Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-11-20
.,CvENTING IMMIGRATION
no WEST VIRGINIA..

We do not know, says the Wheeiing
psg;sier, whether TO attribute 1t to the
1hsr.cter of the campaign which the
Pannblican candidate for Governor and
,be Radical press made in this State,
this wear, or whether it is the pTactlcal
onerstion of the crusade against the
Spn,b INDUCED in by the whole Repub-
Tcan party, which has put our State In
h,d repute even in Switzerland; but one
of our Swiss residents, Mr. Z. ID. Lud-
w;o who has been very active and very
successful in his efforts in inducing i'm
migration to our State, writes that in
Huences arc industriously at work TO cut
off farther immigration. They are the
same kind of influences which were
started by the Republican campalgners
in the State-that of traduciDg and de-
tanning the government, the policy anu
the people of the State. A regularly
organized movement is said 10 DC az
work in New York to this end. Wheth-
er thew are actuatcd by motives friendly
20 the Swiss or by malice toward the
State we do not understand, but II
lools like political motives were at the
Lo,ton oft, and the whole conspiracy
sborld be ventilated aud exposed. We
amend the following extracts from MIR.
IrpwIGs letter, addressed to the ka-
nawha Gaz'ffe, which show the charac
fer and extent of this infamous bust
ness:
We have just seen copy of the Ber-
nsr Post, published at Bern, Switzer-
land, in which was produced an article
taken from the Nep Yorker Stats Zei-
yang, (the largest and most influential
German paper published in Amerlca')
under date of July II, 1880, The Stats
Zeituag claims to have taken the artl-
Gle from the .Anziger DIES Westss, pub
lished a! st. Louis.
The article in question is All infamous
attack against Swiss settling in West
Virginia, saying: That lands are un-
productive, &c; that no person could
make living from the soil; that thepeo
we're set OF '.poor ,ohiie trash, hieues
and cW nhroafs; that innocent settlers
were charged s. TO $40 for unimpros
ed lands, &c. The article is interspers-
ed with glowing accounts OF the West.
The most miserable charge was as fol-
lows: THAT there was only one Swiss
family in the kanawha Valley, located
in section known as Lorp Greek: that
the family Was Shamciully treated; the
husband lynched because he allowed
his wife 10 work" You can readily see
what etf.ct such articles must have, not
only in this country but also abroad.
We have letters to show that i'll New
York is a regularly organized move
men: to divert people from coming here.
We have also evidence that hardly do
the immigrants leave the steamer before
they are questioned if they are going
South OF not. If SO everything that can
be is done to keep them back. We have
letters 10 prove that people who desired
TO come here were told by ministers of
the gospel not to coue 10 West Virgin
il; that their lives would not be safe;
that they would be swindled in their
land purchases; that yellow fever and
cholera prevailed, DC. Reports have
gone abroad so detrimental that foreign
authorities have published warnings not
10 come To West Virginia or South.
Now. Mr. Editor, l claim that this mat
ter is OF such importance that the best
aud most influential citizens should
awaken to its consideration, prospect
i've Of party politics; for claim that ev
cry citizen, he he Democrat, Republican
or Greenbacker is intert sted in the wei
fare OF the State and her honor. Such
charges rest alike upon all OF the people
of the State, no matter what their po'
ltical principles may be.
The facts in regard to our Swiss peo-
pie are, that instead of their being only
one family, there are over thirty in the
Kaaawha Valley, fifty persons above
Cannelton to our knowledge, several
families in Kanawha county, also in
Cabell county, some 500 personsin Ran
dolph county, large number i'll Wood
ard Ohio counties, besides being scat
tered over the entire State. Every fami-
~ that have heard from has purchased
and located in this State, came to work
and by their own industry to secure the
comforts of life, has succeeded, and is
pleased, contented and happy.
ALLEGED CURE FOR NEURALGIA.-A
medical journal in New York having
solicited recipes for the cure OF this dis,
,ressing complaint, published a few OF
the answers as given below: 1.-The only
permanent cure for neuralgia is TO i'm
prove and confirm the general health
by proper diet and exercise. Oxygen
is as important an element as proper
food. When person suffers from
neuralgia, the blood is in a low vital OF
vitiated condition, and needs oxygen.
izing. Persons subject 10 neuralgia
can often tell 10y their feelings in the
morning whether they will suffer dur
ing the day. Let such person take
morning walk of a mile aud back
walking rapidly, aud he will, generally
90 through that day without pain
The reason is he has vitalized the blood
by absorbing large supply of oxygen
TO render this relief more permanent
1t should be attended aud followed nr
by a proper diet. AS an immediate
temporary relief there is nothing so sure
as the Inhalation of dose of laughing
gas. This produces profound impress
sion on the nervous system, and affords
instant relief which may last for days
and weeks. An Albany physician
found upon investigation that much