The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-03-30
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the office under the Mcclure House for
merly occupied by the Fire and Marine
Insurance Company.
The Bellairo Iron and Nail Works are
about to build u tram railway for the
purpose Of receiving their coke by The
river. The Riverside and Belmont Com
panies have already done so, and The
Benwood Company are on the point o.
doing so at Martins Ferry. Ere long II
isquite likely that all the coke used BY
the furnaces hereabouts will be received
by water. There is said to be saving OIL
u centper busbel in it, which is equal to
about IS cents per ton in the cost Of pig
metal.
All rail rates from New York to
Wheeling are now as follows. First
class, 81 cents per hundred, second class
50, third class 4G, fourth class "a, special
class 81. The rates are the same to Zanes.
vile.
; The fiscal receipts OF the city OF steu.
benville for the year ending March lst,
were S6l,l3O 10, and expenditures $50,
253 90. Among the items Of the latter
were fire dept. 81, ,l5S 10; streets and al
leys SlS,2s5 07i public lamps $3.50 81;
Marshal and police salaries and expenses
sS727 OS. The same expenses in Wheel.
ing are as follows: Fire Department
Sl6,05l 90; streets and alleys $57,7O 70;
lights, 7,l2G 40; police, Sl5,0l5 50.
The receipts of the town OF Barnesville,
Ohio, for the year ending the 2lst OF
March, were Ss;344 6l, and the expendi.
lures S5,S7l so. 1t cost 81, OH 70 to light
the town, and S5Si 50 Tor work on the
streets.
The following are the latest family
market quotations down at Charleston
Kanawha county: Apples 9Oc; potatoes
81 90; corn 40c; eggs l0c per doz.; butter
2jc per h.; dried apples ST 90 per bush.
beans 81 90 per bush; pork &c per ID.
beef lOal2lc per h.; chickens 50 90 pei
dozen.
Our export Of fresh beef to the United
Kingdom steadily increased from l, 40,
900 pounds in July, 1875, to 4,053GO(
pounds in January, 1877. The total ex
portion the seven montha was 2S,2OO ,95:
pounds, valued at S2,OS7, 7,2OS. OF this
quantity l9,4O9,05j pounds went to Eng
land, and 3,79l,OOO pounds to Scotland
The President of the Waynesburg and
Washington Narrow Gauge road pub.
fishes card to the Subscribers Of stock
in which he announces that the Company
have made contract with the Riverside
Iron Works, of Wheeling, lor all the
rails, plates and spikes necessary to iron
the road, also that locomotive and cars
for construction purposes have been pur.
chased, and that contract has been en-.
tered into with Jno. A. Britton & Co., oil
Reading, for doing all the residue OF tn,
work of grading, bridging, trcstling
tracking, &c.
The following are some OF the rolling
mill wages paid ut Pittsburgh, accordin,
to the last Manufacturer: Muck shear
men, 81 so per day; metal breakers, 81 81
ash wheelers, 81 %; frcmen, 81 80: nigh
watchmen, 81 40; muck weighers, 81 %
engineers, both turns, 81 25; common
laborers, ST 90 and 81 90; brick layer
(nothing for over time), 81 20; tenders
81 G5; muck rollers, Soc per ton.
The Sweeney farm failed to sell on
Tuesday, the highest bid being Sl5,75O
within $50 OF wo.thirdS OF the appraise.
ment. 1t will be offered for sale agair
on Tuesday, May lst.-S. GarsrilL
Chronicle.
The Caldwell (Ohio) Pres says tina
"The NJ. P. & C. railroad will be sole
sQSetime after sixty days notice. W,
confidently expect this road to go int,
hands that will be able to put the roat
through from the lakes to some point il
the Southern States"
Tho Noble County (ohiol Republican
says that Wheeling is making big eilor
for the trade OF that part of Ohio, an,
that no less than four commercial bum
mers Of this city were in Caldwell in on,
day.