Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-12-22
BRIEFS.

Christmas
Practice writing 1884, for you will soon
have it to do
vennor predicts mild, open ~'"'et'
with much foggy weather.
Gull dowa your Jersey, is the way
the girl of the period says 1t new'
do,eo of eggs at the present time are
worth as much as the hen chat laid them.
The slippery sides of the pavements
we're uppcrmost on Wednesday and Thurs
day.
We give our readers an unusually good
selected story on the first page this week.
BEAD it.
1t is said that 80 900 persons have Wis
sted the Luray Caverns during the pres
eat year.
Mr.. James Criswell, an esteemed eiti-
zen of Berkeley county, died last week,
aged rs years.
The price of pork this week has been Sc
yer hundred weight. Comparatively little
has been sold.
Mr.. Will Turner, near this town, was
kicked by horse & week or two ago, aud
has been lad up ever since.
Friday, December 2lst, was the shortest
day of the year. The time betwiXt day
light and dark now is very short.
The turkey has been wondering Why on
earth he has been fed so we'll for the last
few weeks. He will soon find out.
Last Sundays Washington Chronicle
contained likeness and biography of
Hon. VIM. l.. Wilsoa, OF this district.
We return thanks TO Thomas McKevitt,
formerly of this place for some papers
sent us. Thomas is now living in SYRIA
cuse, n. Y.
The burden of the prayer of the coun-
try editor is, if we may judge from our
exchanges, "corn and wood wanted"
Poor fellows!
John W. Garrett, Esq, was last week
elected president of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company for the twcnty-siXth
consecutive time.
The tail feathers of turkeys are said to
be worth 10 cents 4 pound in the city
markets. They are used in the manufact
ERE of busting brushes.
The population of Roanoke, Va, by a
recent census, is $500, and even at this
agure the people down there grumble,
aCd say it was not fair count.
Do not lose sight of the fact that the lst
Of January is a good time to subscribe for
TuE REGISTER. Seud ia or brias in your
names, and help swell oar liS:s.
Mr.. James Kennedy, Of BedingtOn,
killed Jersey Red" hog last week
which weighed 7SG pounds. lie killed
two which aggregated l ,23S pounds
A 1000 pound hog will be shot for ut
Sheplcrdstown, W. Va. on next Satur-
day.-Hagerstopn Neus. Not this Shep-
herdstown-some other Shepberdstown.
The streams of water ia this vicinity
are very low for this season of the year.
Many cisterns are entirely empty, and the
wells are very low. A good rain is much
needed.
Rev. A. B. Darlington, who for several
years has been the pastor of the Presby-
terian Church at Berryville, Va, has ten
dcred his resignation, which has been
accepted
4 large drove Of turkeys passed through
kcre on Friday last, and OH Saturday
drove of three hundred of them were
driven through town. They looked
mighty good.
Col. Ward Lamon, formerly of Martins
burg, and Marshal of this district under
Lincoln's administration, has been heard
from at Denver, Colo, as the president of
Gout Club.
The front gates that have been kept
well oiled all summer arc being neglected
and instead there is Il demand for lamps
that turn down low. How seasons do
make changes.
The proprietors Of the Martnsburg
Herald have purchased of Captain John
NJ. Mentzer, for $500, the Campbell power
press formerly used in printing the Ila-
gerstown Herald.
The Sharpsburg people will hold big
fair during the holidays, the proceeds of
which are to be devoted to improving the
new Mountain View Cemetery. The fair
begins to-day, the 22d.
A scientist says that in the moon a
hickory nut falling from bough would
crash through a man like mimic ball.
That settles it. We shall never 20 to the
moon to gather hickory nuts.
One of the large glass in The front of
Mr. Hodges store was broken by having
4 stone thrown through it Oh Monday.
The thrower of the stone will be short of
Christmas money, we reckon.
The good people of DufiieldS will hold
fair during the holidays for the beneft of
the brass banG of that place. We hope
it will be we'll patronized and that the
band will be given big boom.
We are informed that Mrs. Fellcrs, liv-
ing in Middleway district, this county,
sold OIL Tuesday, to poultry dealer, over
ninety dollars worth of turkeys, all of her
own raising. Who can beat this?
A fashion note says that large hoops,
about six feet in diameter, will he all the
rage next summer. Ii this is true there
will not be much romance in taking
moonlight stroll with your sweetheart.