Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-27
RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.
GIeanings from Along the Track and
CrOssties.

Gleanings from Along the Track and
CrOssties.
The hearing of the Northeastern Rail-
road matter before the Railroad Commits
sion has been postponed until March 8.
1t is rumOred that the Nashville and
Chattanooga will shortly announce a re-
ductiOn in freight rates on nails, iron,
etc, for Southeastern points. The rate
from Chattanooga was reduced cents on
Feb. l.
Beginning Sunday next the run of the
passenger conductors on the East Ten
nessec, Virginia and Georgia Railroad be-
| tween Macon and Brunswick Will be made
to extend through from Atlanta to Bruins
wick and Jesup. The same rule will gov
ern engineers.
One hundred tons Of steel rails for the
Macon and Brunswick division of the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
| Railroad have arrived in Brunswick and
will be distributed over the road at once.
Seven cargOes have been ordered and are
expected TO arrive at an early date.
A delegation from Greenville, headed
| by Hon. Henry r. Harris, paid over to
! the officials of the Cumberland and Rome
! Railroad on Wednesday $4,000, the sum
which the people of Meriwether agreed to
| pay for the extension OF the road to
| Greenville. Tee subscribers were there
| upon issued stock to the amount of their
| subscription.
The rumOr that Maj. Campbell Wallace
| will become General Manager of the
! Queen and Crescent system is the general
| talk in railroad circles. The report is
! current in Atlanta that Mr.. ScOtt's con-
tract with the Erlangers expires in April,
and that he will not renew ii, having
more advantageous offer from one Of the
| LEADING systems in the COuntrV.
The war of freight rates between the
| Alabama Great Southern Railroad and
| the White Star Line of steamers from
| Gadsden to Rome, Ga, is at an end. The
| cutting was precipitated by the managers
| of the boats failing to comply with con-
tract made with the railroad company.
| The cotton men have enjoyed the fight
! immensely, as they have marketed their
cotton at very little cost.
The NEWS yesterday referred to the
/ building of a new road from Jesup to
Harris road, on the Florida Railway and
| Navigation COmpany's line, to connect
with a road already built from there to
| Jacksonville, a distance of about 20 miles.
| 1t is now understood that syndicate of
| capitalists, headed by NJ. L. Dill, Presi-
| dent of the Greenville Land and Lumber
| Company, of Virginia, have secured the
| charter privileges of the Great Southern
Railway Company and terminal facilities
at Jacksonville by lease of the short
| line from Jacksonville to Harris road, and
will at once proceed to build and equip a
| tirst-class railroad from Harris road to
Jesup and Millen direct. The work will
! begin by July 20, and is to be completed
within eighteen months from that time.
| Mr.. Dill was In Atlanta on Tuesday, and
took steps to at once complete negOtia-
tiOns with the President and Board of
Directors of the Great Southern Com
| pany. 1t is said that only a formal rati-
| ticatiOn of contracts already made is all
| that has to be done before the work will
be actually begun, under a contract for
! completion in eighteen months.