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Corruption of the Grant Administration
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Summary: The article denounces corruption in the Grant Administration. The disappearance of New York Revenue Collector Bailey with more than $100,000 is only the latest in a chain of embarrassing incidents.

Origin of Article: Sunday Mercury

And Grant Said "Let Us Have Peace"
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Summary: Reprints an article which comments on Republican reconstruction mishaps in Virginia. Protests the retention of military officials in the state even though it has been readmitted, and blames Federal soldiers for a riot which broke out recently in Richmond.

Full Text of Article:

The disturbance that has taken place in the city of Richmond, Virginia, is a remarkable proof of the want of the requisite sense and disposition on the part of the Grant administration to restore peace and order in the South. Its efforts in that direction since the rebellion closed, have been the merest pretence, designed to hoodwink the people of the whole country, while every measure proposed or adopted in the name of "reconstruction" has been but a party in a general scheme to keep the Southern States and people in practical subjection to the Republican party. It is quite clear that Virginia, being admitted into the Union as a sovereign Commonwealth, on an entire equality in the respect with all of the other States, is, ipso facto, relieved from the provisional military rule imposed on her by Congress, and that it was the plain duty of the Washington administration to declare that rule at an end and to recall every Federal official, military and civil, the moment that the re-established State Government was duly recognized by Congress and formally inaugurated. Had this been done, two weeks of tumult and violence, involving the lives of several citizens of Virginia, would not have occurred. Cahoon would not then have dared to insist, vi et armis, upon holding a municipal office in Richmond after his authority to exercise it had expired, nor would General Canby have interfered at all in a difficulty which he only embarrassed by his equivocal attempt to settle it. Grant and his Secretary of War have been shamefully derelict in this serious emergency, and if they mean to pursue the same course hereafter, winking at a riot provoked by Federal officials or partisans, in order that a pretext may be created for protracting military despotism in the South, and perpetuating the ascendancy of the Republican government in that section is a monstrous sham and the people of the entire country might as well open their eyes to the fact at once.---Sunday Mercury

Lecture
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Summary: John B. Gough will speak on "Peculiar People" in Repository Hall on Thursday. The lecture is nearly sold-out.

Go To Hear Her
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Summary: Anna E. Dickinson will lecture in Repository Hall on April 12th. Proceeds from the lecture will go to the Monumental Association.
(Names in announcement: Anna E. Dickinson)

[No Title]
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Summary: Franklin County has 199 school houses and 226 schools. Estimated value of school property is $154,650.

Railroad
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Summary: The people of Mercersburg met on Wednesday to discuss the proposed railroad. Mr. Jones, a representative of the company, reassured uneasy citizens that the contract would be fulfilled. Carts and laborers have begun to arrive for construction.

Donation
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Summary: J. J. Anthony announces that the congregation of Orrstown's United Brethren in Christ welcomed their pastor with 1 1/2 barrels of flour, corn, oats, potatoes, cabbage, applebutter, butter, eggs, wood, chickens, bread, dried fruit, meat and apples.
(Names in announcement: J. J. Anthony)

Married
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Summary: Amos M. Elder and Mrs. Mary A. Kegerreis, both of Path Valley, were married on March 15th at the Parsonage of the Upper Tuscarora Presbyterian Church by the Rev. J. F. Kearns.
(Names in announcement: Amos M. Elder, Mary A. Kegerreis, Rev. J. F. Kearns)

Married
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Summary: Frank Kymer and Miss Annie Clark of Shippensburg were married on March 10th by the Rev. Eckerman.
(Names in announcement: Frank Kymer, Annie Clark, Rev. Eckerman)

Married
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Summary: Jacob F. Newman and Miss Emma S. Frantz were married on March 16th by the Rev. A. Buhrman.
(Names in announcement: Jacob F. Newman, Emma S. Frantz, Rev. A. Buhrman)

Married
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Summary: John P. Miller and Miss Rebecca Harbaugh were married on March 17th by the Rev. A. Buhrman.
(Names in announcement: John P. Miller, Rebecca Harbaugh, Rev. A. Buhrman)

Died
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Summary: Mrs. Susan Shockey, daughter of Henry Bonebrake, died near Waynesboro on March 4th. She was 24 years old.
(Names in announcement: Susan Shockey, Henry Bonebrake)

Died
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Summary: Mrs. Rachel Creigh, wife of Dr. William L. Creigh, formerly of Waynesboro, died in Carlisle on March 13th. She was 49 years old.
(Names in announcement: Rachel Creigh, Dr. William L. Creigh)

Died
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Summary: Mrs. Mary Bouser died near Snow Hill on March 12th. She was 76 years old.
(Names in announcement: Mary Bouser)

Died
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Summary: Mrs. Ann E. Wallace, wife of Gen. D. Middlecoff, died near Shippensburg on March 19th. She was 68 years old.
(Names in announcement: Ann E. Wallace, Gen. D. Middlecoff)

Died
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Summary: Mrs. Nancy Criswell died near Shippensburg on March 18th. She was 81 years old.
(Names in announcement: Nancy Criswell)

Died
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Summary: Mrs. Nancy Gallagher died at her residence near Carrick on March 18th. She was 93 years old.
(Names in announcement: Nancy Gallagher)

Died
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Summary: Samuel Jones, Sr., died at Carrick on March 22nd. He was 78 years old.
(Names in announcement: Samuel JonesSr.)