Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-03
RAILROAD 1NTELLIsENOE.
GIesniDgs from Along the Track ah'
CrOssties.

GIesniDgs from Along the Track and
CrOssties.
The Rock Ledge Railroad Committee
has succeeded in raising about halt the
amount required by the new road ny SUI
scription.
Arthur Pou. the engineer who surveyed
| the Dublin and WrightsVille Railr0ad;
has contracted to survey the Macon ana
! Dublin road. He is now engaged Ill LOOK
| ing out a location for the road.
The "cannon bAll' train from Atlanta
ia New Orleans via the Georgia Pacihc
! and Queen and Crescent route Will DE dls-
( continued after Sunday. The Mann Dou-
/ doir cars will continue running on the
/ line.
I Tina contract for the timber and lumber
/ for the construction of the terminal de-
/ pots of the IS. Andrews Bay and employ
| railroad have been made, and the work
! has commenced and will be pushed rap
IDLY to completion.
The affairs Of the Jacksonville and At
lantic Railroad, from Jacksonville TO the
beacb. are developing slowly but surely,
/ and the company is now in possession Of
a sufficient amount Of money to compete
and equip it.
There is talk of a company being organ
/ lied with $4,000 capital, says the Chatta-
noOga Times, to buy all the steamboats,
| plyiug in the Tennessee betN cen Chatja-
nooga and Kingston. 1t is stated tlaL
the company has in view the control Oh
ore and Goa! shipments. \ Nashyiiie
capitalist is said to be at.the head OF the
movement.
1t is rumOred that leading stakeholder
Of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad
Mt Huntsville viii make Application IN
few days in the United States Court 10
nave the lease held by the East Tonnes
see, Virginia ana Georgia Railroad
anuulled, and also that a receiver be ar
pointed To take charge of the property,
pending the result OF the litigation.
Mr.. Joseph W. White, General Travel
ing Passenger Agent Of the Georgia itail-
road, the South Ca >lina Ra jWay Com
pany and the Gainesville, Jefferson and
Southern Railroad, was IN the city yes
terdaY and paid visit to his ola friends.
| The NEWS Acknowledges the receipt at
his hands Of series of handsome lllGs-
trated souvenirs Of the gardens at Mag
nOlla-On-the-Ashley.
1t is said that the South Florida Rail-
road Company viii build from Bay View
to Clearwater, giving the settlers there
The advantage Of short route via bay
View aud steamer 10 Tampa. 1t is also
!
/ one from some point on the Manatee river
down to the lower part OF Sara sofa Bay,
giving that section connection by steamer
with the railroad at Tampa.
Owing to quarantine res rictiOns anti
cpated to be put into effect at New Or
leans, May 1, 1885, the steamships Of the
Morgan line will be withdrawn from ser
vice between Tampa, Havana, Key West
| and New Orleans during the month Of
| April, 1885. The last steamer for Havana
/ win all from New Orleans Aprii rs, and
/ from Tampa April IS, and will return
sailing from Havana April y, and from
/ Tampa April -.
\ On and after tomorrow the train leav
/ ing here at 1:44 p. m. via the Charleston
/ and Savannah Railway and Atlantic
/ Coast Line will make daily connection
/ through to Washington. there connecting
with p. m. tram for Baltimore, Phila-
delphia aud New York, arriving in New
York at :0j o. m. Commencing to-day
an extra sleeper will be run from
Charleston to Washington Via tn,
Atlantic Coast Line system on the train
leaving here at 6:5J a. III.
At the railroad meeting at Titusvlllt
. Wednesday, Judge Tlllm3n, Of NayCrOss
Ga, stated that tAe company he repre-
scented had authorized him to state that /
! Tue pebHlt COulfl Itklsr IL IONNe bi tdutl
and cash to the amount of $4,000 tina
work would be commenced on the roa,
from Enterprise to Titusvile inside 0
thirty days, and that the road would b,
completed before Jan. 1, 1886. AS seVera
thousand dollars have already been sub
scribed, the prospects are good for til
railroad.
General Manager Hudson, Superinteu
dent Fry, General Passenger Agen
Wrenn ana Assistant Passenger Agon
Griffin. of the East Tennessee, Nirgini
and Georgia systom, passed tmoug
Macon Wednesday in a special ear
Their destination was Jessup, where the
went to confer with the authorities Of Ia
Savannah, Florida and Western with rt
gard to arranging better passenger &C
cOmmOdations over the two lines and t
make an inspection Of The Brunswick sui
division.