The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-10-29

| lnOmaSVille mas guaranteed PRESIDENT
Smith $4,000 in case his new railroad pas
ses through that city.
The Nashville committees which have
been canvassing for n 100000 subscription
for the Nashville Northern railroad have
secured $4,000.
| The directors Of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford have decided TO abol-
ish the dining Car service on that road, be-
cause, it is said, of the danger from fire in
case of accident.
| The 2-cent fare law having gone into effect
in Michigan, the railways ofthat State have
decided to make no more special rates for
fairs, conventions and other gatherings
to which hereteforethe rate OF one and one
third fare for the round trip has been
granted.
The Southern Railway and Steamship AS
soclaflons new demurrage rules will take Ell
'ect NOV. i. They provide that all pack
age freight which is not received by the
owners within forty-eight hours after arri-
val snail be subject to d charge for storage
OF cent per hundred pounds per day for
shipments OF less than carload quantities,
ana cents per ton per day for carload
quantities. loaded cars to be unlOaded by
ConsIgnees and subject after forty eight
hours to a demurrage charge of 81 per day,
he car tS be kept accessible to the con-
signee for unloading
A conference between the Florida Cen
trail and PcDinsular authorities and mum
Der Of representative citizens of Tampa was
held AZ Plant City last week, probably in
reference to the proposed extension OF the
road.
| The Morgan Line Of steamers, Arkansas
! and hutchinson, arc now On for the winter
run between New Orleans and Havana,
and touch Punta GOrda and Key West
| vice week. Each steamer generally
lands ten I" twenty cars of freight, and the
outgoing freight on oranges will be about
as large when orange shipping begins.
1t IS said that the contract for building
The +. G. q p extension from Plant City to
| Tampa has been let TO Scott Walker, a well
known engineer. Eight hundref; men are
already at work and the extension is to be
completed by January 1st next
| The Cincinnati Enquirer says it is quietly
rumOred that new plan of reorganization
for the Ohio and Mississippi is being iormu
lated.
The Chicago Herald says there is car
famine. The car manufactures Of the
l y y.
and the Pullman company has been com
PEELED to refuse orders
| The new bridge which is to span the
Ohio river at Louisville will, with approach
IS, be 5000 feet long, and will have rail
| road, foot and wagon ways. The Phoenix
Bridge Company has the contract for doing
| the work. The cost of the Lew bridge will
be about $2.0O0,0OO
] Taking effect on Nov II next, rates from
points on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
including ST. Louis, Cairo, etc, will he adj
vanced cents per 100 pounds on grain and
8 cents on flour to Birmingham, Montgom-
cry, and Salem; likewise an advance of 2
cents on grain and 4 cents on flour to Chat
tanOoga and Knoxville.
| The South Florida Railroad has lust pu,
on brand new train on the Barlow branch,
new engine, fine parlor cars and everything
to match.
| On lime per ton from Ocala to Palatka,
a distance Of 20 miles, I'll cents per tor.
Same article 10 Leesburg, 30 miles, 81 per
ton. Chicago TO Gainesville straight. on
packing house products, 621 cents per hun
dred pounds on car load lots IF this same
product goes south of Gainesville from
Chicago, the rate is rs cents per hundred.
A Gainesville and local rate is added south
of that point. Why this discrimination
Our lime manufacturers lost the sale of
1000 barrels of this product to Kissimmee
because tbs rates from Ocala are rs cents
per barrel and from Jacksonville only Is
cents, though the distance is less from this
point.-Ocala Banner.
1t is learned upon reliable authority that
Brown & Co., builders, have closed a con
tract for the construction of twenty-six
miles of the extension of the Alabama Mid
land Railroad south from Luverne, Ala.
1t Is said In this connection that the cOrpo-
ration Is aiming for a Gulf term mus at Pen
sacola, AMI thai the proposed extension is
| in pursuance of that idea, which is to be-
realized in the near future
| We learn that track laying on the Col
umbus Southern has been progressing A,
the rate of about one mile per day, and
| that about "a miles are completed from
| Columbus, Ga. 1t is said that about 1000
men are at work between Columbus and
| Albany, and that the road will be COM
peted to Albany by February 1st
The building of the Georgia Southern
| and Florida has been completed, Tor will be
in few days. 10 Lake City. Work on the
| road between Lake City and Palatka is
going on rapidly, and we learn the road,
| early in the winter, will be completed and
| in operation from Macon, Ga, to Palatka
From parties directly from Lake City we
learn that this road, in all probability, will
he extended from Lake City to Tampa
The contract for the extension from Macon
to Birmingham has been let. or at least
portion OF it is already under contract, and
negotiations are pending which will doubt.
less result in speedily putting the whole
line from Birmingham to Macon under
construction. The energy displayed by
he projectors of The Georgia Southern and
Florida is somewhat remarkable.
We notice that the suggestion of the Pres,
ident of the Louisville and Nashville R. R
Co. has been accepted by the stockholders.
and al issue of $13,000,OOO new stock has
been authorized.
The Willard party seem to have succeeded
IN obtaining the ascendancy in the man