The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-11-27

bank, all the entries, roads, &C., with a
view to pushing coal out by hand, which
we propose commencing to-day. II II
does not prove to be too expensive we
will run the bank hereafter in this way
until tho mules can resume work. We
Will continue TO sell coal as above, unless
It becomes necessary to add moro 10 the
price 10 cover increased expenses caused
by this mode Of getting It out. No other
contingency can arise now to lnciease
prices that we know Of.
In this connection allow me TO say that
on Wednesday, when the prices were ad-
vanced, the coal diggers made a demand
for further advance and talked OF first
about eight cents per bushel. l replied
promptly that no such price could DO
thought Of, that the bank should be shut
up. They consulted together and modi-
fed the demand TO one dollar per car, or
tiye cents per b1shel, as they call II. To
this l replied that we could not think Of
paying any such price, but rather than
have difficulty about the price, or with
them, II they would continue Of their
work we would give them eighty cents
per wagon, or four cents per buShel. They
accepted the price and continue OF work.
Now, Mr.. Editor, Just one word before
closing. Much 70 said about extortioh.
Why Is nothing said about the farmer,
who now demands thirty.eight and forty
dollars per ton for hay, which, few DAYS
ago, could have been bought for twenty.
elghtr Why 10 nothing said about the
blacksmith who demands ten dollars per
yoke for shoeing oxen, q Job which never
before cost more than six dollarsG In q
word, MIR. Editor, why Is nothing said about
the dry goods merchant, who gets up In the
morning, eats hSsty breakfast, PUSHES to
tho post Office, gets his mails, tears open
his price lists, circulars, and his Eastern
papers, reads the quotations in the East.
ern markets, finds cotton goods, calicoes
or silks have advanced, and calls out to
his clerk, John, sheetings have advanced
in New York; mark those goods on the
counter up q quarter or q half cent" or
whatever they will stand? And last,
though not least, why is it that our nail
men, our foundry men, &C., can meet
once, twice or thrice year in Pittsburgh,
Wheeling or GAINESVILLE and send their
commodities up a.scooting, and no paper
in the land is bold enough to tackle them
Tor II! Again, you publish as roll OF
honor the names of those persons who
arc selling at the old prices, you say.
l ask, can you order from and receive
load OF coal from one Of themV ven
ture the prediction that you cannot.
They will tell you they have no coal to
sell. One Of them l know boasts OF not
having delivered load OF coal for over
year, and says he hopes be never
will do 1t again. He has no horse or
carts on these streets now, nor has he
had for that length Of time. Another I
know only had four horses and they were
taken sick early 10 the week and TWO Of
them died on Friday last. Another 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 Wheel.
ing over Sunday. They called on me
Saturday TO give them enough to secure
their pots from chilling or save them from
blocking the furnace. / gave them two
hundred and fifty bushels, at my price, for
which they thanked me kindly, and will
pay me when my bill is presented at the
extraordinary price demanded by me.
And, finally, Mr.. Editor, want to close
by informing you and the good people of
Wheeling that ! want no "Cheap John"
notoriety, either through newspapers or
otherwise, at the expense Of tho noble
brutes, the good horses which God Al
mighty has placed under my care In order
that me and mine may live off OF their Ia.
Dor. When they get sick they must and
shall be housed comfortably, and
carefully and properly fed and groom
ed, though shall go hungry my
self, and every coal consumer in
this city shall pay one dollar per
bushel for coal or go without 1t. I will
not work horses on the streets, that 60
tottering along as If they were ready 10
drop dead of their feet in order that this
community may have cheap coal andImay
make little cheap reputation as philan-
throphist, or whatever you may call it.
My horses arc good ones-no man in this
city has better ones, or provides better or
more humanely for them and those who
take care of them than I do. They got
sick and I've provided for them, in order
that our business might still go on unin-
terrupted, and by the help Of God will
go on and l will endeavoi to make 1t
profitable enough to not only provide the
substitutes, but to provide forage for
them and the diseased horses.
Now, Mr.. Editor, much abused as
have been, want you and every good
citizen of this community to read this
a fair and impartial statement OF the case
and say who Is right and who Is wrong.
I am willing to stand or fall On the judg-
meut Of my peers after hearing my side
of the case. Respectfully,
P. L. KIMBERLY.