Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-05-18
Horace EreeleY.

almost he has been hard student. Be
fore he was ten he had read no all the
books in his neig hborhood, and it was
this delight in books that led him to
become a printer, In the spring otlS2G
he entered as an apprentice i'll the office
of the Northern Spectator East Poult-
ney, VI. He rapidly became the best
compositor in the office, and frequently
rendered assistance in editing the pa
per The Spectator was discontinued,
and at twenty he entered an office as
! iournevman at jamestown \. \. and
| Lodi, and afterwards at Erie, Pa. In
1881 Mr. Greeley removed to New
York, where he worked as a journeyman
/ printer, until 1888, when he formed n
/ partnership with Francis Story, and
became the printer or DIR. ShepI lard ;
Morning Post, the first daily penny pa
per ever published in all the world. Mr..
Story died in six months. Mr. Greeley
subsequently, formed a copartncrship
with Winchester and Sibbel, and by
Grcelv e Co. the New Yorker was
started in 1894 with Mr. Greeley as its
editor. The New Yorker lasted seven
years. He added to his means by writ
ing for several other papers, andin lS4O
edited the Log Cabin.
April 10, 1871, Mr.. Greeley com
menccd the New York Daily Tribune,
and in autumn he commenced the Week
w Tribune, consolidating with it the
Log Cabin and New Yorker and with
the Tribune his name has ever since
been associated. In lS4S Mr.. Greeley
was elected to Congress, and he remain
ed in that body till March 1, 1910
His labors rs IN editor and lecturer have
been largely devoted to the interests of
the laboring classes. He has published
several works: "IIints Toward Re
form. Chances at Europe. a His
tory of the Struggle for Slavery or Res
friction in the United States from 1888
to 1856" While travelling in Europe,
on the Pacific slope, or in the Southern
States, since the war, he has been every
where handsomelyrecelyed. From 1860
to the present time Mr.. Greeleys public
life is perfectly familiar to every one.
And yet the reader may be reminded
of the fact that he baiied jeff Davis,
still edits the Tribune, wears the
same old white coat he did thirty years
ago, and runs his farm at ChaPpaqua.
THE WIDOW OF GEORGE WAsHISG-
tons OyERsEER STILL LIVING. Mar
shall street in an humble residence,
lives lady now one hundred years old,
the representative OF past age and of
the better days OF the Republic We
alludc to the widow of the late Richard
Young, for many years the surveyor Of
this city. Mrs. Young was led from
the marriage altar to the home of her
young husband, who was then the over
seer of General Washington on his
Mount Vernon estate, and he in the full
flush of his manhood.
Mr. Young was raised blacksmith,
but left his trade to take charge Of the
farm at Mount Vernon. In the latter
capacity he developed considerable taste
for knowledge of mathematics and after
the death of General Washington he
procured the situation as deputy under
Mr. John Williamson, then surveyor Of
Henrico county and the city Of Rich
mond. About the year 1905, the city
was authorized by the act Of the Legis-
lature to employ surveyor for itself,
and Mr. Young was chosen to fill the
position. He held the Office until his
death, and was succeeded by the late
Micajah Bates. who also was removed
by death Mr. Young has long since
been gathered TO his fathers, and there
are probably but few who remember
him: but evidences of his skill in cngi-
neering and accuracy in measurement
are still visible on every hand.-Rich.
mond Dispatch.
gsU" The Richmond Enquirer SAYS
the following in regard to Grant and
Greeley
We repeat that every soldier of Lee
in the South is grateful to General
Grant for all the kindness during war
and since the war he has exhibited, but
they cannot carry their gratitude to the
absurd length of voting to reward him
as their conqueror. We don't know
that any other argument is necessary in
the South to prove why we should not
vote for General Grant, or why we may
vote for plain DR.. Greeley. Of course
there are plenty Of other reasons
political RESPONSIBILITY we should vote
against the former and for the latter,
but we do not propose to enumerate
them to-day We have simply given,
the sentimental reason for the vote the
South will be compelled to cast against
the man who claims the position OF
ruler Of the whole country as a reward
for his heroism in con4uering the South
ern people and depriving them of their
! liberties.
Greeley's greatness is of a different
/ kind. He is great
"Not like Gear, stained with blood,
Bnt only grea, as ne is good"
And he has not owed his greatness to
his country's ruin, or to the misfortune5
of any portion of his fellow countrymen
ADRovE OF Hoes BURNED TO DEATH
The cattle pens in rear of the "Bear-
grass distillery" in Louisville, Kentucky,
were destroyed by fire on Friday last.
The pen was filled with three hundred
hogs, of which only about fifty escaped,
and the cries of those which persisted
were pileous to hear as the flames prog