Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-16
ONE DAY LATE.

AA VOL $1,000 49,
Injunction to Estop the Delivery
Of the City Bonds to the Manage
ment Of the L., N. o. g. T. r. r.
On the sixth of last October an rlec-
ton was held in this city by order of
the city council for the purpose Of get
Ting the sense of the legal voters as to
whether the city should appropriate
one hundred thousand dollars in
bonds to the management Of the
L., N. o. & 7. r. r, pro-
vided said railroad management would
locate their general and repair
shops in this city ia accordance
with a contract which had been care
fully drawn up, revised several times
and finally agreed upon between the
mayor and board of aldermen and said
railroad management. The sentiment
Of the voters and taxpayers OF the
city as expressed at the ballot box on
that day was overwhelmingly in favor
of issuing and delivering the bonds in
good faith to the railroad officials, the
vote standing about eighty to one for
the same. The bonds were printed,
Messrs. A. Warner, Lee Richardson
and G. O, Willis appointed trustees and
the bonds placed in their keeping, to
hold until the railroad company should
comply with the contract in cOmmenc-
ing work on said shops. The railroad
went for ward with heir arrangements
to comply with their part of the con-
tract, and on Thursday morning last
commenced work on the shops accord
ing to plans and specifications fur
nished by the engineers OF the road
This being done the general manager
of the road, through his attorney, Mr.
Murray f. Smith, made a formal de-
nand upon the trustees for the prom
ised bonds. The trustees, desiring 10
do justice to all parties concerned and
act in a non partisan spirit, visited
the site of the shops where
the work was in progress, saw
for themselves that the representations
mude to them were "a fact, examine
The plans and specifications Of the
shops in progress and being fully sat
IL fled, delivered the hundred thousand
dollars in bonds to Mr.. Smith and took
his receipt tor them. Mr.. Smith took
d special train at 2 o'clock pm. anC
went with the bonds to New Orleans
where it is understood they had already
been negotiated, and where he deliv'
red them into the hands of parties
who had contracted with the railroad
management for them. AS his Was in
accordance with the ttnets of contract
between the city and railroad it was
thought that the transaction met with
general approval from the many who
voted for, and atquiescence from the
feN who voted against the confirming
of the contrac', but such was not TIT
fact rs developments Yesterday show
Mr.. Vincent Bonplli. one of the mos
bitter opponents to the contract prlol
to the election and the only one WHIT
has kept up the fight since, through
his attorney, Mr.. NJ. Dabney, filed
bill of Injunction in the CHANGER.
court yesterday, Friday morning
praying that the trustees Il
the bonds be restrained from
delivering the same to the management
Of NE rallroad or, II they had already
delivered them to restrain the railroad
managers from using or d~isposing OF
same he setting forth in his bill OF
complaint that the said election on tht
9th of October was illegal, and thai
the city WAS receiving no valuable
consideration for the bonds voted al
said election. He filed a bond in the
case in the sum of two thousand dol
lars with his brother, Mr.. b. E. 5
Bouelli, as surety. Deputy Sheriff
Tom Rigby served a notice OF the in
junction on Mr.. JSquith, the railroad
company'S agent at this point, at II
o'clock am and that gentleman left thu
document at the office of Mr.. Murray
+. smith, company'S attorney, for hi
inspection and action upon his return
from New Orleans. This action upoI
the part of MI. Bonel!i is to be regret
ted, for while, evtn had he not beer
twenty-four hours too late, it coult
not ave finally estopped the deliver!
of the bonds it might have cause(
much unnecessary delay and have an
noyed the management Of the RAILROAD
who have and are 10 acting in goot
faith towards Vicksburg, not only il
the matter of the ful6llment of theiI
contract in regard to the shops but IL
many other respects, and more notably
in the matter of The equalization VI
freight rates from St. Louis and otheI
points in favor of Vicksburg in com
ullance with resolutions and requests
made recently by our board of trade
The shops are under way, the bond arr
delivered to the railroad, and they have
disposed of them and the action of Mr.
Bonelli can in no way in%validate thu
action taken. The question DOW il
"what will he do about it?'
White Bosses and Republican Or
q Try to Choke Colored News
paper off,
Chattanooga Daily Times.
The project i%naugurated by liberia
and progressive colored men of pub
fishing a weekly newspaper in the cit!
IN rOnrpcent and re- fleet. the advanced