Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-10-21
LOCAL ITEMS.

VIM. i. LemeD, In this place, op oatuiuay hisu'
last, by forcirg an entrance into the warehouse.
Goods to the amount of $4,000 were taken. NO
clue as yet to the thief has been discovered.
Miss Julia Richard of this place. left here on
Wednesday last, on an extended visit TO friends
in Washington Richmond and Petersburg
Encourage home enterprise by purchasing
your furniture at the new furniture store OF D. NJ
Trussell, where you can buy at manufacturer
prices, and save freight
j. n. Trussell has not given up his grocery
business, but still keeps full line OF groceries,
provisions, canned and bottled goods queens
ware tobacco, &C., at the old stand. de Keeps
his furniture, mattresses. carpets, &c, in Chap
lines house, on main street.
Let every member attend the special meeting
of the Shepherd Fire Department this Saturday
evening, at ~ p. In.
Charles H. Rinehart, OF Emporia, Kansas, VIII
accept thanks for papers received. Charley Is
merchandising in that city.
The Loudoun (Va) Agricultural Society has
been indicted for allowing gaming tapie on
the grounds, II is known as "the wheel OF LOT"
tune"
Mrs. f. s. Shepherd started for Louisville on
Monday last TO visit relatives in that city.
Misses Bette Harp and Fannie crow are Wis
itipg relatives and friends in Martinsburg.
An infant child of Mr.. Geo. Nj. Stoneoraker
died at Hagerstown on Saturday last.
The traffic on the canal is very active al the
present time. Boats are passing up ana oo"h
constantly and business along the canal Is great
" stimulated. Freight has beer advanced nse
cents ton, owing TO threatened strike VI LILO
boatmen.
A paragrapher in the New York Tribune says
that the favorite trip, is 10 go down the Cumoer-
land valley of Pennsylvania and by tue Snehan
doah route to Luray and the Natural Bridge, ana
on to Chattanooga, and thence by the Cinclnn maj,
Southern line to Ohio, looking al the Diue
Mountains aud crops, and come back oy tue
wondrous foliages of Southern New YORK ano
the Susq johanna. Who has not seen our autumn
has never lived whole year.
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad has been
unusually busy of late shipping cattle IRON tGe
South TO the Eastern markets. Long lreighs
cars filed with stock are constantly passing ovo
er lse road, Turee hundred car loads with i,ooo
head of cattle are now being shipped over thls
road to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New YORK.
The Senior Glass of the Pennsylvania College,
Gettysburg, consisting Of twenty-five members
under instructions and the care OF Proi. L. o.
Breidcnbsugh, passed through thls piace ou
Monday last, en- route for the Luray Cayerns,
Natural Bridge and other points OF interest III
Virginie. $500
The comet has brought thousands of North
Carolina negro sinners 10 repentance, lhey re.
gard il as forerunner of the worlds end, ana
are making their preparations accordingly.
| iting her aunt Mrs. Emanuel Staley below THIS
town.
Mrs. Tut Clagett, the beautiful aid accom-
plishcd daughter of the late Edwin Bowen, OF
this town, died at her residence in Washington,
D. c., last week, OF malarial fever. This Will DC
sad intelligence to her numerous friends.
Mr.. Joseph f. KEGS, of Jones Spring, mace
raid upon Shanghai Berkeley county, on Tues
day, October Sd, and by the assistance OF Rev. T.
+. Wilson, succeeded in carrying away one OF
, the fair ones, in the person OF Mics moihe H.
Robinson,
The dedication OF the ". E. Church (colored)
in Martinsburg has been postponed from octo-
18th to Sunday the 29:h instant
A Delaware woman, in scratching match on
her shoe, set her clothing on fire and was fatally
burned. This is a strong argument why women
should wear pants. Until they can scratch
matches on the hip they IL never be sale,
Mr.. Thos. Cox, of Falling Waters District,
Berkeley county, died Tuesday morning, aged
II years, months and "A days, For nearly %
wears he was confined 10 bis bed, suffering ter
ribly from a rheumatic affection which had crawn
his limbs and body in terrible distortion. lie
spent his time in reading, and whatever Afforded
bin employment to pass the time. lie was
buried at Falling Waters churchyard.
Mr.. John j. Hetzel was elected to the legisla-
ture in Morgan county.
The PRESBYTERIAN Church Synod met at Charles
last, and Mr.. w. w. B. Gallaher OF Charles:own,
delegate, is in attendance,
We invite the attention Of our readers es-
neciaIly the farmers, TO the address of Senator
Vance, in another portion ofthis paper. 1t vii!
w s~,'ud L. eettpS'
Capt. j. s. Melvin's majority in this Senatorial
district, composed of Jefferson, Berkeley and
Morgan, over Mr. Janney, is 21l
Or. O. G. Mix has sold his 'Clay Hip farm
through V. NJ. Firors agency, to D. Irvine Be-
christ of Washington City, d. g., for slO,ooo.
Mr.. Mentzer, of the Hagerstown Odd Fellow,
is accredited with having secured real, i've
coon with which to enthuse in the present CAM
paign. 1t appears, however, that the coon re-
Tented of his part in the compact and during Tue
niyht prior to the returns from Ohio committed
suicide by hanging. Thus eDdeth tale. de
had q presentment as TO what was gong 10
happen in Oh 10.
The Attorney General of this State, in answer
to the questions of the State superintendent OF
schools says that Teachers salaries can only be
determined by the grade of certificate aud that
because one teacher has more pupils than anoth-
err or can I've cheaper than another, has moth
ing to do with the fixing of salaries.
We had pleasant visit from Mr. S. Howell
Brown of Chsrlestown on Monday last. He is
canvassing for subscribers Tor his new map OF
the county, and IL should be lin every household.
Ii will be found very useful for the people OF our
The large brick buildings for the Shepherds.
town Manufacturing Company are rapidly
''going ur." The main and largest building Is
finished, aud the foundry and blacksmith shop
are now under conrse OF erection. Machinery is
now being put up in the main building.
MIR. John l. Richard has returned from the
east and is now opening a splendid stock OF dry
goods. Call and see them.
Ohio has gone largely democratic, ard 1t is b
solid triumph. Rise up Billy Allen!
How schools can be run more than four
months, has been referred to the Supreme Court
of the State by case from Tyler county, and the
Court decides that the vote must be taken every
wear in May, in accordance with Sec. Al School
Law and the plumber OF months above four that
the school is desired To be kept open must be
named 10 the notice OF the election and printed,
or written, on the ballots.
protracted meeting will commence at Mar
vim Chapel on Sunday. October 22ud, preaching
at III a, IN. and Up. LII. The pastor expects the
aid of several ministerial brethren.
Mr. VIM. A Adams is now prepared to fur
pish the very choicest Oysters at 30 cents per
ouart solid measure. His eating saloon is now
fitted UP and YOU can now get Oysters served in
ov.ry style. You should drop in and try them.
President Smith, of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal. returned home, at Hagerstown, Saturday
from trip over the canal from Georgetown TO
Cumberland. The employees were paid for one
month of the fall season and one months back
QueS Inc "Trip WIS aiso oue VI iuSPeStioH' L ioSt-
dent Smith expresses himself well pleased with
tie condition and management OF the canal
The contemplated reunion of veterans of the
Union and Confederate armies engaged at Culps
and Cemetery Hills, Gettysburg, called for the
l7lh and 18th inst, at Boston, has been post
poped until next Oct The, late oilicersof the One
Hundred end Fitteth Pennsylvania volunteers
have forwarded TO Col John B. Bachelor at
Boston, government historian of the battle,
series of diagrams representing sixteen successive
positions and movements CT their regiment at
that battle.
An accident occurred on the Shenandoah VAL
lev Railroad on Saturday night near Luray,