The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-01-09
RAILWAY ITEMS.

a lazy NHflNitn. mas N'NN hIN'iutNA TO-
Ilrcltv passenger agent OF the Cincinnati
Sou leru Ht thia point.
IHeN. y.,P.& .. and The Erie roul,
have Instructed conductors aud agent 90
sccspt unuul, passes for 1855 ar % the i'-l
col This mouth,
Ths menu Of tho Bullet car on tho Erie
Iruutp iuc.u ios raw oysters, ham ana tougua
sandwiches, sATdiuss, boiled, eggs, cheese,
bread and butter, pickles, cfackcr' teai
collie, chocolate, milk, cream, iemOnader
Appoiiuaris water ana cigars. Nhat use
has q man for % hotel with such blli oil
iar- ss thai before him!
The Chicago aud Alton is tho ilrst road
to issue a new colured map married. accord
ing 20 standard time. Eastern, Central,
Mountain aud Pacific time are each repre-
sentsd UY . different color, and uittlncI
longitudinal lines mark the points whore
I the hour rs exact.
/ A line of railways will soon be con'truct-
&c in i gland that will cost S2OOOJO n
mile Tue course OF the road 10 probably
| the most valuable on earth-in tho metrop-
| oils OF London, extending from Paudington,
! the terminus OF 'he Great Western railway
| 30 the docks of the city, VIA tho Regeht o.
canal.
The Michigan Central railroad company
| contemplate building steam bost Tor cross
| ing the Msckinac Straits, rays the Bay
! CIV Morning Call, which Will carry
whole train OF cars 1t Is not proposed TO
ruu her curing the winter months, or after
/ the time that lake insurance closes IN the
7 IiI. but 10 make use OF herduring the legit-
mate season,
1 The Asheyile and Spartauburg gap Of
nineteen miles, between Henderson ana
/ As1cvIlle North Carolina, ia reported I'm
] isntd, thus co pleting direct connection
! between the East Tennessee, virginia aud
! Georgia system and the line oil Charleston.
| Eauth Carolina. The new route shorttns
the distance rom Louisville 10 Columbia
lS3 miles aud 10 Wilmington l6l miles.
The surveyors OF the Cypremort b'arch
! Of MOrgan's Louisiana ana Texas rhiroR0
have returned aud submitted maps Of the
country through which the new line 10
destined to run. The route selected Is on
the banks OF Bayou CypremUre, and Will be
twenty miles long. Messrs. Rogers and
Ballantyne naye been awarded the contract
for building the road, and will soon com.
moncs the work, which will be pushed for
ward TO rapid completion. The new road
district, P' and the line will leave
| Aorgan's road at Baldwin's station.
Efforts are still being made at Memphis
| TO secure money for the completion OF the
Memphis, Sepa and brunswick road. Inc
! claims against the road aggregate soma
/ 5000. 600, and 10 Is said they can 20 paid
! with $500 $50 and that the now organiza-
! ion proposes to take up this amount With
/ b ,nds, which will be issued at tho rate OF
! $40 900 To the mile, making $4,000 on the
| line from Memphis TO Holly Springs. IL
| is inumRted that the Kansas Clty, fort
Scott & Gulf IL interested IN the project.
I In Mississippi aud Louisiana, apart from
/ the Louisville New Orleans s. Texas rail
] way the most conspicuous work mas been
( done on the New Orleans d Northeastern
! railroad, which was completed during che
year from Meridian, Mississippi, to New
Orleaus 1876 miles by the construction OIL
100 mics oil road. I-i4 W. 9.curcst9 what
iB popularity known as The Changer syndi'
cate. "A through line from Cincinnati TO
N,w Orleans over the Cincinnati Southern
and Alabama Great southern lines. The
same syndicate II ended its Vicksburg
Shreveport and Iaciii3 line 81 miles west
!fom Monroe, Loui1ala, on iis projected
extension 10 Shreveport. The Illinois Cen
iral built 81 miles OF road on
It's two branch lines in Mississippi
the Canton, A berdrel ard Nashville and
the Yazoo aud Mississippi Valley, the
Memphis, Salem and Bruuswick wss tx
tended eighteen miles westward Of Holly
Springs, Mississippi; the Mississippi, ferre
Aux Boeuf aud Lake or Shell Beach line
was built nineteen miles east from New
Orleans TO C1ntreras, and tho Nstchez,
Red River and Texas extended three miles.
In X sntucly, the ChAttaro was extended
Eve miles; the Green River Formerly Gin
cinnati, Green River aud Nashville), five
miles: the Louisville and Nashville seven
miles, TO the Tennessee State line; the
o gensboro and Nashville, from Klcedsle to
Russellville, tweniy-four miles, and the
Liyingston extension OF the Kentucky Cen
trail from Paris 20 Bosne's Gap, htty-one
miles. la Tennessee. in addition 10 the
rack laid on the Louisville, New Orleans
and Texas Pacific, the Nashville and Flor
,nce was extended sixteen miles TO Stew
artsburg.