Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-07-30
sYYossENG WOMEN.
HOW ELECTIONS ARE HELD IN TIE TER
RITORY WHERE ALI ADULTS VOTE.

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| RIroRY WHERE ALI ADULTS VOTE.
The elections, though sometimes
closely contested and very animated,
are entirely peaceful and orderly. a
lady no more hears low language or
meets rougher treatment at the polls
than she does in her home. Some la
dies stay at tie polls and tleCtioneer
for votes, and no one finds fault with
this. AT the election for delegate 10
| Congress Mrs. Coz bott, wife Of the sue
cessiul candidate, a handsome young
bride of few months, went from house
10 house in Cheyenne and sent out
carriages aud wagons great many
miles into the country TO bring the
women to the polls NJ: Corbett owes
his election largely to the efforts Of his
wife and the women whose aid she en-
listed. No one found any fault with
her; every one telt her action TO be nee
cssary and crcditable. Plucky? Rather.
There are no towards among these
women. The most stylish and refined
of them can drive the ranch horses and
PONIES, and are capital shots with pls-
tolls or Winchester rifles. They think
nothing OF riding out, carrying rifle
aud shooting a prairie wolf, bear or a
mountain lion. When the hostile In
dians are roaming the country the wo-
men who lived ut lonely ranches, where
they often had to be left alone for some
! time, talked freely about the matter,
but showed 10 fear. One woman that
! knew kept her doors and windows
| fastened and her rifles within reach, but
expressed no dread aud kept on with
! her usual work. One night she heard
/ n great noise in her corral (cattle peU),
and in the morning found the Indians
had been there and stolen three or four
horses and kline, but they did not go
near the house. They had heard how
well she could shoot.
In Cheyenne there are many colcred
people, and the colOred servant girls
vote the same as their mistresses, and
are often brought 10 the polls in the
same carriages. When lived at Chug-
water Station, on the road to the Black
Hills, about fifty miles north of Chey-
enne, the poll for that district was about
mile south Of us on that road. We
were all wanted TO vote to help elect
Frank Hamilton, from Baltimore, n
horseback reporter for the Cheyenne
paper, Justice of the peace. SO they
took an old-fashioued Rocky Mountain
stage-coach that was standing disuseG
at The public ranch Uaverr,) loaded in
twelve or fifteen men who worked about
the ranch, three ladies' and the colored
servant girl, put to the coach a pair OF
Wild horses they wanted TO break in,
harncssed two wcllbroken horses be-
fore them, put the ranch in charge OF
young colored man from Baltimore who
had not lived in the Territory long
enough TO bo q voter, and away We
bowled down the road together 20 the
poll and voted. The wagons were
bringing women 10 the poll for thirty
miles around, and in the evening the
people from the poll came up TO the
Iub.ic ranch and had grand supper
an q da, Z in honor Of Frank Halnil-
tons election.
Womens pay in Wyoming is as good
as mans or better In Cheyenne the
waiter girls and chamberinaids get S25
to $50 a month while mems pay in dif-
ferent employments is 9IS TO S25. AT
Chugwater Station, where ! kept the
public ranch, collected the Black Hills
stage fares and acted as postmaster, l
received S35 to $50 month, and the
stage drivers, whose work is at times
very hard, as they have TO drive thro'
in the face Of wind, rain, bail or snow,
told pe they did not get rs much as ].
The Virginia Republican Executive
CCmmitte have removed Col Lewis
from the Commilte because he-eccepted
place on the Readjuster's ticket. The
Republicans are determined TO run q
straight, simon pure Republican ticket,
utterly repudiating any affiliaIion with
the Malone machine nominations.
J. Warner Kelly, of Cincinnati, has
sued rich widow OF Milwaukee for
S25,00O for breach Of promise Of mar
riage.
"Health is wealth. says q patent
medicine advertiser. You are wrong
respected sir. II health was more uni
yersa, to you it would be bankruptcy.
The world never knows the great re.
spect lawyers have for each other until
one dies and there is meeting Of the
bar
Our habits and 81 toms are ike the
ruts in roads. The wheels of life settle
down into them. and we Jog along
through the mire because it is TOO much
trouble to gel out OF IL
Youth is life's seed time, so the clock
face said. Some took its counsel, as
the sequel showed-eowed their wild
oats aud resped as they had sown.
Commencing with July /, the Chesa-
I peske and Ohio ROAD will increase ITS
locomotive powers at the rate OF one en-
CINE every Zen DAYS nDtil the coniracs
for forty new locomotives, made lew
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