Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-02-23

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ter House, and his friends at this sec
ton of the county will be glad to know
that they can still get square mea
when they visit Charlestown.
The Episcopal Convention meets ii
Charlestown, on Wednesday next, the
9th, for the purpose of electing Dish
op for West Virginia. Mr.. Z. j. Lee
represents Trinity Church of this place
DR.. e. T. Butler has returned to tow
and resumed practice at his old stard.
Mr.. w. T. Herring. an old merchant
Of Martipsburg, was stricken with paral
ysis one day last week, while talking tc
his son in his store room, and died i'm
mediately.
Mr. VIM. H. Conley and family re-
turned to their western home, in Hi
nois, last week. Mr.. Geo. NJ. d. Coz
ley also accompanied the family, to seek
his fortune in a western cline. Success
attend them.
We invite attention to the sale adver'
tisement of Byrne's Island, at Harper
Ferry, in this issue.
The sales that have taken place during
the past two weeks have been well at.
tended, and good prices received for
stock, &c.
The boys celebrated the 22nd pretty
lively from l o'clock till daylight yes
terday morning.
Mr.. Geo. Seibert has sold his stone
house farm containing Isl acres, on
the grade, 1 1-2 miles west of Martins
burg, TO Mr.. George Hawk, of Martins
burg at s6S per acre.
Congress has appropriated $6,5S9,0O
to pay Mr.. John A. Thomson, of this
county, claim allowed by the Treasury
department for losses incurred during
the war.
1t is stated on authority which can
not be questioned that 100000 OF
human beings are now starving in the
famine stricken province of North
China.
The peace news from abroad con-
tinues to exert depressing influence
upon the market for breadstuffs and
provisions.
Thh Convocation of Cumberland held
a series of services at st Paul's Episco-
Church in Sharpsburg last week.
Charles Davies, Esq, of Harper's
Ferry, has been invited, and has accept
ed the invitation, to deliver his lecture
upon ''Poetry the true reflex of the
age" before the Young Mems Christian
Association of Leesburg.
w. Scott Downey, son of ]. Madi-
son Downey, Esq, of Loudon county,
Virginia, on Tuesday last was kicked
by horse, and died seven hours after the
fatal blow was inflicted.
The men in the Hampshire, Franklin
and Caledonia mines resumed work at
forty cents, and have notified the bal
ance that they will 60 on at that rate.
DR.. James B. Delaplane, a prominent
physician of Hancock, Nd, died in that
town, on Monday, the 18th inst, aged
about 40 years.
Mrs. Pope has been sentenced to
twenty days Imprisonment in the coun-
ty Jail of Clarke county, and fined 500,
for shooting John Grubbs.
Thomas n. Ashby, of Front Royal,
Virginia, secretary of the Shenandoah
Valley railroad, died suddenly on Tues
day last.
In the U. S. Senate, en- Monday,
the bill amending the laws granting
pensions to the soldiers and sailors of
the war Of 1912 and their widows was
adopted after debate; the bill restores
to the list the names of those stricken
therefrom on account of disloyalty.
There is a prospect for a glove facto-
ry in Front Royal that will need the
services of two hundred more females.
Spend your money at home and en-
courage home trade.
The Winchester News says: Messrs.
Gray and Catlett, of West Va, have
purchased the Bowles farm situated
near Winchester, for $4,000 and the
payment of an annuity of $500 to Mrs.
Bowles for life.
Hard times in Persia induce the
gipsies to sell their daughters at the in-
sufficient price of FIVE dollars apiece.
We know some who would be dear at
that price.
There is a Shepherdstown boy who
has offered to bet that he can walk a
million hours without sleep, if his girl
Will only walk with him.
A man at IIarrisonburg, Pa, invited
his friends recently, to his "graDd an
uual bawlp He has been married
eleven years and has eleven children.
A man in Louisiana has had four
wives 90 off and leave him. The fifth
be swoppcd for and old shotgun, and
now he has got something that won't
go off
He was from the country, and he
came to a town for the first time. As
be looked at the telegraph wires, he
said, "Why do you make your wire
fence so hight"
The supper by the colored NJ. E.
Church, Oh the nigh. Of the 18th, real
ICED $50.