The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-01
oUsLEwIs COUNTY LETTER.
A Spicy Observation-Disclosures 20
Lewis--General Topics.
WESTON, July 80, 1874.

WESTON, July 30, 1874.
Editors OF the Register.
Let me congratulate the REGISTER on
the recent improvement. Your cattle
market reports fills want long called
for by our grass and cattle growing peo-
pie. Your enterprise will be duly appre-
ciated BY an increased subscription list.
Did YOU receive the check and names
| sent YOU? If So credit to the enter
prise above mentioned. Ny old friend,
Granger IS, feeling deep interest IN
steers sold cattle merchant A, was anx-
ious to know how many ducats his favor
| tie steer brOughts brought east; the
REGISTER told him, and the - you re-
ceived was for new name to your list of
subscribers.
| have been visiting the desolatcd re-
gions of Lewis The great drouth so
much complained of has played havoc
with our people. Sad to say, we have
the largest wheat crop ever raised IN our
county. A full two-third hay crop, with
more nutritive properties than the full
crop of last wear. A corn crop promis-
inc rich WELD. We are ruined, utterly
ruined! We have nothing! Yet no
room for wheat, and sacrificing 1t
at one dollar per bushel; lOaning
our surplus funds ut 10 per cent just to
accommodate friend. We are wretch
| ed people and don't owe cent, and no
where To put our surplus products. Now
! let us turn to the town, (the shire town OF
! Lewis. Not an idle mechanic or labor
er in it. All find employment at a high
| rate of waees-40 cents nm hour for the
plastcrer, mason and bricklayer, and 20
and 30 cents for the carpenter. The la
| borer in proportion. Remember We work
bv the hour; don't call it days work, but
! hours work. Yet, again, bear in mind
! that this work Is not on State account,
! but for our enterprising citizens 'cho are
b~jLdiitg amt improving. We have a
| glorious old borough of 200 inhabitants;
rs many wise, and more crazy men than
any town in the State. We have Judges
and cx-.JudgeS in tripletS. We have
! land iobbers and iinancicrs worthy the
steel of Wall street; rs many candidates
for vacancies. either County, State or
National, rs Parkersburg and more than
Wheeling. The rings; rs many and
manipulated rs adroitly as Charleston
can boast of. and can out-Strip all Other
town Of the State for 'iir line railroads,
(Sec acts of the Legislature for years
back and we are no nearer the Rublcon
than the sister town of Buckhannon
But this is and has been stock III trade
of former Representatives But now II
is played. In brief, Lewis, and sisters
Braxton and Gilmcr are Il people wor-
thy of emulation in many particulars
! We vote sometimes the Democratic ticket
and vet sometimes We don't.
II. :. Walker spent AN hour or so with
| .Ion.' As ever, cheerful, and reports the
masses with him at all his appointments
1t i not my fight, 50 have nothing to
say. =.
/ have before me Il slate from Lewis
county. IL made by Col. Ben. and "Scrj-
Jcndi." Can the lion and the lamb lie
down together? That slate is inevitably
doomed to destruction. The day has
passed for fossils in Lewis We, the peo-
Pile, have something to say. do You hear:
IoN,
p. S.-We have had glorious rains,
treating Us kindly and gently.