South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-05-28
South Branch 9ntelligenfer.
RoMNEY. FRIDAY, MAY 2s. 1875.

Ohio Railroad and its branches for the
month Of April, 1875, was Sl,412.527.
which is an increase for that month O.
yer the same month OF last year of
S34,573.
ERThe commissioner Of customs es.
Inmates that sl2s, 100000 of dutiable
merchandise is struggled into this coun-
try in year as passengers baggage.
0Larkin Colson, Of Washington, a
treasury detective, who was instrumen.
tai in capturing the dies and tools of
Mullin, the notorious counterfeiter Of
Wise county. Va, it is said, went back
to that region about two weeks since on
receiving what is now supposed to have
been decoy letter from Mullins con-
federates. and is believed to have been
murdered.
RThs Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Company, it is said, has put ticket collec.
tors on their passenger trains. These
collectors enter trains going East at
Relay House, and take up all the tick
cts held by passengers, and afterwards
deposit them with the auditor of the
company. This prevents conductors
from taking up tickets and keeping them.
These ticket collectors also ride out of
Baltimore as far as Relay on trains go
ing west, and punch the tickets of all
passengers. The conductor is required
to punch them also, and so, the ticket is
rendered unfit for sale if taken up and
kept by conductor.
~ The Cumberland Times is pleased
to notice that wherever the press of that
State has spoken upon the question Of
relieving the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company of the further payment OF
the discriminating capitation tax libe-
raj view of the question is taken.
10 The debt contracted by tho State
of Virginia previous to the war, ofwhich
amount she wishes the new State to pay
$15,000,000 or over, is matter that re-
quires the attention of the people of
West Virginia. A Staunton paper ig-
ures the bill as follows:
Debt issued under acts prior to the
18th of April, 1861, $3l, 937,I44.59: in
terest due and unpaid thereon, S5,3I2,-
1898: debt issued and that may be
issued under the act ofMarch 2nd, 1865.
authorizing the funding of interest. 81.
5S3,310.59; interest due and unpaid
thereon, $2,61S, 509.59; debt on old
James River Company stock, S95, 900
90; interest due and unpaid thereon.
$l9,80000; debt on James River and
Kanawha Company bonds, $20l 1900:
interest due and unpaid thereon, STA
O60.67 total amount of principal and
interest on the first of January, 1871,
$47,390, S2S.76. The amount claimed
by Virginia as the amount to be settled
10y West Virginia is placed at S15, 239,-
370.73. Virginia's aggregate of debt
proper on the 3Oth of September, 1874,
was placed at S29,957O10,75,
1Speaking OF the payment to the
State of the Large sum adjudged to be
due from the Baltimore and Ohio Rail.
road Company for "capitation tax" the
Baltimore An,ericn is informed that
Mr.. Garrett has always been ready to
pay the amount found TO be due on Jan.
uary /, 1870, on condition that the char
ter Of the company should be so amend
ed as to exempt it from further demands
on this account
The Washington STR which is by no
means friendly to the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad says on this point:
1t certainly seems to be fair and Just
that the Baltimore and Ohio road should
be relieved from this capitation tax, as
the Baltimore and Potomac road is not
burdened by n like tax Let the two
roads be put upon the same footing. and
then we shall have a chance to see which
is disposed 70 do the most for the &C
commodation of the public Cumb. Nelcs
w Lieut.. John b. Glenn, who gained
national renown during the late war as
'tbc little drummer boy of Shiloh" was
married on Monday evening last at St.
Luke's Z. +. Church, in Baltimore, to
Miss Anita r. French, daughter Of G en-.
William Il. French, commandant at Fort
MclIenry.
IVGirard College in Philadelphia,
built exclusively for orphans, at a cost
Of 100000, is one of the wealthest
Institutions in the country. The main
tenance up to the present year has cost
over two and half millions The col.
lege opened with one hundred orphans,
and now it has FIVE hundred and fifty.
the limit Of the capacity Of the present
buildings The income for 1874 of the
Girard estate was over 100000 the ex-
penses about S22O,OOO, and the cost Of
the college about $4,000 The future
growth and value Of the estate is almost
ncalculable There is sufficient land.
# it were all improved, to put up from
ten 30 twelve thousand houses and they
would yield 10 the estate ut least q mil.
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