Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-01-18

were safety IT nOiuc- 1HC tioi" We
under the especial charge OF Messrs.
Penny aud Cameron, of the firm OF Sat
terlee 81 90.
One noticeable feature of the day was
the entire absence of all artificial slim
ulent-the good cheer was genuine, not
excited by the alcoholic cup-wlth
scarcely an exception the whole throng
was entirely sober, and the behavior
throughout unexceptional. 1t gives us
great pleasure to remark upon this cir
cumstance, as doing credit as well to
Shepherdstown as to the visitors from
this and other parts of the county.
From the Charlestown Spirit of Jeffer-
son.
GALA DAY AT SHEPHERDsTowN.-CELE-
BRATloN OF THE COMPLETION OF THE
S. V. Il. K. TO THAT POINT.
Accepting an invitation to be present
at the celebration, on Wednesday last,
Of the completion of the track-laying OF
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad to
Shepherdstown, we joined the contrac-
tors, ce-president, secretary, directors,
officers of the county, Mechanics Band.
and other invited guests. and embarked
on board the cars at this point for the
good Ole town of Shepherdstown. After
a brief ride of twenty-nine minutes,
through as fine country as the sun
ever shone upon, the FAIRFAX drew up
at our destination \ host OF warm
hearted people were there 10 welcome
us, and amid the music of the bands,
ringing of bells and waving Of handker-
chiefs, we alighted from the cars AID
were formed in procession, under the
marshalship Of Col. W. A. Morgan, as
sisted by Messrs Harrison, Rentch and
others. The column being headed by
the CriswelI's Cornet Band and the
Charlestown Mechanics Silver Band,
moved at once to Shepherd College,
where 3. +. Harrison called the as
semblage to order and announced John
IL. little, Esq, as the President OF the
meeting, and Prof. Pendleton rs Secre-
tarv. On assuming the Chair, Mr. Zit-
tie, in a few well-timed remarks, gave a
cordial welcome TO all, and announced
as the first orator for the occasion, Geo.
NJ. Beltzhoover, Esq.
Mr.. Beltzhoover opened his address
by extending a cordial greeting and
hearty welcome to all visitors present
lie said the great joyfulLess of the peo-
pie of Shepherdstown might seem
strange to those who for years had pos
sesscd all the convcniences Of railroads
at their doors, but it might well be
likened to the boy with his first pair OF
bocts-they amounted to but little to
the men who had worn boots for years;
but they were everything to the boy.
Shepherdstown had been settled in 1870
-l49 years ago-and now for the first
time a railroad locomotive had entered
her borders. He referred beautifully to
the historic memories of Shepherdstown,
and the magnilicence OF the country
about it. Steam had been first applied
there as a motor power for boats, near
ly one hundred years ago, but as the
eloquent champion in defense OF Jus
tce to James Rumsey," Qion. a. X.
Boteler) was presently he would not refer
further to that subject. As an impor-
taut appendage to railroads was the
electric telegraph. Hitherto the most
momentous events might have occurred,
even in Charlestown, the county-seat OF
the county, and they would have been
sent by the lightning flash to the most
remote borders Of the Pacific slope, and
to distant parts of the world, ere they
would have been heard of in Shep-
herdstown; but with the S. '. r. X.
they hoped TO have the telegraph and
all its benefits. He read an extract
from a New York paper speaking Of a
grand trunk line Of railroads from New
York via Philadelphia, Baltimore, Shep-
herdstown, Staunton and the c. d o.
Il. X. to Cincinnati and the South and
West. The boy looking upon large
map a short time after the great battle
of Marengo was fought, he said, had
failed to find Marengo upon it, and i'll
curing the reason was told that the map
was drawn before the battle occurred,
and Marengo was not so prominent then
so ShepherdstoWn had not hitherto
been prominent enough to occupy an
important position on the maps OF the
country; but when she became leading
point on a great trunk line o. railroad,
as she has every prospect Of becoming,
her name would be found on every map,
and the eyes of capitalists would be di-
rected towards her Mr.. Beltzhoover
closed by wishing the s. V. r. r.. sue
cess and hearty God speed, and retir'
ed amid rounds of applause.
After music by the SLepherdstown
Band, Col. u. L. Boyce, Vice President
of the S. V. Il. II. Co., was called upon,
and responded in behalf the Company.
He felt, he said, like fish out Of water.
He was called to q duty which belonged
TO another-one eminent for his enter
prise, benevoleuce, christianity, virtue,
aud morality; whose shoe latchet he was
unworthy to unloose-the Hon. VIM
Mines, President of the Company. Mr.
Mines, was, he said, his Pythias, and
there was a void in the meeting without
him 1t was like the play of "Hamlet'
with Hamlet left ont. But circumstan.
ces had prevented Mr.. Mines attend
ance. He asserted, in the name of the
S. V. r. r. Co, that there was no place
at which it would rather have received
this ovation than at ShepherdStown,a land
in connection with the railroad coming
to Shepherdstown Col. Boyce could not
forbear telling little joke, and applying