Show THE NETWORK As a close to yes yesterdays esterd Ys remarks on rai railroads we may state that one of the roads that bids fair to become a trunk line between tho the great east and the great west is the southern pacific it is said to be owned OM nod by the proprietors of the central pacific this so southern project lias ins evidently a twofold two fold aim aini the first is probably a through connection with the east the second a purpose to divert the overland traffic that way and thus secure to the coin coni pany the whole of the g gains ains i instead t e a d of having to hand over a it large percentage of them to the government I which is the case with the central p pacific the latter eing being ft a difed road the western initial point of tile southern pacific is lathrop cal on the central pi pacific thence it proceeds southward and a little past to los angeles from the tile latter litter point the line is almost due cast touching yuma tucson lordsburg Lords burg and doming deming which is about as far as it reaches at present its route beyond will be eastward to the rio grande river which it will cross near E el I I paso into old mexico thence to new orleans its final eastern terminus we undena understand n tand that the road is il now being built westward from the new orleans end as well as in ill the tile other direction oll another important line in the south ia tho atlantic and pacific beginning at denver and ind Aw sweeping coping in a southeasterly south i easterly casterly direction through albuquerque to doming deming where it cither either docs does or is expected soon to touch die southern pacific F prom roin doming there i is s an ail intention to carry it south casani eastward ard to san diego a seaboard outlet A As before stated there is also the tile atchison topeka santa fo fe it it from denver to near doming deming where it joins the southern but we must put on oil the brakes and ind make a tem terminus alls of our remarks on railroads there aro are probably some inaccuracies in them but they arc are mainly correct they are sufficient to show that within a very brief time a web of railroads will cover this entire reg region gion from the older settled portions odthe of the count country ry in in the east clear to tile pacific seaboard it will also cover a vast extent of country from north to boutil the condition of this great reat tract of f country now as compared with what it was scarce kearce more than a dozen domn years ago is marvelous marv clous there being at that time no such a thing as a railroad within a in radius d ius of a thousand milea miles from O ogden oden den in any direction of the compass if a map were wae made including the existing lines those proposed and in progress throughout the We west it would be found that salt lake city and ogdan are directly in in the middle of the network there can be no doubt that they wi will constitute concan two great railroad centres bentres of the tile fl future iture NOT LONG lona since we made brief allusion to the operations of a singular evangelist named george barnes the hew new york sun says he seems to bo be turning tile stole of X kentucky religiously upside down and inside out he is hold holding ing a series of revivals that exceed in c excitement x cit ement anything ever before experienced perien perlen ced in that part of the country he is a methodist but holds some doctrines not common in methodism one of these is that any person may by becoming holy enough escape death and bo be taken up alive to li heaven caven ho ile declares that lie will make such an ascension within five years he Ile promises pal Fal to all his coave converts arts regard of possible and declares that those who remain faithful will receive crowns of glory while extraordinary piety and alid zeal will add stars to tho the crown the Kent kentucky ticky pastors as a rule do not riot cooperate with him and bome of them denounce him as an impostor or lunatic buethe but alie multitudes follow liim lihn and lie preaches to great as is scrub fages marcellous marvellous Marv ellous stories arc are told cures by f faith aith and some of his f followers ol lowers have established establish ed a hospital be spital called pink cottage where patients who give evidence ofa of a suitable amount i it arc received for purely religious treatment ki T N av I r y i C now IT ITS 13 the baptists that think their craft endangered by mor nio nissm which according cording ic to tho the religious splutter made about it must be tho the greatest success of the age tho the rev dr osborn at indianapolis di advocated on oil a baptist gala day aggressive measured measures to prevent the spread of tho the religion of the latter day saints tho the doctor do it for its no use WHILE OUT herein here in the west we enjoy the most delightful cool refreshing weather new york yorkers ers are sweltering under a broiling sun with the tile thermometer above ninety in the shade |