Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-10-31
BRIEFS.

hat is now a thing Of the past
Tonight will be Halloween, and
witches and spirits will be rampant.
Mr.. G. T. Hodges has had several new
coal bins put up on his lot at the railroad
station.
The County Court will meet next Mon
dav, and the Circuit Court will begin No
vember 18th.
A lot of unthreshcd clover-sced, belong
ing to Mr.. w. ID. BriScoe, of this county,
was burned about 10 o'clock Oh Saturday
night last.
Dr.. James +. Reeves, of the West Nir-
ginis Board of Health, has been elected
President of the National Public Health
Association.
Mr.. G.. ii. Small, of Berkeley county,
while blowing last week, had several OF
his ribs broken by being struck with
plowhandlc.
The trees have put on their fall colOrS,
and the brilliant and lovely foliage lend
beauty to the landscape that tile most IN
different can enjoy.
Mr.. John II. Snyder has now in course
OF erection frame dwclling-housc near
Mr.. Lcmen's warehouse, on New street.
Mr.. G. w. Hawn is the builder.
Butter and eggs have lately taken
raise in the Shepherdstown market. The
former is now selling at % cents a pound
and the latter at 30 cents Il dozen.
Mcssrs. J. S. Fleming & Son have just
gotten in Il stock of boots and shoes for
winter wear, and they will sell them
cheap. Give them call-it will pay you.
The latest thing in the way of female
adjournment is Il new tailOr-made overcoat
for ladies. 1t is L regular manniSh sort
Of n coat, decorated with braid ana with
all sorts of trimming.
Henry n. Woods, a brakeman on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, WAS thrown
from car at Sandy Hook last week and
his back and several ribs were broken.
lie was taken to his home in Baltimore in
Il critical condition.
For the benefit Of sportsmen it may be
stated that partridSes, wild turkeys,
phcaSauts, grouse, wild ducks, wild geese,
woodcock, and, in fact, about all of the
game birds are now in season and the law
stvs they may be killed.
The many friends of Hon. Charles James
Faulkner will regret to learn that he IS
living dangerously i'll at his residence III
Martiusburg. Grave fears arc entertained
that he will not recover. Mr.. Faulkner
j. sevcnty-eight years old.
The mumps are going the rounds in
Shcpherdstown. \ large number Of the
school children have the disease, and one
of the teachers i'm the Graded School IS
also afflicted. The whoopimS cough is
likewise coming into fashion.
\ young man at lIedgcsville and his
girl have made the following agreement:
If Blaine is elected he is to marry the
girl; if Cleveland is elected the girl is to
marry him; and if neither of them set it
they are TO marry each other.
Mr.. j. L. Swartz, clothier and merchant
tailor, Eagerstown, has his new ADVERTISE
ment in this issue. If you want we'll
made and nice fitting suit of clothes, Mr.,
SwartZ is the man who can furnish it. Go
and see him when you visit Hagerstown.
DIR. X. VI. Marshall, of ShepherdStown,
sold this week the first Perchcron-Nor-
man colt bred in this section. Mr.. Jacob
l.. Myers, of Washington county, Md,
lourht the colt, which was less than six
months old, paying 500 for it. 1t was
fine young animal.
The Week Of Prayer for the Young
Mems Christian Association throughout
the world will commence on Sunday, No
yember 9th, and continue until Novcm-
Der 10Th. The She phcrdstown Association
will observe ths-season of prayer.
An attempt was made ~ some one to
enter the dwelling of Mr.. David Fridin-
ger, near the Shenandoah Valley depot,
last week. Mrs. F., however, eyinccd
the fact that she could use shotgun in
such an emergency, and the thief or
thieves suddenly eparted.-SpuH.
Messrs. Charles Powell and Louis Get
2endanner are having erected near the
PRESBYTERIAN Church, on one of the Shop
herd lots, building to be used i'll the
manufacture of huskS into mattresses, sc.
The structure is n frame one, p by 30 feet.
Mr.. VIM. NJ. Stalcy is doing the work.
A man answering the description of
Emmett Mitchell, who shot and killed
Charles Griffith, in Ohio, on the ID OF
September last. was arrested by 4 Wash
inoton detective, near CharleStown, Mon
dav, and committed to jail by Justice
Howell, to await further developments.
Mr.. Maurice job, a skillful mechanic of
Roanoke, has invented and patented M
automatic ear cOupler-dcviSed 10 couple
any height of car, with or without link
or pin, which has been purchased by 4
ioii,t stock company, and is to be manu-
Pictured at the Roanoke Machine Works.
Mr.. George Strailman, wcll-Gnown
citizen of Martinsburg, died last week
from the effects of a paralytic stroke re-
ceiyed several months ago. He had been
in the employ of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company for thirty years, serv-
ing as freight conductor on the first diyi-
sion.
The canning establishment of W. b.
Young, at Mechanicstown, Frederick
county, Nd, was totally destroyed by fire