The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-01-07
MartiusyiIle Matters.

From he BsRGlTt LadiltHdsHi
Martins Ferry seems to receive less mo-
lice than any other portion Of the county,
Ofanything like equal importance Il
may be accounted for on the ground thai
the inhabitants mind their own business,
or IN the other hand that they have never
sailed down much capital In printers
ink. There are manufactures In Mar.
tins Ferry Of considerable importance
that have never been advertised as much
as SCOTS peanut business, in Wheeling,
Bellaire Is excited over an agricultural
implement mandatory, and the most
obscure parts Of the county know all
about It. Capitalists are rushing to Bell.
Gire TO secure stock, mechanics TO secure
situations; while, at the same time, there
are probably as good shops in
Martins Ferry now, not advertised,
and probably not known or heard
Of in Bellaire. Yet look at il: four shops
where threshing machines, and agricul'
tural implements generally, and other
machinery are made, lone shop alone
nearly 200 feet long, by about so wide,
and two Of the others nearly as large, u
glass works said N have the greatest Gu
pacity Of any similar works In the United
States, a smelling furnace, employing
about 800, 900 capital and doing paying
business, one large foundry and engine
shop, one stove foundry, one large cooper
shop and several smaller ones, one plan
ing mill and lumber yard, four or five
carriage and wagon shops, one rake fac.
tory, one wooden mill, one large saw mill,
and q great many smaller shops, five
churches, &c, &c. Coal privileges un.
surpassed by any town on the Ohio river,
and with more room Tor town than
Bellaire, and as good shipping facilities,
Yet, with all these, the place seems to be
in the shade, and nothing will bring 1t out
Of the lethargic shade quicker than print
er's Ink.
PERSONAL.
n. +. BUILDING ASSOCIATION sold
money at twenty and twenty-five cents
premium, $1,000.
PETER HARRISON got too much fusll
oil in his hold about week ago. Peter Is
generally a pretty gOOd.natured old fel-
low, but this time be had an uncOnquer.
able desire to slam" Mrs. Peters, She
was standing by q windOw-Peter maze
lurch at her-She stepped TO one side, like
Johnny Sands wife" and Peter went
on through the window, clean and clear,
through sash and all,
A CERTAIN heayy.set gentleman keeps
a grocery in town. A young man from
the country took ten.gallon keg TO him
10 have filed with mOlGsses. Some how
or other eleven gallons got into il. The
young man said he didn't "keer durn"
about one gallon, more or less, but lie
hated to have the key strained so much
"LIGE" WOODS has been in town a lew
days lie Is located at Wheatland, Iowa
and looks bully.
THE Coss wants to know what has be-
come OF the little mig. whose front teeth
look like a sorghum stripper.
HENRY SWEENEY is having his row.
boat, POcahOntas, remOdele1, since the
"Spiyins" beat her. Guess 1t wasn't the
boats fault, Hen.
W. II. WOoD, the very gentlemanly
agent Of tic Cleveland and Pittsburgh
Railroad, some time since took unto him
self wife, and is about building very
neat and tas:y residence.
Ike DEAN returned II few dnys since,
after years absence in Minnesota. lie
looks as spruce as q split broom.
10. FRAZIER returned u couple Of weeks
ago from a prospecting trip through Iowa
Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. He gives
glowing account Of the West He in
tends 10 60 to Nebraska and homestead d
quarter section Of railroad land, by virtue
Of having lit," blcd, and nearly died ioI
his country.