Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,


The Knoxville (1enn.) Car Wheel Cor
psny are said 10 be making exclusively tn
cold blast, charcoal pig iron wheel. fror
their celebrated Carter county furnaces. Tn
iron is SAID 10 be unequaled for car wheels.
The superintendent Of the Tennessee Goa
and Iron Riilroad Company reports that tn,
output of that company for the month ~
August foots up 1854 cars of coal and coke
SIS, 1856 bushels-an increase over the same
month last year OF Jl0,660 bushels, and an
increase over the preceding month Of 44,97s
bushels.
The Southern Car Works, Knoxville
Tenn, with capacity for turning out 10 box
cars per day, have just completed an order
for 200 Tor the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad, and are now building so
stock Tor the same road. The works
have just increased their blacksmith shop by
additional forges.
She said she wanted ticket TO Wyandotte
and return, and the pale, gentle manly agent
with the dark mustaehe asked. az he took M
the pastebosrl: '.Single?' at amt anv OF
your business as / know" she resnonded
tartly. u might have been married dozen
times il I'd felt like providin' for some
poor, shifiless wreck of a man."
A dispatch from Terre Baufe Yesterday
says that a trestle at the blast furnace. Is
feet high, fell in with u loaded coal cars
and the engine and tender, Erecking the |
engine and cars, and severely injuripg Lon |
Hatch, the foreman Of the crew, and John
Patterson, engineer. Others had a narrow |
escspe with their lives.
The Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad |
Company is building a branch road from |
Victoria 10 the Inman ore beds, distance of
b miles. This road will be ran in the direc.
ton Of Dunlap, and will be a link of the
road which will finally run through Sc.
qnatchie valley. Work is going ahead rap
idIy on The road, and it will be pushed for
ward to completion as soon as possible.
A Kansas City ticket scalper named Ross
mas been engaged for some time in the manu-
lactuTe OF bogus railway tickets. Nine hum
dred OF these tickets, representing, at an
average OF SIS each, the sum of S22.5O0
nave been discovered at a printing effice al | :
Quincy, ILL.,, and Ross has been arrested and
is now IN jail. 1t is not known how nlauy
tickets have been sold, but the forgery il | ]
said to be well calculated 10 deceive con- :
ductors.
IL ~ rumored in railroad circles that some /!
change Will shortly be made 10 the manage :
ment OF the Toledo Cincinnati and 81. Louis !
raiiway IL seems that the Eastern bond
holders are not altogether satisfied with the 4
way Manager Phillips Is handling affairs A
aOd propose To put an Eastern manager in l
charge. On account Of a disagreement be- q
tween Mr.. Phillips and superintendent Jonrs. G
me exact nature oil which cannot now be y
stated, the latter has rendered his resiena. q
ION. Mr. Jones is a practical rsilroader and C
his resignation will be a loss TO the company. G
81. Louis Globe Democrat, Monday: "Cap. Z
ain John A. Grant, of New Orleans. vice G
president and chief engineer OF the Missis- | d
ippI Valley road, has finished his careful | D.
urVeys OF the ground between Memphis and | y
he Stale line, and work has been let out =,
nd begun. Contracts have also been let E,
outh oil The State line for about thirty miles =
Work Is simultaneously going on at several Fl
Their points OF the proposed route. The II
DAD, when completed, will have a bed az HI
Tegatlng 300 miles IN length. The main nj
Junk line will be about $50 miles long and !.
ne branch lines about 100. The following A.
obstruction contracts have been let: New IL
fleans 10 Baton Rouge, 90 miles, TO be COM Lo
leted January /, 1888; VieksbuTg Ia Port
Ibson; 50 miles, to be completed October Is,
So; Nleksburg 10 the northern boundary
Sharkey county, to be completed Decem- So
er 10, 1882. The contract for an iron ne
ridge will be let very soon. Work on the
'idge will be commenced as soon az the
age OF water permits. The cost of the | Or
rnciure will approximate 100000 Gen &c
al W. 5. Saith, the distinguished bridge 70
gineer, is now arranging plans for con- Go
rucllon. Sufficient steel rails for the com Nj
elton OF the road already under contract Fa
I'VE been received, and deliveries for an adj
tonal lot s0thcient to construct 200 miles St.
III be due IN day or two. The manage Re-,
emf IS now arranging for contracts for 200 Re
re, with the necessary locomotives, 10 be ca,
livered as soon as practicable. II is pro- s I,
sed 10 construct all the road with steel
liz, standard gauge, and 1t is expected that $40
, entire lines wall be finished and in run M,
lg order by the LIST OF September, 1888" TN