Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-03
Anu GENERAL

I! annual report Of the Missouri rail-
observation-disclosures shows the total rail.
roa1ileage Of that State to be 4490 miles,
A4a;t 4234 in 1881, an increase Of 256
TIMiami Powder Company, OF Xenia.
o, drought suit in the courts of Frank.
lin caly against the Panhandle Railroad
Couny to recover damages in The sum Of
S30Cor failure 10 deliver three carloads
of pate oil soda, valued at S2,431 81.
I French Broad railroad of North
Carla, now known as the Carolina, Cum
berp Gap and Chicago railroad, is a
hxect. The work, says an exchange, has
eonnced in earnest. Two hundred hands
haven put To work al Aiken. and 100 a.
Edsld. The grading is progressing in
Injection of Abbsvilie.
~. G. BRowE was appointed general
maer Of the Chesapeake, Ohio and South-
wee railroad last Saturday. He was
forty general manage of the Cincinnati,
SaFky and Cleveland road, and subse-
quo superintendent OF the Ohio division
Of Indiana, Bloomington and Western.
Hell have his headquarters in Louisville.
Batesville aud Brinkley railroad is
coeted, and trains are now running daily
TO Iona, 20 miles Borth Of Brinkley. II
is ened 10 have the completed portion OF
thoad placed in good order and depots
copcted at the nav stations by the com
inging, when work will be commenced at
i~tsesent terminus and exienedd to Bates
= win lime for the fall trade of 1883.
? old fight between the Baltimore and
oh and Panhandle over 80 miles oil
ioi track between Columbus, o., snd
Mex has been renewed by The former
mag an affidavit that the Injunction Of
august had been violated by the latter
10 using TO pay their proportion OF Gala
riend interfering with the management OF
theoad and trains. The court issued an
ord returnable January Sth, 10 show a
forrocedure and why they should not be
helm contempt.
EoNTo Nail: at was hoped that sc sim
Pile matter rs the consolidation o. the
Miigsn Central and Canada Sou .hern
raDads could be effected without any
furer increase OF Indebtedness. But il
seer matters are 10 take their usual course
Engagement between the companies con-
temlates the borrowing Of S6,000,0 0Q. with
with 10 double-trsek the Canada Southern
.anduild a new bridge at St. Thomas. The
Of the Canada Southern now amounts
bRS79, On which 5 per cent. Interest
is ekranleed BY The New York Central
Conany. The Michigan Csntrals indebt.
eds is S23, Az, 200. III the amslgamatior
is nde the most approved Vanderbilt way
theiwill have 10 be . new issue of stock, Al
wells bonds, in connection with it."
RocHEsTER IN. " dispatch to the st
Los Globe emocgat, December Both, says
'Oihe 5ih or 7th of'next month the con,
sumation Of a gigantic railroad scheme
wiTske place. The secret of the purchase
OF b Nickel Plate line will be out then
andhe question that has been go often asked
by bse who believed that it was bought in
Mr.. anderbilt's interest, What is he going
TO dwith it? will he answered. The day
abo, mentioned will mark The consolida-
tiouf tue Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati
and Indianapolis, the Vandalis, the Terre
Hap, the Nickel-Plate' and the Central
HuOn railroads into one great system
creang a great rival and opposition line tC
the Wabash system aud the Pennsylvania
Genial, opening a short and direct route II
Cinanati and st. Louis. By reference to
mapt will be seen that the lines above men
tionl will form a straight route almoH
from Cleveland to ST. Louie, and ~railroa'
menlere think that The Wabash and Penn
syIvnia Central systems viii meet in it III
growing triumph of the Vanderbilts."