Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-12-10
LOCAL. ITEMS.

advertisement next week.
All the latest novelties in Christmas
goods. call and examine stock at Wels-
shans' and you will be pleased. See ad-
vertsement next week.
At Rentch's you will find the finest as
sortment of Christmas cards, and plenty
of nice things suitable for presents. This
is an entirely new stock and you should
look it.
Stonebrakcr sells the only genuine
York River Oyster. Call and try them.
Mr.. James w. 3. Frazier, Butcher OF
this place, will pay the highest cash prices
for any number Of calves. Apply to him
at the Market House.
Don't forget 20 attend the Temperance
Lecture. to be delivered by j. L. stump,
in the basement o. the NJ. +. Church,
South, on Tuesday evening next, Dee. -,
at o'clock p. IN.
Mother Hill, the good wife of Mr.. John
w. Hill, below town, will please accept
our thanks for one Of the longest and big
gest sassingers we have seen this season,
and the best we have stuck fork into.
In the Guiteau trial ut Washington
Wednesday the defense concludedi its tes-
timOny. The government will Introduce
expert testimony on the question OF insan-
ity i'll rebuttal.
A dispatch received Mt the State De
partment at Washington on Tuesday last,
from Santiago, Chilli, announces that Gen.
kilpatrick, United States minister to Chill,
died in that city on Sunday last. JudSon
Fitzpatrick was born in Sussex county, y.
j., on January II, 1896. His father was
a militia colonel, and from him the son
early got love for military affairs.
The membership of the |. o. of q. T., OF
this place, we are glad 70 state, is rapidly
Increasing. Nine new members wore
added on Monday night last. That's right,
bows, "go in" and stick to il, and you will
be glad all the days OF your life.
The revival of religion in progress at
the NJ. f.. Church South, OF Union vile,
during the past few weeks, under the s",
pervsion of Rev. w. G.. Eggleston, closed
on Monday night last. Some 10 or upper
sons were converted.
Mr.. VIM. F. Booker, III old and esteem
ed citizen of Lynchburg, Va, died on
Tuesday last, after q lingering illness, OF
cancer in the neck. The deceased was the
father of Mrs. James Clark, Of Baltimore,
and Mrs. VIM. Ii. Seldcn, whose husband
is proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel,
Washington, ID. c., and of other children.
The Sunday School Of the NJ. +. Church
South will hold their Christmas exercises
in the Church on Tuesday evening, Dec.
9th, at G - o'clock. The friends Of the
school and public generally are cordially
invited.
If yon want a "Domcstc" or "Eictor"
Sewing Machine, call on Mr.. j, :. Fiem-
ing. These are the best machines ever
madc-simple and durable. He will sell
YOU them upon easy terms. Call and see
him before purchasing elsewhere.
DR.. James f. Reeves. of Wheeling, was
elected a member of the Executive Com
mittee at the recent session of the Ameri-
can Health Association ut Savannah, Ga.
DR.. Reeves is President OF the West Viz
ginia Medical Society.
Guiteau says he believes the Lord TO b"
on his side and that He is his best friend,
and yet lie objects to being sent to meet
the Lord, and he wanted more counsel
and stronger guard. Could he be more
unreasonable and more inconsistent.
Our merchants are supplying them
selves with large stocks Of Christmas
goods, and our readers will find it to their
interest to consult our advertising col
umnS before making their purchases.
Mr.. John L. Haddock,a highly respect
ed citizen of Martinsburg, departed this
life on Wednesday OF last week, after Il
lingering illness.
Owing 20 the excellent quality Of
brooms manufactured at the Potomac
Broom Works of Wiliamsport, orders are
coming in faster than they can be filled.
There is fortune awaiting Andy
Names, in Kansas, who is said 10 be some
where in this State with his mother.
Charles Curtis, son Of John Curtis, of
Berkeley county, was taken to Mount
Hope, last week, by his father and Mr..
Samuel LcFevre. lie has for some months
been suffering from mental arrangement.
Allen Thomas, of Sharpsburg, was last
week adiudged insane, anG ordered by the
Court to be sent to the Maryland iloSpita!
for the Insane 1T Gainesville, Md, for
safe keeping.
Four hogs killed by Mr.. A. II. Bowers,
of Arden, aggregating 1870 pounds, the
heaviest weighing 4l9.
The Potomac river is full of wild ducks
and sportsmen are hagginS good many
of them.
Hon. \. r. Boteler will visit Phiadcl-
phia, New York and Lynchburg, the lat
ter part of this week and the first Of next,
on business.
ANY quantity Of weddings are now
taking place, and the ministers wives are
getting lots of pin money.
Young Mems Meeting will be held in the
basement of the NJ. Z. Church South, tomorrow,
Sunday evening, at 80 O'Clock.
highly interesting series of religious meet
ings, conducted by Rev. Thomas Wood, Is now
In progress at the NJ. E. Church in Gcrai dstown.
Tue Quarterly Meeting was held on Saturday
and Sunday last, at which the Presid. ng Elder.
Rev. l.. T. Waterman, preached with great ac-
ceptance to large and attentive congregations.
On Sunday night the church WAS literally
packed. Aisles, stairs, and every available space
was crowded with people.
A movement is on foot and company being
organized 70 manufacture gas In tile coal regions
of Western Maryland, where, ii is sait, II can be
at a cost of 20 cents per thousand
feet, and by pipe line conveyed TO the large
cities and towns at q cost greatly less than II Is
now furnished. It's believed that tie proposed
line will pass sufficiently near Hagerstown To af-
ford those people not only better article tut ~
about one-third the price now paid.
Gen. David H. strother. Port Crayon,"
United States Consul to Mexico accompanied
by lis family, is spending his leave visiting
friends in the shenandoah Valley. He recently
visited the Lursy Cave, and says, Fin my earlier
days explored a number Of notable caverns, in
Guiding the Mammoth Cave" in Kentucky,
and "Weyers," in Virginia, but must confess
that my recent visit to the Cave at Lrrsy has
been new revelation, surprising as that DOES
all had previously seer, in the richness and
profusion of its Commentator and its weird and
dramatic effects"
At Big Lick. s. V. +. r., forty cottages, to
contain from four TO eight rooms each, q msg-
nificent hotel, to cost s4U 600, and the Union
pot will be begun at once and pushed to COM
pleiiod as fast as skilled workmen backed by
plenty of money can do it Mr.. Julius c. Holmes
the contractor, is at work.
Judge J. W. Green Smith, the commissioner