Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-27

MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON RAILROAD.
ARRIVES: EAvEs
mall-..--...--. ...-.....-....... 3 1880 pm. l0:45 am.
Junction ACCOMMODATE S:I5 am. $50 pm.
Somervile eccOmmOd'n- g:45 am. 4:4O pm.
Freight, with coach at
taehed----~.m------.. 7:2j pm. 500 am.
Ticket once, Us Main St, cor. South Court.
MEMPHIS AND LOUISVILLE RAILROAD.
ARRIVES: caves
Day Express-----.--.--l2:l5 pm. $500 am.
Night ExPress-----.- 400 am. l:l5 pm.
Brownsville ACCOM-. $40 am. 5:l5 pm.
Railroad time Is minute faster than city
time. Depot at head of Main street. Ticket
ofiee 2ah Main ST., one door north Jefferson.
MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE RAILROAD.
ARRIVES: LyAYES:
New Orleans Mail, daily 2:5 pm. E.@ pun.
Express, datly.--.----- $50 am. 4:S0 pm.
Freight, daily excePtSun-
day-.--=------ 800 pm. 4:lO am.
237h Main street, one door north of Jefferson.
AS LlVERMORE, GenI Sup't.
THE RAILROAD MEETING TRIUMPHANT.
FIsHERVILLE, August "a, 1870.
Editors AppedL-There was q meeting of
the citizens of this place who are interest
ed in the new railroad scheme, to begin at
Memphis, and strike out nearly due east
for Baskerville, Macon, SOmerville, Dem
mark, Jackson, etc, to Nashville, thence
to Norfolk, making this a shorter route,
and traversing not only the center but
the heart of the State, passing through the
most feasible country for building rail
roads-well timbered and watered, with
but light grading, small quantity of tres
tie work and not a rock to turn, and
through TIE center of the most fertile and
productive lands of the State for covn,
cotton, small grain, stool of every de-
scription-noted for the intelligence and
refinement of he good citizens. VIII not
Memphis come to the assistance of a
struggling country, and make the build
ing of this roa a mutual AFFAIR." BY the
indifference of Memphis heretofore to her
interests b has helped to bring into ex-
stenee other roads that have carried
trade and travel in opposite directions,
and the result is she hss been bled to
death. Memphis needs oceanic commu-
nication; she should stretch her arms out
right and left, and grapple the Atlantic
and the Pacific oceans. D. A. H.
THE Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has settled an important principle as to
the responsibility OF railroads for injuries
done to passengers. Usually, companies
contend that passengers who suffer from
an accident on b road are bound to prove
negligence on the part of the company or
its servants. The difficulties which OBJ
struct this course often mou to a de-
NAL of justice. The Pennsylvania court
Threw the OnuS Ol Inc pEOOl Ou INC GULL
panies, accepting the accident as pre-
sumptive evidence of negligence, whether
in reference to defects in b road, or in
the engines, or the cars, or in reference to
acts of the employees. 1t remains for
the company to prove the accident re-
suited from causes beyond its control, or
from the negligence of the passenger, or
to pay the penalty.
OF the Brownsville and Ohio road,
whose permanent line from Brownsville
to Friendship was located recently, and
is now being surveyed, the Bee saws:
" The distance from here to Friendship is
about twenty-five miles, and the line
adopted the most easterly of the three
surveyed. We understand that it is a very |
smooth line, easy of construction, and
expensive to keep up. 1t passes
nearly through the center of that fine |
section of the country lying between the
proposed to form Crockett county. The
line continues by way of the town of
Newbern in the northern part of Dyer
and by Troy to Union City in
Obion county. 1t thus opens up at once
of the finest sections of country, not
only in Tennessee, but in the whole Mis-
Valley. And when the line is
and Moscow to Holly Springs, Miss,
where it is to connect with the Mississippi
Central railroad, and with General For
Memphis and Selma road, the
country from Brownsville to
Union City is not only developed, but
also furnished with q ready market for
everything it can produces market
reaching from Brownsville to New Or
leans, which has never been and never
can be glutted with the most valuable
of the country north of
Brownsville. HaY. corn, grain. flour. |
tobacco, lard, mules, horses, bacon, fruits,
lumber, and all the teeming
richness of this favored but now mac
land, will pour along over the line
,os certain and never falling cash market.
Then OF with the important work"