Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-25
Jo,e,est,oo items About the Railroads.

The extension of the Cumberland
Valley road to Winchester, says the
New York Sun, reunites the two val
leys, which during many years have
seemed to be far apart, because exist
ing railroads made communication
for each much easier with other sec
tons actually more distant. The new
road runs close to and twice crosses
the turnpike between Martinsburg
and Winchester, the turnpike so much
travelled by the armies of the North
and South; by Banks in his retreat from
Winchester, which started the first
"skedaddle" through the Cumberland
Valley, and by Lees great armies re-
turning from the Maryland invasion,
and to and from Pennsylvania. 1t
goes through Darkesville and Bunker
Hill, where Lee halted on his retreat
from Antietam, and started Stuart on
his raid into Pennsylvania. From
near Stevenson the road parallels the
Baltimore and Ohio. Winchester was
a frontier post before the Revolution,
and for a long time after it was an
important point in the line of trade
between the East and Southwest when
that trade was carried in wagon trains
a mile long. A part of Fort Loudon,
which was built by Washington, still
stands in the grounds occupied by a
seminary in Winchester. 1t was from
friedrich county, of which Winchester
was and is the county seat, that Wash
ington was elected to the Virginia
House of Burgesses in a hogshead and
barrel of punch, thirty gallons of
wine, forty-three gallons of beer and
cider, and dinners for his friends.
This was the most disputed gro und
during the civil war. 1t was alter
nately in possession of the Confeder-
ate forces under Stonewall Jackson,
Ewell, and Early, and of the Union
armies under Banks, Milroy, Averill,
Crook. and Sheridan, and when Early
surprised Sheridan's army at Cedar
Creek, Sheridan was at Winchester,
twenty miles away"
A new schedule went into effect on
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad last
Sunday. 1t is said to be temporary
schedule, and we hope that it is. The
Hagerstown and Mines accommoda-
ton, which passed here northward at
H., is taken off, and No. express
train. which arrived here south-bound
at 3.37 p. H., now arrives at 4.29 p.
III. There is now no morning train
northward, and it will take two days
to go to Hagerstown and return.
The corrected schedule will be found
on our second page.
The Shepherdstown REGISTER de-
serves the thanks of the travelling
public for its persistent efforts in i'm
pressing upon the officials ofthe Shen-
andoah Valley Railroad the necessity
that, exists at Shenandoah Junction for
some kind of shelter for passengers
awaiting the arrival of trains. Der
ryciHe Courier.
Mary NJ. Campbell, of Philadelphia,
has brought suit against the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company,
claiming $1,000 for injuries received
in a collision which occurred in April
last on the road near Harper's Ferry
Both her legs were bruised and she
received severe internal injuries.
One of the New York railroads has
just given an order for large num-
Der of steel railroad ties which are to
be experimental with. Metal ties
have been tried before, but they
have never been regarded as
success.
Mr.. VIM. Mantz, engineer on the B.
and 0. Railroad, was severely scalded
about the head and face, at Harper's
Ferry, by the breaking of some por-
ton of his engine, a few days ago,
while he was engaged in oiling it.
The Western Maryland Railroad
recently made some slight changes
in it's timetable. The schedule on
the fourth page of the REGISTER is
correct.
The shipments of cotton over the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad for the
North during the month of Septem-
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