The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-21
Business Suits
M. GUTMAN & cos.
FINANCE AND TRADE.

Financial and Commercial.
The yield of sugar in Lafourche par
ish., La, will be very large.
The Bloomington, ILL.,, distillery pays
daily revenue tax of $3.50.
Large numbers of fine, fat cattle arc
being brought on by railroad from
Southwestern Virginia, for the Northern
markets.
The price of coal at Norfolk, Va, has
reached q dizzy hight, owing to the op-
erations of spectators.
The increased manufacture of straw
braid within 20 years has nearly trebled
the price of straw in this country.
q One hundred and fifty thousand hogs
heads and boxes of sxgar have been
landed in Boston since January LIST, the
largest receipts ever known.
1t is stated that at least $50, 1000, 900
are involved in the mining of copper in
Michigan, and 81, 900 or 40, 900 people are
dependent upon the mines in which
this large capital is invested.
Cranberries have gone up from $40 to
SlS per barrel, owing to the competition
of Boston agents, who have boon trav-
cling on the Cape and bidding against
one another. .EH...H's
Forty car loads of mess beef passed
through st. Louis, Friday, from Leaven.
worth and other points, en- route tc
places East and Europe. Several
through bills of lading for such freight
from Leavenworth City to Liverpool
have been signed during the past week.
The whole number of cases of boots
and shoes shipped from Lynn, Mass,
during the month of October, was 9293,
against 9S0S cases for the month Of
September, and $3.50 cases for the month
of October, 1867. Business continues
very quiet, and is likely to remain SO
for a month to come.
A large Aumber of families in Glou'
cester, Massachusetts, are almost pen
niless, on account Of the failure of the
mackerel fisheries. The winter fishing
will be pursued with more than usual
energy. The vessels that have follow
ed codfshing all the year have done
well, the fish commanding good prices
and finding ready sales.
The lumber business at Burlington
VT, which is carried on by few firms
requires about S3,OOO,OOO of floating
capital. One firm has sold within the
last five months over 80 600, 900 of feet
This firm is connected with five Other
establishments in Boston, Albany, De
troit, Ogdensburgh and Whitehall.
In 1867 nine thousand buildings were
erected in Chicago at an expenditure o.
some S1O,OO0,OO0. Twenty-Five new
churches were commenced or completed
and various business blocks of lint
character. A splendid block on the
corner of State and Washington streecs
of white Connecticut marble, costing
about 100000, has been leaSed FOL
$50, 900 per annum.
When the Milwaukee County Bank
in Milwaukee, closed 4 few days ago, il
is said $4,000 were due depositers. As
a compromise, tho Bank offerod thirty.
three per cent to all its creditors. IL
is reported that the failure was
oonsod Ivy the defalcation of the Cashier
and loss in discounting wheat paper
The Cashiers defalcation was discOv.
cred last spring, when he shot himself
At that time the bank officers stated
that it Amounted to about $4,000, but
it is now claimed to have been
about S35, 900. The high rates of inter,
est led the bank into disconnting wheat
paper to the extont of $4,000, and by
the fall in prices this was mainly left
on its hands.