The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-09-24

srapnlc adVlces. On August 23, the
DrOgoon Mountains were passed, and
on August "a race commenced for
FL Paso, Texas, 200 miles from the end
OF the track. The next four days track
laying progressed as follows:
| Eect.
August 24......" ......~....l2,20 200
August ....................l,6 600
ANgnst 20.............. 500
August 200
Total"......... 500
This shows an average of l2, 200 feet
per day, or over two and one.thfrti
miles. 1t Is said that the Texas line
will be reached by January 1st, 1881,
and In face of this record there Is no
reason to doubt 1t. The road was COM
pleted on the 2sth 1114 miles east Of
Tuscon, and within twenty-four miles
of the New Mexico boundary.
Since January 26, 1880, or 1s3 work.
ing days, this company has built and
put in complete operation 175a miles of
steel rails, and all their material and
supplies had to be transported from the
Pacific coast. The rails were carried
| around the Horn in sailing vessels and
| taken on the cars at Wilmington, the
seaport OF Los Angels. The cross ties
are all of Oregon pine brought down
| in sailing vessels to the same point,
| and transported some 600 or 700 miles.
The country travcrsed has been mainly
barren waste, destitute of wood and
water, and intcrsectcd with mountain
ranges.
From Fort Yuma, OH the Colorado
river, the distance to the boundary line
of New Mexico is 3S4 miles, and to lIl
Paso 55S miles. From San Francisco
to FL Paso it is 1888 miles.
On reaching Shakspere, 1870 miles
west of Ell Paso, the Southern Pacific
! makes its first connection with the At
lantic system OF railways, as it crosses
there the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe on its way to Guayamas.
| But the California capitalists have
made ati alliance with tho Pierccs of
Boston, who are now extending the
Galveston, Harrisburg and San An
tonic railroad westward towards Et
Paso. 1t is not probable, however,
that the California road will stop its
operations ut the Texas line, but will
most likely push on to u junction at
any point, so that there is ground to
expect that within IL twelve months
the Southern overland route will he
completed.
| From Los Angeles to the mouth OF
the Mississippi the distance over this
route is 1901 miles, or 26 miles less
than from San Francisco to Omah ha.
The through line from San Francisco
to Now Orleans will cover 1888 miles
Of track, or nearly 1000 miles less than
the northern route from Now York to
the Pacific.
After the 1st of November, married
women in Mississippi can hold and
ALLEVIATE property independently of
their husbands, and can, in fact, do
anything with their property that Il
! man could do. They can even sue
their husbands under tho new code. In
fact, they will be, in all property ques-
tions, the equal Of their husbands.
| This is the first State in the Union, and
perhaps the first organized political
society in the world, which has adj
mitted and recognized, by legal enact
ment, that a woman is as good as n
| man.
a prominent wholesale wooilen incr-
chant of New York, has invented n
puzzle that he thinks will rival the
Boston 13-15-14 game. lie has had n
lot of his puzzles made up. Nine let
ters are printed on blocks, one letter
OH each block. The blocks are dumped
! upon table, and tho trick is to form
them into n square in such an order
three of them reading horizontally and
three cperpendicularly.
Nothing so dangerous and so difficult
OF detection rs the current 800 counter
felt note has ever been known in
America. The plate Is so arranged
that 1t can be adjusted TO suit the issue
of any national bank. This makes
discovery of the fraud almost impossi.
BILE, except at the treasury, and there
strange to say, the cheat can only be
proven by the superiority of the work.
manship expended upon it.
Genuine bank notes of one denomi.
nation arc not exactly alike. IT is nee.
cssary to make new bed-piece, aa il
Is called, for every 80 to 100 banks, and
1t is impossible to make them alike.
The principal differences arc in the
borders, though other slight variations
exist.
Gen. Pcmbcrton, who surrendered to
Grant at Nicksburg, has bought Il cot
tage at Cape May.