Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-06
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awav bv the recent treshet 10 the Rio
Grande, will be replaced in about ten days.
Eforts are being made in ST. Louis TO Sc
the building OF a railroad from that
city northwest into Dakota, TO connect with
the Northern Pacific.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroad
has a full force Of hands now employed on
its Houston extension, and expects to have
it completed by November 18th.
Ga our local page Will be found an an
nouncement that the Memphis and Charles
ton railway has al last shaped up a schedule
that short-ns the route TO New York Just 4
hours, aud gives other advantages worth a
days travel less By any other route.
Capt. Ed Hart, the lightning local
agent Of the Erie and North Shore and Gin
%cinuati, Hamilton and Dayton railway, re-
tdrned home Yesterday from a business trip
Est, where he represents business arrange
lnents for the season all IN aPPle-pie order.
The Executive Council of iowa has CON-
pieted he valuation OF railroad property in
that State for the purpose Of taxation, and
makes a total for that purpose of twenty-one
road of S20, 292, 284. This is an increase OF
S548.9 S2 80 over the valuation of March,
1881. A special tax of $4,000 is also
assessed against the roads, which is used for
the payment OF the expenses Of the Railrosd
Commissioner. The railway valuation now
amounts TO nearly one sixteenth Of the en-
tire property valuation OF The State.
John NJ. Culp, general freight agent Of the
Louisville and Nashville, announces the fol-
lowing appointments, to take effect from
date: Mr.. Lee Howell is appointed general
freight agent Of lie st. Louis, and the Evans
Vile, Henderson and Nash lille divisions,
with headquarters at Evansville, Iud.; Mr..
John S.. Knox is appoioted general agent at
st. Louis; Mr.. L. l.. Lse il appointed
division freight agent OF the Memphis di-
vision, Memphis 10 Paris, Tenn, inclusive,
with headq IaTtars al Memphis; Mr.. J. NJ.
WOllsrd il appointed travelling freight agent
of the Memphis division, Memphis TO Paris,
Tenn, inclusive, Viee Mr.. NJ s. Toy, resigned.
st. Louis Globe Democrat: "a story is told
by a St. Louis railroad man of a foreigner,
which illustrates the scarcity Of the pass in
the old country. The foreigner is a Welsh
man; he wrote % his relative here Tor infor-
nation as to how he should travel from
Cleveland westward. A pass was ProcGred
over the Be Line ard mailed to him. A
letter was received acknowledging the receipt
of the pass, butte the disgust Of the gentleman
who procured il, the document was found
nailed on the end of the travellers trunk,
while full fare had been paid. the Welsh
cousin explains that across the water brass
checks we're used very seldom, the pasted
label taking its place He supposed the
pass was Tor the trQnk 10 DC carried 10 the
destination of the owner"
The monthly report of the Railroad Ga
settle Of railroad accidents in August shows a
total number of 139 accidents, by which As
persons were killed and 2I8 injured. There
were IS collisions, in which q persons we're
killed and III injured; 20 derailments,
with Is persons killed aud 100 injured, and
four other accidents in which l person was
killed and l Injured. Twenty-six Of the
killed aud III OF the injured were railroad
employees, while 20 of the killed
passengers or others riding on the
trains, the number including several tramps
stealing rides. As compared with August,
1881, there wac al increase OF 10 accidents,
of Is in the number killed, and of ISL in
that injured, the number Of injuries reported
in August last year having been very smafl.
Railway fares in Europe are higher than
in this country, bat IN the matter of carriage
fares Travellers ia the old world have a great
advantage. TIE American hackman comes
nearer the idea Il an eXtortionist and mo-
nopolist than any other common-or un-
commentaries, and vet We never see in
the anti-monopoly platforms any reference
to his tyranny. The Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, however, has decided 10 inau-
gurale a reform in the matter Of carrisge
hire by establishing in Philadelphia a line
OF Hanson cabs, on which the rates are 10 be
only % cents within a distance of a mile and
a half, and 10 cents fer every additional
mile. It is to be hoped that the experiment
will be extended to other points. and that ii
may be ere long demonstrated that passeu-
gers can Be carried in carriages as eheaply
in this country ss in any other.
An E Paso correspondent tells the fol-
lowing improbable story regarding Chinese
labor on the Texls and Pacific road, now in
process of construction: Several hundred
Cslestials are employed, and lay the track at
the rate of four miles a day. Those who
misbehave are taken into a b0x-csr and
soundiy thrash-d. They were sent from
China to an agent in San Francisco, who
advanced the money for their transportation,
$50 per head. lie charges them SO much
per cent. on The re. They are his property
and are hired out by him. This is on the
same plan as peouage in Mexico, and in the
United States Of Americs, the free nation
that abjures slavery. In chihuahua there
are numerous slave or peons-Mexicans who
are slaves for debt, many OF them working
for Americans. Most OF the mental WORK is
done by poems, who 90 in debt for food or
apparel, aud are obliged to work for their
masters or creditors until the latter shall
consider they hsve paid the debt. Often
times it takes a lifetime.