Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-02-28
LOCAL ITEMS.

is Agriculture.
MIR. Harry G. Grove, of Altoona, Pa,
is the master carpenter of the S. V. rail
road at this place now. He is very
clever gentleman, and very much liked
by those with whom he Is officially con
nected.
There has been during the week,some
$50 tons of coal dumped in the bins tor
the use of the S. Y. railroad at this
place.
An additional number of car loads OF
lumber arrived here the first OF the
week, for Messrs. Cotrode ~ Saylor, for
use in the railroad bridge at this place.
Mr.. J. r. Flagg, of Charlestown, is
keeper of the S. V. II. X. Company S
stores at this place.
Don't forget the Charades sc, on
Friday and Saturday evenings next, in
Billmyer's Hall.
Young Mems Meeting in the Episcc-
pal Chapel, gu Sunday afternoon at 80
o'clock.
The work of constructing the cribs
for the piers Of the railroad bridge over
the river at this place, is being rapidly
pushed forward.
The Democratic National Executive
Committee at Washington, on Monday,
selected Cincinnati, Ohio, as the place
for holding the next National Democrat
ic Convention, and the 22nd OF June
next. as the time.
Ventilators have been put on the en-
CINE house at this place during the week
by Messrs Duke e Gallaher, contrac-
tors. The water tank has also been put
under roof.
The Directors of Elmwood Cemetery
Company, are requested to meet ON
Monday next, March lst, at o'clock,
Z. NJ
Mr.. Geo. D. McGlincy, Auctioneer,
sold for Messrs ID. 3. Lucas and Forest
w. Brown, Special Commissioners, the
fine property of Mrs. Margaret Line,
consisting of house and lot in this town.
on Saturday last to Mr.. B. +. Graves,
for the sum of <3, l25.OO.
Mr.. John +. Welshans and wife are
visiting relatives and friends in Balti-
more.
The days and rights will be equal on
the both of March.
Some of the subscribers to the
Register act as if their debts were like
coffee, and would settle themselves in
time by long standing.
This being leap year, any wife is
privileged to go down after 10 o'clock
and hunt up her husband and read him
4 lecture on larks and other birds.
All grape growers of West Virginia
are requested to send their addresses TO
the Department Of Agriculture at
Washington city, in order that they
may receive list of questions relative
to the methods employed and the re
suits obtained.
Etiquette no longer requires gentle
man to claw his hat off when meeting
a lady acquaintance on the street. A
polite bow, not too profound, is the
latest.
Speaker Randall thinks Congress will
be able to adjourn by the last OF May.
Senator Davis, of West Virginia,
whose judgement is good III such mat
tiers, thinks that if it gets through by
June Goth, it will be doing well.
1t is predicted that there will be
plenty of fruit this year. The matri-
lnonial basket ought to yield well.
The residence of w. X. Pendleton,
State Superintendent of public schools
OF this State, was burglarized last week,
and gold watches and jewelry to the
amount of 1925 taken thereirom.
This is the month, as all are doubtless
aware, in which women talk the least.
Will Mantz, a brakeman on the
Washington county branch of the Is. "
o. railroad, fell through bridge at
Harper's Ferry on the 11th, and was
severely cut and bruised. He was
walking across the bridge, and in step
ping aside to avoid an approaching
train missed his footing.
In North Carolina the lightning
struck barn and knocked over two
darkeys; one of them scrambled up and
exclaimed, "who fire dat gun.
Mr.. George r. Latham, census super
intendent for the Wheeling district,
says he proposes TO act on Gen. Walk
ers suggestion that there is nothing ~
appropriate in the appointment OF wo,
men as enumerators where the sur
roundings are such that they can do the
work properly, and he intends to give
places to such ladies as he knows are
competent and will do their work faith
fully.
And now the voice of the girl--over
twenty years old-will soon be heard in
the land-"fbbing" to the census taker
about her age.
A new and extensive tannery is being
built in Frederick by Maj. 3. II. Schley
and Peter Brookey.
A number of poles for line of tele
graph between Berryville and Winches
ter have been delivered along the turn.
pike running between said points.
The parties engaged in prospecting
for iron ore in Clarke county are still at
work. Deposits in paying quantities
have been found on several farms.
The first train of passenger cars on
the S. V. r. r., are expected to cross
over the new bridge, on the Shenandoah