Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-10-20
BRIEFS.


Last Tuesday night WAS the twenty
fourth anniversary of John Browns raid
upon Harper's Ferry.
Shephcrtlstown sent a good delegation
TO the HagerstOwn fair last Wednesday
over the Shenandoah Valley Railroad.
If you want good newspaper to read
during the coming winter, all ye who
have not done so subscribe for TIE REG
IsTER.
Read the advertisement Of Geyer & Ger
ling i'm another column. They are agents
for useful machine, which must be seen
to be appreciated.
The church bells of Shepherdstown can
be distinctly heard at Kearneysville, five
miles distant, when the atmosphere is in
the proper condition.
Messrs. Schley & Deleplaine, of Fred
erick, Nd, have begun the publication in
that place of new daily paper. 1t is
called The Daily NeHs.
The WOmen's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the NJ. f. Church South will
meet on Thursday, October 2oth, at 1 p.
m, at Mrs. Marmaduke's.
Some of the wheat that was seeded
early is already coming up nicely. All
the farmers are about through with their
seeding and corn-cutting.
The forests have donned their brilliant
fall hues, and no prettier sight is afforded
anywhere than Il view from some of Our
own Shepherdstown hills.
DIR. l. S. Tanner carried off number of
premiums for thoroughbred Short-iiorns
ut the Martinsburg fair last week. The
Doctors herd is hard to beat.
Rev. A. Il. Darlington, of Bcrryvillc,
Va, will preach in the Presbyterian
Church Sunday morning at IL o'clock,
and at Kearncysville ut $50 p. M.
There have been several very heavy
frosts this week, and Wednesday morning
ice was formed on water in resSels-thc
first ice, we believe, of the season.
Hallow Fen will come OF Wednesday,
October 3lst, and the boys are beginning
to look around for pumpkins and cabbage
heads for their annual bombardmcnt.
An unknown cOlored man was killed on
Sunday morning, between Martinsburg
and Harper's Ferry, by the west-bound
express train on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany has just declared n scmi-annual div
idend of five per cent on its stock. Prcsi-
dent John w. Garrett has returned from
is European trip.
The pav-boat of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal left Georgetown last Monday
on a.trip over the line, paying the en-
ployes for the months of May and Novem-
Der, 1882, and August, 1888.
Mr.. III. G. Ge.zendanner has completed
and moved into the new house on the
farm of his father, near Summit Point.
The new house is erected on the site of
the one destroyed by fire last spring.
Several young men of this vicinity who
went West about six months ago have re-
turned home. They will wait, we sup
pose, until the West grows up Il little be-
fore making it their permanent home.
Last Sunday there was but one minister
in town, and but one church was open,
the service being read there. Several of
the preachers were attending conference,
and the others had appointments out of
town.
The Kearneysville correspondent of the
Martinsburg Herald says: ''Our many
farmers who have used the Shepherd &
Hendricks wheat drill, say that it has the
best fertilizer attachment they have ever
tried"
The engine of passenger train on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was thrown
down All embankment near Martinsburg
Sunday, through collision with freight
train, and demolished. No one was in
jured.
The stone mill of Mr.. Paulding, on the
b. & o. X. r., below Duflield's Depot,
and Ph9nix companies, of lIartford-sGOO
i'm each-and the loss has been promptly
paid.-Spirt.
Mr.. b. 5. McIntire having generously
donated piece of ground, the Y. NJ. Z.
A. of Kearneysville will mt once begin the
erection of hall at that place. The y.
NJ. c. A. has an energetic organization ut
Kearneysville.
At fair held in HagerstOwn recentlya
watch was voted to W. 3. Feigert, of the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad, as the most
popular engineer. He received votes
amounting to 1920, against sl5S.76 for
John Freidinger.
Mr.. G. L. Pagenhart, a skillful machin-
list of Clarke County, Va, has constructed
a steam buggy, i'm which he is making
good time over the country roads. lie
says he can travel twenty miles an hour
with his steam buggy.
Godey's Lady's Book for November is
an exceptionally good number, contain
ing two steel engravings and its usual
number Of interesting stories and An eX-
cellent fashion department. The literary
matter of the magazine is steadily inn
proving.
Rev. j. l.. Herman, who for the past
eight years has been in charge of the
Catholic Church ut Fredericksburg, has
been removed to lIarper'S Ferry. He will
be succeeded by the Rev. Jas. 4. OFFER