Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

FEhS0INNG NiS6 6EN6FlAL.
Captain Sid Jones, the vell-known pas
seDger agent, is in the city.
The track on the new Kansas CITY, Spring
field and Memphis line is laid SO miles.
TIE American parties proposing to builc
the Tehauntepec railroad have failed TO pro.
coed with the work. The Mexican govern.
ment proposes II undertake the completion
of the work.
The Arkansas ard Louisiana RAILWAY
Company are now distributing iron on the
road preparatory to changing the gauge. II
is an absolute fact that the gauge Is to be
changed and the road extended above and
below.
The Illinois Central Railroad COMPANY
are constructing six-track entrance into
Chicago from Grand Crossing to the site of
the proposed new Union depo. on lake front.
for the better accommodation of their own
trains, the Michigan Central Baltimore and
Ohio, New York, Chicago and st. Louis and
Kankakee lines.
Captain r. A. Williams, the Southeastern
passenger agent of the Memphis aud Little
Rock railway, whose headquarters are at
Atlanta, is working up, with promise of
satisfactory results, an excursion from Men,
phIs to all points in Arkansas and Texas to
start about August 18th. Round-trip tickets.
good for 80 days, will be sold at low rates.
The Little Rock Democrat, of SUNDAY.
prints the following: "a private letter from
Forrest City, received this morning. SAYS:
The Knobel branch of the Iron Mountain
railroad is now running a construction train
TO point three and a half miles north of
this city. The train will be at the Memphis
and Little Rock railroad crossing on Tues
day afternoon. So the contractor says"
The Georgia railroad applied to Judge
Simmons, at Macon, for an injunction 10 re-
strain the Railroad Commission from enioin-
ing Its freight and passenger tariff, on the
ground that 1t violated its chartered rights.
The judge refused the injunction. He main
tains that the chartered rights of the COM
pany are not violated, and that the Railroad
Commission has the power to enioin its rates
on the Georgia railroad.
A meeting of the stockholders of The New
Orleans and Mississippi Valley Railway
Company will be held at the Office of the
company, New Orleans, on Thursday, the
14th day OF September, 1882, to consider and
act upon a resolution to consolidate this
company with The Memphis and Vicksburg
Railroad Company, the Tennessee Southern
Railroad Company, and the Mississippi Val |
ley and Ship Island Railroad Company.
The contract for the extension of the Jas
per branch OF the Nashville, Chattanooga |
and st. Louis railway for distance OF two |
miles, has been awarded and the contract for |
the remaining three miles will be let this |
week. The fve-miie extension is to be built |
within the next three months. This extern !
sion will place the iron and coal beds within |
easy reach OF South Pittsburg, where large l
amount of iron is now being turned ont. |
The iron and coal beds of the Sequatchie |
valley are as rich as any in the State, and the
Sstcome from them within the next few |
years will be almost incredible.
One J. J. P. Newell, now of Washington,
but formerly, it is said, resident of Michi-
gan, says the New York Indicator, comes for
ward with memorial addressed to the Judi
ciary Committee of the House, in which, for
reasons therein set forth, be claims that by
reason of fraud exercised in the House and
Senate for securing the passage of the Texas
and Pacific land-sTant bill, the grant was
vitiated, and that here is no obligation rest
ing upon the government for transferring
their lands to thai company or to any other
company. The charges made are direct and
specific, and if SUI aimed by the evidence that
Mr.. Newell claims to be in his possession, or
obtainable by Congress, they should be a bar
to any further action on the part OF the gov
ernment toward confirming subsidy for the
earning OF which the first effort outside of
Congress has nev,r been made or is ever like
ly 10 be.