Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-09-30
LOCAL ITEMS.

You can buy very fine, nice toilet soaps at ba-
ker s. McMurran'e, and their cigars are iuiiy
worth the money you have to pay Tor them.
Go to hear the Hen D. B. Lucas, this (Satur-
day. afternoon a. ) O'Clock.
The phosphate ,s,lert are doing q lively ousi.
ness, IL one p1a, Judge from, the number OF
wagons loaded W., phosphate passing through
our streets.
Frost will soon make its appearance, when the
festive hog will be suspended BY hind leg with
q corn COZ in his mouth.
Forty CAT loads o! fue cattle passed, over the
q. V. K K. ana w. N. r. r. to Baltimore last
Saturday.
The storm Of Thursday night OF last week wac
unite violent In the neighborhood oil boousooio,
Md ana what little corn was still standing was
fattened to the ground.
The storm which has caused so much trouo'e
duripp the past few DAYS isn't circumstance 10
the storm which will be due about the lOth ol
October.
The Western Conference of the EVANGELICAL
Lutheran synod OF Maryland will meet on Mon
day. October 3Oth, 1882, at 7:30 o'clock p. M, In
the Lutheran Church at Williamsport.
The regular monthly meeting of Shepherd
Fire Depa -tment will be held in the Councll
Room on thursday evening next, October iatn,
at 9 p. ID. Let every member oe present 10 ousi-
ness of inheritance VIII be considered.
Died on the 10Th instant, in this place, Milne
Wilson. colored. She was member OF Aspury
NJ. Z. Church, and had the confluence ano le-
spect OF the members.
Several Communications were received 100 late
for this issue but will be inserted next week.
Go to hear u. B. Lucas this Saturday after
noon at O'Clock.
A Federal soldier has applied for pension at
Washington for broken leg, got In jumping
the bounty"
Many farmers around Lynchburg have COM
menced curing tobacco. The crop thlS year Is
exceptionally large and hne.
The Winchester Times says:-We have been
informed that terrible death from coal OIL, oy
kipdling fire, occurred near ROCK Enon sgrings,
Va. on Saturday last. Lizzie, niue year oiu
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jonathan Mason, was
hnrnt IN a crisp. This Is another cad warning to
parents to keep the dangerous huid out oi Inc
reach of children.
Broods Of young partridges arc reported as
being plentiful this year; and they Will nave 10
be plentiful, indeed, If there is bird apiece ior
the hundreds of sportsmen that will 60 III search
of them.
Be sure and near the address to be delivered
by the Hon. u B. Lucas, this (Saturoay) ai'er-
noon at 3 O'clock sharp.
The Croweil Manufacturing Company, OF
Greeucastle, Pa, will enlarge their WORKS 10 Tue
erection of u building 5Ox2O0 feet.
By the end of this year the Baltimore and 70
tomac ROAD will be double-tracked all the way
from Baltimore 10 Washington.
It is said by those who have used the coal from
the mines on the New River branch oil the NOT
folk q Western Railroad, that 1t 10 vastly su-
perior TO that brought from the pennsylvania
helds.
The Board of Visitors OF the University. OF
Virginia at their late meeting appointed Jas:
M, Garrett, of Elicott City, Nd, 70 the CHAIR OF
English.
Mrs. Lottie johnson, OF Washington, d. O..
was In town this week, attending the funeral OF
her cousin, Mr.. Charles Boteler.
There Is q bell at the Lutheran Theological
Seminary at Gettysburg, Pa, which was sent as
a present from the Palatinate Lutherans OF New
York in l744 TO their Lutheran brethren, tnen
newly settled In Gettysburg.
About thirty schools in Wetzel county. this
State. will have no teachers this year. HOW
much more bungling legislation will 1t take 70
kill the Free Schools.-So says the Wetzel Mes
senger.
The colored people OF Frederick, Md, have
organized branch lodge of the "Grsnd United
Executive Branches of the Sons and Daughters
of the Vine OF Joeephs Habitauon."
The following personal appeared few days
ago In one of the Philadelphia papers: I'm THIS
dark hour of trouble, with my baby Ill, ana
pressed on all sides Tor money, will some one
lend me few hundred dollars at once! l shall
faithfully return Il in the future. Mr.. HAM
mond, Lee Belle Boyd, 1914 Twelfth street."
The State Superintendent Tof schools 10 Viz
pins Is publicly requested TO parse The following
written by himself; ''These are the only houses
where forms have reached this office, both OF
which are reliable"
The pay-car OF the Shenandoah Valley Rail-
road passed over the road on Tuesday last pay
ing off the employees.
Another large engine from the Patterson 10.
connective Works. Patterson, New Jersey. passed
through this place on Monday last for the Z. y
O. Railroad.
Mr.. Chas 8. Grant, freight brakeman on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, visited his parents IN
this place last week.
The shepberdstown Dramatic Society propose
giving an entertainment in few weeks, for the
benefit of the Shepherd Fire Department OF this
place.
For cough and cold mixtures, lozenges, DC,
20 TO Gibson's Drug Store.
8. a. Higinbotham, of Ripon, whose card ap-
pears in this issue as an independent candidate
for the legislature, called to see.us this week.
The "Ague" is prevailing along the banks OF
the Potomac, and the way the poor fellows that
live in that region, shake, is enough to draw
tears from every eye.
Bonds Of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Com
many have advanced in value from $50 t. $50
since Mr.. Lewis C. Smith has been elected Presl-
dent of that corporation.