The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-02

talked OF, and in the completion oil which
that county ;would he largely benefited,
will be carried out.
The InteIIigenccr for 1850.
Hon. &. Fleming, Of Eairmont, ali ex-
member Of the Legislature, in renewing
his subscription at the close OF the year
to the DAILY lNTELLIGESCER, takes occas.
ion to remark that the paper has been q
daily visitor to his home "since the COM
mencement Of the great rebellion, in 1861, 4"
and he seems to think that it is sort Of
necessity 10 his housekeeping arrange
ments. We receive many letters OF this
kind in the course OF year from people
vino have either themselves taken the IN
TgLLIGEScER for over quarter OF CEN
fury, or who have continued on the sub.
scriptions OF their fathers or other rela.
tiyes for that time. The subscription list
Of a long.established paper, like the lNTET.-
LldgScER, showsa large and continually
increasing constituency Of this kind. 1t
becomes matter Of family pride at last
tocontinue the visits Of a naper with which
every member OF the household has grown
up, and which their fathers, and, in
many instances, their grandfathers,
were accustomed TO read This is
the reason that an established news.
paper becomes at last such valuable
property. It is really al indcstructible
property, as has been over and over again
proved in the examples Of papers that
have been burned out, such as those at
Chicago, the Republican at st. Louis, and
other journals that have passed through
the flames. Notwithstanding the fact that
their presses and all their machinery were
destroyed, yet so indcstructible was their
gOed will, that even In spite OF the total
wiping out Of their subscription books,
the old consistency in every instance
found its way back to the resuscitated
paper, and no new venture OF any kind,
started to iorestall its success, could keep
the old patrons from supplying their
names OF their own accord 10 the journal
of their choice, 10 the receipt and reading
Of which they had been SO long accustom-
ed. There is an affection in business out
side Of dollars and cents, as all business
men know, and in no branch of trade is
this characteristic more strikingly mani
tested than in the relations Of a paper to
It's readers. This feeling grows with the
years, and at last takes such firm hold |
community that public sentiment
solidiiCs around a journal and makes it
proof against successful rivalry. We re-.
member visiting Mrs. Cruger one Sunday
many years ago, at her home in the old
Stone house Mt the forks OF Wheeling
creek, md we happened to find her
reading the Tri-Weekly National lntelli-
gencrr. Saidshe; This paper has been
coming ONE for sixty years, ever since Col.
Shepherd began taking it," and although
she was then upwards OF hundred years
old, and although everything in the past
connecting her with public events or public
Lie had become as half forgotten dream,
yet such was the force OF habit that this
old lady clung to her family paper after
having lot go OF almost everything else
that was cotemporaneous with it, and
long alter its contents possessed but
little practical interest Tor her.
1t is this feeling, thus illustrated, that
has kept the established newspaper pro-
perty Of the country in exceptionally good
condition all through the panic. In COM
mencing the year 1880, we tan say that
onr circulation is decidedly larger than it
was at the outbreak OF the panic in 1873.
Our new Hoe press is taxed to the utmost
to get out our daily edition in sea-
son in the mornings, and il our growth
continues us it has been progressing since
We got this splendid machine in the sum.
aner Of 1875, wewiIl be obliged, in another
year, perhaps, to order press that will
DO the work still more cxpeditiously.
luthis connection We may note that one
person, The Postmaster at Dallas, in Mar
shall county, has sent us club OF 0l
subscribers to the INTELVIdGSCER to begin
the yearwith. and llc intimatcs that several
precincts are yet to be heard from. TIL is
shows epopularity OF the lSTELLEGEScgR
in Marshall county. And its popularity
is Just as decided all through the Pam
handle, and in many Of the interior coun'
ties Of the State, as well us in the neigh.
boring counties OF Ohio and Pennsylvania,
It's growth is steady throughout this
whole region Of country. It's patrons
are the leading and most intelligent
ssople 10 be found in the bounds OF its
large circulation, and hence as class o
readers they are the most desirable tina
advertisers can reach. In the most fruit
ful and desirable fields Of trade occupied
by the mercantile interests OF the city o
Wheeling the INTEliLGENcER is always L
be found, and hence as an advantageou
dsyertising medium for reaching the bes
patronage Of this city 1t has no rival in
our midst.
The year 1850 promises to be one mem
orabIe in the business and political annall
otthe country. This Is aycar OF all other
when tho people will read the papers, an,
inasmucl ps the financial condition of til
people on the farms and in the village
and towns throughout all this region Q
country is exceptionally good, as the re
suit Of an unusual agricultural prosperity