Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-03-08

next, the l4tH lusISut, hfSi ne-SoS'
is required to be present. j. Will Fay
lor, Master, Lee H. Moler, Secretary.
Delegate D. Frank Dillmyer came
home to attend the funeral of Mr.. Mar
tin Billmyer on Sunday last. He re-
turned to Wheeling on Monday.
Hyde, the Jeweler, Martinsburg. has
just gotten a large Fire and Burglar
Proof Safe, which weighs over 5000.
A goose and half dozen chickens were
stolen from Mrs. Amanda Frames coop,
one night this week. She identified a
rooster which was sold to Mr., VIM, A.
Adams, by Ben Turner, colored.
Mr.. James A. Adams has been on a
pleasure trip to Parkersburg for some
weeks, Hope be will enjoy himself.
We invite attention to the different
sales advertised in this paper, which
will take place during next week and
thereafter.
Commodore Charles Boarman. OF
Martinsburg,h has been promoted to Rear
Admiral in the Navy, and placed onthe
retired list.
Our Delegate W. II. 7. Lewis came
home last week for mess OF cells.
Mr. John b. Douglas, who las. Spring
removed to Kansas returned here last
week on business, 10 remain lew days
only.
Mr.. Henry Kecsecker, an old resident
of Berkeley county, died last Tuesday
week, in his cightieth year.
Our legislature will close on Monday
next, the 10th of March, this is if they
don't extend the session again.
Mr.. II. G. Martin left tor Baltimore
on Monday last to purchase stock OF
hardware, &c.
A cheese and butter factory will soon
be started near townsville, Washing.
ton county, Md, by Messrs, Reichard
and Long.
The Western Conference Of the Mary
land Synod, Lutheran Church, met in
Boonsboro', Md, on Monday last.
The U. S. District Court, Judge ]. J.
Jackson, presiding, convened at Wheel
ing on Tuesday.
Geo. NJ. 9eltzhoover and Henry
Shepherd, Esqrs., visited Washington
and Wheeling this week or important
business.
With the U. s. District Court, and
the Supreme Court, and the Legislature,
this week, at Wheeling, lively times may
be expected in that town, and plenty ot
''bug juice" taken.
The matrimonial market in this town
is very dull, so the preachers say. Hur-
ny up the cakes, girls.
A delegation of business men from
Piedmont have visited Wheeling, TO
influence the Legislature of this State to
withdraw the quo warranto proceedings
against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company.
DR.. l.. X. Hummelshine,, a we'll
known dentist of Cumberland, Nd,
died Saturday evening.
Monticello, the home of Thomas JET
ferson, in Albemarle county, Va, Is 10
be sold at auction March 20.
A gentleman writing from the West
saws that he is 30 altered since he left
home that his "oldest creditor would
not know him.
Thurman to Bayard: "Yout's is a
mighty small State" Bayard to Thur
man: "Yours Is id doubtful
State" while Tilden sets back and
laughs.
A woman will waltz around ball
room all night without feeling 'least
bit tired, but if the same woman has TO
wash tubful of clothes all creation
knows her pains and aches.
The railroad war between the B. d
o. r. r. and Col. Dan johnson goes
bravely en-.
The Wetzel Messenger says the West
Virginia Legislature wouldn't "swop
legislative ability with the U. S. Senate,
or any other man.
A sharp young fellow sold forty-eight
Bibles in Chicago by having printed on
the covers, Zone thousand receipts for
making handsome women"
1t is about time now to commence
counting noses and string up strife to
make an issue for the next town cleo
ton.
Forty-two Democrats and thirty-three
Republicans is about the way the next
United States Senate will stand.
Farmers should make it rule TO kill
every dog that comes on their premises,
on sight. Sheep are more valuable than
dogs.
Those are the best Christians, who
are more careful to reform themselves
than to censure others.
There has been an unusual amount of
sickness in Sharpsburg this winter. A
gentleman from there the other day in
formed us that DR.. A. A. Biggs had in
one week, three hundred patients under
his care. So says the Boonsboro Odd
Fellow.
Messrs. Purcell & Riley, contractors
on the S. V. II. r. lost about $500
worth of harness, blankets, sc, by the
destruction of the saw-mill property, at
BerryvilIe, last week.
The Moffett register has increased
the revenue from liquor about 25 per
cent. in Virginia. A more perfect iu-
stru,nent is needed, Blu. the State will
not make change at present.
OF the mothers who bore children in