South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-04-04
South 9santh Jatslligsnser.


treasury Tor the PoSs0fR g department.
Tor tha qu.rter en- ing December 3ist
last. show that the gross receipts at all
postofIices were Sil.454.7l9. or $685.
OeS lees than the receipts dnring tie
corresponding quarter OF the preceding
hscal year. The sum realized from sales
OF stamps during the ssmo quarter WIS
slo.s6i,574. as against slo.a7s,cs7 l.,
1882. decrease OF ssis,I9s.
At the p-csent price OF cash whea, n
Chicago i. Can be deliverf ia New York
aso6s cents per bushcl. This. it is sta
ted, ia lower than wheat has becn in N.
ferk Tor many years In fact, wheat
has not been below 81 in Ncs YORK for
years.
a bill has been introduced in the New
York Legislature providin, thst no pa
teEt medicine shall be sold, until il has
been .uojccted 10 analysis by govern.
ment board OF chemical experts and do
cafed not poison. This is a wise pre-.
eauiioa.--No one knows, a q contem.
porary remarks, the number Of deaths
caused by popular nostrums, which 20
into almost every family, with no assu-
rance that they arc not impre2uatcd
withs fatal poisons.
II ~ said this country uses ono. tLirl
OF all Tho steel made in the world.
When we malo scarcely any, priccs were
hi9h,now We mako nearly as much as we
consume. ana prices are everywhere low.
In 1876 steel rails cos, $42.50 per ton.
They now cost s34 here and %. so in En-
gland. There is more steel to supply
human want, and therefore tLe price is
lower.
The total values of the imports OF NOR
ctan1isc to the United States for TIC
twelve months ended February 20, 1884,
were sGS2, 776. 900, and during the twelve
months ended February rs, 1888, $780,
332.O13-n decrease Of SCI, 555,4e4. The
total values Of the exports OF merchan-
disc during the twelve months ended
February 20. 1884, were S7s3 .I95, 745,
and during tho twelve months ended
February 20. 1888, s793, 6ss ,S54-a de.
crease OF Sl0,494,l09.
AS announced in our columns few
weeks ago the quinine works Of Powers
& WciShtman, in Philadelphia, burned
down. Instantly the foreign msnufac.
turers OF 9uinine advanced the price one
third-an evidence that competition re-
duces prices. And as protection slim
ulates industries in this country, it fol,
lows. as has been remarked, that the
competition thus created decreases pri.
ces.
James Hamilton. Of Bath county, XIV,
said to bethc largest short horned stock
dealer in the world, died nj Mount Stcr.
ling, KY, Monday morning. He had in
Bath county $500 acres of land aud sew.
eral thousand in Illinois and Wisconsin.
ca the farm in Kentucky are more than
$4,000 worth of tho finest strains of
short-horn cattle.
THE WHEAT PRosPECT The Cincin-
nati Price Current, of March ooh, hos
reports from the winter wheat belt indi.
eating a good average condition in Ohio
and Indiana, fairly good promise in H.
linois, with some damage 10y frost in
Missouri, and by dry, cold winds in Kan.
sas; but the loss in any district is not
irreparablc.
"A prominent West Virginian in
Washington echoes, We know, the sea-
timents of a large number OF persons
in this State when, in speaking OF
Presidential preferences, he speaks OF
Senator Bayard as follows: 'Bsyard
comes nearer 10 representing West Vir-
glnia Democracy in his views upon G.
nsncial issues, tariff and revenue ques-
lions, States rigAt and federal limita.
tions, and all constitutional constructions,
than any man in the country whose o.
pinions have been impressed on public
attention. BESIDES this lie is a states.
man OF long and varied experience who
has not only mastered the theory Of our
government but has grown familiar with
its d.iails and would have the atilit, If
chosen as our Chief Executive to make |
his administration reflect the same vir.
tues which have characterized his stain. |
less services as public representative.
Furthermore, Ge is c thoroughbred gem
tlcman, simple and unostentatious in his
habits, genial and apprcacbable, rei-
Their an nris,ocrat nor dcmagoaue, in
full sympathy with tue best impulses Of
people-Ihe best type OF Tie educated |
American citizen. take him all around, |
that the country Affords
TIN MINES IN VIRGIsIA. The tin |
mines Of Virginia are opening up grand
ly. a Lexington miner saVs tbero - n