Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-06-23
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BRIEFS.

A Methodist seminary is to be estab
lished at Roanoke. Va.
Those ia want of spectacles will find a
large assortment at Baker s. MeMurTan's.
Mr.. Lee 3rotherton has had his resi-
dence painted. Messrs. Ferrells did the
work.
Judge Faulkner held special term of
the Jefferson Circuit Court In Charlestown
OH Wednesday.
Hez. Jones caught a bass in the Poto-
mac here last Monday which weighed five
and quarter pounds.
Potomac Isle, the new resort near Fall
ing Waters, is looking up prominently as
good place for pic-nics.
The citizens of Lewisburg, w. Va, have
voted to subscribe 10000 to the East
River and Greenbrier Railroad.
The appointment Of teachers in Shop
herd College for the next year have not
yet been made by the regents.
The West Virginia University at Its
late commencement conferred the degree
| of LII. d. upon Hon. D. B. Lucas.
Some Of our farmers expect to COM
mence harvesting to-day. The general
engagement will begin next week.
Green apples are very small yet, but a
very little apple can cause big commo-
ton under small boys waist-band.
There are said to be one hundred and
thirty cases of scarlet fever in Lynch
burg, Va. Some reports give larger
number.
The new Board Of Education OF Shop
herdstown district will hold their first
meeting in the Graded School building on
Monday, July 2.
| Charles Williams, German, fell from
a boat into the canal, eight miles below
Oldham, Allegany County, Md, Oh Sat
urday night, and was drowned.
We notice an unusually large number
Of snake stories among our West Virginia
exchanges. Some Of our brethren evil
IDENTIFY do not believe in a hereafter.
Two-cent letter postage goes into elect
tho first of October, and not the first OF
July as many suppose. Bank check
stamps will be abolished on the first of
July.
The new NJ. E. Church South at
Browns Crossing, in this county, was
dedicated on Sunday last, the Rev. DIR.
John S. Martin preaching the dedication
| sermon.
The Union Fire Company Of Winchester
will have an excursion to Island Park,
Harper's Ferry, June 2sth, and will be
accompanied by the Union Cornet Band
and two string bands.
The Patrons Of husbandry of Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland, West Virginia, New
jersey and Delaware will hold their tenth
annual Interstate exhibition at Williams
Grove, Pa, August 2Oth.
John Browns old wagon, in which he
carried runaway negroes from Missouri,
and which carried arms for his men at
Harper's Ferry, now belongs to II. S.
Fairall, of Iowa City, Iowa.
A new bell, weighing 667 pounds, has
been presented to st. AIMS Episcopal
Chapel, Smithsburg, Washington county,
Md. The donors were a Baltimore lady
and q resident OF Smithsburg.
The Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs
in West Virginia opened on Saturday with
the arrival of los guests. Sam Collier,
the ex-pugilist, is the chief of police az
the springs to maintain good order.
A youthful but determined couple from
Martinsburg were married on the bridge
at this place last Sunday. The groom
had not yet reached the age of eighteen,
and the bride was of still more tender
years.
Mr.. Harry Clark has taken tho agency
for the Singer Sewing Machine for this
section. As 1t will be one of the best
young men selling one of the best of ma
chimes, we prophecy successful combi-
nation.
Prof. Ben Hyde Benton, formerly Presi-
dent of the New Market tVa.) Pyrotechnic
Institute, but lately living in Washing
ton, D. c., was found dead near that city
a few days ago, having evidently commit
ted suicide.
Columbia University, Washington, d.
c., has conferred the honorary degree of
LII. D. upon Hon. William l.. Wilson.
| Mr.. Wilson is graduate Of that institu-
ton, and was also at one time member
OF the faculty.
The Agricultural Fair grounds at Mar
tinsburg have been purchased by a num-
Der of gentlemen, who will organize an
association free Of debt, and continue the
fairs. The price paid for the grounds and
buildings was $4,000.
Mr.. John Reinhart has accepted posi-
ton in Mr.. J. F. Welshans' store, and has
entered upon his duties. Mr.. c. J. Miller,
who has been with Mr.. Welshans for sew
eral years past, will leave July first to
engage in other business.
Mr.. Brown Lsfevre, Of Bunker Hill,
showed the editor of the Martinsburg In
dependent tortoise or land terrapin which
he found in one Of his fields. Engraved
on his she'll were the initials &C. A. F"
and under 1t the date "171l."
Two new hotels, "Forest Inn" and
"Appledore," have been built at the Nat
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