Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-12-27
THE NEWS.



"A young Philadelphia doctor is hav-
ing q medicine case made out of the
tanned skin Ofa negro.
ok families arrived at Castle Garden,
Runa for the Cooperative Farm AsSo-
aanon at Janesville, Wis.
" The Chalmers mandamus case, at
Miss, to compel the Secretary
Z SI S otate 10 count the votes east for J. L.
Nhambliss for Chalmers, was dismissed.
General Belknap, acting for Penn
! syVanla manufacturing company, has
onered 70 bid $4,000 for the Govern
ment property at Harper's Ferry, if it
saau again be put up at public auction.
Foreign.
On an average one hundred persons
searched nightly at Dublin under the
SnrieW clause of the Repression act.
l,>fA London Times correspondent at
nome, referring TO the demonstrations
growing out Of the execution at Trieste
or Overdank, says that the language of
tne Intrinsigart press is becoming afro
| cious.
Westgate was arraigned in the police
court yesterday and discharged, Muir
phy, the Crown counsel, stating that
the authorities were satisfied that he
could have had nothing to do with the
murders in Phoenix Park.
1.-The two upper floors of VIM. Whit
E1ey's furniture store, in London, were
burned out Monday night. The dam
age was great. The establishment was
one OF the largest in London. Twenty
five engines were engaged in subduing
the flames.
/ BusineSs.
The produce exports from New York
! for the past week amounted to SIS, $751;
go.
The Fremont National Bank, of Ere
mont, Neb., is authorized to begin
business. Capital $4,000.
At Toronto, Ont, Patterson Bros,
Wholesale millinery, made an assign
4fnt to-day. Liabilities said to be
{ kirge.
The AtchesOu, Topeka and Santa Fee
N RailrOad has just negOtiateda loan with
y kidder, Peabody x Co., of Boston, for
&tl5O,OOO.
The suspension of G.. Herdel, Lon
don stock broker of Philadelphia, is
/, announced. The liabilities are not
= rs, and it is not thought that any
ser brokers will be involved.
1t is said that clause in the Army
bill affects Union Pacific unfavOrably
tby provision that Government busi-
mes shall be done at 30 per cent. Of or
iinary tariffs.
The rolling mill of the Canonsburg
1reh- Company, at CanOnsburg, is al
most completed and ready for running.
. 1l IS expected to start up this week.
The engine has arrived and IS being
plneed in position. Fire has already
been placed under the boilers, and
stcam gotten up to test the pipes, ham,
&1er, etc.
n The Edgar Thompson Steel Works
have completed arrangements whereby
I. The molten metal from the furnace will
be conveyed in ears, ladle shaped, and
poured into the cOnverters. Heretofore
! it was cast into pig, which necessltated
re-melting This method Is in use at
Bethlehem, Pa, and at the North Chi
cagO mills, but the Edgar Thompson
is the first concern to use it hereabOutS.
II A special from Pittsburgh says: Bus
|ineSS will be rather dull this week.
MANY of the mills and factories have
suspended, Ostensibly to give the men
|hOliday, but in reality because orders
IA Settling up the years business, and
seeing where they stand for next year.
Owing to the long strike the yearly bal |
ances will not be quite as large as usual,
knd in some instances they Will be on |
4 ,bwrOng side.
- recent census bulletin shows an |
|enOrmOus increase in the production OF |
malt LIQUORS, chiefly lager beer, in the |
faT Not
$50 and 1850. In the former year the |
Y~ravtity made was valued at S55,0OO,- |
~ In 1850 il reached SOL, 100000. |
<Iknring the same period the increase in |
.fhe production of distilled liquors was
small, the value Of the |
roduct being S:i6,0OO,OOO in 1870 and |
IN 100000 in 1850.
n 4 Speculation in Wall street is at (
lower ebb than il has been for months.
[There is a general indispOsitiOn TO en-
| bark in new ventures 50 near the end OF
|{he year, and the drifting variations
<eeorded on the tape attract little in
(erest or attention. More doubt is ex-
8ressed as TO the course of stocks after |
(he new year opens than has been eX-
roessed for many seasons. 1t is un-
fiokRble that the result of the years |
fosiness in commercial circles has been |
fhz nom satisfactory, andas commission |
/ctses generally are aware Of the fact, |
hoR give little encouragement TO the |
- enstomers left to them to deal.
ne Old Dominion Iron and Nail
rUcrks. at Richmond, have started
!. beir steam puddle mill. This mill is
"a auxiliary of the great water power
c~ned by the company, and is expected
u implement the james river in sea-
rons oi dIought like 1881. The mill has
Fsn double puddle furnaces and six bat
[eries of boilers, with q SOO-horse power
<rrine and every appliance known to
|rofiflg mill practice for cheapening aud
fcsasing production. The building
q 9TD feet long by 100 feet wide, and
fre-proof, and is said to be the most
rd,nfortable mill in the United States.
- completion of this mill places the
.'3 Dominion Company at the head Of
-IItng mills of the South, having the
80 number of furnaces and employ
more men than any other mill
u .,fh oftbe Potomac and Ohio rivers.