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Orange and Alexandria Railroad

--The annual meeting of the stockholders in the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, was held in Alexandria, Thursday. President Barbour's annual report gives the following exhibit: Finances — Receipts from commencement, $7,236,770,04; disbursements, $7,182,012,88; receipts for past fiscal year, $1,415,387,0; disbursements do, do., $1,342,414,01; floating dent paid in present year, $295,100,56; do, of present year, $590,056,89--total indebtedness to October 1, including accounts to contractors, temporary loans, &c., $634,756,96. Resources on Hand and Available--Due on stock subscription to Lynchburg extension $24,055,70, stock held by company $69,515; freight and other bills due $18,209,24; materials at shops and wood on the line of the road, $45,514,64; cash in bank and available, $9,249,12--making $166,543,70-- bonds, second issue, $63,500; bonds, third issue, 8 per cent., $19,000 --total $249,013,70. The above is subject to a deduction on the bonds between their par value and their market rates. Transportation statistics of chief engineer and general superintendent Henry W. Vanderbilt, Esq., exhibit the passenger travel as follows: Eastwardly, through, 12,714, way, 37,776; westward, through, 12,384, way, 38,363--aggregate number 104,237 passengers, against 87,370 in last annual report.--Freight--Total transportation 34,903 tons, against 29,300 tons of freight in last report.

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