Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


NE conductors OF the Memphi, and
Charlie ton railroad, viii in the future lay over at
Chattanooga instead Of huntsville
Two new roads opened for business out of
Chtcsgo % the East on Tuesda5-the Chirago and
Atlantic and the Chicago, 81. Louis and P,ttsburg
The opening day Of he National Expo.
siu0h OF Railway Appliances, which is to be ned
y, Chicago this year, vi be May 9Th, instead OF
MArch 2ilh as hitherto pub ishe1.
The jack s0nviiIe. s.. AuRustine and
Halifax River track is laid from Jacks onviIe Fla
TO the lice OF johns county, 10 miles Grading
on the entire 5i1a miles IS finished.
HrHE track Of the Chihaahua diyi-i,n of
miles south. Oh Sturdy night The soufheTn
division was laid 2S miles north the 2ls ultimo
The ST. l. az nod S-g Frsncsco White
b hlyer nr4Ich 4 new competed and opened for
business 70 sparta, Christian county, Mo, IS
Geld. 60 'P''De
some unknown scoundrel threw a rock
through the car window Of the south-boun pAs.
seager train on the East tennessee Virginia and
88sorgla rallr5ad a few miles above Knoxville
Weinesday night
The track If the White River branch If
inc b. Louis, Iron Mountain and southern Is now
completed to Bttesyie, Ark, 70 miles westward
from tue Junction with che man liue at Kerr.
been begun.
The Cincinnati Times says: "In Spain a
railway trhiR has been adopted consisting Of en-
gnu . and "a carriages, which, contains complete
rod, OF officers ahd 1856 men and forms little
movable war depot. The carriages are ironelsd
ana provided with loepboleE, ana the train car
ries four guns. Nervous Western travellers would
anee."
New YORK Huntington has gobbled 40
the charters d franchises Of the old Missi.sippf
Valley and Levee railroad, by purchasing the char
Yer nights OF the old corporation from 6reenylLe
hunlnBtOn, Whos Twill &c remembered, obtained
lhelr renewal AZ the last essiOn Of the Mississippi
legislature. Inc franchises of the Mississippi Val
mi lRf.al H.
phis railroad
lHE following il statement If the New
orleans end Mobile railroad, owned aud operated
by the Louisville and Nashville Railway Com
Pshy, for the months ended December 81, 1852:
Nross earnings, s5D,5l0-increese, S57,82l; ex.
penses S3lO,56S; net S29 l57-ncrease $50 1877: in
terest OT fret mortgage bonds $50 coo; Interest
on second mo tghge bends, S97.7 taxes. al
increase, S22yji total charges against income Sl92
lSi-lhcfehse. s2<55; surplus income, SO 9G6-in-
crease, So, 90i
NJ r. A. CRAWFORD, the wealthy Peunsyl-
va1lan who recently made extensive Investments
IN fehtress county, Tenn, is at the head Of COM
pany Wnlcn proposes TO build an important road
70 tap the Cincinnati Southern from the west The
point OF Contact will be between Sunbright and
seuBeplOre, aud At The Latter point il will pass
ttnIoHgh Rugby. IL Is the purpose of the company
70 unite with tn Nashville aud SparLa railroad,
and build from the latter point, making a through
line 70 the Cincinnati Southern from Nashville.
a corps oil engineers IS nov on the field, making
preliminary surveys, and the company speak posi-
lively OF builSng the road. They nave already
made heavy contracts with the Cincinnati SOUTH
srn railway Tor coal and coke, and concluded
Other negotiations, which seem to indicate that
lhey are in earnest The road would prove an i'm
pornnt factor in developing the table lands OF