The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-13
RAIL AND OROSsTIE

| Il ne Atlanta Sbreel hallway company
will, at an early date. do away with the
mule motor and substitute for 1t electricity.
A prominent railway official Of Knoxville
says that the long looked for consolidation
Of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
and Queen and Crescent systems will pos
itively occur Oct l.
The Nashville, Chattanooga and St Louis
Railroad Company office Nashville, Tenn.l,
and the Alabama Mineral railroad (office
Annistonl, will erect joint machine shops
and round houses in Alfalfa.
The Guyton Chronicle is responsible for
the following: Meldrim has abont absorbed
Eden No. 2, Q. r. r. Since Adams trans
greSsionj the name seems to be retained to
mark the spot of places that once existed.
The Guyton Chronicle says: Col. Machen
seems to be in bad luck with his road-it
has passed into the hands of a receiver
he may yen come out all right. Give him a
chance, and don't everybody kick him at
the same time beca Use he is down.
A movement is on footI among the man.
ayers Of all the railroads ceRtsring In Chat
tancoga to build a grand union depot,
similar to the one at Indianapolis It is sup
posed that the new depot VIII be built on
the site of the Cincinnati Southern freight
depot, nearly opposite the Central passen-
ger station. These negotiations have been
pending for some time.
The Plant system is arranging still
further to enlarge it's terminal facilities In
Alabama. The Montgomery Advertiser
says: ION yesterday the Plant Invest
ment Company purchased tT"o pieces OF
Montgomery properly. The company
bought the Mansfield property on Whit
man street, house and lot, for "a, 200
They also bought the Farley property on
Bell street for $4,000.
The railway commissioners of Iowa have
| instructed the attorney general Of the state
| to commence mandamus proceedings to
| compel the adoption Of the joint rate rule
against the following roads: The Iowa Gen.
trial, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific,
| Chicago aud Northwest tern, Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul, and the Chicago, Bur-
ltngton and Quincy. These suits will be
vigorously prosecuted.
The Birmingham Age says: The next
| great railroad in the south will connect the
| Ohio river and Birmingham. It Is already
| built across the state of Kentucky. A
special from Paducah in the GIobe-Demo-
cFat says: The Paducah, Alabama and
| tennessee railway was completed to the
| Tennessee state line, seventy-three miles
southwest from here, this evening" This
road passes through number OF Kentucky
counties that have heretofore not enjoyed
| railroad facilities. The ultimate destina-
ton is Birmingham, Ala. ST. Louis capital
lists are furnishing the money to build the
| road.
| The Chattanooga Times says: Quite q
| startling piece of Information 10 railway
| circles came TO the attention OF q times
repre- tative yesterday. II it is correct
the appearances indicate that the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway Com
| pany is about to give up the Memphis and
| Charleston branch, as far as western bust
ness is concerned, and either sell or vacate
the branch as being an Improbable line
| and unnecessary expense to the company
| The reporter Is informed that General Pas
senger Agent B. w. Wrenn of the East
Tennessee system recently called in all his
| passenger agents for the territory east of
| Knoxville, and instructed them to there
after work all business for the west via the
Keathley branch from Knoxville to Harri-
man Junction, thence via the Cincinnati
Southern to Louisville, where connections
can be made for st. Louis and Chicago
A Knoxville special to the Chattanooga
Times says: There is no longer any doubt
but that Chattanooga will get the Knox
| vile southern railroad if semi-otficial re-
ports can be taken as true. A gentleman
| who is close to the management of the new
| road says that II has been fully and finally
determined to build an arm to Chatta-
nooga. He says that the managers
are of the opinion that it will pay
to go to Chattanooga and compete for
business between Chattanooga and Knox
Vile alone. The company, however, is of
the opinion that much more business can be
secured than simply share of the local
business between the two cities he says
that such deal will be made with the
Knoxville, Cumberland Gap aud Louisville
to Cumberland Gap and then the Louisville
and Nashville north that large through
traffic can and will be done by the road. The
gentleman also says that the negotiations
which have been carried on with one of
Chattanooga's new roads looking for a
southern outlet have progressed sasisfac-
torily and that there Is no longer any doubt
Of an agreement in that direction
The stockholders of the Nashville. ST.
Louis and Chattanooga railway, held their
| annual meeting at Nashville last Tuesday
at which all the old officers were elected
| The annual report was presented, which con-
tains an account of the purchase Of the
Tennessee and Coosa railroad and its pro-
posed completion to point near Gunters-
| vile, and extension thence via Manchester
TO Bells Factory or Huntsville. giving a
direct connection between the Nashville.
Chattanooga and St Louis railway and the
| Admission and Cincinnati railroad
and other roads centering at At
ITALIA, to which there is tributary
a large iron manufacturing district. With
this purchase, the report states, the com
pany acquired claim to about x, 900 acres
of land originally donated by the United
States to aid in the construction of the
road. 1t is stated in the report that the
company will. upon the completion of the
road, issue its first mortgage per cent
| bonds to provide funds to pay for its pur-
report contains also mention of the DON
tract 70 extend the Jasper branch from
Dunlap to Pikeville. twenty miles, by Jan.
l, 1891; also Of the building of the Worley
| branch.
No pill OF nauseating potion, but pleasant