Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-09-22
BRIEFS.

want live agent in this ncighborhood.
See their advertisement. t e
The office of publication Of the valley
Liberal, coalition paper, has been moved
from Strasburg to Winchester, Va.
Baker & McMurran have received this
week large stock of fine jewe'ry and
druggists notions. Call to see them.
A freight train was thrown from the
Shenandoah Valley Road, near Waynes-
boro, Va, Thursday Of last week, and
four cars demolished.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the NJ. +. Church South will meet
next Thursday, September 9th, at p.
M, at Mr.. G. Il. Licklidcr's.
Read the new advertisement Of 5. Z.
Humrickhouse & Son in this issue. They
have a first-class establishment, and that
is ''tEe long and short of it,"
The Rev. Owen Dorsey, missionary to
the Dakota and Sioux Indians, preached
morning and night last Sunday in the
Episcopal Church of this place.
The contractor, james f. Maddox, has
under WAY the school house for the col
ored children, and expects to complete it
in good time. They need it badly.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Y. II. c.
A. will hold their supper on October 9th
and 9th, and will be thankful for any do
nation that may be made to assist them.
We acknowledge oar obligations to the
Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Associa-
ton for courtcsies EXTENDED. The fair
will he held at Winchester from October
18th to 10Th.
The postal notes are being made use OF
at the rate of about two Il day at the Shop
berdstown pOst-Ofice. About three times
AS many have been sent as have been re-
! ceived so far.
! Five cadets were recently expelled from
the United States Naval Academy at An
napolis for "hazing" new cadets. Among
the number is Benjamin Trapnell, OF
Clarlestown.
| Our merchants are beginning to open
their lew fall goods. If you want to know
/ where YOU can deal to the best advantage
/ keep your eyes upon the advertisements
! in The REGISTER.
! The iron railroad bridge Of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad at IIarper's Ferry
has been condemned by the bridge master
as unsafe, and that it is dangerous for the
passage of heavy trains.
The Wheeling Register, we think, can
take the bakery for getting up interesting
titles for its news articles. A recent issue
! had this for q headline: "Revolvers and
! Rawhides-wo Women and Woe"
The wife Of Mr.. Frank Leasurc, OF
Moundsville, this State, gave birth to five
children one day last week. The poor
father is doing as well as can be expected
! under the circumstances.
The Keedysville, Nd, Silver Cornet
| Band is to he rcSuscitated with the fol-
I lowing officers DIR. C.. ID. Baker, Prcsi-
! dent; David Krctzer. leader; Jacob lloff-
man, secretary; Daniel L. Keedy, treas
| urer.
The Valley ConvocatiOn of the Episco-
pal Church will meet in Trinity Church,
, Martinsburg, on Wednesday, September
! Goth. Services commencing on Wednes-
day night and continuing over the Sunday
following.
The Martinsburg papers say that the
crop Of orange blossoms promises to DC 4
large one in Berkeley County this fall.
! We hope that the contagion will spread
this way, for it has been remarkably
| dull season here thus far.
/ Now that the long evenings are rapidly
approaching, the farmer should have Il
good paper in his family, by which he and
. his could be entertained during the winter
months. Let all who have not yet done
so subscribe for THE REGISTER.
Senator Kenna of this State Is "stuHp-
ing" Iowa in company with ex-senator
Hendricks, Congressman Springer, of
Illinois, and others. Mr.. Kenna spoke to
5000 people at Council Bluffs, and was
received with great enthusiasm.
A fine looking gentleman from West
Virginia registered ut the Howard House
last Sunday, who wore the L. ). flag
around his neck for crayat. 1t attracted
universal attention, for it proved that he
was "truly loyal. "-BdHimoredn.
The subscribers to the State Educational
Journal at this post-office ask us to inquire
what has become of it. They have heard
nothing of it since the July number. Has
it died natural death or has it been TAX
ing a vacation jaunt? Can our Wheeling
exchanges inform us?
! Hon. VIM. l.. Wilson, our Congress
man, will supply any Of his constituents
who may desire them with the German
carp, the fish that is now being so extern
sively prOpagated i'm all parts of the
country. Persons wishing carp should
communicate with MIN at CharlcstOwn at
once.
An itinerant phrenologist was in town
Tuesday feeling heads and revealing the
characteristics of the owners Of the heads
for the very small sum of ten cents. With
slight variations he told every one the
same thing, but his tongue got SO thick
before he left that he could scarcely tell
! anything.
Edward NJ. Carr, the tramp who bru-
tally assaulted the nine-year-old daughter
of Mr.. Christian Writ, near Weverton.