Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-10-28
Editorial COrrospOndonOo.
CrnclNNLrI, octobel 26. le6l

CINCINNATI, Oclobet 20, 1904
The revenues OF this city must DO immense. !
WAS not able to ascertain what were her receipts
from the Water Works. but, judging from their ca
pacily and cost, IN connection with tie demand
for water for personal and the various demands
Of heavy productive manufactures OF Every kind
imssinable. The WOler Works reservoir iS elV-
yotsd on the side Of the hill OF the river in the up
per part OF ihe'lown, and contains about double
the utmost amount Of wafer that can be needed,
even by this active city. II is walled in and sup.
ported by the most substantial masonry ever saw,
YeIy high OF The river side, and some l6 OF 10 on
ON the side next the hill. Into this the water is
forced by thee Of the largest engines ever saw
those OF our Water Works bearing about the same
proportion to them in size and power, thata very
small pistol does 10 on eighteen FOUNDER. Two
OF these have been but recently put in ut cost Of
100000, or $4,000 each they being the product
OF Cincinnati aTliLans shall moi attempts fur
Their description Of them, os 1t would occupy too
much space 10 do them Justice. They ATE, how
ever, by laT the most elegant specimens Of "steOm
shooteTS' have ever seen.
The city is about erecting a woIkhOuSe, &C., al
uneslmaied cost Of $4,000, aud Is engaged in the
erection Of Court House, which will cost be-
tween 100000 and 81 900 ,OOn. For this her ct'
liens will have 10 pay principally. Her police
expenses are very small lot such city, and, as is
loO often the case, her police force is very inefIi.
Cient. Every night some difficulty is chEoniced,
In which the police not unfrequenly participate,
a6 iRitiO, and In which Judge Finn participates in
the end. His office has been abolished, in order,
Ia part, we doubt not, 10 abolish him, he having
no intention TO resign, and being not likely to die
MI. jefferson said that "Ihe Judges OF our Supreme
Court OF the United States seldom died and never
resigned" and so the Ohio Legislature thought Os
10 this court, and cut 10 obviate the love Of
Office and the love Of life manifested by the IN.
cumbent. They have more courts in this city than
IN hell the State Of Virginia. The Court House
is cut up into any number Of little Sitting rooms,
in which the Judges hold forth on their own hook,
commencing OF No. /, aud running indefinitely.
Truly theyhaye their Gil OF law.
Being somewhat at leisure Oh Monday, stTaYed
into No. Of this cut up Court House, and found
the three superior judges Of Cincinnati, namely,
Sorer, Spencer and ShOlson, sitting as q court Of
eTOrS that the three together revise the opinion OF
any QUE when sitting by himself, he however, sit.
ting With them, and attempting 10 bring The others
over TO his original decision. His position gives
him much weight, and in many instances he for.
gels that lie is judge, and takes upon himself the
place Of advocate, replying from time to time 10
the counsel impugnIng the correctness OF his de.
cisiOn. This wns eminenllY the case with Judge
a. H.. L.. IT, h.N Il I'LL
pefemptoEy nOn.Suil in The case Of Ellis aud Nor
ton % the Ohio, &c.I Trust Company, from which
the plaintiffs appealed TO the court Of errors, aud
Judge StoEer could scarcely contain himself on tue
bench, but would reply often to the able aTgument
OrJudsv Walker fOr the appellants. The peE-
smptOIy right Of nOn.suit does not exist in Virgin
10, and should not exist anywhere. Ills giving
too much power TO one man, and il it be right, we
lad better dSpeu'e with juries entirely.
The case was this; Some mAn forged the name
OF q deposition Of Ellis & Morton, drawing check
for sI4, OOOj he then took il TO tue Trust Company
and bought gold with it and slOPed That evenng
the Trust Company sent that and many other
clecks, over TO Ellis & Morton, tied up together,
with Memorandum Of their Kind and amount en-.
uOISeu' ElllA u mOItou palu AuS lVlBSu CuSCh
with the Others without uTying tie bundle Ouch
was their habit with this Company and did not
discover the forgery until The next morning, when
they notified the Trust Company. The Trust
Company insist that Ellis & Morton should lose
the money, because they did moi detect the forgery
al their counieri while Bills & Morton insist that
they took it the same as usual from the Trust CO.,
to whose vigilance they trusted implicitly. Judge
StoreT non. suited Ellis& Morton, and would not let
the case 30 10 the jury even. II is rather an in
leIesling and important case, and was very ably
argued by Judge Walker for the appellants The
case will end in the Supreme Court
Money pressure very hsrd. Some Of the best
houses in Town have been passed under the cham.
mer nOtOripl" within day or two. The best ::pu-
per can be had at buyers own terms. The brokers'
think the money market is getting easier and that
the pressure will soon be over, but understand
that borrowers here have failed thus for 10 make
the discovery. p.