South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-10-03
South alraneh antelligenter.
ROMNEY, FRIDAY, OCT. 3, 1873.

ingtOn & Ohio Railroad tor the present has
been suspended.
Ey lT is said that Col. THOMAS SCOTT
has succeeded 10 negotiating 10 Europe the
loan of $50, 900 600 hat lee needed to build
the Texas and Pacific railroad, aud be will
return from Europe during this mouth.
EF The exhibit made by JAY COOKE &
Co., shows that SO far from being bankrupt
they will DE able to pay all their debts and
have a large capital Left
sD- BULLION tn the amount of So 300,-
900 was drawn from tho Bauk of England
op Friday Last, for shipment TO New Yu-k.
ESlN accordance "a sentence, TO-DAY,
Captain JACK and the other M,doc Iu3i-
ans, at Fort klamath, Oregon, will be cx-
ecuted.
EEIn tho Circuit Court Of Frederick,
Nd, on Monday last, after eight days con-
iinuance, the jury in the case of JEANETTE
WOODWARD Us. the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company for $4,000 damages
for the killing of her husband, CHARLES
WOODWARD, freight conductor, Soptem-
Der "a, 1869, rendered verdict for plain
tiff, and assessed damages at $4,000.
w The Masonic celebration which took
place in Philadelphia last week was one of
the largest, if not the largest, that has ever
occurred in the United Statea The Tenn.
pie itsolf, in honor of which the ceIemo-
MES are held, is avowed to be the finest
structure connected with Masonry in the
world. In the procession on Friday Ma
sons from nearly every State ia the Union
were present. Business was generally sus-
pended, and nearly two hundred thousand
persons lined Broad 81, OF. The procession
was three hours in passing.
~ RICHMOND, VA, according to the
Wing. is unquestionably growing moro ra-
pidly than at any former period The ten
denoy of building is westward, but turn
which way one may, bricks and mortar arc
constantly in view, and tho trowel of the
mason and the hammer of the Joiner can
be heard. There arc upward of three bun
dred houses, warehouses, and other build
ings now in course Of construction, not to
speak of buildings and churches being re-
modelled and enlarged.
gThe New York World has special
from Washington which says that the Ca
bines are considering the propriety of call
ing an extra session Of Congress to corsd.
er the financial question.
EPPARIs GREEN is being used ir the
Southern cotton fields to destroy the worms
and other insects that infest the cotton crop.
and, i. is said, with excellent success.-
Some of the planters who have applied it
speak of its efficacy in the warmes. terms,
and one of them remarks that it is as great
blessing for the cotton States as the in
yention Of the cotton gin.
ET WIcKLIFFE, the defaultng auditor
of Louisiana under YARMOUTH, was ar.
rested at Brookneale, Campbell county, Va,
on the 22nd ultimo, by three New Orleans
detectives. He had been living at Brook.
nesle for come time, where he passed under
the name Of WoRsuAM, and he had been
'peculatiug 10 tobacco. He is to be taken
TO New Orleans.
VTHE New York Journal of Com.
n'erce takes a cheerful view of the recent
commissions 10 New York and isa conso-
quences. The Journal "does not regard
the crash as great calamity, but believes
that IT will result in far more good than e.
vii. Some valuable interests will snffer
few lawful enterprises will be retarded, and
some desirable improvements may be wholly
abandoned. But the sharpers and iders
who have lived by mere speculation, grasp
ing at all the available funds Offering for
loan, paying more for the use Of money than
its fair market value, and diverting it from
'ho channels Of Legitimate business to swell
thor own gains by employing it in hazsr-
dous operations, will be swept out Of the way
wish the debris Of the ruin they have caus-
ed, and will leave the field clear for that
proper enterprise which alone cvn advance
the national prosperity"
ET Col JOHN II. STEWART, postmas-
ter at Pittsburgh, Pa. was arrested on Fri
day last charged with being a defaulter -
Numerous complaints have reached The Post
ofhoo Department at Washington from bu-
siness men Of that city Of repeated failures
OF valuable letters to reach their destination.