The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-26
OUR RAILROADS.
Notes, News and Personals Here and
Along the Lines.

STOCK OF the T., u, Z. l. ROAD mas gone
up three points within the past few days,
The Vandalia and the o. & M. Roads
have been cutting passenger rates from So
to 81 a ticket
Mr.. H. M. Bronson, General Freight
Agent of the G., s. & G. Road, is at the
Grand Hotel.
President G. P. Huntington, of the Chesa-
neak & Ohio Road, was at the Burnet
House yesterday.
On account of dull times gang Of men
and an engine have been taken from the
NJ. 4 G. yards, this city.
On and after May 1st the first excursion
tickets to all the watering places in the
East will be put on sale.
Mr.. E. Gallup, General Passenger Agent
of the Boston & Albany Road, left this city
for Chicago Thursday evening.
The Directors of the Kentucky Central
Road are making extensive preparations to
extend their road to Richmond, Ky.
Mr.. VIM. Hallzath has given up his clerk
| ship at Storrs Station, on the o. & NJ. Road,
and Mr.. James Dorsey has taken his place.
Several very slight changes have been
made in the timetables of the NJ. & G. and
| the b. & O. Roads, and will go into effect
the middle of next month.
General H. P Ransom, General Ticket
Agent of the Kentucky Central Road, and
his estimable wife, will shortly take up
their residence in Covington.
The Baltimore & Ohio people say in refer
ence to their reported lease of the L. & N.
Road, that the first intimation had of it
was from published statement to that
effect.
The Cincinnati Southern Road has made
omnibus arrangements by which passen-
gers can leave the Clinton Hotel in Coving-
ton and make connections with the trains
at Ludlow.
| A car load of emigrants from the South
ern Provinces of Germany passed through
this city on the L., c. & L. Road, bound for
Arkansas and Texas, where land has been
purchased for them.
Round trip tickets will be sold by the c.,
II. & D. Railroad Company for 81 so to
those wishing to attend the dedication of
the Wernley Chidren's Home, at Rich
mond, Ind, Saturday, May 4th.
The Cincinnati Southern Road has made
a change in its time, SO that after Monday
next trains will leave the Cincinnati depot
at o'clock a. m. and at p m., and ar,
rive at 1918 a. m. and 6:20 p. m.
Mr.. C. P. Huntington has held several
conferences with railroad men in this city
who are interested in the completion of the
road from Mt. Sterling, KY, to Hunting
ton, West Va, with Cincinnati connec.
ton.
The people of Hamilton are making Sc
rious inquiries about the contemplated
narrow-gauge railroad which was to be fin,
lshed between that city and Cincinnati this
summer, but as yet has not been com
menced.
Over one thousand seven hundred tickets
were sold for the benefit given at Prices
Hill Thursday night to Mr.. Gus. Barnett
the brakesman, who was hurt Oh the NJ. &
c. Road, few months ago. A special train
was run to and from Oakley and Norwood
1t is understood from reliable source
that an agreement has been arrived at be
tween the owners of the Springfield divi
sion bonds and the o. & NJ Company by
which the latter agrees to cancel one million
of bonds and those in the hands of private
holders are to be reduced to twelve
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
| 1t is stated on good authority that thu
offices of the p, c. & L. Road and the Stal
National and Union Lines will at an earl,
date be removed from their presen
location on Fourth street, west of Main, tC
the building recently occupied by the Ga
Zette office.
Martha o. Anthony instituted suit yes
terday tor the recovery of $1,000 from til,
Trustees of the Southern Road for the de
struction of the only ingress and egress O
her lot on Mclean avenue, alleged to have
been sustained by the building of tn,
Southern Road.
The Chicago express, which left the G..
H. & D. Depot al 7 :23 last evening met will
an accident when about one hundred yard
north of the Eighth-street bridge, caused b,
misplaced swicth. The engine, baggag,
car and forward passenger car ran off tn
track, but no great damage was done be
sides delaying the trains for about thre
: hours.
The project for building the Cincinnati
+ Mt. Airy, Venice & Liberty Narrow Gaug
Railroad which was ag tated year or NOR
ago but soon after died, has been suddenl
e revived by a proposition from Mr.. ]. Z
7 Watson, of New York, late U. S. Civil En
i gineer, representing a company of Easter
:, capitalists who offer to enter upon tn
. work as soon as $50 900 shall have been SUI
! scribed south of Mt Airy.
: Ten miles of track on the Cincinnati
o Southern Railroad below Somerset is read
s to be turned over to the Trustees, and ba
e lasting is being pushed to Potter's Branch
J., Thirty miles of track on the southern en-
will be laid by the first week in May. Fou
p hundred and sixty-five tons of steel rails ar
:. on the road, and twenty-one hundred ton
i more on the way. Four Blake crushers fo
i breaking ballast are at work, and thre
more coming. The Keystone Bridge Con
pany has three gangs of men at work, on
on each end and one in the middle.