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CAN COMPEL CONNECTIONS. The Court Holds, in Effect, that th( Railroad Commisslon May Roquir( Railroads Operating in the Stat( to Adjust the Train Schedules sc as to Accommodate Passengers or Other Lines frora Any Particula: Part of the State. Washington, April 29.-The Siu preme Court of the United States to day deci(led in effect that the rail road1( commissioners of NYorthi Car. olina canl compel a railroad comipaii operatinii- in that state to so adjust it schedule as to accommodate passon. gers oil otlier lines from any parti cular parl of the State. Tht(e opiniom was delivered by Justice White i1 the case of, the Atlaintic Coast llAn I?ailrohl Compan y v versuis the cor. p(ratioil eunmi:S4ion of, Nortlh Car, olina. The ca-.se arose out of' an orde issued bY the commissioners directin; Ilhe ralodcomlpany to mahe11 conl nectimn at Selima, N. C., at 2.25 ) m., witi a train on another liie run uing from tlie eastern part of thii state, witi the obijet of accommodat ing ipasselngers whose destilnatiol was Maleigh. Thle railroad comipan; resisted the order on tlie ground tia it could not be complied with wit.h o(t putting oil a specelal train wiiel wou1l involve extra expeniso. Thii, it WaIs contemded, amounted Io Iak ing property witholit due proces (1 1-a W. Ille omii n, justifie4l it Course oi tlie grund that compliiianc wit hi the order was necessarv to ae C0ommo110d(ate a large part of Ile public The Supreme Court of Norti Car olinm held aga,-,inst thle railroad comll pany and its decision was atfirmie< by today's action of the Suprem Court of the United States on th, grolld that the order of (lie commis sicin does 110t affect the rates but is . proper Act of state reguilation. Justice Whbite (isciussed at leiigtl the contention of the railroad eom pany that the ease involved rates i any way, and said: 'his does not involve enforce. mnt by a state of a general sehiem of maximinl rates, but ol v whletlie anll exercise of stale :11hority to Com pel a carrier to pl'orm a partictl al aiid spvcivied duty as so itiler eily unjust an1id illIeasonable as tb amiut to the deprivation of' proper ty without ite process of law or . denial of (lie (lal protection of ih laws. In1 a case involving the vali dity of anl order enforeing a svicn of maximum11 rat11 s, con-se. tit fill in l) that the viinforcelinit it siell s'cleme will not proiluce an adequalc retirin for 1thc oiration of tlhe lrail road, in and of itself, demonstrate: tle uInl reasonableiess of tle order lSuch. however, is not tle ease wlei tihe question is as to the validity o all 1 ord(er to do a particular Act, tihi doin"lg of which does not. involve fih< question of the profitableness of thi operation of the railroad as an en tirety. B3ut even if the rule applica. ble to ani entire rate scheme wvere t< be hlere appllied, as thle findings madi below as to thle inet earnings constraiit ciationl would resiul t frcm tile genl eral operation of the ratecs in force even1 ail bow lg for anly loss occasion wo.ul liio hi' tinl eas'iahl it t estect I),v the (doe nlile alaiillne(I inl Smi~tl verstus A iiies alld( I 1icIl( eases. *11 dloc's not direitlyv i lvolve ai quest iou whteve'~r ofi the poweri' Ii fix matIes and the conlstituiitioinal li mlitat ion cont roinezw the( exe'rciscs o that power. hl is concredi soli': with an:i. ordelr directingL a earlier ti furnish a f'acility,. which it is a par of its 'genleral diutyv to Iiurnishi fcir 11n publ)1ic conivenience. The d istinc'tioi betweencx an ordler relatIingl to suiei a subject and an1 or'der fixing rat e coing withi 1 e1 ithe1r of thle hlypiotthesi which we hlave stat ed is appa ret Th' i is so1 brean 'se as thei 1primal1 d ut oft a1 (arrier(i is toi hunishi aude'plate so1, as all inicit, soie iienniari;i l oss from rende1( irin such1( serv ice' ma:ii trcsiilt. Tt ('ollo ws, t.h'eefore, (liat thc mere inururinie of a loss from tk per'formIan('e ot siulh a doty doe's 110 n ess t asc w oi il l i i illeta s w( 0 tllle lil w hole sc'hemei iif rati's was nor1i'iason able undeilr thle doci(trin1 of SmIyti ver'sus Ames,5 ior undler b,e conlces sions imade ill thle two propositIiomi we have stated. Of course ('le fac' ~,hat the furnish of a necessary facil ity ordered may occasion an inciden. tal pecuniary loss in an importan criterria to l)e taken into view in de termining the reasonableness of thu order, but it is not tile only one.A the duty to furnish necessary facil ities is co-terminous with the power of the corporation, the obligation t( discharge that duty mulst be consid. ered in connect ion with (lie natur<V no. neh11(11iottiven1055 of (ihe enerab 11 bisinless as a whole, the character, mI-cyrelired and( thie puibli(I 1 for its, perf'orman,1co.'' Big Shark Boards Steamer. hildmiicpiieia correspondence of New York Herald. A t.wo htours battle with a man-< ing shark, fifteen feet long, that, been washed on deck .by a gicvga wave during a storm, was the uinu experieice of Capt. Laseii and er of theL Norweian steamship Mi whtichi arrivedi here today from sa Domitngo with a eargo of bantal Capt. Larsen preserved the ion shark and fifteen little ones,' CIAe foot long, foui( in the man-enter. siles thie( little sharks, six large si pinl"' t . ti's, a s h ttw 111( it labeled ' "fish ball nIat'' were foi . in tle shark. - The shoik was washed aboardA :H)mdolt Wednevilsdlay, whiile (h1 si1 was (df, 11.11ternas. The sea voi--1r1mh,1 I'l hne waves wse i I dlck. SIenl v the Ilolo si - ped a gi-antie wave, a11(d whell wa ter left the deck trie crew w astonislhel to see te big shark fl I pinl.". aroundl ol the deck. The captain an(I every member the crew at the shark with irons, - several times they were put to rli i when the shark got close to then , flea'n ro t At.1er proddilg tie shartk abolut hor tle crew believe(I the, man-ev wzas dead, and draIngge I it to the ter-part or tihe steamliship. The - eotiuedile to w%-IsI over (lie deck. inl a few minutes tihe tionster battle again, ad it was mti i - anotler hour befo it was 1iim i killed. Southern Restlessness. Southern iFarm Magazine of i Imore for May. It is estimated that within the I1 S41) years at least 2,000,000 nati of tihe soith have ma,1de their Itoh elsewhere, and that at present hil are nt least 1,500.000 of ticeiml abs from tie South. The deicit is he ntlatie 11l by 1 consta1t accel(-.oat inoveltellt of mel (i o(i th parts t he nr4 ill r i . oward the Soltil at nit' of het wven 200.000 aid 3011. I er hanks to a lon-sin, i I andinellget camtpaitgn made lati by the railroads of' t suth. 'i mlovemlenit is boundl( to overvomle 1, great extent the restlessless of Sot e-eners withinl thc( soith. How reat that restlessiess turing the last hi <u it ' fi' h li teenth centulry is sut) ed-t( by 'act that in 1900 while 1,:26:3.624 tives of tlie 14 Sotiheni states (he District of Coliima were liv iin States wIlere they. had not h horn1. tilie 14 states and th Dist latdI within their borders otlY 3,4; 36S natives of otlier states thatn slate of their residence, a bala aggreg'ating 907,256 against ind dual sttes. The untfavorale( bala0 of ag'grieg'ating 2,065,460 was agai ninie states, as follows: Virginia, 453,143; Kentucky. : 415(3; Tettnessee, 297.522; N. Caroli 244,335; Geor'gia, 210,771); Ro I(.'Carol ina, 173,076; Alabama, 161,1 Mar'yland, 1.05,145, anti Mississi1 78,889. 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