Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-11-08
CINCINNATI.
THE FIFTH OF AMERICAN CITIES.
The Whisky observation-disclosures and Ohio
Telegraph Company-The Iron
Workers-The Postoffice
War, Etc.
AN INCIDENT OF THE LATE WAR.
,ecial Correspondence OF the Register.

Cincinnati has pretty steadily held
the fifth rank among American cities in
the weekly amount of her Clearing
House exchanges. Two weeks ago they
reached the highest mark in her history,
25,000,000, which was at the rate OF
s. 900 per annum for every man, woman
and child.
In August last the boot and shoe
manufacturers and the clothing manu-
facturerS were scared about the effect OF
the drought and short crops upon tneir
business, especially on account OF the
many orders countermanded from the
best districts. But now they See they
were frightened at a ghost. Good orders
are coming in fast-so fast that tsey will
be compelled to push to meet the de-
mands OF trade. Cincinnati next after
Massachusetts is the leading centre in
this country of the boot and shoe trade
The Whiskcy Question.
Cincinnati claims to be the leading
controlling market for whiskeys. For a
hali-month past she has occupied in the
whiskey market the attitude of a house
divided against itself. Nevertheless she
stands. There are five continuous dis
tillers who form, as it were, an esoteric
whiskey exchange and assume to fix the
price. They are known 10 the market
as the big Five" \ short time ago
they were the big six, but one OF their
number went over to the gentiles and
their title dropped peg. Well, the
Big Five called on the outsiders to
reduce prices, and the outsiders were
not docilc, and SO they demanded terms
and conditions. 1t looked like war.
But now an understanding has appa.
rently been reached. The Big Five"
and the outsiders or gentiles are going
to meet and put the price OF whiskey at
Sl.l0.
The b. & o. Telegraph Company
expects to cut twelve wires from the
American Union next week and Set up
for itself an independent office in this
city. An office is already equipped and
the force ior operating il organized. 1t
will have wires to the Chamber Of Com
merce and an office there. BY the way,
Pixies Opera House
is now transformed into room for the
Chamber oi Commerce. The pros
enium boxes and the balcony and gal
iery with their seats remain, but the
stage and its trappings have been re.
moved; and the hall looks large and
empty. In 1871 this was changed un-
der the daily and constant superlntend.
cnce of Mr. Pike from music hall to
AN opera house in fOrty-eight days, and
Aimee and her opera boulie troupe
christened it with AN inaugural week OF
comic opera. BY the middle OF the
present month its frescOed walls will
echo TO the tread OF the money changers.
The Iron Workers
strike is now definitely over, the men
having returned to work at former
prices, after losing five months work
and the city millions OF dollars OF trade.
AS stated by one OF the leading workers
a few days since, hereafter the Clncln-
natl workers will have something to say
about fixing the prices. AS he remarked,
the Cincinnati mills are willing to pay
the Pittsburgh scale, and they pro-
pose to have it increased - to 20 per
cent. next June. Ii not done they will,
he said, transfer the strike from Gin
cinnati to Pittsburgh. The mill owners
fought us mere, and fought US so hardly
and bitterly that We had TO give up,
beaten. In Pittsburgh there will be
big difference. The mill owners there
cannot make the stand that they did
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to pay an advance OF even 20 per cent.
they would be obliged to do 1t This,
continued the speaker, will all be done
prior to June, and then whatever the
price is, the Cincinnati men will be
bound to pay. The war OF
The "Outs" Against the "Ins"
continue and bids fair to be another and
enlarged edition OF the Kilkenny cat
fight. The commission of the present
postmaster, Mr.. Loge, who is German,
expires in January, and already the ap-
plicants for the place are legion.
Wahle, eX. postmaster and Stalwart, is
anxious to fill the place again as rep.
resentative of the German race, and
Albert =, hwil. likewise Tueton, insists
that he has claims" Col. Whitfield, the
present assistant and acting postmaster,
has strong backing, as have G. W.
Thomas and Ctlers. These who feel
that the postoflice should be reformed,
insist that Deacon Smith, Of the GU=stte,
is the proper man for the place, and that
Inv giving il to him he would be released
from the influence OF the wicked Romeo
Reed. and that the innate goodness
which radiates from his person would
create such an atmosphere OF piety in
the custom house as would even affect
the reformation OF the sub-treasury, if
such thing were possible. Altogether
il is very pretty fight, especially to
those who don't care continental who
wins.
Col Orzo J. Dodds,
who. by the way was 4 gallant soldier
and is now an aspirant for Congressional
honors in the First district,in the course
of a conversation, spoke OF his first en-
listmpnt as soldier. He was studying
AT AIiam; College in 1851, and was cap
tam OF the company recruited among
the students, which enlisted for the
three months service, and numbered
los men, and which was part OF the
Twentieth Ohio Infantry. At the ex-
piration oi their time, l04 re enlisted,
and at the clos OF the war, one had
died from injuries received in action,
and lO2 were officers, graded from Lieu
tenant to Brigadier General. This Is
certainly the most remarkable record
ever heard OF, but is absolutely true.
On their re.eulistment they were scat
tered to different regiments, and the
fact OF their three months service gave
them position and the fate ol war spared
all but two.
One OF these, Capt Nathan Palmer
Dunn, met with a most dramatic death.
He was ranking officer and as such com
maaded an Indiana regiment at the
battle Of ChiCkamauga, and while re-
pulsing an attack by q counter charge,
he seized the flag and dashed up the
hill alter the foe ,and Was cheering on ms
men, when he was shot and instantly
killed, and as he iell the flag wrapped
around him and covered him like pail.
loRIIk.
Only SIS, 1000 Short.
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