Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-02-22

BE- $4,000 IN CASH FOR S1.-We
call the attention of our readers TO the
advertisement in another column OF the
Nebraska State Orphan Asylum. Here
is chance to win fortune N a Public
Legal Drawing, and aid noble charity.
Esgn FINE STocK.-Mr. 5. b. Harrl-
son, started for Pennsylvania, on Mon
day morning last, with drove OF horses
and cattle, for the markets. They were
q fine lot of horses and cattle, and we
doubt not he will realize good prices for
them,
Beg- The Charleston Record learns
that the present session OF the Leglsla-
ture will probably continue until about
the 18th of March, and an adjourned
session will be held next winter for the
revision of the Code.
ED SALE OF Town PRoPERTY.-Jas.
II. Smurr has sold his House and Lot,
adjoining the Nj. Z. Church, on
Church Street, to Mrs. Margaret Nc
HEWITT, for the sum of 100000.
see ORDISANcE.-Mayor Ray issued
an order on Monday morning last, pro-
hibitips boys from throwing spow-balls
upon the streets. This is a just order,
as the mania for throwing snow-balls
had become quite a nuisance. Pedes-
trians were liable at any time to be
struck upon their mugs or somewhere
else where they didn't want 10 be hit.
Ladies passing upon the streets were
also liable to come in contact with a
ball when they least expected it.
Do" Coal Tolls ON THE CHEsA-
pEAKE AND Ono CANAL.-The Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal Company has
increased the toll on coal five cents per
ton, making the rate per ton from
Cumberland to Georgetown, by that
route fifty one cents instead Of torty-six
cents, as heretofore The increase has
been ratified by the board OF public
works of Maryland, and by the stock
holders at their meeting at Annapolis
on Tuesday. The object, is to improve
facilities for transportation and wharf
ace, and at the same time reduce the
debt Of the company.
Da5" RAILROAD MISUNDERSTANDING at
Hagerstown last week, we had con-
veysation with several Of the prominent
citizens of that town, who were lnteres-
ted in the extension Of the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad from this town to Ha-
cerstown, from whom we learned that
everything was being arranged for
vigorous prosecution Of the work at an
early day, and as soon as the weather
would permit. We also have it from
head quarters that vigorous Spring
campaign" could be looked for in the
extension of our road to Hagerstown,
The Hagerstown Jlail, in an article on
the above subject, concludes as follows;
Some movement is going on as to the
Cumberland Valley Road, the extension
of which to Martinsburg will soon be
open to travel; but the change in the
Presidency of that Road, heretofore
predicted, has not yet been promulgated,
The general impression is, however,that
this will soon be controlled by the Penn
sylvania Central r. r. Company with
the Vice President Of that Company as
President.
That this Road will now be extended
beyond Martinsburg, is not probable;
and it is more likely that any connec-
ton between Hagerstown and the Val
ley of Virginia to the South which
NAV be found, will be through the
Shenandoah Valley Rsilroad,upon which
works beingprosecuted beyond Charles
town.
Work on this Road is being pushed
beyond Shepherdstuwn, and, it is said,
will be commenced ON this side Of the
Potomac in the Spring-the right OF
way having been mostly agreed upon to
point on the Martinsburg Road, some
three miles beyond Hagerstown, where
that road crosses the Williamsport pike.
RD-THE NEWSPAPER FREE EXCHANGE
PRIvnEGE.-A question has been raised
as to whether the law abolishing frank
inc also cuts off the free newspaper list
in the way Of exchanges Postmaster
General Creswell, in conversation on
the House floor, said that the matter
had not been officially brought TO his
attention, but from cursory examina-
ton of the law he should certainly
not regard it as interfering with the free
transmission of newspaper exchanges.
The act distinctly relates to the tranking
privilege, words having distinct NEAL
ing.
RAJ FIRE INsURANCE.-We call atten-
ton to the advertisement in another col
umn, of the National Fire Insurance
Company, of Wheeling. This compa-
nv is a substantial one, and upon firm