The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-01-18
RAILROAD ITEMS.

Capt. Tom Hutcherson, of the l..
Il n. road, was circulating among his
many friends here few hours last
Tuesday.
Davidson and Wilson counties have
sold their stock in the Tennessee and
Pacific Railroad TO the Nashville,
| Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
Company.
The Louis rille, Padncah and South
western Railroad. with all its belong>
ings, was transferred Tuesday to the
Louisville, Nashville and Great South
ern Line.
The Memphis and Little Rock rail-
road has now one thousand laborers
employed On the road bed and track
for the purpose of getting both into
first class order. Nearly half the
number IS employed on a stretch of
six miles d, the bottom.
The Nics.ern and Atlantic, Nash
vile, Chattanooga and St. Louis and
the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern Railway Companies have
perfected arrangements for running a
line of Pullman palace sleeping cars
from Atlanta, Georgia, to st.
Louis, without change, eOery day IN the
,reek. These cars have been running
for the past week and have already
become immensely popular with the
public.
The Louisville & Nashville & Great
Southern Railroad paid on the 10th
inst, into the State Treasury S27 ,095.-
SO, the amount due the State for taxes
on that portion OF the road operated
in Tennessee, as required by the act
of March, 1875, regulating the ASSESS
ment Of taxes upon railroads. This
amount is about. Ii per cent. more than
was paid on the earnings of 1875, and
represents per cent. upon the gross
earnings of so much of the road as lies
in this State.
The name "Central" seems to be
an unlucky one for railroads. The
Vermont Central went into the hands
of receiver long ago. The New
Jersey Central is in danger Of the
same fate. The Michigan Central has
paid no dividends for four years. The
Illinois Central divided only two per
cent. for the last six months. The
Florida Central is soon to be sold out
hv the State of Florida. The Great
New York Central alone remains un-
harmed, hut its head Is gone, aud
there is no telling what will happen
to it. Supersiiti"us people willdouht
less make Il note Of these ficts.-N.
T. Sun.
To this list may lie added the Mis-
sissippi Central, which is in the hands
of receiver; and the Tennessee
Central, which is-is-is yet darkly in
the future.
With the addition of the New Or
leans, St. Louis and Chicago line. the
Railway Age says the Illinois Central
becomes the owner of some sixteen
hundred and sixty miles of road-a |
mileage exceeded by very few cum-
panies in the country. From Sioux
City, the western end Of its Iowa
road, 10 New Orleans, it will have a
continuous line of thirteen hundred |
and fiftv miles, with branch of two |
hundred and fifty miles from Cen
tralia to Chicago, and of eighty miles
from Waterloo, Iowa, to the MINES,
sofa State line-a splendid system Of
road, well>Luilt, well-eqnipped, we'll
managed, and extending from latitude
43 to 30 degrees--from the northern
snow drifts to the regions of perpetual
summer.
The following gentlemen constitute
the officers in charge of respective de-
partments of the Mississippi Central
railroad, extending from Cairo, Hin
ois to Canton, Mississippi, all under
the control of Gen. X. L. Nicely, re-
ceiver; II. l.. Walker, treasurer, Boil
ivar, Tennessee; r. S. Stedman, aud
itor, Bolivar, Tennessee &. III. Sour
lock, assistant general freight agent,
Bolivar, Tennessee; John I'll. Perry,
general ticket agent, Bolivar, Tennes-
sec; Il. n. Colquhoun, superinten-
dent Mississippi division, Bolivar,
Tennessee John G.. Mann, superin-
tendent Tennesseea and Kentucky divis-
ion, Bolivar, Tennessee John L.
Becton, master mechanic Mississippi
division, Mater Valley, Mississippi;
ED. Anderson, master mechanic, Ten
neSsee and Kentucky division, Jack
san, Tennessee q. ID. Pierce, road
master Tennessee and keatucky di-
vision, Bolivar, Tenn; J. X. Fulsen,
road master Mississippi division,
Water Valley, Miss; L. j. Martin.
road master Mississippi division. Du-
rant, Mississippi; John &. Febiger,
purchasing agent, Bolivar. Tennessee;
George NJ. Dugan. ear agent and
telegraph, Bolivar.
Tennessee.
The Excursion.