Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-01
RAILROAD RUMBLINGs.
Bright Flashes of Intelligence from Near
and Afar.

Bright Flashes of Intelligence from Near
and Afar.
Elaborate water facilities are afforded
i'm the new railroad tanks at Millen.
Week before last Louisville and Nash
vile earned $3l1,700, an increase OF
$50, j0j
The Augusta, Elberton and Chicago
Railroad il reported still booming toward
completion.
Two more freight engines were received
by the Central Railroad saturday. They
viii be put on the main road at once.
1t is probable that "A telegraph line will
soon be erected from CedartOwn to Broken
Arrow, Ala. The company are at present
figuring at the cost Of such an enterprise
The following are the earnings Of the
South Carolina Railway for the month Of
August 1883, $50, SJ4 40; 1882, S'9,S22 20;
increase S6,031 10; eight months to Au-
gust 81: 1883. S794, 1G4 30: 1882. S12G,G0 %;
Increase, SCI, 800 %.
Sixty hands are employed on the extern
sion OF the st. Johns and Lake EustIs
Railroad, from Fort Mason TO LeesbGrg.
At the latter place il Blil make cOnnec-
ton with the Florida Southern, now beng
pushed south from Ocala.
Travel over the Waycross short line Of
the Savannah, Florida and Western Rail
way is unusually large for this season OF
the year. turing the past week ali the
trains for Jacksonville have been crowd
cd The train which left the city yes
terday morning for that city took seventy
through passengers, and another large
rain lcf. The city las! nigh; .uI tnat
point.
A Cincinnati dispatch reads as follows:
Theodore Cook, the late President OF the
"a
cific Railroad and Administrators Of the
iiOughty estate, says thaC lie report That
he VIII lease the Cincinnati, selma and
Mobile Road at 1000 per anpum net II
true. This Will pay per cent. on the
bonds, which will bring them up to or
nearly to par. The assets OF the Doughty
estate, which consist Of the securities OF
this road. can then be put upon the
market and the fraudulent stock Of the
Cincinnati. New Orleans and Texas Pa
cifc Road, which was issued to the
amount of 100000, can be redeemed"
The Augusta Chronicle has the follow
ing on one Of the results of the recent
lease OF the Augusta and knoxville hail-
road son Monday, october ist, and
thereafter. freight on the Augusta and
Knoxville Railroad will be received and
shipped from the Central Railroad depot,
corner Of Calhoun and Washington
streets. At that time, too, the passenger
station and ticket Office will be at the
Union Passenger station III THIS city,
where trains will leave ana arrive.
AIessrs. NJ. Lettuce and John Cooper, Jr.,
agent and local treasurer OF the Fort
ROyal and Augusta Railway Company,
wifi have similar positions for the Au-
gusta and Knoxville Railroad.
There is to be an important meeting al
Rutherfordton, y. c., on Monday, Octo-
Der sth. i'm the interest Of the narrow
gauge railroad from that point through
south Carolina TO Augusta and on to
Port ROYAL The question 20 10 defer
Gined at the meeting IL whether the road
will come by Gaifney City, Union, New
berry and Edgefeld village, or whether it
will 70 bv Spartanburg and there connect
with the extension Of the Augusta and
Knoxville Railroad There is ample evil
dence that the road vii! he buiiC al once.
Already SI72, 900 has been subscribed 70
fine caDilal stock, and it is almost certain
that about 900 additional will he sub
scribed by number Of other townships
that will vote upon tle matter in few
days. Being narrow gauge railroad
but little money will be required 10
build it,
The merchants along the line and the
ticket agents and conductors Of the
Northeastern Railroad have been gar
nisheed by the company. The Constitution
eays. ''rhe causes which led to this novel
proceeding may be recited as follows: In
1881 the city Of Athens owned stock IN
the Northeastern to the amount Of 100000
The road was then completed to Lulu.
but II was the earnest desire Of the
Athenians to have iteXtended to Tallulah
Falls. Propositions were accordingly
made by the two trunk lines interested,
namely, the Air Line and the Georgia
Roads. The Georgia Road proposed to
take the road and pay the city 100000 for
its stock, and to Obligatc Itsell TO con-
struct a road not only to Tallplab but 10
knoxville. The Air Line ohered simply
to take the road with the Athens stock as
bonus and to build the desired extension.
\ meeting of the three interested parties
was held in Atlanta in 1881, and DIR. IL.
IL. Carlton then city attorney OF Athens,
endeavOred to have clause inserted IN
the contract inhibiting the successful
road from mOrtgaging the completed part
OF the line which was then regularly IN
operation. He was finally excluded from
the deliberations of the bodies and the con-
tract was made and signed up without the
restriction which he proposed. As the law
prohibited the Airline road from taking
the Northeastern il was put III the
hands of the Terminal Company"
which was virtually an airline. In
building the eighteen or twenty
miles extension the Terminal Company
mortgaged the road to the Central Conn
pany'' mot the Central Railroad, for
$500, 900 or 5000, 900, and the mortgage has
been LAYING dormant ever since. 1t must
be borne in mind that all these companies
are the same men under different names.
Some months ago an excursion train on
the Northeastern bad an accident and a
number OF persons were injured. Sew
eral suits grew out Of it and some have
been tried Mr.. HOke Smith, for one
client, got Il verdict for $1,000, and Carl
ton & Lumpkin, as attorneys, got YER
dict or two. Other suits are to follow.
Now the managers of the road say the
line is insOlyent, as it is mOrtgaged for so
much more than it is worth, and they
threaten to force it into a receivers
hands before they will pay the judgments
of the court. Hence the garnishments.
The question with the Athens people is:
GLOW did the road happen to get mort
gagged for eight or nine hundred thousand
dollars to build eighteen miles,"