The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-04-15
NO 16


NUMBER OF trains in the last few
days.
The Union Express Companv Is
making strenuous efforts to work
up fruit and vegetable trade FROM
this place, apd for this reason IL
will offer liberal rates TO shippers.
The afternoon trains from the
south are usually late-sometimes
from three TO four hours. The de-
Iays are generally caused by watt
ing for connections at terminal
points.
The country merchants are buy
ing literally this season. We no.
ticsd good deal of freight in the
depot for st. Joseph and Loretto-
both German settlements in the
southern portion of Lawrence
county.
We noticed several carloads Of
walnut logs on the depot platform
Monday. They are To be shipped
70 Campbel's Station where they
will be sawed. This speaks we'll
for the enterprise of our mill men.
The receipts at Pulaski Station,
for freight and passenger iares du-
ing the month of March, aggrega-
ted nearly $4,000. During the
same period the express company
collected charges TO the amount
of $3.50.
Maj. Geddes, superintendent, and
Maj Joe LCckhart. general agent of
the l.. d N. road, passed here Tues
day, ca route to the Black Warrior
on a hshlpg excursion. Mr.. Dunn
furnished them with fine lot of
minnows and If they do not have
glorious sport it will not be his
fault.
A new locomotive belonging to
he Louisiana Western Railroad
passed here Monday. The gauge
being feet, 81 inches, it could not
make the journey on its own wheels,
hence, it was transported on q
heavy fiat car constructed for the
purpose. The engine proper, which
weighed. 30 tons. was loaded on
one fiat and the tank on another.
Mr.. Val Rose, general superin-
tendent Of the Union Express Com
pany, accompanied by Mr.. w. M.
Lyons, route agent, passed over the
road Saturday. They had been 20
Mobile making arrangements for
taking possession of the line from
that city TO Montgomery on May
10th. The company is rapidly ex-
tending its business, and we may
look for other conquests soon. 1t
already operates 5000 miles of rail-
road and it is quite likely, by mid
summer, that it will control 5000
miles.
Mr.. Dunn, the polite and efficient
agent at this place. takes us % task
Tor our article last week relating
to the excessive charges made by
his road on shipment of marble
consigned TO a Pulaski firm. He
says, if our stat, ments were true,
the parties aggrieyed were evidently
overcharged, and that they should
have presented their bills of lading
and freight bills To him with u view
10 having the matter iairly adjusted.
He states further that there has
Deen no advance In rates in any di-
rection that he is aware of, and TO
him our position appears absurd
tor no railroad company would
have the temerity to double their
rates at a jump on one class Of
freight, leaving the others I'M
touched. We cheerfully give Mr..
Dunn the benefit of this explana-
ton, for we quite understand the
honorable motives which induce
him To defend his road from re-
proach. As a faithful servant Of
the company he could do no less,
and his warmth IN this direction in
creases. If that he possible, our
warm personal regard for the man.
Still, we are constrained to say that
there is no little complaint in this
community at the rates OF freight at
present charged by the company.
by many, they are regarded as ex-
cessive, and whether there is just
ground for the feeling or not, it
exists all the same. Mr.. Dunn,
however. is never included in the
complaints; nor is he 10 any way
charged with giving rise TO them.
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