The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-27
THE RAILROADS.

sing here for the west.
We learn that Capt. Loving and
Mr.. Cantwell, of the L. q \. road
here, went to Humboldt on the train
last Friday, got through their bust
ness, and, being in a hurry, walked
back, beating the train an hour or
two. Not Loving that kind of exer-
else, they Cant-well take another stroll
until their bHsters heel up.
A railroad conductor combats the
current hallucination that the coming
generation of Americans will be puny
and sickly. His experience Of many
years convinces him that the contrary
is the case, and that the average
American child of under twelve"
who travels on half-fare ticket is as
large as a boy or girl of fifteen or six
teen used to be in ante-railroad days.
The L. q \. r. r. had two cases
in the Humboldt Court since our last
issue. The widow of Moore, the
brakeman killed here a year or two
since, gained a suit for $1,000 damag-
es, which has been appealed. Pat.
GRinan, of Humboldt, who has many
friends here, got Judgment for $3.50.
The conductor charged him excessive
fare-more than five cents per mile
and put him off because he would not
pay it.
The Kansas Pacific Railway appears
in the field early for the pleasure trav-
ell for the coming season. Jas. F.
Aglar, the General Agent of that
Company, at St. Louis, having laid
on our table a most attractive and
valuable illustrated book on Colorado
1t IS q volume Of sixty-fve pages Of
printed matter, with nearly one humid
red illustrations of the remarkable
scenery Of the Rocky Mountains. This
book is published for free distribution.
last weeks Erin Reriew says:
Thursday evening, after shutdown,
near Benton's switch, some cowaIdlv
fend and miscreant, placed t"o rails
across Tie track, about fifty yards
apart, and as train No. Z was going
down the road the engineer, Mr.. Jesse
L. Broome, discovered the obstruction
and stopped his train in tine and got
the rails of. When he returned on
TRAIN 20. 3 one ct the rails had hean
replaced, ard the pilot of the engine
threw it off; 50, providentially, no
harm was done.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has de
cided that where drunken and I'M
ruly passenger is put off railroad
tram, and is then run over by an
other train, the railroad company is
not liable. 1t was .he duty Of the
conductor to protect other passengers
against him by ciecting him, and if he
was too drunk to take care OF himself
after that, it was only his own fault
Similar law has been laid down il
this and in the most OF the States Of
the Union, and it seems to be about
settled that if a man will get drunk,
the safest place to do it Is at home.
Notice ii given that the Chicago,
st. Louis and New Orleans company
will pay on presentations at the Office
in New York principal and accrued
interest of all valid Mississippi Cen
trai frst-mortgage bonds, bearing the
Endorsement of Charles Butler, Aza-
riah c. Flagg and Jacob Thompson,
trustees, which have already natured,
or Will during the presenr year. Hold
ers will be given the option of taking
payment in cash or in the frst-mert-
gage bonds of the present consolidated
company, which are lien on the
Whole line froE New Orleans to East
Cairo.