Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-04-05


=, EDITOR STAR: We hear that the affairs of
this company have been sadly mismanaged. and
that the road itself is i'm a bad condition while
me company is without either money or credit
10 put the road in proper condition. The capital
stock of this road, we are informed. was
S2,O0o0C0, OF which the state of Virginia owned
three ffths, OF 81 900. The state interest
was sold to the company about 1866 for some
$4,000, payable in three installments. no mart
OF which has ever been paid. 1t is also said
ths5 the state interest, sO-called, has been
pleuged, or what is still worse, sold outright to
some northern capitalists for a mere nominal
sum; ard that this has been done without the
knowledge or authority OF the stockholders. II
ar atso APPEARS that there is large mortgage on
the road, and heavy floating debt, the amount
OF which we do not know; but we are informed
by stakeholder who ought to know, that the
rolling stock and material, to the amount of
Se9,cto were purchased from the government
at the close OF the war, and that this debt has
not been paid. Not cent Of dividend has ever
been received by the shareholders
A. WIN Mr. mckenzie, or the company, explain
these things, or set us right if we have been
misinlo1med? The people who feel an interest
In this road would be glad to see an official state
ment OF the affairs OF the company and the con-
dltion and prospects OF the road. They would
especially like to know what has bee n done with
that large interest transferred by the state to the
company-whether it has been pledged or Sold
authority; whether the $50 900 due to the state
has been paid; whether the S65 600 to the Uni
tea states has been paid, and il not what means
VI prospect OF means have the company to pay
them. fN'
The law ought to require the publication of
such a statement annually by all railroad ard
other corporations. They are public institu-
lOns, created by law for the public benefit The
people, therefore, as well as the shareholders,
nave right TO be fully informed from time to
time Of their circumstances and management
Feeiing as we do, in common with the general
pubic, deep Interest in the success and pros
peIity OF this road, we think we have a right to
nation. (;,r,zrNa
FISH AND OYSTER MARKEr-Board of Health
ln$pecf,ons.-lnspector General Gatchef reports
me arrival and sale Of marine products as fol-
, LOW +. A. Baker, 200 bushels Peysnki-
tahk oysters, small, 40 cents large, IS cents
schooner =. Anderson, 200 bushels Severn river
oysters, all large, selling at 81 25. Tug boat
Arlei, 700 shad, sold at $40 per hundred; 1000
neif1hg, sold at Sl4 per m; 20 rock fish sold ut
70 cents each. Sloop Charlie, 5000 herring, sold
at ZIG per m; 200 shad, sold at frem sls TO 900
per hundred; 20 rock fish, sold at % cents each;
Sloop Reindeer, GOO shad, sold at S13 per hun
dred. Steamer Prince William, 60 punches
herring, sold Fat 10 cents per bunch. Steamer
Nanderb1lt, 200 punches mixed fish, sold at ~
cents per bunch; !36 punches herring, sold at
l5h cents per bunch; 80 shad, sold at Is cents
each. Schooner MayfOwer, 200 punches rock
and perch sold, at from Is to 20 cents per bunch;
go sbad, sold at from Shy to S17 per hum
drcd. Condemned, 200 lunches Of catfish. he
longing to Jas. Skidmore.
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ILLNESS OF MIN1sTER.-Rev. NIB. Nor.
gan, D. d., OF the Methodist Episcopal church,
lying at the residence of his fafher-in-law
Judge Baldwin, in Anne Arundel county, ex
tremely Ill with remittent fever, followed by a
,evere attack OF pneumonia. His friends will
ne panied to learn that his symptoms Yesterday
nv; ;Ss indicated that his recovery is doubtful
Baltimore SUD.
PIGEON SHooTING.-Yesterday quite large
crowd gathered at Rily's corral to witness a
match between Moses Mills and Jersen, Is birds
-ach. Mills brought down IL and Jersen l.
tones and Mills then fired at birds each, the
former taking and the latter2.
BENEFIT OF MRS. OATES, at the National
rheater to night, when she will appear in the
sPrima Donna of a Night" and Nan, the
Give the lively Mrs. y.
bumper.
To GET a full dollars worth of Stockings,
Socks, or Handkerchief, visit Silverberg's, $40
tn street.
Isaac c. Day, OF the firm of Day, Allen &
Co., Chicago, shot himself dead last evening.
II is believed he was insane over losses by the
ire. 4s-t
0A Morristown editor, to whom was sent a
song entitled "What shah my Love Wear"
wrote q kind but decided article advising her to
wear clothes. l.t a.. 81
~Count Won Beust said, the other day, to a
have amAssed riches while was Chancellor Of
the Austrian Empire. The truth Is, am To- day
poorer than when came 70 Vienna"
~ During the recent run on the Lockport IN
" savings bank. the overseer Of the poor no.
ticed that several parties to whom he had ex-
deposited there, which they were extremely
anxious TO draw ont.