Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-12
RAILROAD RACKET.

The Kansas City passenger agents
 passed through the city Sunday after
 noon in a special car, on their way to Atlanta. They came from Kansas City over the Kansas City. Memphis and Bir- mingham road and were transferred, to the Southern here. They will spend two or three days ir Atlanta seeing the sights at the exposition.
 The Circus Drew Them. Meridian, Miss, was filled with pas senger agents last Saturday and Sunday. They had gone there from the various roads entering Meridian and from a num- Der of lines north of the Ohio Barnum & Bailey's circus attracted them there, not to see the circus, but to induce the
 circus people to travel over their respec-
 tive lines in going to their homes. Bar
 mum & Bailey's circus showed at Meri-
 dian Saturday for the last time this sea-
 son, and after the performance disband-
 ed and returned north. The animals and
 equipments were sent to Bridgeport,
 Conn, and the members of the circus
 scattered to their various homes.
 R. L. Newton, travelling passenger
 agent of the Alabama Great Southern, was in the thickest of the contest, and as
 a reward for his labors ticketed 165 peo-
 pie over his line and the Cincinnati
 Southern for Cincinnati and points be-
 yond.
 MT. Newton returned to the city yes terday.
 Race Horses Pass Through No. 8 Louisville and Nashville train,
 due to arrive here at 3:12 D. m., was run
 in two sections yesterday, the first sec tion consisting of two sleepers bag gage car and nine stock cars loaded with
 race horses. The two sleepers were occu-
 pied by about thirty men. owners of the horses They stopped at the union depot
 twenty minutes for the passengers to get their dinner.
 The horses were being shipped from
 the north and east to New Orleans to en-
 ter the races there. From New Orleans
 they go to San Francisco.
 Paducah, Tennessee and Alabama. It is now generally asserted in railway circles that the Louisville and Nashville has bought the Paducah, Tennessee and Alabama and the Tennessee Midland, and that the fact will be disclosed when the court formally approves the sale, in about three weeks. The Louisville and Nashville could have but one object in view in acquiring these properties, name ly, keeping other interests out of the ter ritory leading to Alabama. II would gain valuable connections on the Ohio river at Paducah, however, and the two lines would strengthen the Nashville. Chatta- noogo and St. Louis. in which the Louis vile and Nashville has large interest. The plans of the Chicago, Paducah and Memphis will be somewhat disturbed by the Louisville and Nashville coming to Paducah, and 1t is said already that the southeastern course of that line will be defiected on account of the change in the situation at the Ohio river. Nothing defi- nite will be known, however, until the confirmation of the sale.-Cincinnati Tri- bune.
 New York to Atlanta $5. The Seaboard Air Line has cut the rates on tickets from New York to Atlanta to s5 for the round trip. This cut was made "a day or two ago and it is stated that tickets to Atlanta and return will be sold from any point on that line for $5. This l is done it is stated, to induce visitors to go to the exposition. The Seaboard Air Line is not a member of the Southern Railway and Steamship association. Personal Notes.
 Southern Passenger Agent Charley Jones of the Kansas City. Memphis and Birmingham went over to Atlanta last night. ,. w. P. Adams. commercial agent of the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingha m has returned from the northwest MT Solon Jacobs. commercial agent of the Central. is in Florida.