Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-07

leaves daily, except Sunday, at $40 p m freis
leaves dailFs.except Sunday, at sos am. NJ
Orleans IA 1ssii and express arrives daily at q
sL an sard seconmod alton, arrives y, dali exec
cept SUNDAY, at 400 pm. Freight trains car
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
The Alabama Great Southern railway ruI
through trains from Chat anooga to Wick
burg-435 miles. ~ 81
When completed the Northern PacI6
railway will have $3.50 feet OF tunnels
faction less than two miles.
There are now fifteen locomotive work
in the United States, with a combined ca
Pscity of 2O0eDsines per month.
One hundred and Fifty miles of raiIro.,
have been constructed in Missouri 80 IA
this year. making a total mileage in tn,
Stale Of 550l. Axe
Work in construction on this end OF tb,
Memphis and Holly Springs division of the
Memphis, Selma and Brunswick railway
will begin in few days.
Paper clx-xheels appear to grow steadily
in favor % american railroads. During he
first ten months of 1881 one firm alone turned
out 1923 of these wheels.
The chief engineer of the Chicago and In.
dianapolis Airline railroad says III at trains
will be running into Indianapolis within
twenty days. The track is nearly all laid.
The contractors are laying the foundation
of the dt91ot Building of The Chesapeake,
Ohio and Southwestern railway between
GayOso and yBeale streets on the river front
James Burns, the fireman who had hi,
feot cut OF in the from Mountain collision
Saturday night, was taken TO the hospital Of
that company in st. Louis where he died
soon Sfter srrival.
A dispatEA Girom Laredo, Tex, says that
the sddition6f rise OF water in the Rio
(franda haa carried hat
the international and Great Northern and
the Mexican National railroads which
spanned the river there.
A syndicate headed by jay Gould has
secured control OF the Hannibal and St
Joseph railway. II is said that il will be-
come part of the Wabash system, and as such
will be serIous loss to the Chicsgo, Burliny-
ton and QUINCY, as that syttem reaches ST.
Joseph and Kansas City over the Hannibal
and st. Joseph.
In an interview with st. Louis newspaper
man day or two ago, President Psramore
of the Texas and st. Louis parrow-gauge.
took occasion TO state that his road contem- |
plates moving the entire cotton crop of the 1
new country II peDetrates 10 st. Louis, and |
<has an eye on the grain crop next season.
ssH'by can't Memphis take a hand in the
coppetition-forth this trade?
The engineer, John NJ. Braunich, killed
in the Iron Mountaiusrailway accident last
Saturday night, left xwife and three chill
dren living in Little Rock. They are well
provided for by his timely considerations in
connecting himself with various beneficial
orders, besides constantly carrying an acci-
dent policy. He was buried in Little Rock
Sunday afternoon, his funeral being largely
tattended BY members of the orders of which
7he was member as well as numerous other
Friends. -
The largsA mortgage ever recorded. per-
haPs, in thS Uhitsd Slater, was entered
few days ago in de Office Of the receiver of
Feeds in Phf1adsIBhia 1t was the blanket !
mortgage ofsthe Fhiladelphia and Reading
Railroad Company, devised by President
iowen for he relief of the company, and is !
or $4,000. The loan is in the form of a
per cent. confol, and is joint mortgage by 7
he railroad snd coal and iron companies. q
nd il executed 10 the Pennsy lyania company c
pr insurance OBJ lives and granting annui-
Ies. 1t covefs $50 pages Of legal esp, and 9
most Notwithstanding instrument. 9
Chicago Times: THE development of the q
hfant industry OF Train robbing in this couu- c
" to the high degree Of property which it z
hight have reached vas suddenly checked BY D
pc tragic ending OF the gentleman who has D
pne most to foster it. After the death of Mr.. y
hmes this industry Immediately began 10 z
ecline, and at the presenI time it has reached E
tch = low ebb that, unless prompt steps are Z
RAcA " EcNlNc ~, lTd1u-FODDlD2 may De dO2n- | n
pned altogether ~ field for human labor. H
Is pursuit which is regarded with great H
vor In localities where it once hosrished but N
Re people oil these sections appear to lack | J.
g enterprise and spirit necessary TO make it 4
ccessful. Mr.. Frank James, the brother L
the distinguished gentleman mentioned, L
'wever, is ready to embark in il at any mo-
fnt if he can but secure the necessary as.
taHce." ga
awe have b. fore us" says the New York
erold of recent date, ian opinion delivered ii,
United SIsies Circuit Judge Baxter, in III
bio, and just published, which has an i'm
trtant bearing on the question recently
fided by Judge Haight, in this city, as to Or
70 right of court to compel q railroad Go
|Inpany TO perform its duties as common Nj
rier. The suit was brought by Mccoy Sc
einst the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, ST. NJ
uis and Chicago Railroad Company. fa
Coy Is shipper Of live stock, whose yards
on the line OF the road ne ar Cincinnati
company retuie TO receive or deliver Str
stock at his own yards, bat insisted that Re
should use-the adjoining yards of the -
sited States Railroad Stock Yards Com sh
BY, with which the railroad company had IN
bntract. MtCoy claimed that the action Ste
be railroad compa, y Sas a discrimination
ch it had no light 70 make and failure Tn
|perferm its duties a common carrier. IN
accordingly applied for an Injunction Oh
framing tnS IOdu from making the dis NE
hination and compelling il to fulfill its 10
cations common carrier. The Cir M
Court granted the Injunction"
j we could judge anything of the pros
Is of electric railways by comparison of TIL
r history With that of the now we'll III
blished steam railway, their success sin
Id be well assured. Il Is only about two Oh
rs since Biison's experimental electric Ste
way was built at Menlo Park, about the
time that Siemens was experimenting
= similar line in Berlin, and the first
ric railway commercially used was built gu
clemens, nearsthe same city, only shout ste
year sgo, and yet there are now about ius
miles OF anch roads in working order. 10
orizsd OF in course Of construction. dli
re are thort roads in use il Germany. dli
and and Ireland, and roads are pro- "A.
d or in course of construction IN Aus bal
England, Italy, the United States and
1es. The line in Wales is the largest en- at
Use OF the kind, and one of the most ate
esting, because il is proposed TO run the 3:S
me-electrio machines By water-power. ing
road is 70 be nearly forty miles in IL.
b. 1t appesrs, therefore, that electric l2l
rays are getting along rather faster than al
roads did during their infancy, and il II
impossible that, al the end of another IL
years, electric roads may be counting 4
heir milesge by tens of thousands OF qui
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