Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-11-12
MICHIGAN MONEY IN KANAwHA.

| CHARLESTON, w. VA, November s.
The Federal Court now in session
| here is disposing OF large amount OF
! business, mostly oil the mOOnshine va
riety. Some important civil cases will
( be tried during the term. The Grand
Jury is still in session with Judge Cam
den as foreman, and an immense batch
/ of indictments for violation OF the Inter.
nal Revenue claws, is being ground out.
| There is no little complaint about the
wholesale arraignment OF people ior
| trivial offences, at the Charleston terms
| OF the United States Court.
| In various neighborhoois there are
| mlschieyous or malicious people who
look upon this tribunal rs a mere clear
ing house for their grievances and spites.
! The grudges OF whole communities are
being brought here TO be settled, and
men who
Quarrel at HcmS
about horse trading, or timbering, or
| cropping, or social rivalry, or wOman's
iavors, have got into the habit OF haul
iny one another before nited States
Commissioners and Grand Juries on
trumped up charges OF Illicit dealing in
whisky and tobacco. Professional in
formers abound. MANY well known
characters make more money attending
| court at Charleston, TO prosecute their
| neighbOrs than they earn AT home the
balance OF the year at their usual yOca-
lions.
The District Attorney
has had his hands full uudoins the
mischief OF these baseleSs prosecutions.
As fast as ne finds that indictments are
without any foundation save the greed
or ma.evolence OF the prosecuting wit
ness, he disnlisses them, steadily reIus-
ing TO allow the law and its processes to
be made the means OF gratifying petty
personal motives.
liz would save a word OF trouble II
our grand juries were constituted eNclu'
sively OF men who are familiar with the
part Of the State and the people who IN
habit it. Usually the foreman is brought
from distance; he lacks the inside
know ledge that would enable him to eX-
anime witnesses as they should be ex-
aminei. Scores of indictments are
found that General LrOn finds it his
duty 70 dismiss, and many innocent
people are harrassed and annoyed, with
Out possibility oil redress.
A Marked Improvement
in the business situation is noticeable
in the kanawha Valley, ani particularly
in Charleston. A business revival OF 4
most substantial character has taken
pIsre A number Of wholesale houses,
dealing IN groceries, dry goods, notions,
hardware, boots and snoes, &c, have
been opened. They carry good stocks
and are doing thriving business. Their
p trade comes from the long stretch OF
mining hamlets, forming now almost a
continuous village from COalmOnt TO
Ouiunemout, a distance Of fifty miles,
and from lunumerable little country
stores along Coal and GauIry and Elk
and Poca rivers, where the timber
interests are being rapidly developed,
as well as from the more distiuCtiveiy
agricultural districts which abound "in
spots" among the surrounding hills.
The large number oi mechanics who
came here in the
flush Times oflS7l-3,
and have since barely sabslstcd, are no
e. longer halt paid or half employed. y
= new State House, Custom House, nu-
uerous private buildings, the Govern
| mpnt works on the river, and the con-
; structiOu of mining towns give employ.
ment to them all. Even the streets are
, | being improved. \ long stretch OF
kauawha street. hitherto impossible in
winter. is being paved with hard brick,
| laid edgewise on a foundation OF well
pitched oak lank, a plan which has
answered admirably on Summers street
. for number Of years. The ldlers are
no longer numerous. The
Crowd of Sages,
philosophers and statesmen who have
been accustomed to gather about the
front o. tn Hale House IN summer, aud
, its rotunda in winter TO settle all dis
puted questions in morals, politics,
finance, history, philosophy and reIls-
ION, have disappeared. They have
found employment; they make honest
= livings, and their chins enjoy much
% needed rest.
The resumption OF business in the
city, and its apparent prosperity in the
future, IS the outcome Of the enterprise
and progress around It.
P The Coal Business
! has 4 life aul strength about it
never witnessed before in this val.
lev. New mines are being opened,
I'D ones are being greatly improved.
4 + @ Lorpl mines on Campbell creeI ire
I now prepared to snip 300 bushels ot
coal per dav. and other operators are
, making similar improvements IN their
facilities. \ railroad Is being construct
? ed up Fields creek to the old
Trinifred Mraes.
once the most famous in the valley,
The Boston people, who bought the
Huliny and HoSey coal and iron prop.
= erty un Davis creek. are building rail
. 10 Al 10 reach IT, Skunk 4 Reynolds \, OF
, Pennsylvania. are pushing another rail
! road to tnelr property on Cabin creek,
u, ana the Paint Creek Company has com
! plsted it's grading and will soon have its
- track really tor the locomotive.
The competition Of the lock and dam
. AZ Point Creek, will be accomplished in
o six weeks, giving constant navigation To
. ! Cauueltan, aud furnishing water trans
porta ion to large section OF the finest
!, coal lsn Is, hitherto cut of except al
j. rare intervals, from river facilities. rhe
- demand for coal in the western markets
is great and growing. PittShnrg; mas
g nearly all she can do 10 supply her own
a manufactures and those Immediately
derer den. rpou her with fuel, without
: trying to enlarge her river trade. The
- kanawha region IL getting and must
a continue 20 get the benefit of the expan
N sion.
?, Railroad Eu;e~pr.s ses
q continue to attract strangers and enlivrn
~, ,F
have been dotted all summer with the
V white tents OF surveying parties locating
e railroads, under sundry different char
II ters. Two railroads from Cincinnati &c
Y Baltimore, one from Point Pleasant on