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

Shoes. He has good stock.
A patent for a wagon and buggy
spring has been issued to MIR. josiah
Kitzmiller, of Keedysville.
Vepnor, the weather prophet, says
thers will be lots OF snow during the
month of December.
Wanted, 1000 barrels of corn in ex
change for furniture and carpets, at
Trussells.
Do not borrow your neighbours paper,
but come and Subscribe for the REG
ISTER.
Our farmers are about through with
their fall work. They have had good
season.
Mr.. Jacob NJ. Gardner, formerly of
Martinsburg, died at Urbana, Ohio, on
Thursday of last week.
LLOYD Lickiidcr is selling very cheap
Undcrshirts and Drawers. Call and see
them.
Corn shucks are worth S25 to $50
per ton in Baltimore. They are used
for mattresses.
The entertainment at Billmyers Hall
this evening is tor worthy object, to
Uniform the Shepherd Fire Company.
A man was recently robbed OF over
$1,000 in q sleeping car on a New
York railroad He must have been an
editor.
The employees of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal Company will be paid
two months wages about the 10Th OF
this month.
The Ladies' Mite Society of the NJ. E.
Church in this PLACE will hold an oyster
supper in the basement OF the church
next month.
Look to your chimneys and ilues and
See that they are safe. A very little
work now may save the building OF
new house next spring.
We call attention to the sale Of the
Mason farm, near Dam No. 4, to take
place to-day, Saturday, in front of the
Enilcr Hotel in this place.
DR.. J. V. Simmons, mayor OF Charles
town, has taken the contract tor the
erection of four fshways at different
points in the Potomac River.
Jack Frost has been around for sew
e1al nights past and left his tracks IN
all the gardens. He has stirred up the
fat rabbits, and the boys are after them.
The farm owned by Samuel Miller,
deceased, near Vancleavesville, contain
ing 225 acres, was purchased last week
by MIR. William III. Miller for S24 per
acre.
1t is reported that many of the boats
on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal are
being destroyed by dry rot, caused by
enforced idlencss during the late miners
strike.
John NJ. p. Atkinson, d. D., who
has been president of llampden Sidney
College, Virginia, for the last twenty
four years, has resigned on account OF
i'll health.
Thanksgiving day is coming on, and
turkeys and pumpkins are coming into
demand. Fatten Your turkeys and
gather in the pumpkins, country folks
You can sell them.
The Grand Lodge Of Masons will
meet in Wheeling on the l4th OF this
month, and Mr.. J. S. Fleming, w. NJ,
will represent Mount Nebo Lodge No.
81 of this place.
Mr. Jacob Rohrer, residing on MIR.
Samuel snyder's farm, near the Ante
tam Paper Mills, near Hagerstown, lost
five head OF cattle last week by bursting
from eating new clover.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company have announced that dis
patches ordering goods TO be sent by
the Is. e 0. express will be transmitted
free over the B. e o. telegraph.
DIR. Chas. +. Russell, of Sharpsburg,
Md, has received the appointment of
Superintendent of telephone on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. He was
formerly resident of Ilarper's Ferry,
this county.
H. G.. Marten, our clever tinman, has
his hands tull of work, selling and hit
ting up stoves, making and repairing
ware, and putting on lin roofs. Moth
ing encourages one so much as plenty
of work.
The County Commissioners met in
fiscal term Oh Monday last, and many
bills against the county were passed:
MIR. w. J. Knott, the lately elected
commissioner, entered upon his duties
at this term.
We learn that farmer near Moiers
Y Roads made scarecrow that was so
effectual that il not only scared off every
crow that saw il, but one crow was so
frightened that he brought back some
corn he had stolen three days before.
In this issue will be found commu-
nieatiou on the subject of school books,
which is worthy OF careful perusal. Our
legislature will do well to make note
of It's suggestions. We have been
promised others relating to school mat
tiers,
Mr.. S. Miller, who lived Oh the Cave
town pike near Hagerstown, died the
other day from the effects of cut on
his foot with an axe. Modification set
in and resulted fatally. Mr. Miller was