Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-07-01
LOCAL ITEMS.


ter OF Rev. Levi Keller, deceased aud late pastor
of the Lutheran Church at Fnnkstowr, Nc, was
married at Strasburg on Wednesday last, in the
Lutheran Church. To Mr.. Thonas b South OF
FunkstOwn. After the happy event the bridal
party took trip to Cape May aud other water
lug places.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. y. Craighill, of Charlestown,
will celebrate the 5Ota anniversary of their we'd
ding on the 5th OF July, by hayiDs around them
all their living children and grandchildren.
An order for one hundred Eclipse engines for
au agent in the South was received by Flick u
Co., Weynesborc, Pa., on Tuesday last. The
compapy has now on its hooks orders TO be filled
to the amount of $40 600, all of which are to be
shipped by the 18th OF August bext.
MrG Finley Smith, druggist, OF Sharpsburg,
was married 10. Miss sarah K z Brown, OF Mer-
cersbure, Pa, on Thursday morning OF last
week.
Messrs. Charles W. Adams and n. 81. Keedy,
, have been appointed administrators TO settle The
estate OF Col. John Miller. deceased, OF Sharps-
burg, Md.
One day last week William johnson caught
turtle of the snapper" species, in the Potomac,
weighing something over sixty pounds. AuOth-
er captured by Alfred llighbarger contained one
hundred and thirty eggs. so says the shaip'onrs
Enterprise.
Co. Roger E. Cook formerly of Shsrpsburg,is
very i'll at his residence 10 Hagerstown
| Major Henry FinF, Vice-Prcsident and Gener.
al Manager OF the Norfolk " Western Railroad
aud East Tennessee Virginia Il Georgia Rail
road, has been appointed General Manager OF
the shenandoah Valley K 'iIroad, with ciiice ut
! Lynchburg, Virginia.
! The Statesman says the two branches of the
! Methodist Church at Gerardstowr, in Berkeley
! county, have jointly occupied the same church
building for a number of years The sou'hern
/ members have rucsn tly been notified that THIS
! arrangement III list terminate. and have gone 10
! work eneTgclically 70 raise means 10 erect
} building Of their oSr, which they expect to be
/ able TO do in few mouths.
The Martinsburg Independent of last week
/ sa,s-.'WesL Virginia Is complimented in tue
/ appointment OI the Hor. A. X, Boteler OF Jcftrr-
/ son county-than whom no more lifting selec-
! ton could have been made
/ We learn from the Greenvillr, Augusta coun-
! tv, Va, Banner that operations have D. gun on
| the Grove farm, between COtapaxi aud Vesuvius
! furnaces and half nile from the Shenandolh
Valley Railroad, where twelve men are at work
/ at mar panese mining. week ago TWO car
loads OF the mineral had been gotten on, and
the work will no doubt be pushed with vim, as
! all the necessary machinery was TO have been in
! place last Saturday.
! Through passenger ard freight connections
! are now mode from Baltimore, via Western
/ MARYLAND Railroad, for all points on the Shen-
! and0ah Valley, Norfolk ard Western, East Ten
! ne-se,, Virgira and Georgia, Memphis aud
! Charleston, s, Ina, Rome and Dalton, and
Western ana Atlantic K ilroads, for Chattanoo-
( ga, Nushvil., Memphis, Atlant,, Montgomery.
Pensacola, Mobic and New Orleans. Tine US
! quick and rates rs low as by any other route.
! The Fire Department of Martinsburg intend
J having a festival during the month of July, the
proceeds to be applied to the payment OF debt
! created by building Firemao's Hall.
Services were htld in the First Hose building
! in Hanerstowr, by the Fe,e Baptist, colorec,
! cougr, = ition Sunday morning, III the afternoon
and at night Revs. Adams, of Berryvile, Va,
Burls, of Harrisburg, Pa., Dunlee, OF HTperS
| Ferry, w. Va, KEGS, OF MartinsbuIg, W. Vs.,
! Fox, of ShepnerdsIown, W. W., assisted in con-
( ductipg the services, ana Il large number OF vsi-
| tors from Il distance were pres, mt. Shortly alter
! noon six candidates were bIptiz.d by immersion
! at Rowla Mil, in the Antietrm congre-
/ CATION, numbering twenty members, was organ
lied in tie afternoon. 1t is the Intention OF the
| congregation TO build church providing the
/ necessary means can be secured.
The silver watch found in Conf, d,'ratc SOL
dier's grave at WilliamspoL Md some weeks
SINCE is now in the possession OF Peter Ardlnger,
ESQ. burgess of the town of Williamsport and
| can be had on application to him. The watch Is
hunting case, made ty I. +. Cooper, London,
! with sn engraved case, and bears the NUMBER
So LAP. The watch was buried nineteen years
ago with the body and is SUI posed to have be-
longed to a nan named Harry Alien, out further
than this nothing Is known.
The Ninth Annual Tri-State Picnic and Exhi-
/ billion of the Patrons OF Eusbandry Of Pennsyi-
vania, Maryland and West Virginia will open ut
Williams Grove, Cumberland county, Pa, on
| Monday, August 81, 1882, and continue until
! Saturday August 10Th. Excursion rates at re-
| duced fare will be arranged over all the princi.
pal railroads in Pennsylvania, Maryland and
West Virginia.
Thos. BAILEY. aged thirty years, o brakeman
on the b. Il q. Il. r., and residing in Martins
hpr,r Er, la Iit. ind al n fire. ~
train, while pass ug through Sleepy Creek bridge
Sunday mori ing aud Instantly killed. ae leaves
a widow and tour children, who will, IL Is un-
derstoOd, be cared for by the Baltimore and OHIO
Relief Association.
Quite number of rersons in different parts of
the county b, gan harvesting wheat on MOndiy
aid by Wednesday and Thursday The work w0s
| begurI In earnest. Notwithstanding the apprc-
tensions of damage to the crops from Insects we
believe the yield in tue county will he far above
the average, and that our agricultural friends
will be able 10 rejoice in the well filled gamers.
! Nathan Golf, Jr. cX-Sccretary Of the
Navy, has rendered his resignation is
United States district attorney for West
Virginia.
Col. Frank B. Carlin, the well-known
proprietor of the City Ilote. ut Frederick,
Md, died of Bright's disease on Tuesday
morning list, aged Is years.
The President, accompanied by Senators
| Hampton, Vest and Jones of Nevada, left
Washington Monday night on the train Of
| the Is. Il o. Railroad for Point of Rocks,
near which place Senator Hampton has Il
summer house, where the party spent the
day in fishing for bass III The Potomac
river. They returned that evening.
/ Tie Ladies' of the Auxiliary Association
( of the y. NJ. &. y. will meet 1T the \. VI.
-, IN l1.s .Iff NJ
the 18th instant, ut p. III.
/ Alta meeting of the Lee Memorial AsSo-
! citation, held al Lexington, IL was decided
! to unveil Valentines rccumbcnt figure Ot
/ General II. +. Lee on the 18th day OF June,
| 1855, with imposing ceremonies.
At .hr recent term of the Circuit Court
! the sale / the Ferrol Iron property u the
/ Augusta Va, Iron Co., Philadelphia Cap
( itaiSts, WAS confirmed, the purchasers
/ paying SIC, goo cash ami executing bonds
! for the residue. The price paid for the
property was $ll1,05O.
! Thai was a fitting burial Of Mr.. James
! Wick, the greatest cultivatOr OF flowers in
! Amcrica-hiS grave was literally covered
i inside and ont with the beautiful flowers
| he Owed so well, and among which he
! lived and died.
! There are now in Wyfhe and Pulaski
! counties. Va, fifteen blast furnaces en-
! gagged in the making of cold-bast char
I coal iron. The iron made is admitted 10
| be equal in quality To any made n the
! United States, and is used almost eXclu-
sivcIy for railroad car wheels.
The coored voters of Kansas have nom
! mated Alfred Fairfax, a former clave aud
! now farmer, as their Congressional can
/ ddate.
500, O00, 900 for pensions have been ap-
! nropriateu this session by Congress.