Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-11-17

Boonsboro, Nd, died III Frederick, last
week.
DIR. James w. Greenwood caught the
cold man. of all 'Possums, on Friday
night of last week, in DR.. Tanners
woods Serves him right-he was too
old to be "skylarking" around at night.
Frosts are falling thick and fast now,
and the scar and yellow leaf must git
up and git
Rev. Mr.. Meade OF Charestown
preached an excellent sermon in the
Episcopal Church of this town on Sun
day evening last.
Call at John G. Unseld's, if you want
fresh Cranberries, Bananas and Sweet
Potatoes. A fine lot just received.
Pork has been offered here at So per
hundred-the same at Martiusburg.
Chicken pox has been botherlng some
of the urchins of this place and vicinity,
during the past two weeks.
Our County Court will convene on
Monday next, the 10Th inst, all the
magistrates present.
Some of our citizens have already
sIauobtered some of their porkers,
'Ta,er Hillians will be hard TO beat this
year.
1t is being "noised around" that
another wedding is to take place in
town one day next week. Well, if it is
to be SO the next Register will tell the
tale.
A valuable horse belonging to Mr. J.
a. Adams, of this place, died on We'd
nesday morning last.
Mr.. William Kearney, of this vicini-
", but who has been in Rome, Georgia,
in a Drug Store, during the past four
years, called TO see us on Wednesday.
He has been attending Medical Lectures
in Baltimore.
A number of valuable hogs belonging
to Henry Shepherd, Esqr., have died Of
cholera during the past week,
"Live on what you have; live if you
can on less; do not borrow, either for
vanity or pleasure; the vanity will end
in shame and the pleasure III regret.
The grain fields around town are
charmingly dressed in green.
Large focks of wild geese were last
week noticed coming from the colder
regions Of the North and steering to.
wards the South.
Brown says he's been so often deceiv-
ed by the chicken at his clearinghouse
that he now calls it the hooking bird.
Pretty girls-handboards that point
the way to the State Of Matrimony,
The Rev. W. G. Wire was installed
as pastor of the Lutheran Church at
Mechanicstown, Nd, on Sunday, Oct.
25,h, by Revs. S. w. Owen, of Hagers-
town, and J. H. Turner, of Burkitts-
Vile.
Deceit aud falsehood, whatever con.
veniences they may for time promise
or produce, are, in the sum Of life,
obstacles to happiness
Mrs. Albert and Miss Mumma, Of
Williamsport, Md, have been visiting
Miss Belle Herr and Mrs. l.. Is. Entler,
for some days past, in town.
There will probably be no preaching
by the Pastor, in the Lutheran Church
on Sunday morning. The Pastor, Mr..
Holland, is still absent in the Valley OF
Virginia, engaged in the interests Of
the Richmond Lutheran Church.
The planetary display is elegant just
now. Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn
form almost streight line from west TO
east, Immediately after nightfall.
Fractional currency is scarcely ever
seen these days, having been suppressed
ed by silver.
The Hagerstown News says it is re-
ported on good authority that the wives
of Col. h. f. Cook and Mr.. g. G. Clapp
of that town, have fallen heirs to
fortune, in Ireland, of about $4,000.
Old - is fast slipping away, and in
few more weeks it will be numbered
with the years past and gone.
An Ohio woman just completed a
quilt containing 5000 pieces, but the
state of her children's clothing and of
her husbands socks is not reported.
1t is said that figures won't lie, but
the Detroit News thinks the figures OF
some women are very deceptive to say
the least
Fatal ACCIDENTS IN MAErlNsBURG.
At Martinsturg, W. Va, on We'd
nesday OF last week; the mangled body
of Christopher Wellinger, Grick-ma-
ker, was found near the point where the
Baltimore aud Ohio railroad crosses
Queen street, in tina: city. 1t is sup,