Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1883 — The Nail City. [ARTICLE]

The Nail City.

Wheeling is one of the most extensive manufacturing points on the Ohio, and in point of nail products it takes the lead of all the other places. I presrftne not less than 40,000,000,000 nails are made here every year and they are shipped all over the world. Wheeling is known as the nail city. Its factories and mills and furnaces and glass houses employ thousands of people, and here as plainly as can be found elsewhere in the country is shown the disastrous result of that turning point in the conflict between labor and captal, the “strike.” When strikes occur they bring a Sunday calm, and all kinds of business rest until work resumes. It is from these factories that the smoke and sulphur come. They use soft coal without smoke consumers, and clouds of the black stuff settle over the placfe until everything is darkened, and the sulphur kills the grass and she flowers. Yet the smoke is business, and every bucket full represents so much money; and, as money is what man worships, I don’t know that it is such a bad thing to have one’s idol always before and behind, above and below him, and permeating every recess of his abiding place.— “ Mary Jane" in Courter-Journal. . v 'The English mails ifej-e first conveyed by railway in 1830. ~ Nine years later the letters three to each person, and at the present time the average has risen to tnirty-aix. The Fbstpffice Savings Banks last year had nearly 5,.000,000 depositors, whose deposits reached the sum of about $195,-