Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-03-08
BRIEFS.

l.. WllSon ior FacA"S0 VI S
The days are lengthening out at both
ends now, and daylight is getting the
upper hand of darkness.
Eggs have been slowly but surely COM
ing down in price. They were quoted at
ID cents n dozen this week.
Baker & McMurran have Just received
very cheap lot of birthday cards, Easter
cards and cottage chromos.
Garden seeds have been slow sale this
week, and cabbage plants are at dis
count, but oysters sell well.
Persons who desire to have horse bills
printed neatly and cheaply can have it
done at THE REGIsTEI OFFICE.
1t is expected that one hundred boats
will be built at Cumberland during the
present season for use on the canal.
The new city council of Hinton. W.
Va, has fixed the liquor license at $500,
which will close out the smaller saloons.
The Jingle of sleigh bells was heard on
orr streets once more on Thursday, but
the sieighing did not amount to very
much.
Go to the temperance meeting this Sat
urday evening, and thus help to make The
occasion one that shall be beneficial ait
enthusiastic.
The annual conference of the NJ. i.
Church is now being held in Washington,
DC. Rey. T.. o. Cook, of this place, has
been i'm attendance.
Judge Maginniss, of Cabell county, has
been holding court in Charlestown TINS
week. and Judge Faulkner is taking his
place at Barboursville.
We return thanks 10 Mr.. John Is.
Miller, formerly Our "devil," but no"
typo on the Cumberland Daily Se~S, for
several copies of that paper.
Rev. Mr.. Bryan, of Clarke county,
Va, conducted services fcf the ReY. l.. X.
Mason. of the Episcopal Church, or Sun
day last and on Monday night.
Mr.. w. IL. Whitlock, agent CT the
Equitable Life Insurance Association oil
Mar,ihsbnrg. has been in town this week
i'm the Interests Of the association.
Two very valuable horses belonging to
Mr.. John W. Adams, OF llaSerstown,
we're suflocated last week in stable that
had taken fire. The animals We're insured.
The ground hog has beaten Nennor,
II Il n N tIn weather
prophets this winter, and will shortly
make his second annual visit. Look out
for him.
The Fifth Virginia Confederate ReSi-
ment has invited the Twenty-eishth New
York Volunteers, who entertained lheM
ut Niagara Falls last May, to visit Staui-
Lsn this summer.
The Ladies' Town-Iall and Library
Association :ntcnd to- have Il concert III
the near future, and arrangements iooh-
ing 10 that end are now being made. 4hey
are bound to keep the ball rolling
Mr.. George McGlincy asks Us to correct
the statement made last week that the
food carried off his possessions Ill Park
.rsburg. lie had removed everything
from his house before the water got into
II.
We return our thanks to Mr.. j. Is. D'll-
;els for an invitation TO attend the twelfth
annual commencement OF the College OF
PHYSICIANS and Surgeons, which WAS held
in the Academy of Music, Baltimore, on
tuesday.
The artillery company recently reor-
rauizcd i'm Martinsburg now numbers oo
neu. At a recent meeting it was decided
60 name the organization the "Camden
LIGHT Artillery of MartinSburg, III honor
CT Senator Camden.
ouerys-Can't the youth who are IN
the habit of talking in chdrch during SER
vice refra from that bad habit? Will
not older persons who SIT scar them
check it when they see them thus us
turbing the congregations
Shad and herring are beginning TO DC
taken in very small numbers, but tue
prices are exceedingly nigh. /" wash
inpton on Monday II few of these hSh
we're sold, and the shad brought So.Zo
apiece aud he herring So per hundred.
Dogs COT into a flock of sheep belonging
10 Mr.. Jacob Rinker, in Berkeley couply,
recently, and of the nineteen sheep III the
flock all were killed OF manned except
one. And we notice by our exchanges
that the same thing is occurring in every
part of the State.
The corpoyasion election will be he!d on
Monday next, March l0;h. The officers
20 be voted for are Mayor, Recorder and
five Councilman. The polls will be open
from sunrise to sunset. Persons who arc
in arrears for corporation ta3os will not
be entitled TO vote.
A telephone line is TO be erected be-
tween the Shenandoah valley Railroad
station and the post-otlice at Charicstown'
We presume that hereafter When the tEala
is four or five hours late the fact can DC
ascertained without making the journey
from the town TO the depot.
Mcssrs. ii. G. Davis Il Bro, OF Ried-
mont, W. Va, have just purchased the
property of the Hampshire and Baltimore
Coal Company, lying in the Georges
Creek region, known us the "Old llamp-
shire" and "Pentlapd HIP mines. The
purchase includes stock, equipments, &c.
From its publisher, the Russell Pub
fishing Co. Boston, we have received the