The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-29
Railroad Matters.

Engineer Walter Hughes, OF the
Narrow Guage, was shot at pear LlncAs-
ter.
--Tracklaying averages a quarter 81 a
mile per day on the Cape Fear &
X X says the Rc0ri
About eight miles Of the Pom; Ca
well L. r., graded
AT Nash court. the suit ~against the
K < q r X, for damages. 10. death, 81
wounds. in the Ioungsville collision, du-
ring Fair week, In 1880, were referred -
Col Walter Clarke and Chas VI i}usbec
as arbitratorS, with Hon Wm I Dortch,
as umpire.
The Open Switch is playing smash
with southern railroads. The accident
which killed hero Joe Smith near Charles
ton was the open switch slde-trackIng
a freight. ne crash at Charlotte last
week which killed VIM. Ferris was upon
the side track to which an engine had
gone. Aud the accIdeLt which wrecked
the passenger tram on the y. { X Il,
AT Thomasvil e, was on the side track,
left open by the material train. Tie
damage to several freight ears at the
rock, cutting in Franklin county last week
was due to a neglected switch. Engl-
neer Whites engine was smashed. but II
was not his fault. -Four such accidents
in a single State, within a fortnight,
will no doubt do good, by arousing vigil
lance al along the line.
A rock thrown by some miscroant
near Clalkton, on the Carolina Central
X. L made a deep dent in the wood
work of Capt. Everitt's train, near the
head Of Mrs Frank Mitchell, of vii
miDgton. VIII, narrowly escaped with her
life. The Charlotte OLserrer says de-
t~ectivcs are at work, and they ought to
be. 4 fellow who wantonly throws a
deadly missile into a train filed with
helpless women and children ought to be
hunted down like "a wild beast.
The R.leigh and Castor, or Robin
son, syndicate l. d in, . good cork for
Itself. and I,r the Sac, by having "a
photographer lake views Of ali rrorni-
ncrt buildings, etc, between Nolfo k
and Lfurinburg, incluline the Rocking
ham factories, the Raleigh public W rLs,
etc. They are to be used at the Boston
Exposition Thi- i, wise The South
knows little about the North. tat the
North doesn't know anything about tie
South; and lmagines Il. II al. is bad lorthe
Jack of facts.
We note in this connection til t : nee
Maj Winder took charge OF the en.Ire K
s. & line 10 n. G.. (from Weldon to
Charlotte, and Wilmington) there ha~
been a steady improvement in the pro
perry. Many hundreds of steel rails have
been put down, at points which seemed
TO need them most, and the work of rock
ballasting Is going on in three divisions.
On the !. Il g., proper, the Rock
crusher is launching % tons per day, at
the quarry near Frauklinton. On the r.
& A. "a force is distributing the pebbly
or conglomerate sandstone from near Os-
good. and other points.
The generality of people do not know
the importance of this heavy ballasting.
Some of the great lines like Baltimore
and Ohio, and Pennsy wanna Central, are
as solid as a mountain wall conseuuent-
ly there is rarely an accic ent from broken
rail, spreading Of the rails, jumping the
track, Joltlng, etc. One OF the Eaglish
roads has male near y a mie IA minute
averaging 10 miles an hour the year round,
rock. No accident except "a broken wheel,
an open switch, or a collision can happen
en- such tracks.