Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

The annual meeting of the stockholders o.
the Memphis an &C, Charleston railroad will De held
at Memphis the 2ist OF next month
At an early hour last Sunday morning q
freight train sn the Ohio Southern road was going
north near Greenfield, when two or three car
When The accident occurred the eond motor
named Foster was thrown into :he wreck aud al
most instantly killed. The corpse was taken Il
his home in Springfield.
New Orleans dispatch says: General.
Manager Scott. Chief Engineer Bolscsren. and
otner prominent officials OF the Erlanger syndi
cate. are IN the city they accompany Sir Charles
3. Young. a large English stockholder, who Il
understood to represent the other stockholders
and TO be conducting an investigation into the
management OF the syndicate's affzirE here and
hereg6outs- No Developments have reached the
Cincinnati Gazette Monday: "One A. E.
Homer alias Walter English which name he gave
at the Central Station. was locked up suspicion
last Saturday at the instanceof W. j. Januey agent
of the Atchison, 1opeEa and santa Fe. whose as
sistsut, John shuiiz hAd caught the prisoner hav-
borg & ROsen thA, and q seal made by Baumgart-
me- % Shish firms he, ne FePEesented himself as an
for confidence purposes"
New York Commercial Advertiser: "Mr.
Vanderbilt denies that he ever used the language
il? what Of il? what man or set Of men m w No
manage railroads steamboats,, hotels newspapers,
Vanderbilt? What is the use of all this humbug
creatures is the great public. Every man who has
anything TO do with managing railroad, a steam
boat or a newspaper 1.,. Knows that the public
boat Of =, me- pPewspaRer than The men who have
of this cant and hapdoodle."
A representative of the Southern RaiI1ay
Record recently noticed a queer-looking extension
In front of a Cincinnati Southern railroad engine
at Chattanooga recently. and ascertained IL was a
part OF smoke consuming and spark arresting in
Yention. The popularity Of the coal Used on the
line of the road causes a disagreeable smoke and
sparks, which travellers the road a summer
malagemeut GfraiQhr for rpfo in hfs
rection. The improvement saves 40 per cent. of
of smoke and snafks The mefhod is If m Tae1s
nominal cost, and consists Of extending the smoke
arch in front, thus catching the sparks which are
emptied at each end OF the road from the re-
eeptacis, A brick arch is placed in the furnace,
button, thus preventing the formation Of smoke.
Regarding ne report recently telesrap hed
from New Orleans that the Erlanger syndicate had
lefu ed 70 pay any more money ON contracts, and
which was eontradieted by Ar. Fred Wolfe in the
New York Banker and Broker the Nash lie d erfcdn
says: Maj Tom o'Conner,who is concerned in con-
tracts with the syndicate. said to American
porter on Sunday, the managers for the Erlauger
Many Of the contractors had completed their
WORK, and had already been paid. One of the sub
con ractorson the line between Monroe and shreye,
port had failed, and the contract had been turned
over TO Fletcher. wessenburg & Co. trestle Will
be built across Lake POnehartrain, a distance of
twenty-six mics the longest trestle in toe world
The work from Meridian 10 New Orleans has been
of its steel rails and had them distrib1ted al con
yenienI points along the road, where they sre 10
De laid. IL was expected that The road Weuld be |
complsted to New Orleans by the first of April !
next"
New York Indicator, Monday: "The Hunt |
fngton aEd Gould roads in the Southwest are again
getting suspiciously amiable toward each other. |
Their relations becoming intimate that |
should some new scheme be begotten il would not |
be surprise to those aware of the feoundity of /
the pair The lines of road controlled by the rail
way managers are becoming SO closely allied that |
1t is sometimes difficult to distinguish (which |
from t'Other." They connect and use each others /
lines in the freest possible way. The Southern
IA n ofa arif1aa
surveying line from VermilhonVille to West |
Baton Rouge. Rumor has ii that the Southern
Pacific If = builds to West Baton Rouge, wild run
into New Orleans over the track of the Texas and
Pacific, thus giving them shorter route than
Morgans Louisiana and Texas railroad The
Texas and Pacific is now using about so miles of
the latter road concludes to build It's Vermillion-
vile extension, no doubt amicabIe running ar
Engagements with the Texas and Pacific will be l
effected from West Eaton Rouge to New Orleans. ~