South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-01-18
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RouXEY FRIDAY. JAN. IL, 1854.


Gen. FIrznUou LEE has been chosen
President Of The Lee Monument Asso.
ciation Of Richmond.
The National debt reduction for De-
esmbtt 10 estimated at ei2. 00c 100. sod
that Of the entire yesr va tl09, 900. 900.
The unprecedented rise in the Elk riv
er recently, branch Of the Kaua~ ha, this
State. caused = loss Of mol less than $780,
600 IN slaves bark and lumber. Among
tho lcsess ass The Oxley Save Company,
Who loss thirteen valuable larRes OF
stases; The Poston Ssavc Company. s25..
COOS Msllsy 4 Threlkc!d. saw.mill.
$4,000.
IL u stated that four more officers OF
t!se army have been disnissed for dupli.
eating their pay accounts, and ono Of
them il Chaplain. Gambling Is said
10 he the cause or the dishonesty ip
each case.
The Secretary OF State OF West Wiz.
gisia on Monday Issued certificate of
incorporation to the Baltimore. West
Virginia and Western Railroad." The
projected road is to commence at or
near the eastern boundary line of The
county Of Hardy at point 10 be here.
after 6xsd upon. thence by the most
practicable route to point at or near
the Ohio river. in the county of Mssol
or Jackson. The principal Office viii be
ut philadelphia, Pa. Tie capital stock
10 %. 900. 600, divided into shares OF $50
each. The incorporates are George
HArbert. Frank ID. Briscoe, and p.
Davey, of Philadelphia, and J. Wise
Norton. OF Wheeling.
Near Colorado river, Texas, Friday
night Of last week, Ban Angelo stage,
south.bound. was halted by four noun.
ted men, who robbed the mail sacks and
passengers, and then delayed the coach
until the arrival Of north.bound stage,
which they also plunderod. There Was
large amount OF registered matter in
the south-bound-cosch, and il 10 believed
the thieves have made heavy haul.
COOP SHOWING FOR the WEST VIR.
GINA CENTRAL RAILwAY.-The annu
al report OF the operations OF the West
Virginia Central & Pittsburgh Railway,
Of mhich Hon. Henry G. Davis 10 pres.
idcnt, ms 10 10 the stockholders mec, {.
Ing In New York on Tuesday OF las,
week showed that tho gross earning.
were s9l .53s.S5 working expenses, $s5.
219 90; net earnings. $56,254 so. The
operating expenses were forty per cent
OF the gross receipts. Coal receipts a,
Piedmont, $268.373 65; coal disburse-
ments.$227.3s5 SO: leaving 81, Oss la
and masking the total net earnings S97,-
292 az. The road is in good running or
der TO Elkins 50 miles from Piedmont
the track laid to Fairfax Summit, Al
milee from Piedmont; an exten sion o,
81 miles from the Summit to Davis iunc
tion Of the Beaver and Blackwatcr riy
ers. has been surveyed and located
some work has already been done or
this extension, and IL will be pushed a.
soon as the weather will permit. The
road has been finished and equipped to
its present terminus for less than 500.
coo per mile, and the money 10 complete
the 81 miles from the summit to Davis
ls In hand. This company, which is
developing the great Elk Garden semi
btu minous coal region of the Alleghs.
MES, has. perhaps. more members end
ex.members OF Congress among its d.
rec'ory than any otbor similar corpora
ton. Hons. Henry @. Davis. James
q. Blaine, j. N. Camden, A. p. German
W. Il. Bsrnum, August Schell and 8. Z
Elkins are all in the board, and Hon
William PinAney Whyts is counsel for
the company.
Hon. WIZ. L. WILSON has been 40.
pointed, By Speaker Carlisle, one OF the
Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
"A position which he is well calculate
to fliLwith credit to bimsclfand his con
stitucncy. A Washington dispatch to
the New York Tribune, OF January
10th, says:
The frst nominations made by Speak.
er Carlisle-the three regents of the
smithsonian institute--meet with gem
eral approval. so far as personal fitness
or the nominees is concerned. Terrific.
rally they divide the hoDors fairly be.
tween tho Western, Eastern and Middle
Stsies. Mr.. Singleton is from Mississ.
irpi, Mr. Wilson from Yves. Virginia.
aud Mr.. Phelps from New Jersey. The
frs, two arc Democrats and the les. a
Republican. Dir. Singleton 10 a lawyer
OF scholarly tastes, who for eighteen
years has heen memhcr Ct the Nation.
nj or Confederate Congress. Mr. viii
son lie President Of the West Virginia
University, and LII. d., ana formerly
was professor here in the Colum bian L.
University. He has long bad familiari.