The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-09-30
RAILWAY NEWS.
Construction Progressing Rapidly on Many
Valuable Lines.

Valuable Lines.
Bonds for ST., 1000 per mile of the Fl. Worth
and Grande railroad have been ordered issued
and building will be at once begun.
The track of the Dallas division of the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe has been extended 2
miles, into the city of Dallas.
Fifteen miles of track is completed on the
Eagle Pass branch and in less than month the
whistle of q locomotive will be heard in the
town.
The gauge of the Houston, East and West
Texas is three feet. The track now extends
from Natcbez, Texas, northeast. to Lufkin, IS
miles.
The branch of the Southern Pacific to Colo
RADIO river is finished for 81 miles eastward
from Mohave, COL, an extension of twenty
one miles,
Extensive stock pens are being constructed
at Hondo city on the line OF the Sunset rail-
way with view to making that point for
large shipments of cattle.
Farewell to the cotton monopoly when the
Paramore road is Finished" exclaimed a rail-
road man.. but the Paramore road win proba-
bly, not be finished this winter.
Work of construction on the New Orleans,
Huntsville and West Texas railway will be
begun in few days. The Trinity and Sabina
railway now in course of completion, will be
one Of the feeders.
Thus far this year the total mileage of new
railroad laid is 7,I64 miles, against 4,474 miles
reported at the corresponding period in 1881,
1850 miles in 1880, 2,o64 miles in 1879, I,245
miles in 1873, 1925 miles in 1877, 1889 miles
in 1876, 76I miles in 1875, I,o82 miles in
1874, 2,69I miles in 1873, and 4,765 miles in
1872.
Grading gangs are scattered along the line
of the Houston branch Of the Santa Fe road
and are rapidly putting the line in condition
to receive the iron, Track-laying will be
commenced about the first of next month.
On the Nayasota branch track is laid to the
Brazos river, fifteen miles from the main line,
but here work has been delayed by high
water, which has checked the putting in of
the stone piers. Material is at hand for the
completion of both these branches of the road.
Simply because Rev. J. d. Shaw, of Waco,
has after mature elaboration, saw fit TO change
his views concerning the established tenets Of
his church, the Cleburne Chronicle, usually a
conservative and considerate paper, calls him
religious crank" In this enlightened age
man certainly should be allowed the fullest
religious freedom without being stigmatized
as crank. Mr.. Shaw has as much right to
his peculiar opinions as those who differ from
him. On the same principle one might as
we'll call all who differ with him practically,
cranks. l-Brenham Banner.
Local option prevails in Paris and yet the
North Texan says: lit is mystery to US
how any law can be openly violated, day and
day out, and no arm is long enough to reach
the offenders" The local option low is the
one referred to. 1t will not be enforced until
an overwhelming popular sentiment demands
it. The Sunday law is a dead letter in nearly
all the large towns in Texas, and in the coun-
try they don't know that there is any Sunday
law in existence.- Brennan Banner.
Nobody wants free trade, and no party dare
stick plank of that sort in its platform; hence
Colonel Finlay need not put his oars against
tiers of incidentaP' protection. The colonel,
like most of our modern statesmen, deals in
generalities, and assumes, very often, that to
be true which is not. 1t was Emerson who
said ut is no proof of a mans understanding
to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but
to be able to discern that what is true is true,
and that what is false is false; this is the mark
and character of intelligence II Fort Worth
Gazette.
A CO-Parnership of Dogs.
A subscriber lving..near Union Springs, Ala.
vouches for the statement that two of his dogs
have formed a co-partnership for hunting rab-
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