Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-02
PERSONAL ANo GENERAL

Mr.. Fred Wolfe, financial manager of the
Erlanger syndicate, Is reported i'll at his
home in Montgomery, Alabama.
1t is reported in New York that arrange.
rnents have been completed by which the
Erie will enter Cincinnati over The Pennsyl-
yania lines.
The Illinois Central railroad has large
force of men constantly at work in the rail-
road yards at Cairo repairing the company's
tracks. Continued wet weather has had an
injurious effect upon the ties and much
traffic has done the same for the rails, hence
the urgent necessity for extensive repairs.
During the month of January there have
been shipped over the Nashville, Chatta-
nooga and st. Louis railway the following
articles, all of Chattanooga manufacture:
$685. kegs Of nails, "a cars of ore, car Of
cast-iron pipe, cars of bar-irou, 2i6 barrels
of paint, 81 cars of pig-iron and car loads
of car wheels. These shipments were made
to Iowa, Michigan, Tex as, Missouri, Indiana
Arkansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, Illinsis and
Ohio, and show to a small extent what Chat
tanooga is doing in the way of manufac-
turing.
Louisville Courier-.Jouyn1l: "The S. nate
bill incorporating the Louisville and South
eastern Railroad Company passed without
objections, with, however, some immaterial
amendments, which were at once concurred
in by the Senate. The object OF the incor-
porators is to build railroad from Louis
Vile to some point on the Cincinnati South
ern between Nicholasville and Danville,
thereby furnishing the business men Of
Louisville with what they have SO long felt
the need of-another Southern outlet. 1t is
claimed that this road will give Louisville
an advantage over Cincinnati, even at points
on the road which cost the latter so much,
and, in fact, connect Louisville with TIE
uhal Il ia tn he
foot gauge, aud will be the shortest line from
the Northwest to the Southeast. Experienced
railway men think it will be one of the best
paying roads in the country. The charter
provides that no county or city aid shall be
asked, but the city of Louisville may aid it
in getting terminal resources in that city"
Cairo Bulletin: "Had the men who built
he embankment for the Cairo and st. Louis
railroad, above the city, constructed
couple Of cuIverts or treslts, so as to permit
the water from the Ohio to pass through to
the Mississippi river, The enbankment would
not have been torn away, and the company
would have been saved the expense of
building it. Mr.. Thomas Porter, who lives
not far from where the break occurred, states
that the water, which was very high at first,
began to fall rapidly as socn as the break
occurred. and fell several feet before it
reached its level. The rush of water through
the break, at first only faint ripple, grew
louder and louder until its roar could have
been heard for miles around. All this ad-
monishes the company that culvert or
trestle must be constructed IN Its embank-
ment a short distance above the city, Just as
the other railroads have done, if it would
save its embankment from a similar fate in
the future. But it is also for the benefit of
those who live between the embankments
that this should be done. For it is not
pleasant to be enclosed within an embank-
ment which causes water to accumulate to
the depth of three or four feet and prevents
it from running off,"