Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
PERsONAL AND GENERAL.

ranging a plan for the consolidation Of the
Wabash and Missouri Pacific.
The iron bridge of the St. Louis and Iron
Mountain roai across the Saline river at
Benton, will be finished in a few days,
Mr.. John G. Brown, general solicitor OF the
Gould Southwestern railroad lines, has ap-
pointed Mr.. Thomas J. Ports, of St. Louis,
as general attorney for the Iron Mountain
railroad and its branches.
The iron bridge now in course Of construc-
ton al 1azoo, Mississippi, is rapidly being
finished. The workmen engaged upon it
are doing their full duty, and The bridge may
he considered as good as finished.
Ben Starker, a freight conductor on the
Texas and New Orleans railroad, was Sc
verely injured through a wreck Of a freight
tram near Houston, Thursday. His skull
which proved fatal.
All the roads out of Chattanooga-the
East Tennessee, Virginia aud Georgia, Mem
phis and Charleston, Cincinnati and Louis
VILE, Western and atlantic, Nashville and
Chattanooga, and the Alabama Great South
ern-nOw have the three-cent rate, and they
report that travel has increased to such a
degTee in consequence that the aggregate re-
AeinER2Ye not diminished-
The third rail on the Denver and Rio
Grande railway, between Denver and Pueblo,
NCDEANANiN AaAd OabAdIJ Lob ahl 6iAA
row run through from Kansas City to Den
yer, ria Pueblo, over the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe and Denver and Rio Grande
railways without change. The third rail
makes the Denver and Rio Grande the only
douole-gauge railway in the world.
Holly Springs Repo. Ter, Thursday: ave
learn that the Vicksburg and Ship Island
and the Memphis and Ficksburg railroads
have hired 600 hundred ~convicts from our
State board Of public works, and have put
them u work on those lines. This il cncour-
aging, and gives us cause to hope that Mis-
si4siPpi will yet bound forward. The State
is not really dead, but merely sleeping. 1t
needs a little healthy Legislation to put it on
the road to prosperity, and this, we believe,
we will obtain from the present legislature
The contract has been let for a bridge for
the st. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba
railway across the Mississippi at Minneap-
oils. The bridge will consist Of nineteen
arches, the spans averaging so feet 10
length, and will be constructed for a double
track. The structure will cost 81 500, 900.
The constructing force on the Breckenridge
extension of this railroad has completed
track-laying Tor the winter, having reached
Portland, on the Goose river, 103 miles north
west OF WaphetOn. Regular trains will not
run over the entire line at present, but will
soon.
The Jackson (Miss) Clarion is authority
Tor the statement that an agent Of foreign
capitalists for the purchase of the 100000
stock OF Adams county in the Natchez. Jack
son and Columbus Railroad Company has
offered soc on the dollar. The Adams
County Board CT Supervisors declined the
offer, and submitted a proposition to sell the
stock OF the county at 66Sc on The dollar. In
TINS condition the matter stood at last
accounts. As the road would be a good,
paying Investment, the offer of the board is
4 liberal one: The capitalists ofier, if their
proposition is accepted, To build the road
through to Columbus without delay.
MIR. S. Frink, general freight agent of the
Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain and
southern railway, has issued a new freight
Iarl1, which went into effect January l, 1882.
Inc rates or transportation between st. Louis,
Hannibal, Carondelet, Cairo, Columbus and
memphis and San Francisco over the Texas
and Southern Pacific railways are changed
to the following rates: In less than car-Iosds.
per IOO pounds, first-class, 81 IS; second
ciass' - 80; third-class, 81 AZ. In carloads,
GIass A, 81 II; B, 81 90; c, 81 6S, and class
~ 81 ~. These rates apply to all points in
california from any OF the foregoing stations.
Through freight for FL Paso, New Mexico
and Arizona has been changed to the ap-
pended rates on the basis of Deming, New
First class, 81 95; ~second-class,
81 so; third-class, So IS; fourth-class, 50 25;
tifth-class, 81 So; class A, 81 so; class b,
81 95, and for any quality of dressed or man
ufactured lumber, 81 034.
An exchange drives the nail to the head
at a single blow in the following: "The man
who acts indecently on board a train is gen
orally a crank, a nobody, if you please, who,
under pretense Of being on a tear tries to
attract the attention of everybody else about
him, and thus establishes the fact that he is
a thoroughbred ass. While, as a rule, the
average OF those who travel may be accepted
the average of the whole community,
still the rule does not hold that it is the
average man who acts badly. Far from it.
men who are guilty of disorderly
conduct on trains are the rih-raf, the rag
tag, the b~raialess cranks of the country.
These poor, pitiful fools should be dealt
with severely, and the suggestion of rail-
commissioners, that something be done
10 punish them, is timely. One drunken
idiot, or conceited crank, can make travelling
very dlsagreeable TO a whole carload of
When one of these fools is in a car,
there Is no installing him. He always has a
word for the conductor, or the passengers
near him; and he is particularly good at Civ
Jog unasked-for, unappreciated information.
lie puts his foot up as high as he can get it;
he drums on the window, whistles, sings and
goes into many other cranky pastimes seem
ingly with the sole purpose Of convincing
passengers that he is an out-and-out ass"
No Low Rates On Grain.
CHICAGO, January while the Penusyl-
vanIa railway is meeting the low rates made
by Its competitors on provisions, it refuses 10
meet the competition on grain, and yester-
day the fast freight lines running over the
and the Northern Central road
received instructions not TO contract grain at
less rate then zoe from Chicago to New