The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30
Ties aud Rails.

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THE January, 1889, coupons OF the East
End Dummy Line bonds will be paid at
the State National Bank after January A..
Col. I. ii. WATERsoN, OF Littlo Rock,
travelling passenger agent of the J nsville
* Nashville Railroad, arrived yesterday,
and will be here several days.
The appointment OF j. G. Metcalf SUI
perintendent OF the North and South d.
visions OF the Louisville 4 Nashville road.
to succeed j. I. Harahan, resigned, has
been officially announced Mr.. Metcalf s
headquarters will be at Decatur, Ala. He
will enter upon the discharge of his duties
January /.
FREIGHT agents of the Missouri Pacific,
Kansas City, Fort Scott q Memphis, st.
Louis & San Francisco, Missouri, Kansas
x Texas Rock Island, Santa Fc, Kansas
City Il Southern, St. Joe & Grand Island
and Union Pacific Railroads have begun
the adjustment OF the Kansas rate sheet
for the tariff to be effective January /.
An engine is being put togctherat Utica,
N. Y, to test the system of motive power
by electricity. The power viii be entirely
in the cylinders, which are wrapped in
coils OF heavy copper wire, to which cur
rents are communicated. The electricity
will be stored in the iirebox, but it could
be taken up from a cable in the center OF
the track.
The Newport News & Mississippi Val
ley Road is operating the line between
Lexington, KY, and Huntington. w. Va,
apart from the Chesapeake aud Ohio man
agement. On that account the duties Of
III. w. Fuller, general passenger agent,
cease, and the duties OF freight and passen.
ger agent and baggagemaster will devolve
ON W. W. Monroe.
THE general advance OF the rates on live
stock and other classes of freight will 20
into effect January 20, ana will affect the
whole Southwestern district The live
stock rates between Texas aud New Or.
leans will be increased - per eur, and To
Mississippi and Missouri River crossings
$40 per ear Shipments in palace ears
after that date will be 40 per cent. of the
rate on ordinary cars, instead OF ll5 per
cent rs now. The advance in rates on
general merchandise TO New York, Missis-
sippi and Missouri River points will be
about II per cent. on the present rate.
The Kentucky Central Railroad, which
for over year has, according TO rumor,
been sold and resold dozens OF times, but
which has never, according TO fact, changed
hands, is at last TO be sold, and il is re-.
ported that the Louisville x Nashville is in
the field for its purchase, and will shortly
make bid on it, Mr.. G. p. Huntington,
who owns a controlling interest in the
Kentucky Central, has decided to sell out,
and has issued circular, advising all OF
its stockholders that by depositing their
stock they can obtain the same price for
their holding that he himself is to get for
his 81 per cent Of the shares. lie does not
intimate Just who Is TO buy his part OF the
stock, or who wants TO buy the remaining
40 per cent, but the idea is prevalent
among informed railroad men that the
East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia will
realize one OF its pet schemes. which it has
been nursing for some time, aud scoop in
the Central in order 10 give Il the long dc
sired line into Cincinnati.