The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-08-12
OUR STEUBENVILLE LETTER
Indications that the City has gone
Backward in Population since
lS7I-A Railroad Strike.

STELHESN Lib august H.
Editors Inrllsrn~r;
The Legislature OF Ohio in the Spring
Of 1858 passed law providing ior the
taking OF the census every four years by
the township assessors, in wards and As
,e..mcnt districts. This bill provided
that the assessor, should take an enumer.
alton Of all the male inhabitants Of the
age Of twenty.One year and upwards, in
Lists alphabetically arranged, and return
them to the Clerk OF the Court Of Com
mon Pleas, designating such males as may
be Of African descent by the word
"cOlmcd." The assessors have all made
their returns as required by law, but in
the enumeration the law has been without
exception wholly ignored by the failure
to specify the number Of COlOred Citizens.
The officers put in their time, drew their
money and the citizens OF Jefferson county
from an enumeration Of the returns will
know ~ much in reference to the male
population Of the county rs llindoO
does about the Fourth Of July, We have
boosted OF our prosperity, OF our rapidly
increasing population, and just about the
time We felt slightly metropolitan We
discover By u glance at the returns just
made that we have been following false
God, or, in other words, that We have
been going back. BY reference to the re-
turns made in 1871, we find that at that
time there was in Jefferson county S,lOO
citizens Of the age Of twenty-one years
and upwards. BY the present returns We
have only 900. We can advance no
theory in regard to the discrepancy other
than a failure on the part Of the assessors
to take the enumeration correctly. We
may be wrong, but ii cannot be possible
that We have fallen of 1900 in four
years. The County Central Committee,
however, will get the matter in shape
probably before the election, a. ! under
stand they are enrolling every precinct
aud will be able to tell exactly the num-
Der Of voters in the county, and also the
number Of aliens.
a RAILROAD STRIKE.
The "lloating gangs" On Lotus and
Morgan's divisions Of the Panhandle
are on strike. They have been getting
81 % per day and demand 81 80, which
the company refuse. Their places will
be filled with men Us fast as they can he
secured Trouble was apprchcnded at
first, but from what | can learn the men
do not propose interfering with any man
who wants To work ut the wages offered
by the company,
!. K. MILLER 4 co.
Everything is not just rs lovely as it
might be in reference to the assignment
Of j. X. Miller Il Co. The firm will
within day or two he forced into bank
ruptcy, owing to the impatiCncC Of some
VI the creditors, who refused to make
any arrangement with the assignee. This
course became necessary in order to save
the property from being sacrificed.
ABOUT THE PROPOSED nRIDGE,
4 few weeks ago we thought that We
would in Il short time ride from the
rolling mill to the upper blast furnace
without change Of cars. ! mean-with
the bridge completed and n single track
laid across, We could ride over, alight at
the other end Of the magnificent sIruct-
urc, then ramhlc along the Virginia hills,
and looking back see them returning full
Of passengers, with good prospcctsof large
"divcys" for the cntCrprising stOckhold IT,
crs. But suppose We are in this, us III
q great many other things that looked
Just rs favorable, doomed to dlsappoint-
mcnt. The sweet silver tone Of the bell
punch willnot in all probability be heard
for some time.