The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-10-31

Business MEMoRASDA.-Eighteen dol
lars per tOn-four months-is now the
going price for mill iron at Pittsburgh.
Nearly all the workingmen in Pitts
burgh arc now employed except the
coopers.
The nail feeders at the .Etna Iron
Works, New Castle, Pa, work from six
in the morning Till nine at night. The
iron business in that city is said to be bet.
Ter now than it has been for the past two
or three ycars.
Money is cheap out at Cambridge.
The Building Association there a few
days ago sold 81, 200 for per cent pre-
MUM. Loans have been made heretofore
in the same association as high as GO per
cent.
The Oil City Derrick says than an cleo
trio alarm bell, for indicating the time for
commencement and suspension OF BUSH
ness, has been placed in the Oil Exchange
by the Western Union Telegraph Com.
pany' Similar ones are to be placed in
the exchange at New York, Parker's and
Titusville. They will be attached to the
wires Of the Western Union and all soun.
ded at precisely the same time.
The lessees OF the Lazear Coal Works
above town, we learn, expect to ship coal
by rail to Wheeling this winter and TO
this end switch will be put in at the tip.
pie for their accommodation. They now
employ n good many hands, lPeiSJurg
Herald.
Business ia less active, the fall trade
being about over, but the prosperity Of
the agricultural interest this season can
scarcely fail 10 infuse new life into other
branches OF industry. But before full
prosperity can return there must be re.
adjustment Of industry and business,
which will enable the products Of our
labor TO compete with those OF other
nations in the markets Of the WORLD
Philadelphia Times.
A published exhibit Of the Wellsburg
Building Association shows that the in.
Stitution has made in little over three
years GO per cent profit.
The Amalgamated Iron and Steel
Workers at Pittsburgh are circulating
the following petition to Congress:
We, citizens Of tho county oi--and State of
-, believing that the permanent prosperity Of
the people Of the United States can cICcured only
by the complete protection against foreign compt-
NJ all In lNIU Ia
petition for revision Of CxistinS tariff laws by an
Increase Of al least ten per cCnum Il the prisCat
rates, and especially that, to prevent itAuds the
same imports be levied upon old as upon new pil-
road irOn and that all imported iron hhall DO sub
Jet TO a protective duty.
We do further Petition that In such revision the
rates on all imports DO adjusted TO accomplish, rs
nearly rs possible these rC!ults; First, absolute
protection Of alldomestic products Ia the domestic
markets second, the largest revenue upon all I'M
Third to permit all c1mpetng articles Of necessity
or OF general use, as lea and cotfr, TO so to the
people untaxed.
Mr.. Thompson McKelvey, Of St. Glars.
vile, informs US that the Narrow Gauge
ia doing an excellent coal business. II
delivers about 1000 bushels per. day,
the freight on which amounts to S24.
Last week the road carried over 800 pas.
sengerS, and the week before 400. lie
also informs US that Touring mill is
being put up at the depot by Dickey &
Noble, which is expected to afford a
market for all tho wheat raised around
St, Clairsville, and furnish the people
with all the flour they need.