Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-14
pERsONAI ANO GENERAl

pany claims to have located new line all the way
from Baltimore to Gray's Ferry
A large force was put to work on the New
Orleans and Northeastern railroad on the ID in
slant. The road is to be completed by next Janu-
airy to Meridian.
Fort Wayne, Indiana, has voted S150,O0O
in aid of the New York, Chicago and ST. Louis rail
way, and thereby secures the repair shops Of the
road to that town.
The Union Pacific being debarred from
making legal indorsement Of the bonds Of the
nent that Will be equtvalen. to guaranty OF
principal and interest.
Charles B. Gibson, a merchant at Trinity,
in attempting TO board freight train in motion at
Wheeler, Alabama, on the Memphis snd Charles
ton read Tuesday night had both legs cut Off and
ole Wednesday morning.
The Master Mechanics and Master Car
Builder Association held a meeting in Knoxville
fey days ago az which much business d S Mas
trucks They adopted as the standard truck the one
now ia Use on The East Tennessee Virginia and
Georgia road
The President has approved the recon-
m ,ndations of the secretary of the interior touch
sioners upon newIytcomneted 100 mic sectinp Of
the tia. &c and Pacific railroad and has accepted
company patents to over 5000 acres of land for
Seon mil mIls The new section runs from point
across the boundary line into Arizona
The Fort Smith Independent thinks that tire
citizens of Fort smith do not seem to realize how
the right of way to The Frisco railroad. and
says: work has not commenced on the bridge
The grant by the Choctaws with might and money.
Yet we stand idle and have not even informed our
congressman as to our wishes. T,Do men attended
the citizens meeting Saturday night Every
Is waiting for every other man to do something
We'll, If 1t must be, we suppose we can stand it."
AtEranklin, in this State, one day last week,
while the north bound train taking the side
track in order that the south bound train could
pass, one of the cars OF the former became un.
coupled and remained on the main track, and the
latter train came numbering along and colided
g1neer were killed outright and several Others
badly injured. DR.. Pat K. Bailey slightly in
1ured. lie is a mail messenger on the train. This
occurred near the residence of the Hon. John
Overton. No one knew that the had became
uueoupled, and of course no one wss to blame.
A correspondent at Jasper Tennessee,
writes the Nashville World under date of the OH,
as follows; 81 asst week the Hon. Z. A. James, of
WIN tb for Nae s tS
right OF way through said county for railroad
va, on the north side of the river, in west rly
direction, touching at the Suck the Pot the Skillet
and other historic points aieng the Tennessee,
and as II hugs Wadens ridge for % miles, th=re
is almost inexhaustible amount of bark and
timber. The road will be built TO Jasper and South
PittsbuTg and will be narrow gauge. We regret
this. for did hope that u broad gauge would be
built, and that 1t would make a connection with
the great Memphis and Charleston at Stevenson,
Alabama. thereby giving us a direct route to
Chattanooga"
Texis exchange, writing about railway
enterprises in that State says: 1.-The Sabine and
leNas northern Is projected from MARSHALL 10
Ibiue Pass. Work is said to have begun. Perhaps
it will run south from Irshal no further than 10
n junction with tue Southern Pacific. There
several other projects-one from Houston, one
from Bolivar Point opposite Galveston, one from
Tyler To Moscow, one from Trinity eastward, one
from Marshal to SabiGe City est. Louis Texas and
Gulf of Mexico not The same the sabine Pass
and Texas Northern spoken of above although
running in the field), and possibly Others
which we have overlooked. How many of these
roads will be built IL is not posSib to say. Doubt
less too many projected The lines from Dallas
to New Orleans. Gulf and Pacific from Trinity Ia
branch of Gould's Great Northern). and from
beaumont Crosbys road. are appa emily on sound
financial bases. and Bremond's conservative man
agement is likely to carry Houston East and
The Chicago Times discredits the proba-
biity of the Chesapeake and Ohio seeking to reach
Chicago by means of the Danville, Olney and
Ohio River line, and says ITO use this line a
Chicago connection the Chesapeake and Ohio
would be dependent upon The Chicago and East
ern Illinois for entrance to the city. In the event
of change OF ownership Of this road the tenure OF
altogether uncertain. Besides. President Hun
tingIon, of the Chesapeake and Ohio, Is, with a
strong syndicate OF his friends, in control of the
Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Chicago railway,
which line is ultimately to form section of the
Chesapeake and Ohio systems. The construction
of go miles OF road, from Ksnkakee to Seneca,
Illinois, which completed few days ago.
establishes connection between the Cincinnati
system and the Rock Island railway, and admits
the former to the Albert lea route and the wheat
belt of the Northwest. II is improbable in the
opinion of railway managers, that President
Huntington would abandon this system and
undertake TO acquire the Danville Olney and
Ohio River line, in its present isolated condition
for Chicago connection, and that he would wish
10 control two connections with this city is not
6elleyable prOD0SilfOn.n