Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-12-13

EE5 PERSONALS AND i'hihf"
& McMurran are now receiving me
incest lot of goods and Christmas Pres'
ep,s in town. Call and see them.
We have had considerable rain dur
ing this week, and the wheat is rapidly
showing the good effects of it.
The ladies of the NJ. Z. Church OF
this town propose holding Festival
several nights during the Holidays.
Butter seems to be a dead stock in
this market. Too much butcherlng tor
20 cent butter now.
Kerneysville Grange will meet Satnr-
day. goth, at 2 o'clock p. NJ. Officers
for the ensuing year will be elected.
Young Mems Meeting on Sunday,
18th, at - o'clock, in the Episcopal
Chapel. Subject: Praise. Come out to
this interesting service and bring your
Bible with you.
Hon. w. II. T. Lewis, OF this county,
and late Representative III the House OF
Delegates (and our next Representative
also), paid our town a visit on Thurs
day Of last week.
The monument for Antie:am Gem
etery, at Sharpsburg, is arriving via Z.
& 0. canal from Georgetown. Jacob
&. Grove has the contract to baul 1t to
the Cemetery from "Grove's Landing,
on the canal, / miles above this place.
1t is hauled in sections, and weighs 24O
tons in the aggregate.
Congressman a. NJ. Lay, representa-
tive from the Seventh District OF Mis-
souri,, died suddenly on Monday in
Washington city.
John S. Cuttings, a wel!-known clii,
zen and broker, of Baltimore city, died
Monday morning in his SD year Mr..
Cuttings was one of the largest capital
lists and Real estate owners in Maryland,
his wealth being estimated at several
millions.
Capt. w. II. B. Dorsey died very
suddenly of apoplexy at his residence at
Mt. Airy on Tuesday, 9TH inst, in the
3Sth year of his age. He commanded
Company ID, First Maryland Cavalry,
c. S. A., under Col. Ridgely Brown
during the war and was considered
brave officer.
The County Court expenses will be
inserted in orr next issue.
Chas. Fox, of Frederick, was sentenced
in Uagerstown on Tuesday last, to three
months Imprisonment and a fine OF 500
for the shooting of VIM. Schlosser, OF
Hagerstown, in October last.
The Boonsboro Odd Fellow says
that it is the intention of Mrs. Dahl
green to build a Catholic chapel next
wear on South Mountain, near her resi-
dence, and that she will doubtless en-,
dow it and make ii self sustaining Tor
all time TO come.
IT You want to have plenty of eggs
for Christmas give your hens plenty to
cat and a warm place to rccst.
Fine lot of cigars and smoking tobac-
co-BlacGwells genuine Durham, Sweet
Treasurer, Little Joker, Happy Hours,
Puck and Baby Mine-tor sale by j.
G. Unseld.
Extra fine lot of confectons, canned
fruits, Sc, for sale by John G. Unseld.
Don't forget the sale of the Mason
farm or Saturday next, the goth instant.
J. L. Rickard has just received an
immense stock of Ladies Dress Goods,
of all shades and the very latest styles.
Farmers are just now laying in their
winters fuel, and the more grown up
daughters the bigger the wood-pile
VIII some of our weather prophets
tell us, and we will tell the public, how
many SHOWS we are to have this win
ter?
The brother who prays the loudest in
is good man TO watch
in horse trade
Our young folks think Prof. Tice a
humbug But they were glad Of an
excuse TO sit up all night.
In Washington county, Miss, col
ored man was elected Circuit Clerk over
two white competitors. lie was voted
for by a good many white people on
the score Of superior fitness and rella-
biIity.
A remarkable phase Of insani-
ty has been developed in a young
woman named Janney Gordon living
at Point of Rocks She displays great
antipathy to the light OF day and when
taken into a light room from a dark
one she made violent efforts to tear her
eyes out. At night she is perfectly
calm.
The Virginia Legislature met Oh
Wednesday. The Readjusters secured
the organization of both houses, and
showed strength Of abont % majority
on joint ballot.
The family of Mr.. II. n. Dcahick,
Martinsburg, came near being sutioca
ted Wednesday night from the effects
of carbonic acid gas escaping from a
new fire place stove which had just
been put up. The family were all
more or less affected, but Mrs. Deatrick
was rendered quite i'll tora time.
A German poet says yonng girl is.
a iishing-rod; the eyes are the hook, the
smile the bait, the lover the gudgeon,
and the marriage the butter in which
he is fried.
Go to !. L. Richards for all the la
test styles of Buttons.
The young ladies ought to be com
paratively happy. They are wearing
boys hats. boys ties and boys cravats,
and it is limited that they contemplate
raid upon another important part OF
the male apuarel.