Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-15
PERSONAL ANo GENERAL.

Inc length Of rails used on crack English
railways is thirty f-et. Some Of the road
use rails tweuty-oue or twenty four feet long.
The London and Northwestern company
contemplate usiog siKty-f1Ot railL
The Pensac1ia Gqzeae thinks that the
managers Of the Atlanta Exposition should
have had a RAILROAD day" as the success Of
the exposition was due to the large subscrip-
tions made by the railroads in the beginning,
aud after it was well under way TO the reduc-
ton Of rates to one cent a mile.
China is at last building railroads and
Constructing Geographic lines. The tele-
graphic lines between Pekin, Tisnisin and
Shanghai will be completed this year. The
emperor has granted permission for a rail-
road from Pekin to the port OF Tisntsin, 20
miles long, and thence 10 the Eangtsekiang
river, a distance OF 800 miles further south.
This Is a great change from the past policy
Of the government, which not long ago
bought up and suppressed a railroad opsr-
a'ed by foreign capitalists.
The Cincinnati gazette says that a more
outrageous pro sit on was never presented
TO an intelligent people for their indorse-
ment than this Kentucky senate bill No. AZ,
entitled, IAN act to prevent extortion and
discrimination in the transportation Of freight
aud passengers by railroad corporations"
the object Of which, it is claimed, is TO fix
and regulate passenger and freight rates in
NAAAA lat III I II EA1Ller Il dM u 4 = tu-
forced, twill, without doubt, not only fix the
rates, but it will elk" the railroads as we'll.
Its provisions are well calculated to make
every railway corporation doing business in
that State heartily wish that it were possible
for them 10 remove their props rty TO a safer
place. II should have been called an act to
cup bleed, a~d leech the railway companies,
ami 10 prevent any further development of
the mineral and agricultural interests OF
Kentucky.
The Immigrant OF the Northern Pacific is
receiving the attention Of Congress. The
original grant was made by an act passed 10
1864. That act gave to the company 40 see
tons of land per mile, or about ., 200 acres,
in the Territories and half as much per mile
IN the States through which the line might
Tn company was required 10 com
plete the road by July 4, 1876. The time
was extended two years in 1866, and in 1868
a law was enacted making the limit 1877. 1t
appears from a letter written by L1ni Conn
missioner Armstrong in 1850 that the ones
ton as to the time for the completion Of the
road was pbssed upon ia the department on
} une II, 1879, and 1t was held that under the
original act and the amendments the time
not expire until July 4, 1879, AMI that
the government could take no action in rela-
tion to the forfeiture Of the grant until one
year thereafter, or July 4. 1880. In the last
Congress a bill was introduced in the Senate
% extend the time still further. 1t was
but not acted upon. a re-
port was made by a minority OF the
committee, and in this report it was declared
hat the company had utterly failed to comply
with the terms Of its charter, and that the
and grant had lapsed. The date of the re-
I)rt was April q, 1880. II was a'so said
hat aboutG 600 miles of the road had been built
II 900 900 acres nt Iani thereby earned.
'ners wrrs 5000. 900 more to be earned.
.4Tge tracts If lh-ss lands having recently
een Transferred to the railroad ompan
IN Ter rulings male By Mr.. Sshurz wlen sec
etary of the interior, the S nate has called
or al papers, correspondence, orders and
relating to these lands 10 the de.
'qrtmtnt OF the interior. Mr.. Cassidy, of
! braska, has Introduced a bill in the
Ioase to restore to the public domain the
that have been assigned to the North
RI Pacific since the original grant lapsed.