Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-01-13

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this eek. If you wan: any kind OF PRINT
Ing done call at The REGISTER OFFICE.
We are indebted to Governor Jackson
of this State, for docurpents concerlFag
the various institutions of West Virginia.
The sleighng is excellent in this nelgh-
borhool at present. and our people gener-
ally are taking advantage OF 1t. Ihefe
have been some handsome turnouts IN
town this week.
Rev. D. NJ. Moser Of the Lutheran
Church has preached every night this
week on the various topics for this the
week of prayer. Rey. Mr.. Eggleston, OF
the NJ. f. Church South has also held
services each night dul ing the week.
The citizens of Willarasport, Nd. were
greatly excited last week over the hndlhg
of a lot of silver-plated ware in the Poto-
mac River. Four teaspoons, IL table
spoons. - forks and few knives were
found. and now the people there think the
river is full of them.
Mr.. Samuel Newman, Of llagerstown'
has discovered that policies amounting TO
SOC. COO are held by the Great Eastern Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company OF Balti-
more. but having been taken out without
his knowledge or consent he gives notice
| that they are fraudulent.
During the space of three weeks late'y
tho Chesaneakc and Ohio Railroad smash
cl ND Is engines, TO say nothing OF the
destruction of passenger and freight cars,
! and it il said that during the past year the
! deaths OH that road averaged one day
for the whole 800 days.
It has been humorously said that the ten
plaques of printing Office are pores,
] noets. mice, cranks, cockroaches, typo
graphic errors, exchange fiendS, BOOK
| canvasscrs, delinquent subscribers, ana
the men who know how to run paper
better than the publisher himself does.
If readers of THE REGISTER would stop
! TO consider the fact that items OF news re-
| ported bv them to us aids in making the
paper that much more interesting to 9TH
ers, and that others would naturally APP
! preciate it the more. and tins in the same
manner aiA in making it more interesting
70 them. we are assured that more items
| would in that way come into our posses
! sion.
! Rev. William !. Smith. pastor Of the
Lutheran Church at Salisbury, n. c.,
! during the past five years, has received
co,l from the Lutheran Church ut Roam
oke. Va. This is the fifth call Mr.. Smith
has received from Virginia, besides two
from North Carolina. He is a graduate
of this Office under the instruction OF his
brother-in-law and former proprietor, d.
| ii. little.
A special general meeting of the stock
! holders of the Shenandoah Valley Rail
road Company will be held ut Luray, Mon
dav. january %, for the consideration OF
a contract between the Shenandoah VAL
lev Railroad Company and the Norfolk
and Western Railroad Company, and for
/ such action thereon as the said meeting
may deem best, aud for the TRANSACTION OF
other important business.
Rev. l.. A. Mann, of the Middietown
Lutheran Church, in his sermon last sum
day morning severely criticised the Odd
! Fellows fair, which has been in progress
there, anu read resolutions passed by the
church council asking all church members
to refrain from attending it, the reasons
given being that the method of CHANGING
off articles by wheel of fortune, etc., is
first lesson in gambling. The sermon Gre
ated considerable excitement.