Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-12-09
LOCAL. BRIEFS.

TWO csscs vi WV
last Saturday in Cumberland, Md.
The Stote, the Greenback paper at
Charleston. has suspended publication.
The West Virginia Press Association
will meet at Huntington December 2oth.
Bu,cherlng season is ut hand, and many
Il porker has given his last squeal this
week.
We learn that work will be resumed at
the Antietam Iron Works, below town, III
a few days.
Ifyou want visiting or business cards
printed in the best style call at THE REG
IsTER OFrIcE.
Taking al things into consideration a
life is not happy one at this
season of the year.
Mr.. William +. Smith, of Boonsboro,
Nd, lost nearly 800 bushels Of potatoes
by rOtting.
Il is singular coincidence that the first
Of May always falls on the same day OF
the week as Christmas.
WI. ii. Flick, United States District
Attorney, Of this State, called on Presi-
dent Arthur last Monday.
The Lutheran Sunday School of this
place will hold their Christmas entertain
ment on Christmas night.
The paw car on the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad passed through town paying on
employees oil Tuesday last.
Ex-Cnited States Senator Waitman I.
Wiley has been appointed county clerk
of Mpnongalia County, this State.
Mr.. John Moler, formerly of this coun-
", died at Dayton, Ohio, a few days ago,
at the advanced age of % years.
The Baltimore Conference Of the NJ. F..
Church South will meet in Charles:own
on Wednesday, March II, 1888.
Boating on The Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal continues brisk, but the cold weather
will soon bring the season to close.
SccdlesS Raisins, Curralrts, Citroh, Gram
berries, Hominy, and other seasonable
goods or hand 1T Trussell's Grocer.
An.gro man by the pamc of McAbee,
known rs "Stuttering Wash" fell dead
in Martinsburg one morning last week.
Deputy Sheriff Morgan will offer at
public sale to-day in town the personal
effects of the late o. II. +. Sherman.
The Maytinsburg Statesman comes out
strongly in favor of Hon. ID. B. Lucas for
clerk Of the next House of Representa-
tives.
Mar,insburg has raised $4,000 toward
purchasing land for the location OF iron
and steel maHufactUrlns works at that
point.
Mr.. Ohio B. Smith, of Boonsboco, Nd,
slaughtered two hogs last week which
weighed respectively Oh - and 500 L.
1915 pounds.
Miller Chase, of this town, had one of
his fingers badly mashed one day last
week while loading logs on the cars at
Sharpsburg.
The present cold snap came on our
farmers before they were ready for it, us
many of them have a great Geal of corn
yet in the fields.
The Protestant Episcopal Church at
Harper's Ferry, lately repaired, was re-
dedicated OH Friday last by Bishop Peter
kin of this dioecse.
All farmers should see that their imple-
ments are put under cover for the winter.
a good farmer will not allow his utensils
to remain out in the weather.
Twenty-four out Of the thrty-eight
States of the Union will have Democratic
governors on the lst Of January. Good
enough for an off year.
The Martinsburg Statesman says the de-
CLEMSON OF Senator III. G.. Davis seems to
be taken with many grains of allowance
by some DemocI attic newspapers.
Governor Jackson Of this State has par
doncd THOMAS Warner anu John Watkins,
two "Red Men" recently sentenced 10 the
pepiten:iary from Barbour County.
West Virginia is showing more activity
and is accomplishing more at this time in
the matter OF railroad construction than
in any other period Of her history.
The negro school house at Greensburg,
i'm Berkeley County, about five miles from
town, was burned down OIL Monday night
last. The fire vas Of accidental origin.
Henry Ward Bcecher is expected to de-
liver a lecture in IIagerstown, Md, some
time during the present month. Nego-
tiations are now pending for that purpose.
judging from the tone of our West Vir-
ginia exchanges Thanksgiving turkeys
must have been very scarce. Brethren,
we trust we will all have one Christmas.
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad is
carrying cotton from the South to the fac
tories in the North. A number Of cars
loaded with cotton passed through here
last week.
The crossing Of the alley at the resi-
Ierce of Mr.. G. +. Lick,ider has been re-
paipod. 1t has needed it for 10! these
many years. An old we'll was discovered
under the paving.
The venerable editor Of the Charlestown
Free Press, III. n. Gallaher, who has been
i'll with pneumonia, is improving, and
strong hopes are now entertained of his
recovery. We are glad to hear it.