Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-06-16
DRIEES.

longest day, according to the almanac.
We extend our congratulations to our
friend Mark W., of Washington, d. G. IL
is a boy.
Peter Horn, Of Hagcrstown, was stung
almost to death while hiving q swarm Of
bees last week.
Saturday night thieves stole valuable
mare from the farm Of j. p. Carleton,
near Cumberland, Nd.
An advertiser says: GLANDS wanted on
silk waists" All right; if it is pretty
figure here's one pair of hands.
Quite number Of the former students
Of Shepherd College were in town this
week attending the commencement exsr-
cises.
The County Institute for Jefferson
County will be held In Charlestown July
9th. MIR. Thomas C. Miller will be the
Instructor.
The receipts from tho straw berry festi-
val held by the ladies Of the VI. Z. Church
last Friday and Saturday nights amount
Cd to about s2S.
Hon. A. r. Boteler has rented the
handsome house of Henry Shepherd,
Esq, on Main street, in Shepherdstown.
He moved into 1t this week.
| Honey bees have been "swarming"
during the past week at a great rate. Mr..
John L. Richard has gotten three swarms
from one hive this summer.
Work on the N. Z. Church in Sharp.-
burg, Md, will commence in about
week. The old editice will be torn down
and rebuilt at cost of about 1000.
Mr.. Charles Carroll Fulton, for thirty
years editor and proprietor of the Balti-
more american, died in Baltimore on
Thursday of last week in the 6Sth year of
his age.
A meeting was held in Charlestown on
Saturday last to make an organized effort
to have all agricultural and manufacture
ing exhibition this fall. The meeting adj
| lourneQ until FRIDAY.
| The West Virginia State Educational
! Association, will hold its annual meeting
at Buokhannon, Upshur county, July
18th, 18th and 10th. There will DO re-
duced faro over all tho railroads.
There is general complaint that plums,
apples, peaches and other fruits are drop
ping from the trees to such an extent as
to cause great loss. 1t is supposed to be
on account of the cool weather we have
had.
A black Dear measuring ~ feet in
length, and weighing 472 pounds when
dressed, was killed in Webster County
last week, after receiving fourteen balls
and as many knife wounds from crowd
Of hunters.
a young man named Robinson, living
with Mr.. Frank Stanley, near this town,
was kicked squarely in the mouth by a
horse a few days ago. Several of his teeth
were knocked out and his lips were very
badly cut.
There waB glut IN the butter market
the first Of the week, and the highest
price paid for several days was ten cents
per pound. Some Of our merchants dis
posed of large quantities to the hucksters
at eight cents.
Jacob Wintermoyer, the boss elothier,
has gotten in a supply Of clothing and
gents furnishings especially for harvest,
ard if you want anything in that line go
and see him. He has good many arti-
cles you will need.
Mr.. Jacob Wikle died in Monroe county,
w. Va, last week, in the 99th year of his
| age. He was soldier Of the war of 1872,
and the oldest citizen of Monroe county.
His wife still survives him at the remark
able ago of 95 years.
Last Sunday the Massachusetts, Press
Association passed through here on the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad bound for
the caverns of Luray. They are not as
pious as editors generally are, or they
would not be on frolc on Sunday.
| Tho pavements in front OF the proper
ties of Mr.. John II. Show and Miss Teenie
Staley have been raised and relaid. These
were much-needed improvements, and
the persons who attend the Lutheran and
Reformed Churches are greatly rejoiced.
A rumor now runs that the Harrisburg
and Potomac railroad, after connecting
| with the Western Maryland road 8 branch,
ut or near Shippensbsrg, will become part
of Vanderbilt's line to the south in con-
nection with the Shenandoah Valley road.
There ill be very large crop of rasp-
berries and blackberries in this neighbor-
hood if present appearances 60 for any
thing. Strawberries of a splendid quality
have been sold in large quantities in town
this week for eight cents quart or thirty
cents gallon.
Sixty miles Of the Western Maryland
| Railroad has been laid with steel rails, and
the entire line will be belted with the
same material before great while. Three
new forty-ton Baldwin engines and one
hundred and fifty freight ears have just
been added to the rolling stock of the
company.
Tho Western Maryland Railroad Com
pany has secured control of a point Of the
mountain near Pen Mar, known as ont.
| Misery" where will be erected an obser-
vatory similar to that 1T High Rock. Mt.
Misery is the highest point in the range,
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