The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-07-16
WELLsBURG.

WELLsBuRG, July 10.
EdiIon Iutslllgencer: N.J
Once more and for the last time We
open the record kept BY the old pilot.
The first item ia dated Well,burg, June
4, 1854. Bacon, 7al0e; beef, 6Gl23c; pros
pect Of good wheat crop aud some fruit.
All kinds Of business dull.
July9. The past month has been warm
and dry-a long spell Of excessive warm
weather; Thermometer e5' in the shade.
Some two weeks since our town was
thrown into quite an excitement by the
death Of three women, said to have died
with cholera; they died in few hours
after taking sick.
July %. The river ia down so that we
cannot tell whether ii was ever any lower
or not; steamboat navigation stopped;
new wheat in the market at 81 %; Hour
falling in price everywhere; hog products
dull; butter scarce owing TO harvest and
the rumor that the cholera Is amongst
Us; the health Of this place never was
better. ..-,..... .a.. ta (,
August g. 1854. The cholera prevails
in the west and in Northern Ohio; wheat
ceiling at 81 As; new crop not very good;
flour made from il dark and selling n
So %: bacon 7s1Oc, butter 12lc, eggs loo,
potatoes 81, beef in market sal2!c, NUT
Angus. 10. The order Of Know Moth.
iugs ia beginning 10 make stir in this
place. Its said that they have lodge
here. / do not kROr. Ills creating good
deal Of excitement. ~
September 8, 1854. Corn and potato
crops given up as failures on accouut Of
the dropih; in some pArtS Of The country
farmers have 10 haul water for many
miles for their stock; The water in the
wells in town has been scarce; the river
Is lower than it has been since 1888, and
1t il thought by some to be lower than in
that year. Ii ever we did stand in need
OF railroad il Is now; we have to resort
10 the way ofcOnyeying our supplies OF
produce and manufactured articles by
wagon which is out OF date. Wheat
81 62l; come think that -four will be sold
here for $40; corn at ST. Louis 05 cent?;
there is no price here, but our farmers
take the papers and they will not be be-
hind. We had an election here last week
for Justice Of the Peace, and il Is said
that y Know Nothing was elected. From
reports they are getting very numerous
ali over the country. do not know.
September II, 1854. Wheat 81 so;
flour 50 so, but not worth more than
s. IS in the Eastern cities or in Liver
pool, England. River ia now lower than
was ever known.
September "a, 1854. The river rose
last week about II inches; fell come 6 or
s inches and to-day took another rise.
The steamer Challenge is now at our
wharf; she is the FIRST one down for the
past Two months. Flour 50 so; at Gin.
cinnati SC so, (some difIerence;l we have
plenty and cannot ship il; at Cincinnati
il Is scarce and comparatively cheap TO
what it Is here. So much for small towns
without railroads. 1t has always been
the plea OF those opposed 10 railroads
that they took everything away from
email towns 10 the larger ones. We have
not had pound OF butter in town for
sale for some ten days or two weeks, and
we have not finished railroad nearer
than Wheeling, 16 miles distant. The
Disciples, sometimes called Campbellites,
are holding a great revival here. 1t is
said that the Know NothiDgs are in
creasing very fast. The Democracy are
alarmed; the Wings shake their heads,
which is to say they look for the coming
oLEome great events. The people OF this
county are going to hold fair in this
place next month.
November,l II, 1854. The Fair came off
on the 10Th, llth and l2Ih Of October,
and il was FAR ahead OF the expectations
OF the Society; it was we'll patroniEed and
well conducted. There ia now the great.
eat panic in this country since 1887 in
money matters; not week passes but we
hear OF failures in banks, bankers and
brokers in the East and West; there is
no confidence in any one or anything.
We have had good many small failures
in this place. There are more men in
trouble here than ever before; when or
what it will terminate in no one knows.
We are now at the beginning oil winter;
provisions are high and scarce; how We
Shall all fare | can tell you better when
it IL over, II alive, but it will be hard on
all. Flour did get down 10 IS, but is now
selling at 50; wheat 81 20; corn 75c; oats
so; barley 81 20; potatoes zoe to 81.
Beef in market 5 10 los; bacon Q 10 l22c.
Fat hog4 are selling at 81 TO &c, gross.
Butter 20 to &c; cabbsge Sc per head;
chickens SOC per pair; onions 81; beans
81 so; lard l0c. The wheat crop 10 not
half one in this country,
Nov. %, 1854. There is nothing but
failures Of banks and bankers all over this
country. Merchants are failing all over
this land and Europe comes in for her
share, too. The pork business has fairly
commenced; hogs from s. so to 81 90, and
very light; farmers will not feed high
priced corn TO hogs ut the present prices;
-four 50 90; expect 1t to reach Sl2.
February 10, 1855. The river closed
with ice on the night OF the 9Th OF De.
cember, 1854; it Was very low and did not
require very hard freeze 10 close It. The
weather continued moderately cold until
ChristmSS when ii turned warm. On the
2Sih of December the river broke up.
The lat OF January was beautiful day;
the weather continued fine until the Goth
when it turned cold; the river closed with
ice again on the 25th and is closed at this
time.
March 4, 1855; The river broke up
February Esd, causing great destruction
Of property in boats Of all kinds. 1t
closed on the 26th for the third time this
winter, and IL closed now. Flour 50 so;
bacon 10c 10 he; beef &c to 10c; potatoes
81 80; corn meal sl00.
March IS, 1855. The river broke up
for the third time this winter on the 9Th
Of March. On Friday night the 18th
there fell more rain here than has fallen
for nine months past. The river Is now
high; the grass ia growing; the country ia
short Of all kinds OF food for man and
beast. Cattle and sheep in some sections