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

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State. Success to you, SANDY"
Messrs. VIM. A. Adams and Jacob
Win,ermoyer have been in the city this
week purchasing holiday goods.
The Cement Mill below town is run
ming to It's full capacity, and finding
ready sale for all the cement manufac-
tured "Dort" knows how to make It,
Rev. ]. p. Hubbard, of the Episcopal
Church of this town, is attending the
Episcopal Sessions in CharlestoWn.
Mai. Potts's corps Of engineers are
still Surveying In Washington county,
Md.
Major Blunt, of Washington, paid off
the Cement Mill hands, near this town,
last week.
Mr. Henry Baker, of the firm of Ba-
ker & McMurran, was in the city tins
week, purchasing new supplies OF goods.
A lively appearance is exhibited
around the S. Y. Il. Il. at this place, in
the erection OF the depot, &c.
Wheat is still worth Sl.40 per bushel
in this market.
Mr.. David Bllmyer's boat started for
Georgetown via G. tS 0, canal, loaded
with wheat, corn and -four.
Mr.. J. Chalmers Byers killed on Tues
day last seven hogs weighing l,535
pounds, an average OF $50 pounds each:
They were about ID months old and fed
chiefly on refuse corn.
We are glad to learn that our young
friend Mr.. Edward Billlmyer is so well
pleased with the Eastman Business Col
iege, at Poughkeepsie, n. Y, which he
is now attending. He writes that the
school has now upwards of 400 students
and that it is constantly increasing in
numbers.
The many friends in this town of Mr..
Harry Highbarger, of Sharpsburg, will
be Glad to hear that he is recovering
from his recent severe illness.
We learn that the canal company pro-
poses 20 draw off the water from the
canal about the goth instant.
The gymnasium is still progressing,
and we learn that an effort is being
made by the young men to Put billiard
table in it, shortly.
Would it not be advantageous to our
millers to have the bed of the town run
lowered? Would they not gain consid-
erably more in volume OF water than
they now have?
Mrs. Vance las Just received during
this week large assortment OF trimmed
Hats. Ladies, call and see them.
Flour is seven dollars and fifty cents
per barrel.
Apples are selling at fifty cents per
bushel.
The Infant Class of the Lutheran
Sunday School will give an exhibition
on Christmas night.
Mr.. J. VIII Snyder, late one of the
proprietors of the Sharpsburg Enter
prise, is now setting type or the Con
gressional Record" Washington city.
DR.. c. T. Butler of this place has
provided himself with a handsome phae-
ton.
Col. w. A. Morgan, we notice, has
recently purchased a handsome carriage.
Mr.. Rohr, of Charlestown, is supefin-
tending the mason work of the 5. '. X.
r. at this place.
Our old and firm friends of tie Reg
lister, Messrs. Juwayne koonts, Wilson
Brothers, Emanuel Staley, J. l.. Hootf,
j.. w. Johnson, E. 7. Licklider, VIM.
\. Marshall, and others, have our thanks
for good share Of greenbacks and 9th
or substantial aid, during this week.
w. C. Haldeman, Jeweler, will order
and furnish holiday presents, in his line.
Give him a call.
Hon. VIM. II. Travers, Of Charles
town. and Chief Engineer Coe and Gen
eral Superintendent Sands, of the ). ',
X. r., were in town on Tuesday even
inc last.
\ colored man of huge proportions,
supposed from the maGacles which he
wears upon his wrists to be an escaped
convict, has recently been seen in Ca
toctin mountain near Pt. of Rocks.
Mr.. John w. Garrett, president Of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, has
generously offered to present the Com
missioners of Druid Hill Park with SlO,-
900 with which to construct an aquarium
in that popular park.
Rev. Thomas O. Grouse, of the NJ.
p. Church, is in the third week OF a
protracted meeting at Leetown. The
services have been OF an exceedingly
interesting character. Some fifteen
persons have professed conversion, and
several are still seekers.
The NJ. L. Church IN this place
is shortly to undergo repairs, and
be improved by having the entrance TO
the same made from the basement floor,
as the NJ. Z. church, South, now is.
This will be decided Improvement as
well as convenience.
A new lot of handsome Prints just
received at J. L. Richards.
Messrs. p. Helm e Co., on Monday
sent their last boat load OF consign-
ment OF lumber used in the building OF
a bridge over the Shenandoah at Har-
per's Ferry, which is being built by the
King Bridge and Iron manufacturing
company of Chicago, for a chartered
corporation, whose compensation will
consist in the revenue arising from the
tolls received from persons crossing the
bridge. So says the Cumberland Times.
Col. Henry J. Johnson, editor and pro-