The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-03
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.

SUPERINTENDENT DUNN, OF the LOUISVILLE
q Nashville, has returned from tour OF
inspection.
THE Louisville & Nashville Is receiving
a large number OF new fruit and vegetable
cars, which is badly needed to handle the
immense crop.
THE elevator OF the Kansas City Rail-
road will be erected and located immedi-
ately south of the ferry landing in West
Memphis. Material for the foundation is
arriving daily. and the work OF construc-
ton will soon begin.
PRoPLE who have been looking for an
extension OF the Little Rock q Memphis
Railroad into Texas, as has been long
promised, are beginning to despair, and
would like like to know why and where
fore the delay. The proposed extension
would be worth millions to Memphis.
A CIRCULAR from the passenger depart
ment OF the Newport News q Mississippi
Valley Railroad. Western Division, Just
issued, says: "Mr. +. M. Thomas is APP
pointed general baggage agent of this COM
pany, with headquarters at Union Depot,
Seventh street and River Louisville, Ky.
Appointment to take effect June /,
1880" The appointment is made by w.
ii. Prouty, general passenger agent, and
approved by Third Vice-Presdent John
Echols.
TnE Brierfleld, Blocton & Birmingham
Railroad is at present under construction,
and will soon be an accomplished fact.
Forty miles Of the grading has been let to
Messrs. Aldridge & Worthington, who will
push the work with all possible expedi.
ton. This is an extension of tho Mobile
d birmingham Railroad, which now has
trains running from Selma to Mobile. IL
is owned by the East Tennessee, Virginia
x Georgia Railroad, and when il is COM
pleted the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
will have a lively competition from the
coal and iron fields to the Gulf.
DIAMOND JOE has at last consented to
abandon his Chinese wall policy, and will
at once proceed TO widen the gauge Of his
railroad from Malvern TO Hot Springs to
the standard gauge, so that cars and
coaches from all over the country will be
enabled to reach the Springs. Heretofore
excursion parties and Others going TO Hot
Springs had to leave the coaches at NAL
vern and take the narrow-gauge coaches Of
the road. Al present work is in progress
strengthening the bridges, making them
secure for the heavyweight engines OF the
standard gauge. This policy has been
found necessary, owing TO the threatening
approach OF other lines to the Springs.
MORE than little excitement was ere
ated recently near Big Sandy, on the
Louisville x Nashville Railroad Hogs
had been roofing around near an embank-
ment and unearihed body. Rumor got
abroad that the body was that OF a negro,
hidden away by the railroad company As
the rumor travelled it gained in magni-
tude. What was one negro at iirst grew
TO two, three, then four and on up until a
bowling plot had been discovered, the pur-
pose Of which was toexterminate the black
man and brother. In the hands OF sensa.
tionalists the find became an enormous pit
into which all the negroes that are coming
this way from the Carolinas were driven
and buried alive, after being robbed Of
their goods and effects. kilograms and let
ters poured in upon tho COM
pany until the mass OF correspond
ence accumulated had TO be tied up
with rope. A formal, elaborate and sol.
emn investigation cnsued, and after much
labor and WEAKNESS OF spirit the facts were
fully brought out and proved 10 be a huge
canard. The body that had been exhumed
by the hogs proved 10 be the remains Of a
consumpuye razor-back that had passed
away in the due course Of nature. and was
buried by the section hands. The animal.
in lis palmicst days, was perhaps worth
Sl.2j. The postage, telegraph charges aud
labor consumed in the investigation was
worth about $40. But this is only one Of
the pleasantries OF railroad management