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

DenisoD, which will take place on the evening Of
January lltb, at st. Paurs Chapel, Salem, Va.
Mr.. Samuel Barnhart one of our Oldest and
most esteemed citizens, slipped and fell In the
| back yard of bis residence one day week before
last and severely bruised his face and forehead.
The We. ard Nd. Bridge Company, as Will be
seen by advertisement iu this Issue, mas declared
dividend. PAYABLE on or after the 10th OF Janu =
| AIRY,
Mr. Harry Snyder. of the employees OF the gov
! ernnent printing Office, and graduate of this
office spent Christ mas with his mother and fam
lily in this place.
The big pcrker, slaughtered by Mr.. VIM. j.
| Knott, near Moler's y Roads, q few weeks ago,
weighed SEQ pounds. That was the 'boss" hog
and Jeeminy, what saSsingers.
Our county assessors Messrs. G. q. Trail and
| r. A. Alexander, are again making their annual
rounds cnquiring into every body's business
/ They will ask you how many acres OF land you
own, and how many horses, COWS. hogs, sheep
! you OWL; how rich you are and they will even
ask you how many children you had during the
past year. "What's this world comm TO-"
At the VI. Z. Church South Sabbath School, at
Bethesda, near Moler's Y Roads, and during the
! Christmas festivities Sunday morning, the school
presented their worthy and efficient Superintend-
| ept Mr. Geo. 9. Knott, with handsome silver
pitcher.
Rev. J. w. Dupiee, of Harper's Ferry, paid US
a pleasant visit on Saturday last, and brought US
q large lot Of the incest and best favored Celery
we have ever tasted. II was of his own raising
and he raised large quantities of 1t the last sea-
SON. He has our warmest thanks.
A meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary Association
will be held on Tuesday evening, January 10th,
at4p IT., in the Y. NJ. {. A, room, for re-
election of officers. All the members are re-
quested to attend.
Mr.. "Weusei" Crowl, who left here about
eleven years ago, when boy, and who has re.
I tL.l; dnri hat ttnln Wis cd
bis old friends and relatives in this town during
/ the holidays. "Weaz:" has beca boating on the
raging canawl."
| Mr.. James W. Fayman, a former employee OF
! this Office but now at Dcming, New Mexico has
been appointed Chief Check Clerk OF the Atchl-
SOD, Topeka ~ Santa Fe Railroad, at that place.
Miss sudfe Eoontz of Page county, w., Wis
! tied the family OF MIR. John l. R!ckard III thls
| place, during the holidays.
Misses Florence and Lizzie Miller OF Hagers-
! towr, and Miss Lottie Piper of Bakersvile, Md.
visited the family of Mr.. Joseph NJ. Stonet raser,
in this place, during Christmas week.
! Mr.. Geo. McGlincy, Auctioneer, sold at public
/ sale, on Saturday last for Miss A. E. Shepherd,
! the TWO houses and lots of John Is. Shepherd, de-
ceased, situated at the West end of town, as fol-
| lows--the log part 10 Henry Mckinney, colored,
! for 500; and the brick part to Capt. Mat. Toll
, yer, colored, for Sl2l.00.
! Rev. Charles Dammar, OF Hancock, Wash.
| ness Church, ner Gainesville, Md.
! The growing wheat in the Shenandoah Valley
! L. looking uncommonly promising. In Rocking
| ham there has been on unusually large area sowD.
| Farmers say they hardly ever before SOW so
cheering prospect at this seison of the year
! Died. near Fairplay, Wash. Co., Nd, on the
! 18th of December, of typhoid fever, Mr.. Jesse
Dallas Banks, (cooperO aged Sc years, months,
! and Is days. His remains were inferred in the
Lutheran Cemetery at Bakersville.
! From the Cumberland News we learn that
/ Samuel Rider, colored, assistant lock keeper on
| the canal at North Branch, was drowned Mon.
| day night. His body was discovered next morn
! lug in middle of the three locks after the water
! had been let off. 1t Is not known how 1t hap
pened.
Judges Alvey and Motter last week, at Hagers-
/ town, heard argument in tue matter OF appllca-
/ ton tor q new trial in the case OF Lewis Peacock
vs.. the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. re-
moved from Allegany county To Hagerstowr,
/ and in which the Jury returned verdict OF S9,-
GOO damages, (the claim being for $40, 0O0). The
! Coart Sc; aside the verdict on the ground OF its
! being excessive.
! c. M..Lamop, of Bunker Hill, has purchased
J OF Mr. Benz 1imberlake the willis Farm"
I near the Sulphur Spring, and will remove there
/ Ia few days. Mr. Timberlake, We understand,
! will leave for Kansas shortly.
! Mr.. John Fitz the enterprisirg and popular
manufacturer, CT Martinsburg, gave each ole of
/ his employees fine turkey for Christmas feast.
/ Mr.. Fitz has heart in Linn as big as q corn bar
/ rel.
The Grand Central Hotel property at Martins
! burg is Offered at public sale.
For the responsibility Of our town we will
state that there was less drunkenness during the
past holidays lhan on any former occasion for
long time.
| Mr. j. Yancey Blackford near Browns Cross
ing, and who is teaching school 10 Mineral coun-
", spent the holidays al home.
Our young friend Mr.. Samuel Hensell, of
Knoxville, Tenn +, q native of this place, sends
us a remittance for subscription up to January |,
1888. and sys-''plea continue the dear old
Register for which We return many thanks.
Sammy always was good boy.
The ST. Paul's Lutheran Church In Loudoun
county, belonging to the Harper's Ferry charge,
Rev. {. s. Trump, pastor, was dedicated on New
Years morning, Sunday the lst OF January.
Hon. D. B. Lucas OF Charlestown and Mr. Jas.
D. Butt OF Harper's Ferry have been employed
as COUNSEL BY Dr.. Hartgrove in the shooting of
Young Chambers at Harper's Ferry
Mr. John II. schoppert of this town is mem
Der of the surveying corps, IN charge OF Mr. II.
w. Potts, in running line for railroad from
| Harrisburg, Pa, to Wheeling, this State
One hundred and seventy-seven buildings we're
erected In Hagerstown during the past year.
Friend j. A. Chew of Charlestewn, in remit
iii Z bis subscription last week says: the Reg
lister is the best paper in the county," Thank
you brother Chew.
We regret to learn that Mr.. John T. Henkle
near Halltowr, is seriously i'll from o recent at
I tack of paralysi'.
Our Carrier returns his sincere thanks to his
many friends who greeted him so kindly on
Christmas in filing his pockets with goodly
share of daddy's dollars, amounting in oil TO
about thirty dollars. He says may you live long
and be happy.
Our good and fast friend, Jacob V. Carney, OF
Bedington, never foygets 10 present Us with
TURKEY for our Christmas dinner, in fact we
would never know when Christmas came were 1t
not for the big fat turkey in the way of re-
minder. he sends us each year. Friend Jake,
accept of thousand thanks, and may you al
ways have plenty OF turkeys is our feivent
prayer.
On Saturday last lamp 10 the stern cabin of
canal boat occupied by B. F. Price and family.
and which was lying at Snyder's warehouse,
uear SharpsburS, exploded while the occupants
were engaged in the midship cabin. Fire COM
municated TO the boat ard rapid Roadway had
been made before the true state of affairs was
discovered. When :he fire was fully controlled,
an inveslig alton revealed the loss of large sum
Of money belonging to Mr. Price, together with
some minor furniture that occupied the cabin.
Aquantity of ice was gathered by our citizens
during this week. The thermometer was down
to zero early Wednesday morning.
Mr. JEFF Shauer has been appointed In charge
of the Water Tank, 8. V. X. r., at this place.
Fren Oh Candies at Gibsons Drug Store only
20 cents per pound.
Among the novel Christmas shipments to Bal
timore this week has been a coop of 500 pigeons.
They came from Chsrlestown, W. Va, and show
that when they hung old John Brown in that
goodly town, the pigeons were not extermiuated.
So Gays the Baltimorean.
Capt Graham Mcclellan has been transferred
! to the Roanoke division Of the s. V. K. x and
! is now located at Roanoke, Va.
| All the Sunday School Festivals held in town
during the Holidays were of the most interesting
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