Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1879-12-16
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: TO the Eslito, ef The! Spirit of .Je6erson 8
DEAR SIR.-We hope you will grant US
the use Of your columns to make an effort to
obtain some information in regard to the
management of the S. Y. Il. Road; or,rather
to learu, lcho has the management of it.
When its friends were trying to got The
county to subscribe to it, We met various
persons who could enlightcn us on all its
objects aud cnds but now there is no ono
whom We have seen that knows anything
about its affairs. When the road was located
there vas place fixed for depot on Mr..
Wu. Turner's land and the damages assessed
Hith that view. Mr.. Turner agreeing to take
esventccn or eighteen hundred less if put at
this point, on the road leading from here to
the Summit Point pike. 1t was graded for a
siding. and just before MessTs Satterlee &;
Go. were to receive some county bonds
che Engineers estimate, they laid about
three hundred yards of side track. The rails
were partially spiked to the ties. There it
iies-rai5s and ties decaying-oi DO use to
the road, or to tho ueighbcrhood Various
persons applied to have frog put in, so
to enable the neigh borhood to ship produce
and receive fertilizers, 30, but no ono had
any authority to do it; but so soon os the
rails were laid to Major Richardson's, in
Clarke county, some one had the authority
to put siding aud frog there, and only one
party was allowed to use it.
Now, the opinion of many is, that the
depot is to be on Bullskin Run, where there
IS no road to haul to it from either direction,
nnd if it is located thorc, before this side of
the county can use it we will have to expend
from twenty to thirty thousand dollars to
open and pave a road. We say pave it, be-
cause the land is marty and cannot be used
H., H.
ges would be heavy. on account of cutting
of the water from the aud through which
it would pass.
What we want to know is has the company
right TO erect depot where it will be OF
no use to the ncshborhoo1, (save FIVE or six
persons) unless the county is objected to tho
heavy st spoken Of above? When there is
po difficulty of that kind where the siding is
now laid, and how is it that some one had
the authority IL put in frog soon az the
rails were laid to road in Clarke county,
when it had passed six or seven miles
through this side of the county and had re-
ceiyed our bonds for the road and siding?
.r Respectfully, RIPoN.
George ". Cook, the negro door>kcerer
elected to ofEice by the coalition between the
negroes and the Readjusters, in Virginia,
was indicted and tried in Portsmouth in 1869
for larceny in stealing six dollars. Tie Nor
folk Landmark says:
..,t'His crime was embczzlement, and he es-
capped conviction because emhezzlcment vas
not larceny. We are told that the evidence
against him for cmbezzlemsnt was conclu>
siyo."
t2AMER1cAN FArMER -The December Nur.her
of the 1im'Tican Farm'r eiCses another volume of
this tims-bOnOrerI jour which, nblislcd
in 1919. The editors promise increased excel
3eUcc III thciI work for The coming year, and at
clio saIIo time ave made SOmo change in heir
terms. winch may be considered concession.
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scriptions 8 so as heretofore. Specimen NUM-
bers viii be for warGlcd by the editors. SamI
Sands 6 SIN, Baltimore. when requested.
IN. Reilly. Egg. Chairman of tho State
Democratic Executive Committee has called
ameeting of this Committee, to be held at
Petersburg, Thursday, January 9Th.