Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-07-27

ting relatives here, this being MIR. BIS
native place.
Mr.. Livermore, of st. Louis, is visit
ing relatives and friends, in this place.
The family of Mr.. VIM. Rouse, of
Baltimore, are visiting the family of Mr..
John +. Welshans, in town.
Miss Margaret Cruzen, of Baltimore,
is visiting the family of DR.. John Quig-
ley, in town.
Miss Ida Kerncy, of Smithfield, is Wis,
ting Miss Ella Kelsey, in town.
Ms. Easy Lewis, of Westmoreland
County, Va, and her sister, Miss Anna
Parran, of Staunton, Va, are visiting
their mother in this place.
Col. Geo. A. Porterfeld, Cashier of
the Charlestown Bank, visited our town
OIL Monday last. The Col. is clever
gentleman.
Mr.. Z. Boyd Faulkner, of Martins
burg, is highly recommended for State
Senator. No better representative can
be had in the district, and we throw up
our hat for him.
Major Penny, one of the contractors
of the S. Y. Il, r., was in town several
days this week making arrangements to
receive cross ties by the e. IL o. Canal,
at this place. Laying the track through
this county progresses slowly, from the
fact that cross ties can only be procured
in small quantities, as yet.
Hon. A. r, Boteler placed two very
large potatoes, of the Peerless variety,
of his own raising, upon our table on
Tuesday, one of which weighed one
pound aud quarter.
We are glad to state that Henry
Shepherd, Esq, has recovered from his
recent severe attack of illness.
Eichelberger of the Statesman, and
Logan OF the Independent, Martinsburg,
are again throwing mud at each other,
and the dirtiest kind Of mud at that.
Come, boys, quit that, it don't look
nice.
Mr.. J. Will Snyder, an employee in
the Baltimore .American Office, and
graduate of this office, is visiting bis
mother, in this town,
The 10th annual convention of the
Synod OF the Evangelical Lutheran
Church will meet at Winchester, on
Tuesday, August 9th, at o'clock p. NJ.
Quite number of hogs are dying
with cholera in the neighborhood of
Leetown and Duffields. Capt. J. S.
Melvin has lost some 80 OF Az by the
disease.
We notice that Mr. Traynor has
moved his carriage and wagon shop to
his residence, nearly opposite MIR. Dukes
new mill, on Princess street.
Frazier 81 Stonesifer will have Beef,
Mutton and Veal, at their market place
this morning.
The Is. & o. f. r. will issue return
tickets, at low rates, from August lst to
August 10th, TO persons desiring to at
tend the United Brethren Camp Meet
ing at Locust Grove.
The veteran war-horse of Eugene Ba
ker, Esq, Sheriff of this county, died on
Tuesday of last week He was twenty
seven years old. and was in the Confed-
crate cavalry service throughout the
whole war.
Maj. A. Is. Wood, well known, and
fayorably, too, as the Agent Of the
b. & O. r. Il. at Harper's Ferry, for
several years after the war, died at bis
home in Sandy Hook, Maryland, last
week.
The new Catholic Church of the Sa
cred Heart, Winchester, Va, will be
dedicated on Sunday next, July 90, 49,
IS. Bishop Keane, of Virginia, and
Bishop Kane, OF West Virginia, will be
present.
The citizens of Winchester, Va, will
decorate their houses on the 18th of Au-
gust, in honor of the visit Of the Junior
Fire Company, of Frederick, Md.
Mr.. William Miller, butcher, will
please accept our thanks for nice lot
of fresh sausage.
On Tuesday of last week, at Hagers-
town, by j. Spielman, surviving trustee
of Samuel Boyer, the Mercerville Ware
house property, on the &. IL o. Canal,
was sold at public sale to Henry S. Ea
vey, for s4,S55.
Miss Annie Schley, daughter of Col.
Schley, who has been visiting her uncle
Dr.. Piukney, at New York, during the
past twelve months has returned home.
The total eclipse of the sun on the
goth OF this month is the last eclipse
that will be available for observation in
the United States in this century.
Mr.. David Ditlow, whilst engaged in
thrashng for Mr.. George w. Petrie,
residing few miles North of Hagers-
town, was overcome by the heat about
II o'clock on Friday last, died in two or
three hours thereafter. Mr.. Ditlow was
young man, about 20 years of age.
A Florida negro mistook mule for a
ghost, and poked it with stick. The
verdict recited that ne came to bis death
by using too short stick in probing
the unknowable for evidence of a future
existence.
The old farmer Blue Jeans Williams,
it is thought, has Presidential chestnut
burr inside of his pants. He however,
is not alone.
Monteller Utz, of Page county, Va,
who before the war owned ], $50 acres
of land and AZ slaves has been placed