Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1873-07-29
RAIL ROAD WAR.

RAIL lSOAD w Ah.
1t is unnecessary to disguise the
fact, or to attempt it, for it cannot
be disguised, that the rail road
question now towers above all 9th
ers. 1t has begotten the new
Changers UPRISING. 1t has ruled
Congress and State legislatures,
and rides paramount on every
! election breeze in the land. 1t
has in its growth of power, out
stripped the consolidation tenden-
cies Of the Federal Government,
and the day is not distant we fear
when it will make and depose
| Presidents, declare war, conclude
peace, and dictate the policy which
will rule all Americans. We clip
the following articles from our ex-
changes on this subject, and leave
the public TO ponder them.
A RAILROAD RING CoNvULsED-A
GREAT HIGHWAY STOLEN AND
DESTROYED.
! HUNTSvINLE, ALA, July 13.-NOt
more than a year ago Tom Scott
(sometimCs called the Southern Rail
way Security Company leased the
| Memphis and Charleston road, three
! hundred miles long, from Memphis to
! Chattanooga. Ii was stipulated i'll the
! lease that the road should be thorough
| ~ repaired, and supplied with new
rails and rolling-stock, and given at
once a "fist-class equipment" The
road is in wretched condition. The
eating-hOuses are vi!lainous, sleeping
cars infested with vermin till they be-
came iusufferahle and were taken OF
| the road, the passenger cars are villain
! ously filthy. and the road, people say,
| is purposely. destroyed, that it may
never constitute a route competing
! with SCOTS more costly lines through
| the CarOliuas and Georgia to Nicks-
/ burg, Shreveport, New Orleans, Texas
and the Pacific. In other words, it Is
| believed that Scott leased the road to
! destroy il, and the contract of lease
! defines no penalty for its violation. 1t
| il also true that il was understood
when the lease was made that Scott
/ had contracted for tire Memphis and
Little Rock road, which was to be eX-
/ IL 81 N : nEth
! thence across Texas to the Pacific
Memphis thus became a point in the
| shortest line from New York city to
| Marshall, Texas. tine initial point OF
! Texas Southern Pacific. But Scott
has LITERALLY refused to have aught to
do with the road in Arkansas, and it is
certainly destroying the road-value-
! less as managed-between Memphls
and Chattanooga. In very truth it is
generally believed that Tom Scott and
| Newcomb, of the Memphis and Louis
Vile. and McComb-the three owning
nearly all the railroads il these States
have combined to destroy Memphis
and crush the Memphis and Little
Rock road, and thus prevent the ex-
/ tension of the road from Memphis to
| Shreveport. The result of this state OF
/ facts and of this alleged fraudulent
conduct on the part of Tom Scott is
the preparation of bill to be filed in
| the limited States Court at Huntsville
| nraying that the contract with Tom
| SCOTS ring be set aside, and that
! Scott's agents-Jacques and others--be
enioired from the furter destructive
use of the road and the prayer is that
| the whole property be placed in the
/ hands of a receiver till the validity of
| the contract or lease be deter
! mined. The Stockholders of the
road. who leased to Scott, meet here
on the goth instant, and there will be a
| terrible struggle to control the action
of the body of Scott's friends and enc
mics. 1 am persuaded that by the
time this meeting occurs Scott will
own a majority of the stock, and that's
an end of the road. The price of the
stock, which is being quietly bought
I'D by Scott's representatives, may ad-
vance from Is to 50cents within TWEEN
ty-four hours after the publication OF
these facts.
Tom SCoTT AND HIS RIvALs.-The
Philadelphia Inquirer of last Saturday
HIS l1C AO4lONAh5 Pt'ANaS oBh
"Ihe Nea0 route to Washington. =
For several days past it has been ru-
mored that the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company intended TO withdraw its new
through train by the Columbia route
to Baltimore and Washington. This
has been found to be true, and as con-
sequence there will be no trouble, as
was anticipated. The passenger trains
on the new airline route will be dis
continued on Monday, and the trains
will be run over the Philadelphia,
Washington and Baltimore line. 1t
is understood that the new arrange
ment is the result of a consultation
of railway Officials of both lines. re-
Gently held, and will not initiate
against the interests of the travelling
public"
This seem to indicate that SC0Tr has
been beaten, or that his rivals have
conceded something that has caused
him to cease running his opposition
line. we know not which. The streets
of Richmond have been full of his
posters, offering 10 transport pas
sengers on the new opposition line.
All these offers will now Toe
withdrawn, OF course. His line