Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-05-27
From sncnandoan Suncslom.
SHENANDOAH JUNCTION. ". VAL


May -, 1882.
Dear Prmis,cg-If any eli yoUT readers
wish 90 spend plta-..l, day 1T this Sea
son let them take ride or drive along the
ridge Of This county from ShephcrdStoWn
10 ChaIIy...OWu ami they viii be delighted.
The wheat looking finer thah it has for
wears codtr SIS 50 beautifully with the
plowed fields and every farmer hurrying
10 gel his corn planted a. this late hour,
which with the woods jJ>5 budding out
and great number Of birds on the wing
a charming picture.
Your correspondent took such 4 ride
and found one of queenstown boys,
Clinton Miller, and pard, welding the
brush on the house Off. W. Blackboard ut
Browns crossing. Two new houses have
been built here lately and may be city
YET.
Pinkeye is still among the horses along
here. Mr.. Port Wiltshire lost two with it
last week.
Mr.. Thomas Beall will open a store at
Wagelcy's shop in the near future and
probably get poStoilicc, which will be
great accommodation TO the people Of
that neighborhood.
The good people Of this neighbOrhOod
have organized a lodge OF Good Templars
of30 members at Wiltshire's school house
with Mr.. Charles Littleton, the efficient
manager of the county in1irmary as G.. w.
p, or leader and hope to do much good
by training up the youth 20 beware of the
''viie stuff
Arriving at CharlestOwn at last found
everything looking cheerful and signs Of
Improvement. Brick mandatory on the
suburb, of town with many hands at
work and blasting on main street for new
house of Gustav Brown. Judge, jury and
lawyers however had taken holiday and
gone home. Yours, &c,
TRAVELLER.
James Wick, the florist, of Rochester,
y. y, whose death has been announced,
was born in Portsmouth, England, but
came to this country with his parents in
his fifteenth year. During boyhOOd he
was PLAYMATE of Charles Dickens. He
WAS type-setter by trade, and worked
with Horace Greedy. At an early age he
assumed the editorship of the Albany
Cultivator, and subsequently of various
other rural Journals. In 1850 Mr.. Wick
became engaged III the cultivation of flow
crs, and was very widely known through
ont the United States and Europe.
The MYSTERIOUS CHAMBER AT CANON
CHET.-Ihc mysterious chamDern canon
chet, r. l.. 10 which visitors were never
admitted since cX-Gov. Spra%ue became
the lonely occupant of the costly mansion
has at last been opeHed. \ few days ago
Robert NJ. Thompson, the trustee for Mrs.
Kate Chase Sprague, was permitted by
Ex-Governor Spraguc to enter it, and re-
move the rare laces, vclyets, Satins ana
silks which had been retained there under
lock and key since the Conkling episode.
These constituted the wardrobe OF Mrs.
Sprague, which has been shipped TO Edge
wood. The dresses included several that
were made by Worth. EX-Gov. Sprague
left the room in the condition in which it
was when his wife went away. 1t was one
Of the most luxurious apartments in the
costly house, and there was always great
curiosity to see it among the visitors to
the place, but eX-GOv. Sprague always
passed it by in silence when escorting Wis
itors through the house, and his house
keeper had no key to it. 1t became known
as 'the mysterious chamber" and was
never entered except by the owner Of the
mansion