Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-25

joke. When you ask him about it don t smile.
 Mir. Watson Stewart can again be seen braking on the south end. after several weeks rest.
 superintendent wm. Coughlin leaves tomorrow to pay off the Shreveport branch.
 Harry Milner, a machinist appren- tice, had the misfortune of mashing q finger Wednesday.
 Mir. $. E. Harvey a brakeman on the south end, has returned from the company's hospital.
 Mir. H NJ. Doty, travelling engineer on this road, is among his many friends here today.
 The paint shop is now rushed with work. The following coaches are being vanished, 70, s4 and 110.
 Bids are opened for engineer on engine l97 and also for engineer on the pusher at Jonesboro, Ark.
 MT. Robert George has resumed his duties on the rip track, after a visit to relatives in Kentucky.
 The new compounder which is being built in the boiler department, is rapidly being pushed through.
 Nr. August Wollerman has resum- ed 9is duties in the blacksmith de- partment after few days sickness.
 Carter Murphy, " hile working on the slater. had the misfortune Of mashing his thumb almost into a pulp.
 MT. ]. A. Maxwell, t machinist ot Memphis, Tenn, has secured posi- ticn in the motive power depart 1 nent.
 Seven hundred pounds of dynamite and fifteen kegs of powder was ship ped to P. Grafton. agent at Camden, for company use.
 MT. N. J. Williams, lightning tapper at these shO2s, leaves tonight for California on s9ort visit to relatives and friends.
 Mir. Eugene Blush, machiuiat in the motive power department, has resigned his position to accept a similar ore in Galveston.
 When visiting the sh ops don fail to call around at the coach shop and see the exquisite parlor and cafe car which has been built here.
 Engine l23 which has been in the back shops undergoing q general overhauiing, was turned out of the shops yesterday ready for Guty.
 The passenger traffic reports of last month show that a large nuai- Der of people are now going away to spend the Fourth via this road,
 Mir. Charley Langston, Master Mecnanic of the NJ. H. and W. rail- road. with headquarters at Ham, burg, spent part of the week with his family in this city.
 There IS vacancy for one brake man in the Pine Bluff and Camden local crew now laying over at Cam den on Sundays. Bids are open until the 2Sth day of this month.
 General Master Mechanic k. M. Galbraith has returned from Old Point Comfort, Va, where he has been attending the meeting of the Master Mechanics Association.
 MT. W. A. Clawson, 0, Tyler, Tex, has accepted position as steno- grapher in Superintendent CougEiin's ofhce, vice W. E. Lynch resigned to accept position as telegraph operator at Stuttgart, Ark.
 On Monday, June 26, all clearance posts will be removed and their use discontinued. The train and yard men will be held responsible to see that ears are pct left foul of other tracks.
 Mr. George Opel, an expert timer at the shops. and who has been here for several years, leaves today at 1 the regret of his many friends, for Toledo. Ohio, where he has accepted | a similar position in large contract shop.
 4 large delegation of railroad em- ployees here will attend the Cotton Belt Lodge Brotherhood of Locomo-