The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-06-24
PaRKERSBURG LETTER.
The strike and Commune In NOOd
the Burnt Dis
tricI-Current PriceS-PeIiiics.
PARKERsRURG, June 20.
STRIFE AND THE Commune

PARKERsRURG, June 20.
STRIKE AND THE Commune
Our worki1gmen are al! on strike
striking honestly with pick snd shovel,
chisel, hammer and saw, for their "altars
and fires" and the Commune is all alive
here teo-people are sll communinS to-
getker, wondering why sll this sensa-
lionGl bunCombe is going the rounds OF
the press about blood snd starvation.
The fact is, any sensible visitor, looking
over our city, would unhesitstingly pro
nouDce any complaint OF hard times, or
spprehnsions Of labor troubles, sll pre-
poste1ous bOsh. Whist are the sccomps-
niments of hard times and suffering but
depression OF business and suspension OF
works of Improvement? How about the
latter in Parkersburg? Our storekeepers
are busy, our machinery buzzing, snd
our streets lively; and as to Improvements,
old buildings are being repaired snd
new ones are coming up all over
the city. The whole length of
the burnt district has already been
excayated and the heavy walls are being
laid, where will speedily rise substantial
three story brick blocks, extending near
~ the length of the square; thus giving
renumerstlve employment TO scores and
scores of men, including cart men, ms
sons, carpenters, builders, &c, &c.
Then too, the ponderous foundations
of the new Episcopal Church are well
under way. IL is to be stone editice
Of modern style and finish, and vii. en-
gage many wOrkmen Tor many days
Then again, the NJ. Z. Church South are
expendipg $1,000 or $1,000 in repairs,
and the L. b. Church large sum. which
money goes largely into the pockets and
homes OF the lsboring men. III psrtic-
ularizo no further than to mention the
magnificent brick residence Ct W. y.
Chanceilar TO be thres stories, and the
finest in the city, and the very
novel, and very expensive, half stone
ha.f-trame and tiling mansion Of NJ. &.
&. Church, which eliclts many queries
and puzzles the the natives not little,
and to describe which can't be more
5efnite .hsn to say it is in the NJ. {. {.
Church style of architecture.
These with many o.her improvements
that are being prosecuted, together with
the active measures on foot Oy the city,
laying curbs, grading, building a number
OF largo CiSterns against the next fire,
&c, al combine to keep our business
men, workingmen and people generally
so busy that If the boss Communist him
self should come along he couldn't get a
corporals guard to join him IN strike.
If man wants work in the city he can
have it, and the farmers in the city are
busy looking for hands TO save the heav-
lest wheat crop tLCy have ever harvested,
and as for the necessities OF
lite, let US see; Butter, 8 cents;
eggs l2I cents, new potatoes 80 cents per
bushel, meat very cheap, greens every
where free, and Of all kinds of vegets-
bles almost a mule load for dollar of
the dsddies, while cherries, currants,
gooseberries, rsspberries and the like are
so plenty and cheap man can almost
bury himsclG with them for days
work. So taking all in all, it is quite
evident we'll have no room, tune, nor
disposition !or suy sOciaistiC nonsense
in these parts for some tune TO come al
least and the great smoking train OF
Communistic progress that always pro-
gressos backwards, with It's engine ready
to reverse and retreat, TO save its tender
behind, may rs well switch clear Of Par
kersburg for the year 1873.
1t is quite true that many Of our voters
are heartily out with the two old polti-
cal parties, and green hackers are so
thick you can shake q stick at them, while
any one of our honest workingmen would
desire no better entertainment than
to sit down on q bond-holder, and, with
the sharp shears of reform, clip coupons
from his srIstocrstic ears, so TO speak;
but MS for the Sociaistic, snti-property,
element in our midst, you could carry
all there is Of It, outside the corporation,
on fair sized lsbor-chip, showers OF
which are flying al! about and lie in heaps
handy to the kitchen maids to keep the
fires burning and the stew pots boiling
All things considered, we are as well
as could be expected, with the County
Court in session - which, by the way, sd-
iOurned over the other day for horse
race, with jury out on five dollar
case, giving the Court and twelve men
an additional days wages. As | said,
we're alive to business down here.
SALATHIAL.