The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-11-26
II. GUTMAN Il CO.'S.

ready far behind and could not catch
up. Mr.. II. was no customer Of mine /;
never saw him to know him before
The boat did not come on Monday; did
come on Tuesday, but did not get 1t.
It was sold to the St. James Hotel, for
more money, probably, or some cause
that l know nothing of. | got no coal
from Bellaire until Thursday at dinner
time, two days after my horses were
taken sick, and after had changed the
price of hauling from one dollar and
sixty cents per hundred to FIVE dollars.
Thursday or Friday Il don't remember
which, on my way home / fell in with
Mr.. II. trying to buy load Of coal from
a carter, which he failed to do, where
upon be turned around and commenced
on me in a very gentlemanly way about
disappointing him. I replied that |
had done go and was sorry Tor it, and
had taken it for granted that | had
failed 60 long to supply him that surely
he had supplied himself from some
other source before then; if not, how
ever, now had the Bellaire coal and
could send him a load at once. He
pulled out his pocket book and gave me
five dollars, which told him would be
the price now OF twenty-five bushels at
twenty cents per bushel for what was
sent; could send big or little load, as |
was now working oxen instead OF horses,
and therefore the necessity for a higher
price than first agreed, when |
thought he was satisfied aud sent him
the coal agreed to and paid for by him,
and did not know, to the contrary, until |
saw his genteel little fling at me in his
very small sheet, the Wheeling Inder
Since the above occurrence my mules,
which haul the coal out OF the banks,
have taken sick and are now PROSTATE
On Saturday we suspended work, so far
az getting coal out was concerned. We,
however, cleared up the bank, all the
entries, roads, &c. with view to push >
ing coal out by hand, which we propose
commencing TO day, II it does not
prove to be too expensive we will run
the bank hereafter in this way until the
mules can resume work. We will con
tinue to sell coal as above, unless it be-
comes necessary to add more to the
price to cover increased expenses caused
by this mode of getting it out. No
other contingency can arise now to in
crease prices that we know Of.
In this connection allow me to say
that on Wednesday, when the p-ices
were advanced, the coal diggers made a
demand for q further advance and
talked at first about eight cents per
bushel. / replied promptly that no
such price could be thought OF, that
the bank should be shut up. They con-
suited together and modified the demand
to one dollar per car, or five cents per
busbel, as they call it. To this | re-
piled that we could not think OF paying
any such price, but rather than have
difficulty about the price, or with them,
if thew would continue at their work
we would give them eighty cents per
wagon, or four cents per bushel. They
accepted the price and continue at work.
Now, Mr.. Editor, just one word be-
fore closing. Much is said about ex-
toruon. Why is nothing said about
the farmer, who now demands thirty
eight and forty dollars per ION for hay,
which, a few days ago, could have been
bought for twenty eight? Why is moth
ing said about the blacksmith who de-
mauds ten dollars per yoke for shoeing
oxen, a job which never before cost
more than six dollars2 In word, Mr..
Editor, why ia nothing said about the
dry goods merchant, who gets up n the
morning, eats hasty breakfast, rushes
to the postoffice. gets his mails, tears
open his price lists, circulars and his
Eastern papers, reads the quotations in
the Eastern markets, finds cotton goods,
calicoes or silks have advanced, and
calls out to his clerk, John, sheetings
have advanced in New York mark
those good on the counter up quarter
or a half cent" or whatever they will
stand ? and last, though not least, why
it it that our nail men, our foundry
men, &c, can meet once, twice or thrice
year in Pittsburgh, Wheeling or
Zanesville and send their commodities
up a-scooung and no paper in the land
is bold enough to tackle them for it ?
Again, you publish as a roll of honor
the names OF those persons who are
selling at the old prices, you say. l ask,
can you order from and receive load
of coal from one of them? | venture
the prediction that you cannot They
will tell you they have no coal to sell
One OF them | know boasts OF not bav-
ing delivered load OF coal for over a
year and says he hopes he never will
do it again. He has no horse or carts
on these streets now, nor has he
had for that length of time. Another
l know only had four horses and they
were taken sick early in the week and
two of them died on Friday last. An
other of them, whether he has coal to
sell, as you say, or not had not
enough on Saturday to secure the
glass house in North Wheeling
over Sunday. They called on me
Saturday to give them enough
to secure their pots from chilling Or
save them from blocking the furnace.
l gave them two hundred and fifty
bushels, at my price, for which they
thanked me kindly, end will pay me
when my bill is presented at the extra
ordinary price demanded by me.
And, finally, Mr.. Editor, l want to
close by informing you and the good peo-
pie OF Wheeling that | want no Cheap
John" notoriety, either through news
papers or otherwise, at the expense of
the noble brutes, the good horses which
God Almighty has placed under my
care in order that me and mine may
live of of their labor. When they
get sick they must and shall be housed
comfortably, and carefully and properly
fed and groomed, though | shall go
hungry myself, and every coal con.