The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-03-20
THE SMOKY CITY,
The standard OIL Cempany-Iron
Business-Giass-Y
Correspondence OF the Register.
PIrrBUReH, March 19.
THE OIL PRODUCERS NIGHTMARE.

PIrnBUseH, March 10.
THE OIL PRODUCERS NIGHTMARE.
That oleaginous hobgoblin, yclept, The
Standard Oil Company, like the Oft
quoted gkost of Shskespeares creation,
will not down. The producers thought
that IN the suit Of II. l. Taylor & Co,
against the company in the Butler
Courts, the Standard was sor.of sat down
upon. But unfortunately it wasn't, If
We are TO Judge from the late exploits OF
this same combination. The Standard
seems 8 sort of levisthsn with 81 urusu-
ally good appetite. Nothing but the
Swallowing up Of five or six oil rednelies
per month pleases it little bit.
LIST week i: digesled three, and
I. is smelling OF three more,
WI ca, if they ars ssvory, will be found
three days hence in the stomach Of this
huge concern. The Standard Oil Com
pany, or rather the combination travel
ling uadsr that name, ls determined 10
control tee oil business of the United
) stes, go far IS the refined article ia
concerned. Then /. can establish the
price of crude, and the producers are
poweriess. However, the latter are be-
ginning 10 realize the truth OF the motto,
In union there is strength" and are de-
veloping 5 plan for smsssing 8 large
capital 10 refine their own productions
and thus cope with their boss rIval.
When this comes of by sli mesns buy
ticket, for it will be one o. the richest
shows of spunk ever witnessed by the
commercial world.
AMBIGCITy.
As to the iron business-well, It Is
good and it Is bad. BY putting it IN this
shape l assume no responsibility, snt
cannot be charged with misrepresen:s.
Iion Meet one manufacturer snd
be is radiant with hope. Another
is 10 such 8 dark cloud that ne
can scarcely see the sun shining over
head, thst il, when it does shine IN
Pitts bUrgh. The first has good big
book full of ortsrs, the other has scarce.
ly any; so their statements are naturally
in conflict. Hence my double .back-sc-
ton reversesble statement. OF one
thing, however, there is no mistake the
makers o; specialities sre rosy-hued
fellows, while the men OF merchant bsr
mourn. The moral is no: very deep.
PROSPECTIVE.
A visi. 70 the large mill foundry of A.
Garrison s Co, 81 establishment which
hss for years made roll. Tor the
United S.ates mints, hss sent chilled rolls
to England, France, Prussis, Russls snt
Turkey, and which made the largest
drilled rolls in the world, visit TO this
place reyesls better state Of things thsn
eroakers expect. This firm has several
good sized trains on hsnd, orders for sew
eral others And gets frequent inquiries
an c.ll for still more. They fad that
while there are precious few new es.a5-
lsnments going up, existing firms sre
spread ing themselves for the manufacture
OF spacialities and are getting the trans
20 DO il.
BRISKNEss.
Among the establishments doing well
three may be mentioned ST this time.
& Co, are running their
q sill factory till nine o'clock every night,
20 get up stock OF nails ard to d! orders
Toe keystone Mills, makers or shee.
iron, and Everson, Macrum & Co, II
the same line, are ootn running double
turn. The latter firm has also large
sheet mill q. Scottdsle, Wessmoreiand
county, abou: sixty miles up the Baltl-
more road, but the putd!eFs OF which
are now striking.
PERSONAL
&C. Hussey, Of Hussey, Wells u Co.,
steel and copper makers. IS eighty years
of .se. and ls St his office daily,
Janes L.ughlIn, of Jones u Laugh
Inns is actively engaged in business, sad
il President OF the FIRST National Bank.
B.F. Jones, OF the above named arm,
owns the Seventh Avenue Hotel proper
tv, afns thing, which be bough: for
song, comparatively.
h.rry Oliver, OF Lewis, Oliver and
Phillips, is what may De termed latent
candidate for Congress and the Govern
orship. He nigh. have asPired to the
ls.ter pl.cs this yesr, but his friend
Aackey. Republican informs him thst
Dill, Denocrs,, is TO be governor next
time. l. is part OF this scheme
that Don Cameron goes hack 10 the
United States Seuate.
James Park, Jr., OF Park Brothers u
Co., Black Diamond Steal Works, Is the
prominent morslist among nsnutactuF-
e,. He is now President Of the Law
and Order Society.
CLASSY VIEWS.
This morning IN s conversation Mr..
John Adams. of Adams i Co, g ass
manufacturers, said 10 NE tha: the glass
trade has bad outlook. While orders
have been decreasing the failures OF
dealers have been increasing. The ars;
is bad enough but the second Is simply
intoler.ble. Mr.. Adsms says that no
district IL free from failures, snd promI.
rent firms, both ssst snd west,
have been transferring their accounts 20
the bankrup. courts. Those, too, wHo
were supposed TO be A No. ,,snd all thst
sor. of thing, have "tsken in the manu-
i.cturers heavily, and j: IL refreshing 10
read their OWE statements, in which they
figure out about 75 or so per cent. OF as
sets 70 their liabilities, aud close with
cool offer to pay 90 or 25 per cent The
Western Flint and Lime Glass Associs-
tion has determined to accep. 10 offer
less than IS per cent, snd those who
won't pay that will be forced through
bankruptcy.
WEARING THE GREEN.
Yesterday the loyal Irish turned out
h.r,. -, GnrIraE strpnp To 90 honor 10