Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-26
MEMPHIs M CHARLESTON RArLRe

MaH.-~--~-------.---.- $3.50 pm. le;45 An
Junction a-ecommOdat'n. s;l5 am. $3.50 pm.
Sonerville accommodate 9:45 AIM 4s40 pm.
Freight, with coach az
Ticket ONCE, rs Main ST, cor. south Court
MEMPHIS AND LOUISVILLE RAILROAD.
ARKIVEs;u AVE
Day Express.-"~------Iz:1 PM 400 am
Night xpress-..-........... 400 am. 1sl5p.m.
BIownsyilfe ACCOM-. $50 an 5si5 pm.
Railroad time Is minutes faster than city
time. Depot at head of Main stFeeE. Ticket
office BIZ Main st, one door norsn Jefferson.
MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE RAILROAD.
New Orleans Mail, daily 2:5 pm. l2.@ pm.
Express, daily .------.--..- $3.50 am 4:30 pm.
Freight. daily exceptSun-
3sA pm. 4:l0 an.
. DEPOT at foot of Main street. Ticket once,
27% Main street, Que door north of Jefferson.
A. 8. LIVERM0RE. GenT Sup't.i
THE Nashville Union and american OF
Tuesday says: There came up in the
Chancsry COURT Yesterday for adiudiea-
ton a heavy and important railroad suit,
in which the Nashville and Decatur rail-
road is involved TO the. amoant of S200, COO.
The General Assembly, by an act passed
March q, 1860, authorized the Tennessee
and Alabama Railroad Company to issue
coupon bonds to ths amouat Of $500, 600,
maturing in ten years, bearing interest,
payable semi-annuaily at b rate of ten
~. N1Ahe IL ~ 6C04A4~NAA0
bonds by a mortgage upon the road, its
franchises, income, etc, subject to the
prior lien of the State. Uponth first day
of April 1850, under this act, the Compa-
ny issued SOS, 900 of bonds. These bonds
were secured by a mortgage upon
the road, etc. ana~Ihe @trns-
tee was empowered to talks
possessi9n.of the propertyImortgaged upon
failure of the company TO meet the in
terest or principal of the bonds. The
bonds matured April l, 1870; 5000 0 of
them remained unpaid. The trustee
filed his bill to foreclOse the mortgage to
secure possession of the property, and to
have the company enjoinsd from in5erfer-
ing with him In such possession. N
tiOu WAS made to have the trustee app
pointed receiver. This motion is resisted
upon many grounds, chiefly the follow
ing: l. That the act of March %, 1866, is
void as being partial. 2. The act was not
strictly pursued by the company.
3. That there was no consideration
for the bond. 4. That the road is
already in the hands Of the company
under a bond appointed by the Federal
courts. The suit Is dOcketed as Frank
Hardemsn, trustee, etc, VS.. Nashville and
Decatur railroad ct al. Great interest at
taches to the case, and Learned and able
counsel are engaged on both ides. Messrs.
Campbell, McEwen, Bullock, McLemore,
Wallace u Demoss and Malone are
sci for complainant, and Messrs. ". & Ed.
Baxter and E. 81. Ewing for the defend
ants. The papers, documents, ETC., were
read yesterday, and the arguments OF
counsel will be presented to-day.
THE Vicksburg Miss Herald makes
the following capital suggestion to rail-
road 1.-THE discomforts of
travel at this season of the year are almost
enough to strike one contemplating them
with horror. The dust, heat and glare of
the sun, all eonspire to add almost ex-
cruciating fortunes to the railway travel
ers, These discomforts cannot be entirely
controlled by the ingenuity of man, but
they can be greatly mitigabed. To some
extent efforts have beon made in this be-
hall, but there is yet ample room for inn
provement. Who, riding during the past
few months ON railway cars have not
inwardly, and many outwardly and
loudly, cursed the miserable padded seats
now in use. They feel as If q stove
was strapped to their baeks. You must
sit rigidly erect or have your back burn
ed slmost into a crisp by contact with
these padded seat backs. They are adj
mirable for winter, but horrible, cruel
machines of torture in summer 1t
would be much more agreeable tosthe
travelling public, and a mattor of eonsid-
cradle economy to railways, If these seats,
which are expensive, were dispensed with
in summer, and open cane bottom and
open back seats were substituted. 1t
would require but a few hours to change
the seats of a coach. These a seats are
not one-ffth as expensive as the cushion
cd seats, and by changing in this manner
both sets Of seats could be made to last
doubly as long as the cushioned seats now
do.
AcoSTRAcThas been completed by which
the cars of the Nashville and Northwest
ern road can be run e the Mobile and
Ohio road from Union City to Columbus
for six years. Freight viii be transferred
at Belmont and Columbus without break
ing bulk, thus making q direct and 1nin-
terrupted line Of communication between
st. Louis and Nashville. The st.
Louis and Iron Mountain railroad is
to put in it's pro rata of Green Line cars
by the LIST pFoximo.
FLOR DE CANTER0.