The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-01-14
RAILWAY ITEMS &c.

The Springfield Republican says the
first 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 Spring feld
and run through to Sacramento without
change.
The Macon Ca Telegraph says be-
tween fifteen hundred and two thousand
hands are now at work on the Macon &
Brunswick railroad, and the contractors
are sanguine of completing the whole line
one hundred and eighty five miles-for
the crop of 1869.
The Lehigh Register states that off
cial notice has been given that OF and af-
ter the 1st of January, 1869, all editors,
| schoolmasters and ministers of the Cos
| pei will be passed over the Lehigh Valley
Railroad free of charge, upon showing
| their certificate of office" s.r Is s-.r
An Association has been formed in
Mexico city, composed of representatives
from eight interested States, for the pro-
| motion of Mexican National Railroad
Company, to connect Mexico City with
Mazatlan, after the plan of an English gen
tleman Of the name of Stephenson.
The 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 a Sc
| rious railroad accident occurred on the
Eria p FriS ho
18th ult. Train No. 1, 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 a misplaced switch. Dashing along
over the sieepers 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 ali 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 & 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 81 Augusta, which now stops
at the deserted village, Milledgeville, will
| be extended to Macon. The long talked
of extension of the Milledgeville s. 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"
-HerGpatTs Railqoay Journal says
tThe entire extent of railway in operation
| in France September 80, 1868, was 1884
miles as compared with 9,671 miles Sep
TENDER 30, 1867. showing an increase Of
1858 miles. The entire amount earned on
all the French railways to September
| 80 this year was SIS, 1854, 405, as compared
| with e19, 4A,99S in the corresponding nine
| months of 1857, showing an increase oil
ee59, 4O7 this year. This increase was en-
| tirely attributable to the new network and
the miscellaneous lines, the old network pre-
| senting decrease in the first nine months
of this year of e1SS,156 The general re-
suit of the working of the French lines
for the first three-quarters of this year was
| decrease Of AS per cent. per mile
worked, as compared with the correspond
ing period of 1857; but 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"