Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-09-28
For the Register.
LETTER PROM CHARLEsTOWN.
Snntnrnhnr 81 1870

Mr.. ZTTTLE-Your very tattering
call and notice of your Charlestown
note-taker in your last paper has some
what shaken his purpose well nigh
formed, to withhold his illusions from
the public gaze, but as YOU were pleased
to say what he had written for the Reg.
lister was liable and interesting" and
your readers desire to hear further from
him, you may calculate on an occasional
communication. 1t is true, as you give
out, that Timothy is engaged in teach
ing "the young idea how to shoot "a
very commendable occupation YOU
know, especially when it is well done.
To direct the young idea Alright and
what is more and better, to seek to i'm
prove the moral part of the boy for
good, is work Of no small importance.
For therein lies perhaps the secret of
the future character, for usefulness or
otherwise The proper development
and direction Of talent that will make
its mark in the world or fail We know
the lasting character of early impress
sions. how much little thing has to do
with shaping and directing the future
of life, all Of which goes to make up the
man ahead. Who knows but that some
future Cicero, Clay, or Webster may be
about on you may be Guiding future
President, Judge or minister of great
influence and power. Such are some OF
the possible happenings Of teaching the
young, enough to give great response
bility and weight to the business. You
may give out to your readers that | am
in this work, have very good school, a
clever set of boys, perhaps the Pick Of
Charlestown, and if any Of them get to
be President or some other great per
sonage, they must not be surprised.
Horace Greeley was once boy and |
guess very unpromising one. And
lrom the signs is likely to be the next
President
We are mending our ways in Charles
town to a very considerable extent. BY
order of the Town Council, the entire
extent Of Main street, is to be repayed
with brick The rough unsightly stone
pavement so unpleasant to pedestrians,
is to give way to the smooth and come
" one of brick. 1t will be a much
needed and progressive improvement,in
keeping with the want Of the day and
the march of ideas.
The old Rawlings property located
near the center of the town, in which
/ drugs and medicines were sold for years,
in the upper room Of which the SPIRIT
Of Jefferson was published after the war
! by that live editor, the late b. +. Beall,
was sold one day last week for $500,
Mr.. Jacob Brown purchaser. Mr.. Is. Is
one of the gentlemen OF our town who
deals in the ardent and his purchase
would indicate he is doing a thriving
business. No doubt. 1t is 4 business
that pays. Why? Because there is so
much sold and drank, the profits being
about 100 per cent. Now whether
money thus made will stick is question
able. The second or third generation
is apt to spring leak and away goes
the fortune. There is a wheel within a
wheel in the affairs of this world.
Death has been thinning the ranks of
our young people. -Four have passed
away from earth in the short space of
three weeks. One young man and
three young women One of the latter
it was my pleasure to marry about three
wears 400. Ii is sad to see the Young
die. Life opening up with freshness
and bloom. But no age is invulnerable
to the dash of death. Infancy, child
! hood youth, manhood and old age, all,
all are his victims. Our young people
have seemed to have drained the cup of
worldly pleasure, during the brief sum
mer that has just passed. Journeys,
! pic-nics, dances, and soirees, have fol
lowed each other in quick succession,
and now whilst the dance and song and
rapture are visible to the mind, the fell
destroyer takes his victims from those
of thi. class who least expect his ap-
proach.
The best thing that has been done in
Charlestown in the way of improvement
Of late, is now in progress in the Meth
odist Church South. This body of
Christians have st last stirred themselves
and are putting their sanctuary in a
most comely condition The frescoe
work is already handsomely done-the
remaining inside is to be painted. The
altar and seats to be remoddlcd, and in
stead Of the dingy, dirty, uncomely edi-
fee they have been worshiping in since
the war, they will have handsome, in
viting and comely house. Well done
I for them.
The Winchester District Conference
meets here the 23rd of next month, when
the Church will be ready and will be
re-opened. and great will be the JOY.
Prosperity will crown their efforts and
the blessing of the Holy One will come
down. There will be perhaps fifty Of
the clergy and laity at this Methodist
Convention. Charlestown will be
quite filed with the brethren.
TIMOTHY.
On Saturday week 4 Grant ali VIII
son pole was raised in Stanton, Va,
BY the negroes In county polling