Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-12-13


The Lehigh Valley railroad declared
Z adividend Of . per cent.
T. y * W. II. Sweeney, bankers OF
\ CIV York City, failed. Liabilities,
A 1000.
1.-The total receipts for tolls on the
tmalS of New York State for the sea-
: n of 1882 were S655, 1875.
The Roberts National Bank of Titus
VI 'e, Pa, has been authorized to begin
y lsineSs. Capital 100000.
~ creditor i'm his action to recover his
fbt served q notice of attachment on
a insurance company which had in
ered the stock of goods Of the defend
m. The goods were burnt, but the in
srred had not made his proof of loss, and
Mere Was no aScertainment of the
mount due by the company. In this
caSe, KatZ vs.. SOrsby, the plaintiff got
'Hlgment against the company for the
mount OF the policy, but on appeal the
&preme Court Of Louisiana reversed it.
Id Chief Justice DBermudeZI, i'm the
QpiniOn, said: The creditor can recover
Cd y what the debtor could against the
company, and it Is clear that he could
ntt maintain anactiOn for his loss be-
lofe he had complied with the require
1tntS Of the policy.
lhe railroad earnings, aS compiled by
IA Financial and Commercial Chroni-
-, continue TO show the same gratify-
q increase aS before. In fact the per-
.ebltage OF gain is steadily increasing.
n was 1t in September, 10 in October,
ID now for November it is l., with a
,ain OF only tritle over 10 per cent in
|he mileage. The cotton movement
d 5 been free and large, but the grain
failic has not been a. much greater
ban last year as We might have eN-
'EEted, while the Southern roads had
bod share Ofcereals as well Is cotton 10
brry, and general freight was heavy on
u thelines. All the Southwestern roads
fere conspicuous for their gains, but in
be Northwest the st. Paul Is far ahead
4 all the others, save the Burlington,
1itar Rapids and Northern. For the
Is eleven months of the year fifty
hur roads report gross earnings OfS25T,-
IA, laO, against S224, $50, ,S5l, a gain of
BE- ,l9l ,l79, or IA per cent. Only four
.eads fall below last year, and their
eSS, with the exception of the Mobile
,ld Ohio, is trifling. The roads which
'fpOrt net earnings show still heavier
Ains, prominent among them being
be Pennsylvania and the Chicago,
and Quincy, and the Buff
alO, Pittsburgh and Western.
According to the returns Of the ninth
knsus, the number of manufacturing
in the United States was
-, los; i'm 1850 it was %, $40, an in
cfease of ,692, but the bulletin Omits
Satistics Of fishery products, gas manu-
seizures and mining quartz mills,
Rhirh, to the total number of TI2 estab-
tshments, were included i'm the COrre-
spOnding tables of the ninth census.
Qhe bulletin docs not embrace
statistics of railroad and street
bars built and repaired in the shops of
steam railroad companies, nor of ship
Building and repairing in the navy
kardS In 1870 the amount Of capital
hvested in manufacturing establish
bnents was ,, lIS,2OS, ,769, or, reduced to
J gold basis the average premium be-
hg G5.3 per cent about 81 1874, ,56S, ,O6l ;
In 1850 It was S2,79O, ,223, 800, an increase
ID II ,O96, 65j, 100, while il is probable
lhat the statistics on this subject for
] 80 are not Sc far from being accurate
eS were those OF 1870, it will not be amiSS
r. recall the remarks of Superintendent
Walker in regard to the latter when he
fcclared: The census returns of capi'
tal invested in manufactures are entire
ly untrusJwOrthy and delusive. ThC
Enquiry is one of which il is not toC
<PlIch to say that it ought never to bt
Embraced i'm the schedules Of the cen
sUs." After giving his reasons for thi
ropinion, General Walker remarked tina
De regarded it a. doubtful whether the
amount reported -, lis, ,2OS, ,769l, repre-
sented "one-fOurth of tho capital act
,Ually contributing to the annual grOS
fDrOduct "