Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-12-01
THE DAILY INTELLIGENCER
SUPERIOR NEWS INK.
CITY IrAnTRI.Ita NO 6.

0untry Offices promptly filed. Terms cash.
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CITY EEAnBLES NO q.
TIE Furniture Bwyiness.-It is estimated
that the sales OF furniture from the different
ware.rooins in this city, will amount per annum
to between one hundred and twenty to ore
hundred aud thirty thousand dollars. About
three fourths of this amount is manufactured
here The balance is bought in the eastern
cities to sell again. Comparatively very little
furniture is shipped in westerly direction from
here, owing to the competition encountered in
Cincinnati, and other points The principal
market is found here in the city, or limited to
the surrounding country.
As will be readily accredited the business
has materially fallen off since the commence
ment Of the hard times, and the consequent re-
trcnchment in all departments. Those who
would have bought new furniture this sea-
son--and in all probability stand in need
of it-wiSely concluded to await n more favora-
bic turn of affairs. Besides this, many people
in Strengthened circumstances have been forced
to sell their old furniture instead of buying new.
This is rendered Enthusiastically apparent by the
unusual number Of tables, bereaus, chairs, &C.,
which arc daily knocked down at the auction
rooms for ruinous prices. In many instances
these pre- .cmtOiy sales are the result of attach
ments for debt, and not unfrcquently they are
voluntarily submitted to by the owners in order
to get something upon which to live through
the winter. From these and many other causes
which could be named, the regular dealers in
furniture ike dealers in everything else, find
their business decreasing in extent and profit.
In orr quOtidian rounds yesterday, owing to
slippery place near the threshold aud an UNI
brclla INSTRUCTED view of the surrounding ob
iecs, we may be said to have literally dyOHpe1
into Geo Menders furniture and carpet ware
room, Main street. Occupying rccumbcnt
position when discovered and not wishing to
appear as entering the house obscquiously, on
all tours, wepretcnded to he looking at the limbs
OF an elegantly carved chair. We succeeded
quite miserably in encouraging that idea. How
ever, our request to be shown round being pc.
lite'y complied with, we had the pleasure of
examining splendid stock of furniture and up
holstery. Mr.. Mendcl has been engaged in his
present business for twenty-one years, and has
by excellent Workmanship and strict attention
to the wants of the trade, attained quite prom
incnce in that branch. The rougher portion OF
the work in his establishment is done by ma
chinery. He employs twenty-One hands and
sells about thirty thousand dollars worth of
furniture and upholstery, annually.
Jeremiah Clemens, Main street, has also an
unsurpassed variety of furniture, chairs &c
Mr.. q. has been engaged in the business up
wards offorty years.
John S. Wright, Mrs. NJ, Cunningham, VIM.
Riheldaffer, John Arbenze and Mr. Ambruster,
all of whom have warerooms on Main street, en-
hibit furniture of the best quality, from the
plain and substantial articles, to the most ele-
giant and finely finished, suitable to all tastes
and circumstances The same will apply to
VIM. Graham, Market street.
The furniture business of the city affords EN-
ployment to about sixty men, and as stated
above, amounts to somewhere in the neighbor
hood ofone hundred aud thirty thousand dol
lars. This refers only to the establishments we
have named. and those manufacturing or selling
chairs and furniture in connection, and does not
include n number Of enterprising erciasire chair
makers
The lumber used is principally cherry, wal
nut, and poplar, which is furnished mainly from
this Immediate vicinity, upon times decidedly
favorable to the manufacturers. There is
standard style in the building of furniture-no
syste to govern its construction, but like all
things earthly, it is subject to constant change,
to keep pace with the fashions. But in these
'trouhious times" borrowing from. popular
lecturer, people think great deal more about
what's gone" than they do about what's the
''go," and we may reasonably anticipate that
furniture, hereafter, well as bonnets and cost
" dresses will not be so often changed nor SO
extensively ornamented.
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