Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-04

Among the cases lrleu IN lne JtHSrSOl
county, Ala, Circuit Court last week, was q
case Of damages against the South and NORTH
railroad. the plaintiff was elected from
freight train at New Castle because he hao
no "permit" to travel on freight trains. The
Jury rendered a verdict of $500 for plaintiff
NJ. S. Barnes, the Chicago contractor whc
secured the 5000 900 contract for the erection
Of a drawbridge across the Arkansas river a
Pine Bluff, for the Texas and st. Louis road
hts made all preliminary arrangements, and
work will be commenced at once. The bridge
will be completed and ready for use January
/, 1888.
II il reported in railroad circles tina the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad Com
pany has purchased the Chicago, Texas and
Mexican road for $4,000 per mile. The
report il not verified, but it IL generally be.
lieyed. Officials Of both roads are now in
Chicago, and something important is ex.
pected to develop this week.
Last year the railways of France earned a
total Of e42, 8I5,130, which was 81 $40, 0OC
more than in the year 1880. The increase in
miles Of road for the year was $50 miles. On
all the lines belonging to the SIX great COM
panies there was an increase in mileage, but
on those owned by the State there was a
great falling off-about 6 per cent, 1t is said.
The assessment on all railroad property in
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an increase Of S2l, 4lG,1 loo over last year, or
nearly IL per cent. The total mileage of last
v ar was 3478; this year, 1898, an increase OF
220 miles. The average assessment per mile
of all property last year was S65lS; this
yea, S6jl5. The increase in mileage from
March, 1880, 10 March, 1881, was 374 miles;
from March, 1881, to March, 1882, 220 miles.
Kansas has now 81 organized counties, 81 of
which nave railroads. Seven Of the morgan
lied counties have railroads.
Mr.. John B.. MorfOrd, superintendent Of
the Sabine and East Texas railroad, states
that his road, intended to run from Sabine,
Neuces river, a distance OF 104 miles, has
already SO miles in operation. 1t is eI-
pecfed the road will reach the Sabine Pass
on July 4th, and be completed to the other
terminus by July ooh. The transportation
will comprise largely lumber, cotton and
stone. Congress has appropriated $3.50 0
Tor the Improvement OF the Sabine, and a
bill is pending to make it a port of entry.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Company has
commenced to run through trains between
Richmond, Warrington, EeEport News and
Norfolk in the East, and Louisville, KY, in
the West, and ia now fairly in the field as
are East and West trunk line. 1t will soon
have an arm reaching Cincinnati, and its
main line will, in a few months, reach Mem
phis, whence, under another name, 1t will
DlsH West W EOIllCL Win AhC an
Pacific (of which President Huntington has
Just been elected a directory, and southwest
erly to Join tho Southern Pacific system.
Thus Mr.. Huntington's great scheme, so long
ago inaugurated and so persistently adhered
TO, is on the eve of triumphant realization.
Railway passengers are liable to many
risks of a formidable kind, but that of fire
seldom enters into their calculations. The
other night, however, the passengers by a
Liverpool train on the London aud North
western rail way seem to have had a narrow
escape of being burned. Some trucks laden
with hay suddenly burst into flames as. the
train was passing through the Loudoun-road
station, ST. Johns wood. The driver, for a
wonder, observing what had happened, or
having his attention called to ii, consider
ateIy pulled up, and the passengers were
thus given an opportunity of alighting from
their carriages. 70 the credit OF all con-
cerned not even one passenger was roasted
alive. The contents OF the trucks were, of
course, burned, aud the wagons themselves
seriously injured; but no lives were lost, and
the spectacle OF a train on fire afforded the
deepest interest 10 thousands of SPECTATOR,
who were attracted to the spst by the illumi-
nation. Nothing, in short, could have been
more satisfactory than the accident, which Is
suppl to have been caused by a spark
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road companies would employ a forester ana
gardener or two, they might employ their
thousands of acres Of waste lands for crops,
grass, fruit trees, aud 80 on, with profit, so
that they could afford to refuse 10 be any
longer in the position OF the poor shopkeeper
or barber who fills his shop and pastes his
walls over with advertisements and placards
because he cannot make two ends meet with
out the small sums obtained by this dis6g-
uremeut. At present our railway companies
allow their stations and bridges to be so hid
eously pasted and papered over that the
property has the appearance of the last
stages OF struggling poverty. In many parts
of Belgium the land has been planted with
fruit trees and other things many years. and
in Wur,emberg for about twelve years past a
forester has had charge of the lands. He
pays particular attention to planting the
slopes of excavations and entertainments to
prevent washing and slipping, grows quick
fences, and, where practicable, fruit and tim
Der trees. The gardens at the stations are
largely devoted to fruit, and 50 made useful
aud ornamental at once. A profit of about
las an acre has, it is said, been made for the
past five years on the ground SO utilized"
Vanderbilt is said to be up to another
great move. His new line to the coke re-
gions in Pennsylvania is rapidly being
pushed forward, and it is now known that the
great New York capitalist does not only in
lend to penetrate the coke regions, but will
push forward through Chestnut Ridge, in the
Alleghanies, and down in the direction OF
Bedford, thence to the Cumberland valley,
and endeavor to get an outlet at Baltimore.
The new line TO the coke regisn is known as
the Pittsburg and Youghiougheny road, and
starts from the Pittsburg and Lake Erie road
at Pittsburg, crossing the Monongahela river
at McKeesport, thence across the Youghi-
ougheny river, and following the left bank Of
the latter up mo the coke regions. The
movement to abolish the present baggage
system, and turn it over to the express COM
panies, seems to have struck a popular chord.
Almost every railroad manager consulted on
the subject favors the scheme, and gives it as
his opinion that such action would go far
righting many abuses of long stand
ing. So fsyorably impressed are the Balti-
more and Ohio people with the scheme that
they announce their intention of reorgan-
their express company, with the under
that it is TO handle all the baggage
NJ the road