Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-03
General Notes.

Sweeney x son made large brass cast
ing yesterday.
Harmony Lodge, X. of L., will meet at
the hall this evening.
The sugar refinery is making on an ay-
erage 30 barrels of a syrup per day.
The railroad crossing at the South Wheel
ing Glass Works was being repaired yestcr-
day.
The iron columns for Reymann's brewery
were finished by Sweeney 4 Son, Yesterday,
and will be removed to the brewery, to-day
Holidays planning mill is running to its
fullest capacity now with more orders than
they can fill at present. The trade has
certainly taken boom
Work at the b. Il o. railroad shops is
getting very scarce. The men have scarce
~ anything to do in the way OF building
new cars, &c, at present.
Yesterday, large barge OF iron ore, about
900 tons. from Alabama mills, was being
unlOadcd at the Belmont blast furnace, also
barge OF lime stone, from up the river.
Hobbs. Brockunier & Co. S factory which
was off yesterday as the men attended the
funeral of fellow workman, resumed work
again at q o'clock last evening.
The workmen at the LaBclle mill who
are at work building new nail machines
have orders to push the work as rapidly as
possible a. they want plenty of machines.
The large shaft for the Ktna mill which
has been cast for about week, was taken
out of the moulds yesterday and weighs
about seven tons. Sweeney < Son will ship
ii to-day.
The new building at Hobbs, BroCkunirr
4 Co. s glass works, which was completed
about a week ago, is 55xlO feet, and is to he
used for storing snap dragons" 1t is fire
proof throughout.
A single coke shipping firm of this city
paid the Baltimore and Ohio, and Pennsyl-
vania Railroads freight bills amounting to
100000 during the year from October lst,
1850 to October LIST. 1881.
One of the wire ropes used for hosting
ore, etc, to the top OF the blast furnace, at
the Belmont mill, broke, yesterday after
noon, and the furnace had to be run with
only one holster. until the rope could be
-SrrS;IeI.
The use of the electric light is materially
affecting the gas companies receipts. For
instance, the Union Depot used $500, 900
feet annually up to within a month ago,
and they will now use only 800, 900 feet
PftSJurGh Post
The men employed to dig the foundation
for the new addition to SChmulbaCh & Co. s
brewery expect 10 have il finished by the
first OF next week, when the Stonemasons
will take hold and rush their part through
a fast as possible.
The new mould shop at Hobbs, Brockunier
& Co. S glass works is 10 be one OF the nost
convenient and best arranged in the couu-
try, having all the latest patents that are
being used successfully. They expect to
have it completed by the 18th OF June.
According ia published statement, there
are 5000 coo miles OF fencing in the United
States, the total cost of which has been more
than $2,0OO, 10000. The census reports
show that during the census year there
were expended SIS, 625 900. OF this amount
the largest contribution was from Illinois;
the second from Pennsylvania.
The air shaft of the Connellsyille Coke
and Iron Company will be completed within
the next thirty day. Fifty.four diggers are
now employed and fifty OF the two hun.
dred ovens are running seventy two-hour
coke. When the air shaft is completed the
force Of diggers will be increased TO seventy,
and the entire plant will be run to its
fullest capacity.
Mr.. James Parke, Jr.. and Mr.. Singer. of
Singer, Nimick & Co., are both very earnest
ly opposed TO Sunday work in the steel
works in which they are interested, and
Mr.. Felix E. Brunot, of the Sabbath Com
mittee, says he hopes to see the day before
long when work will be suspended at those
establishments on Sunday, as we'll as at the
Homestead Bessemer Works.-PittsJurgh
Dispatch.
A company of gentlemen in Steubenville
are thinking seriously of establishing in
that city large -four and sack factory,
with capital OF $4,000 They propose to
manufacture their own paper make the
sacks and print them. To accomplish this
the most modern machinery is to be pro-
cured, capable of turning out a superior
quality Of -four sacks.
Consultations are the order of the day.
One OF the latest, and not the least import