Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-10-21

port of the Third Assistant Post
master General, John \. Merritt,
for the fiscal year just closed, as
been made public. The following
is an abstract:
The postal revenue for the year
and the total actual expenditures
were Ordinary postal revenue, SSH
Cos, PSI receipts from money order
business, S967, Isl /; revenue from all
sources, $50 go, 1872. Actual amount
of the expenditures for the postal
service for the year ending June 30.
1897, which includes all made ON
account of year up 10 three months
after its close, SO, 7SI ,27o /; uNprudi.
lures on account of previous wears,
500, 9jl total, sol, O77,2l2; excess
Of expenditures over receipts, SILL
. IlL119. The outstanding liabilities
at close of the years business and
cost of transporting mails over sui.
sidized Pacific railroads, the latter
| i'Sh' amounting w |l,''','''' hl'
not included in this financial state.
mcnt. The total efficiency for 1896
was s., 127, ONS; total deficiency for
1897, Sll,lll.779.
THE State Wool Growers A,-ocia-
! ton and horticultural Societies con-
vcned in the new opera house at Mar
tinsburg on Tuesday of last week -
Berkeley county fruit and vegetables
of every variety were displayed, and
! the meeting opened with a large at
| tendance. Papers We're read by II.
| {. BuCkhart on the adaptahility of
our State to the cultivation of fruits
and the better mode Of developing
same; Alexandria Clohan, on choice
varieties of peaches DIR. a. ID. Hop
kins, on San Jose scale and the seven.
teen year locust and on entomology
aud its relation to horticulture; G..
L. Rothwcll, on the possibilities OF
cold storage; f.. w. Lupton, ON grape
culture, and ID. Border on the COM
ing apple. An interesting discussion
followed the reading of each paper.
The next meeting of these societies
will be held in Grcenbricr some time
| next year.
MIR. GORMAN.-Cnited States Sena-
tor German has issued an open letter
to Edwin +. Abel, publisher Of the
Baltimore SIOi, in which he offers to
relinquish the leadership of the De.
mocracy in Maryland, provided
Abel will accept it and support the
Democratic ticket in the State and
legislative campaign. He also init
mates that he will forego his ambi-
ton to succeed himself i'm the United
States Senate it ii can be shown that
such step is necessary to Democratic
success.
The letter, which is very long
one, reviews the course of the .St0I
in its opposition to German because
Of his views upon the civil service.
tarln ana ballot reform measures
TO all the charges made against him
upon this score, German pleads
guilty, but quotes tn" SIN as having
aCmltted that such questions were
largely matters of opinion, and as
sertS that every man is free to think
as he pleases regarding them. He
defends his course in regard to all
these questions.
CHICAGO PLATFORM.- Col. John
i. McGraw, OF Grafton, in response
TO telegram from the New York
H'rdid asking his opinion Of ex-Gov.
BoleS' statement that "the Chicago
platform has had its day in court be-
fore the tribunal of last resort" saws
I" do not concur in the opinion cx-
pressed by Gov. Boies, of Iowa, that
'the Chicago platform has had lis
final day in court / don't believe
the American people will, without an
other and supreme effort, surrcn-
der the government of the constitu-
ton to the arbitrary action of the
courts; or permit it to be diverted
from a government by separate and
coordinate branches into a "a govern
ment by Injunction The Chicago
platform should survive if il DOS.
sessed no other merit than its dccla-
ration on this subject"
TIE Chicago papers are calling on
congress for harbor improvements
Tor the Lake City. They point to
the fact that the size of the vessels
coming into the Chicago river j.
rapidly increasing and deeper water
Is demanded. They also claim that
the Chicago custom house collects
more tariff taxes than baltimore or
New Orleans, and that the port is
greater than any on the spaboard OK.
cept Boston, New York and Phila.
dclphia.
TIE Democrats Of Bath. Ale
Ehany and Highland counties last
week again nominated Hon. 4. f..
W ithrow for the Virginia House of
Delegates. The Republicans have
nominated j. w. Bear against him.
j. IL. Mccormick has been nominated
IN that district for the State Senate
by the lSppublicnns