South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-04-18
South asramtl. Jntsllisenser.
RoMNEY. FRIDAY. APRIL Is, 1854.

convention has endorsed Hon. SAMUEL
j. RANDALL for tho Presidency.
Tn condition of the wheat crop in
Michigan is row 81 per cent. OF the ccr-
hiticn year uco., it is estimated tha,
6,76e.5oo bssheisare now held by far
mcrs.
Tho year 1884 is ho two hundrodtb
anniversary Of the Organization of the
Presbyterian church in this country.
Tobacco dealer, ask Congress TO lie,
the tobccco tax a'ore.
The Baltimore aad Ohio railway has
declared n dividend Of per cent. on
ths stock of the main stem and Wash
iugton branch. The result for the half
OF tho fiscal year shows, after the pay
ment Of The dividend, 100000 will be
added to the surplus fund.
WHEAT AND FRUIr.-Ihc Secretary
of tie Missouri State Boari Of Agricul-
ture, who has received reports from ev
cry county in the State, says thu aver.
age of growing wheat is 93per cent and
improving. He also states the per cent
of wheat nov in the hands of the produ.
GERS is Ill per cent aud corn "a per cent.
Peaches arc severely injured. Apples
promise 'airly, bi, snal! fruitI will be
ebert.
Gen. Grant has written letter con
sentipg. il able, to preside over the
meeting to be he'll. in New York for
founding home for disabled ex.confed.
era'c soldiers, an promising his hearty
support to the movement.
The steamship Neptune arrived few
days ago, at s.. johns, n, T.. with the
largest catch OH record Al 800 seals.
valued at $4,000, all of which were
taken in twelve days
Mr.. Veazy, State Inspector Of Nine,
says there are fifty nine mines i'll oper-
alton in Kanawha and Fayette counties.
The new crop Of coffee from RID ia
metro, it is said. will amount to about
five million bags.
Assessor RoBINsoy, of the lower dis
trict Of this county, says that lie has
been advised by counsel, (Repuhicar,
OF course), that the Governors insttuc-
tons arc according to law, and he will
obey them in assessing the property in
his district.
II is worth -emarhing that the law IS
precisely the same as 1t always has been
since the formation Of West Virginia.
Nothing has been taken from +, nothing
added to il. The law about which ,hcJe
IS so much stir, was passed by tho Re-
pubiicans when in power in thii 5tn;c.
and if it is u BAD law they are response.
bic FOR it,
The courts ale open fer the redress OF
all evils, and any ordinary attorney is
competent to draft bill for an injunc.
ton. Why does not somc blatant law
yer who is insisting upon the unlawful
ness OF the Auditors instructions pro-
cced 20 stay the cnforet ment Of The un-
LAWFUL order by legal proceedings
1t is fact that every lawyer of pro.
:1iDenco in tue State, to whom the Ques-
ton has been submitted, has sustained
the instructions Of the Stat. officials.
Tee Gemagogues, however seek To ex-
cite TIC passions and mislcad The judy
mcnt OF the people, TO stir them up TO a
rebelious pitch, by vile haraogues about
rnlawful instructions and official usur.
patton. Unfortunately the people nsc
too liable to accept their knavish utter.
ances as true without moments con-
sdcrntion.
Office hunters ind political !rcksters
are delrding The PEOPLE by assertions
that no lawyer will sustain, AMI which
they themselves know to be merely traps
and tricks for the unsuspecting.
The idle talk about the taxing OF pigs
and calves and the like i not on'y base
but wholly un rue. The assessment is
made rpon the property in possession
on January lst II no property is own
ed by the citizen at that time he pays
no taxes. Stock bought in January and
sold in December does not go upon the
tax books except as the property Of the
person who may own it when January
lst comes again. IL a farmer sells his
wheat and corn and hay before tho first
dag Of the succeeding January he pays
70 taxes az all on us grain.
II our agricultural readers will com.
pare their tax tickets and examine the
rate OF taxation, they will end that the
extra taxes they have been compelled
TO pay on account Of the INSTRUCTIONS
is 20 very small that they will bc sur.
urised at the inmensiiy oil ,he row oyl
nothing. 1t will put them to thin king
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