Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-12-02
LOCAL. BRIEFS.

Apples and sweet potatoes oy lnc I"'iS
or peck for sale by j. n. Trnssell,
A great many Of the boys are ind"lsins
In the celebrating sport of hunting.
Turkeys are selling at eight cents per
pound, and there are plenty of them.
There are now confined In the State
Lunatlc Asylum at Weston GIG patients.
The Mineral County papers report game
very plentiful in the mountains this fall.
Chicago beef is being introduced III
Cumberland and other cities of Western
Maryland.
We are under obligations 10 Hon. A. K.
Boteler for q collection OF pamphlets con-
corning the tariff.
Why are our girls heads like some of
the pianos in town?-Becan>e they are
necessarily banged.
The Shepherd Fire Department will
meet for monthly practice this saturday
afternoon ut 1 O'Clock.
The p. o. Department beg those who
mail newspapers TO place Their name aha
address on the wrapper.
We are glad to learn from the SPIRIT that
Sheriff Moore is much better, and i grad
ually improving in health.
Basil Avis, Esq, of Harper'S Ferry,
was stricken with paralysis few days
ago, and has since been very i'll.
The Odd Fellows Of Boonsboro propose
holding a fair for the benefit of the order
during the Christmas holidays.
Pork Is selling in this market at $? per
hundred weight, but it is said has bee
sold in other parts OF the county at IS.
There will be services tomorrow Sun
dav) in the Presbyterian Church at II
o'clock, and at kcarneysville at ) p NJ.
The town residence Of Henry Shepherd,
Esq, has been recently painted and 9th
erwise much improved, both inside and
out.
10 destroy red ants put pint Of tar i'll
an earthen vessel and pour over it two
quarts of boiling water and put it in the
closet.
Rev. Campbell Fair, of Baltimore, well
known in this community, received call
from a church in Philadelphia, but has
declined it.
We understand that an effort is being
made to organize Il volunteer cavalry
company at IIarpcr's Ferry. We hope it
will succeed.
II is said that q deer has been seen in
the neighborhood of Billmycr's Mill the
last week, but no one has been able to get
shot at ii.
A small house near Funkstown, Md,
occupied by Mr.. Samuel Schilling, was
burned last week. None of the contents
were saved.
The Frick Manufacturing Company oil
Waynesboro' received orders in one day
last week for eight engines, two saw-miiis
and one boiler.
Corn took slight downward tumble
this week, while wheat advanced slightly,
and j. now worth about one dollar for Il
good article.
The great comet can still be seen by
early risers, and will remain in the range
of vision until January, when it will rise
about midnight.
We learn that 4 mule belonging to Mr..
j. W. Osbourn. of this place, came to an
untimely end from eating too much new
corn recently.
A meeting of the ladies' auxiliary aSso-
citation will be held in the rooms OF the
. Young Mems Christian Association De-
cember at p. m.
Mr.. Samuel d. Barnhart, of Mines has
our thanks for i copy of the Mines
Weekly, a neat four page paper. 1t is a
"littlc one for cent"
Don't forget that you can have envel-
opes, 5ill-heads, lctter-heads, and all other
lob work done at TIE REGISTER OFFICE as
cheap as you can in the city.
The Office Of the Frederick Times was
damaged to The extent of $500 on FRIDAY
of last week, but the paper made its ap-
peara,ice as usual on Saturday.
DR.. A. A. Biggs, Of Sharpsburg, has
kent a record of the births that have oc-
Cured I'm that place during the past forty
seven wears. The total aggregates 2,15O.
The shipments from the mines of the
Cumberland coal region for the week
ended Saturday, N oyember 20, were GO, $50
tons, and for the year to that date ,2S2, Ill
tons.
The girls of Philadelphia cay that they
do not intend to let young men who smoke
cigarettes kiss them any more. We don't
know how the Shepherdstown girls stand
on that question.
Politicians continue to rave about the
"new South" which, however, they 10
not explicitly locate. II they have in
vented n new South we should like to
know where it is.
Mr.. Henry Swain, of Sharpsburg, while
boating on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
few days ago, near the point known AS
the Tunnel, shot deer that weighed 30
pounds when dressed.
Mr.. Samuel Binkley. Of Washington
Comfy, Nd, while hauling corn OH his
farm near IIagerstown, Tuesday, was
thrown from his wagon aid fatally in
iured, death resulting in few hours.