Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-03-19
LOCAL ITEMS.

pIOy Qulte u uulHUcT VI
Mr. G. T. Lcklder started for Baltimore On
Tuesday last for the purpose OF Puieh"eHS
SUPPLY Of groceries.
Mr. p n Ellicot, W.T. O has had charge OF Mr..
Elisha s Snyder's Mill, near Scrabble during tie
past year or two, has removed TO Harvey s M,iIs,
Warren county, w., which he has leased. Sue
cess to our Cd filvEd.
Onr LEGISLATURE adjourned on Wednesday last
the 18th, to which time they egain extended frcm
the 18th, and the members are returning nome
from labor ious siege OF ~ days.
Mr.. A. AGame, who has been sojourning at
Pakersburg drring the past winter returned
home On Tuesday morning, looking well. WEI
come him back ag.in.
Successful ea )rts are being made OF Wheeling
TO hold State Fair in that city sometime durlrg
next fall. Hope il will be conducted on lafge
aud pr iitable scale to the citizens OF our s'o"-
Ing State.
Mrs. Ann Cook, formerly Of this town, has
purchased the ''Sheckles property" In hasefs
Town. on East Franklin Street, Tor the sum Vi
-,
Nh. lawrence Hout who has been sojourning
here under his parental roof during the wlnter,
returned TO MARSHAL Nc, on Wednesday last.
Success 10 him.
We call attention to the new advertisement in
this issue of Mr UptCgraG Hagerstown. lie is
selling bar Z las, aud lney go Oft like "hot hAn-
mel cek, 5" creased with molasses.
Mr. VIM. J. Moler at Harper's Ferry, has
nice lot of steep for sale. Sc advertisement.
Dr. r j. c. Maddox, youngest son of DR.. Thos:
Maddox. of Wash. Co.. Nd, has been appointed
To the position OF Surgeon 10 The I. 5. Army,
having passed the difficult examinations In New
York lew days ago with creoit. d.. Maddox
was formerly assistant at s.. james College,
The Hor. Levi p. Morton, New York banker
Of prominence, who was once spoken OF Tor Sec
ret.,y OF the Treasury, has been appointed oy the
President, as Minister 10 France. lie takes TIE
place of MIR. Noyes.
The annual election for town officers OF Boons-
bOro took place on Monday last March 1th, IS
follows: John Murdock burgess; j. Harlan
Smith as ietant burgess; Robert Stonesiirr, ia
cob Il. Blecher, Thomas +. Lynch, Gieeubury
Young, II. S. Beard commissioners.
Gov. Jscksou's tiff is made up of the follow.
ing Colonies, viz: Lyman b. Dellicker, Of wood
county; Jere \ Miller, of Ohio; j. j. :. Hassle-,
of Jackson; ID l. Ruitner, OF K,nawha; Albert
C. FulkersUp If Wayne; Z. Mason PendletOn, OF
Morgan, aid Frank Beckwith of Jefferson.
ST. Patrick's day in the morning on Thursday
las. How many potatoes did you plant
Little iugens" are said 20 be very scarce here
aud high in price, but judging from the whit
we GOT from fellows breath, the other day, we
thought they were quite plentiful.
Mr.. John Ferir, master mechanic, formerly
connected with The Is. IL o. X. X. work SHOP 8
Engine and Boiler W 0Tks Martnsburg, has e.
tered.ipto an arrangement with the aagerStown
Engine Works for the mai uiactuc OF steam en-
gines and boilers, in Hagerstown.
A case oil scarlet fever in pupil from Letters
burg Wash. Co., Md, peighborhood having
been developed III the COuaty High School, Prot.
K. :. Henry, principal Of the school, has cis-
missed the scnolars in att, udance until the prop
err steps to prevent the spread OF the disease
shall have teen taken.
Young Mems Meeting will be held in the base
ment Oi the NJ +. Church Sontr, on Tomorrow
Sunday evening at5}3 O'Clock.
Mrs. Florence Mathews, with three of her
children, Of Cumberland, Nd, is visiting her
father, Mr.. J. II. Cookus, in this place.
Mrs. Jas. E. Doye, wife Of Mr.. Jas. f. Dove,
MachuiSt in the 5. V. K. r. shops at this Place,
is visiting relatives aud friends in Philadelphia.
Miss Maria Crush, living about three miles
southeast OF Cl1lrspring, Nd, near the Four
Lot ks, died on the 5.h OF March, aged % years.
tranScendental preacher took for his text,
Feed my lamb" As he came cut OF the church
a plain farmer said to him 6: THAT was Il very
great text, but you placed the hay so high in the
rack that the lambs couldn't reach it, nor the
old sheep either"
1t is said that the Shenandoah Valley Railroad
Company has finally decided upon Big Lick,
Roauohe County Va, as the objective point,
tension OF that road.
The purchasers of the Atlantic, Mississippi
and Ohio Railroad have ahc,dy ordered S. 90
tons of steel rails, 10 be used in improving the
road.
The District Columbia Methodist ministry are
discussing whether young men who use, or will
not give up, tobacco should be received into
orders.
Mr. Chr.man, father Of Sheriff Chrisman OF
Berkeley, is lying dangerously i'll at his residence
in Hedgesyiile. He Is in the S6th year of bis
age.
man named Brubaker, had his leg broken by
a fall at the &. V. K. X. depot, Martinsburg, on
Saturday night last. Being stranger he was
taken in charge by DR.. Suodgrass, physician to
the Aims house, and properly cared for.
The U. B. Conference, at Boonsboro, at its re-
cent session, passed resolution forhidding the
holding of any campmeetiugs this year, unless
Sabbath traffic is prohibited.
A meeting Of the policy holders of the j., fer
son County Mutual Fire Insurance Company
will be held at CharlestowD, on Monday mex,
the 2lst instant.
Go to Grehner's Cigar Mandatory in this
place if you want the best smoke in town.
We regret to learn that Mr.. John HISS, our
WORTHY Couuty Superintendent OF Free Schools,
has been quite i'll AT the residence OF his son,
near Halllown, during the past eek, OF pneu-
monia.
Three children of Mr. Geo. D. Lambert and
his mother, 10 Martinsburc, were nearly suff )ca-
ted on Tuesday night, while asleep, by coal gas
from q self-feediDg stove.
Mrs. Margaret Boteler, widow of the late Capt
Hezekilh Bpteler, of Jefferson, Frederick county
Nd, died suddenly OF paralysis, last week, aged
90 Years.
Miss Elite Ray of shepherdstowp, W. Va,
again pays our town a visit, after the lapse OF
,.iuft; 4 Wirn o,l
other friends in town. We trust that her present
visit may prove as pleasant 10 her, as she sue
coed I'd in proving herself agreeable on the for
mer visit. So says the Mechanicstowp, Nd,
Clarion.
Mrs. Nancy Baird mother-in-law Of ex Gov.
John j. Jacob, is extremely i'll at the Queen City
Hotel in Cumberland.
A. Kogelscha'z & Son have splendid assort-
ment of Furniture OF all kinds See advertise
ment in this Issue. Don't go away TO buy your
Furniture or onythiHg else when you can get as
good and cheap at home. 1t don't look right.
A son of Rev. Dr. s. v Lrech, of Frederick,
was among the graduates of the University of
Maryland at Baltimore, last week.
Don't forget to attend the Supper on Friday
and Saturday evenings ntX'. Everything will
be nice and the ladies pretty.
Easter comes on the Eth of April this year,
and the almanac says We Will have snow after
Easter.
We we're favored with pleasant visit from Mr..
J. Ell. Duke, of the firm Of Duke IL Gallahtr,
Chlrlestown, on Tuesday last. This firm has
put the tin roofing and spouting upon all the
Depots, numbering p, between Hagerst9wn,
Md, aud WayneSboro', Va, for the s. V. r.
An old negro cook says: Sass is powerful
good in every thing but children. Dey reeds some
other kinds of dressing
man who wish bare feet steps on pile of
carpet nails, said they reminded him of the in
come tax.
A teaspoonful OF turpentine boiled with white
clothes will aid the whitening process.
If you want your children TO be good you must
be good Yourself, for as the French Sag, what
is born Of cat will catch mice"