Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-07-06
8. v. H. ROAD.


editorial of ours, in reference to the ex-
tension of the S. V. r. Road across the
Potomac at this point, says that "when
the proposition was submitted to the
people of Berkeley for $4,000 sub
Scription to connect the S. V. K Road
with the Martinsburg and Potomac road
| at this place, it was announced that this
was to be the main line,' and that "li
the proposed extension of the NJ. and
P. road from Martinsburg to Charles
town is not intended as a part OF the
main stem of the S. V. r.. Road, we beg
leave to move a reconsideration of the
vote by which $4,000 was subscribed
for that purpose"
Now all that We have to say to our
"Independent" friends, in reply to their
foregoing allegation and suggestion, is,
that they have been laboring under a
most erroneous impression concerning
the location of the main stem OF the >.
V. r. Road, and that, if they desire
the county of Berkeley to ego back on
its vote authorizing q subscription OF
$4,000 towards the cost of connect
ing line between Martinsburg and
Charlestown, they will have to furnish
some more plausible and satisfactory
reason tor Withholding the subscription.
If the editors of the Independent had
taken the trouble TO have informed
themselves upon the subject beforehand,
by referring to the act authorizing the
S. V. r. Road company to construct
their road through the State of West
Virginia, Passed Feb. rs, 1870 they
would have discovered the fixed fact
that The main stem ofihe S. T. r. Road
must come by woy Of ShepherdstOwn
and that ii cannot go by any other
route.
For, the second section of said act
says "that the right is hereby granted
to said company to locate their road in
the State OF West Virginia from the
Potomac riv'r, by route from said
riuer, running NOT farther than one
half mile from The corporation limits Of
The torn of Shspherdstown and not
further than the like distance from the
town of Charlestown in Jefferson coun-
ty, and to the boundary line between
Jefferson county in West Virginian and
Clarke county in the State OF Virginia.
Under the third section of the Act,
the right is granted to the S. V. r.
Road company "to make such branches
from suitable points on said road, with
in the county Of Jefferson, State Of West
Virginia, as may be found necessary or
the public convenience may require
so that, any connection that may be
made between Martinsburg and the S.
V. r. Road must necessarily be by
"brauch" road-not ga part of the main
line" but merely by what the editors of
the Independent designate ga switch
connection" which will afford the peo-
pie of Berkeley quite as many facilities
for trade and travel as if called by any
other name and will at the same time
be a great accommodation to the Cum
berland Valley" and to the MARTINS
burg and Potomac" companies for whose
benefit chiefly the proposed connection
has been urged. But, as for the "main
stem" OF the S. V. r. Road running all
the way round by Martinsburg; such an
idea bever entered the brain of any
sane citizen of this county, that we
know of. For, those of our people who
do not happen to know what the law is
in regard to the location of the main
line of the road, have sense enough to
see for themselves that TO divert it so
far from its proper course as to take it
via Mar,insburg, would be to defeat one
of the chief objects in view, when they
voted their subscription of s25O,00O to
the enterprize--viz. that they might
thereby secure for themselves an indie
pendent and competing line for the
transportation Ct their products to the
Eastern markets by the shortest and
most direct route.
p9- MARROW EsCAFE.-We learn
that little Stella Osborn, daughter OF
Mr.. 3lackford Osborn, and grand
daughter of our esteemed county-man,
Jacob J. Miller, Esq, came near losing
her life one day last week, In the follow
ing manner: On the rear side OF Mr..
Miller's mansion is double porch, and
on the second floor of this porch the
little girl was amusing herself in squirt
ing water from a tin vessel over the
railing into the yard below. Being am-
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