The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-12
BAIL AND CROssTIE.

The rate on all classes of lumber from
Nashville to Memphis has been advanced
from Z to 9 cents.
The Washington Chronicle says: Every
thing now is said to be favorable for the
building of the Washington and Elberton
railroad.
The earnings of the Georgia Southern
and Florida railroad for the month of
August were $55, 1000 The earnings for
September will, doubtless, be even larger.
McClelland, the engineer who is held re-
sponsible for the wreck and killing at the
three C's. crossing. will be prosecuted for
manslaughter, so it is stated. He quit the
road when the accident occurred and went
to his home at Chattanooga
The Athens Bonner says: In the imme-
date vicinity of the railroad camps near
the city great many snakes have la ely
made their appearance This locality was
formerly known as the "Snake Nation
Fields" on account of the great variety of
snakes with which the region was infested
The Middle Georgia Progress has this bit
of news which cannot be confirmed here:
"A colored excursion returning from Sa-
vannah to Albany on the Savannah, Florida
and Western railway, was transformed this
morning into a pandemoniuIn on wheels.
After leaving Jesup the negroes commenced
fighting. Pistol balls few thick and fast in
the cars and two negroes were killed"
A new railroad is in prospect between
Social Circle and Auburn, where it taps Col.
Machen's projected route. The Athens
Ledger says it will certainly be constructed,
and all the preliminaries have been salts
factorily arranged, and the plan is anchored
on a firm and stable basis. This road will
open up some splendid territory and furnish
ample facilities TO the farmers for trans
porting their products to good market
1t will be some twelve miles in length, and
will be equipped with elegant cars Of the
latest pattern.
Col. 8. r. Weston, president of the con-
struction company tnat is building the
Albany and Cordele railroad, says that the
line is now pretty we'll covered by contracts
for grading, and the earth work is going
ahead as well can be expected, and even
better. The grading, he thinks will be
completed within less than a month, and
the whole liGe open by Nov.
l. The steel rails have been
purchased in Pennsylvania and are now Gu
route, coming by sea to Savannah. The road,
which is about thirty-five miles in length,
forms and important link in the railway
systems of the southwestern section Of tn
state. 1t will receive vast amount of business
over the Savannah, Americas and Mont
gomery road and the South Georgia and
Florida road.
Surveys have been made on the proposed
extension of the Birmingham Mineral rail-
road from Oneonta, the present northern
terminus of the Huntsville branch, to
Guntersville, on the Tennessee river, and
then across the river and along its northern
bank in an easterly direction toward South
Pittsburg, Tenn. The survey has not yet
been completed In South Pittsburg. 1t is
understood TO be the intention Of the Louis
vile and Nashville people to build the
Mineral extension from Oneonta to Gunters-
vile, distance Of about twenty-five miles,
at once. The contract for the construction
of the Tennessee and Coosa, recently pur-
chased by the LOUISVILLE and Nashville,
has been let, and the road is
now being built between Alfalfa and
Huntsville. 1t will GROSS the Tennessee
river at Guntersville and there the Mineral
extension from Oneonta will connect with
1t, thus completing the line from Birming-
ham to Huntsville. The Mineral extern
sion, it is understood. will not stop at Gun
tersville. but be built on without delay to
South Pittsburg, Tenn, via Scottsboro,
Ala, distance of perhaps fifty miles from
Guntersville. At South Pittsburg conuec-
ton will be made with the Nashville, Chat
tanooga and ST. Louis, thus giving Brming-
ham another line to Chattanooga almost as
short as the Queen and Crescent. The
building of that road means much in the
way Of development of northeast Alabama.