Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-05
A WIDEAWAKE TOWN.
Complete Social and Business RevO'
luton at Little Washington.
EVERYTHING THERE ON THE JUMP.
Business Men More Interested in Politics
Than They Get Credit for.
CUMBERLAND RIVER IMPROVEMENT

Things are quite lively at Little Wash
ington. A Fourth avenue real estate broker
who came from there yesterday said:
was astonished to see the changes that has
taken place since was there before, about
year ago. Thensthe population was about
5000; now, it is L, 900 or $4,000. Over 900
houses have been built there this year
some of them equal to any OF the same class
in Pittsburg. One dwelling cost $4,000.
The demand for real estate is simply i'm
mense. Lots on the main street bring $500
foot. Suburban lots close to town are selling
at 81 500, with oil reserved.
The oil craze instead of abating is on the in
crease. 1t is about the only thing talked about.
A conversation started on some other topic is
soon swung round to oil. Everybody dabbles
in it, even the newsboys. The town has put
aside its old conservatism, and is progressive
and wideawake. In some respects it resembles
the bustling places in the Bradford region 20
or 30 years ago. There is very little lawless-
ness, however"
Business men take more interest In elections
than they get credit for. One of them said
yesterday: Business men feel deep concern
III ShC pOllLlCS VI Iuo country NO Cldoe pAoAb
more from good laws or suffer more from bad
ones. Hence while they are partisans in
limited sense. they do great deal of scratching
when it comes to voting. They want good,
competent men in Office from the lowest to the
highest position-men who will perform their
duties without fear or favor. Speaking for
myself have very little time to spend in log
rolling and caucusing but l do considerable
work Notwithstanding, think the same is true
of large majority of business men. They
work quietly, and by their protests against
unworthy candidates frequently turn the scale
in favor of honorable and competent men.
THE charge that we are too closely welded
to business to devote any attention to politics
does us an injustice. We constitute the bulk
Of the still vote of the country which politi-
clans cannot reach In their calculations, and
which often defeats the carefully laid schemes
of party managers. I think the public can
safely trust business men to do their duty in
upholding good government"
According to the decision OF the Supreme
Court of Indiana, in the case of Glatt versus
Fortman ct al, under the Indiana statutes 1t is
no defense to an action on a promissory note
that the makers, not knowing who the holders
of the note were, on the day it became due paid
into the bank where said note was payable the
amount due, and directed the bank to apply it
to the payment of the note, and that the bank
subsequently became insolvent
In another recent decision by the same court,
where one takes a claim against his debtor out
of the State on his person for the purpose of
depriving the debtor of the benefit of the ex-
emption laws he sends the claim out of the
State, within the meaning of section 2l62 of
the Revised Statutes of Indiana, making such
act public offense.
The project for improving the Cumberland
river received big boost at recent meeting
at Nashville. One of the speakers said:
There are various ways in which aid and
comfort can be given to the work before us,
but it is only by united, persistent and untiring
effort that the end will be eventually attained.
We must go to Congress armed with statistics.
and it is for you to collect them, showing what
commerce comes to the city by the river, and
what may be made to come. Let them show in
the first place that the banks are lined with the
finest limestone from one end to the other. In
the second place that its immense poplar
forests, if they have been partially used, yet
have behind them broad forests of oak as vet
untouched and of infinitely more value to
Nashville. the FIRST hardwood market of the
world. than the poplar which is going.
Let the report show that at its head lies
vile region by three times. Its vast pineries
are as yet virgin, and there in great abundance
is q lithographing stone equal, if not superior,
to the celebrated stones Of Germany. There,
the only place in the South, where the cotton
and the bluegrass fields lie together and the
cotton picker looks the race horse in the face.
1t is the richest valley under the sun. Its pos
sibilites are greater than the citizens of Nash
vile ever dreamed Of"
A Boston authority remarks: Business has
been rather uneven during the past season in
the New England market for boots and shoes
and leather, but on the whole both manufactur-
ers and the trade have good reason to be salts
fed. Everything points to a liberal movement
of footwear during the next few months
Stocks throughout the country are believed to
be light, neither retailers nor jobbers having
carried over unusual quantities of goods. Man.
ufacturers, consequently are already getting
fair orders though it is to be said that the bus
iness is in some respects irregular. On the
whole no fault can be found with the amount
of contracts already secured for future de-
livery"
Baltimore grain dealers are said to be agi-
tating the necessity of adopting some uniform
standard by which wheat can be graded at the
elevators in all the seaboard cities. 1t is
claimed that while Baltimore inspections are
honest, other cities shave an ingoing and out
going system" When admitted into the ele-
vators it is charged, the wheat is made of an
inferior grade than that given it when offered
for shipment The Western seller is the loser,
while the European miller gains the benefit.
The advantage to the city resorting to such
practice is that it becomes the purchasing point
for European dealers.
According to latest advices the spot demand
frow New York drygoods jnbbers has relapsed
into seasonable dullness. and the amount of
recorded business done has not tended to in
crease. Agents for cotton goods report the
fairly active demand for spring goods hereto
fore reported as still existing in several leading
lines. Prices, as a whole, have displayed con-
siderable frmuess. Print cloths weakened
som newhat in the early part of last week, but
regained the loss later on. Dress goods, both
cotton and wool, were in light reassorting de-
mand for seasonable styles, while in fair de-
mand on spring delivery orders The close of
the month brought season of notable quiet
ness to the jobbing trade Woolen goods noted
a continuance of the light and irregular de-
mand before noted. Foreign goods shared the
general quiet. Reports from the retail trade
are less satisfactory, owing to unfavorable local
weather conditions.
SOME ADVANCES.