The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-05
RATES OF ApvERT1s1Fe.


Tbe iron business at IrOnton, Ohio
correspondent of the Cincinnati
commercial gives some business items
ofveneral interest in regard to Ironton,
ohio. from which we extract as fol-
lows:
Irontou became a city of the second
class in the winter of 1S64-5, having at
the time over 6, 900 Inhabitants, ana the
number has increased to fully 6,6OO at
the present time. ,s.r.-r
Ironton has no rolling mill that ls not
fully as extensive, capacious, ana mat
does not give employment to more
hands than the largest mill In Ports
The Belront Iron Works Company
mail works, } employ 275 persons, and
turn out an average of 2r2Oo Kegs OF
nails per week. These nalls ~ ~ssalu
higher than any manufactured III Ihe
Western market. aH
The Lawrence Iron Works employ
go persons, and consume 500 tons OF pig
iron per month. ..z.., -. s.agLL
The Ironton Rolling Mills Company
employ $50 hands, and consume 600 tons
OF pig iron per month.
creased in capacity nearly two-told
during the past year, and the Lawrence
Company are building new mill near
their present works. Soc
The Belfont Iron Works Company
mail works. are building two very
large (bituminous coaT) blast furnaces
for the manufacture of pig-tron for their
nail works in this city. Another large
furnace ofthe same class will be bnilt
this fall, a short distance above the
CITY, and two more will be put up in
side the city limits early in the spring.
These furnaces will each give employ
ment to about fifty persons. 4L.sl
The machine shop and foundry of
this city turns utmore tons OF finished
work, and can successfully make
ba.- Vier castings than that OF PortS-
-, 'b Twelve furnaces only ship
iheir ron through or transact their
hTaInass at Portsmouth, and several OF
t%asa sh,D most of their iron by rail-
rosS IN The opposite direction, while
iS"N,or baS the entire business and
shipping OF ten furnaces. ,.,..
Ir6nISn hos tha most extensive stove
foundry in the Western country,
which has been in ST ccessiui oPeFa'tpUq'tIi Pc pq'I
for sixteen years. ,,, ,,,,,, oono-
mepce Operations next W. sek, the nrln
Tyler, Bros. & Co.. bein, paaSriS", pSnIo,,
operators. This concern wiiil e"PioS
IRON twenty-five to thirty hRnup' 20
The politics of Ironton, the Corfres- Colfi'sr
pondent says, Is Republican all the
year round. -4 a #st
The Belfont Iron Works alluded to,
are largely owned and managed by the
Norton family of this city. 1t is said
to be one of the most prosperous estab-
lishments in the country. Capt. Geo.
w. Norton is at the head of it.
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A PRETTY PIcrURE.-It is seldom
that philosophy is found in print. Still
more seldom do we meet with printed
pathos. But in the following, from an
essay contributed to the Herald of
Health by Mrs. Gleason, there is a true
philosophy and true pathos-the Pathos
that mingIes smile with tears. We
do not know that Mrs. Gleason (M. d.
is praoticing physician. bu' it is no
puff to say that the knowledge of child
nature displayed in the subjoined,
makes her a safer one to minister to the
maladies OF "these little ones" than any
male practitioner Of any ''pathy" now
extant:
l once sat on a porch at twilight with
II little boy In my lap. His bright,
plump face glowed with coaxing ad-
miration as he turned 1t upward say
ing: "Moou and star come down to me. !"
After an ex pectant delay he seemed to
remember that thnt' please was a pow
erful word for procuring pleasures in
his happy circle.7 Feeling sure'of sue
cess this time, each tiny han6 was ex-
tended, with palms upward, ready to
receive the gifts when they descended,
Hs he said: "Moon and star, please do
come down to me-" Finding that even
please lid not bring down tho desired
treasures, he gently laid his hands III
his lap, and with a son. sigh OF resigna.
ton said: Mamma, moon and stars
too high for me ~ but still with radiant
face he gazed up aRdmiringly. then
thought terror and trouble would come
to us II, in maturer- years, we had our
way at all times, just az in mercy moon
and stars were held in their courts
despite childish pleadings. So, when
our hopes are deferred, or plans fail,
we may by contemplation OF Natures
quiet grandeur grow cool and content,
saying: "All this which we asked was
TOO high for ns.n
BEGAN TO LAUGH.-A clerical friend
at celebrated watering-place, met 8
lady who seemed lowering on the
brink of the grave. Her cheeks wer,
hollow and wan, her manner listless
her steps langutd, and her brow wort
the severe contraction so indicativ,
both of mental and physical suffering
so that she was to all observers an OBJ
ject OF sincerest pity. aalvue.
Some years afterward he encountered
the same lady, but SO bright, and fresh
and youthful, SO full of healthfu
buoyaucy, and SO joyous in expression
that he Questioned himself If he haC
not deceived himself with regard Il
identity.
as ii possible" :" said he, ''that I Sc,
before me Mrs. B., who presented sucI
doleful appearance at the spring
several years agof"
The very same" ....y--
And pray tell me, madam, the secre
OF Your cure. Whatmeans did you us
10 attain to such viRor of mind ant
body, 10 such oheerfulness and reiu
yenation?" >.
IA very simple remedy" returned
shes, beaming3 face. 81 stonpsI
woITyins and began to laugh; that wa
all" ~ l'5iffR5Is-ssS . : -