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Show j RAILWAY TIES. Poors Manual places tho nntnber of hx'omotives in tho United States at, 31, i v02. Tho Russian government has decided that all coaches on the state railroads : Khali bo lighted by electricity. From foreign advices it is learned that r.n HiH) foot bridge is to bo built over the Xilo between Talkha and Mansouruh in Exynt The total number or freight cars in ' the United States at the end of ISsa ..-as l.llfiil.KU. At the end cf 13'Jd there were 1,135,1X10. The Kailway Ago furnished a detailed estimate of the track laid in li'O, iu which Ohio is credited with 2;io.U0 miles cf new Soud. A recent fast run on a French railroad ; lias gone on record as 51.58 miles an hour, the- fasfe.-t milo being made in forty-nine seconds. William D-nvd. formerly president of : tho Louisville, Albany and Chicago road, . and who for seventeen years was president presi-dent of the Bank of North America, will j retire from active business life. ! The Alabama house committee on , common carriers, after weeks of iuvesti-; iuvesti-; gation, haa voted unanimously to make j an adverse report on a bill to give man-i man-i datory powers to the Alabama state rail- I road commissioner. I The Indiana supreme conrt has decided j that the law requiring blackboards to bo placed at railway stations aunounciu.se , the time of arrival and departure of I trains, and whether they ur-j late or on ! time, is constitutional, j 'i ne Illinois secretary of state has is-: is-: sued a license of incorporation to the j Balloon Cable Railway company, of Chi-, Chi-, cago, for the transportation of jiansCri-! jiansCri-! gers in balloons attached to cables bo-j bo-j tween the different sites of the Columbian Colum-bian exposition. |