Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-21

Bright Flashes of Intelligence from Near
and Affair.


Col. Loring H. Wadley, son of VIM. M.
Wadley. the deceased railroad maunate,
expresses the opinion that all the south
ern railroads viii eventually consolidate.
The terminus Of the st. Johns and Lake
Eustis Railroad at Lake Harris has been
named Lane Park. in honor of Col. a. j.
Lane. to whom the people are Indebted
for the above named railway, thus con-
Meeting their lands with the markets ID
all parts of the compass.
A Washington paper says it is whisper
ed in RAILROAD circles that Colonel A.
Pope, the General Ticket and Passenger
Agent Of the Norfolk and western, VIII
be appointed General Supervising Ticket
and Passenger Agent of the Seney and
Richmond and Danvllle system OF roads
Of the South and Southwest.
New Orleans advices say that Hunting
ton is expected to assume control OF the
Morgan railroads the 1st of January next.
Such. at least. is the information received
from a gentleman just from New York
who ought to know. He says 1t IS further
understood in New York that Col. L. W :.
Pierce, President of the sunset Road, VIII
be General Manager Of the line from New
Orleans to FL PasO, and that Capt. Fow-
Ter. who has long been the agent of the
Morgan lines at Galveston, Will be given
the general management Of the steamship
lines.
The Tavares Herald says: ''Grading on
the I. o. & A. r. r. progresses and the
work is pushing rapidly toward the
Apopka canal, which il is expected will
be reached within the next two weeks.
The grading force is being increased to
one hundred and fifty hands, and Mr..
Dasher. the Superintendent, is confident
that the grade will reach ApOpka City
before the first Of November. On yester-
day the force resumed cutting out right
of way. which will be completed to the
canal. The work throughout is being adj
mirablv done and the line will compare
favOrably with any railroad in the State.
On Monday last the hands were all paid
off, and as a matter of course, they spent
the day counting their money"
An Atlanta special to the New York
Tunes reads as follows; "For some time
pressure has been privately brought upon
the Legislature looking to the sale of the
State Road to a syndicate composed of
the present lessees and other
capitalists. The road was leased
by Governor Bullock in 1870
for twenty years. These parties having
spent much money in its betterment, are
moving thus early to secure the owner
ship. The movement eliminated yester-
day by the Introduction in the House of
that as the acknowledged debt
Of the State is but S9,000,000, and
as 5000. 600 can be secured for the
State Road, therefore il is TO the interest
of the State to sell the road and save an
annual interest Of nearly 100000 The
bill had been expected. While it is not
expected to pass this session, it starts an
agitation which, under the closer manip-
ulation Of Joseph Brown. will probably
pass IN the next Legislature. The inter-
est on the State debt is greater than the
receipts from the State Road; therefore,
from business standpoint, the sale would
be advisable. The Central Railroad Com
pany. which owns all the roads in the
State, except the East Tennessee, Nir-
ginia and Georgia and the Richmond and
Danville systems, is now practically shut
out from the West, except through the
State Road. The Central authOri-
ties fear that in time the
East Tennessee Road might gObble
up the State Road, as it has the Richmond
and DanTille, and thus the only system of
roads in the South owned and controlled
by Southern men would be completely
hemmed in by Northern syndlcates. The
plan of the company and leading legis-
latOrs is to fix the sale of the State Road
so that it may pass into the control of the
Central. With this line to the West the
Central system would jump to the front
as one Of the greatest railway syndicates
in the country, with the best Western
connections, tapping all important points
in the South and cegteTng in savannah as
the grand cl,sreDOt. 1t is a great move
IlSnt, and may occur at any moment"