"More Railroad News

"Last Saturday evening [April 11th] when the mail arrived from Campbellsville quite a number called at the News office for the purpose of looking over the Danville Advocate--to read the railroad news.

"They were much gratified to see an article that Mr. Burns, a railroad contractor, of Springfield, Mo., had been awarded the contract for grading the road to Scottsville, and in lieu of a bond Mr. Burns had placed $10,000 in a local bank which was to be held as a forfeit if his work did not come up to contract.

"Mr. Burns stated, after the contract had been signed, that he had 100 mules in transit from Springfield, Mo., to be put to work on the new road.. The matter of the coming great enterprise was discussed until late bedtime, every body retiring to dream of the whistle of the locomotive.

"Morning came and also the Louisville [Friday] afternoon papers. In the Post this announcement appeared, sent out from Danville: 'A sensation was sprung here this morning when it became known that President Allen, of the Danville and Scottsville railroad, had been duped out of $2,000'"It was this way: Mr. Burns gave Mr. Allen drawn by the First National Bank of Gainesville, Ga., on the Hanover Bank of New York for $12,000, Mr. Allen giving him $2,000 which represented the difference. The $10,000 left by the contractor was his forfeit. Mr. Burns took his departure from Danville; the draft was a forgery; Mr. Allen is out $2,000, and Mr. Burns is having a good time in some congenial clime. That is all. When we have more encouraging railroad news we will be sure to write it."