Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

sIeepi1e-car conductor who was injured be-
low Huntsville, Ala, last week in an acct
dent, was dead, is untrue. He is improving
and will soon be well.
IIl-health has suddenly struck all OF the
CON juctors. save three, OF the Trans Ohio
divisions of tbs Baltimore and OHIO, aud
their places are being filled with more
strongly constituted freight conductors.
Surprises all around.
The Shore Line Express on the Boston and
Providence railroad is acquiring reputa-
ton for extraordinary speed. Boston
.TcaTnal reporter was given a seat IN the en-
CINE cab the other day on the promise oil be-
ing shown some fast time, and noted the TACT
tbst eight miles were made ia six minutes
A S.. Louis dispatch says: "At meeting
of the stockholders Of the Texas and 81. Louis
Narrow Gauge railroad, held at the ONCE oil
the company here to-day, proposition 10
incfease the capital stock OF the road In
Missouri aud Arkansas from 81, o5O,OOO TO
SI5OOOOaO was voted on and unanimously
adopted"
A suit brought by English bondholders is
pending in the United States courts OF Ar
kansas to annul the foreclosure sale oil tue
Arkansas Central road. 1t IL claimed thai
the sale was fraudulently obtained without
the knowledge Of the borf1holdeTs, and that
tbey received none OF the proceeds oil the
sale Ogertures toward settlement are IN
derstood TO have been made.
The RaillOay Age Of thursday, is officially
infor med that only 20 miles OF track now re-
main to be laid TO complete the Galveston,
Harrisburg aud San Antonio extension be-
tween San Antonio and I'll Paso, long
stretch OF $50 miles, The grading Will De
completed during October, out the section
comprises some Of the heaviest bridging on
the line The ends OF track are now 20
miles west OF San Antonio and 39l miles
east Of FL Psso.
The gross earnings OF the Fort Worth and
Denver City railway from May LIST TO Sep
TENDER LIST, on an average OF 90 miles oper-
ated, were $50, 496, and the expenses 81, oO5,
leaving net earnings OF SOL, 1913. The hxed
charges on the amount oil bonds (ezO,VOV per
mile) issued on average miles operated, were
$4,000, leaving surplus for the four months
of S37 ,993. The earnings for the month OF
September on an average Of 100 miles oper-
ated was S24,3 1861.
Selma Times: "There WAS an attempt made
on the part of high-struug negress TO en-
force the civil rights bill AT the Broad street
depot Yesterday morning.. TIE woman want
ed her elghteen-yesr-old daughter 10 rlde IN
the rear coach, or nowhere, all the way 70
Chattanooga, and raised row when the
Hulling bLi firm brakeman directed her TO
the coach Just forrard' Her anger was hard
to appease and her indignation scared noun
tain high, but when the train pulled out II
was noticed that the dusky damsel was where
she belonged"
Mr.. Huntington, OF Southern Pacific and
Central Pacific notoriety, in his hight with the
Gould system of roads, now threatens 10
build q new line from a connection win mis-
Chesapeake and Ohio northwest TO the line
of the Northern Pacific at Bismarck. This
is large projeci, but for the purpose OF
bulIdozSf is easily sccomplished-on paper.
II ia by no means probable that the road
will be built, as talked OF, by the dummies
whom the Huntington clique set up lew
DAYS since at Quincy, H.. under the name OF
the Great Continental Railway Company;
The object is SO transparent that no one Will
take much stock in it.
Much speculation ia INDUCED 10, particu-
larry by persons who are whirled along at
the rate of 80 miles an hour, as TO the safety
of the New York elevated railroads. This
speculation will be measurably relieved by
the report Of the chief engineer oil the Man
haitian Elevated Railroad just made public
The chief engineer pronouuces the structure
as safe now as when it was erected. Careful
examination has failed to disclose any dete-
rioratiop. Practical and thorough tests have
been made 10 establish the Tact that no.wlth-
standing the enormous weight OF the hun
dreds Of trains moving with great rspidity
over the road and making sudden stops a.
frequent 81 atoms, yet tue structure mas ooi TX
the straiu and the vibration without deterI
Grafton. It is further stated that the noIst
of The elevated roads has decreased iulfy
oue-half since they have been erected
The Dardsnelle (Ark.) Post, OF Thursday
saws of the projected Dardanelle and Wal
drou railway, articles OF incorporation o
which were filed 10, the office OF the secretary
Of state of Arkansas recently: The pro
sectors are men OF solid worth, who July
recognize the valu of the road to the coua
flea of Yell and Scott, and who never g
into anything except in earnest. ne rou.
IL not determined upon and cannot be until
. nreliminary survey has been made, Th'
Wsldron people. who are now as fully aliv
on The subject as DArdanelle is, hav
manned out direct line from DIrdanell
- DInyiIle. thence up Dntches creek :
Waldron, which is undoubtedly the shortes
route and will afford the cheapest roadway
Int fails 20 accommodate an extensiv
scope of the best territory oil the w
counties = the Fourche valley
Tiew of this it ia suggested that tn
rosd hs run from Dardanelie 10 Ola, theme
through the gap at d. ]. S. Peeler's to Da ia,
vile. and thence direct to Waldrou. In
ronte would make desirable points oil bot
Ola and Danyille, as the former would D
the shipping point for RISE creek and bl
creek. Of Perry county; Iron creek, oil Mon
oomery. aud all the Foufche valley, whll
banviIle would be the shipping point f6
the Spring creek and upper Petit Jean an
ali OF southwest Logan county. AS vi
remarked, there will be survey before II
ronte can be determined upon"