Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-30

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Onion street, daily at 6 80 am.
3. D. WILLIAMS,
eneral Agent and superintendent.
B. T. ROBSON, Asst Sup't.
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON RAILROAD.
ARRIVES: LEAVES:
Mail...-.-... .---..........-- 1880 pm. 10:45 lin.
Junction accommodate S:l5 am. $50 I'm.
Somerville aecommod'n- 9:45 am. 4:40 pm.
Freight, with coach at
Ticket office, rs Main ST, cor. South Court.
MEMPHIS AND LOUISVILLE RAILROAD.
ARRIVES: LEAVES
Day EXpresS.-----....-.l2:l5 pm. 400 AIN.
Night Express ....-.....-..... 800 am. l:l5 pm.
Brownsville Accom....... 40 am. 5:l5 p.m.
Railroad time Is minutes faster than city
time. Depot at head of Main street. Ticket
Office H51 Main St, one door north Jeffe son.
MISSISSIPPI AND RAILROAD.
ARRIVES: LEAVES:
New Orleans Mail, daily 2:S pm. l2:O6 pm.
xpress daily..-......-..- $50 am. 4:30 pm.
Freight, daily exeeptSun-
800 pm. 4:l0 am.
Depot at foot OF Main street. Ticket once,
237% Main street, one door north of jefferson.
A. 3. LlVERMoRE, GenI Sup't.
HUGE granite blocks, weighing three
and -four ton each, from Portland, Maine,
have arrived, to be used in the construc-
ton of the Illinois and st. Louis bridge.
THE railroad between Mankato and st.
Peter has been settled. st. Peter is to
be the terminus OF the main line, but q
branch is to be built to Msnkato, and so
IN w~estwardly, to New Ulm.
IT is a curious fact that of the passen-
gers in the train which met with the late
terrible accident in England, all, or very
nearly all, who were asleep at the time,
escaped uninjured, natures anaesthetic
insuring them, not only against fractures
and Commissions, but even against the bad
effects of shaking and conclusion.
THE point of crossing the Mississippi
river by the North Pacific Railroad is
now, if possible, more in doubt han ever.
preliminary thereto. Ii is said hat none
of the first surveyed crossings of the
river some distance above Crow Wing
are now deemed practicable, and there Is
strong probability thar the road will cross
the river at or near Crow Wing.
In the late annual report of L. J. Flem-
ing, Chief Engineer and Superintendent
of the Mobile and Ohio railroad, after say
ing that accidents from defects in ma
chinery, except from broken axles, had
diminished, the following remarks on the
causes and prevention of broken axles are
given: 1.-THE accidents from broken
axles, principally under tenders, may be
ascribed to two cause.-the granulating
effect of the heavy, rigid rail when ami-
mated, and the very bad quality OF metal
of which axles are frequently made.
Manufacturers generally believe there is
no method of testing the quality without
breaking the axle, and when accidents
occur, that they will be attributed
to the effects of granulation from
vibration and impact; and that there
is no means of tracing them to the
bad metal of which they are made. For
some time past all new axles have been
ordered of sufficient length to take a
fracture from each end, and one or two of
each lot has also been broken in the con-
ter. The result of these tests has been to
return to the makers three-fourths of
those ordered within the past year. In
future orders, the names of the makers
will be required on each one, and the
proper credit or blame will be given in
the annual reports. The person who
manufactures a bad axle, ON which the
lives of so many passengers depend,
whether il is done Intentionally or from
the want of q proper knowledge of max
ing it, is as enlpable as the person who
places al obstruction on the track TO
throw of the trains"