The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-02-24


local capital in plant to manufacture
Woodward'a safety carriage and cradle,
which is tho invention OF Major Abncr
Woodward, Of Shelburno Falls, Mass,
and is owned and controlled by that
gentleman and Mr.. Grubbs. Factories
have been built and arc in practical
operation in Columbus, Ohio, und New
Orleans. II n company Is organized
hero it will control the carriage in tho
two Virginias. and us tho gentleman or.
presses il, 1.-THE baby crop Is n suro thing
aud tho concern would get Its share Of
the business.
An IYrgLLIGESCER reporter aaw ono
oil tho now carriages yesterday after
noon, and it seems to DO far and away
tho best thing OF It's kind in tho market
Instead OF tho humping motion oil other
carriages 1t has both forward ind sido
ewing, and 1t Is just as good cradle rs
it is a vehicle. Another advantage is
the fact that the body can be turned
around so that the person wheeling tho
youthful idea Can have tho occupant in
full view. Mr.. Grubbs has received rs.
suranccs OF financial backing here, but
not enough yet to make tho factory in
this city surety.
Mr.. Grubbs says that the baby car
riago industry is not appreciated BY
most people, When asked Us to the
total number sold in the United States
he replied that If ho was to tell that A
persons breath would be takon away.
Right here in Wheeling tho sales aggre-
gate over 1000 every year. This in it.
self is surprising to the average person.
II the factory is located hero it will
be the means OF bringing into actual.
use the invention OF a Wheeling man.
Mr.. George T. Hobbs, superintendent
OF the Nail City Lamp and Stamping
Company. His invention. which WINS
recently patented, IS n wheel axle which
is both lighter and cheaper to manu-
facture than the ones now In use. This
wheel and axle uro also said to be prac.
ticable for bicycles, and will make them
much lighter.
IN DIXIE LAND.
Mr.. Grubbs, being native and rcsi.
dent OF the Palmetto state, was in n
position to give graphic description OF
the working, OF the new liquor laws
and OF the condition OF affairs zen.
orally there.
ave don't feel the money panic in nv
state" said Mr.. Grubb., Ito its full OK.
tent as it is felt in the great industrial
centres of the north. We practically
have no manufactures, and consequent
" no high priced labor. Our only in.
dustry in fact is the cotton mill. md
the price Of labor. mostly negro, is
from fifty cunts to dollar day Re.
Gently tho legislature reduced the hours
oil work from twelve to eleven. The
eight hour agitation has not yet reached
us. What we need in South Carolina,
and in fact throughout tho south. ia
heavy immigration from the nor,b-not
n mere scattering OF immigrants, but
colonies OF them-farmcrs who will
come down and make use of our soil.
sour climate Is warm in summer. but
We never experience the extreme hot
weather that You have in the Ohio val
ley. The thermometerr rarely gets above
"a in the summer, and never below 80
in the winter. Our farmers are poor
and OF late years the small landed pro-
prietors have been forced out, the num-
Der Of landholders having decreased in
the past ten years over six per cent.
POLITICS AND GOVERNOR rILLMAS.
1--WE are just now in the throes OF q
political contest, the parties to it being
two factions OF tho Democratic party,
and Governor Tillman is on ton ius.
now. Nothing is more certain than
that Captain Tillman will 70 to the
United States senate next year to sue
coed General butler. We will then be
entirely misrcpresented in the senate,
for Irby is nothing. The ground work
OF tho fractional fight is town versus
country, and the country owns the
state ut present. The farmers saw they
want.to kill off the towns, and they arc
doing it. Tlllman is the brainiest man
in the state, and is n power, but cx-
pee, n rcvulsion sooner or later.
"What about the new LIQUOR laws ~
"Aioral!y the law is good ono and
prevents lots OF drunkenness. Its work.
ings are not perfect, however, on &c.
count OF the bitter opposition OF tho
town people 10 Tillman. There il lots
OF moonshino whisky made and sold in
Carolina, and people who are as'in the
governor wink when they see !, sold.
In some ways its elects have been bad.
For instance, my town, GroenyilIe, had
seventeen saloons before tho law was
enacted, and they paid in license to tho
city $1,000. The state now sells tho
liquor, pays no license, CT course. and
towns suiTer financially.
THE LlQuoR LAWS.
"The system has worked to the adj
vantage OF the mon who work ior fifty
and sixty cents day. Tho law pro-
vides that no man eau make more than
one purchase OF liquor dav. A man
will generally buy haiti pint, and will
drink this and that ends his drinking
Tor that day. The governor himself
buys all tho whisky that is used in tho
state, and sends it to tho local county dis
pensaries. Charleston has ten OF these
dspcnsaries, Columbia has four, and all
tho other towns one apiece. The first
appropriation made to put the law into
effect WAS $4,000, but before the egis.
laiure met again the demand for liquor
required tho buying OF Sl50O0O worth.
The state dispcnsary sells to the county
dispensary at 4 profit not to exceed
fifty per cent and the county dispensary
cannot sci! at profit exceeding fifty
per cent. This brings the price to the
consumer to twenty cents ior oue.hali
pint, and forty cents pint Before the
pints sold Tor twenty-five cents.
"As | said what we want ia n bir i'm.
migration movement from tho north.
We buy all our meats, -four and hay
from the north and west aud they could
all ensilY bn raisni In tho nIn, mn OF,