Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-08-29
BRIEFS.

We are Informed that the stack yard of
Mr.. Thomas Allsadt, living about mile
and a-half from Harper's Ferry, was &C.
stroyed ~ fire one night last week, to-
gether with about one thousand bushels
of wheat. The wheat was fully insured.
A very small force is now left at the
Norfolk and Western Railroad shops at
Petersburg, also at Roanoke, only suffi-
cient number of carpenters and machin-
lists to keep up necessary repairs. About
one-third of the brakesmen on the road
have been discharged.
The scourgc of diphtheria has been at
tended with much fatality near Millville,
in this county. On Friday week Mr.. John
Buzzard lost one child, and on Monday
two more. The last named day n child Of
Mr.. Joseph Buzzard also died of the same
dread disease.-Spira.
We are informed that our publc-spirit-
ed citizen, Henry Shepherd, Esq, has
contributed very handsomely 20 the Cleve-
land and Hendricks Club of our town.
What a flourishing and creditable club
might be formed if we had a few more
such spirits in our midst.
An ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and mu-
steal, recitations and readings-for the
benefit of the Sunday School of st. Johns
Protestant Episcopal Church at Harper's
Ferry, will be given in "Anthony Hail."
Storer College, Wednesday and Thursday
nights, September 10th and 1lth.
Bob Hughes, colored, Of Charlestown,
struck Annie Stanton, colored, Of the
same place, blow on the neck, at Island
Park, last Friday, from the effects of
which she remained unconscious for sew
eral hours. Hughes was arrested and
held for a requisition from the Maryland
authorities.
The great Interstate Pic Mic and Ex-
hibition at Williams Grove, Pa, was
opened oil Tuesday in the presence of
thousands of people. The attendance
from Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland,
PENNSYLVANIA and other States is inn
meuse, while the exhibits OF machinery,
&C., are larger than ever before.
The Young Mems Christian Association
of Duffields have invited the associations
of the county to join in convention to
be held at that place beginning this Fri
day. evening, August Goth, and contin-
uing through Saturday and Sunday fol-
lowing. A cordial invitation is extended
to the public generally to be present.
Joseph Lindsey, aged 10 years, died on
train on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road near Harper's Ferry last Friday. He
had been employed by NAH named Nc
Cabe, in Washington county, Pa, and
was going to his home in Caroline county,
when he met his death. Four weeks ago
he stuck pick in his foot, which super
induced erysipelas.
Robert johnson, colored man, resid-
ing north of Shepherdstown, killed thir-
ty-seven snakes last Monday. Twenty
seven of them were copper-heaGs-mostly
small oncs-aud the other ten were garter
snakes. Copper-heads must be plentiful
in that neighborhood. as MIR. Il. Ii. Davis
informed us that he had killed twenty
four large ones in day.
Owing to continued ill-hcalth, Mr.. w.
T. Logan, who has been one of the editors
and proprietors of the Martinsburg hide
pendent for eleven years, has been conf
PEELED TO Withdraw from business, and his
partner, Mr.. J. Nelson Wisner, will here
after have sole charge of the newspaper.
We regret Mr.. Logan's affection, but
know that the paper will be most etli-
GENTLY managed by Mr.. Wisncr.
As number of soldiers were looking
over the Gettysburg battlefield for relies
recently, one of them caught sight of
belt plate He reached down to lift it. 1t
was attached to the belt, and strangely
enough the belt was about the body Of a
soldier who fell on the spot during the
famous fight. The scheme of taking that
relic home was abandoned, and the re-
mains were removed to the cemetery and
buried.