The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-08-09
Railroad IteIas,

will certainly be sold this month. II
is understood that it will be bought
by the Illinois Central.
Tie loss to business for five DAYS on
the FIVE trunk lines, occasioned by the
strike, is figured up by the New York
Journal of Commerce at S26, $50. 000
The accommodation train was de,
layed Tuesday morning about four
hours by the breaking down of the en-
gine of a freight train the other side
of Mckenzie.
An engineer who takes striker
place on a railroad is denominated.
derisively, "Scab;" when q railroad.
er is discharged, he Is, in their ver-
nacular, ''goosed."
An engine blew up on the Mobile
and Ohio railroad, south of Falcon, a
few days since. Roadmaster Durham
and brakeman Little were bruised,
but not seriously hurt.
Both our aorth-bound trains were
delayed yesterday afternoon. On ac-
count of an accident to a freight at
OakfclG the Central was one hour late.
The collapse of a fue Of the locomo-
tive drawing the passenger train on
the Louisville roSa delayed the train
/ ut Humboldt nearly four hours.
The employees of the Western and
Atlantic railroad published . card at
Atlanta on Friday, condemning the
strike, ayesring they not only have no
intention to strike, but "will prompts
ly resist any interference, let it come
from what source it may" They ex-
press po fault OF eomplatpt witt past
treataent by the road.
Tie Jackson Tribune and Sun gays
ten or twelve brakegaen on the Gem
trail road attempted strike few days
since, when they we're discharged by
Capt. Mann. After being discharged,
james Galbo became so troubled he
took to drink, bad several fights, and
then attempted suicide by taking
laudanum. He was saved by prompt
measures.
Augusta Chronicle and Constitu-
tionalist. Mr. Wm. Ruston, the mas
ter mechanic OF the Georgia railroad
shops at Atlanta, has invented a
smoke-stack for locomotives which re-
tains cinderS and SCOT, This does
away yith flying cinders, which are
such annoyance to passengers The
coal-burner Clinton, Engineer Del.
Tant, &ade trip from Atlanta for
the fra time Monday with one of
these sBoke>stack$. Mr. Tant says it
is perfect success.
Engine No. %, attached to the
train No. i, on the Knoxville branch
of the Louisville Il Nashville railroad,
run oyer and killed man midway
between Lebanon and st. Nary's,
about four o'clock Saturday afternoon.
Papers in his Possession identified him
as ". q. Cooper, a deaf mute. He
had a pass from the superintendent of
the Memphis d Little Rock railroad,
and appears to have been going to
Danville. The pass indicated that
he was a representative of some paper
for deaf mutes.
The Railway Age thinks it must
have occurred to the honest granger
last week, when the railways had
ceased to be operated, and his beef,
pork. grain, fruit and vegetables were
cut of from market, and, for the time
being, were practically valueless, that
after all railway transportation was
about the very cheapest of his blessings,
and that the question of a cent or two
more a hundred was very insignifi>
cant one compared with the cost and
character of the primitive modes of
carriage. Blessings are seldom ap>
preclated until shey have flown.
The Clarksville correspondent of
the Louisville Courier-Journal pays
the new Superintendent Of the NJ. d
l., +. r., the following handsome
and deserved compliment; "The APP
pointment of Major James Montgom-
cry as Superintendent Of the consoli-
dated divisions (Clarksville and Mem
phis) on the Louisville and Nashville
and Great Southern Railroad, Is a
most excellent selection, and is an
other proof of the sagacity of PRESS
dent Standiford. Maj. Montgomery
has earned his laurels by the closest
attention to his duties, from that of
Master Mechanic up to his present po-
sltion-the most important on the
whole line of the road. He ia. com
paratively speaking, a young man,
and his future bids fair to place him
upon the highest round of the ladder
in his profession"