Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-04-02
Anderson Letter.

Anderson Letter.
Perhaps your readers will be inter
ested in the following condensed report
Of a conversation
Mr.. Sly.-Have you seen, Mr.. Hav
seed, that amendment proposed in Con
gress to the law regulating weights ant
measures
Mr.. Hayseed.-N What's it goine
todop
Mr.. Sit proposes, in the case OF
measures, to allow merchant, or Other
person using them, to keep two yard
sticks ; one is to be of fixed length. as
the present yardstick, the other is adj
justible to different lengths-one enc
being made to slide in and out of tn,
other, so that it can be made longer OF
shorter than the fixed yardstick. So
too, the amendment allows for the pres.
ent fixed bushel, but it, also, allows for
one to work in telescope fashion-one
that you can pull out to more than a
bushel, or pushed in TO bushel or to
less than a bushel. AS to the weight.
the present pound is retained, but YOU
may have another into which number
Of smaller weights may be screwed or
unscrewed. All in 1T is pound, and
it varios according to the number in or
out. Now, no matter how much the
yardstick may be pulled out or pushed
in, it is always to be yard let the
telescope bushel be in any shape it will,
it is always to be bushel and no mat
ter how many Of the little weights may
be in or out of the large one, it must al
ways be a pound.
Mr.. H.-Why, what will them fool
people in Congress be doing next? Who
can do any business with such weights
and measures as themp
Mr.. S.-Those people in Congress.
Mr.. Hayseed, are watching what the
people outside want, and are irving to
give it to them. They suppose the out
siders want those weights and measures,
because they want two dollars, one of
which may be worth as much, or more,
or great deal less than the other dol
lar and because they are abusing Mr..
Cleveland for wanting a single, fixed
standard to which all others are to he
reduced.
Mr.. H.-Oh, that 'mendment is all
CANNON! You just wanted to show
up the money business and do see it
a good deal better. But Cleveland wants
to kill silver money?
Mr.. S.-Mr. Cleveland knows that
silver is very valuable metal in itself
that because of usage by great many
nations as money it's intrinsic value is
increased that it stands the effects of
water without any loss, and of fire with
out great loss to it's possessor that it
can be scattered amongst the people
and not gathered up by spectators as
paper money can be, and hence he is not
the enemy Of silver but it's friend. as
he long ago wrote to Southern stat es-
man. He only wants single, fixed
standard for money, to which all moneys
are to be reduced just as you want a
fixed yardstick, to which all measures
of length are to be reduced.
Mr.. H.-Well, if that is all, you NAV
rub my hide off with a wisp of running
briers if I don't stick to old Grover!
A friend collected at one of our
county banks S175 in paper. Curious
to see what kinds of notes were IN cir
culation and in what proportion, we
looked over them. They stood:
Silver Certificates SIO5 or 60 per cent.
National Bank Notes 80 or "a per cent.
GreenoacKs 10 or 6 per cent.
The small percentage of greenbacks
led us to suppose they were kept close
to Cleveland's treasury, and that Mr..
Cleveland 3 wish to retire them and have
silver ISSUED to take their place. was
wise and prudent. The percentage of
silver certificates looks if the white
metal was becoming quite abundant.
and the administration was no enemy
to it.
Last fall the Geodetic Surveyors de-
termined to have Greenbrier river
guaged at this point, and appointed w.
j. Hancock observer. That gentleman
furnishes me the following extremes
for the months Of January, February
and March January-lowest on 10th.
l.70 feet; highest, 25th. 4.O5 feet. Feb
ruary-lowest, 2sth, 2.22 feet; highest,
4th, $40 feet. March-lowest, 9th, 9. SO
feet {; highest, 3Oth, HOO feet.
We learn that Prof. Browns school
is doing well-the teachers giving sat
isfaction and the scholars making CON-
mendable progress.
The stable of Johnson q Gwinn was
burned on last Friday night, considera-
bly, endangering surrounding buildings.
The self-sacrificing efforts of the citi
zens prevented further loss. No insur-
ance.
The Oldest inhabitant near us is,
doubtless, Mrs. Nancy Ayers, who lives
on Griffith's creek. She was born on
May Sth, 1907. Her health and appe.
title are good, and she does much house
hold work.
Credible reports say q stone rolled
down the mountain at or near Echo on
last Sabbath, breaking through house
in which colored family lived, killing
three children and wounding a fourth.
Mr.. Brooks, father-in-law of Michael
Hutchinson, of Lick Creek, Summers
county, is very sick at the home of the
latter. He is very estimable citizen
and near ninety years Of age.
Our good behavior ought to be put on
| record. There have been no arrests dur