The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-06-03
.aArnn OF WHEELING.

n kIu EAu hAuulVt WhAS- - -
,bop, all there Is available in West
VifInIa, This IS q long, slab.sided town.
Between the curbStone and the gutter
m lpnr or Ave miles under mountainout
hiIls along q sill OF the river, with room
m 10 Stieets, leyee. and the railroads,
Yeah has, hear, 30 900 people. and itS
enyipns, chiefly In Ohio, bring the popu'
lAti0u up 10 5000.
Wheeling Is an offspring Of Pittsburgh,
though the loundling fell into the hands
II tkat parish beadle, Virginia. All IL
manufacturing art and proves, which are
al hiss, are derived from Pennsylvania
The early VirginiaDs took TO politics aud
mixed Il with greens and now lie 10 beau
iiiul beds Of mint, the Tesiduary yielding
back what he received, inscribed nearly
rs follows:
CoLoSEJ FITIN SIXTH
or WILLtAN,
A npmbr d Hii NSjstY's Cogntll, Uhois tone .S
oii5s b coGl1, asd did in hopes Of blessed im'
nc g. y y ri. sop.ort,
MARY ANN,
l DAU0lTEH OF CoLoEEL JOINS
or jeans
Laia sdyssf 10 ordinary 70 liia MajsStya pub rADs In
MD pi1yIneg. Pot tie dead IN ViTTiGlA shall Ilts
h e ,RS iassi.SsSn Z Ss,ry correct; bat bsiug
20 I'd hand 10 siaysyArdi, Nomttltne5 gus 0ut
dgmLlFEI0le inlcT pliohs.
Is. nH'j yanso h1. 70 orEn ,eSord is9 S = d.
dSliIsi oinlgrSnt EttS uhdoi Pllin spltsPhii a.
BILL Zuo,
Ram ia c. LsnburE, dieda At wheeling.
HDe4rrsI I'll :, thou h4st left a.,
81. UhlldS, XIII, IS.
n. New England Inscription sIyE
The mortal AIhes VI
RPHRAIM HAAoOcK,
Deacon Of the COnEFeSat9ual Church, Eniign, In the
- milltlA, and
A MRWEER or THE MAssIcHuAETTS L10tsLA'
~ TURG
HlvlaE been elected 70 Thai memorable hOdV By a
maturity Of seventeen -,
liz IIm UHKXGuPLED VOTE or '37t
BLOW 70 the Iumpet, hloHi
Tbs gladly solemn bouha!"
ThsNox York inscription layE
NICHOLAS PEARLAsU,
MeubfF Of the Chamber Of tOmm'feo, Importer o.
Rfesa bIdGs, PsShOldr 70 this church ~ lhes5P9f
M N1TSf voted IiISTEArd. died al The second
al Il ltockI, MOhdly, Nay Is isas,
NNhy nnunio khb tnloIgu W AUS
r. Go mourning all tbvlr tlTSF'
As / approached Wheeling ! noticed
various signs, such as "Nail CITY, on
steanboats, "NAil City Express, Mail
Oily Lager Beer" ! thought 10 myself
MI must be The Young ScratcherS or.
Ranisalion, because, In my young days, !
Knew OF q wild fellow 10 20 TO the mil.
lIpefy stores and ask II they had any nails.
NE pretty milliner would say: EMO,
sirfahl we don't keep nails here. We
keeD nothing but caps aud bonnetS."
"Bat, Mrs. Rufles, hAint you got no
M 'tNo, you vile man, I've got no
MAJ l,Ihen, Mrs. Rullles, what do you
scratch yourself withT"
Affiyedat Wheeling | asked one Of the
editors there what Nail City meant
IVhy,p be answered, this Is the fore.
most nail market in the world" You
mean the mist driving placer "Pre-
e4sely,,t he said, with no mind Tor puns;
"yonlye hit Il exactly. We oulseil any
cityIin theworld for nails "Dont you
haye l6feien competillonT mo, STR.
Thtv canlt inake q nail in England any.
;body here Would drive. The form Of our
nkilA. theif CheApness and durability have
d FIJI III y glorious reputation. We have
bvttr + competition In transportation than
PlilkbnIRh. She has only the Pennsylva'
niKRailfoad, and recently u branch Of the
NV York Central. We have the Bali.
more and Ohio, the Pennsy lvanis and now
.the New York Central, too, which controls
the bonds 81 the new Cleveland, Tusca'
"a Ens Valley and Wheeling Railroad, just
opened. Besides We have good water on
tie Ohio river below here nearly the
whole year, and put key Of nails into 81
Iduia ior ten cents. Last year, when
Tailrcad compelition was close, We put
nall. into Cleveland for five cents key"
4 oaw that there was no scratching in
"a lie Mcclure House, the principal
hold. was struck In the wash.room with
alaIge printed admoniti0n: Come up 10
AN Tough. Don't wiring your towel on
the floorl This exquisite piece oil hui
midi wis considered SO good that there
iwdre Two aikus Of It. | said to myself.
Fplhia ia a piece Of hos-packing pArl1ace,
but what do hogs want with tOwelsP
4 TLcfeafetw0 railroads from Pittsburgh
10 Wheeling, on each side Of the river,
ana three ifum the West across the river,
and The Baltimore and Ohio from the
raj, besides .one or TWO railways adyano-
lnI down the shores Of the Ohio. Thus
Nssl Virginia lies In q frame oil railroads,
while her mineral bowels lie under the
wilderness. They say ln Ohio that their
shore 10 ontshlppiug Wheeling, and II
licked 30. Am told that the plentiful
col seams on the Ohio side slant 10 the
moi III Andiso drain the pits Of water, while
on tho Wheeling side the water has to be
nd ped. Bot Il needs no seer 10 see that
IND 0hiofiver from Pittsburgh TO Wheel
In and far below will be almost q coutin-
uo, city. III Is In nearly SO nov. Here Is
to no The most popul0us valley o. the
lWattetn World, beautiful as the Rhine or
Mdn,e, itBagticultuTe green and golden
under the coal smoke like the robes and
.dadems otih fallen angels In Pande.
mdnlnnl. Two points oil exchange aud
Subrly fising into nearly equal import
yurc afe Buffalo and the upper Ohio.
Qpada only retards the former with her
li4rlie, ilfterate, provincial people. The
chain ofgTeat lakes oil the one side Is
Gl5tlied with farms and citlesi on the
ollier with forests and bRrbarism. The
Qdeen Of England, out Of her great oppor:
luHiiy, tcighs over the whipped squaws Of
lazy lndisns the President has two mill.
ioIso educated women on the opposite
Wet Virginia has salt In the KanawhA
Valley In great deposits, but was told In
Wheeling that 1t was with the. greatest
difficulty one could get clear tltle 10 land
there anywhere. They sometimes shut
upthe KanaWha Salt Works by subsidy
from the Syracuse New York; Salt
Mnrka.