Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-03
RAILROAD RuMRLINGs.
Bright Flashes of Intelligence from Near
aud Afar.

and Afar.
A syndicate contemplates establishing
mammoth stock yards at Gainesville,
with the object of making 1t the great
cattle centre of Florida
The Marietta and North Georgia Kali
road has given the required bond OF $2,00O
in the convict lease fight, which enables
them to secure convicts from Principal
Keeper helms, until the suit reaches d
final decision.
TheJ jacksonville, Tampa and Key west
Railroad Company has purchaSeo e VI
Wallace q Cashen, of JacksonVllle, LOT
$780, 900, their mill and property IN the city
of Palatka. upon which property the COM
pany viii build their depot.
The Central Railroad has settled its
suits with the ssHearts OF Oak Company"
paying the actors and actresses 80 per
cent. of their claims and costs, ana Mr;
Hearn half his demands. n car hlled
with theatrical effects burned at Jones'
boro a year ago. was the occasion OF
these suits.
The cambridge Democrat says: 1T is
certain fact that a large force OF hands
will be put on the Tallahassee and Gult
Road Immediately after Christmas, near
Lake jackson, and it is beheYed-thougn
not positively knOwn-that the road VIII
be built to cambridge instead of Thom-
asville, as was first intended"
President Mclaughlin. of the Tocoi and
st. Augustine road, will probably put on
Il large transfer steamer to cross the river
at TocOi. Through cars for st. Augustine
will be run from Northern cities, switched
off and carried across the river on the
transfer steamer to TOcOi, making the
through trip to st. Augustine without
change.
1t is rumored that a suit will soon be
instituted against the Brunswick and
Western Railroad by two prominent mill
men of Brunswick for $4,000 damages,
for the loss of 900, 600 feet lumber burnt
while lying on the skids ready and the
railroad unable to take it. There will be
a meeting of the stockholders on Decem-
Der 4th to elect directors for the ensuing
year and to transact other business OF I'M
pOrtance.
The Jacksonville Times Union prints
the following: ''An amicable arrangement
of great Importance has been concluded
between the Plant interest and the Fl0ri-
da Southern Railway Company, by which
the Savannah, Florida and Western Rail-
way, which is already completed from
Rowland's Bluff, on the Suwanee river,
to a junction with the Florida South
ern at Haig's station, is to take
charge OF and operate the Florida
SOuthern's Road from Haig'S into Gaines
vile. For this purpose the iron on that
part of the Florida Southern has already
been completely taken up, the road will
be widened TO a broad gauge, and Col.
Haines promises to have regular sleeping
coaches running to Gainesville by Janu-
airy l. In addition to this the Plant interest
is to build, and the Florida Southern own,
from junction with the Savannah, Flor
ida and Western Road on the north bank
of the Santa Fe River, to Lake City,
branch road which Will connect at Lake
City with the Florida Central and West
ern Railroad. Further. the Florida South
ern will continue building south, but will
not enter Tampa. 1t will 90 on down,
crossing the South Florida Railroad,
touching at Barlow, and build straight on
to Charlotte HarbOr, where it originally
planned to terminate. The Florida South
ern is at present completed to Leesburg.
The Palatka and Indian River Railroad,
now building, is owned by the men who
own the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key
West Railroad. The Palatka and Indian
River road has been graded to Como, near
Crescent City, and a contract has been let
to complete the grade to Volusia, where it
will connect with the st. Johns and Lake
Eustis Road. A force of men is now at
work under this contract, The Jackson
vile, Tampa and Key West and the
Palatka and Indian River Roads will form
a continuous line from jacksonville to
Titusville. The Plant system, which had
no franchise into Palatka, gets as good
connection as they want by their contract
with the Florida Southern, though they
will undoubtedly run their through cars
over the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key
West Road from Jacksonville to Palatka.
The Serenade ID minor), Violoncello
obligatO, to be rendered at the Thomas
Grand symphony Concert by Adolf
Hurtdozen, is alone we'll worth the price