The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-31

There % beer sold In NJ, but these drum.
merS, like all drummers, were strictly
temperate and took NO beer. But they
got jnbilAnt They felt ga.lorious and
were bent on fun. 30 they waited until
Charley went up street and then they gol
ladder and mounted up 10 the roof OIL
the house, ell but one, and this one took
Q chair and seated himself quietly In Il
on top Of the swing Sign In front Of the
house, about 20 feet from the pavement
All this took place along about the noon
Of the night. Charley returned presently
and found these drummers In this condl-
ton, and he got mad. He ordered them Ia
come right away down." But 1t took
from Charley much coaxing and q return
10 good humor before they would leave
their places.
We know that 1t 10 NOT much Of d story
on paper, but we also know that the oar.
ties themselves win DO greatly interested,
and Tor their benefit we give it. Oi
COURSE ~ Naiss5 =
Observation-Disclosures DRulrMRRstD
But 10 return, again TO the trade Of
Matamoras. We find then that the bulk
Of the business-we refer now 10 general
country stores, where you can buy any,
thing from grindstone to o tooth.pick-
y done BY the following firms: 8. Hutch.
inson @ Sons; Charles Miller, P. HanShu.
maker and Jno. D. Gates. AS TO which
OF the two first mentioned does
the heaviest trade we will not ven
ture 10 say. To be fair, we think there
Is but little difference, and as each
thinks their own trade the best, and a
TITLE the largest, we will lot them fight II
out on that line. One thing Is sure, how.
ever; both do very heavy trade, and
both houses are making money. A trade
OF 100000 o year, In these dull times, in
a place Of the size Of Matamoras, and
mostly at retail, Is a big trade
Mr.. Hanshumaker was until year ago
10 business with Charley Miller, firm Of
Miller 81 HAnshumaker, and has conse-
quently not yet got his trade In full But
he does very heavy shipping and COM
mission business, and Is one Of the men OIL
enterprise OF the town. j. D. Gates does
a good, steady, safe trade, and, Of course,
makes money. The Messrs Hutchison
do q very heavy forwarding. and
commission business, having shipped
during the last year, among other
things, over 1000 hogsheads Of tobacco.
Now take these four firms, as mentioned
above, and put them in any town
within twenty miles oil here, up or down,
east or west, and they will do as much
trade as they do here. Some say It is the |
location Of the town that gives tits trade. |
We say no. Again, Others say II is larger
than the other toWns, and hence its trade. |
Again we say no. Then why2 Because,
and only because, It's merchants are alive,
active and abreast with the times. Wei
know OF towns where a yard of calico Is |
LIT cents, and yard brown muslin "three
dps" and always has been, and when, In |
that town, they get a sack oil coffee or 4 |
barrel OF sugar, they don't get the invoice
10 see how 10 mark 1t, but they sell Il the |
same as they sold the last barrel, and as |
heir fathers sold 1t in their day.
BUT NOT SO HERE.
II one Of these merchants buys a bill,
hey try when the goods arrive to see
now low they can sell, so to beat their
and hence by q healthy &C
i've rivallng, their customers are always
Enabled to buy goods at the bottom figure.
Hence that gentleman who Is buying
100 dollar bill came from six miles beyond
Pennsboro, and this man and his wife
rom within two miles of Marietta.
We are not writing In the interest of
hatamoras. We. wouldn't give two
travis for Matamoras over any other
Ohio river town. But these are facts,
lard, stubborn, and 10 tho West Virginia
merchants, melancholy facts. II
But Of all this, and oil the other indus
ries Of .Matamoras, for we have not
ouched upon anything but the trade Of
hese general stores, while the same
hlpgS can undoubtedly be said Of the
'ther branches; but OF all this we will
ay more anon. ..-
We have now neither the time nor
lata from which to write such letter as
Ve would like, and shall In the future.
NAsrONI