The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-05
Miscellaneous Notes.

An old lot of American Express stock sold at
"a yesterday, the nearest to par the stock has
ever reached.
Trunk line passenger agents say that business
Is bad, principally on account Of the large de-
crease in emigration
It is stated officially that the Union Pacific
will not sell the Central branch, nor win it dis
pose Of its st. Joseph and Western bonds now in
the treasury.
The shipments of peaches over Delaware roads
last week numbered 808 carloads, against LOIS
the previous week. Added to the previous ship,
mentS for the season, the total foots up 3,l19
carloads, or ], TAG, $40 baskets.
G. B. Sherman, general manager of the Red.
line, gives notice that it has been decided to al
low Red-line divisions to Brockville, Ont, to re-
main in force, and freight for that point may be
contracted and way-billed as heretofore.
New Orleans has six railroads terminating
there, and the general Offices of but one road are
located in New Orleans. The press and bust
ness men are making a desperate effort to secure
for New Orleans the general offices of other
roads.
An arrangement will shortly be made between
the Georgia Pacific and Vicksburg g Meridian
to run a through car from Atlanta via Vicks-
burg, and thence over the Vicksburg, Shreve-
port & Pacific and the Texas Pacific roads, TO
Dallas.
There is a growing impression that Mr.. Van
derbilt will, sooner or later, control the West
Shore road. but in what manner is not known.
He and his friends are understood to have a
sufficiently large interest in the road to change
its management when they wish to do so.
In the difficulty between the Utah Central
Railway Company and its locomotive engineers.
growing out of a 10 per cent. reduction Of the
wages Of the latter, Chief Arthur, of the Loco
motive Brotherhood, visited Salt Lake City, and,
it is reported, approved the action Of the com
pany.
trha crasnn+ condition andna a
Of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company
are subjects of frequent discussion in the Phila-
delphia Press. Many Of the principal stock and
bondholders of the corporation live in and about
Pennsylvania That the Philadelphians have
built their hopes too high on the outcome of this
property is daily becoming more evident.
tits just one mile between Sault Ste. Marie,
Mich, and the Canadian village opposite, yet
mail communication between the two points oc.
cupies ten days. Aletter posted on the American
side goes first to Detroit crosses to Windsor,
where 1t enters the Canadian mails. and is then
sent over Canadian routes back to the SauIt,
reaching the Canadian Office there in ten DAYS
from the time it started.
The passenger business Of the ocean steam
ship lines is largely increasing, owing to the fact
that European holders of American securities
are sending over committees of investigation.
The main object of the investigators is TO find
out where their money has gone to. The New
York Dial sarcastically remarks: ;1t is to be
hoped these inquisitive foreigners are provided
with funds and return tickets; otherwise the
Castle Garden authorities may be called upon to
assist them home as steerage passengers
The Northern Pacific, which has been bulled
so strongly by the Philadelphia papers, is under
a cloud. The road is making a surprisingly poor
exhibit for this time of year, and the managers
have reached out for more business by boldly
reducing their freight rates on grain to figures
lower than ever were heard of before in the
Northwest. They are rates which even our