Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-29

show that both streams need cleaning.
The variation in quantity OF some OF
the ingredients is due to the fact that i'll
the lattler instance the stream runs
through at the upper end oftOwn, while
the other does not.
History.
Wheeling Is nearly a hundred years
old, and from the looks Of some OF the
streets one would be tempted to say II
was ten times that age and not lick
of Improvement had been struck on
them since they were laid Off 1t is the
county seat of Ohio county and is also
the capital of the State, which honor,
however, is Onty to continue until 1880,
when all the pOmp and panOply of gov
eminent will be translerred to Charles
ton pleasant town on the kanawha,
centrally located. The capitol building
at Wheeling is very substantial struc-
ture of brick and stone and Will make
a very handsome city building, to
which purpose it will be devoted when
the galaxy of governmental talent be-
gins TO shine in other armament. At
one end of the capital square is hand
some soldiers monument in white mar
BILE.
There are about % 600 people in the
city, and they are as much like Louis
Vile people as two peas are synony-
nous. They have nice homes which
are made to receive people and to super
induce feeling of welcome when one
goes into them, which is not always the
case in every city in the land.
"What are you hitting at now" said
Dickey.
Nothing" said !, "only l know
some places where the doors are just as
big Us half dollars and. that's the way to
get ill.,"
Gave Ills fact" said she.
81 haven't anything TO say against
our Northern friends" said i, "but In q
Tree country like this can keep UP a
dickens of Il thinkin'."
Wheeling is one of the most
Extensive Iron Manufacturing Points
on the Ohio, and in point OF nail pro-
ducts il takes the lead Of all the other
places. | presume not less than forty
| thousand million nails are made here
every year. and they are shipped all
over the world.
"Do they use Wheeling nails in Eng
land and Norway and Siberia aud
| Australia" said Dickey.
~ don't know" said l, "but they are
| shipped all over the world"
"How do you know" said she.
"Why,n said !, they drive them
| into boxes of other kinds of exported ar
ticles, and into ships and that way, land
so they go clear all over"
Fudge" said she. "Now let me
| tell you a story; Once there was a
| drunken fellow who knew what great
| town this is for mails, and as he was
wandering around he went into mil.
linery store, and pretty girl behind
| the counter asked him what he would
| have.
"'Got ny nails on hard, mish?'
What, sir" asked the astonished
girl.
Il shay, got my nailish"
| "'No, sir; of course We haven't
"'Shure yer amt got my"
Certainly l am; We don't keep
them
"Then-hie-mish, how the devil
dyer scratch y'r head""
| More Facts.
| Wheeling sknown as the Nail City
! Its factories and mills and furnaces and
glass houses employ thousands of PEG.
pie, and here, as plainly rs can be found
elseW here in the country, is shown the
disastrous result of that turning point
in the conflict between labor and capt.
tai, the "strike." When strikes occur
they bring Sunday calm, and all
kinds of business rests until work re-
sumes. 1t is from these factories that
the smoke and sulphur referred to else
where comes They use soft coal with
out smoke consumers. and clouds OF the
black stuff settle over the place until
everything is darkened, and the sui
phur kills the grass and the flowers.
Yet the smoke is business, and every
bucket full of it represents 80 much
money; and, as money is what a man
worships, Idon't know that 1t Is such
bad thing to have ones idol always
before and behind, above and below
him, and permeating every recess OF
his abiding place.
The town has plenty Of churches for
it's size, some nice ones, school houses, .
custom house nicer than the one In
Louisville, seminaries of learning, q
court house of the antique Grecian Gu
| pois
a number offine residences and grounds
one or two pretty .streets-nOt very
pretty, thOugh-an opera house with