Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-02-06

"UAuuEEiNG AwAY."-OHe Grant having the
hcayies. hammer, with the longest handle ana
welded by the most numerous arms, ami by ' at
triton" which means the appliance Of the most
numerous files (Which hc had. Produced a SUI
r.ud,r. sl-callct, NJ AFpOmattoN Court House
Well there's au end % that h''lhmcnuS' Du'
there's yllptl.cr- hautmering going on no" wn'ch
i NOR, 10 our taste, aud which constructs be .
tar things for farm aud Other purposes than even
Grant did "a wit The old and well known hfm
of Ettengcr n Edmond. ON Cary street, between FIi
trruth and Seventeenth sheets which has been re-
rnnstrur ted and reunited on basis solid as irOR-
Now let as take a look no Il. First then, the hfat
bu iling contains the office aud a St"re-houSe Tor
patterus and Is thrtyIye by forty Rect and - Tour
stories high. Next Is boiler shop, thirty by iurty-
live feet then there's foundry, forty by sixty feet
a machine shop thirty by eighty ieet ana thrCe
stories high: a smiths shop, eighty by thirty feet,
and a carpenters shop, sixty by forty feet.
AaR0 1850, the firm commenced hammer
lag away" and built up large number Ol saw
mills stationary and portable engines, circu-
lar saws patent tobacco presses with rcta'Hers, mot
lawyers tees, but something more profitable to to-
baccO men mill gearing, railroad work, such as
lross switches boilers &C., Nc aud brass and iron
work of every form and weight, all good and 81.
tsfactory, aud which, like good physic or gooI
pJLhecu their customers took lu repeated doses anu
80 they went ON shaping ore into ornamental aud
useful coutriyauCc. Then they turned their lhouShti
10 making a steam lire engine, and they made II,
and HARRISON " ludnS "A o., OF bdilItoie 'O'tttd'
tors for the Car of all the Rusas and enemy oil all
Turks 10 which We say amen for we prefer the cross
to the crescent hearing the whistle OF said hire en-
CINE bought 10 aud sent u 20 -. Petersburg, where,
being from Old Virginia. unto this day It whistles
sac seHper tyTaauiy at the tire kRg. And then they
made another one Tor tEs city ol Gichnund, winch
is in perfect order and is pulled by u pair Of gray
horses without buttons thought even unto this day.
And then they built another Iur thc insurance com
panirS-a class of gentlemen who have great
love Tor CO,rii rather, provided It don't gu
down their own threats. Dunn beiiun mt m or
der was seut from Russia for more engines, but
blockade barred the letter, ana the firm betoob
them o. hulding whatever came ia the way, Tor III
stance carriages for fire engines Ot another d1Srrp
ton, to wit artillery, and for ne good iroTkmaH
| Shtg ef lrhich gc cGH UOach and various other
artrlrs always well done aud up u the model. Ana
So rs We have said the firm are under way once
more. aud one of their first jobs IS new plates and
bolts for King MayoS bridge, Ia supply the place o.
/ the frli iron work now therein aud which, II will
/ be rec0ected, We predicted would give out hcIur
\ this winter over.
! But to wind up dss, beilHa Cuit we had = great
deal 10 do with the firm, that IL, with Edmond, AM
always received most excellent work from his hands
promptly delivered aud at just and reasonable
prices 30 read advertisement AMI get some oil YOU
reconstruction done at their shops, aud sec what
I clean and neat castings they make.