The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-08-08

THE LATEST RAILROAD SCOOP.
TIE purchase Of the Richmond and
Danville railroad by the Seney syndi-
cate seems 10 havr been an accomplish
fact last week. This is the most gigAn-
tir transaction that has stirred railroad
circles for a long while. The Seney
syndicate now controls four thousand
miles o. railroad, covering the whole
Southern country, from the Southern
Mississippi through Tennessee and the
Gulf States to the Atlantic States, and
thence TO the Middle States The East
Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia be-
comes the gr.atest artery in this i'm
uense sys EN- Monumental circulation;
aud il Is highly probable that double
track will soon be needed. Knoxville
will become a great railroad centre,
and the Morristown branch, at once
looms int great Importance. BY
means Of the Knoxville and Ohio the
new combination have direct eommuni-
cation with Louisville and Cincinnati,
and through them TO the great West
and Northwest The Atlanta ConstitH-
ton refers to the probable results OF
this purchase as follows:
On yesterday morning me published
a statement that the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia Railroad Com
pany has purchased n controlling in
ter &C I'm the Richmond and Danviile
Railroad This gives il the control of
about four thousand miles of Rad, be-
ginning at Washington City, and run
ming down through Virgiuia by Rich
mond, AID Lynchburg, through the
CarolinAs, with n control OF nearly all
the roads In both those States. IL
passes into Georgia by the Airline,
and reaching Atlanta turns and goes TO
Rene, thence down to Selma, Alabama,
with several branches and extensions
Then again &c starts at Norfolk, Virgin
Ia, and at Hagerstown, Maryland, the
two roads coming together this side OF
Lynchburg, and passing down through
East Tennessee to Knoxville, where
one branch runs In Cleveland, Tennes-
see, aud thence dowR to Rome. An
other branch from Cleveland runs TO
Chattanooga and thence TO Memphis,
Tennessee, and branching of again at
Knoxville, they run 10 the junction of
the Kentucky Central, with which they
run in connection into Cincinnati. And
they then have virtually the control of
line from Cincinnati int Chicago.
This is IN immense combination c0iiing
itself like 80 anoconda around the other
minor railroad Interests of the South.
with what future results il is impossible
for any one TO say. How viii this ef-
feet the system of roads in Georgia?
= l.
the Georgia, the Western and Atlantic,
and the Wet Point, and IL throws right
among them from Carolina the Air Line
TO Atlanta, the capital of the State,
which is a eompeti or with the Georgia
for all the businrss above Athens; and
then a line across to the coast, being
competitor to the Central the whole dis
lance, with q line up TO Rome aud
e attanOoga, as the competitor OF the
Western and Atlantic railroad, and at
Chattanooga with one line to Memphis,
another TO Knoxville, and from Knox
willie out to the entire West.
Since the above was put in
type, collated from editorials and dis
patches app, airing in the Knoxville
Chronicle Of last week, a copy of that
paper, OF the 5'h, (the only Knoxville
paper received Of that date up 10 three
o'clock, p IN, MoLday,) contains an
associated pres dispatch from New
York. Aug 4 expl-ining why jaw
Gould dad not buy tn East T unrssee,
Vtrginia aud Georgia line. So we in
Ter there j. a hitch ia the tran,actisn,
only amounting 70 question OF pluck.
who 10 YOU belong to:" inquired a
81 passenger ol Mississippi -teamb"ar,
forty years ago, OF splendid sp l.
men at the Original male cotton picker.
leaning against the smoke stack. date
more'n can say, now. De game is
goin' sn in de cabin, an mass'r has de
biggest pile Of chips"