Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-03-15
,r,rnDAY.----MARCm Is, 1854
BRIEFS.

and now since license has carried most
anything can set full.
These billiards. are becoming altogether
too common. We have been having them
nj the rate of about two week.
Darnell. the photographer, will only
rcmsin with us for two months. If you
want your picture made call at once.
The women and the hens will soon
BEGIN their usual spring fight about the
cardeu seeds. Wen bet on the heus.
The Supreme Court Of Appeals Of this
state is now in session in Wheeling, and
it is thought the term will be Il very long
one.
Trussell & Hess have added stock of
cord wood at their coal yard, which they
will sell delivered or at yard in any guam
tity desired.
Mr.. Il. Homsher, of Kearneysyiilc, has
sold to Mr.. David L. Jones the property
he recently purchased known as the Rob-
erts tract, for $1,000 cash.
There will be a meeting of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society OF the III. T..
Church South next Thursday, March 20,
at 8 y. m. at Mr.. David Hont's.
Next Monday, the 18th, is ST. Patgick's
day in the morning, but We are OF the
opinion that there will not be very many
potatoes planted in this section.
Rev. John Z. S.rider delivered lecture
in Charlestown Tuesday night on "The
Miracle ia Stone" which is very we'll
spoken of by those who heard 1t.
The Circuit Court adjourned on Satur-
day last. The Spirit says Judge Magin-
Mss, of Cabell county, who presided dur
ing the last week, made d favorable I'M
preston upon the people.
We are informed that the children in
tho Kearneysville neighborhood are pass
ing through q season of mumps and
measles at present. A large number of
the young ones are thus afflicted.
Rev. j. Rice Bowman, for seventeen
years pastor of the Presbyterian Church
at HarriSonburg, Va, has received and
accented call to the church of that de-
nomination at Gainsboyough, Texas.
Since the introduction Of two-cent let
ter postage there has been an unexpected
reduction in the number OF postal cards
issued. The people prefer paying the
extra cent and keeping their business to
themselves.
Tho work of turning water into the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal for the season
was begun at Cumberland the first of the
week. 1t is said that several coal compa-
MES are ready to ship as soon rs the canal
is in readiness.
One of the two men named Hawks re-
Gently thrown into the Shencndoah river,
near Pipertown, by the overturning OF
skiff. died from cold contracted at chat
time and was buried on Monday of last
week.-Fres Press.
Cherry Grove Grange, in Berkeley
county, has organized Vigilance Com
Il
An invitation is given to horse owners in
the county TO enroll themselves as mem
bert of the company.
Fifty acres of unimproved land near
Leetown, part Of the James l.. Campbell
tract. was sold on Thursday of last week
by 4. Boyd Faulkner and James w. Nc
Kown, special commissioners, to Colonel
John NJ. Coyle, at $3l per acre.
Our former countyman, Mr.. {. +.
Smith. brother of Mr.. j. Shirley Smith,
Ct this place, and Il large railroad tunnel
contractor, had his thigh broken by the
fall upon him OF large rock near Lead
VILE, Col, few days ago.-Splrt.
Mr. Albert Hill, below town, had bad
luck with his colt Prince the other day.
1t ran against the fence and broke,its
stfie, and il is not able to stand up. About
two weeks before the horse was hurt Mr..
Hill refused two hundred dollars for him.
1t is said that the question of freights to
canal boatmen has not yet been settled,
but that one or two large shippers will
offer eighty cents per ton. 1t IS also stated
that the trippage will be correspondingly
reduced. Tho freight rate last year was
ninety cents.
The County Court of Berkeley county
has offered a reward of $500 for the arrest
and conviction of the horse thieves who
made such successful raid week or two
ago. A reward of $3.50 additional has
been offered by DR.. Snodgrass, Hunter
Small ana c. Matthaei.
The Bolivar Cavalry Company, Captain
George Green, has about thirty members,
and is steadily growing. They had an
Informal parade last Saturday and march
ed through the streets of the town, their
movements being directed by the sound
of Bngler Upright's Instrument.
A silver watch is on exhibition in Ha-
gerstow which was buried in 1863, along
with the body of its owner, Harry Allen,
who was killed while at Williamsport, on
his retreat with the Confederate army
after the defeat at Gettysburg. The body
was taken up in 1882 for reintcrment,
when the watch was recovered.
Mr.. John F. Keller, who is having his
drills manufactured by the Shepherds
town Manufacturing Company. has re-
moved his family from Martinsburg to
this place, and is occupying the house in
the western end Of town vacated by Mr..
j. j. W. johnson. Mr.. johnson has
moved. into the house belonging to DR..
Tanner, on King street.
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