Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-11-16

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STILL IMPRorIsG.-We are pleased
to learn that the building IN the Court
House square, opposite the Garter
Hotrse," is to undergo st an early gay
such modern improvements as Will make
it vastly more attractiue to appearance
and useful in its purposes. Mr.. c. +,
BeIler o, Harpers Ferry, who has now
in successful operation at that point
one of the handsomest and best provl-
( ded Drug Stores in the Valley, designs
establishing branch in this town, ant
under the shadow of our "Temple OF
Justice" will minister to the ailments
and Affections to which flesh is heir
Spirit.
CORNER SToNE.-Messrs. Holmes ~
Rust, the contractors for our new jail,
on Saturday last placed in position, on
the northeast corner of the building, a
corner of the building, cornerstone
bearing. on the north side, the follow
ing inscription
julius Z. HOLMES. HENRY IL. RUsT.
HOLMES Il RUST,
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS,
1872. Charlestown, w. Va.
and on the east end the following:
BUILT
1872.
Spirit.
UARrERs FERRY AND CnARIEsTowN.
In company with Hon. X. Z. Custom,
we paid flying visit to these two places
last week. At the former, the traces OF
destruction and desoation are still loo
painfully apparent. and we fear that the
enterprise of its citizens will find no
vent unless they move to more forward
localities, without it should tremendously
happen that the growing () liberality
of the party in power in Congress should
decree resale of the public property,
in which event, it would be purchased
by capitalists, who would at once turn
their attention to factory workshop,
taking advantage Of the splendid water
power afforded, and restore it to its for
mer prosperity, with the important ad-
vantage that it would be free from the
bane of public patronage. We hope
something will be done, for, situated as
the property is now the aspirations OF Its
citizens are not only clogSed, but every
effor. is paralyzed
OF Charlcstown, we can only say,that
we found pretty little town Of some
2,O00 Inhabitants, all of whom remain
the same genial and hospitable spirits
that their reputation led us to expect
With the exception of a few new build
inos. Charlestown wears her old ante
beHum appearance, with many traces of
her age cropping out here and there
Morgan Mercury.
If brother Hodgson had been familiar
with Charlestown in its ante. bellum
DAYS, and had taken the trouble to OBJ
serve the changes since the war, he
would have found that there have been
erected in Charlestown, since that I'M
happy period of our country's history,
over seventy new business houses and
private residences-a large number OF
them capacious and handsome structures
besides, material changes andimprove-
ments have been made i'll thirty or more
old buildings, and some four or five
(ncluding the new county jaiD are now
in course of erection. If he calls this
list "a few new buildings" for town
the size of Charlestown, we are done.
ORIGIN OF FooI,scAr PArER.-The
torn foolscap, to designate certain
kind of paper, no doubt has puzzled
many an inquirer. The origin is not
only amusing but historical. Charles
l. of England granted numerous mo-
nopolies for the support OF the Govern
ment. Among others was the manufac-
ture of paper. The water mark of the
finest sort was the oval arms of Eng
land. The consumption of this article
was great, and large fortunes were made
by those who had purchased the eyclu-
sivc right to vend it. This, among
other monopolics, was set aside by the
Parliament that brought Charles l. to
the scafIold; and, by way of showing
contempt for the king, they ordered the
royal arms from the paper, and fool,
with his cap and bells,to be substituted.
1t is now over two hundred years since
the fools cap was taken from the paper,
but still the paper of the size which the
Bump Parliament ordered for their jour
mails, bears the name of the water mark
placed there as an indignity to Charles.
MoEMoNs on A PILGRIMAGE TO JERr
sALEM-Thc Mormon Saints have taken
new departure, the end and purpose
of which is not clear. a company OF
missionaries, so-caled, left New York
on Wednesday tor Liverpool, bound to
Jerusalem. Two of the party were
"Apostles," and ore was poetess-
that sweet singer in Israel, Eliza Snow,
who has written the hymns sung in the
Salt Lake Tabernacle, and who varies
her exercises in hymology by writing
feeble lay verses for the Mormon news
papers. 1t is limited that Brigham
Young has designs upont the Holy Land,