Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-11-25
LOCAL. BRIEFS.

Shoes. llehaS Soou stoch'
About five hundred shade trees have
been set out on the grounds of the Luray
Inn.
Josh Billings says: "Next to clear
conscience for solid comfort comes an old
shoe
LLOYD I.ickldcr is selling very cheap
UnGershirts and Drawers. Call and see
them.
The Washington County (Md.) Sunday
School Convention met in Sharrsburg
last Friday.
WAnted-700 Fat Turkeys for Thanks
giving at full market price for the cash
by J. y. Trussell.
1t is said that there is al unusually large
number of new railroads being construct
ed in West Virginia.
If you want seaSOnings for pudding and
sausage, such as sage, sweet marjoram,
coriamder, &C., call at Gibson's.
A son of DR.. Ross, of IIedgesvilie,
Berkeley County, while playing with
deg last week fell and broke his leg.
Colonel Henry Cutler purchased flrm
near Winchester, Va, recently for - zoe,
ant rcsold 1t last week for $500 cash.
Colonel O'Ferrall has notified Captain
Paul that he intends to contest his seat in
Congress from the Winchester district.
Mr.. j. ". B. Frazier having returned
to this place has resumed the business of
butcherng, and will be fOunC al his old
stand hereafter.
We notice that the railing around the
Towner family lot i'll Elmwood Cemetery
has been painted. 1t adds much to the
appearance of things.
Tryimg-for the Shephcrdstown folks
to get up early these cold mornings and
take the train for CharlcstOwn. So much
for counting business:
Some Of the farmers in Pennsylvania
who have huskeG and cribbcd their corn
have been compelled to take it out again
to keep it from spelling.
We call attention to the advertisement
of the Wheeling Register in another col
umn. 1t is undoubtedly the best daily
paper published in the State.
4 meeting was held in IIarrisonburg,
on Thursday night last 10 take steps to-
ward the extension of the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad to tl.at place.
The Womam's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the NJ. i. Church South will meet
Thursday, December eth, at 4 p. m, at
Mrs. Presley Ma,maduke's.
Two more of the alumni of Shepherd
College enter the cOnnubial state next
week, but this time the two join one an
other-two classmates together.
The corner stone of the new post-otfcc
building on Monument Square, Baltimore,
was laid with Masonic honorS OH TUESDAY
last. The ceremony was very imposing
A friend from Kcarneysville writes us
that Mr.. Frank Homshcr is so much elated
face reminds one of full blown rose III
June.
The record of deaths that have occurred
in Sharpsburg during the past fifty-one
wears shows that 10 less than fourteen
hundred persons have died in that place
during that time.
Some of our Sunday schools have begun
practicing for their Christmas cntertlin-
mcntS, and the schools are filling up zap
idly as the small boy sees the bag Of candy
in his minds eye.
We have wondered all summer why
eggs were so very scarce. The Democratic
papers since the election have solved the
mystery. This years chickens are all
Democratic roosters.
Antictam Lodge No. 4, I. o. G. T., of
Sharpsburg, will hold 4 fair and festival
in Good Templars' Hall, commencing on
Christmas eve, December 9th, and con-
tinuins during the holidays.
Mr.. Joseph Cox, of Martinsburg, Il
brakeman on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road, fell from his train the other day.
and one of his feet was badly laceratca by
the wheel OF Il car running over it.
Uncle Tom Moore [as he is known by
nearly every one), the clerk of the County
Court. is now 20 years old, and still active
and Obliging, us lie has been in the same
position for the last forty years.
General Roger 4. Pryor, of New York,
and formerly of Virginia, thus salutes
General Butler, the newly-clected gov
crnor of Massachusetts, "Hail, Thane of
Cawdor and King that shall be!''
The many friends of Miss Mary Allen
are glad 10 hear she is again enabled to
resume her duties ut Shepherd College.
She has been quite sick, but we are happy
to Learn, is now convalesccnt.
The scarcity of partridges is attributed
to moving machines, which clip the
clover so close that the nest is entirely
exposed and destroyed. They are being
more and more exterminated every year.
We received the advertisement of Mr..
Neal Berry Oh. c. Berry & Co.. too late
for this issue. The advertisement of his
large stock of Dry Goods, Furnishing
Goods, Notions, &C., will be in our next.
We learn from the Charlestown Free
Press that its senior editor is very sick.
He was threatened a few days ago with
pneumonia, and being burdened by the
weight of years, anxiety is expressed