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Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-10-15
A Prophecy and Its FulfIlmcnt.

A Prophecy and Its Fulfillmcnt.
However great the natural re-
sources Of a country may be, how
ever genial it's climate, fertile its
soil, ingenious, enterprising and in
dustrious its inhabitants, or free its
institutions, if the volume of money
is shrinking and prices are falling,
its merchants will be overwhelmed
with bankruptcy, its industries will
be paralyzcd and restitution and dis.
tress will Report u. S.
&irer Commission, 1876, p. Sc.
How literally has this prophecy
been fulfilled as seen in the condi,
tion of the country to-day!
Prices, agricultural and manufac.
tured, have fallen at least 80 per
cent. and are still going down.
Merchants are bankrupt, industry
is paralyzed and the tramp is abroad
in the land.
Destitution and distress prevail
aud, in the midst Of abundance
many are half-fed and half-clothed.
The people are burdened with
debt, the aggregate of which is con
stautly increasing, and, with an ever
diminishing supply of money, the
effort to get out of debt is hopeless
The volume Of money is made
quate to the demands of business
and for three years, as the Treasury
reports show, even this limited sup
ply is steadily diminishing.
Labor is unemployed. One-hal
of it is idle, the other half working
on One-third or one-half time.
What money we have is boarded
and we can not expect it to come
from its hiding places and seek in
vestment on declining market.
No business prospers but the trade
Of the money grabber.
These are some Of the effects o
that blessed gold standard which tn,
Republican party says must be main
tanned.
INTRINSIC VALUE. - Among tn,
many fallacies in the arguments O
the gold-bugs, often exploded, is tn,
claim that gold hos m intrinsic
value. A moment thought will
show that there is uCithar sense mol
reason in this argument There is
no such thing as intrinsic udl,le in
gold, silver, or anything else.-
Qualities are intrinsic, but Udlue is {
mere relation between eXchangeablt
commodities, and, in the very ma
ture of things, never can be invaria
bic. Value is mere conception O.
the mind-an estimate placed upor
an article by those able or willing t.
buy it, and this estimate varies ac
cording to the intensity of the de
sire for the article or the ability {,
buy it. Water, when a man is dy
ing of thirst, may sell at fabulous
SUN. Is this its intrinsic value p
If so, what is the intrinsic value o
the water in the Greenbrier river
If gold has intrinsic value as none,
ii ought to be invariable, but W,
know that it is not and that we hav,
never had, and never will have, al
absolutely invariahIe or stable stand
ard, so that the talk of an ir.variahl,
dollar-a dollar as stable as the yard
stick or the half-bushel measure-i
illogical and senseless. Value is al
ideal relation, and to say that golt
or any other metal has an intrinsic
value as money is, i'm the nature O
the case, absurd. This intrinsic
value theory of the gold bugs, j
well in keeping with many other o
their arguments having no bette
foundation in truth.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-10-15
Notice to Lien Holders.

To all persons holding liens by judg-
ment or otherwise on the real es-
tate, or any part thereof, of w.
II. Overholt:
IN pursuance Of decree of the Cir
Il cult Court of Greenbrier county,
made in cause therein pending, to sub
ject the real estate of the said w. H..
Oyerholt to the satisfaction of the liens
thereon, you are hereby required to pre-.
sent all claims held by you, and each of
you, against the said w. II. Oyerholt
which are liens on his real estate, or any
part of 1t, for adjudication to me, at
my office, in the town of Lewlsburg,
w. Va, on or before the 3Oth day of
October, 1896.
Given under my hand, this 9th day
of October, 1896.
GUY b. MAYS,
Oct. saw. Commissioners.
Office of Com r Guy B. Mdus, !
Letcisburg, W. Va, Oct. 5th, 1896.
L. J. Williams and j. G.. Patterson.
Trustees,
w. II. Overholt ct al.
4 LII persons interested in the above
"a named cause, now pending in the
Circuit Court of Greenbrier county
West Va will take notice that I have
fixed on Friday, October 30th, 1896, as
the time, and my Office at the Court
house, in Lewisburg, as the place, tt
report as required by an order made b,
the Judge of the Circuit Court OF
Greenbrier county, in vacation, on thu
3rd day of October, 1896.
At which time and place you can at
tend, if you elect so to do.
Given under my hand, this 9Th day OF
October, 1896.
GUY B. MAYS,
Oct. saw. Commissioner.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-10-15

HARRISON IN 1S90.-Mr. Bryan
has been reading to the people with
fine effect the following extract from
the annual message sent by Presi-
dent Harrison to Congress in De-
cember, 1890:
The general tariff act has only
partially gone into operation, some
of its important provisions being
limited to take effect at dates yet in
the future. The general provisions
of the law have been i'm force less
than 60 days. It's permanent effect
upon trade and prices still largely
stand in conjecture. 1t is curious
to note that the advance in the prices
of articles wholly unaffec ted by the
tariff act was by many hastily as
crihed to that act. Notice was not
taken of the fact that the general
tendency of the markets was upward
from influences wholly apart from
the recent tariff legislation. The en-
largement of our currency by the
silver bill undoubtedly gave an up
ward tendency to trade and had a
marked effect on prices; but this
natural and desired effect Of the sill
yer Legislation was by many errono-
ously attributed to the tariff act"
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-10-15

OVER.PRoDUCTIoN VS.. UNDER
CONSUMPTION. - There are thou
sands of men, women and children
in this country to-day, some reports
say more than million, who are out
of employment and unable to obtain
the necessaries of life. OF course
there are millions of poor who are in
this condition, but the particular
million represents those thrown out
of employment within the past year
or so by hard times resulting from a
tight money market. Think you
the farmers of Kansas would be pre-
pairing to burn corn this winter for
fuel if these poor people had the
means to eat three meals q day in
stead of but one meal in two days or
three? Would the coal miners be
idle and suffering if the Kansas
farmers were able to sell their corn
and buy fuel from the miners? II
cannot be said that there is over.
production so long as the country is
full of unfed and unclothed and I'm.
warmed people sufficient in number
to consume the country's products if
they had but the opportunity to la
Dor and purchase what they need.
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BETTE FOSTER,
MARY GROW,
WIN. GROW.
burg, w. Va, Oct. Is, 1896.

All parties knowing themselves to he
indebted to the firm Of Foster & Grow
will come forward and settle up and
save themselves from any further trou-
Die; VIM. GROW.
Oct. l6-SW,
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-10-15

WHERE THE WRONG WAS DONE.
When by the act of 1878 the silver
dollar was surreptitiously and wrong
fully, without the knowledge of
Congress or of President Grant and
without the consent of the American
people, struck from the list of Ameri-
can coins as standard money,
gold was made the sole standard of
value. BY this foul act, fitly charac.
toriZ5d as the crime of 1873" the
people were deprived Of the use of
One-half of their metallic money as
a standard of values, the debtor was
deprived Of the option he had al
ways enjoyed Of discharging his debt
in either coin, and the whole burden
Of sustaining our entire volume of
paper money cast upon gold alone.
This led to an enormous apprecia-
ton of gold, and to corresponding
depreciation of silver and of all
commodities valued in the yellow
metal.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-10-15

JOHN NJ. PALMER is six times a
boiler. ii appears. His first bolt, it
is stated, was from the Democratic
party; his second from the Illinois
Republican caucus which nominated
Lincoln for United States Senator :;
his third from the army of the
United States, in front of Atlanta,
from pique at Tecumseh Sherman !;
his fourth from the Republican nomi-
ton of Grant in 1872, and his fifth
from the Populist platform he in
dorsed at Springfield In 1891
Verify, he is the right sort of candi-
date for boilers, but Democrats
worthy of the name they hear should
and will have none of him.-Er.
change.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-10-15

FUSION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS fu-
sion of the Democrats and Populists
OF this State on the electoral ticket
is now an accomplished fact, and
there will he the same electors on
both tickets. This was accomplished
by the Executive Committees of the
two parties at Parkersburg last week g,
the Democrats agreeing to withdraw
their two electors IT largest. Clair
and Woods--amd 10 sun,titute the
Pnpulist electOrS--t. +. Houston, of
Monroe county, ana Jas. W. Bassell -
in tneIr places. 1t is believed that
this action Of the Committees will
insure the State to Bryan and Sew
all beyond question.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-10-15

ENGLAND's INTEREST IN THE
GOLD STANDARD. - Senator Hoar.
OF Massachusetts, has Just returned
from a protracted visit to England,
and has taken the stump for the
goldites. But the Senator does not
give them much consolation, and his
observations, as he relates them,
make for free coinage. In one of
his speeches he confessed to the fol-
lowing: Leaders of the opposi-
ton to bimetallsm in England, Sir
VIM. Harcourt especially, and Mr..
Gladstone, who, although out of Of
flee, is still great political force,
take the brutal view (Americans
may well note these words brutal
viewO that so long as other countries
owe England an Indebtedness esti-
mated by some persons as high as
$4,000, 100000 everything that in
creases the value of the coin in
which the debt is to be paid is a
clear gain to her."
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-10-15

ADVOCATES of free silver seek to
make it appear that the price of sill
yer regulates the prices of other
observation-disclosures
No intelligent advocate of free
coinage has ever made such an argu-
ment. Prices arc regulated by gold
the present standard of value, rather
than by silver. The point made by
the silver men is this. that " hist
gold has constantly fnctuated in
value and has proven to be the most
unstable of standards, the market or
commercial price of silver bullion
has gone on all tours with the price
of commodities, and silver, at Its
market price, will buy as much of
commodities now as it ever would.
showing that it is gold which, as
compared with the price of silver or
with the price of any commodity,
has gone up in price rather than that
silver has come down.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-10-15

SENATORIAL TICKET.
state Scnatc-sth District,
T.. !. HOLT, Of POCahOntas.
JUDICIAL TICKET.
For Circuit Judgc-lOth District,
n. n. CAMPBELL, OF Monroe.
COUNTY TICKET.
For House Of Delegates.
WM. IL. MCCLUNG,
b. +. HARLOW.
For sheriff.
:. II. NICKEL.
For Prosecuting Attorney.
JOHN A. PRESTON.
For Clerk Circuit Court,
JONATHAN MAYS.
For Clerk County Court,
CHAS. Is. BUSTER.
For County Commissioner.
JOHN ID. ARBUCKLE.
For Asscssor-Uppcr District,
JOHN w. LEGG.
For AsScssor-Lower District,
EVERETT h. MILLER.
For County Surveyor,
J. AUSTIN BURR.
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SENATORIAL TICKET.

For Judge supreme Court OF Appeals.
JOHN II. HOLT. OF CabClI.
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NOTICE OF PARTNERSHIP
DISSOLUTION.

NJ Office is hereby given that the
~ partnership in the boot and shoe
and notion business heretofore con =.
Quoted In the town of Lewisburg, w.
Va, under the firm name of Foster q
Grow has been this day dissolved by
mutual consent.
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For Attorney General,
THOMAS =. RILEY, Of OHIO,
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JUDICIAL TICKET.

State Scnatc-Sth District,
T.. !. HOLT, Of POCahOntas.
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Office of Com r Guy B. Mavs, /
Le,cisburg, W. Va, Oct. 5tI, 1896.
L. j. Williams and J. G. Patterson,
Trustees,
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For state Superintendent Free schools,
VIRGIL A. LEWIS, Of Mason.
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Presidential Electors
At Large AMES W. BASSEIL.u of Lewis.
HUB RT T. HOUSTON. Of Monroe.
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For Circuit JudRC-lOth District,
A. n. CAMPBELL, OF Monroe.
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District Electors
First,--M. G.. SPERRN. Of Harrison.
Second ID. Il. LUCAS 81 Jefferson.
Third. DAVID T.. JOHNSTON, Of Mercer.
Fourth-D. T. WILKINSON, of Lincoln.
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For iCc-Presidcmt,
ARTHUR SEwALL. OF Maine.
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DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET.

For President,
WIN. J. BRYAN, Of Nebraska.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-08-28
EsIaTsse's OLD Home.
arrested.

West Brownville, Pa, Aug. 24.-The
old house in which James G. Blaine
was born and spent his boyhood has
been torn down. 1t fell under the doom
of destruction because for many years
it had been going to ruin.
Joseph E. Adams, a schoolmate Of
Mr.. Blaine, hoped to preserve the states
mans old home, and would have done
so but for illness which had made him
an invalid, thus defeating his cherished
plan.
While the building was in course of
destruction the villagers possessed
themselves of momentoes in the shape
of its wood, nails and pieces of stone.
Many of the old nails have been con-
verified into rings, which adorn the
fingers of residents
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-08-28
KEesfrich Cau@ht,

Pocatello, Ida, Aug. 24.-Sheriff Oil
yer, of Mountain Home, passed through
the city early this morning, having in
charge ]. ID. Helfrich, the missing as.
SCISSOR and collector from Elmore
county. Helfrich appropriated $4,000
of the county funds last February and
left the county, and all efforts to locate
him proved futile until three weeks ago,
when Sheriff Oliver was notified by
telegraph that man answering the
description was then in Flagstaff Ariz.,
under the name of ]. D. Rikewinie.
The sheriff started for Arizona, and
upon his arrival found Helfrich, alias
Rikewinie, to be the right man, and
after securing the necessary requisition
papers left for Idaho.
Helfrich was scarcely recognized by
his friends upon reaching Mountain
Home today, and his appearance would
indicate that he he had suffered much
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-08-28

New York, Aug. IA special from
Ottawa, Ont, says: Major General
Cameron, commandant of the ROYAL
Military college at Kingston, has resign.
ed. Many complaints have been made
of the manner in which the affairs of
the college have been conducted and
General Cameron who is a son-in-law
of Sir Charles Upper, has frequently
been the subject of severe criticism in
the dominion parliament. 1t has always
been understood that change of gov
ernment in Canada would mean the
generals resignation.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-08-28
STAGE Held I'm.

Guthrie, o. T Aug. a4.-The stage
coach between Grand and Arapaho, in
Day county, was held up by four high
weymen early this morning, and the
four occupants were ordered to stand
and deliver.
Mrs. Amy Childs, of Philadelphia, re-
fused to dismount and was shot dead.
The highwaymen were undoubtedly
Bill Doolan and his three pals. Doolan
escaped from the United States Jail in
this city six weeks ago by saving
through the bars and overpowering the
guards.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-08-28
Position of CleveIand's Cabinet

Washington, Aug. Alt is now con-
coded that President Cleveland and all
members of his cabinet (sincc Secretary
Smith has resig ned) will support the
nominees of the convention of gold
money men to be held at Indianapolis
September ?.
Mr.. Carlisle's friends says the Ken
tuckian knows that his candidacy for
president on the gold ticket would be Ut
terly hopeless, and would only make
him ridiculous. Therefore, he positive
ly declines to be considered candidate,
and has so wristen to friends in Indian
apolis-
The Evening Star claims to have in
formation that President Cleveland
will publicly declare himself about the
time the Indianapolis convention meets,
and from that time forward the infu-
ence of the administration and all of
its available machinery, will be direct
ed to the support of the gold conven-
ton ticket. 1t is further averred that
neither Mr.. Cleveland nor any member
of his cabinet will recognize the Chi
cago convention as representing the
democratic party. It is said that mem
bers of the cabinet will take the stump
in behalf of the third party nominees.
The general opinion here is that an
Ohio or Indiana man will be named at
indianapolis.
Mr.. Bryan does not stand we'll with
he president, who regards him as a sell
lsh. narrow and insincere politician.
Mr.. Cleveland admires General Pal
ner and without doubt favors him for
he nomination. The general belief in
Washington is that Palmer will be nom
mated
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-08-28
SMITHS SUCCESS OR.
No Time is Lost In Naming the New
Secretary.


Washington, Aug. 24,-David R.
Francis has been named as the successor
of Secretary Hoke Smith. He will take
his Office September I.
ST. Louis, A.g. 24-David Rowland
Francis, the successor of Hon. Hoke
Smith. as secretary of the interior, was
born of Scotch-Irish parents in Rich
mond, KY, October l, 1850. Supple
menting his common school education
in Kentucky, he graduated from Wash
ington university in this city in 1880,
with the degree of bachelor Of arts.
After three years apprenticeship in
commercial life, he organized the D. R.
Francis & Brothers Commission Co,
which is still one of the leading firms
operating at the Merchants exchange.
In 1883 he was elected vice-president of
the exchange and then chosen presi-
dent. He has been life long demo-
crat, and in 1884 was a delegate to the
convention that nominated Mr.. CIeve-
land for president The following year
he was elected mayor of st. Louis by
1,4oo majority, overcoming former
republican majority of 1900. Long
needed municipal reform fourished un.
der his administration.
IN 1888 he was elected governor of
Missouri by very large majority, and
his wise conduct of the office is still
criterion. Prior to the Chicago conven-
ton of this year he was very prominent
in the ranks of the sound money dem
ocrats and took leading part in the
effort to beat back the rising tide of sill
yer agitation. In 1886 Mr.. Francis was
welded to Miss Jenny Perry, of St.
Louis, daughter of John D. Perry, pres
dent of the Laclede National bank.
Six boys were born of this union
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-08-28

Michael and John c. Cudahy. the
weii-known millionaire packers OF Chi
cago, have bought the entire plant of
the Northern Indiana Oil company in
Adams and Wells counties, Indiana. and
intend building a pipe line from the
wells into Chicago. 1t is said thev have
already ordered 40 miles of six-inch
pipe. 1t is understood the investment
outside of the purchase price of the
wells involves about S1.5oo,ooo.
Burt Barrett has arrived in Beividara
Ill, from Oakland, Cal, on his bicvcle
making the trip of 2,soo miles in thirty.
hve days Barratt says he averaged
SIXTY miles day on the start. and after
leaving Omaha made an AVERAGE of sav.
enty-five miles daily. Much of the dis
tance through California, Nevada and
Otah was made walking, as the roads
would not permit the riding of a wheel
me railroad track was used a great deal
Of the time
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-08-28
KiIled His sister.

Detroit, Aug. 23.-Peter Fisher, IL
years old, living at 4Io East Eighteenth
street, shortly before O'Clock this even
ing, shot and killed his sister Elizabeth,
aged 10. He was using Flobert rifle
in the kitchen and said the shooting was
accidental. The ball entered the right
side of the girls neck and took an up
ward course to the brain. The boy was
arrested.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-08-28
Fatal Accident

Elgin, ILL.,, Aug. 24.-Miss Bernice
Ssringer was accidentally shot and
fatally injured last evening attn O'Clock
Mark Aldrich, an employee of the main
once OF the watch factory. was spend
ing the evening with her and had a re-
yolver in his pocket. While she was
examining the weapon it was accident
ally discharged, the bullet striking her
in the breast
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-08-28
shot Wis Divorced wife.

Los Angeles, Cal. Aug. 24.-At San
Pedro this morning Robert c. Johnson,
a ships cook, shot and killed Mrs H. S.
Lane, his divorced wife, whom he has
bounded since she left him, and then
killed himself Mrs. Lane was remar-
ried only three months ago
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-08-28
Tin Strike Ended

Elwood, Ind, Aug. 24.-The tin plate
strike was ended at midnight tonight by
the company signing the scale. The
strikers are beside themselves with ioy
and what might have been a night of
bloodshed and riot was changed into
one of general rejoicing.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-08-28
Maine Republicans.

Old Orchard, Maine, Aug. IS The
republicans of Maine, according to Gus
tom held a grand rally here this after
noon at which were gathered thousands
from all over the state as well as other
parts of New England. Among the
speakers were Hon. Thomas B. Reed
and Hon. Lee Fairchild.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-08-28

"When are you going to publish that
criticism on my last novelr' asked an
author of the editor of the Daily Hooter.
ITO tell the trnth havn't read it YETI
"But you told me you would lose no
time in reading II"
"Well, that's just what I've done. -
Texas Sitter
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-08-28
Hot Enough Now.

Poet-'Have you read my poem be-
ginning; Behind the cloud the sun is
shining?"
PersPiring Friend - Hush! Keep
quiet! Let the sun keep on shining be.
hind the cloud It's hot enough as it is.n
Texas Sitter.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-08-28

noon, accompanied by II. n. Kohlsatt,
editor of the Chicago Times-Herald. It
is understood the two candidates are
considering their letters of acceptance.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-08-28
Hobart Calls ON Mckinley,

Canton, o., Aug. as-Garrett A. Ho-
BART the republican nominee for vice
president, arrived at Canton this fore