Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-03-02
RaIIrnad Ifenls.

We stated yesterday that on Monday,
the 9th inst, though trains would be run
on the Evansville, Henderson and Nash
vile Railroad We are informed that
there win be no breakageA of bulk at
Guthrie, and that both passengers and
fright will be rapidly forwarded to their
defamation.
The proceedings of the Railroad Com
missioners will be found in another col
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\ During last month, there were Is, Dol
bales cotton shipped over the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad against 7,340 for
February 1870, showing an increase this
year of 6, oil bales. "a 81 Z N "a .
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and
Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad, having
given the necessary bonds, have been de-
signated as common carriers for the trans
portation of merchandise, without ap-
prsisement, under the act of July IA,
1870, from the port of Baltimore to the
port of Cincinnati.
On the 18th of March the voters of
Shelby county viii be csllejupon teyote
on the question of ratifying the action of
the County Court in its subscription of
five hundred thausand dollars to the Sell
ma, Marion and Memphis Railroad.
The Louisville Ledger says that Maj.
John Gault, popular conductor on the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, has re-
sumed his position on that road. The
travelling public will gladly welcome the
Major again. -. tsF5 ~
I A cenduc or on the Little Miami Rail-
road has invented signal, designed 10
be attached to the caboose of freight
trains, and is so arranged that it indicates
at once the direction in which the car is
moving, and by7a revolving system de-
notes the rate of speed. Though some
what complicated it is eminently practi.
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A Vincennes correspondent Of the Gin.
cinnati Gazette says: "The Evansville,
Henderson and Nashville Railroad has
been cOmpleted-a work in which VIM
cennes is greatly interested, as it forms
an important and only connection with
the Evansville and Charlottesville Rail.
road via Nashville. For the last fifteen
years the Evansville and Crawfordsville
Railroad has been the only railroad lead.
ing TO and from the city of Evansville to
| Terre Haute, and has served as one of the
feeders to the Ohio and Mississippi Rail
road, and the Indianapolis and st. Louis
Railroad at Terre Haute. After the build
ing of the Henderson and Nashville Rail
road became fixed fact, the directors
thought it advisable to send John lngle,
the President of the E. and c., to Eng
land, to see if he could not negotiate fol
the extending of his road to Chicago
The result of his mission was that tht
Evansville and Charlottesville is now be
ing extended to that city, forming di
rect air line from Terre Haute via Dan
vile, H., and running very near the Stat
line of Illinois the whole route. Thi
road will be finished about the 1st of Sep
TENDER, and will give to the South from
| Nashville one of the most direct routes t.
Chicago, besides opening q large section
of country that has never before enjoy
railroad facilities.
| The great convention OF railroad ticke
agents of the United States, sits in Sa
vannah, on the 28th of March. Ever.
railroad of any great length, will be rep
resented in making an adjustment &
through and way rates of freight. Tn
matter Is now giving the Legislatures o
Mississippi, Indiana, Virginia and othe
States, great trouble.
The Memphis Appeal says:
"Mr. D. H. Elliott, General Southern
Agent Kansas Pacific Railway, is at tn
OvertOn, from whom we learn gram
Southern excursion 10 Denver, Colorado
and the Rocky Mountains, is on the tspi
for this summer. The preliminaries wi
be arranged at the General Ticket Agents
Convention, 10 be held at Savannah, Ga
March %. Col. Mclean may call an
answer in person the invitation extende
10 our Revolutionary Fathers to visit tn
Rocky Mountains on the 4th of july"