Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-05-05
BRIEFS.

want an agent in this place. See their
advertisement.
Messrs. VIM. p. Licklider, G. L. Hodges
and DIR. Gibson have been in the Eastern
cities this week buying new goods.
Daniel Fair, near Chase City, Va, has
sold farm of some 26O acres to Aaron
Hefebower, of this county, for $4,000.
1t is now war and rage with the women
and chickens. The former trying to get
seeds into the ground and the latter to get
them out.
One of the workmen at the Gem Furnace
at Mines, Va, had one Of his feet burnt
off one day last week by stepping in
puddle Of molten lead.
Any person having small farm OF
from twenty-five to thirty acres of land
for sale will please communicate with
Fleming & Snyder, real estate agents.
Mr.. Frank Cord, Of the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad, has been assigned as
heretofore in charge of the late Conductor
Dougherty.
A very valuable young thoroughbred
Durham bull belonging to Capt. Lee III.
Moler, near town, died last Monday. Its
death was caused by eating too much
green clover.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany have already commenced beautify-
ing Island Park, the popular resort near
Harrer's Ferry, for the approaching e1-
cursion season.
Mr.. J. F. Welshans has just received
an immense stock Of new goods for the
spring trade, which lie invites everybody
to call and examine. His advertisement
will appear next week.
Mr.. Trussell desires us to state that he
is going to Alexandria next week, and if
he can buy herring at reasonable price
he will purchase several thousand to sell
by the hundred or thousand.
We invite attention to the new adver-
tisement of Mr.. NJ. B. Baker in this issue.
He has located his store in the Markell
building, and will be glad to see his
friends and the public generally at his
new place.
Mr.. Henry Shepherd offers for sale his
fine Kentucky horse Dasher, measuring
1917 hands, admirably proportional, SYM
metrical in form, perfectly gentle, ard
drives single or double, at the low figure
of $50 cash.
The Supreme Court of appeals of this
State, which has been in session in
Wheeling, has adjourned until the first
Wednesday in June, when 1t will again
convene in Wheeling. We notice the
following decision: j. G. Lane vs.. G. w.
z. Black, Jefferson County; opinion by
Johnson; judgment of Circuit Court
affirmed.
The engineer employed to satisfy the
citizens of Middletown Valley, Frederick
County, Md, as to the cost of the pro-
posed railroad through that valley con-
Meeting the Baltimore and Ohio with the
Western Maryland Railroad, has finished
the labor Of his appointment. lie reports
the distance to be thirty-six miles, and
the cost to aggregate $7l3, 240-more or
less.
Information received from Roanoke,
Va, represent the prevalence OF scarlet
fever in that town to such an extent rs TO
cause general concern. There have been
a number of deaths of children and adults
within several days past, and the schools
have been closed in consequence of the
epidemic. We were told by gentleman
from that place that it is 4 good place for
doctors.
Among the old iron purchased at the
steam-engine works at Hagerstown was
an unexploded shell, a relic Of the late
war. 1t was broken open and the powder
extracted. One Of the workmen applied
fire to the powder as it lay on the ground.
The result was sudden flash up, by
by which two men, Hanson kadle and
Alfred Stock, were badly burned about the
face, arms, sc.
Some Truthful ieemarks.-The
following from the Fredericksburg Star
applies TO other places not thousand
miles from here as well as 10 that ancient
burg: "Send abroad for your printing,
and other work that can be done here. 1t
shows how deeply you are interested in
home enterprises; beside, the money sent
away never returns, and aids in the
building up and fostering of enterprises
abroad, in which you are greatly inter-
ested. 1t also shows that though you are
in business here, you think it would be
the correct thing for our people to send to
Baltimore, or somewhere else, if they
paod anythinr i'm vour line There are