Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-12-05
BRIEFS.
1t will soon be 1885.

lie TCNcIll TtillS idNC
the looks of the growing wheat.
Pork was offered for sale in Shepherds
town this week ut $3.50 per hundred
weight.
The Sunday Schools OF the town are
busy practicing for their Christmas en-
tertainmcnts.
Jay Gould'S income is four dollars =
minute Editors are not the only wealthy
people, it seems.
Last Sunday afternoon the snow fell to
Sufficient depth to make the walking
very dissgreeable.
d. l.. Rentch has received his holiday
goods, and will guarantee prices as low
As can bc found in neighboring towns.
The Shannondale WOODEN Mill property
has been sold, by Special Commissioner
II. c. Green, Jr., to 5. l.. Rissler, Esq,
for $500.
The Martinsburg Herald says that Mr..
Jacob Miller sold his farm near Swan
Pond few days ago to Mr.. James RAN
dali for 50, 420.
Peter Quigley, one of the oldest boat
men on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal,
died ut Cumberland on Tuesday. He was
- years of age
We call special attention to the adver-
tiscment of Thomas w. Bowman, ndr-
seryman, Rochester, n. Y, who is in
want of more statesmen.
Edward L. Lickllder has on hand full
line OF sleigh bells, robes, blankets, &C.,
for the winter season, and he will sell
them at the most reasonable prices. Give
him 4 call.
\ restaurant: keeper of Baltimore city
had on exhibition last week eleven oys-
tiers that when opened filled quart meas
urc Whew. we would like to have SAM
pied them.
As usual, our Carrier Boy will get up
a Carriers Address this year for the pa
irons Of TIE REGISTER. We hope our
merchants and others will give him lib
eral Scnd-otf.
The Morning. Call, published at Freder-
lex, Md, has died natural death. The
proprietors became convinced that there
was no demand for daily morning news
paper in that city.
II our lady readers wish to see what
will please them, call some evening and
hook over the show cases in Baker & Nc
Murran'S store We took bird 's-cyc
view of them and were delighted.
We call attention TO the advertisement
of the Baltimore Sun. The Sun is the
leading paper in this section, and it Is
unnecessary for lis To add any words of
commentator FOR this reliable journal.
MIR. Ahucr Baird, agent of the South
Branch Railroad at Romucy, w. Va, was
married last week to Miss Rc5ccca Spriggs,
uf Paw Paw Mr.. Baird was formerly a
student at Shepherd College in this place.
Christmas is coming, and our merchants
are filling up their stores with goods
suitable for the occasion. Advertise your
wares in The REGISTER, and you will not
lave to carry your stock over another
year.
We notice by our exchanges in this and
adjoining counties that several OF those
BIG birds called the loon have been cap
tured. The birds are strangers in this
latitude, and were probably carried here
by storm.
Mr.. +. W. Latimer, our reccntly-electcd
clerk Of the Circuit Court, spent nearly
all his time in Chariestown during the
session of the court, i'll order to ges 1.-THE
hang of the business" lie will make 4
good clerk.
The order reducing the wages Of the
miners in the Cumberland coal regions
from fifty to forty cents Il ton went into
effect last Monday. The miners did not
strike, and nearly Eli of them will work
ut the reduced price.
Rev. Mr.. McI.arcn has been holding a
series of very interesting revival services
i'm the NJ. +. Church this week. If the
interest continues to grow the services
is cordially invited to attend.
The Roanoke Reri,lr understands that
their thriving young city is to have still
another boom in the shape of extensive
orders for machinery, which will make
necessary the employment of over thou
sand men at the machine works.
A ,,1, ,,1 bn nr,-O for
December has been received from the
Russell Publishing Co., of Boston, Mass.
This is the best child's magazine that is
published, ana there can be no better gift
to the little folks than years subscrip-
ton to it.
Commander W. ). Schlcy, who had
charge of the Arctic expedition that res
cucd the Greedy party, spent Sunday aud
Monday in lIaScrStown, stopping with
his cousin, Col. George Schley. a num-
Der of prominent persons called to pay
their respects.
Miss Cora 10y, of Williamsport, Md,
daughter of Mr.. William 10y, was shot
in the leg on Monday evening by her
mother. Mrs. 10y took deliberate aim,
not knowing that the gun was loaded
The young lady is painfully but not dam
gerously wounded.
We have concluded to close out at cost
for cash or trade our entire stock queens
ware and glassware. Beautiful decorated
stand lamp worth 1925 for So cts. Gold
a.. -. Macs rosa tao cor