Lowndes County Community News Tombigbee Railroad THE TOMBIGBEE RAILROAD - We are gratified to be able to announce to our readers that Maj. KELLY, one of the ablest engineers in the country, with a competent corps of assistants, will start to make a survey of the route of the Tombigbee Railroad on tomorrow. That Maj. KELLY will soon be able to report to the Directory the shortest, cheapest and most eligible route none who know him have a doubt. The men who have this great and important enterprise in hand, know no such word as fail, and will push it on to a successful completion. Our people - our whole people of every class and description, should lend a helping hand encouraging the Directory, and give them every aid in their power. This road is of vital importance to Columbus and to Lowndes County, and we do not hesitate to say that every man and woman will do his and her duty in this matter. - [Ex.] Columbus Miss voted on the 27th inst $100,000 to aid in the building of the Tombigbee R. R. The law required that two-thirds of the registered voters should vote for the donation in order to secure it, and Columbus took so much interest in the measure that only six votes was polled against it. [Marion Herald, (Marion County, AL), May 5, 1887 - transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney] Added 25 Sep 2011 Hanged Himself Columbus, Miss, June 30 - Mr. E. A. Brown, proprietor of the American House, committed suicided last night by hanging himself with a piece of window cord to a limb of a tree at the edge of the pavement just in front of his house. The deceased was about 55 years old, a native of Fayette County, Ala and had only been living here about three years. Several years ago he had a severe fall through a railroad trestle and his mind has never been exactly right since. Of late business has not been good and he has been troubled with insomnia. He leaves a wife and two little daughters. [Vernon Courier (Lamar County, AL), July 3, 1890 - transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney] Added 12 May 2012 This page last updated on -- 12 May 2012 HOME ©Genealogy Trails