The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-19
LES PAY
More Isrosperity-The Kind. We
Read of Every Day.


more srosDerity-4,he Kind We
Read OF Every Day.
The large mines between Clarks-
burg and Fairmont, in this State.
have ordered reduction in wages
ranging from 2 cents to 8 cents per
ton. The miners have had but lit
tie work since the first of the year,
and as the rate paid was only 80
cents ton, the cut falls with great
weight, and strike is probable.
The general foreman of the Bal
timore & Ohio shops at Grafton,
has notified employees in all de-
partments of reduction of time
to Eve days of nine hours each per
week. This is the largest reduc-
ton for several years.
The Ashland. (Ky.) Coal and
Iron Railway Company has an
nounced a 10 per cent. reduction in
the wages of their furnace employ
es that viii ultimately affect about
$50 men. It is not yet decided if
the cut will be accepted.
Chicago: The Illinois steelworks
big plant, has been permanently
closed down, throwing $500 men
out of employment. Officials of
the concern refuse to make any
statement as to the cause of the
shutdown.
Have our tariff tinkers learned
that it is possible to have too much
of a good thing2 If duty of
eight or nine cents on wool is q
good thing, wouldn't a duty of
ten or eleven cents be better
thing? Can it be possible that
there is danger of too much of a
good thingP
The National House of Repre-
sentatives is having "bully" time
just now, illustrating the old def
milton of a sinecure. doing moth
ing and getting paid by the piece. "
Apetition is in circulation among
the workingmen in Michigan ask
ing the Legislature to employ
State convicts on road improve
ments. 1t has been very generally
signed. West Virginia might well
act upon this hint. No better
work could be chosen for the con-
victs than that of making and i'm
proving the public roads, and now
is the time to do that work.
We extend our sympathies to
Martinsburg. Orders have been
issued directing the removal of the
B. & o. shops from that city by
the 24th inst. They were the chief
industry of the place, and as many
as 300 men have been employed
there with a payroll of nearly a
100000 month
Now, if you know any good rea-
son why that prosperity which was
Haunted in the faces of the people,
until they felt its invigorating
warmth, in the last campaign, has
not appeared, divulge. Thousands
are still anxiously looking out for
it.
The money question will never
be settled until we have a dollar
that will represent about the same
amount of property when a debt
becomes due as it did when the
debt was made.
Marriages will always be popular
in Italy. for the government has a
special fund for providing marriage
portions for young girls. The
sum available for this purpose and
distributed every year among the
manageable girls is SS,5oo,oo0.
The Spaniards and the Cubans
seem to have established modus
vivendi on the amiable and salts
factory basis that everybody con-
cerned has right to shoot any
body on sight.
One thing is certain about cleo
ting Senators by vote; there would
be no deadlocks, and the best man
would have a better chance of get
ting there.
It is an odd coincidence that,