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14 BAILWAY BACKET. echoes wafted by the rumbling BAILS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. 1 . East Bound Shipments. Chicago, lll.—The east-bound shipments from Chicago last week were 44,038 tons, againgt 36,591 tons the previous week, and 53,088 tons last year. Percentages were: Wabash, 11.7; 3ig Four, 5, Michigan Central, 11,2; Lake Shore, 8.1; Fort Wayne, 11.2; Pan Handle, 14.2 per cent.; Balti mae and Ohio, 1 per cent.; Grand Trunk, 10.6 per cent.; Nickle Plate, 6.2 percent.; Chicago and Alton, 13.8 per cent. Lake Shore percentage is surprisingly small. St Louis, Arkansas and Texas. Greenville, Tex. —From local officials of the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway company it is learned to-day that twenty-two miles of track from Greenville towards Fort Worth had been laid up to yesterday, and during good weather lately the work has progressed at the rate ot two miles a day. The supply yard of the company, hitherto at Com merce, is now being moved to this place. Agent Wray reports business steadily swelling. Four cars of through freight were received to-day. Over 500 bales of cotton were shipped, and as much is awaiting shipment. Cars can not be supplied fast enough to meet the demands of shippers As this part of the road is received by the company, which will be at an early day, an accommodation train will be put on from Greenville to Sherman and Texarkana connections. Railroad Earnings. The Pennsylvania railroad earnings, lines east of Pittsburg and Erie, for September show a decrease of $58,340 in net earnings compared with September, 1886. The earnings for the nine months of 1887 show an increase of $1,151,824 in net earnings com pared wsth the same period of 1886. ST. LOUIS AND SAN FRANCISCO. 1887. Increase. Third week Octobers 140,500 $ 19,600 Since January 1 4.750,808 1,005,220 NORTHERN PACIFIC. Third week Octobers 368,571 $ 64,578 Since January 1 10,351,466 672,014 ST. LOUIS, ARKANSAS AND TEXAS. Third weeTC Octobers 84 487 $ 42,831 Since January 1 1,755,615 640,344 MEXICAN CENTRAL. Third week Octobers 100,000 $ 54.450 Sincejanuary 1 3,707,455 795,193 VERA CRUZ. Forty-second weeks 87,582 $ 18,040 Sincejanuary 1 2,708,236 319,320 MFXICAN NATIONAL. Septembers 85,939 $ 2,616 Since January 1 760,725 36,540 Kansas is ahead in railroad building this year v ith 1,184 miles of new track. Texas comes next with 655 miles, Nebraska third with 536, Dakota fourth with 491, Indian Territory fifth, 433, Colo rado sixth with 403, and Montana seventh with 273 miles. These seven States and Territories have built an aggregate of 4,000 miles, or nearly two thirds of all that has been built this year in the en tire country. Arkansas Traffic Association The following freight agents were at Peabody hotel, Memphis, Tuesday, in attendance to the Arkansas Traffic Association: B. F. Mitchell, Gen eral Freight Agent of the Newport News and Mississippi Valley company; W. C. Smith, Assist ant General Freight Agent of the Missouri Pacific; A. R. Bragg, Agent at Little Rock of the Missouri Pacific; S. W. Tucker, Assistant General Freight Agent of the Memphis and Little Rock; J. A. Woodson, Assistant General Freight Agent of the Little Rock and Fort Smith; C. H. Dolbeer, Pool Agent, Little Rock. Tne Coal Stove Must Go. A meeting of the presidents, car-builders and engineers of the vorious railroads in the West, was held in Chicago for the purpose of abolishing stoves for cars, and to prevent such holocausts as occurred at Koutz a few days ago. Mr. Rhodes, master car-builder of the Burlington road, presided. There were about fifty persons present, and all were of the opinion that the coal-stove in passenger cars must go, but to provide a convenient as well as comfort able substitute, troubled the meeting. However, the majority present were in favor of heating the coaches with steam supplied from the engine. Several genttemen said that the plan was a possi ble one, and would, when brought to perfection, prevent such harrowing sights as those commonly witnessed in railroad wrecks. A committee was appointed to meet Eastern railroad men in New York and adopt a uniform system of heating pas senger cars on all trunk-line roads. Resolutions condemning the coal-stove were adopted. THE NEW WESTERN RAILWAY GUIDE. THE GEORGIA PACIFIC R’¥ Via Birmingham, Ala. DOUBLE DAILY FAST TRAINS, with Complete Through Cor Service. Memphis & Little Rock SSlior’t Line, Shreveport Short Eine, - - Texas Short: Line. Kansas Short Line, Hot Springs, Ark., Short Line. Quickest Route to New Orleans, Louisiana. Quickest Route to Memphis, Little Rock, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, and the Northwest, via Birmingham and the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham R. R. Ask for your Tickets via Birmingham. For Low Kates call on or address 8. 0. BEALL, A. A. VERNOY, ALEX. S. THWEATT, G. S. BARNUM, Pass’r Agt., Pass’r Agt., Gen’l Trav. 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S. Todd, 11. J. Long, D. H. Howel, R. E. Green, James F. Alexander, •H. N. Stanley, H. L. Wilson, T. C. Gower. T. W. Gordon, druggists: V. M. Hodgson, Thompson & Little, J. W. McFarrell, J. W. Oslin & Son, W. L. Sterling. Geo. Langston & Co. Write for Particulars and many Testimonials to T, M. MERCK, Gainesville, Ca. Little Pitchers. [New York Sun.] “ Ma,” said the baby at the supper table, “ I know why this cake is called angel cake.” ’* Do you,,’ replied his mother, without much interest. , “ Yes; it’s because its made by an angel, i hat s what pa told the cook.” Rjq Qmsw ii ri $2 Strs". ALSO, ATLANTA, GA. E. MAXWELL & SON. JOYS OF COUNTRY LIFE. Mr. and Mrs. Bowser’s Visit to a Genuine Rural Summer Resort. “ I think we had better go away for a couple of week’s,” observed Mr. Bowser a few evenings since as we sat on the steps. “ But why ? Our house is nice and cool, and we don’t seem to feel the need of a change.” “ Oh, we don’t, eh? That shows all you know about it! If you had half an eye you could see that the baby was sufiering for a change. You are looking like a saffron bag around the mouth, and 1 am just dragged out myself. We shall go to the country.” “ But our rooms are so cool, aud we can buy whatever we want to eat.” “ Cool rooms! You wait till you strike a coun try bed-room and you will call this house a sweat box! As for living—yum! yum! Think of cream, fresh eggs, yellow butter, fresh berries, old-fashioned biscuit, delicious coffee, night breezes, new-mown hay, ripe cherries, et al.! ” I supposed we should have a week at least in which to get ready, but Mr. Bowser only gave me a day and a half, and he even begrudged half a day of that. He telegraphed to the landlord of a coun try hotel on the banks of a small lake, and the most I could do was to tumble about a bushel of things into a trunk and tie on my bonnet. We got out there by train. That is, we got wiihin six miles of the place. Mr, Bowser had been in such a hurry that he didn’t ascertain particulars. It was only after he had bargained with a teamster to take us to the lake for three dollars that he found that the lake was not on the railroad. He looked a little gloomy over it for a spell, but finally showed me his nine dollar fishing out-fit, and after awhile forgot any unpleasantness in viewing the country. We saw a farmer cutting wheat. We saw three crows. We rode over three miles of causeway and three of dust. We saw as many as five barns. We met a barefooted boy. We saw a dead horse. If we met or saw anything else I can’t remember what it was. Mr. Bowser drew in deep draughts of what he called the elixir of life, and quoted poetry about the plow-boy and the lowing kine, but I guess he was glad when the ride ended. The sun had burned the back of his neck as red as fire, he was all dust and dirt, and the cause-ways had tired him out. We found the hotel a picturesque affair. It was half log and half frame. I can’t say whether it was Queen Anne or Tom Collins style, but it was probably one or the other. The landlord had given us a room in the log part. He knew that we sighed for the picturesque, and was willing we should have it. It was a room as much as eight feet long and five feet wide. There were red . peppers and may weed and seed corn and onions hanging to the raf ters, and the great cracks in the floor were partly hidden by a rag carpet. There was a cracked look ing glass of the Noah’s Ark period, a bedstead which had come over on the Mayflower and a rheu matic old stand made in 1776 held up a tin wash dish and a jflue pitcher without a handle. “Is this the et al., Mr. Bowser ?” I asked as I dropped into the only chair with baby and looked around. “Do you want the earth?” he roared back. What do we come to the country for ? Do we expect to find palaces out here ? I tell you, this is the most picturesque, romantic spot I’ve seen in twenty years, and I propose to put in two months here! ” I finally got the baby to sleep, made my toilet and then went out with Mr. Bowser to view the neigh borhood. There was a lake. It was almost forty rods long, and almost twenty rods wude. There was a post-office and a blacksmith shop. There were two hay-stacks, a ruined saw-mill and a lame horse. That was all. and I returned to the hotel while Mr. Bowser went filling. We had supper at six o’clock. The landlady rang three bells. The first was to notify us that we could expect supper; the second vas that supper was being prepared; the third that supper was ready. Between the different bells Mr. Bowser picked the burs off his pantaloons, rubbed some ointment on his neck, and said to me: “We all feel the change already. I haven’t seen you and the baby look so well in six months, while I have the appedte of a horse. I think we’ll put in three months here.” When we went to supper we found knives and forks without handles, cracked plates and a table cloth with seven holes liberally und artistically distribut d throughout its length and breadth. The tea might have been sage, or it might have been catnip. The biscuits were yellow with saleratus. Tne butter was white in the face ahd tasted of the last generation. There were some fried eggs, but they had scared a setting hen off the nest to get them. The milk in the pitcher had turned. It probably belonged to the Turner society. Mr. Bowser tried to stuff himself in order to carry his point, but it was no use. He might have restrained himself until morning had I not said as we returned to the bedroom: “As for living, yum! yum! Think of cream, fresh eggs, yel—!” “ Yes, think of it!” he roared, “ Who got me out here! Who was whining about the pure air of the country —finding fault with our table—complaining of our 14x18 bedroom! You’ve succeeded in drag ging us out here, and now I hope you feel better!” We sat on the veranda and fought mosquitos until ten o’clock and then went to bed. It was a bedstead with a cord in it, and it was a straw bed on which we slept. There wasn’t a mosquito bar at any door or window in the house and we were hardly in bed before the pests pitched on us. Seven different times before midnight did Mr. Bowser get out of bed, light the tallow dip and at tack the enemy. He was getting out for the eighth time when the cord broke and we all went through to the floor. Then we got up and sat up the rest