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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-11-17

Proceedings OF THE THIRTY-SIxTH An
NUAL MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS OF
THE W. & W. r. r. CoMPANY.-In pursu.
ance of a resolution adopted ut he last
annual meeting, the stockholders Of the
| Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Com
pany convened at the Off 20 Of the Com
pany, in the city Of Wilmington, at IL
O'Clock, On Wednesday, 18Th CT November,
1871, when the following proceedings were
had
On motion Of Hon. Il. r. BfidgerF,
Donald McRae, Ed, was appointed Chair
man, and George r. French and j. W.
Thompson Secretaries.
On motion If W. A. Wright. Esq, the
Secretaries were appointed a committee to
examine proxies and ascertain the amount
OF stock represented.
The Committee reported that there were
10. 009 shares of stock represented, being
a majority of the stock.
Whereupon the President Of tho Com
pany, Hon. r. r. Bridgers, submitted his
Annual Report, together with the reports
of the Engineer aud Superintendent, and
Treasurer, which several reports were read.
and on motion CT Gen. q. FL. Brogden, re-
ceived.
The meeting then pr ceeded to the cleo
ton of a President and ten Directors,
whereupon r. r. Bridgers was unaui-
mously elected President and the follow
ing Directors, viz: w. T. Weltezs, Il. H.
No NJ DnI4
J. d. Cameron, Harrisburg, Pa. w. A.
Wright, A. J. DeRoss set, George Harriss,
Wilmington; W. III. Willard, Raleigh; Geo.
Howard, Tarboro; Curtis II. Brogden,
Wayne,
On motion of w. A. Wright, it was
ResoEoed, That the next annual msetipg
be held in the city of Wilmington, on the
first Wednesday after the fourth Monday
in November. 1872.
Hon. r. r. Bridgers and J. W. Thomp-
son. Esq, were appointed a committee to
prepare the proceedings Cor pull cation.
The meeting adjourned sine lie.
DONALD MAoRAE, Chairman.
GEO. r. FRENCH, ! Secretaries
j. w. Thompson, {
Wilmington. N. c., Nov. 10 1871.
Is THE TIME PIPE PAS the New York
Sun reads the lesion of the election in that
,ity, it is an uprising of the people against
corruption and plumber in public Office.
md il thinks that this mighty movement
annot be limited to New York. The need
or it was most urgent there, but it is
leeply and anxiousIy felt everywhere.
corruption, fraud, bribery, bride taking
nd presept-takipg." says the Sun, "hsre
een spread all over the land. They per-
ade the organic atoms of all parties and
re only more fsgraut and suspicious in
ny State in Whatsoever party happens
0 be In power there. Assuming the gross
st character among the Tammany Demo
racy in New York. they run riot alike
mong the carpet-bag governments OF the
outh, the Republican eff ,eholders OF the
Vest, and The national administration at
The journals are full OF
lem, and the heart of every patriot Is
ally sickened with the tidings OF these
rimes. The time is more than ripe for
niversal political reformation. "-BaltI-
Iors 6GA.
A San Francisco journal says: "As
lie, it is not good plan to visit the house
a raCanfIu m rpiad lady tn c0llaot money
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-11-17

The very Indictment weather which pre-
vailed yesterday morning, was a great
drawback to the opening of opr Third
Annual tair. It is true that there was q
goodly number of personslon the Grounds,
but the lain was so very severe during the
forenoon that it was found necessary to
postpone the opening exercises. These
will tale place to-day. and, should the
weather continue favorable. the Fair then
will close with Saturday insteaa OF 9th
Friday. as ct first intended.
Eotyithstsnding, howev r, the d avback
oceasioned by tle veether, the prospects
for a successful Fair have never besn 90
lettering as they are now. The entries
thus early. fully attest this fact. There
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13

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1T is curious and interesting fact
that the debt of the United States has
been reduced as much since the war
as that of England has. in Uty.1fve
years.-Radicdl Paper. 's,:.g g.,
It is also curious and interesting
fact that the Republicans, in war of
only four years duration, piled up a
debt as great as England incurred du-
ring one hundred and fifty years, of
which at least fifty were passed in
actual war, in almost every region of
the globe. Another curious and in
teresting fact will be Developed one Of
these days, viz >, That, like England.
all pretense of paying the principal of
the debt will be abandoned, and the
masses will forever be doomed to pay
exorbitant interest to privileged,
untaxed, "hedge-born and hand-burnt
aristocracy."-Start Co. Democrat.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13
Puritanism in Danger.

fkfl
We very much fear there is trouble
in store in Cincinnati, and elsewhere
in Ohio, between the Radicals of the
Puritanic faith, and the more liberal
class who accept German ideas, as 10
social matters. hThe Mayor, represents
ing the straight t-outers, the real down.
right 'pious people, has insisted that
the saloons shall close their front
doors on Sunday, and has abolished
music at the beer gardens on that day,
but otherwise giving them full license.
This curtailment has aroused Nassau
rex, and in his Holksblat, he lays down
the law and gospel after this fashion:
2 ssWe Germans, whether Protestants,
Catholics or unbelieving, have drunk
in with our mothers milk different
views from the Puritans in regard to
observing the Sabbath, and these no.
tions we have brought with us to this
continent with our ennobling music
and our soul-stirring song, and we
will cherish and stand by them. In
our eyes public, concerts and public
theatrical performances,b by respectable
and skillful professional troupes, and
the moderate use of beer aud wine in
properly kept saloons and summer
gardens, are not only innocent Sunday
recreations, but we also consider this
kind of amusement as promotive of
public morals and refining in its ten
dency. These pleasures we will not
allow ourselves to be robbed of by
arrogant and religious sects :; in other
words, we will not in this country al
low ourselves to be crowded into pu-
ritanical straight-jackets, much less
permit ourselves to be degermanized:' p
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13
Democratic Meetings.

The Democratic State Executive
Committee has published a list OF
meetings to be held throughout the
State during the coming campaign
Nearly two hundred meetings are an
nounced, the first to be held at Spar
ia, Morrow county, Saturday, July
%, to be addressed by Gen. Geo. W.
Morgan. The speakers already an
nouneed are Col. Geo. w. McCook,
Hon. Geo. 81. Pendleton, Gen. Geo.
w. Morgan, Gen. Thomas Ewing, Jr.,
Col J. r. CockeriIl. e. s: Wallace,
Esq, Hon. s. #. HINT, Col. L. Baber,
Senator A. G. Thurman, and e. B.
Eshelman, Esq. Other speakers will
be announced as soon as heard from.
The meeting provided for this coun-
ty by the committee is to be held in
this place Monday afternoon, Septem-
Der 25th, to be addressed by Col. Geo.
w. McCook, our able and eloquent
candidate for Governor, and other
speakers to be hereafter announced
We risk nothing in saying that the
Democracy of Old Portage will give
the speakers cordial greeting. 8
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13
Negro Ku-K1u1 in south Carolina:

AUGUSTA, GA, July 3.-On ,Satnr-
day last twenty-five armed negroes
went to the plantation of Angus Red,
in Barnwell county, South Carolina,
about twelve miles below Augusta,
on the Savannah River. Arriving at
Reds residence the party fired a vol
ley into it, killing Thomas A. Lowe,
and seriously wounding Red and his
wife and mother. After disarming
Red, the negroes returned to Paul T.
Hammond's plantation, where the
deputy sheriff tried to arrest them, but
without success as they refused to dis
arm. The negroes, however, prom
ised to go to Aiken and stand an in
vestigation. One of the parties i'm
plicated was arrested here this eve-
ming. His version was that Red and
Lowe attempted to chastise q negro
for stealing from the premises; of the
former, but the negro escaped from
them and returned with an armed
band, who did the shooting by way of
retaliation. The affair causes, uneasi-
ness and alarm. The party arrested
in this city represents himself as a
school-teacher, and says he was on
his way to Aiken to deliver himself
up to the authorities.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13
Putting ON the screws.

A Washington telegram of the 9th
inst. says: The administration is
gradually but surely encroaching, with
the powers vested by the Ku-Klux
act, over all classes of alleged crime
in the South, although there have been
no recent deyolopmentsin in the reports
of Federal officers, nor in the evidence
taken by the special committee in ses-
sion at the capital, showing that there
is any necessity for such step. The
Department of Justice has neverthe-
less decided to appoint quite num-
ber. Of special assistant attorneys to
aid the regular officers in hunting up
and preparing cases for the. United
States courts. There is some talk of
the wholesale prosecutions which are
about to be entered on, which is lit
tie singular in view. of the fact that
the testimony here indicates that few
or no genuine cases have arisen since
the Ku-Klux law was passed. 1t is
quite evident that this sudden hula
baloo is intended for political effect
on the special North Carolina election
called to change the radical constitu-
ton of that State. IN 80
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13

o. q +
THE fulsome resolution of the Of
fice-holders' Convention at Columbus,
in favor of Grants Administration
called forth the following =" disloyal" :"
utterance from the Radical Cincin-
natl Commercial the next day: -.
Evidently there was an oversight
or two yesterday at Columbus. There
was no resolution of sympathy with
Billy McGarrahan and Baez and Bah
cock and the Covington Postmaster
were utterly neglected. There was
also a palpable omission to approve
the removal of the seat of Govern
ment to Long Branch."enh srv>.
BEN BUTLER is said to have fixed
both eyes on the Massachusetts Gov
ernorship. That must be a great strain
on Benjamin's optics. E
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13

= aHAIGHT, whom the California Dem
ocrats have re-nominated for Govern
or, was an ardent Republican up to
1854, when, becoming disgusted at
the unconstitutionality of Republican
Legislation, he rallied with the De.
mosracy. .,,...,... ~
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13
Fires in the woods,

PORT ELGIN, July s-Fires have been raging
since Friday. at distance of thirty miles around
this section. A great number of houses and
large amount of crops have been destroyed. The
village itself was saved by change. of wind.
OTTAWA, July 9.-There was a large fire in
the woods in this direction, and considerable
property has been destroyed. 30. :sroa
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13
Eleven Men Baricd Alive-Eight Rescue

NEwBURYPoRT, July a. On Saturday, at
March's Hill, the banking suddenly cayed in,
burying eleven men beneath an immense mass
of earth. Eight of them were soon rescued, but
little injured. Two others, John Tuoty and
james Cushman, were dead when reached, and
third, John Clifford, is badly, if not seriously
injured. Cushman and Tuohy each leave a
widow and six children. The cut where the ac-
cident occurred is about thirty feet deep, and
the men had come to more gravelly soil, which
having no clay in it, caved in and brought dow
the whole mass tt1sJt q, a.;s,.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13


ij CLEARLYt nthe recent
celebration of the anniversary of the
Declaration Of Independence by the
Tammany, Society of New York, a
patriotic and able letter was read
from Governor Hoffman, in which he
entered at some length into the dis
cussion of political subjects. In ref
erence to the matter of the "dead is
sues - which have been SO much dis
cussed of late, the views he expresses
are very clear and concise, and we
think, will meet the hearty concur
renee of Democrats everywhere. He
says: 81 49, z s -
The acceptance or non-acceptance
of certain amendments which have
recently been made a part of the Con-
stitutiou of the United States is not a
practical question. The; ;csUiI status of
the eolored man is established, and he
rs in actual possession of the right of
suffrage; The task before us is to
save the Constitution as whole. To
save it as 1t fs,, requires our best eff
forts. The question OF. the day as
saohether zoe are to ,lire satades' a consts-
tuition at al, which shall be construed
by an impartial court, so as to limit
and restrain, as it was intended to do.
legislative and executive power alike,
or uades' a holloao form of a constitat-
ton, inteapreted according to- the er-
pediency- Of the hour By Congress IT.
.sey, such Interpretation being enforc-
ed by an unrestrained executive. The
danger is imminent that we may lose
sight :of, the principles upon which
this governments founded, and which
constitute its vital force-principles
which gave to the republic great pros
perity before the war; and in war
saved it from dissolution. ~ -
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13
The Pardon of Bowen. owen

= 9 o. =
l. The Cleveland Leader (Radical)
says of the pardon of the bigamist
Bowen: .e7ti = i3 - =
- 1t is to be regretted that President
Grant has yielded to the strong pres
sure of Congressman BoWen's trends,
and pardoned that very properly eea-
victed bigamist, However many and
strong were the names that were
signed to that appeal for clemency,
the facts remain mistaken. Bowen
was a bigamist, and, what was still
more, q forger of, divorce papers,
This was abundantly proven on the
trial, and the sentence that the prison
er received was a lighter. one than he
deserved. Unless there are some
very much more clear and valid rea-
sons for this pardon than have thus
far been made public, it should never
have been granted, aud though the
President had nothing to gain by Civ
ing the degraded convict his freedom,
his deing SO has been an abuse of the
pardoning prerogative which his best
friends will regret. t1fi' -as.iltsae
It may be that the sympathies of
his royal highness have not been at
ali moved in. this matter by pecuni-
airy consideration; but when his well
known propensity for receiving val
liable presents for. executive favors
are considered people; will be little
suspicious that that is what constitutes
the" much more clear and valid rea-
son in the mind of the head of the
great gift enterprise, 81. 5q -. ~, ~ +
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13
A rrRR1BuEs aocidant occurred ou

A TERRIBLE accident occurred on
the Nashville and Northwestern rail-
road at Harpeth river, about Is miles
from Nashville on the evening of the
Sd inst. After the locomotive of the
passenger train which left that city at
$50 p. m, had crossed the bridge
over the river, the bridge gave way
and two coaches and a. sleeping car
were precipitated into the streams
Fifteen persons were killed and twen-
ty-three wounded. The accident was
the result of the weakness of the
bridge, as the train was running
slowly.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13

A VEIERAN.-We were much graf
lied on Monday on receiving a SUBJ
scription to the Democrat from Mr..
Daniel Davis, veteran of So years of
age. Mr.. Davis voted for Jefferson
for President in 1900, served in the
war of 1872, and was wounded at the
battle of Lundy's Lane, for which he
receives a pension; was in the Mexi-
can war and served with honor from
the Rio Grande to the City of Mexi-
co, and, notwithstanding his advanced
age, promptly enlisted on the first
call for three months men at the
breaking out of the late war between
the States. The old hero of three
wars is in comparative good health,
has possession of all his mental facul-
ties, and votes the Democratic ticket
Long may he .waye.-B,ydn Demo-
cTdt. fas,
Tt ia s1ch mon whom the RadicaI
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13

THE Washington Cdpsto1 is consid-
ering this double-headed conundrum.
Shall we have a better White House
to put our President in, or better
President to put in our White House !?
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13

Ef RAvENNA, June 10, 1871.
To the Editor of the DEMOCRAT: 80
Within few days. as am informed and believe
reports have been put in circulation (with the pur
pose to damage me as candidate for the State
Senate,) to the purport that was engaged asking
the late Ohio Legislature to pass bill to exempt
railroad bonds held in the state of Ohio, from taxa
tion, and particularly the Northern Pacific R. R.
bonds. whose 7-30 loan is now before the people.
Ideem it duty due to myself and the friends who
favor my nomination, to have this subject fully and
fairly set before the people. - - ~-''
ask you TO publish the bill presented to the Leg
islature, and which then and now approve, as my
sufficient and ample vindlcation from the asper-
sions which have been cast upon me. The copy of
the bill which transmit to you, is the bill which
passed the House of Representatives, and now
stands upon the calender of the Senate to be taken
up in future with a mass of other unfinished bus-
ness. .ffs-..f fsf-r Yours, &C., 49, 4,.
f. P BRAINERD
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13

THREE hundred vessels and 5000
men fish for New York city markets.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13
Democratic State Ticket.


For GoceTH0F,
esf sl5 GEORGE W. McCOOK,
of Jefferson County,.
For Lient. Gorernor,
s. F. HUNT, sssIssFasssszz
OF Hamilton County
For Attorney General,
ED. s. WALLACE,
of Clark County.
Z. For auditor Of .Sf4zfe
d. R. C0CKERILL, ast
of Adams County
For Treasurer of State,
GUSTAVUS BRUEHL,
OF Hamilton County.
- isEe E01 Supreme Jadge
q. w. GEDDES,
of Richland County.
For Member offhe Board of Public Wo7z
ARTHUR HUGHES,
of Cuyahoga County. M
For School ConaasissSoRer, II.
fszl w. W. ROSS, =
..z- of Sandusky County 5
For Clerk offse Supreme Court,
CHARLES PATTERSON
of Franklin County.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13


ri The RADICAL PAPERS and politicians
are constantly bloviating and boasting
of the amount of public debt Grants
administration has paid off and can
.celed. They seem to be totally obliv-
ious of the fact, that to accomplish this
great thing, the people have furnished
the cash, and have submitted to taxa
ton more oppressive than was ever
imposed upon any people before.
Besides, had the Administration re-
deemed the bonds at par, instead OF
paying the bondholders a premium OF
twelve to twenty per cent, of which
the people have been robbed for the
tbepefit of the Radical pets, the debt
might have been diminished thirty or
forty millions more. And then, the
wise Radical financiers report each
month from ninety to hundred mil
lions of dollars lying idle in the treas.
ury, while the country is paying inte.
rest on that amount to the privileged
classes. If there is anything in this
plundering of the people for the ben.
eft of these Radical pets, to inspire
continued confidence in the Admins.
tration, we fail to see it. s
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13

The Radical party has given away
to few railroad corporations, since
it came into power, as much land as
the whole of the original thirteen
States of the Union. 1t has been the
greatest land robber the earth has ever
seen and now they say they repeat
their condemnation of the policy of
granting subsidies of public lands to
corporations and monopolies. There
is about as much honesty and sinceri-
ty in this condemnation as in that of
thief who denounces stealing and yet
keeps right on in his villainous prac-
tices..i II t.a.t.... y. ~
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13

The Women's Fighters have pow
aerful accession to their ranks in the
person of Senator Trumbull, of Illi-
hois. He delivered the oration at
Galesburgh, on the 4th, in which he is
reported as having expressed himself
decidedly in favor of the elevation of
women, and hoped the day was not
distant when women would receive
the same pay for the same service as
men. The right of women, he con-
tinued, to participate in the govern
ment of the country whenever they
ask for it can't be denied, and nation
will be all the better and purer for
their participation, -
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13

PHILADELPNIA now has female un-
dertakers.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13
RAVENNA MARKET.
Buyers pay the following prices:
BORN.ad % 5IFE !

I------- : :
On the 10th inst. q son to Geo. P. and Alice A.
Tickner. No Cards. tIo--'t3 n $ =,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13


Is it any worse for the government
to pay its own creditors in green
backs-the currency it received of
them-than it is to compel private
creditors to receive greenbacks from
their debtors, when their debts were
contracted in specie? If the former
be Reputation is the latter any less
so?
Again: When the Government
put forth its greenbock notes, it as
sured the people who were compelled
to receive it, that it should be illegal
tender for all debts public and private
except duties on imports and interest
on the public debt and "recetva6le
an payment of al loans made to the
United States" Now, the Radical
party declare that greenbacks shall
not be legal tender for public debts,
nor shall they. be receivable in pay
ment of the $40 bonds, which are but
evidences of "loans made to the Uni
ted States" Is this not bad faith
on the part of Congress and the Ad-
ministration to the people? Is it not
repudiationI Is it not downright
robbery of the people to promote the
interests of a privileged order that
Radicalism has built up in the land
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13

1t is such men whom the Radical
stay-at-homers call disloyal, copper
heads and secession sympathizers."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13

Coshocton, Defiance, Fulton, Huron, Hardin
Hancock. Henry, Lucas, Marion, Otta-
$40. wa, Paulding, Sandusky Wood
and Wayne. ~
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13

Anew days since, Edward Titcomb, residing
at Maysville, Dekalb county, Missouri, while
engaged in a violent controversy with his father
about some hay, drew his revolver and discharg-
ed the contents Of three barrels into the abdo-
men of the old gentleman. He then seized an
axe and struck his sister, whon was standing
near, fearful, blow, infiicting a Dangerous
wound- Neither will probably survive. Tit
comb was at once arrested, and it WIS only by
the greatest efforts of the sherjs that he was
saved from lynching by the Infurtated neigh
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13

On Friday morning, Mr., G. Chandler, of the
firm of Chandler & Abbott, was found at the
barn of his brother, in the rear Of No, 427 Case
avenue, Cleveland, lying the hay with his
throat cut. A pistol was found in his pocket
with three barrels discharged, bat no wound
was found upon his person. A pen knife was
found near the victim with one of the blades
stained with blood with which it is supposed he
had endeavored to take his life. No important
vessels were severed and 1t is thought he would
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13

For Davis, Howe, Singer, Weed, 9 for s5c, OF
75c per dozen; Wheeler s. Wilson, SIC per doz-
en-; Wilcox g. Gibbs, Braman, 1Oc each. A su-
perior Oil for all machines, always on hand.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-13

A G. ENT S W A N T E D.
To sell the Davis Machine in the following
. - = counties: ,.,