The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-09-21

N engineering and mechanical skill In ihls
country, and Ia opening for business VIII DC
awaited with great interest
Tho Louisville II Nashville company has
leased the Pensacola q Atlantic, now nearly
completed. Under the contract entered INTO by
the former company II VIII complete the rOiu
and will guarantee principal and interest on
All CO., 900 OF per cent hrstclnss mortgage
bonds, The road, when completed, will connect
the Louisville Il Nashville with the railroads OF
Florida and Georgia, which VIII prove lmp0r-
tant feeders TO the projected Chicago branch;
The Pensacola Il Atlantic own land grant Ill
Florida of 1900, 900 acres. .e.,.
d. Wishart general passenger agent oil the
St Louis Il San Francisco railroad, announces
the extension of this companys line (Arkhnshs
diyision), and the opening of the same for bust
ness 10, M MOUNTAINEERING, Crawford county, Afkhil-
sas, fifteen miles south from Winslow; Arkansas,
with new stations in the oider, VIZ, Porter
Chester and Mountainburg A furlher eNtcii,
sion of this line south fIom MOUNTAINEERING Will
be announced at an early date; n-,,-,
The Silver City, Deming and Pacihc Kallroad
company has recently been Incorporated unuer
the laws of New Mexico. 1t is designed TO con.
meet at Demng with the Atchison, Topeka ana
Santa Fe Southern Pacific ana IeSas facllic
railroads. The road was organized py prolnl-
nent bankers and merchants OF Grant county
who have raised all necessary FUNDS, ana the
| road is now being graded TO silver Clty iorty-
| five miles west of Deming. The road IS Droau,
gauge but il Is the intention to connect the ROAD
at Silver City with narrow gauge branches 20
| santa Rita Fort Bayard, Georgetown ana the
| Mogalon Lake valley mines and the chiffon
The ST. Louis cotton exchange is excited over
a notice, signed by the Wabash, the St Louis
| and Pacific, the Ohio and Mississippi, the IN
danapolis and ST. Louis, the chicago ana Alton,
and the Vandalia roads, TO the effect that on
and after Friday, september 10, the following
advanced rates ON cotton, per 100 pounds VIII 80
| into effect To Boston from East 81 Louis, on
cents New York, 40; Philadelphia, 43; Baltimore,
40 Albany, Troy and schenectady Az. Buiiaio
and Pittsburg, So The rates from ST. Louis IN
each instance are 10 cents additional. meet
ing of the exchange has beer called and pro-
| test will probably be sent to the general mana
gers of the various companies. -
The Denver 4 Rio Grande announces that on
| September 10 this companys Titan extension
was completed and opened for trailic TO Mon
! trose CO miles west of Gunnison, ana 352 miles
| from Denver The unlimited local rate from
Pueblo to Montrose is S2l 10, and the same pro
| portion will be accepted from Denver on tickets
| limited 10 three days from that point. Montrose
! is an important distributing centre for western
Colorado. on September % the, same extension
will be finished to Delta. y miles west OF Mon
| trose, at which time $50 miles only Will remain
| to be built TO complete the connection win our
| Utah system Track-laying is now progressing
| at the rate of three miles per day. 49,.
| Mr. j. NJ. Curran who has contract 1or
grading on the Mexican Central railroad, ar
| rived in ST. Louis from the state OF Chihuahua,
| Mexico To reporter of the Globe-Democra
| who met him last night at the Planters house,
he said that 225 miles of iron had been laid on
| the road south of Ell Paso to the city OF Chihua,
| hua The road for distance of 80 miles south
of that city is graded and ready TO receive d tne
| ago. and are now on their way 10 Chihuahua
Nhea this part of the track is laid the terminus
| for awhile will be the town OF Santa Rosalie
| The road is completed from the City OF Mexico
northward to a point distant from the. capital
about 300 miles. Mr.. Curran thinks the road
will be completed within eighteen months.
| During the past week the construction force OF
the Atlantic & Pacific laid the side track and 7
at Williams for junction with the Prescott rQae,
| and CLIO miles of the main line track, when is
now 361 2-lO miles from Albuquerque. me en-.
| gineer telegraphs that there will be no delay at
| the johnson bridges. The track is now 40
miles from the Colorado river but the grazing
| Is completed to within As miles OF it. The eX,
| tension from Mojave east was completed ayr
| miles August IA or to within 1872 miles OF the
Colorado river, where the rails will be joined In
| April next a.,
| roads they attach passenger car to a freight
train and call It mixed" 1t isn't IN the order
of::..things that such trains should travel very
rapidly, and sometimes there is considerable
SWe il get there on time" replied the condue-
| tor, stolidly.
81 guess She 5 dead now" said he, mournfully,
''but I'd give you little something extra II you
could manage to catch up with the iuneral
Maybe she won't be So decomposed but what
The conductor growled at him, and the man
1
| subsidized. .
''Conductor!" said he, after an hours silenc G;
Conductor If the wind isn't dead ahead, wish
you would put on some steam. I'd like TO see
where my wife is buried before the tombstone
crumbles to piecesl Put yourself in my place
| for a momenu'
The conductor shook him off, and the man re-
lapscd into profound melancholy.
II say. conductor" said he, after long
pause; "Tve got note coming due in three
months. Can't you fix it so as to rattle along
littleY' 40, -, o,,
down. shouted the conductor, sayagely;,
| The nervous man regarded him sadly, ana
went to his seat. Two hours later the conductor
saw him chatting gaily and laughing heartily
with a brother victim, and approached him,
Don't feel so badly about your WIGS
death?'
Thine heals all wounds" sighed the nervous
| man. -
"And you are not SO particular about 'he
noteY' sneered the conductor.
mot now That's all right Don't worry.
I've been figuring up, and md that the note
| has ouuawed since spoke TO you last