Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-08-23
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CAMP LOOK Our, !
Fayetto Co, w. Va.
August 18th, 1873.


August 18th, 1873.
Mr.. Editor AT this place General
Crook WAS cncamped for a season dur
ing The war, and from which it gets its
name. Near where he pitched his tents
Is large flat rock, .jutting out over the
road, standing on this rock you can see
in all directions for fifty or sixty miles,
over one OF the grandcst scenes that the
eye OF man ever gazcd. Away of in.
the distance looms up in solitary gran
deur, the Sewell mountains, while on
their left is the Meadow mountains,
whose lofty summit seems 10 hiss the
clouds. Off to the rear and right,
stretched out in lovely landscape, a
beautiful valley presents itself. This is
dotted with fine buildings and well az
ranged farms. The people Of this val
ley are very hospitable and intelligent,
and looking at them politically we find
the democratic clement i'll the asccnden-
cy. Here as well as in Greonbricr, much
attention is paid to stock-raising.
We left Nicholas few days ago, en-
route for pocahontas by way of Fayette
and Grecnbrier. Nicholas is unGoubt-
cdly the toughest County in the State,
and next to Webster its people are the
uGliest and most independent. The
Nicholasians don't like the "independ-
ent Republic OF Webster very vel, but
Islander them whenever they have the
opportunity. They talk Of surrounding
Webster with a stone wall, and then
cover ii with tin roof, but this so lar
is only theory.
We have not told you anything as yet
about the fair sex in this part Of the
State. Well sir, they are the ugllest set
Of women ever the eyes of a Jciiersoni-
an rested up. Ii q man wants good
substantial article for wife, such as
concerns health, strength, industry and
economy, lie can easily accommodate
himself, bat beauty is q rare ingredient
in these mountain daughters. Young
women with bare feet, greasy dresses,
open bosom, uncombed hair, and slang
p!iasing tongue, arc the only kind he
meets with, if there were others, they
must have taken Grcelcy's advice and
gone west.
The people in Nicholas wouid never
dc, il it was rot for two things-one
is, az night, they sleep in close crowded
rooms, ard the result is that III the
course Of sixty or seventy years they are
killed gradually by bad ventilation, and
the other is they must leave the county.
Nothing else could do it. They have
voracious appetites, caused by the bra
chg atmosphere. Why, sir, it is no
uncommon sight to sec a child with a
tin of water in one hand and o huge
chunk of cold corn bread in the other
eating away with terrible rapidity, en-
loving it mach better than you wonld q
meal at the Enticr Hotel.
These mountaincGr5 arc frequently
swintled by some sllrowd yankee. Some
time ago tf.ctc came fellow, smooth in
face, and oily as to his tongue. lie told
the people that if they would agree to
Give him their old feather beds, lie would
take them anil clean them up, brinG
item back, and they should pay linn for
lis work. Accordingly came from eve
nv direction, feather bed; Of all shapes
and sizes. The fellow soon had as many
as lie could hani in three four horse
wagons. Sequel, they never saw their
beds afterwards, but heard of the fellow
going down the Ohio River, singing
"1.ife OH the ocean wave, q home on the
rolling deep
THIS circumstance causes them to re-
gard nc very closely. Frcquently,when
VIC AJAX man whether he has Claim,
anu if nc lost anything during the war,
lie will say, q lost feather bed some
time ago, bat guess you couldn't do
anything with that, could yoa mister 2
The cholera has been raging at Kama
VIVA Fails, several fatal cases, but IS now
abating. More next time.
Yours forever,
MARY BEAU.