Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-04-05
For The Register.
THE SWINE NUISANCE.

For The Register. :
THE SWINE NUISANCE.
Mr.. Zittle-We rejoice to hear that
vote is to he again taken on Monday as
10 whether this nuisance is to be tolera-
ted another year. Our town was last
year very pig sty. No one could walk
the streets in the day time without con-
slant danger of pollution, and at night
it was impossible to avoid it. The la
dies clothing was defiled. Our houses
were deflcd and our very Churches
were defiled And then the stencil
The Baptist preacher in Kentucky SAID
the man in the moon held his nose
when he passed over washington
Whether that is so we cannot say, pu'
many strangers passing through the
strects of Shepherdstown last Summer
and Fall made remarks as ii'lie cieu',"
ble 10 our sense Of cleanliness ana de
cen,v ~ that cited about the moral cor
ruption of the Capital.
As to the stencil being worse when
hogs are penned up owners should be
c,mpriI,d by our police authorities to
prevent it. Or better still let there he
no hogs kept in town atall. The most
malicious managers tell lis there is no
economy in it, and rs general thing
aside from the trouble aud filth the
pork raised in this way takes a greater
OUTLAY than would be necessary to buy
H. Then again aside from the breaking
Il l.fin IONS
of the hungry brutes, if a gate OF door
is left open for moment they are III.
The notion of their being scavengers
is absurd Every body knows they
make hundred fold more nuisance
than they remove. Let them be abated
and taken away, not only from the
streets, but from the town. They are
tit only for the country and should new
er be tolerated in town Of this size
even, as they seldom if ever are else
where One of the
MANY SUFFERERS.
SHENANDOAH VALLEY RAILROAD
About fifty miles of the Shenandoah
Valley road are now graded, If we eX.
cept the work of finishing up by one OF
the contractors. who is now at work
with more than fifty hands and who
needs months time to place the road
bed in a condition to receive the cross
ties This work has been accomplished
bv an expenditure of about S250,OO0,
and the only available means received
by the contracting party outside OF their
oh irt \
own capital having been employed to
nav the other expenses. 1t is true
the 100000 subscription by Clarke
county has been paid over to the con-
tracing company, but these bonds are
so conditioned that the company cannot
effect sale of them unless the road is
Put in running order in two years from
the time the board of supervisors made
the subscription. 1t is not to be sup
posed. then, that after grading hlty
miles of the road, and that after eXpend-
inr upwards of 100000 of their own
capital. the contracting party will let
the road fall through Nearly all the
subscription of Jefferson County, w.
Va. and all of that Of Page County,
which subscriptions amount IN all to
$4,000. remain TO be drawn upon to
further the construction of the road.
We therefore feel safe i'll assuring all OF
the building of the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad at an early day. 1t is no long
ar \ question of doubt even should mat
tcrs become temporarily embarrassed
Clarke Courier.
Morr ABOUT THE CHASE FoRrUNE.-
The shin that was to bear the fortune OF
the Chase heirs" Mrs. VIM Wagner,
of Morrantowl, being one Of the helrs,)
has at last come home, as we see by the
newspapers, bringing with it the snug
sum of 100000, 900, to be divided
among the American heirs OF three
brothers, Englshmen, who emlgratcd
TO this country about 1850. OF these
brothers Aquilla settled in Newbury,,
Dort, Mass, Thomas in Rhode Island
and William in Yarmouth, Mass. y
fourth brother, named Richard, remain
ed in England. The vast property
comes bv descent from Sir Townley,
living about the year 1000 at Iownley
Hall, Lancashire, England. lie was
the progenitor of a certain Miss Mary
Towulcv. who married man named
Chase. who was the father OF the four
SONS mentioned. This Mary Townley
was the heir of all her ancestors I'M
mems, riches 1 late decision OF the
English courts has given them three
tomths Of the sum of s3S5,O0O,O"O, the