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AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS. Personal and 1.0 -al. Last evening there were 022 loaded cars at "Brightwood, to bo forwarded East over the BeoQtaa CW. Smith has formally declined the comTniKsionership of the Transcontinental Railroad Association. Freight agents have received instructions to *tuJl I*o freights to points north of Syracuse, N. *Y-, as the railroads are blockaded with freight cad blocked with snow. Commissioner Pink says the story published ywtorday, regarding his proposed connection 'wilh the Missouri Pacific railway system, is en-‘-tirely without foundation. A party of Indianapolitans have chartered the elegant Woodruff sleeping-car, “Mississippi," vririab was on exhibition at Indianapolis a few day*ago, fora trip to Washington, D. C., to vHae BB the inauguration ceremonies. The Pennsylvania company expect to get tlwurnew parlor cars on to run between Chicago sutni Louisville by March 1. There has been some delay in their construction at the Altoona shops or they would have been placed on the line Fto 1 Tuesday night last there were eighteen dead -engines on the main track and siding of the C., BL !a & P. road between Logansport and Chicago and six were completely covered with drifting snow. When reached it was necessary to shovel the snow away beforo they could be xnwred. Xine more leading railway companies of this tenantry are now represented at Indianapolis than ooojearago. The agents who do not work thrsugh the scalpers are operating through some ourof the outside office^ l . Therefore it is no surprise that passenger rates are more or less demoralized at all times. Nearly ali coupon tickets now nr*sold outside the Union Depot. Pools are now practically running alone. Commissioner Fink is arranging for a three xnomhs’ trio; T. C. Moore, of the Chicago pool, is £k*oth: Mr. Doherty,of the Indianapoliseast bound pool, has been in Ohio spending a few days pleasantly with old time friends, and Commis•ienor Richardson of the Chicago and Ohio river pool lias been snow-bound for several days, but ißasaged to be at his post yesterday. Wednesday last the directors of the LouisNew Albany <fc Chicago road met in New York, and William Dowd, of New York, formerly president of the Hannibal & St. Joe, was elected president of the company in place of James Roosevelt, resigned. This insures the continuance of the present general manaeer and lii* associate officials, as all were formerly H. & St J. men, and well thought of by President Dowd. The 1., B. & W. were yesterday unfortunate in one respect and very fortunate in another. 'Their trains on threo divisions struck broken rails, but in neither case wa3 there anyone inJjwdor property seriously damaged. On tho Oato division six freight cars were derailod. On toe Peoria division two passenger coaches; but so alow was the train moving no injury resulted to passengers. On the St. Louis division two freight cars in a train were thrown from the track. The severe weather and the fighting of snowdrifts has told severely on the locomotive power rtf the northern Indiana roads. It is stated that tC., St L. & P., the Wabash, the L., N. A. 4k CL, the C. 1., St L. & C., the 1., B. &W. aaJfhe Bee-line combined have over fifty criplosomotives. Some need only light reEiw, while others will need a general overalrng. With some roads the trouble is much mere serious than others. For instance, the Beeline Ims, in the last ten days, taken into the Rrsghtwood shops twelve disabled engines, and aithis time, when they are crowded with business, it is quite unfortunate. Kerf Orleans exposition travel has at last set in briskly. Last night General Passenger Agent JUmore, of the Louisville & Nashville road, passed through the city en route to Pullman, to me what could lie done to secure more sleeping coaches. 'The Illinois Central people are hiring all the Woodruff sleepiug-cars they can get hold of. Thursday night 412 names were on their books. *siting their turn for berths. The Cincinnati as well, is crowded with business. In;mapolift passenger agents are selling 50 to 75 tvkets per day To New Orleans, and 10 to 15 per day to Florida to parties who wish to find a tQat* where the climate is milder than in Indiana An engineer on the C., 1., St L. &C. road, yesterday, said that broken rails were the most dangerous thing they had to fear, for the reason that it is so difficult to discover them. Eight times out of ten they did not fall out of line of lie track, and as you come up to a break they *ppoar as a rail joint until right upon them, and wrfcen it is too late to check your train. He had torn running some twenty years, and he had never failed to bring his train to a stand still ftnfore it was derailed, where the piece of broken .iyil had turned over to tho one side, and ho thought that this was the experience of all carefiri engineers; and what is the more singular, he said, was that an engineer was more apt to discern quickly a broken rail, when naming at "Bight than in the day time. The local passenger agents held a meeting yesterday, at which preliminary steps were taken to reorganize the local association, and enter into so agreement to maintain rates, with a money forfeit in case an agent cuts a rate. On Monday next another meeting is to be held, when the agreement will be signed and the amount of penalty for breaking it fixed. It was agreed by all present that to-day pissenger rates, which have been much demoralized of late, should be restored to tariff by all Indianapolis lines. It would be safe to place •ome confidence in this move were not the ticket scalpers pretty well provided with tickets enrer some of the roads running out of Indianapolis in all directions; and these the aealpers wll use to demoralize rates, whether there is aay money to them in it or not Set a Good Example. In the action of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa F* in abolishing its own representatives in St .Louis and leaving the development of business tej the agents of initial lines, the company has Mian example worthy of imitation. The St Loots St San Francisco, the Chicago & Alton, and tho Chicago, Burlington A Quincy all work their Southwestern and California business over the A., T. & S. F., and all have strong representations in St. Louis, aod that the latter should maintain officers and high salaried men at 8tLonis seemed a useless expense. In this eonnection it would seem that, in view of the necessity for railroad economy, and in view of a proper regard for the rights of tributaries, all interior roads would do well to withdraw their offices from the termini. By this move the A., T.4H F. people stop a leak of some S4OO per month, and there are dozens of railroad companies who overlook such drains upon earnings but are forever cutting down expenses where the results are dangerous to the interests of tho road. Massachusetts Kailway Commission. The sixteenth annual report of the Railroad Commissioner* of Massachusetts, an abstract of which was published some time since, Ims just appeared in official form. It covers 277 pages, and contains a fine colored map of the railroads in Massachusetts. The number and variety of questions submitted to the commissioners during the year was greater than ever before, and their decisions are of interest far beyond the borders of that State, The Chicago Railway Review , iys: **The Massachusetts Railway Commission I is grown to bo considered the model commission * r this country. Its workings have been carefully watched and studied by all inquirers into railways questions, for it has been felt that in them could be found practical solutions of many vexed points. The operations of tho Massachusetts board have given quite general satistii -’ on to both carrier and shipper, and tho suer<vs with which the commission's idea has boon applied in that State has been tho strongest argument in favor of wider application of that idea to national or interstate traffic." l’aralysis too Frequent Among Railroad Men. Sheburne Met rill, lute general traffic manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paui system of roads, is the sixth prominent railroad tnan whom w v an call to mind who has died from thaaffeuts

of paralytic strokes within the last twelve months, and as many more railroad men of prominence who have become practically unfit for duty by partial paralysis. The question naturally arises, why so many railroad men become the subjects of paralysis; and in commenting on this matter an old railroader said, yesterday, but few people or business men are aware of the constant strain upon mind and body of a general manager or superintendent of a railroad, or, at least, one who is a successful official. There is a constant anxiety lest something will go wrong in the transportation department, some careless switchman leave a switch open, a careless section man nave a rail up and not flag against a train, and a locomotive and several cars be piled up in a heap. Then they are worried lest a telegraph operator fails to deliver a train message, ora train dispatcher makes a blunder in the movement of a train, or has his trains not well in hand. There are a hundred and one things that ho must be carefully watching after. He has sleepless nights; he is often on the road 250 of the 3C5 days of the rear; travels as much by night as by day; then he is often irregular in getting his meals; if ho lives on his car much of the time, he eats too rich food. All combine to demoralize the system, and he is suddenly seized by a slight paralytic stroke. He goes to some health seeking resort, but seldom receives much benefit; returns home, soon has another attack, and death ensues, or else he is rendered helpless, and lingers for mouths or years—all his trouble being from overwork. The active railroad man of to-day is abort-lived in every department, and in none more 60 than with the general manager or superintendent. The Lot of a Pool Commissioner Not a Happy One. Those who are posted as regards the trials of pool commissioners are well aware his lot is not a happy one. He is subjected to abuse from jealous competitors on all sides. If he undertakes to enforce pool rulings, as in the case of Commissioner Doherty with the C., H. & D., he is charged with being prejudiced against the road, or, as in tho present troublo with the Wabash road, he receives very cutting replies from superior officers of the road. A day or two since, Commissioner Doherty wrote Traffic Manager Smith, of the Wabash, to the effect that ho was satisfied that representatives of lines operating over tho Wabash were cutting rates. The manager wrote back a sharply-worded letter, in which he said it was singular that a3 soon as the Wabash got a little business out of Indianapolis it should be alleged that they were cutting rates. Yet in the letter he did not deny that such was the ease. While tho Wabash in the east-bound pool is awarded G per cent, of the business, since the pool was organized it has carried less than 3 per cent. Asa consequence, this has brought the pool in debt to the Wabash road. A small portion of this shortage on the part of the Wabash was paid up by diverting tonnage to the road, but since tho pool became rickety the roads wjll not turn over tonnage or pay the balance in money to the Wabash. This, it is said, has riled them somewhat, and they are paying rebates to shippers in retaliation for the shortcomings of their competitors. Whether this be so or not, should the Wabash continue to do the business out of Indianapolis it has for a few days past, east-bound rates will be dropped to meet the two-cent rebate which shippers boast .they are receiving from the Wabash lines. Miscellaneous Notes. The railway cleai’ing-house reports loaded cars coming into New England at all points during the month of January, 1885, as compared with January, 1884, as follows: January, 1685, 33,835; January, 1884, 28,725; increas 5,110. In the portion of the Edgar Thomson steelrail mills which resumed operation on Monday last about GOO men are employed at the furnaces and 1,500 in the mill. The new appliances which were introduced at the mill will only dispense with the services of 200 men. A member of the firm, in speaking of the resumption, said that the mill would only be operated two-thirds of its capacity at present, owing to a scarcity of orders. The Chicago Inter Ocean says: "With all the railroad cutting you never heard of cut rates in sleeping cars," said a well-known railroad man yesterday, “and Ido not think that in this day and generation you will. With all the peculations the Pullman company are subject to they manage to declare very handsome dividends, and on Feb. 16 stockholders will receive their quarterly dividend of $2 per share on the net earnings." President Nutt, of the Atlantic & Pacific road, within the last month inspected every foot of the road by daylight. He says that if there was any fault m the construction of the Atlantic & Pacific, it was in building too good a road. There is not an iron rail or a wooden bridge on the line, except the temporary wooden bridge ucross tho Colorado river, which, however. is tho best wooden bridge in the United States, and is good for ten years’ service. Under the plan for reorganizing the Philadelphia & Reading road it is stated if the earnings are as great during the next five years as during the last, there will be more than enough funds to pay the interest on the general mortgage in full, the interest on the income mortgage 0 per cents., and the interest on the 5 per cent, consols, first series. The same authority culls attention to the fact that the Reading railroad earned last year $2,250,000 more than enough to pay all charges under the proposed plan. Messrs. Parrish and Sligo de Potnonier, the joint delegates from the London committee of security holders of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company, have issued their report on the financial and physical condition of tho road, after a visit of several weeks to Colorado. They found the physical condition of the line better than might have been expected, considering the severity of last winter, but recommend an expenditure of from $2,500,000 to $3,000,000 during the next three years, as the linn needs many improvements, in order to bo worked with proper economy. THE COURT RKCQED, Supreme Court, Feb. 13, 1885, POINTS OP DECISIONS. No. 10458. Rosina Kistner vs. the city of Indianapolis, et al. Marion S. CL Affirmed. Howk J.—Suit by appellant against the city of Indianapolis and the Union Railway Company, to recover damages for the death of her husband. *She averred that it was the duty of the city, when it granted that part of Illinois street in said city, upon which the railroad tracks lie, to the Union Railway Company, to provide that said company should furnish suitable safeguards at the crossing of said tracks and to compel the company to keep them up; that if said company failed to keep them up it was the duty of the city to maintain them; that the company had failed to perform its duty; that the city had not taken any steps to compel the company to perform that duty; that the city had failed to maintain safeguards, and. by reason of 6ttch gross negligence, the appellant’s husband, when attempting to cross said tracks on the sidewalk, was knocked down by a vehicle of Archdeacon & Cos., whose driver had to drive out of the usual course in order to escape a backing tram and save his life, whereby the deceased was thrown under the wheels of the cars. Held, that the city is not liable; that while it has exclusive power over it* streets by statute, so that it may grant its streets to railways, and even compel safe crossings, yet the city is not liable for failure to exercise such powers; nor is it the city's duty to maintain such safeguards. Nor was there a cause of action against said railway company. as the proximate cause of the death of the deceased was the act of the driver, and that act was an intervening agency so positive that the death cannot l>o attributed to the company's alleged negligence. No 11234. Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad Company vs. Joseph Griffin. Posey C. C. Reversed. Mitchell, J.—Griffin’s complaint against the railroad company charged, in substance, that said company was “possessed" of a certain piece of ground in the city of Mount Vernon, which was uninclosed, and which wus traversed by a foot path leading from the public street to a house situated on another piece of uninclosed ground adjoining it, and which was also in possession, of the company; that there was no public street, alley or way leading to said house, and that the path was the usual way of passing to and from the same; that the company wrongfully permitted a deep well, which was on said ground and near said oath, to remain open, uninclosed and unguarded; that in the night-time the plaintiff. Griffin, while lawfully passing along said path from his work to said bouse, where be was boarding with its occupan ts,

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who were the company's tenants, without any negligence on his part, passed from Baid path, fell into the well and.was permanently disabled, etc. Held, that the complaint does not state a cause of action against the company. No. 12129. Elizabeth Kreg et al. vs. Isaac Davis. Montgomery C. C. Affirmed. Elliott, J.—(l) If a person sow wheat upon land, knowing that the person under whom he obtains possession has no title to the land and no right to lease it, he is a mere naked trespasser, and cannot assert a right to the crops. A trespasser cannot, by his own wrongful act, create the relation of landlord and tenant, and it is this relation which confers the right to take away growing crops. (2) If such person acquire possession while litigation concerning tho title is still pending, he is bound by the ultimate judgment rendered. He goes into possession at his peril. No. 12137. John M. Davis vs. The Stata Bartholomew C. C. Affirmed. Zollars, C. 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I am, and have been at all times, ready to settle with them, but they have persistently refused to render me an itemized statement of our account. The suit was not instigated by my bondsmen, as alleged in one of the morning papers. A. M. Alexander. We, the bondsmen, concur in the above. John A. Reaume, Stephen Mattlek John Feahr. ■ ■■■ —— ■ ■" ■ Sale of Atlas Works Stock. The sale of the 980 shares ot the Atlas machine works stock was confirmed yesterday by Judge Ayres, Henry J. Milligan, assignee, selling 490 shares, valued at $24,500. to Stoughton A. Fletcher, jr., and 490 shares to Jessie Fletcher for the same amount. The creditors of Fletcher & Sharpe approved the sale, and the par valuo of the stock was realized in the transaction. mmtmmmmmmmmmßKmammammKmmmmmmmmmmamsmaM ADVERTISED LETTERS. rpilE FOLLOWING IS THE LTST OF LETTERS A remaining unclaimed in the Indianapolis postoffico on Saturday, Feb. 14, 1885. 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[OFFICIAL.! COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE UNITED STATES BRANCH OF THE TRANSATLANTIC FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY On the 31st Day of December, 1884. Located at No. 62 Liberty Street, New York, N. Y. a EL HARBERS, Manager. Home Office, Hamburg, Germany THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY IN THE U. S. ARB AS FOLLOWS: Cash on band and in the hands of agents or other persons and banks $16,652.37 Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent., secured as follows . (market value): 4 per cent. United States bonds (in Albany, $225.000) * 276,750.00 4 per cent. United States bonds (in Ohio, $100,000) 123,000.00 3 per cent. United States bonds (called and cashed, in hands of trustees, with interest, $50,000) 50,255 58 Debts for premiums - 10,800.44 Total assets $486,458.37 LIABILITIES IN UNITED STATES. Losses adjusted and not due $15,231.32 Losses unadjusted ) . . , Losses in suspense, waiting for further proof J ’ Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding ri5k5............................................a 142,349.22 Total liabilities $160,013.54 The greatest amount in any one risk, $5,000. The greatest amount allowed by the rules of the company to be insured in any one city, town or village*. Various. The greatest amount allowed to be insured in any one block: Various. State of ludiana. Office of Auditor of State. I, the undersigned, Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a corredfc copy of the statement of the condition of the above mentioned company on the 31st day of December, 1884, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original atatment is now on file in this office. In testimony whereof, 1 hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal this 2d dav of February, [SEAL.] 1885. JAS. 11. RICE, Auditor of State. [OFFICIAL.] COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF TIIK DETROIT FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY On the 31st Day of December, 1884. Located at No. 90 Griswold Street, Detroit, Michigan. The amount of its capital is $300,000.00 The amount of its capital paid upia 300,000.00 THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS: Cash on hand and in the hands of agents or other persons $48,073.18 Real estate, unincumbered 60,024.44 Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of— per cent., secured as follow* (market value): United States registered bonds, $30,000, 4*2 per cent 33,900.00 Detroit public building stock, SI,OOO, 7 per cent 1,150.00 Detroit public sewer bond, SSOO, 7 per cent 500.00 Chicago & Northeastern Railway Company's sinking fund mortgage bonds, $12,000, 7 per cent 12,000.00 t Loans on bonds and mortgages of real estate, worth double the amount for which tho same is mortgaged, and free from any prior incumbrance 334,027.88 Debts otherwise secured 10,202.16 Debts for premiums 5,739.00 All other securities 2,515.24 Total assets $733,931.00 LIABILITIES. , Losses adjusted and not due $1,736.78 Losses unadjusted 21,498.71 Losses in suspense, waiting for further proof 1,650.00 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 110,255.07 Total liabilities $135,140.56 The greatest amount in any one risk, SIO,OOO. The greatest amount allowed by the rules of the company to be insured in any one city, town or village: No rule. The greatest amount allowed to be insured in any one block: Agents are instructed to limit amount cf insurance in any one risk to $5,000. State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. I, the undersigned. Auditor of State of tho State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a corroofc copy of the statement of the condition of tho above mentioned company on the 31st day of December, 188A as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file in this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal this 2d day of February, [seal.] 1885. JAS. H. RICE, Auditor of State. [OFFICIAL.] COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION . qp the - - * UNION CENTRAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY On the 31st Day of December, 1884. Located at No. 213 West Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. Theamountof its capital is $100,000.06 The amount of its capital paid up is. 100,000.66 THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS: Cash on hand and in the hands of agents or other persons a.. $79,409.72 Real estate, unincumbered (market value) 165,850.06 Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of— per cent., secured as follows (market value): Five bonds of the town of Bucyms, 0., 6 per cent 5.000.00 . Merchants' National Bank, Toledo, 0., stock 1,212.00 I Membership Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce 300.00 Loans on bonds and mortgages of real estate, worth in gross double the amount for which the same is mortgaged, and free from any prior incumbrance 1,609,106.92 Debts otherwise secured 275,051.93 Debts for premiums 95,098.64 All other securities 86,823.67 Total assets $2,317,855.88 LIABILITIES. Matured endowment adjusted and due $2,000.00 Losses adjusted and not due 7,638.00 Losses unadjusted 10,000.00 All other claims against the company 20,523.16 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks at 4 per cent, interest, Ohio standard 1,964,201.00 Total liabilities. .* $2,004,362.16 The greatest amount in any one risk, SIO,OOO. State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. I, the undersigned. Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a eorreefe copy of the statement of the condition of the above mentioned company on tho 31st day of December, 1884* as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on silo in this offioe. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal this 11th day of February, [SEAL*.] 1885. JAS. H. RICE, Auditor of State. [OFFICIAL.] COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OP THE UNITED STATES BRANCH OP TnE THAMES k MERSEY MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY On the 31st Day of December. 1884. Located at No. 69 Wall Street, New York City, N. Y. A. J. MACDONALD, Manager. Home Offioe, Liverpool, England. The amount of its capital is SIO,OOO 000.00 The amount of its capital paid up is \ ’ I,'oooioOoioO THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY IN THE U. S. ARE AS FOLLOWS: Cash on hand and in the hands of agents or other persons $10,853.46 Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of 4 per oent., secured as follows (market value): United States 4 per cent, registered bonds 579.500.06 Debts for premiums 35.856.23 All other securities 2,804.62 Total assets $029,014.32 LIABILITIES IN UNITED STATES. Losses unadjusted * $72,932.00 Losses in suspense, waiting for further proof 29,107.00 AU other claims against the company. 10 028.69 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 27^645.24 Total liabilities $139,712.93 , The greatest amount in any one risk, $50,000. State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. I, the undersigned, Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, horeby oertify that the above is a oorreefc copy of the statement of the condition of tho above mentioned company on the 31st day of December, 1884* as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file in this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal this llthday of February, [.SKAti.] 1885. JAS. H. RICE, Auditor of State. OISTLY SI.OO PER YEAR. SEND FOR IT.

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