Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-01-10
LOCAL ITEMS.
The city council will meet on Mon
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at the Register Office, on Monday next,
the 18th instant, at 1-2 o'clock, I. III.
Persons wishing to borrow money at s
per cent win please make application.
The Christmas exercises in the various
churches and Sunday Schools OF this
town, were all of an interesting charac-
ter and were largely attended.
We understand that the Social held
in The NJ. Z. Church, in this town DUR
ing the Holidays, was success.
About 80 or 40 of our citizens availed
themselves of the half rates on the S.V.
| r. r., on New Years day;taking trip
/ to various places along the road.
The past Holidays were without any
exception, the dullest we have ever WIT
messed in Shepherdstowp. 80
A number of new stores are 10 be
opened in our town in the Spring.
Track-laying on the s. V: r. r. is
progressing rapidly between Front Roy
al and Luray, Page county, Va -
A meeting of the stockholders of the
! S. V. r. z. will take place at Winches-
ter. on the 4th of February. b.,
Young Mems Meeting on Sunday
evening, at B 1-2 o'clock, in the Luther.
an Church. Bring your Bible to this
meeting. :.. G-.-.. y..s
Our friend Mr. Frank Lucas is can
vassing for popular book entitled the
olives of the Presidents He has met
with much success. @ .':--
Mr.. &. F. Harrison, Administrator
of the estate of Geo. G. Eakle, deceased,
sold at private sale, the house and lot
on High street, now occupied by Rev.
Ebert, the colored minister,to Mr. Geo.
NJ. Beethoven, for $3.50 cash.
Within the last week the water tank
for the S. V. r. r. at this place has
been finished, and the engine house tor
the same, has been built; and the engine
and the pump have both been put In,
and are now ready for use.
Criswell's Cornet Band serenaded Mr..
Thomas Cockrill, the head carpenter
of the S. V.R. h. at this place, and his
bride on New Years day, at the resi-
dence Of Mr.. Bennett, in this place.
Our biggest porker weighed S4l
pounds. later Hill still ahead.
A valuable COW belonging to Mr..
Charles Huyett, 10 this town, died a
few days ago. a- I'D ....
On Christmas morning, the Senior
editor of the Martinsburg Statesman,
Mr.. D. Smith Eichelberger, scored his
54th birthday. Long may he yet wave!
Criswells Cornet Band was out in
full uniform, including their handsome
new belts and music pouches, on Christ
mas and New Years Day, discoursing
music sweet.
DR.. Allen S. Reynolds, who is now
attending Lectures in Baltimore, spent
his Chistmas holidays with his father,
DR.. John Reynolds, in town.
The handsome front door in the new
house recently erected by Dir. John
Grow, OF this town, is made of chestnut
wood, and cost $l5 without the frame.
Mr.. Newton Underdonk, of Martins
burg, killed porker last week which
weighed III pounds, another Ga, and
the third $50. We have nothing more
to say.
Mrs. Johanna Heskitt, wife of MIR. l..
G.. Heskitt, of Greenwood Furnace,
Huntingdon county, Pa, after visit OF
several months in this town, returned
home on the first day of January.
We had a pleasant letter from our
old friend MIR. Joseph Starry, OF this
county, from Clarkesville, Clinton coun-
ty, Ohio, where he has been visiting
since September last,
We regret to state that Mrs. Hester
Nadenbousch, wife of Col. j. Q. A. Ma
denboasch, of Martinsburg, died on the
3lst of December.
The ladies of St. Paul's Episcopal con-
gregation of Sharpsburg, held supper
last week for tine benefit of their church,
and cleared about $3.50.
Mr.. J. Randolph Tucker, Jr., former
Iva member of the Stanton, Va, bar,
has been appointed private secretary to
Speaker Randall. ....H
Mr.. Robert Bledsoe, a resident of
Mar,insburg, freight conductor on the
B. & O. X. r. was crushed between
the bumpers Of two cars, near the cross
ing at south Queen street, in that town,
last week, and died three hours after
the accident occurred. Mr.. Bledsoe
leaves wife and three little ones.
The case of Mrs. A.C. Newcomer VS..
Anthony Kean, for SANDER, in calling
the plaintiff a thief, in which damages
are laid at $50, 900, removed from Ale
gany to Carroll County Court, Md, was
on Tuesday last continued, at costs OF
plaintiff, who desired 10 amend their
mar. ..
The Supreme Court of Appeals grant
ed writ of error Saturday in the case
of Elihu Gregg, now under sentence of
death for burning the Court House and
Jail of Preston county. This will give
the old man another chance. He is now
nearly seventy years Of age, and is con-
fined in the Wheeling jail for the pres
ent.
Transportation of the soldiers mon
ument from Groves Landing, on the
Chesapeake. and Ohio canal, near
Sharpsburg,t to the national cemetery On
the An,ietam battle-ground, where it
is to be erected, is almost completed
only two heavy stones remaining OH the
banks of the canal.
Edward w. Mealey, of Hagerstown, and