Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-05-03
BRIEFS.

large workshop OH his lot near the rail-
road depot.
Hon. Chas. J. Faulkner has purchased
a beautiful winter residence i'll the city vi
Washington.
Winchester is making preparations for
the biggest Fourth OF July ceieora'ioh
ever held in the valley.
Clean up your back yard and throw
vour old tomato cans over the fence. BE
kind to your ncighbOrs.
Mr.T.C Green wood has opened cigar &.
store in the room adjoining his confec-
tionery OIL Main street.
r. Rion Lucas Il Co. have put up shed
near Snvder's blacksmith shop tor an
agricultural storage house.
Bass are beginning to bite lively, ana
if the weather continues warm i'll week
or two they will be plentiful.
The warm weather of the past week has
brought out the gardens finely, anu tina
trees are putting OF their spring dress.
An election for mayor, recorder ana
councilmen of the corporation OF Charles
town will be held on Thursday, May y.
On or about the Goth of May new schcd-
ules will 20 into effect on the Cumberland
Valley and Shenandoah Valley Railroads.
Hon. Fred Douglas and his white wife
visited Rev. y. c. Bracket, principal OF
Storer College, Ilarper's Ferry, last week.
A Sunday School was organized on last
Sabbath ut Oak Grove School-house, anu
Robt. l.. Billmyer elected superintendent.
The Lutheran Sunday School of this
place will hold their annual foreign mis-
sionary services SUNDAY night at 100
o'clock.
Three carloads of chickens and turkeys
passcd through here Tuesday on the Shen-
.,doah Valley Railroad for the Eastern
markets.
This must be good time for weddings.
Four of them within ten days is a pretty
good showing for town the size OF ohep-
hcrdstown.
We notice that iaauy Of our farmers are
irving the patent cOrn-dropperS this sea-
son, one nan doing the work that usually
required a half dozen.
Rev. f. NJ. Woods temperance sermon,
delivered ut Martinsburg recently, ana
which has created so much talk, has Oech
priiltcd ia pamphlet form.
The site for the foundation of the Johh
Stephenson Female Seminary building III
Charlcstown has been laid oil and the
work of excavation begun.
There is great complaint III this neigh
borhood that the nasty little English
sparrows take the seeds out OF the gar
drns ~ fast rs it is planted.
A new line is talked of whereby the
Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad may shorten
the distance between Martinsburg ana
Piedmont nearly thirty miles.
Geo. Folk, Jr., of this vicinity, had his
horse and buggy stolen in Martinsburs
last Saturday night. We have not hcard
whether it WAS recovered or not.
Mrs. DIR. Jno. Reynolds hatched ninety
voung chickens with an incubator the
other day, and the same night rats cut
the threats of sixty-three of them.
Mr.. al Tabler, of Msrtinsbrrg, who
bad both feet crushed at Roanoke week
or two ago while shifting ears, has since
died from the effects of his injuries.
We notice in the Eigin Qll.) Courier
that Mr.. X. Z. McGlincy, formerly OF thiS
place, is mentioned rs candidate for the
legislature on the Democratic ticket.
The State Temperance Executive Com
mittcc of West Virginia have issued call
TO the citizens Of the State to assemOie III
Petersburg on Wednesday, June Is.
A the time for soda water draws nigh
il will be we'll for young ladies to remem-
her that the soda fountains are dangerous
and liable to blow up and Kill the DeatlX'
Mr. Arthur Bratt, formerly of Martins
burg, AN engineer Oil the Rio "r"iiuc
Railroad, was killed in Gunnison county,
Colorado, OH the 18th of April by snow
slide.
Che State Sunday School Convention OF
West Virginia will be held i'll Grafton on
the 2lst and 22d of May. Reduced rates
Of transportation will be given on the
railroads.
The Board of Regents have changed
the time fixed for the commencement Ut
shepherd College from June 9th 10 the
18th. \ full board is expected 10 DC III
attendance.
We have Just received another lot of
new Job type, and will print bill heads,
letter heads, envelopes, cards, &c, neater
and cheaper than you can have it done
anywhere else.
There will be a grand tournament at
Falling Waters on Whit-Monday, where
valuable prizes will be awarded. There
will be dancing, boating, fishing and
other amusements.
The Harper's Ferry Mounted Rifles,
Capt. George w. Green commanding, pal
raded ut Harper's Ferry on Saturday last.
The company is said to have made very
handsome appearance.
An exchange says: Every girl married
thus far this year positively declares that
the engagement WAS made in 1883. She
does this to avoid suspicion that she took
advantage of leap year.
One day last week Mr.. T. Homsher, OF
Kearueysville, shipped five hundred doz