Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-11-22
sI- TIE County, JAlL.-Last week

condemned, and after an expense ~ tie
county of twenty-five or thirty Thousand
dollars. which drew the following reply
from the Spirit -
Whatever NAV be said about our public
buildings. we think the Shepherdstown hegis-
i,, should he the iasi paper in the county 10
/, ,,,,ck the construction Of the county jail al
this point. After an expenditure OF aoou'
serenity t,eD Mousaad dollars (as near as cap
he a.scrta;ned, for there is no explicit record
If In. ma,,er) upon public and pripdte property
al Shepherdstown, we have yet 10 learn lha'
| the Register ever uttered one word against lhe
construction Of the worse than French nas'he
at that place, and the incarceration oil human
beings in building worthy Of the DARK ages
and that even insecure. AS 10 Inc CONSTITUTION
of the county Jail here, whatever may De us
defects, it was built upon plan submitted 10
and adopted by the Board oil Supervisors rep
reseniing the ,uLole unig-Shepherdsto"h
having her full representation present-ahu
! there is any blame attached .et them he al
tackled, MIR. Register, and not The coHns'"ee:
Strike at home first.
in the first place we will state lhaI
the Spiritman, aswell as some public 9th
Gals of Charlestown, have beenln the ha-
bit of remarking that at Shepherdstown,
under Republican rule, large amount
of money was expended unnecessarily,
and We intend to do the same at
Charlestown, In order to get even with
Shepherdstown. Now if this desire is
to be carried out, God help the tax pay
pers of Jefferson County and those
who have the public buildings in charge
the sooner they are kicked overheard
the better for the County. We suppose
then, if the Republicans expended mon
ey unnecessarily in Shepherdstown, by
erecting County buildings, those III
charge now at Charlestown, must DO
the same l.? This is queer logic, and as
malicious as it is preposterous. II mon
ey was expended unnecessarily here, 1t
docs not follow that it should he con-
tinued in CharlestOwr. When change
took place in this County the people
were promised 'Retrenchment and Re-
FORM" and but very little OF the hard
earned money from the tax payers would
be Necessary to erect new Go. buildings,
but alas the people have been deceiv-
e6. The farming community, who are
the tax payers, have been taxed to the
bitter dregs of the cup, to pay enormous
Sums for the County buildings, and then
the Jail, after cost of $4,000, report
ed ..condemned' or insecure, is a little
more than can be we'll tolerated. 1t Is
time that this reckless and needless
waste of money should be discontinued
and more attention be paid to the inter-
ests of the tax payers, in making roads
for the benefit of the farmers ana COM
munity generally.
Mr.. Lynch, one OF the examining
committee, remarked to us day or TWO
since. Jail could have been erected
for five thousand dollars III rear OF the
Court House, which would have been
sufficient for all purposes, and at least
twenty thousand dollars co''ia nave
been saved to the tax payers.
We also understand that the building
committee contemplate filing a bill OF
one thousand dollars each for superln-
tending the construction OF the Jaii'
and we enter our solemn protest, in the
name of the tax payers of the County,
that the County Court will not be SO
short,siphted as to allow them that enor-
nous sum for experimenting a con-
ilemned Jail. The people of the Coun-
ty should set their faces against such al
enormous procedure.
..Thc Radicals of Shepherdstown
spent great deal of money for public
buildings, and we are going to get even
with them" This remark has been
made to us several times by some OF the
officials at Charlestown, and if the SEN
timent is to be carried out, we say again,
God help the tax payers of Jefferson.
e3 FATAL ACCIDENT AT HARrEns
FERRY.-A middle-aged man, whose
name we learn was Nat. Sears, was
found dead under the Potomac bridge
at lIarper's Ferry, on Wednesday NOR
ming last. lie resided near the canal
on the Maryland side of the Potomac,
and as a whiskey bottle was found on