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Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-09-03
Live Stock MARKETS..
BALTIMORE. Aup. 26tb. Iss

BALTIMORE. Aug. Goth. 1886.
There was full offering at the yards
this week, and it's quality generally
compared favorably with that of last
week. The trade was not quite so &C.
tive as last week, and values were some
10 cents per 100 lbs off from those rul.
ing then. Quotations $500 to $40,
most sales at $3.50 to $40 per 100 lbs.
The range at same time last year was
from $500 to $500 per 100 lbs.
Prices Of beef cattle this week ranged
as follows Best beeves at 4.SOaS4 40
those generally rated first quality 4. GOA.
$40, medium or good fair quality
3 c0a$3.50, and ordinary thin steers.
oxen and cows 2.OOaS2. so per 100 lbs.
Receipts--2, 235 head, against ], $40 last
week, and 3,42l same period last year
Sales-l, $40 head, against 1925 last
week, and 1924 head same period last
year.
Sheep and Misunderstanding, is, 99S
head. Wequote butcher sheep at Hast
cts. per h., and lambs at SASH cts. per
10, gross.
NEW YORK, Aug 3l.-Beeves--Re-
ceipts 1858 head. The Market was
higher ordinary to prime native steers
sold at 3.S5a$4.80 per 100 lbs, and bulls
and dry cows, 1.20aS3.00. The range
at same time last year for ordinary to
prime native steers was from g. to
s. per 100 lbs. Sheep and Lambs
Receipts 1898 butcher sheep sold at
2.5eaS4.O0, and lambs at 3. 62iaS5. 25 per
100 lbs. HOgs---Receipts IL Ut; live
hogs sold at 3.6OaS4.l0 per 100 lbs.
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The sVNsNasE BUSINESS GellEg!
STAUNTON, VA.

THE 25th session of this College will
l. begin Tuesday, Sept. lst, 1896, in
it's new home, at No. 2l9, south Fay
cite street, in quiet and retired por-
ton of the city. Prof. J. q. Duns-
more, President of said College, and
Rev. James Willis, late Principal of
the Staunton Female Seminary, have
arranged for and are occupying the ele-
CANT and commodious Seminary build
ings as a school and home for the stu
dents of the Dunsmore Business Col
lege. No other business College in the
United States will have better facIli-
ties and accommodations, (giving the
students home in the College,) for
educating young men and women for
the practical and stem responsibilities
of business career, than will the
Dunsmore Business College. Lowest
rates and best terms for tuition and
board. Separate apartments for lady
pupils. Separate study halls for Theory,
Practice, Stenography and Type writ.
ing. Highest testimonials from lead
ing professional and business men, edu-
Gators. ministers and graduates. For
Catalogue, giving full particulars and
testimonials, address J. G.. Dunsmore
+. I. A., President. or Rev. James Will.
lis, A. M, Vice-President.
July 9-2mos.
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"U Mimi TED ."-Mr. Elkins
doesn't seem to like the word ",sl.
tinlited." About the most unlimited
thing we can think of just now is the
Senator's inconsistency. Before his
party declared, at st. Louis, for the
maintenance of the British gold
standard, he had been clamoring like
a Populist for the restoration of sill
yer as standard money and was
known over the State as a warm
friend of the white metal. Let him
speak for himself. Here are his
words spoken at Fairmont, June 10,
1894: "Silver is the money Of the
Constitution as much as gold, the
people will have silver for money
and fight for 1t, and the contest will
not end until it has its proper place
in the monetary system of the coun-
try" Again: "The people are too
intelligent to permit values to he
measured by gold alone, the produc-
ton of which is relatively diminish
ing in the world" In these utterances
Mr.. Elkins takes distinctly and une-
quivocally the very position now
held by the Democracy for the resto-
ration of silver to its proper and con-
stitutional function as standard
money.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-09-03

FALLING PRICEs.-Mr. Bryan
said in his speech at Syracuse
II notice that one of the oppo-
nents Of free coinage said the other
day that if the farmer had suffered
from falling prices when he went to
sell he gained in falling prices when
he went to buy. That may all be
well enough for some one who is
not farmer 10 tell to q man who is
a farmer. (Applause.) You would
never be told by a farmer himself.
(Applause.) Because the farmer
knows that while he sells at whole.
sale he buys at retail, and that re.
tail prices do not fall as fast as
wholesale prices, and he knows that
there are certain fixed charges that
do not fall at all. Have your taxes
fallen in the last twenty years I
My observation is that taxes are as
high or higher than they were
twenty years ago but if it requires
twice as much of the products ofthe
farm to pay, your taxes are in effect
twice as high as they were then. II
it takes twice as much of farm pro
ducts to pay the interest upon your
mortgages then that interest is il
effect twice as high as it was twenty
years ago. If it takes twice al
much of farm products to pay TIT
principal on your debt as 1t tool
twenty years ago, then your debt j
in effect twice as much as it wa
then.
My friends, you can talk to tn
farmer from now until election day
but you will never convince hin
that a gold standard has brough
anything but ruin and distress t,
the farmer"
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Mckinley lodges the Question.

Last week Maj. Mckinley gave to
the public his long expected letter of
acceptance in which he argues the
free coinage question at some length.
He artfully lodges, or willfully ig-
uores, the most important question
in the case, which is-what will be
the effect of free coinage on the bull
| lion or market price Of silver? The
Major tells the people that under a
free coinage law every owner of 371t
grains Of pure silver 1.-THE amount Of
that metal in dollar now worth
hut 50 cents in the markets, will
have the right to take this 80 cents
worth of silver to the minis and
have it coined into a dollar worth
100 cents and delivered to him free
Of charge for coinage. Why didn't
he tell the people how much, in his
opinion, if any, this silver bullion
would be enhanced in value by virtue
of its free access to the miuts? Why
didn't he tell the people that his OPP
pOnent, Mr.. Bryan, and the Demo
cratic party stoutly maintain that
free coinage will raise the price of
silver bullion to 81 30 an ounce, and
that if so the bullion or market price
of 371t grains of pure silver, which
the holder takes to the mint would
be 100 instead of SO cents? One of
the main objects Of free coinage is
to bring down the price Of gold bull
lion and, at the same time, raise the
price of silver bullion, and that il
will necessarily have this effect does
not admit Of doubt, and is proven
by the indisputable facts of history
Will any owner of silver bullion,
here or elsewhere, be silly enough to
take less than S1.29 an ounce for it
when he can get that price in legal
tender silver dollars at our minis !
We maintain that the United States
the greatest silver producing country
on earth, should fix the price of our
bullion, and that the price will be
fixed, not only here but the world
over, at S1.29 an ounce when we
open our minis to it's free and un.
limited coinage.
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Ohio University.
ATHENS. OHIO

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Inc FACULTY numbers twenty four
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An elegant dormitory for ladies has
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THE HARD TIMEs.-W by is
money so scarce and times so hard I?
This question we think may be an
swered in few words. Ever since
this country was put upon the gold
standard, in 1878, there has been, as
no one can successfully deny, a
steady decline in values of all kinds
lands, commodities, manufactured
and grown from the soil, railroad
property, city real estate, etc., until
Dunn & Bradstreet both report the
lowest range of prices ever known
in the country during it's whole his
tory. Moaey is scarce for two rea-
sons: u because the per capita
circulation is too small for the pusi-
ness Of the country, and (2) because
what money we have is congested or
boarded, men being unwilling to
bring their money from its hiding
places and invest it on consta ntly
declining market. What is there
now TO tempt a man to put his
money into anything when he car
see no prospect Of pro ntable re-
turn? The Chicago platform, upon
which Mr.. Bryan stands, offers, as a
remedy for the hard times, the com
plete restoration Of silver to its an.
cient and constitutional rights at the
minis by which the circulating
medium will be largely increased,
and or supply of basic, potential,
standard money, which fixes the
price of land and commodities, will
be exactly doubled. This basic
money is now limited to gold, there
being no law to authorize the coin
age of standard silver dollars, ex.
cept the few that may be needed to
redeem outstanding silver cirtifi.
Gates. The hope Of mankind is in
the restoration of silver to it's time.
tried and time honored function as
standard money.
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Sale of a Valuable Farm.

PY virtue of authority vested in me,
- as Special Commissioner of the
Circuit Court Of Grenbrier county, and
under decree made by said Court at
the June term, 1896, in a cause in
equity therein depending, wherein n.
w. SlaYen was plaintiff and M. f.
Livesay and others we're defendants,
will sell, at public auction, to the high
est bidder, in front of j. H. StrattOn g
Hotel, in the town Lewisburg, w. Va,
on
Saturday, September 18Th, 1896,
all of that valuable grain and grazing
farm, about 81 miles northwest of Lew.
lsburg, where said NJ. K. Liyesay and
children now live and known as the
Alex. Welsh farm. This farm contains
29Si acres, is well watered, well fenced,
In good condition, every acre is rich,
produces grain or bluegrass either, has
good buildings and is one of the best
farms in Greenbrier county. 1t will
be sold as whole.
TERMS OF SALE:
Cash sufficient to pay the costs of suit
and expenses of sale, and, as to the resi-
que, IN three equal installments, due re.
spectively In six, twelve and twenty
-FOUR months after date, the purchaser
TO execute bonds, with approved per.
sonal security, for the deferred pay
ments. This laid is sold for purchase
money, and the title is perfect.
HENRY GILMER,
Spectacle omm issioner.
Bond with approved security has
In
in the above named cause, by the said
Special Commissioner.
JONATHAN NAYS,
Aug, l3-4w rIarL
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-09-03

A HOLLOW PRETENsE.--L Labor
does not appear to be all frightened
at the prospect of free coinage. 1t
contemplates the restoration of the
double standard with much com la-
cency, yea with positive satisfaction,
all the labor leaders being out
spoken friends of Mr.. Bryan. But
Gotham's great millionaires and
Wall Streets bankers, brokers,
money changers and gold grabbers
are frightened out of their wits and
trembling in dread apprehension for
fear of the awful fate that must come
upon the people who toll when silver
is restored to its constitutional status
in our monetary system. AS Mr..
Bryan said in his speech at Syracuse {:
Why. whenever one of these
Eastern financiers Is troubled with
sleeplessness the doctor does not ask
any questions, he just says:
Just stop worrying about the la
boring men and go to sleep ,"
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Notice to Creditors.

To the Creditors of C. w. LivesdV, de-
ceased:
IN pursuance Of a decree Of the Cir
Il cult Court Of the county of Green
brier, made in cause therein pending,
to subject the real estate or the said
c. w. Livesay to the payment OF his
debts, you are required to present your
G. w. Livesay, for adjudication to
Guy B. Mays, Commissioner, at his
office in the said county, on or before
the 9th day of October, 1895.
Witness: Jonathan Mays, Clerk Of
said Court, this 9th day of August,
1896.
JONATHAN MAYS,
Sept. sew. Clerk.
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DIED..

On Monday, Aug. 18th, 1896, at the
home Of his sister, in Peterstown. Mon
roe county, Mr.. FLETCHER SPANGLER,
aged about SO years.
On Tuesday, Aug. 18th, 1895, at the
home Of her parents, near Fallin g
Spri ng, this county, of dropsy, after
an illness Of about five weeks, IDA
JANE, daughter of Mr.. H. w. and Mrs.
Virginia S. Knight, aged IL years, 8
months and DAYS.
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A CARD.

APPRECIATE very much the pat.
L ronage of. my friends In the past
and hope that they will continue To fa.
vor me as heretofore, but now as stern.
hard-faced necessity is staring me in
the face daily, hope that nv patrons
VIII come forward and pay up ,hei,
oilis promptly, as we find IL impossible
TO sell groceries on indefinite time aud
continue in business. We MUST nav
our bills every thirty days.
Kindly, but truly,
Aug. 27-2mos.
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Notice to Creditors.

To the Creditors Of VIM. A. Kelly, de-
ceased
IN pursuance of a decree of the Circuit
i Court of Greenbrier county, made in
a cause therein pending, to subject the
real estate of the said VIM. A,
Kelly to the payment Of his debts, you
are hereby required to present your
claims against the estate Of the said
VIM. A. Kelly for adjudication to Guy
b. Mays, Commissioner, at his office
at the Courthouse, in the said county
on or before the 18th day of October
1896.
Witness Jonathan Mays, Clerk OF
the said Court, this 9th day of August
1896.
JONATHAN MAYS,
Srpt. 3-6w. Clerk.
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FERTILIZER FOR SALE.

Nv are Agents for ZELL'S FER.
" TlLIZERS. Price reduced To
$500 per ton. Parties desiring good
Fertilizers will call on or write to J.
M. ThomassOn, at Williamsburg, or G.
N. Simms, Ronceverte. We have nu.
merOus testimonials from the best
farmers in this section-all of whom
pronounce 1t first. class. Wheat taken
In exchange for fertilizer.
JOHNSON g. GWINN,
Anderson, w. Va.
Aug, l3-Gw
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-09-03

BRYAN SAID AT SYRACUSE, N.
=" What does the Republican
platform say? Does it say that the
gold standard il a good thing? No;
no platform ever written by a
national party i'm tho United States
ever said that the gold standard was
a good thing. Why don't they de-
fend it? Because they dare not de-
fend II among those who toll. Why
do they not excuse it? Because the
wall of distress would drown any
excuse which they could present.
1t has we'll been said that gold in its
last analysis is the sweat Of the poor
and the blood of the brave, and you
can well admire the distinction of
the gold standard advocates that
they do not invite a contest in an
open field.
q" And when they say that this ma.
ton shall submit to the evils Of the
gold standard until relief comes
from other nations, in our judgment
they do declare for a gold standard
permanently because we don 7 believe
relief will come from other lands
Some Of them say that If we will
just wait other nations will come tC
our relief. We have heard that
preached in every Presidential cam,
paign, and the very ones who have
been so loud in their declarations In
favor of international metallism
during national campaigns are the
ones who, after the elections, have
done all they could to prevent BIZ
metallism, Independent or inter.
national,
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illinois AssESsMENT.-Th
property assessments by local asses
sors in all the counties in Illinois
for 1896 have just been tabulated
for the use of the State board of
equalization. The aggregate assess
ment is 1871 POI ,463, a decrease of
S12,637, 500, as compared with the
assessment for 1885. The decrease
in Cook county, including tho city
Of Chicago, 81, 93O,19
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Maj. Mckinley gave his letter Of
acceptance to the press last week.
1t is a we'll written document and
was evidently prepared with great
care. He stands bravely by his
party in defense of the gold standard,
but on the money question the Ma
jor's utterances are nothing more
than the threadbare predictions of
evil with which we are all familiar.
We do not believe that the Majors
sympathies are with the gold stan
dard men, but they have made his
bed for him and he needs must oc-
cupy it, it matters not how uncom-
Portable.
He dwells at length upon the tariff,
and finds in high protection the pana-
cea for all our woes. The Major
seems utterly unmindful of the fact
that the people of the United.States
have more than once, of late years,
repudiated his views on this subject
by very decisive majorities, and just
now, with far more interesting and
important question to consider, he
will find 1t difficult to stimulate in
terest in the tariff which has been
worn to fragile and of which the
people have tired.
The tariff is not an issue in this
campaign, and it would be we'll for
our Republican friends to under
stand this distinctly. There is not
the remotest possibility of any ma
terial tariff legislation in Congress
next winter, and little or no proba-
bility of any such legislation in the
Congress to be elected this fall, which
will not convene, in regular session,
until December, 1897. We state the
following as our reasons for this
opinion:
l. The existing tariff-the Wilson,
German LAWS recognized as high
protective measure, affording the
manufacturer all the protection he
can reasonably ask. 1t yields a
larger revenue than that brought in
by the odious Mckinley law, which
the Major would restore, and, though
not exactly what the Democrats of
the country wanted, they are content
to give it fair trial and the people
rest from this endless tariff agita-
ton.
,NlI
and as it will be constituted in all
human probability for some years to
come, is dead set against further tar.
III legislation, unless solely for reve-
nue., or unless it be accompanied by
law providing for the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver. This was
clearly shown last winter when the
Democrats, Populists and free silver
Republicans in the Senate, constitut-
ing a large majority, were fully
united in the determination to pre-
vent further tariff legislation, the
free silver Republicans distinctly de-
claring that they would vote for no
legislation of the kind except on the
condition mentioned.
Senator Sherman understands the
situation, and frankly admits the i'm
possibility Of further tariff Iegisla-
tion at this time. He said in a pub
lished letter, dated from his home at
Mansfield, Ohio, on the 22nd ult.:
can administration can correct the
evils Of the past is by increasing the
revenue bya new tariff law, and this.
L fear, is not practicable" (italics
ours.) He might have said, "and
This Ik'lo'0 is inlpossi6le," for he had
seen it fully tried last winter.
1t is then mere waste of time to
discuss the tariff in this campaign.
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THE great dry goods firm of Hill.
ton, Hughes & Co., successors TO the
late merchant prince, A. T. Stewart,
made an assignment on the Goth ult.,
throwing 1000 men out Of employ
ment. The failure is due to the
stringency in the money market.
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ALLEGHAIY COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE
ALDERSON, w. VA.
w. 8. ANDERSON, A. VI,
Principal.
ANDERSON, w. VA.

Miss EMMA ANDERSON, Assistant.
Miss M. r. ALLISON, Music.
THE object of this School is to pre-.
Il pare Young men and young ladies
for the higher classes in Colleges and
Universities, and to give special advan.
tages to those preparing to teach in she
Public Schools. Two we'll organized
Literary Societies. Medals for excel
lence in Scholarship, debate, declama
tion and recitation.
TERMS OF TUITION
Primary Course, per month, s 2 SO.
intermediate, per month, 3 so.
Academic, per month, 4 90.
Instrumental Music, per month, 3 90.
For use of Instrument, so.
Board in School Boarding
house, 2l1 90.
Private Families, near by, s 90.
Fourth Session begins Sept. 2lst, 1896
For full particulars address
w. S. ANDERSON.
July 9-tf. Anderson, w. Va.
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New Advertisements.
Notice.

+ your assessment of Is per cent. is
Il not paid on before the Goth day of
September, 1895, it will be put in the
hands of an officer for collection
Please come forward promptly. We
owe money and must pay it. BY order
Of the Board.
GREENBRIER CANNING CO.,
Per ID. r. Thomas, Sec'y.
Sept 3-3w
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THE Democrats of the judicial
district, composed of Kanawha,
Putnam and Mason counties, have
nominated Hon. James A. Couch, OF
Kanawha, for judge.
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WHAT the people have to fear in
this contest is Mark Hanna's cam
paign fund. Eliminate that from
the contest and Mckinley would be
beaten to death in his own State, and
would hardly be heard of. except
among his colored friends, in any
State, south or west of Pennsylvania.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-09-03

A SILVER club of four hundred
members, railroad employees and
workingmen, has been organized al
Charlottesville, Va.
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STABILITY-" How are we going
to get it? BY having enough of
standard money to keep pace with
the demand Tor money and increase
of population. Gold does not give
you that money. We believe that
gold and silver will. In advocating
the restoration of the gold and silver
to the Constitution we are advocat-
ing system which will bring us
back to something near stability in
the value of the dollar. ! believe
that we are right. So confident are
we of the justice of our cause that
we are willing to submit this ques-
ton to the sovereigns Of this land I.
We do not intend to exclude from
the consideration of this question the
financier, but 10 place by the side of
the man who exchanges money the
man whose brain and hand produce
wealth, and say to the toiler, "You
are the equal Of the other man be-
fore the law. The ballot il yours as
we'll as his. Use that ballot for
your own use, and no man dares
complain. "-BRYAN.