Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-02
PARAGRAPHS.

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WE NOTICE in the Canton Mail that
Colonel h. 8. Mc(bmb intends to
build q f1rst-class hotel at the railroad
depot at Canton.
THE Albany and Brunswick rail-
road, Of Georgia, Is S3,383,225 Is in
debt, yet it received 100000 aid In
gold from the State several years ago.
AT present the Nashville and Chat
tanooga railroad has 166 cars In the
| Green line; the Weitern and Atlantic
railroad $50; and tie Georgia only 30.
TIE RATE Of fare from Mobile,
Alabama, to New York city, via
Montgomery, Lynehburg, etc, has
been reduced from forty-seven to forty
dollars.
A CORRESPONDENT OF the Railroad
Gazette wants Pullman to invent an
attachment to his coaches that will
/ keep the occupants of berths from
rolling out, In case OF accident, II the
cars should roll over ON its side.
The subscription OF Warner county,
Mississippi, to the Vicksburg, YazOo
and Canton railroad, was Endorsed by
q majority Of 786, the total voting be-
ing 924-only 1876 against. The rail-
road fever RACES In Mississippi. It Is
a good thing to have.
WRITING OF the Mobile and North.
western railroad, the Helena, Arkan-
sas, Clarion states that work has be-
gun on both ends of the line, and
gives a List Of seven different con-
tracing parties who have com suenced
operations, and predicts that the road
will be built without delay.
THE Ghort-Line railroad trains,
says the Louisville Evening Ledger,
are all running on time. The most
thorough and se~rIltinizing examine
ton Of the entire line of the road is
now made daily, and we predict the
recent accident, ore which is likely to
occur upon any railroad, will not in
the least affect travel over this popu-
lar route.
OF THE Lynchturg and DanviIle
road, the Lynchburg Virginian says:
We learn that the force on this road
has been largely Increased the present
week, and the work is being rapidly
pushed to completion. We confident
~ anticipate q ride over the road to
Danville in the cars by the middle OF
September, or the first Of October at
the latest"
THE Pocahontas (Ark.l Courier
says that during the last week about
8 score Of wagons, belonging to the
Iron Mountain branch Of the Cairo
and Fulton railroad, passed through
that town, south ward, loaded with
picks, shovels and wheel-barrows. It
Is understood that they are intended
for Jacksonport, and that work will
commence at once from that point to-
ward the Missouri line.
THE Louisville Evening Ledger
says: Few roads In the country have
more elegant passenger coaches than
the Louisville anG Nashville, and no
road in the South or West takes more
trouble to accommodate travellers over
its line. To the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad Louisville is to-day in
debted, to agreat extent, for her pros.
perity. Whatever will injure this
road will iDiure al the material inter
ests of the city. We are pleased to re-
cord the fact that both the passenger
and freight business of the Louisville
and Nashville and the Louisville and
Memphis roads is steadily increasing.
ACTIVE railroad movements are
about to commence in Southwest Lou
isisna. The railroad, which is to be
built in twelve months, extending
from Berwiek's Bay to the Sabine
river, the boundary b5tween Texas
and Louisiana, Is a part of the New
Orleans, Mobile and Texas railroad
formerly the Chattanooga and a part
Of the original New Orleans, Opelousas
and Great Western railroad. That
part extending from Berwick 8 Bay,
opposite Brashear City. to VermiIlion-
vile, is part Of the OpelOusas railroad.
That part extending from VermilliOn-
vile to the Sabine Is part OF the New
Orleans, Mobile and Texas railroad.
| When this road is completed to the
Sabine, about one hundred miles west
of Vermflionville, the connection with
Houston viii be rapidly made. The
distance is about one hundred and
eight miles, and the old railroad Is
now In running order from Houston
nearly to the Sabine. The railroad
from Donaldsonville west is graded
about twenty miles, but not froned.
From DonaldsOnville to New Orleans
the distance Is sixty miles; road In
running order. From the present
western terminus of this railroad on
the Atehafalaya to VermillionvilIe the
distance Is about forty-fve miles.
No work has been done on this road
west Of the Atehsfalayas From Yer
mlliOnville to Opelousas the distance
is about twenty-five miles; road
graded. This is part-of the old Ope-
lousas railroad. Distance from Ope-
lousas to Alexandra Is about seventy
miles; eighteen miles Of the road, near
Alexandria, graded. From Alexan-
dria to Shreveport the distance Is
about one hundred and twenty miles.
-Nelo OrLedns Picdynne.