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

OUGIIT TO BE PRIME WUISKEY.-
SOuir Missouri men are engaged in
the rather unusual occupation Of
mining for whiskcy, but they have
good reasons for thinking their la
Dor will bC rewarded in q very salts
factory manner. Fifty years or so
ago the steamboat Arabia, loaded
with whIskcy, went down in the
Missouri river. The river has since
changed its course, and the wreck of
th" craft lies mile away from WA
ter. The prOspectors have located
the wreck and are digging for the
whiSkcy, which, having aged for
half u century, ought to be in prime
condition and sell for good price.
rIE total stock of gold and silver
IT. the limited States ON July |, 1897,
a. estimated toy Director Preston OF
the mint in his annual report, WAS
II. $50, $50, Bob, as follows: Gold,
SG9G, 27U,5l2 silver, $63l, 5o",7Nl.
The total metallic stock and uncOv-
cred paper of the world, ne says,
COMPLIED from the latest reports, il
estimated to have been January !,
lN9G Gold, : 80, 600, 900; full legal
tender silver, S3,Glj, 500, 900; linn
tied tender silver, SGj2, 800, 900; total
metallic stock, SN,G27, SOC, 900; I'M
covered paper, $3.50, 1000 To-
tai, SlI. l97, 100, 900.
RELIABLE statistics show that
there were produced in this country
last year 5000, 600 long tons OF iron,
production was SS7,6SS, 800, or less
than $40 II ton. OF iron ore we pro.
duccd 1000, 900 long tons, valued
at S32, SOC, 600, or less than 81 per
ton. Where the necessity for high
duty ON foreign iron when we can
produce ii at this low price? The
iron industry, nj any rate, it is not
in much danger from foreign COM
potion in the home market.
THE retirement Of Justice Stephen
J. Field from the Supreme Court of
the United States is announced. He
has been on the bench of this Court
'h'i'N ouh Soi0' II II ShIb llh' Nht
President will appoint Attorney Gen
cral McKenna to succeed him.
GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN, the multi
millionaire manufacturer of cars
and President Of the Pullman Car
Company, died suddenly at Chicago
on the 10th, Of heart disease. Mrs
Pullman was in New York at the
time.
TIE Democrats won sweeping vic
tories in indianapolis, Chattanooga
and Nashville last week. The two
first mentioned cities went Republi-
can by large majOritics last fall.
Dir. JEROME HALL RAYMOND was
formally inauguratCd as President Of
the State University at Mongantown
last Thursday. Many excellent
speeches we're delivered during the
exercises.
JOHN +. MALONEN, Of Baltimore,
who has returned from Dawson City,
Alaska, says that on Alexander Nc
DOnald'S claim, near Dawson, one
man shovclcd in $50, 900 Of gold in
about twelve hours.
DIR. john a. MYERS, formerly
director OF the West Virginia Agri-
cultural Experiment Station, Is now
II member OF one of the largest land
and stock corporations in New York
City.
The Union Pacific Railroad will
be sold on November lst unless the
Government is informed that an
other bid is assured from response
bic parties, in which event a post
pOnement would be asked.
ADMIRAL JOHN l.. WORDEN, re.
tired, died in Washington Monday.
He commanded the Monitor in the
famous light with the Confederate
ram Merrimac in Hampton Roads.
THE tiftieth birthday of Rev. Sam
Jones was observed at his home, Car.
tersville, Ga, Saturday, with din
ner party, at which there were fifty
guests.
y MOVEMENT has been inaugu-
rated looking to the erection at the
University of Virginia Of a memo
rial To the alumni and students who
lost their lives in the Confederate
cause.
TIE average output of coal from
the New river district for the past
summer has been over six hundred
carloads per day, not including coke
shipments.
THE President has appointed Hon.
John a. kassOn, Of Iowa, special
commissioner to negotiate reciproc-
:ty arrangements under the Dingley
tariff act.
JOSEPH COSTELLO, youth of
nineteen, committed suicide at West
Union, this State, Monday, because