The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-11
BUsINEss MAITR an-
Six million logs are now afioat

Six million logs are now afioat in
the Kennebec river.
"A correspondent thinks the cotton
crop of Georgia will be double that Of
last year. Ea.Ia
Trade is very dull in Boston, and
an unusually dull summer is expected
there.
DIR. Ayers pills are good to have il
not TO take: They gave him an income
last year OF SOS. .5Ts.
"A rolling mill and nail factory Is to
be built near Lynchburg, Va.
Two hundred and thirty-fiye thou
sand bushels of wheat are now in store
at Milwaukee.
The Cleveland cooperative store
reports dividend of over twenty per
cent. on the capital invested, on its first
years operations,
Twenty million dollars will be paid
from the Treasury in the next ten days
in redemption Of compound-interest
notes.
There are only about 400, 900 taxa.
BILE incomes in the United States.
The Chicago Times claims for that
city 25O,OOO population and $50, ,OOO, 900
rats.
John Stuart Mill's daughter writes
for the magazines.
The Richmond Enquirer hears of
rust in the wheat. This is the first un-
favorable report we have heard of the
crop.
-Custar has lost 800 men by deser-
ton. The worst OF il was that every
man took horse and pistol with him.
in Wayne county, Pennsylvania,
hay has recontly sold for forty dollars
a ton.
Mortified, Ohio, has cheese fac
tory which cost s, 600, and will use the
milk ofone hundred cows.
"A single firm in Boston has this
year sold $1,000 fruit trees, besides 5000
grape vines, 1900 roses and ornamental
shrubs, and 5000 currant, raspberry
and strawberry plants. .-'
One Thomas Kelly died recently at
Dubuque, Iowa, and his relatives have
dug up 5000 from beneath the hut in
which he lived, and are digging for
more.
The Chicago papers complain pa
thetically of the beef sold in that city,
which they allege comes from cold
bulls, worn out stays, and widowed
cows"
"A Frenchman has invented paper
which instantly stops the hemorrhage
caused by wounds, and Marshal Neil
has contracted with him for 10000
quires of this paper.
The Richmond Dispatch publishes
a tabular statement, showing there are
1,S00 business men in that city, and
that they pay license tax of SIS, 1917.
in England it is proposed to lay two
pairs of nearly fiat rails with slight
depression centrally for omnibus
wheels, and guide rail midway for
the driver to sight with the pole of his
carriage, SO as to keep the track.
1t is understood that Secretary
McCulloch contemplates an early and
permanent reduction of the force en-
Ployed in the Treasury Department, in
ofthe rapidly diminishing
business.
Iowa, have just discovered that they
have wheat for sale, and are disposing
of 1t at 81 80 bushel. A few weeks
ago they refused to sell at g., ,25.
The Pension Onice has decide to
follow the lOng-established rule of re-
jecting all applicants for pension based
on injury received, disease contracted,
or death, occurring while the soldier was
on furlough.
"A convention of all the important
lines of railroads in Virginia and North
Carolina, comprising fifteen delegates,
met at Petersburg, Va, on Thursday,
to discuss the schedule by which the
time between New York and New Or
leans may be shortened. The session
will probably continue two days long
er.
The n. Y. JOuTna, of Commerce pub
lishes Custom House statistics, showing
that the imports of foreign dry goods at
That port in The month of May amount
ed to about five and half millions,
against more than seven millions for
the same month last year, about four
millions for May, 1855, and six millions
for May, 1854.