Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-05-21
TnE LIQUOR TRADE.

81 g5t The organ OF the liquor Interest in New
- York has taken pains to collect and group
rsrT- all the facts connecsed with the trade in
this country. The amount of tax on sririts
collected by the United States in 1872, was
.aYisT $49,z75516 36 This represents about
I0O,0O0OOO gallons, worth at wholesale
yrsg4 q SIS 100000, but which brought, at retail,
l W % about S317, 100000. This aggregates a
money interest of over S4O0000,0O0. The
.vss beer trade pays tax to the Government of
$3.50, ,49S 46. This represents retail val
ue Of over S212,0O0,000, which, added to
the value of the article TO the manufactur-
ers, represents money interest of Sbout
IA ar $500 100000. The wine trade represents
an interest of S75,OOOOOO The import
- a e., trade of liquors. beer and wine, represents
tas retail value of liquors of S27,OOO,000; of
s.-5a beer, 81, ,SOOOOO of wine, $1S5 100000; or
a total of nearly s165, 100000. Added to
all this, the capital invested in buildings
aud machinery, etc., together with the ex-
.-rCr ID penses connected directly and indirectly
,Hs.6 with the trade, the footing is at least ST.
5OO,0Oo,O00. This may be an over-esti-
mate; but the collection Of very nearly fifty
million dollars in revenue from liquors in
one year, to say nothing of the unknown
quanUbleS manufactured anu Cousuulou
that pay no tax of any kind, tells fearful
tale against the habits of the nation.
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TENNESSEE CENTRAL RAILROAD.
,- From the Trenton Gazette.
-alH ,. We are gratifed to chronicle the increas-
ing pcospec,s of the early building of the
..---r above road. The prospects, we may say,
-- are developing daily nearer and nearer into
absolute certainty. On Monday evening
Of this week the surveying party reached
this place from Huntingdon. From Hunt
"a inedof to McLemoresyie, however, it only
rrv8 devolved on Capt. InmAn TO measure the
distance, and make an estimate of the cost
of the road bed that has been graded from
the first to the latter place. The distance
from Huntingdon TO McLemoresville is nine
miles. The nine mile station is about one
quarter of a mile beyond McLemoresvine,
where it is intended to establish the
depot for th st place, ard where the line
surveyed leaves the graded road bed, near
4-~aT three quarters If a mile before its terminus
is reScned. The estimate as made by Capt.
-E1 j. b. Imam, an experienced and competent
rz engineer 10 repair this road be / is $l3,S5O.
Tbi. Ioad-bed originally cost the State a
. ~ very large sum of money, she lending her
,-l bonds 10 the Nashville and Northwestern
- Company. When this road was sold the
Nashville and Chat anOoga Railroad bought
it, am in the purchase the graded road-bed
% referred to- And this road-beJ, the last
nsmed company has subscribed as stock
withou. lien to the Tennessee Central at
- an estimate Of $4,000 From these fig
ures 1t will appear that the nine miles OF
road at the extreme end that brings us to
McLemoresvile will cost only about S34,
OOO And when it is remembered that this
is the roughest part of the line this is IA
vorabe indeed.
From McLemoresville Trenton the
survey shows the distance to be small
fraction over "a! miles. Gen. Tighman
some years ago in attempting to run what
has come to be called the straight line,
made the distance from this point to Nc
Lemoresyille % miles 100 feet. So there
is but little over a rnile of difference in the
two lines.
True, YOU can reach McLemo;esville un
der Tilghman's distance, but over line toe
rough and expensive to build railroad
OF the line from here to McLemoresv lie
about Is miles (wsile none of the line i
unfayorable) can be built exceedingly cheap
In fact on an avarage of not over two feet
as TO the height of embankment. This
great fact is the equivalent OF 'thousand
of dolarsn to th enterprise