Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-10-07

buses, carriages, buggies, with ,b;rtv
more loaded freight cars behind her. TIL
is emphatfcally an iron citv. Th;rt-, e us
per cent. of all the iron made in the Tf,i I've
States and sixty five per cent. of ti,e s.'ai
is made mere. What wonder, then tbot
they have. iron bridges, torobston --a'
houses, spittoons, wagons, utensils of 81,
kinds, and In fact iron brought into WA
Thousand uses we do not SEQ at Tho So
Our room has an iron slop-tub nony tGn
curiosities. A pretty ono it il, tooo a 'nI
one OF the party insisted that the soan 90
the washstand was made Of iron, Ia
ing the street car up Penn street II fill.
Ii Isl you go about two miles, and at tba
end OF the line it is but short walk tc tIo
cemetery. Here, from the 'city of tho
dead" you get fine view [f
the country beyond the Alleobanr
rolling off IN great beauty, the IIj'.
SIDES covered with vines ana gardens
| for miles. The vine is said to do well -.
erywhere near here except where il ee,s
| the West winds upon it. Whether il do
or not, hundreds of thousands arc rroy.-
ing and the experiment OF their prJ5uc-
tiveness will soon be settled. On the low
Ohio, near Cincinnati, the vine ia q fail
ure, and the famous LongGorth ylpevor1s
are almost worthless. OF t2e prodnctivn
industry of Pittsburg il is hardly neces.
sary to speak. The principal manufac-
tories besides those already mentioned ara
glass. which is made in great quantity al d
of fair quality. There are factories mai
ing druggists glassware, canned fruit mems
glassware and building glass, crockery Of
all kinds, oils, vGrnishes, brushes, glue,
tools, &C., &c, all busy and all making Il
blaze or smoke what wund + that yUur
old friend "Bud Blossom" thought the
place was ''afrC"! Oae Of the wonderful
things we saw was some CHI cling on .
monument to Rev. Chas. Avery, wtieh
would throw the shade of Ph;dIas into VIC.
lent spasms and make him euvious Of the
venturesome yankee who planned 1t. The
group represents tho said Avery as pre-
sentlng IL Bib . 10 an uG2d Lc5fo WHO
s ands forward, bat IN hand, 10 Ieg.iye II.
behind arc different sizes of the
race, down to two little ''plcaninnies" roll
ing i'll the grass. The wonderful effect Is
the tco0E done in marble. 1t Is impossib
to describe 1t, and We must leave it To H..
imagination of the reader
We LETT Pittsburg by the Cleveland anu
Plttsburg Railroad, which runs down the
right bank Of the Ohio for dfty-one miIes
and hen turns off toward Lake Fire. 4
few miles out from Pltt-burg W. ran over
tWO-hOrsc wagon, killed driver a.ai an,.
horse, pitched another lau- and lor.,
thirty feet down the bank M j S 4s.hel tEta
wagon into So thousand finders Before
the train was tairiy stopped and bcfar,
the dead man was found, the ''Old 2rr.'
who had been SO summary lcrlled oat Of
the harness, was on'his feet quietly eating
grass in the mead He looked quite
satisfied with the position, as he stood
covered with mud and with q remnant OF
the collar dangling round his uCck
A mangled mass Of humanity was !a.G
on plank besioe the road there was u
rush, scream, and form in black dress.
with bright auburn curls, kuc!t at it, head.
as the train with its two hundred passcn-
gers moved off with rapid speed, csc PIN
from an express due in our rear. which
would have spec lilly reduced us to SINH
lar condition. And we left behind rs The
dead man and the weeping heart.
AS ever yours,
TT