Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-22
Personal Ano GENERAL.

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GEORGE GIBSON, The C ever md sccommo-
dating baggagemaster a the Western aud Atlantic
railroad, WAS mar ed u Miss Annie Baldwin, Of
Atlanta, Wednesday ey ening.
Will HESDERsoy. 4 brakeman on the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad,
I'd his hand 50 badly crushed at Johnson City
Thursday that am putatiOn was necessary.
Work will 5000 be b gun on The frat rail-
road 10 Persia, to connect Resent, on the Caspian,
with Teh.ran, the capital The new line win be
900 versts in length, aud will facilitate trade with
Russia.
The f,rmsl opening Of the White river
branch Of the Iron Mountain Railroad took place
Monday. The train left New port al 6 O'Clock n m
ana arrived at B4tesTille at il O'Clock the same
morning.
TIE New Orleans Ficoyune estimates that
the American syndicates engaged IN building rail.
rosds IN Mexico viii make Ont Of the 1850 miles
Of track which they control 1898, 500 goo. 1t adds.
likely make = war"
All roads leading 10 the West and North.
west report = very heavy immigration toward the
undeVe oped sections relched by them Tue new
amount OF new ground breaking is expected dur
lag the coming season.
THOMAS ROCKFORD a white man employ.
ed on the line Of the New Orleans. Baton Rouge.
guards OF the sic 4mer Deer Creek Saturday night
last at Y o'clock, at Fox's Ferry, and was drown
ed. Tine boat was stopped aud the yawl sent out.
but his body could not be found.
The ST. Louis Glo5e- Democrat says the
proposed ship railway across the istnmus of Te.
hua 1tePec has not been sband Jued, as many sup
pose. Capt. James 4. Eds, its protector, states
that the work is being vigorously prnse ,uted. and
that tue massive railroad Will be finished long be-
lore DeLssseps's Panama canal is opened.
The railway e-rorgs Of the last two
months have been the largest ever known, and
though the taSthound freights from Chicago have
fl en- of largely in the last TWO weeks. in view of
the near reopenirg OF lake navigation, and though
there are some Prospective troubles ia the iron
b-tter.
A CONTRACT ha- jus, been closed at Fort
Worth: Tx. for the shipment Of $1,000 head of
cattle from the graZiug region south of hat CITY,
o. the Gull, Colorado and Santa Re railway, 10
5000 cars, or us t-sins OF IA cars each. ut a total
cos OF % GJl. The slipm .uJ Is rendered neces-
sary BY TIE large amount Of fencing recently put
up In the southern part OF the state.
The secretary OF The S ale Monday regis
tered the charter OF the Tennes-ee Central Rail
road Company. The pup Sc OF The com pauy is
county o. Puma ., through tho counties of Put
nam Cumberland, Fentress, Morgan, Anderson
incOrpoTators are Walton smith. Jesse Arnold, n.
l.. Denny, J.. G.. Freeze, II z. Davis and J. II.
Curtis.
The first Fix months Of the present fiscal
year Of the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad,
shows the gross receipts TO be s355,l72 81, while
the operating expenses are tl53, $50 81, .making the
net receipts SOL 2Sj IS an increase for the same
period over last year Of s1l6,65j % During this
year the company nave laid IL miles Of steel rail,
az tApGuNE VI WI II j NLllktl u OTGllAIE re-
pairs and embraced in above statement Of oper-
adng expenses
A CONTRACTOR thoroughly versed in raj
road building saw: "a common prairie track
costs $1,000 per mile 10 cOnstruct-s3i5O Tor grad
lug, 1902 for hfty-six .teel rails, leaving less than
5000 for bridging. ties. track laying, etO. This
with depots, roundhouses, etc, should not cost
over $4,000 per mile, an on most roads between
the Miss ssiDpi aud the Rocky Mountains the cost
per mile was less
THE Kaniueky Union il the nsme Of thu
latest railway euteroTise I'm the SOnth, and when
the line is compile ed it Will have Winchester, KY,
aud Abingdon, Va, for its termiui. IL is claimed
by its projectors that IL will be tn 'short line''
between the West and The Atlantic ocean. and
OF the chief factors in the East and vest railway
system OF the south. All new enterprises OF this
kind take front rank" until the securities are
marketed, when they suddenly take a back seat.
]. A. YATES, civil eDginee. of The Canton,
Aberdeen and Nashville railroad. at StarkvilIe,
Miss. was Shot Wednesday evening by G. A. Camp.
bell, bridge contractor of the Flme road. The
trouble grew out OF a settlement they had that
morning. C1mpbeli did not think that Yates had
given him estimate enough on the work he had
done. Yates was shot tbrough the abdomen, but
MS phys,ei9n things IL is not necessarily fatal.
Campbell's coAt-sleeve without touching the flesh.
A DISPATCH from Cairo, ILL.,, notes the ar
rival of a patty OF gentlemen who are capitalists,
and says; These geutlemea have a char'e r TO
build a railroad through Missouri and Arkansas,
TO cross the Mississippi at Cottonwood Point, and
their visit is for the purpose of holding a meeting,
uGcGs1hfy 70 comply Win Ine ldW, unuer their
charter. the location of the road has not yet
been made pubic, but it is t. be a trunk line, and
GO mi1es PieS5tfay2GS from ocean TO oee n about
when proper arrangements are mIr5s"
PHILADELPHIA Record: search i, b.ing
diligently made TO- an ancient engine wanted for
the rNilway exhibition at Chicago. which meets
next month. The engine wanlei is the John
Bull, Z which was builtin 1880, and was on exhioi-
ton At the Centennial. The secretary OF the ex-
hibiion company wrote to the general manager vi
pennsylvania and the Philadelphia and Reading
RN.lTnQn nrn nAmfaE tun eI.I aa.. ~ Z . 49,. -
was discovered that it was last in the possession of
the last named company. II passed from the lat
Ter some time ago, AID yesterday Information
was sent from Wa !nington hat il was in the pos.
session OF the Smithsonian Institute. and would
be forwarded to Chicago when wanted"
THE following railroad companies are in
the market as borrowers: The b fillmore and Ohio
wants sl2,C00,0t4 TO build a new lice between Phil
adelphia aud Baltimore: the Chicago and North
purchase the Wabash wants 100000 10,
pay of floating debt and generally to
set the concern on its legs; the St. Paul
TO restore it TO financial health; the Canada
southern ana Michigan Central want enough to
build q new bridge at Niagara; the Richmond and
Danville want money to 60 on with the Georgia
extension; the Lake Shore wants money to pay
for the Nickel-Plate road; the Union Pacific wants
5000 900 70 clean up some items of floating debt,
etc; the Nickel-Plate road wants money 70 i'm
prove It's track, etc the New York aud New En-
gland, which wants money for rolling stock. In
addition. there ave IN toe 6eld ms continuous bor-
rowers companies which are extending their lines.
Shore, etc.
The Charlotte J0u7ncE Oh 'avsr notes vita
pleasure the prosre of internal improvement
nnd development in Nor h Carolina. While there
is not much demonst alton beng made, still i'm
porttnt works are being pushed quietly forward
which viii have no little influence on the future
prosperity OF the state. Among these works we
may men ion at present the connecting link in
the SpartanbuIg and A~sheville railroad, between
Henderson and Ashevilie, arrangements for the
completion OF which have been made, and work
uDon which will begin at once. his will give au
all rail line direct from Ashcvlle 10 Southern
ports, aud also connection with he West m sys-
TEN OF roads by means OF Tho Western North Caro-
lima railroad. Another work. which we have fol-
lowed wi n no title interest, is the Cape Fear and
Yadkin Valley road, the States interest in which
has been purchased by a sy indicate composed Of
our own PEOPLE, who have the means. and VINO
propose TO compiete it with all practical dispatch.
This road Is TO lun from Fayetteville TO Mount
Airy. The roat-bed between Greensboro and the
coal field in Chatham county Is about ready for
the ! on, wb'eh viii be shortly laid, and the prob
abilities are that the ears will be running from
Greensboro 10 Fayetteville carly in the coming
fall.
HE NicEeI-PIaie Dissatisfied.
CHICAGO, Arril 2l-It ia declared here
that the Nickel Plate IL dissatished with the ten