Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-08-19

TIE tax rate in New York for the
year will he $40 on every 500 of
assessed valuation.
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GOVERNOR ATKI NSON has APP
pointed Miss l.. b. Bonny, Of Wheel
ing. notary public.
lT is proposed that Staunton shall
subscribe $4,000 to an electric road
from Monterey to Basic City.
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FuUE tanners died at Falls Creek,
Pa, last week, from anthrax, com
municatcd by hides imported from
China.
BINEFIELD last week voted in IA
vor Of license to sell liquor. The
vote stood III for and IS against
license.
LAST week at Camden. on Gaulcy,
Leo Rupert, lumber inspector, was
fatally shot in an encounter with a
couple OF dcsperadocs.
HIDES Of American cattle Slaugh-
tered abroad are dutiable at Is per
cent. ad ValOrcm on being returned
to the United States.
TIE number Of immigrants dur
ing the past fiscal year was the small.
est since 1882, the arrivals from all
countries aggregating only 80, S32.
Two thousand workmen engaged
in repairing ChicagO's public school
buildings struck because of the em-
ployment Of non-union men.
ACCORDING to Treasury Depart
mCnt records British vessels are car
rying over - per cent. of the inn
ports and exports of United States
merchandise.
JACOB GRIM, merchant of Clarks-
burg, died last week. He served in
the Union army during the war and
had been totally blind for several
years. He drew pension of S72
per year.
Two thousand Western buyers
were in Philadelphia last week-the
result of special efforts on the part
OF the business men in providing
special trains and offering other in
ducements.
FORrN-THREE streets in New York
have been torn up by contractors, os-
tensibly to be rcpaved, but really, it
is said, to furnish work for laborers
whose votes are to be controlled at
the election this fall.
THE special Congressional election
TO elect successor to Judge Holman,
in the Fourth district of Indiana,
was held on Tuesday, the 10th inst.
Returns give Griffith, Democrat, a
majority Of l, 1852 over Lee, Republi-
can. Holman's majority last year
was S25
TIE latest in badge is called the
Mckinley badge, and when asked if
you have seen one, if your reply is
IN the negative, the party wearing
the so-called badge displays an empty
pocket-bo0k. The most remarkable
thing about the affair is the immense
numbers that are being worn-Point
Pleasant Register.
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WHY have not the acts of the late
Legislature been published? Are
our Republican friends ashamed to
let the people see what they did last
winter: 1t has been nearly six
months since the Legislature adj
Journed and still the publication of
the acts are delayed. How can the
people obey the law unless they know
what it is?
THE President has offered the Rus
sian mission to Ethan Allen Hitch
COCK, of st. Louis, who has accepted
1t, and the appointment will be
made at once. He succeeds Clifton
IL. Breckenridge, of Arkansas. Mr..
Hitchcock is grcat-grandson of Col.
Ethan Allen, who captured Fort Ii
conderoga in the name of the Great
Jehovah and the Continental Con.
gress."
ALL records for gold deposited at
the San Francisco mint in one day
were broken by the receipt of SO, 49,
600 on Tuesday, the Bird inst. or
this amount 5000 was the prop.
erty of the Alaska Commercial Com
pany, and the remainder was depos.
tied by various miners and smelling
companies. 1t is said that this far
exceeds any other single days de-
posts at any one mint.
L. :. SENATOR j. Il. GEORGE died
at Mississippi City on the l4th inst,
aged about II years. He was ma
tive Of Georgia, but moved to Mis-.
sissippi when eight years old, served
in the Mexican war in the regiment
commanded by Col. Jefferson Davis
went into the late war and rose to
rank of Colonel was Chief Justice
on the Supreme Court of Mississippi;