The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-11-12
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WHEELING REGISTER.
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Union Line, Office Northwest cor.
Of Main and l2th Sts.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Statue or Horace Greeley.

The Statue OF Horace Greeley.
NEW YORK, November 1.-THE In
ternational Typographical Union, which
has undertaken the work Of providing a
statue or other suitable memorial over
the grave of Horace Greeley, makes an APP
| peal for further contributions. The COM
mittee probably have sufficient funds for
portrait and bust, but in the meantime
the committee have assumed the care of
the grave, which has been reported re-
Gently t" be in neglected condition.
! Arrangement Between Pacific Mail
Steamship Company and Pacific
Railroad.
NEW YORK, November 1.-The
Erening Post says that the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company is willing to make
terms which will give the Pacific Pail
road the tea and silk business if an ar
rangement can be made, and if not the
railroad companies will accept the Eng
lish steamers which have been carrying
them on easy terms, and use them as Il
line of their own between San Francisco
Japan and China. The Pacific Mail
people have consultation to-day on the
subject.
NEW YORK, November lin the
correspondence published between G. p.
Huntington, Vice President OF the Con-
tral Pacific Railroad, and President
Sage, Of the Pacific Mail Company, the
former proposed equal passenger rates by
rail and steamship to San Francisco; said
rates to be low; the raising of the rates
of freight by both routes to a remuncra-
tive basis, the railway companies guaran
teeing the steamship company $4,000 of
freight per steamer, every seventeen days
from this port, and the renewal of the
old contract between the companies in
regard to China and Japan business; the
railway companies to make ard control
all rates between New York and San
Francisco, and the contract to be for ten
years. Mr.. Sage, in reply, cncloses reso-
lutions adopted by the Directors of the
Pacific Mail Company to-day, declaring
that while ready to make fair and equi-
table arrangements for all business with
the overland railroad companies. they
consider Mr.. Huntington's propositions
unsatisfactory, and respectfully decline
them.
Coal Miners strike.
ST. LOUIS, November 1.-THE strike
of coal miners in st. Clair county, llli-
noiS, opposite this city continues, and at
meeting held yesterday at French
village, it was resolved that work in all
the mines in Bellvillc district be suspend
ed until every company in it and all nom
union men join the miners union and are
governed by the same laws. The strike
is for uniform price, four cents per
bushel for digging, eight hours labor and
Just weight. The union miners also in
s;st that all non-union men or "black-
legs" rs they are called, shall join the
union. There is good deal of uneasi-
ness in Bellevillc and considerable APP
prehension is felt that trouble, if not
jloodshed, will follow, and to avoid this
it is possible that militia company Will
be formed and that arms will be re-
ceived from the State. The miners as
sert that they do not intend to resort to
violence, but are determined to hold out
until their demands are acceeded to.
Joseph Wallace, the son of Il highly
respectable Baptist minister in Nordway
county, this State, shot and killed VIM.
Brush last Friday An old grudge led
to the fatal encounter.
Meeting Of Manufacturers.
Providence. November II. At
meeting of the Committee of Manuiac-
turers to-day, the chairman announced
that replies to the circular ofinquiry had
been received from 1876 mills, mostly in
New England. All but four or five
had reduced their production at least enc
third, and will continue until January
lst unless forced to resume by the action
of others indisposcd to bear their share
of the disadvantages by running on par
tisl time.
The Presidents Views on the finan.
eiaI Question.
WASHINGTON, November 1.-THE
statement that the Presidents views on
the financial question have been modified
since last spring is denied on the highest
authority. Not only has the President
not changed his opinion, bat he has free
" and repeatedly expressed to all persons
who have seen proper to approach MN
on the subject, the same views contained
in his veto message. 1t is equally GER
tain that the Secretary of the Treasury
has not expressed any views antagonists
to the opinions of the President, and his
friends confdentlally assert that his
forthcoming report will urge strongly
upon Congress n return to specie pay
ment at the earliest practicable period.
\. Y. Bagging business.
New YORK, November 1.-THE firm
of Ross Il Smith, of Front street, long
and favorably known in connection win
the bagging business, suspended THIS
morning, their effects having been trans
erred 10 their creditors. Their liabili-
ties are Sl25,O00. The creditors have a'
vet made no statement, and the firm are
unable to say whether they will resume
or not. They are receiving gratifying
assurances from those with whom they
have had transactions, and look Tor
favorable settlement. The bagging bus'-
ness in this city, is considered 10 he in Il
yery critical condition, and fears are en-
tertsined Of further failures.
Memphis Items.
MEMPHIS, November ll.-This morn
ing about 10 o'clock Robert c. Ramsey
Of Helena, Arkansas, shot himself at the
Wsrsbsm House. the ball entering just
below the heart, inaicting fatal wound.
4 telegram to his father was found on
the mantle, saving, ~ have been driven
from home and am msddened. | shall
commit suicide God help me IN the
name Of Jesus.
A colored man named Gordon, living
near here. was shot and killed by DIR.
White, neal Commerce, Mississippi, yes
,srday. Gordon had stolen shot gun