Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-09-10
LOCAL. ITEMS.

The Antietam Iron Works, on the Poto-
mac River, miles below this place, and
owned by Col. Daniel V. ALL and Others,
Is about TO resume operations. Col. Brad
ford will attend to the management Of al
fairs.
The colored folks will celebrate the
Emancipation Proclamation at Martins
burg OH Saturday 24th instant. The col
ored folks of Maryland and Pennsylvania
will join them in the celebration, and
preparations are being made for big time.
Prof Henry Clay Cameron, of Prince
ton College, New Jersey, and son of John
Cameron, Esq, stopped a day in this town
to see relatives and friends, on Tuesday
last. on his return home from Berkeley
Springs.
Miss Mollie o. Hawn, of this town, is
visiting her uncle John II. Miller, Esq,
near Winchester.
Miss Lizzie McMurran has been ap-
pointed teacher for Edgewood Public
School three miles south of town.
''Begorra, said Pat, ''the Dist way to
commit suicide is to take chloroform, for
We jist doze off, aud We don't aven know
We are dead till We wake up anc rade II IN
the paper"
A fishing party from Carlisle and Ship
pensburg, Pa, is encamped on the Poto-
mac, at the Cement Mills, below towu.
Samuel Bratt, of Martinsburg, mem
Der of City Council, has given up his po-
.ition in the B. & O. r. r. shops there.
and accepted a situation in the shops OF
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad at Shep-
herdstowu. He was one of our best citl-
zens, and we regret to lose him. SO says
the Martinsburg Independent.
Henry st. John Shepherd and the firm
of Drawbaugh d Atkinson of Shenandoah
junction, are shipping large quantities OF
grain from Kearneysville. Opposition Is
the life of trade.
Prof. Baughey has large singing class
ut kearneysvillc, one also at Mt. Zion
Baptist Church, and one at Duflields. lie
has several other schools in the neighDor-
hoods around Shepherdstown. He proves
4 good teacher and is liked very much by
all who attend his instructions.
The large residence being built by Mr..
John Z. Kearfoot, near kearneysyille, Is
nearing completion and bids fair 70 be
the handsomest dwelling in that vicinity.
Messrs. Miller & Sons of this town are
doing the painting, and Mr.. III. {. Marten
of this town is putting up the spouting.
Mr.. ii. &. Marten, our enterprising
Timer, has another "boom" in making
fruit cans, as lie has every year. lie
turns them out by the hundreds-5O cents
per dozen.
See change of time table of the Western
Maryland railroad in this issue.
There is man in town who walks so
slow that he wears a pair of spurs to keep
his shadow from treading on his heels.
A serious fire might have started in the stable
yard of Mr.. John 2. Hill, on Tuesday evening
about dark, but for the timely potice of Mr..
Henry Cameron. The blaze bad reached about
6 feet high when he succeeded in extinguishing
it, a colored girl residing with MIR. Hill had
thrown hot ashes among some straw which
caused the fire.
Quite q large number from this place and Vi
cinitv excurted TO Luray on Wednesday via s. '.
K. T., under the auspices of the HagerStoWn
Light Infantry Band. Six coaches were full
when the train left here.
Mr.. James Kidwiler met with severe acct
dent on the farm of Mr. Valentine Hill, below
Unionville, on Friday of last week. He was en-
gagged in feeding threshing machine, and Whilst
the machine was in motion he attempted to oil
the fan attachment, and his hand was caught in
the cog wheels, tearing his hand and decorating
it terribly. DR.. John W. Ayler of Duflelds, was
called 10 ard dressed the wound, which is very
serious one.
Shepherd College, in this place, Prof. Joseph
McMurran, Principal, and Prof. ID. ID. PendletoD,
assistant opened with very favorable auspices on
Monday last, with some 40 or 50 pupils, and
more coming.
Ko-.eyo~iiIe o-~ns0 VIII meet on saturday al
tcrnoon next the l7th instant, ats o'clock p. m,
sharp. full attendance is desired.
The Grub farm, 235 acres, in Loudoun coun-
ty, between Hillsborough and Harper's Ferry,
has been sold 10 II. s. Thompson for SIS 50 per
acre.
EHon. A. r. Boteler, CO.! r. B. Davenport, tof
this county, and Judge Lowell, Of Warren, at
tended meeting of Directors of the S. V. K. K.
Co. at Philadelphia, the first OF this week.
Mayor Duke must be trying to pay off the
bonded debt OF our town, Judging from the ra-
piGity 10 which he is rolling in the fines from
unruly persons. "Five dollars and and costs,
every clip.
Major Blunt is having the dam across
the Potomac at his Cement Mills below
town repaired, of 'break" which oc-
CURED at the high water last fall The
wafer had gotten so low that the Cement
Mills could not be operated. Capt. j. ).
Melvin, of Dutfields, is furnishing the
timber for repairs.
The Paper Mill, Capt. Phelps proprie-
tor, is again in operation, after having
-
low water in the Potomac.
Mrs. Judge Van Swearingen, who has
been visiting her daughter, Mrs. DIR.
Tinsley, in Baltimore, IS visiting Mrs.
Hamtramck in this place. Miss Annie
Parran, of Staunton, her daughter, also
visited friends in this place last week.
Miss Lou Muzzy of Philadelphia is Wis
ting the family Of Col. John +. Schley
near town.
Miss Ida NJ. Fleming, daughter Of Mr..
Jos. S. Fleming of this town, has been APP
pointed teacher of the public school ut
kearneysyille.
Our young friend Mr. E. l.. Etchison,
who has been engaged with Mr.. Charles
Trussell, at Charlestown, in the mercan-
tile business, for some time past, visited
his home here the first Of this week and
called TO see us. He is clever and reli-
able young man. Long may he wave!
Mrs. Luke Strider of Washington: Miss
Tomlinson of Charlestown; Miss Bennett
of Green Spring Valley, Bait. Co., Md;
Miss Daisy Gale of Baltimore City; are
visiting the family of ID. G. Henkle near
KearneySville.
The first Saturday in September, each
year, being the time for the picnic and re-
union of the surviving members of the old
Potomac Rifles, (Greens,) VIM. Right
slime, James A. Osbourn, John j. Van
SAINT and John RonemouS, were the only
members present at Morgan's Spring, on
Saturday last. They had pleasant time.
John 81. Engle, near Dufiields, will
please accept our thanks for nice lot of
grapes presented us last week. He has a
large crop of the choicest varieties for
sale.
The first colored lawyer admitted to the
bar in the Jefferson Circuit Court, and we
hal;ora In the Stnfa anyWhere Is John LII