The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-29
Especial To the Rrgistcr.l
LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA.
a Small Earthqunke--0ur Annual
Stock Missing Vessels
And Twelve Hundred Chi'iamcn
o. E'uh!ic improvements Enter
prIsing AgricuItUrists.
SAN FRANCISCO, April ~. $50.
\ SMALL FhGrHQUAKE.

SAN FRANCISCO, April - $50.
>VNLL EARTHQUAKE.
We had a miniature earthquake on
Sunday morning; nothing alarming, in
fact too gen,lemanly fellow TO disturb
our repo>c. He came about five
o'clock, quite an early riser, shook the
doors. ratified the windows, as much IL
to say. why don't You get ~ this
glorious Easter day instead of snoozing
in bed, and then left us \ society OF
ancient investigators. styling themselves
The Academy Of Science held 4
meeting on Monday night, and one DR..
Cooper made the pleasant statement
that for tie past ten days the earth has
been in a perpetual culver, and that
some time or other between now and
the thirtieth century, san Francisco
will be as etIectualTy destroyed as Lis
bon was hundred years ago. Speak
ing seriously, or rather writing seriously,
although these tremors do no appre'
ciablc damage, they have great effect
in keering money out of the city. Cap
ital is very wary, and will not invest III
a place liable at anymOment to become
the scene Of an accumulated horror that
would startle the world.
OUR ANNUAL STOCK MANIA.
Ever since Noah formed his Joint
Stock Ship Building Company, eight
shares, limited the ingenuity Of man
has been directed to the getting up of
money making avocations The multi
plicitv of insurance companies Is one OF
the least understandable manias of the
moment. You walk into Montgom-
erv street store in the evening, make a
purchase. pocket the proprietors card
and the next morning if you seek for
the same place, 10! full grown insu-
ance company has taken possession OF
the premises, great signs announce that
it is the only reliable concern in the
United States, that its capital Is hut
little less than the national debt, that
its profits on the first years business
were 500 per cent on the amount IN
vested, that YOUR life is not worth sixty
minutes purchase if Won patronizc any
other institution, and that altogether the
best speculation You can possibly make
is TO invest and-die. Last spring
Wild Cat Homestead Stock was all the
rage, and Sandhills ten miles away
were described as eligible town sites.
This year White Pine claims being at a
discount, and San Diego, four latest
mining discovery somehow or other
finding but little favor The wits OF
spectators have opened new field,
and fruit growing companle-none oil
your vulgar apple, pear and strawberry
arrangements, but tropical fruit growing
companies, benevolently
formed for the purpose OF sup,
plying the natives with oranges and
pineapples, bananas and cod liver oil,
are going to be the furore of the season
Two are aleeady announced with eagl-
tails respectively of 100000 and S360,-
600, which TO disinterested observer,
seems rather large sums to pay for the
privilege of cultivating these curious
products,
MISSING VESSELS.
A great steamer goes to sea freighted
with the industries of q nation, laden
with precious lives, carrying with her
the hopes and loves of mothers and
sisters in two hemispheres. Weeks
and months pass and she arrives not;
trepidation gives way to fear, fear to
despair, and despair to fearful heart
sickness worse than the worst certainty
Telegraphs convey the slightest rumors
over the land, papers discuss her fate,
thousands of households talk of it, and
the civilized world knows that the City
OF Boston" has become a mystery for
all time, an awful secret that mans IN
tellect shall never solve, nor his genins
discover. And yet every day some such
+-or,oJv 10 enacted and bv q strange per.