Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-07-01

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Mr.. P. P. Pendleton, president OF
the Valley Railroad Company, was
notified yesterday by Mr.. VIM. Mines
Jr.. president of the Shenandoah Valley
Company, that he had shipped by way
of the Western Maryland, tie Freder-
ick and Potomac railroad, one engine,
one passenger car, one combination car,
and fifteen freight cars, for Harrison
burg, Va, intended to be used on the
Valley railroad. The equipment has
been purchased of the Western Mary
land Company, it is stated, at cost OF
over $4,000 A second engine, pur-
chased of the Western Maryland Com
pany, is at the machine shop undergoing
repair, and will be ready in ten days.
Mr.. Pendleton will go to Harrisonburg
the 1st of this week, and with Judge
Shelly, of Stanton, the counsel OF the
Valley Company, examine into the value
and title of the property, and if satistac-
tory will give Mr.. Mines permission to
operate the Valley road, subject to the
action of the stockholders Of the Shen-
enandoah Valley Company at a meet
ing to be held at Winchester, Va, on
the 10Th of July.-Bah. Sun Of Wed
Eesday.
r0" a New DErARTURE.-We no
tice that several of our older and best
known colleges are giving greater
prominence than heretofore, in their
courses of study, to the English Ian
guage and literature. They recognize
the fact that the mother tongue fur
nishes as many productions which may
be studied as proftably for mental dis
cipliue as any Greek or Latin Classic.
1t has been too long taken for granted
that young students will, of their own
accord and at home, make themselves
familiar with their mother tongue, its
construction and literature, and the re-
suit is that many are graduated from
higher institutions with honor who
are totally ignorant of the English Ian
yuage and cannot construe the simplest
sentence in their mother tongue, and
know nothing of its grammar and its
history. Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth,
and Bowdoin have recently established
chairs of English and made it obligatory
upon all students to pursue that course,
and simultaneously with these Hamr-
den Sydney in Virginia has done the
same thing and its Trustees direct the
Faculty to reject all applicants hereafter
that are found deficient in the English
branches and require full examination
in these branches. 1t is well known
fact that the character for scholarship
of every individual is judged by the
manner in which he uses his own Ian
guage and any one who blunders in
speaking and writing his tongue is set
down as an ignoranus, however full of
the ancient classics he may be, or how
! far soeyer advanced in the Sciences.
WEST VIRGINIA UNIvERsITY.-We
are requested 10y Hon. G. J. Faulkner,
the Regent for the third Judicial Cir
cult of this State, composed Of the coun-
ties of Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan,
to announce that there are two vacant
cadetships, in this circuit, and that he
will receive applications, from any
young gentlemen who are DESTROYS of
/ these situations at this Institution.
! These applications should be made on
] or before the LIST day of August 1876
The cadets are educated free of cost
for tuition books, stationery, etc. For
such as desire a Military and Engineer
ing education, this department is pro-
vided. Cadets however, are not limit
ed to this but may pursue their studies
in any Department of the University,
subject to the general regulations laid
down in the Code FOR the Cadets Drill
occupies one hour on each of four days
in the week. The United States Gov
eminent literally furnishes the special
supplies required Tor this department.
These are of the latest and most i'm
proved UarinSburg
Statesman.
pa GRADUArE-Among the list of
Graduates. at the Burkittsyille Female
Seminary, Frederick County, Nd, we
notice the name of Miss Emma Hawk
ins, daughter of Rev. J. Hawkins, re-
Gently Pastor of the Lutheran Church
of this town, and at present near Co
lumbia, South Carolina.
BE- There are some men IN this
world that heaven only knows what
they were made for, unless it was to
poke their noses into other peoples bu-
siness, and talk about them behind their
back, aud then to their face almost eat
them up in protesting friendship.
pD WHAT TIE Local PAPERS Do.
An exchange combats, with cGnsid-
cradle vigor, the argument that the city
papers are cheaper and better than the
country papers because they give more
columns of reading matter for the mon