Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-01-06

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Rev. c. S. Trump will preach in the
PRESBYTERIAN Church NJ kearreysvii'e OH
sunday, january Z.
The Legislature of West Virginia VIII
convene on Wednesday next, the loth Oh
January, at wheeling.
The Eseniag Reries, of Waynesporo'
Pa, ole of our brightest exchanges HAS
suspended publication.
Oscar Wilde sailed from New York last
week for England. We will try anu
worry along without him.
The Alexandria (ya.) Gazette has Ell
tered u,on its eighty-fourlh year, anu Is
still "halc and hearty"
We had Il pleasant call on Thursday 81
last week from Mr.. John 7. Smith, local
editor of the eharpsburg Enterprise.
Rev. John G. Bushnell, of Winchester
has received call TO the passionate ol TIC
Lutheran church at Prosperity, ,. u
The water has been drawn from tee
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and boats
away from home viii have TO winter along
the tow-path.
We call attention to the advertisement
in this issue Of the Baltimore AMERICAN
one of the best newspapers south OF Mason
and DiXon's line.
Major F. Dorsey Herbert, of Hagers-
town. WIS stricken with paralysis ana
died on "Wednesday of last week. 1lewaS
about 81 years of age.
We learn that the balloon which was TO
have been put up at Unionville last FRIDAY
caught fire before it had iisen nifty feet.
Try it again, Lewie.
John Wise, formerly Of Hagerstown,
was found dead Christmas morning IN the
waiting room OF the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad ut Roanoke, va.
The Lumber OF people who have sworn
off and will treat their resolutions is about
write il 1883 instead of 1882.
Hon. Louis L. McConas has been APP
nointel attorney for the Western Mary
land Railroad ut Hagerstown, to succeed
Judge A. X. Syester, resigned.
Mrs. Ann Shiffler, of Washington Coun-
", Nd, was attacked by heart disease
while preparing the Christmas dinner lor
her family, and died in a few minutes.
James A. Boggs, drmocrat, has been
elected 70 the West Virginia Legislature
from Braxton County to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of q. \. Cunningham
The weather during the whole of the
Christmas Holidays was mild and pleas
! amt. and the full moon added 10 the en-
ioyment of the season by making the
nights agreeable.
The ladies of Frederick have organized
a cooking club. They meet every other
week, the table of the hostess on the oc-
casion being supplied with articles made
! by the Visiting Hie"lUeiS'
! 1t is generally understood that the
postage on letters will be reduced to two
cents, aud in anticipation of this the Post
master-Gcheral is preparing for the man
ufacture of two cent stamps.
Christmas Day passed off very pleas
! antly in ShepherdStown, there being no
disorder Of any kind. The boys were al
lowed TO shoot flre-crackers, and they en-
loved the privilege t. is fullest extent.
Delegate Isaac Foukc was in town last
Saturday, looking up items of business for
the Legislature. Captain Melvin, our
| State Senator, was also in town. Both
/ gentlemen will leave on Monday next for
! Wheeling.
! The BELLS of the various churches in
town rang out the old and rang in the
! New Year. and Il squad Of young men
with muskets marched around town and
woke tap the sleeping citizens to let them
know that 1883 had arrived.
For the benefit of those of our male
readers who are unacquainted with the
mysteries of the feminine toilet, we would
state that we have recently discovered
that it takes forty-tive hair pins to keep
! ono girls hair i'm its proper place.
The IIagcrstown Mail says D. S. Os-
wad. living near Chew>ville, Wa shing-
ton County, Md, raised this year one
thousand bushels of wheat OH Il field Of
twenty-five acres-for!y bushels TO the
acre. His field was accurately surveyed
and the wheat carefully measured.
Encourage newspaper reading among
your children, and you will soon DISCOVER
what fondness they will have for their
family journal, and how rapidly they will
improve. The newspaper is the poor
mans library-eyery family should be
provided with good family newspaper.
The wife of the Hon. Charles James
Faulkner, Of MartiDsburg, With her
granddaughter, Miss Mary Faulkner, are
spending the winter in Baltimore. Miss
Faulkner, who is said TO possess fine mu-
steal talent, is a student at Peabody Con-
| servatory OF Music.
The IIagerstown Spoke Works shipped
recently per the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road two car loads of manufactured spokes
direct to jobbers in Liverpool, England.
The consignment embraced about $4,000
spokes, and was but one Of a number OF
shipments that have preceded it and are
TO follow.
Last fall young man named d. T..
Coyr,n of RIlchanan Va ran away with