Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-09


Vile. Mr.. Rand spent years of toll and a
deal of money in effscting the discovery
/ Of methods by which q fixed gas Is
evolved from nsphtha, and now It seems
| that his labOrH were in vain. However
the process employed here may be differ
ent from that used in Memphis, and IN
| the works which Colonel Fitch Is erecting
in Chicsgo, and Kennedy and others IN
New York.
M'coMBs' scHEMYs.
Mr.. McCombs proposes to extend the
Mississippi Central road from this place
| northeast to Louisville and north, on
a direct line TO Psducsh. he hes sur
veyed q route to Mckenzie, and 1t If said
that these two branch roads, converRing
st Jackson, will be completed within the
next year. A direct line from Hunting
don, on the Nashville and Northwestern
road 10 Jackson has been surveyed and a
few miles graded. The railroad distance
from Jackson TO Nashville will soon be no
greater than from Jackson TO Memphis.
In this fact Memphis merchants discover
the incalcul able value of 8 direct inde-
pendent airline narrow gauge road from
Jackson 10 Memphis. Here at Jackson
converge the Mississippi Central and its
two branches; the road to Nashville via
Huntingdon; the road to Mobile and New
Orleans; and the road to Columbus, Iron
Mountain and st. Louis How invaluable
to Memphis becomes sn unbending high
way to such a point of railway coneen-
trstiopI The country penetrated by
this airline Jackson sbd Memphis road
is the richest and most densely
populated in Western Tennessee, and
this rosd extended beyond Jackson to
Columbia psnetrstes Henderson, Perry,
Decatur and Hickman, counties untouch-
ed by q single railway aud each to become,
when disembowled by a narrow gauge
nnraAn n MnNnnhfa n
the Memphis and Jackson direct road
Jackson will subscribe as corporation
500, 600, and John Miller, of Fayette
S3unty, $4,000. By this road Jackson
will save enough in freight and psssen-
ger charges in single year to refund It's
stock subscription, and the country be-
tween Jackson and Memphis will be rem
dered the most attractive district of the
State.
HOW JACKSON PRosPERs.
Ifthsre be those who question the ines
timsble value of the Memphis and Jack
son road it is enough to say thst the popu-
lation of Jackson has increased from $500
in 1866, to 1000 in 1871, and that the
place is growing in wealth and numbers
moro rapidly to-day than ever before.
Curvilinesr railways are of a by-gone sge,
destined to become valueless or, in rectify-
ing them, to sub bject their owners to heavy,
needless expenditures. Raleigh is rot
point in the proper line from Memphis to
Jackson, therefore the charter of the Jack
son and Memphis road does not mention
shs ancient capital OF Shelby, now as fam
GUS for health-giving water as in former
wears for death dealing whisky that
flowed a cesseless torrent down Tapp's
Hole, and at which lawyers, jurists snd
witnesses quaffsd and msddened.
A DRUMMER DRUMMKD OUT.
Yesterday an elegantly attired lady
with a younger unmarried sister found
the attentions of an impudent drummer
for q Louisville house somewhat annoy
ing. She endured his twsddle and smlrks
tor a time in silence. A. last his words
were offensive and she sppesled to 6
gentleman, who had been watching the
tender swain, for relief. He rang the bell,
the train was stopped. the conductor came
and the young swell was inc0ntinently
kicked overheard. The incident was most
pleasing. The conductor said that
such young gentlemen had become public
nuissnces; that ladies' unprotected were
often insulted; and he intended to intro
duce thorough reform He began 1t well
and 1 only regret that we had
no clue to the name of the top
who was left unharmed in the woods.
He deserved to Ds hanged. 1t is well to
know that ladies may travel without
Nl tAO nlODlAc anu OhlO IOt1-d
statement by no means pertinent to all
railway lines. These drummers acquire
bad habits about Chicago, and sre socus-
toned to make advances towards social
familiarity with ladies to whose &C
quslotance they have no claim. Against
such fellows Ku-kluxism should arm
itself with ropes and fagots. The brother
Of ths woman insulted has gone up the
road in search of the hspless drummer. If
theg meet, the dulcet tones of that mDsi-
cal instrument will be heard no more in
the towns and villages of the South.