Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Railroad property 10 Georgia increased
$3.50 900 in value last year.
"Peg" Williams, the lightning emigrani
passenger agent of the Memphis and Little
Z OK railway, whose headquarters are al
Atlantis, is in the city on a brief visit to his
family.
Railroad travelling up the mountain will
be a novel exper eoce for visitors to the
CatsSills this season. The new road has been
built IN the interest of the hotels which last
year had such remarkable success.
The meeting OF the directors of the Mem
phi, Selma and Brunswick road has been
appointed for April 18th, at which it is con-
fdrntly expected that measures will be
taken looking TO immediate work OF con-
siruction Of The gap between Memphis and
Holly Springs.
The Star and Crescent route, Uid New Or
leans and Morgan City, being still under
water, leaves the only route.from the South
east 10 Texas and the Southwest by way of
Memphis, which is now an aDbroken line of
rail~ay Persons contemplating a visit or
emigration in that direction should make o
note Of he fact.
The Louisville Courier Journal says:
Enough railroads were incorporated at
Frankfort Yesterday to form such a network
over The 5 ate az 10 make it look in the map
like a g ction out of a fish-seine. 1t is one
thing, however, to incorporate a railroad and
another 10 build it. One goss by wind; the
other does not"
A Washington special says: "RaiIroad
men are dissati fled with the bill granting
the r ght Of way through the Indian Terri
tory ~ il passed the Senate. 1t makes them
pay the Indiaus S2S per acre, ard limits
their right of way on each side to $50 feet.
The bin will PROBABLY pass the House in
this shaps, AZ an amendment would delay
and defeat the bill for this season."
1t is thought that by May 18th through
cars will run from Louisville to Washington
over the Chesapeake and Ohio. Through
cars TO the Virginia watering places will be
running certainly before the opening of the
summer season, and this will be a most pop
missing link" between Paducah and Mem
phis will be supplied, ana close connection
will be made or Though cars run between
Memphis and Washington and TO Newport
News.
With communicable enterprise the East
Tennessee, V rginia and Georgia is eHdeav-
oring TO encourage immigration to the sec.
ton Of country through which it runs; the
immigration bureau has been established,
which will publi-h valuable and full infor-
nation of the country and give accurate
descriptions of each county on the line of
the road. To attract desirable Immigrants
it is proposed to give forty-acre tracts of {
lands in certain sections to those who Will {
10 improve them. !
Work on the St Louis and Texas road, !
Pine Bluff and Camden, is going :
ahead rapidly, and averages one mile per :
day. The rosd will be built to Saline river, 4
thirty miles south of Pine Bluff. by May Is, 4
TO Camden some time in September, il Z
not earlier. FrDm Camden it will be pushed {
10 Texarkana a. speedily as money and men
san build it. Work On the Texarkana end I
IF the road toward Camden is reported pro- !
crossing favorably. and contractors say that S
when the Pine Bluff division is built to :
J4mden the Trxarkana line will also be in i
mining order To that Mace [