Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-01-10

llHe Unlteu States.
At Milford, Mass, attachments have
been placed on the properties OF the
Henderson Opera Company, ana the
company has disbanded. No salaries
were paid, and the manager, H IS al
legged, has absconded.
Foreign.
An autograph letter from Emperor
William to the Pope has been received
at the Vatican.
Cant. Lana says the cash In the side
of the CITY OF Brussels is eight feet VIDE
and three feet deep,
kilograms to st. Petersburg from
VladiOOstOCk report movement by
China against Corea possible.
Gladstone will probably so to South
Europe soon, but there is no cause Tor
anxiety regarding his condition.
II is authOratively denied that the
visit Of DIR. Schroeder, of fBerlin, to Lon
don h IN consequence Of his his having
been summOnedtO attend professionally
the Prince of Wales.
The British ship British Empire,
from Shields to Bombay, was burned at
sea- Ten persons were saved, but two
boats containing the captain, mate and
fourteen hands, are missing.
8 The steamer Kirby Hall, which ran
down the City of Brussels is now lying
at MOEpeth dock. She draws eighteen
: feet Of water. The damage is above
the Nater line. The cutwater is COM
pletely carried away
The police of Rome seized two casts
of 9yeTdank on TWO successive OccaS-
iops during the anvciling by the social
istsjn their room there. In connection
with the seizures there were twenty
five persons arrested, including the
Popular Tribune ParbOni.
Business.
The Hazard wire company, Of
J, WilkesbaTre, Pa, Is now engaged in the
manufacture Ola wire rope >, 400 feet i'll
length. -~g--..
In the eastern part of Massachusetts,,
and with headquarters in Boston, are
seven nail mills, operating 800 ma
chimes and turning out an average of
lO,e09,kegs per week, mostly for the
home trade, bat furnishing shipments
for Cuba and South America.
The Gautier wire mill, JOhnstown,
d,tHl
Departments, with seyemty-five draw
ems and twenty apprentices at work.
The,ipill is now turning out about sixty
tonz,@ finished wire per day rs against
one hundfed tons previous TO the lock-
out, but it is expected that by the last
- of this week all the blocks will be oecu-
pied and the machinery running TO its
full capacity.
AS long as the tariff question is hang
ing firs iQ Congress it will not be pOSSi-
bls tospesek with much certainty as to
the enortrade or the probabilities ofthe
immediate future. AppreesnsiOnS are
expressed by representative men in the
trade rs tothe prices and demand. If
there We're mo unsettling influences
business would be large and prices salts
factory. Production has. increased to
such, an extent that declining tendency
has set in which without any iHterfer-
enee in Congress would bring prices to
permanently lover level. II is not to
be seriously doubted whether the tink-
ering now going on will not produce
ultimately an opposite result rather
than the one intended, as the pro-
ductive capacity throughout the
world is very little in excess of
present eonsunIptive requirments.
These requirements are eXpant-
ing rap;dity, and 1t is more probable
that prices viii advance if capacity
does not keep pace than that they
should decline.
The Northwestern Lumberman, says:
There is little question about the inn
pOrtant destruction of growing trees in
the east for the holiday traffic, though
the slaughter is not of the same eOnse-
qaence in the north. 1t is stated that
the shipping of Christmas trees from
Portland, Me-, 10 New York City has
assumed very large proportions.
Twenty-Five years ago u few carloads
supplied the demand; now it takes sew
eraI freight trains, containing over l5D,-
go trees, to meet the needs of the occa-
sion. The trees vary in height from
five to thirty feet, and the smaller
ones are tied together in bundles.
Many of them are cut in strip
Of forest in Deering, and one hun
dred men are employed in telling, trim
ming and preparing them for
market msNew York they are sold to
commission merchants ut from s. to
Sl2 bundle, and are retailed by gro-
GERS there for about 30 cents each up to
S6 for domestic use, while the big trees
tOr churches and schools fetch as high
ss from Sl5 to so. The kind most in
demand Is balSam fir, and it is claimed
that the trees from Maine retain their
freshness longer than those from New
York State. Artificial Christmas trees,
precisely initiating the natural ones,
are now made al Troy, n. V, and they
may in time be substituted for them.
II is estimated that ,, 900 fir trees, rang
ing in size from three to thirty feet in
height, have been taken to the Boston
market. They came chiefly from
Brownfield, Gorhsnland SearbOrO. The
cost Of freight per ear from Brownfield
is $40, while from Gorham and Scar
bOro il is only so. The trees, however,
cost more on the stump in the latter
places.