Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-14
RArIRnAn RuMnLINGs.
Bright Flashes of Intelligence from Near
and Afar.

The charter for the SYlvania and Rocky
Ford Railroad has been received.
TWENTY-FIVE miles of new steel rails are
being laid on the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad.
The Central Railroad will discard wood
and adopt coal on the Atlanta division in
a few weeks. Several of the engines are
in the company's shops now, being fitted
| up as coal-burners.
John Peabody. President of the Column
bus and Rome Railroad, has sent writ
/ ten proposition to the people Of Green
/ vile. proposing to extend the road TO that
place if they will raise $4,000 Of the
necessary money.
Secretary Healey, of the Palatka and
Indian River Railway, has gone to Charles
| ton, it is said, to secure laborers for
| that road. He intends TO place 500 men
at work as soon as possible. The grading
and cutting is completed as far as the
Long place, about two miles south OF
! Crescent City.
Valdnsta is having a veritable boom.
| The Florida Midland and Georgia Rail
road has located depot grounds in the
city; the charter from Naldosta to the
Florida line has been applied for; the
right of-way secured almost without cost
and the survey of the Macon and Florida
Air Line is about to begin.
The extension of the Barnwell Railroad
to Dumb lrtOn is being agitated. Con-
nection with Charleston is the object
The section. embraces a wide scope Of
country lying between the South Caro-
/ lima Railway on the one side and the Port
Royal Railway on the other, and the set
Element Is distant from the former eigh-
/ teen miles and fIom the latter, ut its
nearest point, eight miles, 1t is estl-
| mated that the amount of cotton which
would find its way to Charleston would
/ be at least 1900 bales, and that there
/ would be between 100000 and S0O,OOO IN
! trade which would flow into the lap of the
| City by the Sea. Augusta now receives
/ this trade.
! The South Carolina Railroad Commits
/ siOners have received from the authorities
! OF the Columbia and Greenville and
/ Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail
/ roads schedules of certain new freight
rates designed to supersede the rates now
! in force. The commissioners have eX-
/ amined the rates proposed for the Column
| bia and Greenyille Railroad, and have
/ suggested certain changes in them to
! conform to the law. which notifications
! the railroad authorities have announced
| their intention Of adopting. The mOditi-
| cations suggested are on out of y
! classes, and cover -four, grain, fertilizers
| and cotton. The rates Will not be APP
| proved by the commission until they are
| submitted as modified and thoroughly
| compared with existing rates. The
changes effected cannot be ascertained
/ until this is done.
| The train that makes the run of 9l2
miles between New York and Chicago in
/ 2515 hours makes only seven stops; but
there are so many bridges to cross and
/ villages to pass through that the speed is
| necessarily relaxed as often as once every
/ ten miles, else the average for the entire
run might be much higher that 5.29 miles
an hour. Its greatest speed is on the run
! between New York and Philadelphia, and
here the slOwest mile is made in , min
utes and the fastest in 81 seconds. Many
a mile is made in 60 seconds. The loco
motive on which Mr.. Angus Sinclair, of
! the american NdcbRiSt made the trip
from Jersey City to Broad street weighs
"A tons, and draws a train weighing 200
tons, and on descending grades, when the
great machine was doing a mile minute,
the driving wheels made 25SH revolutions
a minute.