built. !
Upon the latter the ears were for some
time drawn by horses after it was opened.
The Louisville Courier says: The
recent Commercial Conventions Of Mem
phis and New Orleans passed resolutions
in favor of constructing q direct line along
the route near the thirty-secOnd parallel,
from a South Atlantic port TO the Pacific, )
and likewisein favor of the Memphis and
FL PasO route as a more northern pralon-
CATION of the same line. We learn from
the Baltimore Gazette tina adviceS as late
as the 10th Of Nav last have been received
from Gen. Fremont, who was then in
Paris, stating that ten millions of the FIRST
mortgage bonds Of the Memphis and FL
Paso road have already been sold in the
Paris BOurse at SO in gold, which is equal
to SIP in currency.