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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-12-01

increase """."...........~ S54, 81
The increase both in gross receipts and OK.
penSes is due to the fact that the line between
Lyuchburg and Danville (sixty six miles, has
been operated during the whole year of lS74-5
and was not opened for business and in tui
operation the preceding year urtil the first of
June 1874. The ezpenss for ackage of the
past year have been inc eased nearly one hun.
dred per cent. compared With the amount re.
turned Oh same account the year before, and
which is explained BY the fact that all the bus
mess of the road north of Alexandria was trans
ported up to April last over the Baltimore and
Potomac railroad lines, and the charge Tor use
OF their track between GordonsVille and Char
lottesvllle was increased fifty per cent. by tie
Chesapeake and OHIO Railroad Company. The
receipts OF freight trom the Manassas Branch
road show large reduction on the revenue re.
celved the previous year, due in part to the
withdrawal OF the through tonnage of the road
to and from Baltimore and Northern cities
which was transported at that time via Stras-
burg and Manassas line, aud 10 some degree to
reduction OF ocel rates necessitated By com
peting rates OF other roads reaching the same
territory. The above exhibit of the buslocs.
OF the company TOR the past year shows an iu-
crease OF revenue Notwithstanding the general
depression OF business, and that the period EN-
braced has been marked By low rates OF COM
petlng lines and exceptional conflicts between
the leading transportation companies of the
country North and West for travel, and tonnage,
the disastrous effects of which were OF
course reflected upon the business OF our
Southern roads. The returos of the
the General Ticket Agent show that 1858
passengers have been transported during the
past year, being az increase in number of
1886 over the previous year, and the Geuer
al Freight Office reports the movement of
l6S, l54 tons over the road, making an iu-
crease for the year Of 2,2l5 tons against the
tonage of lS73-'74.
Considerable outlaws have been made during
the year 10 the forms of repairs to the roadway,
bridges and equipment, besides some small ex-
penditure for new work and construction reuuir
ed for the proper working of the road. l PA
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-12-01

In bis dispatches lrom Washington our cor
respondent speaks Of Mr.. George c. Wcdder-
burns chances for Clerkshlp Of the House as
improving. As MIR. W. is Virgiuiau we trust
he may be successful.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-12-01
w. c., v. M. q g. = II X
ires'oent barbour's Rep0rt--Finan-
ciait ondition ofthe Company-Pro-
fits of the Road. &c. AR

10 the Stockholders Of the Vos1;uoto, C;tv
n"g'n1o Hddtand, uud Greut ,Southe,u
RutLroud Con.pu,y: y
Inc annual report of the operations and >tate
OF the company for the f-cal year which Ter.
minated gu the Both of September las, is r..
specially submitted
Inc total receipts and income Of the road for
the past fiscal year make up the sum Of
Sl,O55, 9oO 81, derived as follows, viz:
From transportation of freight.... S4St ,046 I9
From transportation of passengers 364 lUl IS
From TRANSPORTATION of U. = mai. 53G71 IS
From transportation of Express
Company's freighl....... ....... 33 79l is
From lease of lateral r, al between
Strasburg and Harrisonburp TO
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
TO-, ana from other sources .... l0l, 3jS G3
,O33 9S 81
The sun OF 1891 .223. Al has been expended
as the operating expenses of the year which
embraces repairs OF roadway and bridges, co.
gines, cars, station houses, cost of fuel and all
other supplies required to work the road, and
Inclusive OF salaries of officers and agents. and
wages OF labour The company has paid on
account of trackage charges during the wear
Sill, IA "A, of which amount $50, 600 was paid
to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad COMPANY
Tor use by the trains of this company of their
track between Gordonsville and Chari GttesviIlc,
and remainder to the Alexandria and Freder-
cksburg and Baltimore aud Potomac Railroad
Companies for privilege of running trains on
their respective lines of railway oorth Of Alex
andria up to 9Th April last The amount Of
nett earnings after deducung the above cx.
penses and charges is $40l, 6l272 Ratio Of
working expenses to receipts 81 1900 per
cent. A comparison of revenue, nett earnings
and working expenses of the past year with like
retnrus OF the year preceding shows the fol-
lowing results, viz:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-12-01

Mr.. C..r~1:a U:t1-or was reported to be
much b2:..-: lasv Is:,a., and his physicians now
hold Ca ST., II. >: i lis recovery.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-12-01

The remains of Vice President Wilson lay
IN state in the town hall at Natick Yesterday,
and were viewed by hundreds of bis fellow
townsmeu. They were finally Inferred to-day
Peace to his ashes
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-12-01
Showing that the deficiency to be
provided for is ...........
SGl7,G90 90

lie suggests that II the interest payable tC
the sinking fund were suspended biennial sub
sttuted tor annual sessions of the Legislature
and the cost OF criminal prosecutions required
to be paid by local taxes, this deficiency could
easily be avoided in future; but he urges that
10 any event it be met not by augmeoting the
tax on real and personal property, but by wild
eniDg the range of taxation and by an ''uure-
lentiog retrenchmeDt' that will bring the cost
OF government down to the dwarfed area and
resources of the State.
He renews his former RECOMMEND ation of q
tax of thirty cents per gallon On spirituous
liquors; suggests that revenue from the "oyster
fundum" may be obtained by revision of the
oyster laws, and introduces church property,
over maximum of $4,000 10 value, as proper
subject of taxation. He suggests that the de
creased assessment Of lands just made will
necessitate nominal, but not real increase
Of taxation, and urges that State Board of
Equalization, to be elected by the General As
sembly, has been rendered necessary by the
want of uniformity 10 the standards of assess
meDt. He urges reformation of the present
system of assessing and returning personal
property as rich vein of increased revenue.
He states the public debt, principal and inter-
est at $50, 295 ,4569I.
After long exposition and discussion of the
Funding bill add its effects, he urges that the
contract, which be thinks is created By that
bill is practically irrepealable No refusal to
appropriate money for the payment of interest
'can prevent the coupon creditor from collect
ing his coupons by selling them to be used in
payment of taxes" He calls attention to the
ctthat the annual bills for the payment of in
terest lead to unnecessary agitation, and recon
mends permanent law appropriating to the
payment Of the interest on the public debt
whatever money may be left in the State treas
ury alter deductiDg the necessary expenses of
the government. He commends to the Legis.
iature the subject of recapitalzing the public
debt; and with view to retrenchment he spb.
mlts the following remarkable statistics, and
we join him in calling public attention to them,
He says:
During the period of ten years, ending with
the year 1860 lnclusively, the average annual
taxation was twenty-nine cents on the one hun
dred dollars, and the average annual disburse-
ments OF the government we're: For legislative
expenses, SlOO6l9,l3; for criminal expenses,
Soo' Az 81; and for all the ordinary expenses of
Inc government, including 1.-THE two foregoing
items' SoSS2S6 81. For the last fiscal years the
corresponding disbursements have annually
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-12-01

A mass meeting of the supporters of the Re-
form party was held at the Maryland Institute
10 Baltimore, last night. Professor N. R.
Smith presided, supported by large number
of vice presidents Speeches were made by
Charles + Phelps, Francis Miller, of Mont
gomcry, A. B. Hagner and others. A memo
rial to the Legislature was read, and, together
with Il series Of resolutions, adopted strongly
setting forth that it was by gross frauds and
violence that forced and dishonest majority
Was returned 10 favor Of the candidates of The
Dem cratic party for State officers" declaring
that the police commissioners had failed 10
their duties, aud that it is the duty OF the
Legislature to remove them at the earliest
practicable momcut; that the several candi-
dates Of the reform party should contest the
right OF those who have been returned a.
elected, aud appointing cummittee of twenty
tC conduct tLe contest, make full record OF
testimony establishing the wrong and outrages
complained OF, with power to employ counsel,
Sc., &C.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-12-01
THE GOVERNORS MESSAGE.

Governor kemper transmitted to the General
Assembly, to-day, his annual message. In u
supplement of the present Issue We give the
full text of the document.
The Governor announces his relief at the ad-
vent of the Legislature to share the RESPONSE
bilities Of government, and while felicitating
himself that the Legislature has, except 90 one
occasion, unanimously agreed in rejecting every
bill which he had returned disapproved he
expects like concurrence hereafter. He thinks
the subjects of legislation important, but not
numerous, and depores frequent changes in
the laws and all special legislation. After
touching, with gratitude, upon the peace that
has reigned, and the harvests that have reward.
ed labor, be dlscourses upon the financial stua-
ton Of the Commonwealth. He shows that
during the fiscal year ending September Goth
the revenues proper have been 81. SIT 1905
and that the expenditures for the same period
were as follows:
Ordinary expenses of governmnt...S 9S),450 50
Extraordinary. e.. Is, III Us
free Schools.... AS, OUU OO
Interest on public debt............. Hi 345 IL
He says it is cause for coDgratulatun, that
while so liberal an amount was thus paid on
the debt, and while a larger SUN than ever was
contributed to the public school fund, the or
binary expenses of the government were sensi-
bly, less for the last fiscal year than for any equal
period since the present constitution took
effect.
While it will be found that the payments on
interest during the past year fell short by $685.
336.4l only of the sum necessary to pay full
annual interest on the debt proper, it must be
remembered that portion of those payments
went to the bonds belonging to the literary and
sinking funds. In order that the whole of the
annual deficiency 10 the treasury may be prop
erly understood, he submits the following state
ment
The full annual interess on the
debt proper now amounts to-. 81, 1872, GSl 50
The full annual interest due the
literary fund amounts to...... 8S,9O7 Ga
The like interest now payable by
law to the sinking fund is .... 1888 446 81
And the annual aggregate of in
tersst payments on all ac-
counts is ....... S2035, O36 "a
The amount paid on interest dur
ing last year was. "-....."...... 1,4l7,345 Al
Showing that the deficiency to be
~pt onn M
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-12-01

age, tact and frnneSs 10 no small degree,
Coming t. Virginia soon after the outbreak of
the war-Voluntarily leaving comfortable
home and an office paying him a large income
he enlisted as a private n the 18th Virginia
Regiment Suon aft r he was elected captain,
aud as such fought through the entire war
serving with credit to himself and to the co.
tire satisfaction If his superior officers. Elect
ed Sergeant OF the city of Alexandria at the
close of the war, he was elected aud reelected
until he, of his own accord, resigned the cffiec.
There are few more disagreeable or harassing
Offices than that of Sergeant; collecting exc.
cutions and taxes, he necessarily has to press
many poor people for money, and can hardly
help giving offeuse to souc. Scarcely any one
can be Sergeant without becoming unpopular.
Captain Steuart was Tie T.. cepton While he
TILED the office with proper regard to its du-
ties, he at the same time was ST just and con
sderate that he retired from Office We do not
believe leaving a single enemy 10 the city.
No man 10 this section Of the State has done
more Tor the Democratic party than Captain
Stcuart. He has always contributed literally
OF his time aud of his money We feel that he
has claim upon the party, and that it would
be but fitting recompense for what he has
done tor the caucus to nominate him for Post
master of the House.
We call upon our worthy representative,
General HuDtou, in The name Of every Demo
cratic voter in the city and county Of Aiexan-
dria and Of large part of this district to
nominate and to use his best exertions, and
| ask the co operation Of the Virginia delegates,
TO secure the election Of Capt. JAS NJ. Steuart.
No act that he or they could do would be SO
gratefully apprs ciatcd or longer remembered.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-04-22

The reports that come IN regarding the
effects of the freeze on the fruit interest are
altogether disbeai tening. 1t seems that
there is little chance to hope for any crop at
all in this region, of apples, pears, cherries,
peaches or berries. Probably the strawber-
ries will give part of crop, and few OF the
late varieties of apple trees NAV yet bear
fruit. The freezs was quite exceptional for
the date. At Terre Haute the mercury
marked ten degrees above zero. In Hen
bricks county a steam boiler, in which water
was carslessly left, was ruined by the ex-
pansion OF ice formed within it, and Mr.. w.
H. Ragan, of Clayton, secretary of the Hor-
ticultural Society, states that ice was formed
in barrel of water at his place, two snd
one-haf inches in thickness by actual
measurement. Such freezing as that ends
all controversy about fruit, and the croskers
have really some foundation for their NUT
terings. But, there will be sort of COM
pensation after ALL The fruit bearing trees
will have year of rest which will result in
arenewed vigor and growth for good crops
hereafter. There are also palliations. Times
are not as they used to be. a failure in one
section does not imply restitution there.
The canning business and ready communi-
cation of freights insures to ali sections the
luxuries of every other. 1t is bad for our
home fruit raisers, but this is part of the
business which they are supposed TO reckon
on before engaging in it.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-04-22
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Byard, OF the Brooklyn Argus, is author
ity for the announcement that Mark Twain
bears striking resemblance to +. ID. Moul-
ton, the mutual friend in the blot OF the
Pastors Predicament," popular play now
on the boards in the Brooklyn varieties.
Woodley, the colored capitalist. attends
the trial every day, and has by this time
attained that exalted education calculated
to quality him to receive from Mrs. Wood
hull that instruction in free love that he
testified she volunteered to bestow upon
him.
Grants wages per day, including Sunday,
is just s137 OF. Why should such an over
worked and poorly paid patriot be required
to purchase tickets before entering the
cars?" That's the question that every lover
of his country should carefully consider
and conscieu tiously decide for himself.
Bonner has quit boasting about his horse.
and is now interested in the African
heather. That is to say he has reduced the
subscription price Of the Ledger to a dollar
and a quarter a year, for their benefit, md
gives each one of them chrome litho-
graphic representation of nest hiding in the
amarsnthlne bowers OF Brooklyn.
Miss Clara Morris lately acted in a new
piece entitled Marguerite" adopted for her
by Mr.. Barton Hill, of San Francisco, from
Saxony. The heroine is a wife who is first
damaged by adultery, and subsequently
struck and blinded by lightning. That's the
way of the world, but it isn't usual tor
Providence to persecute poor, defenceless
and deserted female that way.
Senator Morton is an eminent statesman
of the republican party. He has been the
apostle of oppression and revenge. He has
ehampioned every infamy or usurpation in
the South that called itself government.
Therefore, when he pronouuces New Orleans
q dead city he speaks his own condemnation
and that of his party. Dying New Orleans
represents the ignorance, the cupidity, the
folly and the crimes OF Mr.. Morton's party.
New YORK Herald.
The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Inter Ocean was struck with Winnie
Roam, and says so. As he saw her she was
petite, sensitive, ard at once shy and conf
Dental. Her form was small, her move
ments graceful and at home, her speech
quick and vivacious, her pretty face was en-
circled and framed and festooned with
wealth and abundance of hair, and her eyes
were lustrous and soft, large and beautiful
as woodland gipsy's.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-04-22

It was a very whimsical procedure on The
part of the centennial committee to invite
Gladstone to be present at the celebration al
Lexington and Concord, and the EXPIRE
mier's letter in answer TO the embarrassing
invitation is q rather curious one. The fol-
lowing clause contains the germ of the most
pernicious part OF his policy, judged from a
British standpoint:
We can hardly be expected to rate very highly
the motives of those other powers who threw
their weight into the other scale, ana VINO so
sensibly contributed towards aeceleratlng, II moi
indeed towards determining, the course of the
war. Yet, for one, can most truly say that
whatever the motives, and however palnIul the
process they, while seeking to do an injury, con-
ferred upon us a great benefit by releasing us
from efforts the continuation OF which would
have been an unmiXed evil.
That the revolution was a blessing to
mankind, is a self-evident fact, but just
how it was a benefit to Great Britain, it is
difficult to understand, and only one who
believes in the weak and short sighted col
onial policy OF Gladstone can appreciate it,.
TIE strength of the British Empire lies in
the vast system on which the sun never sets
the head and heart OF which is in the Brit
ish Islands Gladstone contemplated sew
ering off one limb after another
in the most cold blooded fash
ion. He regarded the colonies
as nuisances, involving more trouble
than the care of them was worth. To such a
statesman the severance of the thirteen col
onies which have grown to nation OF &c, 0OO,
600 might seem a fortunate affair,
but few Englishmen viii fell 10 think with
Edmund Burke, that the British empire
would have been far more goodly strnc-
ture If it had remained intact.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-04-22

1t is we'll known that the greatest barrier
to sheep raising in the West is the danger of
loss by sheep killing dogs. In some Sec
tions this evil amounts to prohibition al
most. Every year statistics are published
showing incredible damages from this cause,
amounting to hundreds of thousands, of not
millions of dollars. Various remedies are
proposed, and legislation is invoked to inter-
fere in this, as almost all other evils and out
RACES. An excessively stringent bill was
offered last winter in the Indiana legislature
on the subject although it JAILED to obtain
general support. 1t is easy enough to show
that the destruction of sheep by dogs in
single year is greater than the value of all
the dogs in the country. But it does not fol-
low from this fact that the dog race can be
exterminated as a measure of economy. No
right minded man would wish that to be
done if it were possible. 1t has been pro-
posed to tax them out of existence. but
this, toe, is impracticable, for it is notorious
that the worthless animals are the very
ones which escape taxation altogether.
Men will keep dogs. AS long as the human
race exists these companionable creatures
will stay with them, and they ought to.
The periodical raids against them on various
pretexts, especially that of summer mad
ness, ara cruel and unworthy of humanity,
because of the indiscriminate destruction of
the righteous and the wicked, a thing that
is altogether unscriptnral. There is
but one legitimate way of abating
the mischief wrought by vicious ours,
a. xx,;II nrf
effort. IL is to improve the race. AS meas
ure of defense against the destruction of
sheep, this matter is important, beyond the
additional value which would be given to
the animal TOR its own sake, and there is as
much reason for giving attention to the
matter as tor improving the breeds of sheep,
hogs aud cattle. Well-bred dogs rarely de-
stroy sheep. 1t Is usually only those which
are really worthless for service 10 the far
mer or hsrdsman, which do that sort of mis-
CHIEF well-bred pointer dogs have been
known to kill sheep, but they are of class
that can easily be taken care OF, being bept
only by sportsmen, as a rule. The
coach and shepherd dogs, the latter
being the only animal which the
farmer wants, and many other
nseful breeds are not subject to this habit.
The particular object of this article is to call
attention to the subject by farmers organ
izations, snd especially the managers of
agricultural fairs. 1t is not presumed that
trifing and worthless men can be suddenly
elevated in their notions, and induced to keep
dogs more intelligent and respectable
than themselves. The mean man
seems to prefer dogs OF character
similar to bis own, and q good many of
them. Sill, these things go by the manu-
facture of sentiment, by fashion, and by
popular impulse. Why should not this ami
NAL of the farm, the only domestic animal
which has been wholly neglected, receive the
same cultivation as poultry and pigs?
Would it not pay as well to stimulate
the improvement of dogs, it thereby
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-04-22
Anotber Republican oficial has come tc

Another Republican official has come to
Judgment This time it is Mr.. Abram j.
Buckles, auditor of Delaware county. 1t
came ebout in this way: When he
was candidate for denomination,
the Muncie News charged him with mai
feasance in Office and made such fuss
about it that he was not an available c2ndi-
date as he could not poll the granger vote,
and it was feared that even Delaware county
could not be carried in that contingency.
So they cast him out. But public opinion
demanded more than this. and indeed would
be satisfied with nothing short of
an investigation. A committee ex
amined the books of the auditors Office
and discovered that Buckles was defaulter
to the amount of about $4,000. When
confronted with tde evidence OF the charge,
Buckles bold and defiant manner deserted
him, and he offered to make Testi-
tuition by giving up all his tangible prop
erty. amounting to some $1,000 This the
county refused 10 accept, and instituted
proceedings to recover the full amount. The
details Of the whole transaction appear in
full in another column.