The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-09-17
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the distance between Washington and
Waynesburg. The whole line will be
finished by the middle Of October. The
finished portion Of the road will be taken
of the hands OF the contractor to-day.
Dennis McColum is supplying parties
with coal along the line Of the lIempfcld
between Washington and Taylorstown.
In the town Of Washington fifteen
grocery stores make living for at least
twenty-five families. How is that for
town Of 5000 inhabitanIs2
Two building and loan associations,
organized about three years ago, have
done much to help laboring men to small
comfortable houses. a man who owns
real estate, be ii ever 80 little, is, other
things being equal, better citizen than
he who does NOT II is a wise policy on
the part Of any borough or commonwealth
to encourage the acquisition OF some
real property by each citizen. Renting
tends to coniine every effort to temporary
interest.
"Eo foot Of land do possess,
No lOdgmenl in this Wilderness"
is not just the spirit out of which grows
public enterprises and the increase OF
material wealth. 1t will do for camp
meetings and the un.carnal mind.
A correspondent Of the West Chester
american writes as follows about the
Hempteld railroad, and about Washing.
ton county:
From Wheeling, West Virginia, to
Washington, Pa, we pass over one Of
the most expensive railroads in Pennsyl.
vania-its cost is not less than $4,000
per mile. You remember that some
twenty years ago, Philadelphia sent out
her Ex-Mayor Conrad, as President Of
the Hempfield Railroad, with $500 900 10
put into it. Well! he did it for the
Pennsylvania Railroad and then gave 1t
up unfinished, and to-day, the Baltimore
4 Ohio Railroad Eeaps the benefit Of that
investment.
This county is a wonder to the CON.
mon traveller. Washington, the county
seat has a population OF 5000 people.
Washington and Jefferson College is here
she worships at eleven churches, and
drinks at her temperance fountains. She
has the grandest soldiers monument Of
any county in the State, and it cost
$4,000.
There is no cemetery to equal hers that
have seen-she has the only cremation
fHrnace in the United States-and has
really transmitted corpse TO ashes in its
retort. Coal rests in her hills and is dug
from their bases-coal oil wells up from
her vale depressious-and gas-burning
gas-bubbles up from her low streams.
Sheep pasture upon her thousand hills
and three million pounds OF wool were
sheared from her bleating lambs and shiv.
ering dams this season.
Her hills and mountains are grass and
grain bearing TO their submits, and from
the top OF the latter you get ravishing
views Of at least 50 miles away.
Here they have q broom factory that
turns out perfect broom every minute
every working day in the year.
Three railroads centre here and two
more are in course OF construction.
The trail OF the Indian scout came
right through the town from the old Red
Stone fort to Wheeling, and the Great
National pike followed his path, and en-.
gineering, with its theodolite and magnet
had TO acknowledge the subtitle gift OF the
Red man, inasmuch "a the railroad keeps
the National Road in view even from
Cumberland, Md, except where gunpow'
der has hurled from its firm base the
rock in the hills and made many tunnels
through the spurs Of the mountains.
They have dozen stores here that sur.
pass the best in your borough, and H.
brary Of 10000 volumes, donated by Dr.
lie Moyne, of inCneration fame.
a woGlen factory turns out blankets
and yarn, and the taEnery gives leather to
the suffering solss a steam mill makes
most excellent -four, ard brewery
changes barley to beer, which is sold only
by the barrel or key.
Five newspapers are published here
three weeklies, one daily, and one month
ly-the latter by a cOlOred man. Base
ball nOurishes, and white nine and a
cOlOred nine contest for supremacy.
In piking the streets they haul what il
called 4 airing Of stones, three feet wide
at the base and two high, along the mid.
die Of the street; then a man mounts the
pile aStride, and with an iron mace breaks
the stones about az fast as three men do
it in your borough with the long handled
hammer. Tomorrow we look at the ruins
OF Pittsburgh. The pleasln,c't weather
in generation.