Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

The attempt of the New England branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company to get the right .of way for its poles on the railroad land already oeccupied by the Western Union Company is resisted by the latter on the ground of its contracts with the railroads, which give it the right exclusively to place poles by the side, of their tracks. But in Texas, where the same question has been contested by the same companies, the courts have permitted the Baltimore and Ohio te-ptat its poles on the lands of tho Texas Pacific., which, with the telegraph line already in operation, is controlled by Mr. Gould. In consequence of this decision the Baltimore and Ohio is pressing forward the work of construction to a connection with all the inqioitant ppints. ■The decisiotadf4lJe-T4xas courts uppoir- to rest on the statute laws of Texas, which are peculiarly favorable to telegraph competition..., Factories at Augusta, Ga., employingobdut 2,000 hands,'which haveli eon shut down for several weeks, started up again at reduced wages... .By tho explosion of a saw-mill hoiter at New Martinsville. W. Va., two men wer'e killed and five others were seriously in jured.