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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-14
PRODUCE.
Wheeling,


Butter-Prime to choice creamery 800
zoe; choice dairy l29l4c; good to prime
country roll l0c; common mixed
stock 5@6c. Fair demand.
Bceswax-Quotedat 2S@32c 7 10.
Reans-Hand picked mediums 81 25cN9
40 per bushel; string beans. new, zoe
per bushel.
prcd Fruit - New evaporated pared
peaches 25628c; impaired do l5@l6c;
raapherries 25@3Oc; blackberries lOc.
New sundried, apples, quartered, 24C93c;
sliced, 6M7c; peaches new alyes,8!C98So;
DO quarters, Tic; do pared l5@l8c;
do blackoerries Sc; do rsspberries 22925c;
nited cherries l2@l4o. New evaPorated
sdplcs Ease. Market on Dried Fruit NOM
inal; demand slow.
Cheese-Sales in joajing way of prime
mud Ohio factory at collie New York
l4.@ljc; Sweitzer l39l5c; Lmbefger II
@l2c.
Eggs-Strictly fresh stock in good densnd
at l3c p doz.
packages, 4(05c more in small lots
Honey-Ghoice white clover, lS92Oc;
choice buukwheGt l6(9loc.
Nuts-Shelbarks, 81 25@l so; black val
nuts, 5O66Oc; chesnuts 81 0O@+ OO.
Peas-Green. 9OcC6$l 90 q bu.; split,
2G33 q n; new 9Oc@Sl 90.
Potafoes-5O66Oc per bushel. New,
prime 81 OO@ % per Dbl Culls - oO9
Poul,ry--Live chickens, 50 5O9S 60 y
d.. d. chickens Halle; DO ducks II
@l3c. Good demand.
Rags-Steady at lt@l4c for white mix
ed cotton; l@l!c for all wool and ltl@9'c
tor mixed. =, ool,
Seeds-Sales OF timothy seed at II 900
> 90 r bushel; clover, small seed - Dug
6 05; large, Sc OO@6 70. as to quality.
Sweet cider-Couptry sweet = % per
barrel. Demand fair.
Lard-Couutry prime, those, demand
good. %.
Raspberries r quart Sc.
Strawberries 4 quart S@H DC.
Watermelons $40 90 Z hundred.
Anples. Green, Il Dbl 81 00G 90.
New York.
Nrw YoxZ, July l3.-flour-Duil ana
rather weak except on fine and superhne,
both beng scarce and firm. Recelp's -V'ott
barrels; exports 6l9 barrels: common to
rood extra western and State 81 '(dSt loi
common to choice extra St Louis s. 10
as 80. Wheat Receipts 1871 bushels;
exports SS3 bushels; shade better for spot;
options opened heavy and lower, recovered
from decline and closed firm; sales l.6OO ooU
bushels future; l3' 900 bushels spot; No.
spring 9lc; soft No. Milwaukee 9Oc; No
| northern 96c; soft oslo; choice migrated
red 7O@9lc; No red 993lc; No. | white
csc; ungraded white 93c; No. red July
99@99Ic, closing at 99l; August 1890
@$l OOl. closing at 81 OOl; SePtenoer
81 Ol}@l O2!, closing at 81 C23; October
81 O33@l Oh options 81 0l4; December
81 O6}@l org, closing at 81 or Corn
Spot shade easier, fairly scrive, aud prices
lover closing firm; receipts 800 100 bushels;
exports l3+O9 bushels; ungrsded 49@
sac; No. ; 5lle; No. 2 white 6nc; uu
Graded white SIC; No. July 52l@523c
closing at 523c: August 53f"h53!c, closing
at 5S!c September 5ii95iSc, closing at
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GROCERIES.
Wbee1iug,

Trade shows slight improvement over
sst week. Sugars are all firm and higher.
Roasted coffee lower.
SrcARs-Sugars continue in fair demand.
some holders predict further advances.
Cut Loaf 7}c; Cubes 7}c; Fruit powdered
&C; Powdered 7lc; Granulated Standard
7!c; Granulated ordinary &c; Standard Con.
tectioners A 6}c; grocers A 63c; Pearl
white A Gle; White extra c SIC; Ohio val
ley 55c; golden c &c; New York c sc;
new Fruit sugar 4sc.
CoFFEEs-Green cofee-Fsncy Golden
Rio l3c; Fancy Green BE; Peaberry
BE; Choice he; Prime lie Good l0ic:
Fair lOc; Roasting grades S@sc; Old
Government Java 2Oc. Roasted coffee in
packages-Arbuckle's l ID l@c; Cardobs
10. l3c; Dilworth n. l3c; Dilworth
Brunswick aud 2 10. l7!c; lowering q. l..
c. tb. lSc; lowering Java lbs Soc
Rising Sun lb. l3c; Tiger ID. l3c;
Partola h. SIC, &c off in lots of 300 lbs OF
anyone kind. Bulk Roasted-Old Govern.
ment Java 24c; Peaberry lac; Choice
rtlo lSc; Prime l2c; Good HE; Fair
&c; Ordinary l04.
RICE. - Carolina head, tic; Carolina
choice &c; Carolina prime 6tc; Louisiana
sc; Java pearl &c: Broken S4c.
SYRUPs-Choice Is5u Syrup 30l433c;
ordinary Sugar Syrup 23@23c; Honey
Drips CSC; Sugar, House (dark) 2Ga22H
&c additional half barrels)i New Cro9
New Orleans Mollasses. Fancy 52En5jc
'hoice 4S@5Oc, Prime 4f947c; Fair Asa
lSc. Choice Bakers 3O6S5c
PRovIsIoSs-Large s. C. Hams 9@9!c.
Nedium s. C Hams l0c; Small s. C. Ham
ulc; California Hams 7ic; 5. c. Breskfss
bacon &c; S. C. Shoulders 6ici City Sides
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7lc; Bacon Shoulders SIC; Ham Beet DC;
ordinary Beef &c, Country Sides tic
LARD-Tierce Ilc; halt barrels I. &c; tub.
&c; buckets &c; TIN pals 3 ID Sbe; tin pailf
BIB &c; tin pals 10 ID Tie; tin pals 20 Ii
&c; tin pals 81 ID 7!c.
CANNED GoODs.-Standard BIB table peach
81 IS; pie peaches Bib 81 Us; pie peaches
oh 81 IS; No 3 tomatoes 9Oc; toms-
toes BIB Boston market 81 rs;
canned corn, Thompsons 2tb
cans zoe; do Wiuslows 2tb 81 20;
do 2nd grade 2fb 75c; strawberries 2lb
81 10; blsckbernes 2fb 81 90; raspberries
2ib 81 90 Damsons 2tb Csc; lima beans
2lb 90c; cove oysters ltb hight 55c; do
| h full weight 81 O5@l 10 string beans
2ib S5@90c; succotash 2ib 90c@l rs;
Marrow fat peas 2tb 81 1902 10; goose
berries 2ib 9Oc@$l 90.
FRUITs-ValencIs rsisins, &c; layer
Ondara raisins, lc; layer ordinary raisins
2 90; layer California raisins, 81 20; Lon
on layer raisins 81 Is; French prunes,
l 90 TO 10, 6ic; COS, 93c; French prunes,
sos, lO!c; French prunes, los, l0c; French
prunes Cos. lltc; French pruaes,
oOs, l"ci turkey prunes, oci Eng
fish currants, cask, sc; fancy evaporated
apples, SIC; good evaporated apples, 7tc;
fancy evaporated peaches, Ice; good evapo-
rated peaches, loo; good ..!s, common
peaches, SEC.
Om.-Lard, extra western strained SOC;
carbon, 10, Sc; carbon, $50, S!ci white
miners best winter 48c; white miners No.
2, 45c.
CoNDITIoN OF MARKETs.-Sugsrs, firm
and higher, from the fact that a very
heavy export demand on hard sugars has
taken place, higher figures may be looked
for on granulated; raw sugars are firm;
coffee, firm and with lower market in con.
temptation; rice, firm; lard, weak; provi-
sions, barely steady; fruits, nominal;
statesmen on the road report collections very
quiet, with better times expected in the near
( lture
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LIVE sToCB.
wheeling,

"ncehuks
The market as general thing rules
fair this week. Messrs. Hudson / Bayhs
'urnish the following quotations:
Cattle-EXtra | 900 TO LOO b. cattle,
&c per ID good, 500 to 900 lbs, 4t9i3c
per h.; light from 600 to 500 lbs, 3ig4ic
per ID.
Bogs-Market active; 3}a4i per ID.
Sheep-Dull; 2.9%c per ID.
i.alnbs-Good, market firm; lCD5c per 10.
Calves-S3 00@6 W per head.
Fresh cows-SIO 00p%j 90 per head.
Chicago.
CaiCAcU July l3.-The Drovers' Journal
reports; Cattle-Receipts 1900 head; ship
manls 1000 head; natives ruled steady;
Texans lOc lower; shipping steers ) 500
i 90: stockcrs and feeders s. OO@4 80;
COWS, bulls and mixed s. loot -; through
Texas cattle, corn ted, 81 OjC,l 50: grass
ers - 1901 10.
Hogs-Receipts $4,000 head; shipments
$500 head market opened firm, bu' closed
56lOc lower; rough and mixed s. 100
/ 10; packing and shipping ! 1904 30;
light weights 81 1904 So; skips 50 OO9
1 90.
Sheep-Receipts 200 head; shipments
none; market steady; natives 81 jO@i %;
Texans 81 OO@3 10; lambs, 81 OO@3 90
per head.
Cables from Liverpool quote heavy sup
oly of American cattle; prices lc lower, best
selling at lie per ID.
New York.
NEw YORK, July lG.-Beeves- Re-
eipts 1910 head, MAXIM 1850 for the
.et medium fair o good corn fed and disull-
ry fed steers have been shade iirmcr, but
b, market was slow and for choice heavy
orn led steers and al descriptions of grass
attic hc dcmand was weak; eXtr mes for
teers s. 0O@6 80 pr cwt live wei hit;
at bulls - S0M+ 10. Exports for the
week 1850 head Of cattle, 10 sheep, SOS
puarters OF beef and 900 caTcasses Of NUT
on.
Sbeep-Receipts $3.50 head, making a
otal Of II $50 ior The week; market eX
remedy dull; exIrem,s for sheep 81 s74Ng
, 90 per 100 pounds for lambs 5 $50
90; neral sales, 81 %O@4 6j for sheep
and s. O0@6 20 for lambs.
Hogs-Receipts 9.64O head, making 25,-
700 for the weak. No traiin4 in i've hogs.
Market nomDally Grmcr at - 300 80
per 100 pounds.
East Liberty.
East LIBERTY, July l&.-Cattle-Dull
and slow 81 decline from la week prices
f 2jc Receipts 2,7l7 head shipments
2O4 head.
Hogs-S'rong and higher; Phi'adelphia9
and Workers 81 6O@4 20; receipts . 100
bead; shipments 1900 head.
Sheep--Firm and unchanged. Receipts
1900 read; shipments 800 head.
Cincinnati.
ClyctxSATI, O., July l3-Hogs-Firm;
common and light, So jO@l 50; packing
and butchers 81 OO@+ 80; receipts 92V
head; shipments 800 head.
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FINANCE AND TRADE,
Honey Per Cent.-Governments Quiet
Stocks Strong-Flour Unchanged-Whsst
Hipber.

Money l Per Cent.-Governments Quiet
Higher.
NV YORK, July lt.-Money on call easy
at per cent premium; prime mercantile
paper 4@5 per cent. Foreign exchange
quiet but steady at 4S4@4sj4
GOVERNMENTS - Quiet and quotations
rather weah for > 5 and / 5.
Trr,es cpupopi ...-..
Sours and-s-hAn li3's
toJrs coupons
Pacific SiI5s Of lss5............ see.
STATE SEcuRlTIES--Quie' and quotations
steady.
RNiwAYS-Active and stronger in sym
pathy with the stock market.
SrocES-Tbe market has been srrong all
day. The belief is very general on the street
that the railroad troubles have been so nearly
settled that an adjustment is practically as
surtd. The total sales today were 81, III.
The most active stocks to DAY were St. Paul,
Lackawanua, Western Union, New York
Central, Lake Shore and Northwestern.
Prices at the opening were, with
few excep ions, at or above the
closing quotations last wee bat during The
first hour there was loss OF ! to per cent.
in the general list, which was recovered short
" after midday. The exceptional declines
in that line were New Jersey Central ! and
Western Union ! per cent. The market
made q slow but steady movement upwards
from noon ill clock, and in ne last halt
hour there was more rapid advances, with
increased activity. Prices IN most cases at
the close were a shade below the highest
figure THE day, but he market closed
slrcrg.
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COTTON.
New York.

NEw YORK July Is -Cotton--Dull; NIL
ding uplands lO:c Orleans lOtc; tn ur-s
closed easy; July 10 lac; Angus 10 To-;
September 10 0Sc; October 9.7Sc Novem-
her Q zoe; December Q zoe; January 3 sc:
Eahruary 9 SSc; March l0OOci ApnI
10 l0c.
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NAILS-s2 ga GARD.

Wheeling
The nail market is active. Nails, fence
and br4ds - lOd to God, - 25i Sd
and Cd, 81 so; cd and I'd,
g 10; 4d and sd, 81 90; Sd, So Is; I'd,
s. 90. Barel-2 inch, Sc %; / inch,
IS 25; inch, 81 IS; /! inch, 81 90;
II inch, s. Is; Il inch, 81 %; Il inch
81 90. Lining inch, S. 70; : inch;
SO %. Tobacco Hhd-l0d 81 Is; Sd
Sc 90; Cd and I'd, 81 %. Clinch-Al
sizes, 81 90. Slating-5d 1925, Id, 1925;
Sd, 81 90; I'd, s. 25. Finishing-l inch,
81 %; II inch, S. %; Inch, 81 so; u to
IL inch, 81 20; 2 inch, 81 90; p inch, So IS:
3 inch and over, So 80. Casing and Box
ing-I0d to sod, So 90; Sd, 81 Is; Cd, $3.50;
4d' So IS; Sd, 81 Is. Fine Blued-4d,
81 90; Cd, S. 25; I'd, Sc 90. Cut Spikes
All sizes, 81 so. Boat Spikes-All sizes
50 90. Each half keg loo extra.
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green clover may give rise to hovep, collie
or other complications which would en-.
Danger the lives Of the animals.
Galvanized wire netting can now be OBJ
tanned Tor cent per square foot, and as it
is more easily converted into fence than is
lumber, and is At the same time more dura.
Die, more OF it is being used this year for
poultry yards than ever before.
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DRY GOODS.
New York.

New YORK. July l3.-Wi'hout any gen
eral activity there has been more business
hut chiefly in such sessonable specialties as
fancy prints, dress ginghsms, tsuneIs and
department stocks of faacy character. A
better feeling prevails and the market is
filing up with buyers
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rLOUR. GRAIN AND FEED.
PETkOLEUM,


P1rrsBURG, July l3.-Oil-Pstroleum
quiet but steady; National Transit certif.
Ca,es opened at 94lc; closed at cage; highest
943c; lowest 93!c.
Tttusville.
TITusvlLLE, July l3.-Msrket opened at
94Jc; closed at 93lc; highes. Csc; lowest,
e35c; shipments, 43,237 barrels; charters
lO4,563 barrels.
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b, L. &. Railroad,


Leave Beliaire At - 30 p. IN. for Summsrdeld.
Leave Bellaire at $40 a. N. for Somerneld and
GAINESVILLE.
Leave Bellaire II 80 p IN. for wOOdsdeld.
Arrive at Belllire, SIS a. m, Hoo a. IL. and
4 .Opp.m.
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TKASELElSs' GUIDE

A RRIyAL AND DEPARTURES OF TRAINS
"A EXPLANATION or RKFxRgSCx MAKKs: SDaiiy
sunday excepted. MONDAY excepted. wheeling
Time:
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Nj trains daily except sunday.
Trims leaving BrId,,porI AZ SIP n. m. (5:47 city
'iH.rl arrive AZ CEira Al ~ p IN. same day.
Trains ave Cleveland for Wheeling At 10 a. M,
,:U5 p. M. arriving at 2:i3 r. m. and s:I1 p. N.
j. q. rOMLINSDS,
Passenger Agent Wheeling, W. Va.
r.. A. FORD.
Gen. Pass and Ticket Agent, Pittsburg, Pa.
WM. 4. BALDWIN, Manager.
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All train, daily except SUNDAY.
Pullman, Palace Drawing Room and sleeping Car,
rough without change from Steubsavilie Vast I.
Philadelphia and New York West to Coluupbu,
,l,innati, Louisville, Chicago. Isdisnspo., ard
/. Louis,
F0r through tickets, baggage checks sleeping O.
.c,amnOdatioas. and any further Information sT
~ to JNO q. TOMLfE son Ticket Agent NJ p
-larte Station, foot OF Eleventh street. or A CT
7 ictet Office, under McTR House Wheeling
YANES NrCPEA
Manager. To'Un hns. Ohio,
A. F0Rp
Cen! Pass. and Ticket Agent, Pittsburgh, Pa
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ON SUNDAYS.
Leave the city ~ ? .. N. and run every hour until
2. N.
Leave Wheeling Park II N. and run every hour
.utu 10 D. IA. c. HIRSCH Supt.
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ID * I L Y
AND
Weekly Register
IOR
II 8 s :.

VIII be greatly improved and strengthened in O..
departments. 1t will be carefully edited for genera
circulation. 1t will be uneIcelled IS q State newi
paper, aud Journal adapted to the STORE the
OFFICE, the FAMILY and the PRESIDE. II will
INDEPENDENTLY DKEocRATTc, as the ORGAN OF
THE STATE AND NATIONAL DEMOCRACY.
Every issue will contain carefully compiled re-
sumo OF all the county, State, national and inter
national news The doing, at WASHING TON
be amply recorded from every standpoint.
All happenings Of interest at Washington,
neIghborns Congressional Districts Of Ohio AND
Penusyv together with all local news prepared
by q corp, Of experienced news gatherers In every
village ard hamlet withina radius OF fifty miles
Wheeling, will be chrou!cled faithfully a, they 90
curl
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WHEELING AEb PITTsBURGH DIVISION.
On and alter June 2lst, 1885, passenger trains will
'un a. follows, Wheeling time:
pRPARTUREs.
For Pittsbursh-4f0 q. m, daily; IS p. m
daily; $40 g. III. and 7:IS 8. n, daily except sun
day
For Washington-6:05 p. NJ, daily except Sunday
AEEIvAA
Prom Pitnburgh-9 'O5 M, daily; II o. 4. NJ. and
o. NJ. daily except sunday; 1918 p. m, daily.
From Wshington-7:So g. M, daily except Sun
day; 1915 p: m, daily;
h. DURHAM, General Manager.
j. I. LANE, Travelling Agent Wheeling.
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lU:55 p m. train through TO Cincinnati without
hange, with sleeper through TO Cincinnati.
Zanesville Accommodation leaves Wheeling a.
7.S5 a. m. and S:40 p. M, Beaire at $40 q IN
and AIS p. m daily except SUNDAY.
Moundsville Accommodation leaves Wheeling at
IS A ". and arrives lt houndrille st 1913 p. NJ,
1sily except sunday.
Nsunii gton Accommodation leaves at &:lo P. N.
Through coach IRON Wheeling 70 Cincinnati daily
on o., leaving Wheeling NJ sl5 An, arriving at
Cincinnati az & so p. NJ.
B. i 0. sleeping czn on all through trains
Close connection inside for all poinu south and
sJulhSest, North and Northwest, making this de-
sDe route for colonists and persont moving 10 the
great vest and 10 whom particular sttsntton Is
gwen.
Tickets TO all principal poinn on sae at depot
Sleeping car accommodations can be secured at De-
pot Ticket Office. , ~
&C BURKE,
Ticket Agent b. X y. Depot.
JOHN BAlLlE,
Ticket Agent, under NcLure House.
JOHN 7. LANE 1rav. Passenger Agent
C. X. LORD, Gen. Pass. Agent
X. T. DEVRIEs, General Agent, Wheeling
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mneEliNG AND ELM GROVE r. n

Z ~ AM As1Ek MONDAY, MAY 4, 1885,
- trains on the Wheeling and Elm Grove Rail-
cuAl VIII run to,lon:
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OHIO RIVER RAILROAD.
TUNE TABLE, CORRECTED TO JULY S, 1885.
/ Trains leave Panhandle station, in oi EIev.
nth street, near public landing, a. foovs- Cen
raj Standard Nme-whioh is 50 minutes slower
nan Wheeling time:
sOIss sJUTR,
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At CHARLESTON

natirg from the CAPITAL after the removal
Charleston Just the heretofore so that ever,
3iiiEen wishing TO know what is transpirinS al thi
SHAT OF CONVENIENT must continue to take thu
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Depart Arnve.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-19
WHERE rs THE SURPLUS7

The report of the Secretary Of the Treasury
for August reveals most alarming state Of
affairs. Less than year ago Mr. Hendricks
and all the lesser lights were shocking the poor
men of the country by showing, from the
official reports of the Secretary of the Treas
ury, that there were more than $3.50, 000 600
of surplus funds locked UP in the Treasury,
and that this, if properly disbursed, would
furnish more than eight dollars to every man,
woman and child in America, and that an
average family of half dozen would get
about fifty dollars, which would 60
great ways towards bridging over the
hard times. Many an honest man
voted fer Mr. Hendricks, expecting that he
would in some way, get his share. He wanted
not only change, but the change 1t seems
from the August report of the Secretary of
the Treasury that the money has been
promptly disbursed, for it gives as ''the net
cash in the Treasury, $44, 052, 929. 04'-that's
it to a cent! Now, what has become of the
other $500, 900, 000s 1t would seem, at first
glance, that the administration is not only
turning the rascals out as it turned Mullen
out of Jail, few days ago, where corrupt
Republican court had put him for locking
up ITO negroes the day Of the Cincinnati
election, to keep them from voting-to which
charge he pleaded guilty before the court
but they are turning the money out very
rapidly. Surely we have this right to COM
plain. Not one cent of this $500, O00 900 has
gone into Republican hands, and from all
that we can learn very little. if any, has gone
into the hands of the common Democratic
laborer. Indeed very few of the hundred
thousand Offices have struck that class. There
are too many Saints and Judds that have to
be first provided for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-19

towel washing for the government The bids
ranged all the way from forty cents to two
dollars per handred. The award was promptly
made to the lowest bidder, and Mrs Sarah
be about $4,000 per arnum. Of course this
will not pay the Presidents salary, but it
proves that he is anxious to do what he can
to earn the $25, 1000 paid him while devising
this measure of economy.
Actuated by no spirit of levity or cynicism,
the Journal spurns the idea Of Democratic
administration doing without towels, or dis
pensing with the formality of washing them.
We will admit that that would still further
reduce the expense, but no editor with the
least spark of pride in his heart cares to have
the White House compared with printing
Office and its traditional towel. But we do
think, and, in the same spirit in which we
have commended the President in hiring a
er reduction be made by letting each attache
wash his own towel This is perfectly feasible
and in peculiar harmony with the idea
Of Republican simplicity and Democratic
economy. Hot and cold water is conducted
all over the house, aud it would be the easiest
thing imaginable for each occupant to do his
own washing. If this does not meet with the
Presidents approval, it might be amended 10y
detailing, say every six months, a clerk, or
some one else, to do it all at once. A room
could be set aside in the White House for this
purpose, and for our part, we see no reason
why the saving of all wash bills might not be
effected. The reform in the official towel
washing we regard as the greatest triumph of
Mr.. Cleveland's administration. and properly
entitled to the publicity given it by the tele-
graphic dispatches from the capital.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-19
BUSINESS REVIVAL,

Our Geographic columns convey the agreea
BILE intelligence that one mill at least at Potts
town, feels the impulse of better times. An
iron firm there has notified their heater helpers,
rollers, and others working about the rolls, that
their wages will be increased, the increase in
some instances reaching as much as 20 per
cent, with prospect Of running double time
and plenty Of work This is small matter
to deserve public note, yet it will, and
deserves to, attract attention. Business,
and the iron business particularly,
is never sentimental Capitalists do not build
rolling mills and produce iron for mere pas
time, nor does much consideration Of the
needs Of the men cut any figure in the matter
Of making bar-iron or nails. Mill owners en-
gage in the business for the purpose Of max
ing money, and the rule is to pay the work
men such wages as will leave a margin Of
profit on the investment. Wages are seldom
raised voluntarily, the tendency being gener-
ally in the opposite direction. Hence the sig
nifcance of the action of the Pottstown
mill-owners in this instance. They must feel
warranted in the increase of pay, and must
see some encouragement in the undertaking
AS indicated, they evidently have large orders
ahead and contracted for at figures more
favorable than have been made in the recent
past. 1t has been said that iron is the best
barometer Of trade in general. When it is
strong and active, all business feels invigora-
ted, and capital ventures into the channels of
trade. The people will hope that this is but
the precursor of other improvements in bust
ness, so that trade may resume its wonted ac-
tivity. There appears to be but one thing
lacking to set the wheels of traffic and manu-
facture once more in healthful motion, and
that is confidence. The country is rich in all
necessary resources. There is plenty to feed
and clothe every man, woman and child in
the land. There is no good reason why they
may not be employed, as the means for their
subsistence is at hand, and that is enough.