Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-01-26
BRIEFS.

aud an undertaken are seen riuinS AoN
our streets together.
Weddings are certainly few and Tar De-
tween in our community. Girls 20" are
rot doing your duty.
The Board of Education OF Shepherds-
town district will meet cu Monday after
noon next at 4 o'clock.
Baker & McMarran have just gotten IN
an immense stock of early garden seeds.
they guarantee them pure aad fresh-
Now let every one do all they can to
help along the good work which the
ladies have begun for the building Of our
town hall.
Read the advertisement Of G.. A. Sancr,
furniture and carpet dealer, liagersto~n,
in smother column lie is selling goods
at very low prices.
Representative j. W. Rider and his
bride, OF Harper's Ferry, returned home
on Saturday last after bridal trip Of sev-
eral weeks in Florida.
j. 5. Fleming & Son are turning out
come very neat work now in the way OF
boots and shoes. They can certainly put
them up in The best style
The flock of sheep Of Mr.. Jno. j. kable,
near Kablctown, was attacked by dog
few nights ago, and Twelve Of the sheep
killed and others injured.
4 delegation from Roanoke, Va, visited
Baltimore last ucek i'll reference To the
proposed extension OC the Valley Railroad
from Lexington to Roanoke.
Don't forget the oyster suppers to be
held in Firemcn's Hall by the ladies oil
the VI. f. Church next Friday and Satur-
day evenings, February lst and I'd.
Potomac Building Association No. 2
will offer to redeem several shares OF stock
on Monday evening next at : O'Clock at
the office Of Mr. Geo. NJ. Beltzhoover.
1t is said that rich deposit of tin has
been discovered near Balcony Falls, Va,
and that it has been traced FAR enough TO
Justify the erection of smelling works.
Harerstown will extend its corporate
limits and take in about two thousand
more inhabitants. This, they say, Will
increase their population to nearly i0,ooo.
The comet that is now visible isn't very
much of Il Genet, and can barely be seen
with the naked eye. Junebug Stevens
could uiake as good comet as this one IS.
Mr.. J. Shirley Smith, Of Charlestown,
fell OH the ice in Baltimore 4 few days ago
,od broke his arm. He was just recover
ing from the effects of Il similar accident.
Mr.. JOHN II. Schoppert has accepted a
position in the dry goods aud millinery
store of Mr.. J. +. Welshans, and will
hereafter assist Mr.. w. in the capacity OF
clerk.
Rev. Or. George Zacharias, of Fred
erick, has been spending some days with
Rev. b. F. Bausmau in this place, and
,,ro,,.Iad i'm the Reformed Church last
Sunday.
The February term of the Circuit Court
of tins county will begin on Tuesday,
February l2lh. The County Court Will
meet OF, the first Monday i'll February,
the 4th.
Mr.. Roush Mckee, convicted last week
of unlawful cutting, was sentenced oy
Jpdge Faulkner on Monday to twelve
months in the county Jail aud 1900 hne.-
Independent.
The Keyscr Echo says that recently Mr..
Joseph Biser, of Frankfort district, killed
TWO deer at one shot. One dropped dead
in its tracks and the other ran about two
hundred yards and fell.
David Johnson, colored man OF this
place. while cutting wood oil Tuesday last
accidentally struck his foot with the axe,
making very serious wound and sever
ing one OF tite main arteries.
The Free Press says that by misstep
few DAYS ago Mrs. Col. Il. w. Baylor fell
and dislocatcd her wrist Mrs. Mary
Rodsrick, of Bolivar, also fell on the ice
last Thursday and broke her arm.
All of the members of Potomac Lodge
No. 81 LOG. T., are requested To attend
the meeting OIL Monday evening next, rs
election of officers will take place and
other important business will be trans
acted.
Rers. Eggleston and Ghiselin will eX-
change pulpits OH Sunday. Mr.. Eggles-
ton will preach at Manageable i'll the
afternoon at ! O'Clock, and Mr.. Ghiselin
will nreach at Marvin Chapel st half-past
two o'clock.
Trussell & Hess completed another con-
tract with the Shenandoah Valley Rail-
road Company this week for ice. They
filed the two ice-houses OF the company
at Hagerst0wn and Luray with splendid
lot of Potomac ice.
It wonder and mercy that so few
of the young folks were injured while
coasting. There was but one accident
this week, that Of young lady who fell
from a sled and was painfully cut and
bruised about the head.
Mr.. David B. Winter, living near Cave
town, Washington County, Nd, commit
ted suicide by hanging himself with
halter to Il beam in the upper story of his
dwelling last Thursday. lie was Is years
of age, and leaves wife and four daugh-
tiers.
The Baltimore papers are working Wig
orously in the effort to obtain better mail
facilities out of that city. A. 5. Abel &
Co., of the Sun, have addressed letter to
the Postlnaster-G eueral on the subject.