The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-14
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rnined town in England;
'u 49, into two shops which adjoin
Cong nv Manchester terrace, and
each o.nei owned by one man, we asked
whlcn s was going on. Business
homrciained, with a sorrowful laugh,
st 80 has bidder goodbye to Mill
ALI Then in the course of converse
t;on, he told me how his means had
ldrifted away. and how he had given
credit to hundreds who we're unable to
pay, aud how his lease prevented him
from removing to more congenial
quarter. His wife, good-natured wo-
man, took part in the conversation, and
looking affectionately at a chubby little
fellow who was hanging to her skirts,
and then at us, she said, When the poor
children come and ask for bread and
butter, bacon or groceries, and say they
are starving, how can L refuse them! l
have little ones of my own! EF
"At the butchers shop opposite we
heard the same doleful tale. A Few
pieces of mutton and several little
scraps hanging there, but nobody came
to buy them. 4 suppose the people
don't buy much meati we inquired OF
the butchers wife. ooh, no. she said;
we sometimes sell pound or half
pound of bullock's liver, which is the
only thing in the shape of meat the
poor people can afford. We don't sell
sheep in a week, and were it not for the
milk my husband sells / don't know
what would have happened to u.s.
"a coffee shop opposite the Millwall
iron works has changed hands four
times during the past twelve months,
and the present unlucky occupant is
vainlv endeavoring to transfer the place
to somebody else. The landlady OF
similar establishment, not far OIL, In
formed US that the money she managed
to spare few years ago had not only
been spent, bat horse and trap, her
husbands watch, some rings and other
articles of iewelry, had been disposed OF
to procure sustepance for the family.
Her son, who was the proprietor of two
shops few doors above, had shat them
up and 'tramped it to Southampton,
where he was obliged to accept situa
ton as stoker on board a steamer.
"The public houses, as may be imag-
ined, share the fate which is common to
the various shops. The proprietors
with detected looks stand behind their
bars and wait in vain for flow of Gus
toners. A stragg'er or casual visitor
in the neighborhOed now and then
drops in and asks for something, but
most of his time the hapless Mlllwall
publican finds no other employment
than that of reading the daily news
paper, which he formerly took in for the
use of his customers, but of which he
himself Is now the only reader. All at
tempts at transfer are, of course, use
less, and like the other traders in this
poverty-stricken region, he with fam
hope awaits the time when business and
prosperity may possibly be revived.
ave were informed that in one case a
licensed victualler who a very few years
ago paid $4,000 for house, then doing
an immense business, now hardly sells
twenty gallons of beer in the week.
Another case was related to us where
the proprietor of an establishment
which also cost thousands had to part
with his watch to get bread for his chill
dren. Other instances of similar kind
were mentioned in our hearing. But
persons of the publican aud shop keep
ing class, not merely from pride but
from absolute necessity, are compelled
to keep up appearance and preserve, as
far as possible, an outward show of
prosperity, and they are, therefore, I'M
willing to furnish details of their suffer-
ings."