Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-30

operate Twelve Ol TIC -'tNC TAIN
chimes running IN the United States.
The manufacture of cork sOles is an
industry that has grown to large dimen-
sions in WilliamspOrt, Pa.
BUSINESS at the Potteries in East Liv-
erpool, Ohio, is very brisk just now.
The strike has been settled.
TIE chimney glass trade is holding its
own, while as usual at this season the
fruit jar trade is dropping off.
THE Pittsburgh Bridge company now
have orders from places in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Kansas and other States.
QUITE a number OF big shipments of
glassware have been made to California
by Pittsburgh manufactures recently.
THE Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany has contracted for 10000 tons OF
iron rails, sixty pounds to the yard, at
$40 per ton.
THE deficit in the sugar beet crop of
France this year will amout to between
% and 30 per cent as compared with
that OF last year.
THE leather market has been some
what excited the past few weeks. The
supply is not equal to the demand and
prices are going upward.
A CONTRACT has been received at the
Harrisburgh Car mandatory for the
construction of 500 box cars for the
New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad.
The Chicago Times says that moder-
ate estimate the Northwestern grain
growing States have made from $4,000,
600 to Sl00,000,000 out OF the recent adj
vance in prices.
THE Lake Shore Railroad is expert
menting with petroleum as fuel in loco
motives. They find that it does not pro-
duce smoke or cinders, and is much
cheaper than coal.
EYGLIsu contractors, who built mar
row gauge railroad in Japan, received
1000 per mile, and the Superinten-
dent was paid 5000 per month. For
tunately, the road was only eighteen
miles long.
The miners in the coke regions still
insist that they will quit work on No
vember LIST, unless their wages are adj
vanced The manufacturers claim that
they are working on old contracts, and
cannot raise the wages. Both sides talk
firm.
A VESSEL which has been loaded with
corn at New York in a single day takes
ten or twelve days to unload when she
arrives at an English port. The loading
has been done by machinery. The UNI
loading is done by hand work.-L0Udon
Times.
You must pay more for your music
now. Prices of all kinds OF material
have advanced, and wages likewise, so
that musical instruments are at least
twenty-five per cent higher now than
they were a year ago. And the tcnden-
cy is still upward.
AN English weekly saws that the TALL
i'm paper makes a difference of Sl5O,OOO
a year to the Daily Tflegdph, and that
the New York Herald is in treaty with a
Lancashire firm for a supply at a cost so
moderate as TO cover carriage and get be-
sides a handsome margin.
THERE are l,203 coal packages, con-
tanning lS,l57,000 bushels of coal, now
awaiting shipment in the GOughiOghe-
Nv anu AlOlpllSdlltld llNNios PuAihS
the nine months of the present year, in
Guiding the present month, the ship
ment south aggregated 24,4S6,OOO
bushels.
A REAL ESTATE boom in Chicago is
the talk there now. Instances are men
toned of transfers OF property at figures
from % to 80 per cent higher than could
have been obtained this time a twelve
month ago. Similar tendencies are no.
ticeable at st. Paul, Minneapolis, and
other rapidly growing cities of the
Northwest.
A MANUFACTURER in Sheffield, Eng
land, lately showed a number OF his
wOrkmen an assortment OF American
goods, and, holding up pair of tailOrs'
shears, offered 10 give the trades union
the men belonged to $3.50 il any oithem
within month would produce a pair
equal to them. The challenge was not
accepted.
So immense is the freight traffic on
the Pennsylvania railroad that every
available locomotive in the possession
of the company is now in service, and
many that had been sent to shops for
repairs have been hurriedly fixed up,
and replaced on the road. About one
hundred freight trains pass over the
road daily.
THE PENNSYLVANIA Railroad is abouttO
construct and put in operation an eleva-
ted railroad on Filbert street, Phlladel-
phia. The contract for the iron work is
already given out. This includes the
iron superstructure OF tine bridge across
a N.l.,,,.11.,n Dt,.nr aud oil tho iron
work OF the elevated road proper. The
cost OF the iron work alone will be over
100000.
The American Isabella grape planted
in Wurtembcrg, Germany, grows with
extraordinary luxuriauce, and during
the present season, in which the Ger
man VINEYARDS are generally in a rather
poor condition, this is about the only
vine that bears abundant fruit. The
United States send Ch>eSe and beef 10
England, and grapes and lager beer to
Germany. /, remains now that they
should furnish wines to France.
Arts present rate of progress our
country may soon be in a position 10
hterarily ship Goals 10 Newcastle with
out exciting surprise in any quarter.
We have sent steel 10 Sheffield, beef TO
all parts OF Great Britain, cotton goods
to Manchester and lager beer to Ger
many; and this week the steamer Mar
enco has loaded 400 barrels OF herring
at this port for Guttenburg, in Sweden,
whose sister kingdom, Norway, boasts
the greatest herring fisheries in the
wOrld.-Bos'DR Commercial Bulletin.
CHAs SHAFER, OF Roanoke, Lewis
county, who was shot and wounded by