The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-11-23

his tall pile OF manuscript into the rooms
of brother lawyer, he gazsd with fond
ness upon the work of months, and said
iaquh ingly: Brooke, you never did
anything of this klndw "No" says
Brooke, II never did" Brooke you
never will do anything of this kind"
No" said Brooke again, II don't think
| ever Withholding OF that kind" "AhI
Brooke" said Mason, you cannot under
stand what my feelings are-I feel l feel,
sir like Daniel Webster upon the COM
pletlOn of his great speech, when ne ex-
claimed: Done! done! by heavens am
immortal"
But, perhaps, this is too personal. Let
me see, on second thought | will take
back tho red locks and the beard, but |
will hold on to that intellectual brow.
Although my stay here must necesSa-
rily be short, yet | shall bear away with
me many pleasant memories. There is
my friend O. D.. Only last night
he mistook me standing in the
dark for another. "Have you
room in your room for thirteen
bottles?' he asked Unfortunately my
apartment was small, and | replied that
| didn't think 1 had, but by tilling up
the space beneath the bed. ! might ac-
commodate six or seven" "Oh, said he,
recognizing me, II made mistake; but
won't YOU come up and take something.
All, | forgot, you don't take anything
and he passel on. This is what one
might regard rs straw floating upon
the stream, but indicating what mighty
currents are rushing beneath tn" surface.
In addition to Mason and Vaughan
there are now in Wheeling Victoria
Woodruff, Ann Eliza Young and Eli
Perkins-a kind of Congress of Ma
tionS, this meeting Of so many great
people at one point, and Wheeling Is
proportionately light-hearted.
| have been almost afraid u enter the
newspaper Offices here after the Shootings
which have been taking place Of late,
and weighing carefully the stories that
are told of their interior arrangements.
The editors are SAID to sit in coats OF
mail; instead OF table ornaments for
holding pen and ink rack is lanclfulll
adorned with bowie-knives and revol-
vers. A hand-grenade occupies the
place of paper weight, and even the
passages leading in and out are laid with
tUrpedocs. The composing-room is or
ganized on the principles in vogue on
board man-oi-war. At u signal every
man springs to his place. The galley
fires are put out and all is ready for ac-
NJ. l,t,il ni \ o. AuyIar "a
and the ncighborIng surgeons are paid
by the year. | ain happy to say there
have been no lives lost during the past
week,
Already work has begun in West Vr-
ginia on the pulitical states for 1876.
Upon the Democratic side Hon. Henry
NJ Mathews, the present Attorney-Gen-
eral of the State spromincntIy spoken of
for Governor, and Joseph Miller and
Speaker Monroe for Auditor.
The Republicans are talking Of q. WI
Atkinson, of Charleston. for Governor.
Mr.. Atkinson is young man of c"nsid.
cradle ability, and is very popular with
his party. &. w. Bishop is spoken Of
for Auditor and G. G.. Cole for Attorney
General. BoLh parties are talking OF
Professor W. X. Pendlcton, President OF
Bethany College, for State Superintend-
cnt OF Schools, so that he will probably
be elected il he consents I" become Il
candidate.
This morning. through conrtespo OF Mr..
Frank }. Ucarne 81 the Riverside Iron
Works, | had an opportunity for exam
ming the extensive establishment of that
Company.
The nail works contain one hundred
and twenty-siI machines in two factories.
\ plate mill train and five heating fur
naces are attached, the whole having Il
capacity Of seven thousand kegs of nails
per week Notwithstanding the dcstruc-
ton by fire of one factory and plate mill,
the company have already this year made
2l5,O0O kegs of nails, and expect to make
35 coo more before Christmas. The COM
pany's forge contains twenty-tour boiling
furnaces, two heating furnaces for the bar
mill, two spike furnaces, one twenty inch
muck train, one twenty inch bar train,
one guide mill and two railroad spike
machines.
Driving to the company's blast furnace,
after a couple of hours spent at the forge
and factory, l found one of the most
complete establishments | have any
where examined. The furnace is only
sixteen and a half feet at the bosheS by
rixty feet in heighth, yet | found from the
books that the average daily make Is
now siIty-seven tons, and increasing
The ores used are Dent county, Missouri
and Titanyierous, with mixture OF mill
clnder
The blowing engine is a magnificent
Rea " Robinson, AZ by S3 inches steam
cylinder. and 81 by 30 inches blowing
cylinder, with fy-wheeIs weighing thirty
two tons. twenty-iour feet in diameter
There are six cylinder boilers for
steam purposes zone battery constantly
free for cleaning There are four 24-pIpe
player hot-blast ovens. Seven tuycres
are used. The Stag is taken ont IN the
ordinary iron cars, and the pigs are cast
in iron molds. The stock houses and
facilities tor rail and river shipment are
Of the most complete description. And,
altogether, the entire works is one of
which any manager may well be proud.
The Bellairr La Belle, Wheeling Iron
and Nail Company, Belmont, Benwood
and Riverside Works have an aggregate
of about siI hundred machines and last
year manufactured l.O35,0O0 kegs of
nails This year the production will be
about 10000 kegs less.
The mills are all running and IT is e1-
pected will be able to keep in operation
during the winter. j. i. W.
Invasion OF Mexican Territory Re.
commended.
WASHINGTON, November 22.-Gcn.