Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-05-19

| ta- BR1Ers.-The Court of Appeals
Of this State recently adjourned at
Charleston to meet at Wheeling on the
first Wednesday in June.
We regret to learn that MIR. John j.
Lock. of Charlestown, prominent cltl
izen and a member of our County
Court, is quite i'll, and his mind some
what impaired.
Messrs. Jacob Myers and VIM. Ora
ham killed two black snakes, on the
| farm of Col. w. A. Morgan, Sunday
last, one of which measured feet 4
inches and the other 4 feet 6 inches.
The fiscal term of our County Court
will meet on Monday next the 2lst IN
stant-all Magistrates present.
Now is the time when housewives
complain that there is too much butter
in the garlic.
The Wheeling Register comes out
strongly in favor of Charleston for the
Capital of the State. This is a new
deal, but strange things will happen. =
Hon. C. T. Butler, State Lecturer,
started for Phillippi, Barbour County,
w. Va, on Tuesday night last, where
he addressed the Changers on yester-
day, the 18th.
An honest confronting down
what you owe for the ShepEerdstown
Register.
Some of the European maps now pub
lished are as clear az mud.
Some of the young men of Pennsyl-
vania are taking advantages OF the new
stay law. They stay with their girls
much later than before.
"You wouldn't take me for twenty,
would you!", said young lady, who
looked much Younger, to an old bach
elor. "Take you for twenty!" he ex
claimed; Eyes, for life"
Foote, being sco!ded by a lady said,
81 have heard OF tartar and birthstone !;
you are the cream Of one aud the flower
of the other.
Counterfeit half dollars made of glass
and silvered over by some process, are
in circulation. They, are, it is said,
difficult TO detect as the ring is perfect.
Confederate Memorial Day at Holly
wood Cemetery, Richmond, Va, will
be observed on Wednesday, May %.
The armfullest pleasure in life is to
hug a pretty girl. If you don't believe
it try it. So says one of our jours.
Song of the cabbage plant-"Put me
in my little bed"
Mrs. Mary ID. Ball, wife OF Rev. Dab
ney Ball of Baltimore died recently in
that city Of paralysis Mrs. b. was the
eldest daughter of the late John Wy
song OF Darkesville.
For every ton of coal shipped over
the canal the State of Maryland receives
cent. If 100000 tons be shipped the
revenue from the coal will be $4,000.
The monster Sewing Machine combi-
nation is broken, and from this day for
ward sewing machines can be purchas-
ed for less than one half their past pri
ces.
The Galveston (Texas) News, of May
9th, says corn in that section is receiv-
ing its second blowing.
Mobile gets broom handles from Wis
consin and when Mobile man gets
whack in the back he feels chagrined
TO think there is a solid North.
The weather has been exceedingly
warm this week, and the farmers are
OuoJ pidhth3 WIN.
Mr.. Andrew Boyd, prominent citi-
izen of Frederick, Nd, is dead.
President Hayes attended the unveil-
ing of the statue of Fitz Greene Hal
ltck, at New York, on Tuesdy last. He
unveiled the statue.
r. l.. Osbourn and wife, Shepherds
town, w. Va, registered at the Maltby
House, Baltimore, on Wednesday.
Annapolis, Md, with population of
5000, is reported TO have five hundred
cases of measles.
Eichelberger of the Mart;nsburg
Statesman wants it understood that Blue
Jeans Williams will be the first Grange
President of the United States.
Reversible bonnets are the latest fash
ion in women's head gear. They can
be worn with either end in front, and
the style is known as the turn-style.
Whitewasbing and renovatiug gcner-
ally is now the order of the day.
A bear weighing over one hundred
pounds was killed near Castleman's Fer
ry, Clarke county, Va, last week.
Gov. Carroll, Of Maryland, was mar
ried TO Miss Thompson, of Stanton,
Va in Baltimore. on Monday last