Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-10-27
BRIEFS.

will offer to redeem several shares OF
stock on Monday evening next Mt seven
o'clock.
This Is the season when the country ed
itor works off that stupendous pun about
the beet that is hard TO beat. Brethren,
spare us.
Captain Dunmore's cOlOred band turned
out last Saturday evening and edited our
people with their music. They play
well-and often.
Great quantities OF walnut and poplar
logs from southwest Virginia are being
shipped over the Shenandoah Valley Rail
road to northern markets.
Martinsburg is looming up. Not con-
tent with having just organized brass
band, the people there are talking Of Or
ganizing Zouave military company.
Mr.. A. C. Drawbaugh, Of Shenandoah
Junction, is shipping large quantities OF
apples to Washington and Baltimore. If
you have any to sell, take them to him.
Chestnuts are not very plentiful, neither
are they cheap, but cheering reports come
from Virginia in regard to the peanut
crop. The hOodlum is therefore happy.
The members of Potomac Lodge, I. o.
G. T., will hold their quarterly election
of officers on Monday evening next at 2
O'Clock. A large attendance is requested.
An excursion from Harrisburg and To-
cal points OH the Cumberland Valley road
passed through here Thursday for Luray
cave. This is about the last excursion of
the season.
Mr.. j. l.. Richard has full stock Of
tall and winter goods in store now, and
calls attention to the fact by his new adj
yertisement. You cannot do better than
to deal with this reliable house.
More than half the schools I'm Hamp-
shire county will be Without teachers this
winter. The cause, teachers salaries re-
duced to $25 for No. l certificates and
schools only kept open four months.
"Mr. james A. Gary offers to give as
much money as any :wo Democrats oil
Howard County towards building a hall
for public uses i'm Ellicott City, Md" Oh,
that we had Gary here in Jefferson
County!
Our friend Mr.. Jacob J. Miller, Of Kear-
neysville, takes the premium for raising
beets. He brought one to our office on
Thur sday which weighed ~. pounds and
measured % inches i'm circumference. If
we can get barrel big enough we will
pickle the beet.
At sale below town on Tuesday last,
while some persons were throwing stones
into apple trees, Mr.. Albert Hill was
struck by stone and received very bad
cut on the head. DIR. A. 5. Reynolds
dressed the wound.
Hon. ID. Il. Lucas, Of this county, ac-
corning to an interview in the Wheeling
Leader, thinks that Senator Mcdonald, OF
Indiana, is the coming man for the first
place on the presidential ticket of the
Democrats in 1884.
We regret to learn that one of the fine
Kentucky horses, recently purchased by
Mr.. Henry Shepherd, died few days ago
Of collie. The animal was one of pair of
beautifully matched carriage-horses, and
was quite valuable.
At the sale Of the property Of Miss A.
A. Taylor, on Tuesday, the stock sold for
excellent prices. Three Attorney cows
sold for the aggregate sum Of s276, young
heifers brought from $50 to $40 each, and
other stock for equally good prices.
Mr.. G. 4. Hodges, our entcrprising
grain merchant, is buying great deal of
wheat in various portions of this county.
lie shipped several carloads from Lime
kiln Switch on Monday, and has also been
shipping considerable quantities from
Chsrlestown.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is do
ing large business now. The shipments
of grain and merchandise have been nn-
usually heavy, while the coal business is
also good. 1t is expected that the activity
will continue until the close OF the season,
about December 18th.
Physicians ascribe the prevalence Of
diphtheria Mt the present day largely 10
badly trimmed lamps, which are some
times left burning in chambers all night,
turned down low, filling the room with
their poisonous fumes. Avoid the cause
and save doctors bill.
The room Of the Y. NJ. G. A. was
opened to the public OH Thursday night,
and an invitation is heartily extended to
the public to visit it. There is an excel.
lent library, with number of interesting
periodicals. ard an evening can be spent
most pleasantly. Everybody is invited.
We have received from the publishers
of Peterson's Magazine large steel en-
craving, "Tired Out" which is as pretty
a picture as one would wish for. 1t is
given AS a premium for getting up clubs.
Write tor particulars to Peterson's Mag
azine, BOG Chestnut street, Philadelphia,
Pa.
The past season has been most graft
flying one to the managers of agricultural
fairs. All held in this neighborhoo1 have
been very successful, financially and in
other respects. This fact should be an
inducement TO the directors of the newly
organized society ia this county to make
an effort to have n good showing for next
year.
Read the new advertisement in another
column of II. e. Berry & Co., of Martins