The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-27
RAILROAD ITEMS,

and commodious depot at Tehama
A train ON the Denver & Rio Grande road was
thrown from the tra,k in Marshall pass and
rested on the edge of canon % 0 feet deep
II is rumored iha the April statement of the
pennsylvania road shows ~ q, 900 less earnings
tnan last year west of Pttsburg, ana Sl25 600 de-
crease east of that point
Our recent trip over the New Orleans Pacific
railroad rather surprised us us to its condition,
US we found 1t NUT smoother than we antCi-
pated from Manshel H. Shreveport the road.
D,d is IN most excellent condition. Trains are
run AZ slow speed, and hence any serious acct
ueht is prevented. Through trains are now run
ming on the road. [Natchitoches vindicator
EUREKA, KAN, May 23.-Presidcnt Francis
Herman, General Superintendent ] d. Hin,
Ticket Agent o Campbell, ot the ST. Louis. Fort
scott Wichita road, with forty ladies and gen.
uemen-promincnt citizens OF Fort Scott--came
over TO this place on an excur,ion yesterday
me new road Is completed to within three miles
OF Eureka, and the track win be laid into town
by Thur day. Eureka is having an impetus
such as II never before experienced The st
Louis, Fort Scott and wichita company conlem.
plate erecting s. o . hote, this summer The
new road Is being built in frst-cass order and
VIII be Of great advantage to this country.
HOW nest TO handle and transport the large
peach crop of Georgia and other southern states,
winch Is now fast ripening, furnishes fruitful
theme for discussion in the southern papers
The Atlanta Constitution of Il late date after n
long editorial dis iuisltion on the subject thus
a,u,'NiuuSo' L uc slluhllou Is simple one.
Ihere are 1000 car loads of peaches in Georgia
tnat VIII rlpen within month, and then await
cheap aud swift shipment. There are hundreds
OF cars hauled back 10 the west empty every
week me great cities OF the north and west
want the peaches, the railroads want freight
cargoes, the orchard men want market. sure.
y there ought be an accommodation that will
SUIT the three classes, and develop one OF the
state"
one day in 1862 CYRUS II Mccormick went to
the depot of the Pennsylvania railroad in Penn.
sylVanla to take Il tr-in for Chicago He had a
large quantity of valuable baggage with him.
ana before purchasing his ticket he went to see
mat the baggage was properly cared for. lie
was told that he would have to get his
ticket before his baggage could be put upon
the train. Having got his ticket he returned te
the haggage-car and found that his property
mad been put on the train, He was then called
upon to pay sS,25 for extra baggage, which he
property saying he would not go by the Penn.
sylvania railroad As the train was about to
start his property could not be taken of, and IL
was carried thr ugh 10 Chicago, where 1t was
destroyed in fire which consumed the railroad
depot He sued the railroad company for dam.
ages, ana IN 1869 obtained In the supreme court
verdict for sl1, 90, The case was carried to
the court of appeals, and the Judgment was
mere reversed, The case came on for second
trial in 1877, and Judge Douohue then directed a
verdict for Mccormick. The judgment ent. red
upon this verdict was reversed by the court of
appeals verdict for six cents damages was
directed by Judge Daniels OH the third trial but
the fourth trial, which took place before Judge
BaSsett and jury in the supreme court, was
ended to-day with q verdict for s1s,2is.54 dam
ages Its probable that the case will 20 once
more to the court Of appeals
WASHINGTON May pa representative of
the Alchlson, Topeka 4 Santa Re railroad says
that their cars win be running from M Paso on
the Flo Grande TO the city of chihuahua In
Mexico within sixty days. 1t is announced hat
the company will act upon the recent decision
OF the secretary OF the interior concerning the
canadian river branch of their road through
lhe Indian Territory They will abandon the
line and location on the north bank of the river,
aud put the road on the south side of the stream
The Milwaukee Sentinel says the land sales in
Dakota and Iowa are steadily increasing and
reports received In the. course Of the last few
days ut the Milwaukee land agencies state that
y wealthy, class of immigrants are settling
| III central and southern Dakota and
that fully $500 200 worth of land has been sold
III me latter state during April. The Chicago
milwaukee, Il 81. Paul Immigrant and land
offces were crowded with Canadian and Welsh
Immigrants, yesterday, making inquiries con.
corning lands and receiving Information CON
ceinins the western country. Reports from
Manitoba are TO the effect that the land sales OF
ihe 81 Pau, Minneapolis Manitoba road for
april amounted to si050i735, the number OF
purchasers being 49, and the land taken H..
S2s r acres. an average of about 100 acres
10 the buyer and So per acre. The
sales of the first four months Of the
year, January, February March and April, aggre.
gate sS7o0VsS6. the number of acres sold
being 81, al 30 the average per acre sisS, the
number OF buyers SOt, and the average ~ each
buyer about eighty acres. As these sales are all
a. actual setler' II appears that In the first third
of the year somewhere In the nelghborhood OF
500 families have taken homes on the company :
lanis. ana II mny be estimated that an equal
number have In the same time taken mp homes
on government lands within the territory trib-
utary IN the cOmpany's roads. There could be
no better Illustration OF the healthy develop.
ment OF the country or of the success of the
policy which Mr. J r. Power has stead IL pur.
sued since lie has had charge Of this company $
land department A stil better showing will un-
doubtFdly be made Al the close of this month,
f'r me sales of the first four days have amounted
/ to 81, rs acres.
FREtGHTS
On cotton from Dalasare as follows:
Per 100 Pounds Per 100 Pounds
ST. Louis ,,,,,...s S5New York. Isl 10
Boston .....,,o,..l q New Orleans ......... 81