The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-06
FINANCE AND TRADE
Financial md Commercial.


The public debt statement will show
an increase of Sl1 100000.
Governor Palmer, of Illinois, proposes
to veto the bill regulating fares on rail
roads in that State.
Over half million dollars was paid
by Cincinnati last year for running its
water works.
California has yielded $4,000, 900;
Nevada, Sl6,OOO,OOO, and Montana Sl2,-
100000, by mining operations last year.
The wooden rails laid Down in Can
ada and Vermont, upon which trains
rnn at slow rates, are said to be great
success.
Twelve years ago Newbursh New
York brewer commenced business with
peck of malt. To-day he is worth
$500, 600.
The Danvers, Mass, carpet factory
has declared a semi-annual dividend OF
five per cent. and keeps eleven per cent.
in reserve. The company has done IL
very successful business,paying seventy
seven per cent III the past four years.
A Warren (Ohio) paper says: "The
firm OF Andrews & Sons, dry goods deal
ers in this place, have gone into bank
ruptcy. Their liabilities, as far as
known, amount to S70,95S 81, and their
assets will probably cover ono-third of
the amount.
Up to this time 1898 petitions in bank
ruptcy have been filed in Virginia. OF
these 39Gl were filed in the office of the
Clerk of the United States District
Court at Richmond, and 337 at the same
office in Norfolk. In Norfolk ninety
three cases have been discharged, and
in Richmond 305.
A CO operative cotton mandatory is
to be started in st. Joseph, Missouri.
The shares are 500 each; the amount
of stock wanted is $4,000. The stock,
it is confidently believed, will double
every two or three years from the time
the factory is started. 1t can be estab-
lished and in working order within six
months from this date.
The New York World ordered nineteen
tons of coal from as many different deal
ers in that city, and had each load accu-
rately weighed. Only five were found
to be the just weight-two thousand
pounds. The other fourteen loads were
all short from ten to two hundred and
forty-tive pounds-the average short
weight of each being about seventy
pounds.
According to the Augusta Chronicle
the present cotton crop of Georgia will
yield from S30OOO,OOO to S4O,OOO,OOO.
Mr.. Forney, who is making southern
tour, writes from Raleigh: "The esti-
mated value of the Cottoa crop for the
last year, including the last advance in
price is over $3.50, 900, 900. North Caro-
| lima alone has raised nearly Sl5,0O0,OOO
worth of cotton, and all her products for
the same period foot up 100000. AT
| this rate the South will be richer in q
few wears than she has ever been"
The following comparative statistics
of the great cities of the world are
curious: London possesses the greatest
number of Ell gineers, carriages on hire,
printers, booksellers and cooks; Am
sterdam the greatest number of usurers,
collectors of curiosities and amateur
painters: st. Petersburg takes prece-
dence for coachmen; Brussels for boys
who smoke; Naples for porters and
guides; Madrid for idlers; Berlin for
beer-drlnkers; Florence for her flower
| girls; Dublin for thieves; Geneva for
watch-makers; Lisbon for bailitfS; Rome
for beggars; Paris for air-dressers, men
ofletters, tailors. milliners, photograph
ers, pastry-cooks and advocates; Lon
don consumes the most meat and beer;
Stockholm the most water; Smyrna the
most coffee; Madrid the most cigarettes,
and Paris the most absinthe.