Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-03-16
Railroad Teutfon

Inc trst car load of coal from the ST
6ernard coal mines, (between Petersburg
ana the Elizabethtown and Paducah Pail
ROAD crossing, on the Evansville, Hender-
son and Nashville RaiIroad) arrived in
TINS city yesterday, at the Edgefield and
Kentucky Railroad depot.
A large lot of sugar from Nav Orleano
arrived here yesterday, over the EdoefieId
and Kentucky Railroad. '--''O
Ourng the meeting of the Railroad
commissioners of Davidson county and
tne wilson county proxies at lebanon
the proxies expressed themselves a. boorti
~ IN 1sVor OF the extension of the Ten
nessee and Pacific Railroad as conducting
TO the interests of Wilson county and the
stockholders of the road. They hosnj-
tably received and entertained the Com
mlssioners, and perhaps the visit NAV be
returned. ~
speaking OF the Grand Trunk of Alabama
the Mobile Register says: Track LAYING
is progressing rapidly on this road and
It's engineer, Col Rives, expects to COM
plete this first section under contract. of
twenty miles, by the latter part of March.
we learn that the Board of Directors has
already decided to put under contract i'm
medlately the continuation of the line N
Marion, distance of 100 miles. to be
completed In one year. By that time.
700, we hope the harbor Improvement
will be so far advanced as to meet from
beyond the sea a reciprocal current of
commerce to ind their enterpot in the
Mobile market. The Grand Trunk Com
pany is pushing its enterprise with com
mendabie energy, and are thus making IN
tne delays and losses caused by the dam
per that has been thrown upon their
State securities by the Stanton defalca-
ton.
We learn that by the middle of next
week, the trains on the Savannah and
Memphis Railroad will run out "a far
as Camp I'm In TaIlapoosa county. Ala.
There are thirteen railroads Terminating
on the Illinois shore, opposite st. Louis.
A meeting was held in Jefferson, Ala.
on Tuesday, to consider the subject of a
railroad from Athens to Clayton. Hon.
b. ID. Hill made stirring speech. and
awakened good deal of enthusiasm ON
the subject. Subscriptions of about S15.-
900 were made on the spot,
The HartsVille Vidette in an article ON
the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad. owes
tho proposed line of the road as follows.
''The starting point is Newcastle XIV. on
the Short-line road, between Louisville
and Cincinnati. The line passes thence
South through the counties of Henry.
Shelby, Spencer, Nelson, Washington.
Marion, Taylor, Green, Metcalfe, Barren
and Allen, in Kentucky, coming to the
Tennessee State line at Walkers. near
Jimtown; thence through LAFAYETTE, in
Macon county; Hartsville, in Trousdale
county, crossing the Cumberland river
and connecting with the Tennessee and
Pacific road at Lebanon, in Wilson coun-
ty. The entire road across Kentucky was
placed under contract last week, and the
work will begin without delay. On Mon
day last petition of the Tennessee Board |
Of Directors was presented to the Honor
able County Court of Trousdale county,
asking that the question of subscribing |
$780, 900 stock payable in ten, twenty |
and thirty years, in the road, be submit |
ed to the voters of Trousdale county on
he 18th of April. The petition was
granted by the court, and the Sheriff was
to open and hold the election &C.
,ordingly."
W. L. Dendley, Ticket Agent of the |
Nashville ane Chattanooga Railroad, will,
We learn, attend the Ticket Agents Con- |
Tention to be held in Savannah, on the |
18th inst. He will be a most worthy |
representative in that gathering of Rail |
'oad Officers.