Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-05-24
Railroad Matters.

Ns~The Washington Republican says that
the Washington City and Point Lookout Rail-
road Company have concluded contract with
Maj. Vandenburg to grade the above road from
the Eastern Branch to the Charles county line
for the sum of $780, 900. Maj v is one of the
largest contractors in Washington and at the
present time is working about 500 hands He
will be ready in a short time to commence his
work. The President of the company, Mr.. S.
I. Suit has received letter from the financial
agent of the company, from London, stating
that he had made satisfactory arrangements.
w-A large force of the workmen will be
put to work Immediately laying the track up
Sixth street and on the depot site at the corner
of Sixth and B for the Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad Depot. Temporary platforms will be
erected on the depot site, so that trains may be
run, and the depot building will be erected af-
ter the track shall have been laid The build
ing is to be of iron, and workmen are already
engaged in preparing sections for it. Wash.
Star, May Is.
lss~ The Washington Patriot, of 21st says
AT the corner of Sixth street and Virginia ave
nue. an engine-house has been erected for fouIS
engines, and fine turn-table constructed
mostly of iron and so well balanced that one
man can easily turn it. The tunnel near the
Navy Yard has had drains dug and covered
throughout its length, and the bottom has been
paved with stone. The entire track, with the
exception of a few miles in Charles county, has
been laid and the work of surfacing is pro-
crossing satisfactorily. The cars are beingl
built at Altoona, Pa, twelve of them beingI
finished, and it is expected that the road will
be formerly opened in June, and trains will be
Immediately put on regular time.
Gg~A bill was introduced in the Senate by
Mr.. Spencer, Saturday, giving the Orange and
Manassas Gap Railroad Company the right to
run trains over the Long Bridge constructed
by the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Com
pany, on the conditions named in the act, Civ
ing the latter company the right to construct
the bridge, and to lay a single track along
Maryland avenue to the canal, thence south
wardly along the canal to B, G or D street
south, and along one of those streets by tun-
mel under the public grounds east of the Capt.
tol to Delaware avenue or First street east, and
thence to the line of the baltimore and Ohio
Railroad; the company to pay all damage to
individual property, and one-half the cost of
arching the canal from Maryland avenue to the
street on which the railroad track enters the
tunnel. The right for the company to erect a
depot along any of the streets named is made
contingent upon the consent Of the District
Legislature.
rs The completion of negotiations for the
transfer of the Alexandria and Washington
Railroad to one of he connections of the Penn
sylvania Central Railroad will be shortly an
nounced.
Ng-The bill authorizing a subscription of
$500, 200 by the District of Columbia to the
capital stock of the Piedmont and Potomac
Railroad was passed by the House on Monday,
and, having previously passed the Senate, a
waits the Presidents signature. This road
will unite with the Chesapeake and Ohio at
Staunton, Va, 40 miles from Washington,
and will shorten the distance between St. Louis
and Washington l27 miles. The President is
Chs. H. Sheriff., who says the road will be
completed within three years.
To Tobacco Planters.--Rufus Robey,
Esq, Patuxent City, Charles county, writes,
February 8, 1872: 81 have been using Excel
sior, manufactured by J. J. Turner, & Co., for
the past five years on tobacco and it never fail
ed during all that time. l think it advisable
to stick to it as long as it contin uesto give
satisfaction"