Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-09-18
.sI COUNTY NEws.-We clip the
following from the Spirit of Tuesday

ES6 COUNTY NEwS.-We clip the
following from the Spirit Of Tuesday
last
GROVE MEErING.-By D. V. permits
sion Grove Meeting will be held at
the Manning Appointment, {near
Bloomery,) to commence on Saturday,
September the 18th, at o'clock, p w.,
(Which will be the Sd Saturday, Rev.
Samuel Register, d. D., and other dis
tinguished ministers are positively ex-
pected. The friends will please come
prepared to spend the entire Sabbath
on the ground. All are cordially in
vited to attend. The Second Quarter
ly Meeting for Shenandoah Circuit will
be held at Xabletown, to commence on
Saturday, the 25th inst, embracing the
4th Sabbath in this mouth. Rev. DR..
Register, the Presiding Elder of
the district, will he present to hold the
meeting.
At the Berkeley Agricultural fair,
among the premiums given the follow
ing were awarded to citizens of this
county: For best and closest matched
pair of coach horses, H. Stouffer, 5000.
Best bull years old and upward, L. IL.
Moler, $500. Best stallion years
old and over, H. Stouffer, $1,000.
Best peck tomatoes, II. G, Burkhart,
s10O. Best five pounds lard, Mrs. j.
Burkhart, $1.00. Best dozen cucum-
bers, r. c. Burkhart, S1OO.. Best
dozen heads cabbage, r. G. Burkhart,
s1.OO. Best dozen squashes, r. q.
Burkhart, $1.oo.
SALE OF HoGs.-Several lots of fat
Hogs, twenty-five in all, changed hands
in Charlestown on Saturday, at $500
per hundred lbs, gross,
WHEAT STOLEN Mr.. John w.
Gibson, residing on the Lindsey farm,
near Charlestown, informs the Free
Press that on Monday night some per-
son or persons helped themselves to
his wheat. A hole was bored III the
floor of the barn, Immediately under the
grain. After bagging what they could
conveniently carry off, the hole was
plugged with rags-not sufficiently
tight, however, to prevent the escape
of the grain, as on Tuesday morning
he discovered fifteen or twenty bushels
on the ground and the hogs into it.
There is no doubt the thieves intended
to return at convenient season and
draw upon the bin of Mr.. Gibson.
Upon the same night like depredations
were made upon the granaries of
Messrs. Dangerfeld Lloyd and O. w.
Rowland.
FIRE.-About half past one o'clock
on Thursday night last an alarm was
sounded, occasioned by the discovery of
fire in the wing of the dwelling of Mr..
Chas. G. Johnson, west end of Main
street, Mr.. Johnson himself having been
aroused by the smoke which had pene-
trated to his bed-chamber in the front
part of the building-his wife and chill
dren being absent from home at the
time. Our citizens promptly rallied to
the rescue of the building, and before
the engine and fire apparatus could be
gotten on the ground, those near at
hand, by their manly efforts, had stayed
the flames by the aid of buckets and wa
ter from the cistern of Mr. J. in his
yard. And here we may mention that
Benjamin Carey, Lee Washington and
Jere Lovett, all colored, deserve great
credit for their laudable labors on this
occasion; for to their efforts alone, they
being first on the ground, Mr.. J. proba-
bly, owes the saving of his entire house
from destruction. Every incident con-
nected. with the origin of the fire, as far
as ascertained, points to the work of an
incendiary as the fundamentally by
which it occurred. The building was
insdred in the Franklin Insurance Com
pany, OF Wheeling, and E. NJ. Aisquith,
Esq, the efficient Agent of the Compa-
ny, took prompt steps for the reimburse
ment of Mr.. Johnson to the amount of
his loss, which will probably be about
$3.50 or S200.-Spirif.
DARING Theft OF CATTLE.-A negro
man of this vicinity, named Joe Hutch
inson, stole COW and heifer from Mr..
VIM. Hopkins, and heller from Rich
ard Jackson, colored, at this place, on
Tuesday last, and drove them over to
the Northern side of the county, where
he assumed the name of Henry w.
Washington, and sold them to Mr.. p.
p. Marshall, near Walkers Cross Roads,
for the sum of forty dollars-taking Mr.
Ms note for twenty dollars, and receiv
ing the other twenty in cash. The cat
tie escaping Mr.. NJ. started in pursuit of
them, when he discovered how he had
been duped, and the real name of the
thief. An extensive search failed to
bring to light the body of Joein Charles
town, and from all that can be learned
it is presumed that he has taken tracks
for the city of Washington. 1t is hoped
that he may yet be detected and receive
the full benefit of all that the law inn
poses in such cases.-Spirit.
DEATH OF HUMPHREY KEYEs, ESQ
One by one the links connecting the
past generation with the present are
rapidly passing away. On Sunday night
loo, Huunbray Kayao Fec ono of mr.