Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-08-22
BRIEFS.
The watermelon is OH top.

Moler's Cross Roads is going to be
second williams Grove.
There was new moon last Wednesday.
This is the Harvest Moon, and will shine
with unusual brilliancy at the time of her
fullness.
A ShcpherdStown man compcls his
daughter to eat onions every evening, and
as 4 consequence he has had no front gate
10 repair.
The Washington County Branch of the
Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad is being re-
laid with steel rails ia place of the old
iron ones.
Potomac Building Association 20.
will offer for sale several shares of stock
on Monday evening next at eight o'clock
at the Council Room.
The girl who succeeded in forcing
Young man to spend his last cent in treat
ing her 10 ice cream renders herself liable
TO arrest for robbing the male.
A very large number of cOlored persons
from this vicinity attended the camp
meeting at Bedington last Sunday. No
doubt they were highly edited.
The Democrats of Harper's Ferry and
Bolivar have organized a Cleveland and
Hendricks club. Charles IL. Trail was
elected president, and j. c. Rockenbaugh
secretary.
Rev. j. \. Rondthalcr, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at HagerStown, has
accepted a call from Il church at Indian
apolis, Ind. He will leave lIagerstown
September 9TH.
David Oswald, OF the Cavetowm district
Of Washington county, Md, has threShed
from IL acres Of wheat Gil bushels to the
acre. This is the largest yield Of which
we have heard.
Some of the county roads leading to
Shephcrdstown are i'm very bad condi-
ton. The county authorities should make
some provision to have ut least the worst
places repaired.
Some of the very hottest weather this
summer has been experienced during the
past week, and owing to the clouds OF
dust and the general drynesS, it has been
the reverse OF agreeable.
There were two pie mics participated in
by persons from this town on Thursday
q Sunday School pic nic at Island Park
from the surroundings towns, and the
farmers excursion to I.uray.
Charge oaks from little acorns grow"
Who can say that the farmers exhibition
started at Moler's Cross Roads may not
become a permanent agricultural aSsocia-
ton of the most creditablc character:
Mr.. j. w. Blessing has been awarded
the contract for building the new Meth
odist parsonage, to be erected on the site
of the recently burned buildings belong
ing to that denomination, at Charlestown.
Hon. Z. Willis Wilson, Democratic cam
didate for Governor, is announced to
sneak at Charlestown on Thursday, Aug.
2Sth, at Martinsburg on Friday, August
Goth, and at Berkeley Springs on Satur-
day, August 3Oth.
Remember the lawn festival on the Col
lege grounds this and tomorrow even
ings. Young man, If you want to make
an impression on your sweetheart, take
her there and treat her. She Will smile
sweetly OH you then.
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad VIII
issue round trip tickets to all persons who
wish to attend the Changers pic ME at
Williams Grove, Pa, beginning on the
25th of August. Fare for the round trip
from Shepherdstown is Sl.43.
The surviving members of Company Il
held their annual soup ut the Big Spring
last Saturday. We had the pleasure OF
sampling a "small" quantity of it, and
pronounced it tip-top. The day was spent
very pleasantly by those who partlci-
pated.
The drought which has prevailed for
the past three or four weeks has been
more or less disastrous to the corn crop.
The ground has been exceedingly dry and
hard, and some of the farmers have been
compelled. to discontinue blowing on this
account.
The handsome new passenger depot of
the Cumberland Valley Railroad ut lla-
gcrstown has been completed, and the
company will take possession on Monday.
The old depot will be demolished and the
grounds laid off in drives, walks and
flower beds.
Samuel Howard, a resident OF Baltimore
and 4 brakeman on the Western Maryland
Railroad, while coupling cars at Williams
port Tuesday, was caught between the
bumpers of two cars and frightfully
crushed about the hips. lie died on We'd
nesday from his injuries.
Tomorrow the international Associa-
ton Of Stenographers will pass through
Shepherdstown ell route to Luray. and
return in the evening. The association
has n membership of about two hundred,
gathered from all parts of the world.
They will travel in a special train.
Hagerstown is in danger of water
famine. The reservoir of the water COM
pany has become empty through leakage,
and the springs which supply it are nearly
dry. For the past wee, or two water has
been very scarce in HagerStown, and the
people have been nearly chOked by the
dust.
A daring robbery was perpetrated at the