Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-04

State except the White Sulphur Springs
is awakening hope and courage. The
boarding houses designed for the students
Of Storer College are already engaged for
| summer boarders during the long vaca
| ten. ls,g ...-. 81.
The views around Harper's Ferry are
| msryellously varied and grand. The
three States Of Maryland, Virginia and
West Virginia meet at this point. The
prospect from the Maryland mountain,
which
Rises Abruptly Thirteen Hundred Feet
from the left bank of the Potomac, is one
of the finest of the kind in this country.
Jefferson said "it would pay one for a trip
across the ocean to get this grand view of
the Potomac, Cumberland and Shenandoah
Valleys Thanks to the exigencies OF war
the ZigzaRs made for our batteries have left
good bride paths for this ascent, but how
batteries and caisons were made to climb
these rocky sleeps is marvel.
My first lecture in Harper's Ferry was
given to full audience in storer's College.
The students worked zealously on Arbor
and shrubs m the College Campus. A sec
ond lecture was called for, after which an
association for rural improvement was or
ganized. One of the executive committee
is farmer living at Shenandoah Junction,
eight miles away. A visit to his home
illustrated liberal ideas of farming. The
plantation comprises eighteen hundred
acres of very rich land. Abut eight hmm
dred acres are annually devoted to corn
and wheat.
The Spacious Mansion,
with its broad veranda, was q model of
comfort and convenience, and the adorn.
ments without and within indicate taste
and culture. A dozen horses, for the sad.
die or carrisge, suggest one Of the attractive
forms of Virginia hospitality. One drive
included Charlestown, where John Brown
was tried and hung, and an interview with
Andrew Hunter, the States attorney who
conducted his prosecution. 1t seems to re-
new the youth OF this venerable octogen.
arian to talk of John Brown. The follow
ing testimony is OF special interest: at
has often been said that | hung John
Brown. No, sir; the law hung him, and
he deserved to be hung, but he was the
bravest man l ever saw, for he was sincere
aud did what
He Thought Was Right.
The morning of his execution he sent for
me to make his will. When reached his
cell he was writing letters. said to him,
AS your handwriting is better than mine
let me dictate, and you write it yourself
He replied, Il have scant time to answer
these five letters just received there.
fore wrote it while he was answering his
letters. Soon after he had signed it, the
sheriff came in and said, The time is about
up, Brown Wait minute, if you please,
till finish this one letter., which he did
deliberately, and then said, Now / am
ready and walked to the scaffold as coolly
as if going to dinner. Even when his hands
were pinioned and the halter placed around
his neck there was not the slightest quiver
of muscle and
No Sign of Fear.
Owing to the great crowd pressing near the
gallows there was considerable delay of the
military in forming a solid square, and
hence Brown said to the Sheriff, will you
please have as little delay in this business
as is convenient
Such language from his prosecutor as to
Browns courage and COhsCientiousness
evidently accords with the general senti-
ment of this community. 1t was exceed
ingly gratifying to hear so many promi-
nent Confederates in this region express
under the s.ari"tring that they are living
tion is deep and widespread t6Ehe, convic.
feat in arms is snra - - :'"' "a. :
lasting peace