The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-03
A wORDTO OUR PATRONS.

A WORD TO DIR PATRONS.
Since greeting our readers with our
new type week ago, we have expe-
rienced considerable unexpected ill
luck, owing, as we have already stated,
TO small crevasse in our boiler. By
some strange and ill-timedJ freak, just
when with our new type, we were
especially anxious that all our nachi-
merry should run in perfect accord, one
boiler notwithstanding jealous, as
we suppose, of our new type, re-
fused TO perform, and let down square
and fiat on our hnnds-the first time
ever known-and actually put out our
1ires-as much as to say, chow does
your new type look now?" But Hobbs,
TAYLOR & Co., who made that boiler,
knew that boiler rs we'll as s. &c,
could be coerccd-they believe in sub
jugntion,-and, like Gen. Grant, they
mussed their forces on the weak spot,
and after n couple of days and nights
vigorous haInmcring, the boiler re-
ncwcd its allegiance, and came to rights
olift lilOEt -ullbfI Il SDtNlsll dllllhts7l y .
No further trouble, therefore need be
expected from it, unless, like some of
the rebels, disappearance is exceedingly
deceitiuI. We really believe at this
time that it is thoroughly subjugated.
e. And now, speaking of our new
dress, we have a word to say on
that head. Some persons tell us
that they do not like the present ar
rangcment of our reading matter as
well aus the old. We imagine the pre-
fcrcnces of such persons amount to II
mere matter of familiarity. After a
time they will become accustomed to
the new disposition, and will lose the
sense of Oddncss which they now feel.
Tho C;lyors of our advertising patrons
have crowded our inside pages to such
a degree that we have been forced 10
change our base somewhat, and trans
fer some of our reading matter TO the
less crowded pages. 1t is the aim of
all well conducted papers TO make
every page of the sheet as nearly inter
esting and valuable as possible
Where the reading matter mostly is,
there the advertisers all want to be.
To suit the popular demand il is now
the custom generally TO distribute
the reading matter of paper through
the different pages in something
like equal proportions as to interest
If not as to quantity. Hence we
have transferred our local matter
to the fourth page-our kilograms
to the third-our editorial to the
secondhand miscellaneous matter to
the first page. We are now putting
in more reading matter than ever into
our paper. Our new type being smaller
than the old, we are able to do this
with less inconvenience. So that our
general readers, as we'll as our advcr-
tising patrons, are the gamers by the
new arrangement. The mechanical
appearance of the INTELLIGEXCER is
not excelled by many pnpcrs in tho
country now, odd and unusual as il
may seem to the familiars of our old
type and old makeup. We have in,
corpOrated the latest improvements
and by-and-by they will be more uppu.
rent than at present. wchopc Likewise
to improve in all respects in tn,
quality as well as the appearance OF
our paper. We shall omit no pains tc
this end. In the meantime, we must
ask all who remember the old paper
with so much Partially, to give tn,
now " chance for equal favor.