Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-12-21

Savings Bark, in this place, TO-DAY,
Saturday, 2 o'clock, ?. NJ.
Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy
Tobacco.
The Bait. and Ohio r. r. CO., has
made present of 500 and COW worth
$50, to Mrs. Lantz, widow of e. Lantz,
the Watchman, who was killed in Nal
tinsburg, by Smith and Mosby.
Rev. B. II. Hunt of Philadelphia, will
preach in the Lutheran Church of this
town, on Sunday morning, at l ! o'clock,
In order to afford our hands little
holiday, as well as other people, there
will be no paper issued from this office
next Saturday.
Christmas Gifts speciality at r. L.
Magruders.
To-day, Saturday, the 2lst of Decem-
Der, is the shortest day.
A modest young lady of our town
went in one our drug stores the other
day and asked for DR.. Oxens Cough
Syrup instead of DR., Bulls Cough Sy-
| rup.
Dir. Samuel Lohr, near Kearneysville,
has killed the "boss" hog, weighing GIL
pounds. Kearneysville still ahead.
Preston Nadenbousch, Deputy Sheriff,
and son of Moses S. Nadenbousch, Shel-
if of Berkeley County, died on Monday
night last, in Martinsburg, aged about
q years.
We are glad TO know that Mayor
Ray, who has been confined to his room
by sickness for the past two weeks, Is
able to be about again.
Miss Nettie Waugh, who has been
residing with DR.. Lucas near town, is
visiting relatives and friends in the
North and East.
Christmas came to town early this
year. We noticed good deal OF it On
Tuesday night last.
About one thousand turkeys pnrchas-
ed by Mr.. Snively Of Keedysville, Md,
were driven through town this week.
Walter and Clifton, cadets at the
Lexington, Va, Military Institute, and
sons of Mr.. Geo. Il. SJaley, OF Balli-
more, have returned here on a Through,
to spend the holiday season.
Mr.. Hart, formerly proprietor Of the
Hart Hotel at Winchester, has taken
charge of the Grand Central, at Mar.
tiusburg,
Dickens said "the first external evil
dence OF dry rot in men is tendency to
lurk and lounge.
A Quincy, ILL.,, clergyman visited the
gambling houses and is improving upon
Talmage by not only telling what he
saw but whom he saw.
Congress votes for its usual holiday
recess, from December 20 to January 6.
Mrs. w. b. Johnson has been elected
matron Of the Western Lunatic Asylum
al Stanton.
Mrs. Catharine Barrett, Of Mt. Say
age, Md, the mother Of four pairs OF
living twins, died Saturday last.
When certain gentleman in this
town, goes home a little late at night
his good wife makes him say ''statician
thirty times, just TO find out bis true
condition.
We are clad to learn that our young
friend, Mr.. III. &. Getzendanner, son of
Mr.. Daniel Getzendanner, of KearneyS-
vile, is making rapid progress in his
law studies at the Washington " Lee
University. ----
An early winter, late winter, hard
winter, an open winter, a short winter
and long winter have already been
predicted, and the reports are not all in
yet.
Our friend J. Ned Duke OF Charles
town, called to see us on Wednesday.
He was suffering from a boil, bnt he
didn't have it on his neck, where we
had one.
Read the Cuisines Locals" and adj
vertisements generally in the Register
before you make your purchases.
Mrs Fannie Prince, colored, mother
of J. Wesley Sibert, barber in our town,
died at Hagerstown on Friday last.
A Merry Christmas and a big fat tur
key to all our patrons and friends.
Don't forget to attend the sale of
Real Estate of John Marshall, deceased,
which taxes place on Saturday next,
29th December. See advertisement i'll
another column.
There is one thing that great many
would-be vocalists have never yet learp
ed, and that IS that it requires some
kind of natural gift to DE able to sing
we'll
Says the Philadelphia Chronicle: 'An
old nursery rhyme runs, "Simple Simon
went fishing" For particulars as to
what he caught inquire Of the Widow
Oliver
Large posters are posted up in :he
post-office calling on able-bodied men
between the ages of 81 and 80 to enlist
in the u. S. Army. They must weigh
between I2O and $50 lbs. and be ply sis
cally perfect.
A Western lawyer included in his
bill against his client, "to waking up in
the night and thinking about your case,
So"
Baker & McMurran have recently re-
painted and reftted their Drug Store,
and it now presents quite neat and
clearly appearance.
Episcopal services in the Lutheran
Church at Harpers Ferry on Sunday,