The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-09
OUR RAILROADS.
News, Notes and Personals Here and
Along the Lines.

The advance in rates did not increase the
demand for cars.
Ex-poiceman Fox has accepted posi-
ton on the Cincinnati Southern.
There remains but fifty. miles of the
Southern Railroad incomplete.
NJ. J. H. Foot, of the Star Union Line,
has gone on pleasure trip to Michigan.
Within few months stock in the c., c.,
c. & l. Road has advanced from % to 81 u
points.
TheI., C. & l.. Road brought into this
city Sunday two hundred and sixty-two
loaded cars.
Mr.. Shoemaker President of the c., II. &
D. Road, has gone East to remain until
September.
Mr.. L. f. Fuller, Division Freight Agent
of the p, c. & st. L. Road, is confined at
home by sickness.
Mr.. A. c. Finney has been appointed
Agent OF the South Shore Line in place of
"A. II. Pape, resigned.
Six of the engineers on the l., C. & T..
Road, who are paid on the mileage basis,
made Sl35 last month.
The Great Western Dispatch and South
they will be competitive.
twenty-five miles of iron rails on the
G., H. & d. Road, are to be replaced with
steel ones during the season.
The sale of tickets for the Lake Superior
and st. Lawrence excursions has been un-
usually brisk during the past week.
]. w. Pillsbury, ticket agent at the
Grand Hotel, has gone with his family to
Boston, and will be absent several weeks.
The excursion via the c., c., C. & |. last
Thursday to Niagara Falls took seven hun
dred and seventeen passengers from this
city.
The Atlantic & Great Western Railroad
has averaged two hundred passengers per
day to Lake Chautauqua during the past
week.
The L., c. q L. track, from South Coving-
ton to COvington, which connects their line
with the Kentucky Central, will be COM
pleted this evening.
The earnings of the 0. h M. Road for the
three weeks past have never been euuaed
in the same length of time since the road
went into operation.
The Cincinnati Southern Road received
yesterday powerful engine from the Bald
win Locomotive Works which will he used
for special freight and switching purposes
On August 18th the B. & o. have an ex-
cursion to Niagara Falls; c., II. g. d., the
14th, have one to the same point, and Au-
gust Goth an excursion TO the Soldiers
Home, Dayton, Ohio.
John r. McCord will run a special train
from Cincinnati to Richmond, Ind, and
return on Sunday August 18th. The tram
will leave the c., H. & d. Depot at 7:l5 a.
m. Round-trip tickets 81 SO.
Mr.. Ogent Agent of the L., r. & Ft
Smith; ]. D. Welsh Agent OF the X, P. &
N. p. Railroad and Jonn Howard, of the
Iron Mountain, have gone to st. Louis in
the interest of their respective lines.
A. J. Smith, General Ticket Agent, G. B.
Thomas, General Manager, and Robert
Blee, General Superintendent of the c., c.,
C. & l., and II. NJ. Bronson, General
Ticket Agent of the c., S. & c., were in the
city Wednesday.
The new rolling stock which the Cincin-
nati Southern Railroad has contracted for
is as follows: 6 mogul engines, 16 standard
passenger and freight engines, 325 box cars
l25 coal fats. 80 stock cars baggage cars
1S cabooses and passenger and postal cars.
Mr.. Perry Griffith, Travelling Agent of
the c., r. /. p. Railroad; c. G. Walte (son
of Chief Justice Waitel Superintendent of
the GAINESVILLE Division OF the Pan Handle;
G. W. Buskirk, of New York; and Daniel
Ripley have been in the city during the
week.
The contractors who are building the
track of the Cincinnati Southern Line from
their depot on Gest street to the Plum
street Depot have had the time extended
thirty days longer than the time agreed.
The time now for its completion is Noyem-
ber 1st.
1t is reported that the Adams Express
Company. chagrined over the action of
the Louisville 4 Nashville Road In cutting
them out of their Southern business will
soon build line to connect with the Gin
cinnati Southern either at Harrodsburg or
Danville.
OFFICE CoMMIssARY OF SUBSISTENCE,
TUscuMBIA, ALA, july 30, 1862.
MEssRs. J. & G. MAGuIRE: Your Maguire's s