The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-14
RAIL AND CROSsTIE.

A Utica firm recently shipped three head
lights to Jerusalem TO be used on the Jatfa
and Jerusalem railroad. These are the first
headlights ever sent to the Holy Land.
The London stock exchange has granted
quotations for the Alabama Great Southern
railroad company's further issue OF ESQ, 900
5per cent. general mortgage bonds. Nos.
1901 to s, 100; Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
cornpany's 81, 517, 900 additional first CONSOLE
dated mortgage per cent. gold bonds, Nos.
Is, III to 1858.
The Charleston NelOs and Courier gives
the following account of the wreck at
Yemassee Saturday: 1.-THE collision re-
suited in the derailing Of the baggage car
of the Charleston and Savannah road and
Of the engine of the Port Royal and Au-
gusta road. The law requires that all trains
stop at the junction before crossing. The
Charleston and Savannah train after stop
ping and while crossing was run into by the
locomotive Of the Port Royal and Angus
train, which was going east from Allendale
to Beaufort. The engine was badly injured.
Baggagemaster Sellers, who was in his car
at the time of the collision, was the only
one hurt by the collision, and he had his
collar bone broken. The train on the Port
Royal and Augusta road had to come down
a steep grade Just before crossing the juno
ton, and the train was not gotten under
Charleston and Savannah road
Beginning Tuesday the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railway and the
Brunswick and Western railroad will
charge demurrage for all freights that con-
signees fail to unload within a given period
Of time The rule which will most affect
business is in these words: Bulk meats,
bulk grain, hay, cotton seed, lumber, lime,
coal, coke, sand, brick, stone, wood and
such other freights in bulk or otherwise
as it may be a stipulation of the rates there
upon or contract for the transportation
thereof, or where it is the custom for cars
to be loaded and unloaded by the owners of
the property, which is not unloaded from
the cars containing it within forty eight
hours. not including Sundays or
legal holidays, computed from 10
O'clock a. m., of the day following
the day of arrival, shall be subjected
thereafter to a charge for demurrage
of one dollar for each day or fraction of a
day that said car or cars remain loaded in
the possession Of the company, by whom to
be delivered as the last carrier at interest /:
it being understood that said car or cars
are to be placed and remain accessible to
the consignee for the purpose of unloading
during the period in which held free of
demurrage, and that when the period of
such demurrage charge commences they
are TO remain accessible TO the COnSlgn66
for unloading purposes.
The original route of the Mobile and
| Girard railroad was to Pollard from Troy,
but 1t was built to Troy aud for some cause
has remained there for years, no effort
| having been made to extend it. Now that
other roads have gone into the territory
| which is tributary TO the Southeast Ala
bama metropolis and for years have had no
other outlet, and have contributed so much
to its glory and greatness, it becomes neces-
sary for the Mobile and Girard to seek an
outlet, and it will soon be built by the
Georgia Central, which owns it. OF the
| extension the Brewton Standard Gauge
says: The business men of Brewton with
only one exception, are in favor of granting
the unsold lands of this railroad
to the construction company pro-
vided it fulfill its part of the propo-
| sition, and that is grade the road and
lay the cross ties. The Central of Georgia
will then lay the iron, equip the road and
run 1t. We see no reason why our congress-
men should not favor this, and we believe
they will. The construction company will
| give deeds to all homesteaders aud mill
owners at 10 cents per acre. This will
settle the vexed question as to the titles to
these lands, the mills will go on with their
work and the country will be developed.
| Escambia and Brewton will have another
railroad; wholesale houses, factories,
I schools and other results of enterprise and
capital will follow.