Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-11-09

beginning 10 snaPen up.
Wonder if somebody isn't fattening
up our Christmas turkey7 We don't
kkow, we are just wondering only.
Apples 1920 per bushel; potatoes so
cents new corn 40 cents.
The graders on the S. V. r. Il, have
reached town. Look out for the Smoke
lotiye.
We are already getting prond-we
have a Peanut stand in town. Getting
quite city-fed. aa.- saa
President Hayes has issued his prcc-
lama,ion setting apart November 2sth
as a day of thanksgiving.
Mrs. Col. ]. S. Hammond nee Belle
Boyd gave an entertainment in the
Court House Hall, last Thursday night,
November 9TH, at Winchester.
The fall term of the Jefferson Circuit
ourtterminated on Friday Of last week.
Chancery cases only were considered.
Pork is selling in Washington eoun-
ty, Md, at the low price Of $3.50 per
hundred weight.
Mr.. John w. Hurst, of this county,
had fine bay mare stolen from his sta
BILE recently.
The consumption Of intoxicating liz
uorS in this country amounts to SIS tor
every man, woman and child in Amerl-
ca, per year. Something wrong, boys,
for we haven't had our share yet.
The Oakland REPUBLICAN notes that
Hon. II. G. Davis has given four acres
of ground at Deer Park tor two years
free Of rent to Henry Weber, Of Cum
berland, to be used as market garden.
The King of Siam has 5000 wives-
He is bald, of course.
The scarcity of apples will be The
means of there being very little apple
John drank this winter, but lots of orn-
airy cornjuice.
1t is said there llbe great demand
for dwelling houses in town next Spring.
The railroad is coming. you see.
We notice that our friend Mr.. d. w.
Hendricks, is erecting fine brick resi-
dence on his place, between here and
Unionville.
A sure mark of successful merchant
is keeping his windows clean and his
advertisement in the newspapers.
1t is said that along the line of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad for forty
miles east of Parkersburg diptheria is
raging to a greater extent than ever was
known in that region.
A South Carolina paper correctly says
the country needs fewer men who seek
Office and fewer men whom the office
seeks.
Thomas Licklider is happy man
its boy and fifteen-pounder at that.
The democrats will have 81 majority
in the House of Representatives, gain
of Is; and in the U. S. Senate the DEM
ocrats will have majority OF 6, gain
of. r. .....
Spoony Butler got "ssooped." Good
bye greenbackers. U
The new house of worship OF tine NJ.
E. Church, South, at Brucetown, will
be dedicated on Sabbath, November
10th. Rev. DR.. Martin, of Stanton, is
engaged to preach the dedicatcry ser
mon.
The times are hard-everybody says
so-but the wages Of sin have not been
cut down.
"Take away women" asks writer,
"and what would follow That's easy.
The men.
Many of our fashionable ladies devote
their leisure hours 10 talking about each
other, and some have attained considera-
BILE proficiency in the beautiful art.
As the turkey roams about picking
up the autumn gleanings and laying on
the fat, he little knows how much he is
doing for the near future of his country.
The man who hasn't money enough
10 buy an overcoat this winter can con
sole himself with tho reflection that he
had lots of fun at his last picnic the
past summer. s...
II. L. Magruder has just received an
other lot of Whitman's Fine Candies
Caromels, Acid Lemon, DC.
Edison, the great inventor, has new
baby, but it has nc particular improve
ments, neither is it patented.
Miss Kate Hill and Miss Eta Ray
are visiting friends in Washington, and
Miss Ella Welshaus is visiting friends
and relatives in Baltimore.
rH The Western Conference of the Ma
} ryland Synod of the Lutheran church,
will meet in the Lutheran church,
of Martinsburg, Nov. 18th, at 7 p. Nj,
The Conference is composed OF the
ministers in Washington county, Md,
one in Pennsylvania, and one in West
Virginia. p. i.- ...I. a....