Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-03-01
BRIEFS.

We are indebted to Senator Camden Tor
documentary favors.
ID. l.. Rcntcl has just received nice
lot of spring samples of NALL paper. Caii
and see them.
Mr.. John Il. Colston, of this county,
had seven or eight sheep killed by dogs a
few nights ago.
large hotel is TO be erected at Stands,
on the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, i'll
Page county, Va.
Mr.. c.. T. Hodges has lately been ship
ping considerable quantity of baled hay
to the city market.
Moving time approacheth, and AS usual
large number OF people Will take up
their beds and walk.
The Ienten season began last Wednes-
day lash Wednesday,, and fasting Will
take the place Of feastinS.
Appropriate services were held in the
Episcopal and Reformed Churches III
Shepherdstown on Ash-Wednesday.
Mayor Logan. of Martinsburg, who was
paralyzed week before last has improved
somewhat, and hopes are entertained that
he may finally recover.
The second annual cncampment OF the
Department of West Virginia, Grand
army of the Republic, will be held at
Parkcrsburg March 18th.
The suppcrs held ly the Ladies Town
Hall aud Library Association last week
were well patronized. About 500 clear
OF expenses was realized.
4 marriage license was Issued III wash
ingtou OH Monday TO George Hughes, OF
Frederick county, Nd. and Sarah Hughes,
of Jefferson county, W. Va.
The temperance people are making Il
good campaign. There will be another
lecture next Tuesday evening in College
Hall, to which you are invited.
Over one hundred persons from Shep-
herdstown attended the carnival at lia-
rcrstown last Friday. They were we'll
pleased with the sights they saw.
Col. f. L. G. Lewis, of liobokem, \. j.,
has purchased of Mrs. VIM. d. Mcclure
her farm Of rs acres, situated near Per-
ryyille, Clarke county, at $50 per acre.
Rev. j. w. Mitchell, of the NJ. +.
Church South, u preacher on Jefferson
Circuit, WAS married on the 18th ultimo
10 Miss Matte Hook, of Clarke county.
While in Charlestown ON Tuesday we
had the pleasure of accepting the hoSpi-
tality of our friend Mr.. Ilaincs, of the
spirit lie is Il very clever gentleman.
Read the advertisement OF the Domestic
Sewing Machine in another column. Mr..
j. :. Fleming, OF this place, has accepted
the agency for the machines IN this Sec
ton.
The knowing ones say that the Goa!
trade OIL the Chesapeake aud Ohio Canal
will DC good the coming season. Boatmeh
who have been wintcring here viii! soon
pull out.
When our citizens awoke on Thursday
morning their eyes were grseted with the
sight of snow which had fallen during the
night. 1t did not take very long to melt,
however.
The time for hooking the sportive bass
l. near at hand, and our fishermen are
overhauling their rods and reels and lines
and hooks in anticipation of some inter-
esting sport.
\ report comes from Calhoun county,
this State, of the formal marriage there
recently of Il young couple, tho BRIDE
being but eleven aud the groom sixteen
years OF agc.
Hon. j. NJ. Mason threatens TO sue the
Wheeling Register for libel, because lis
correspondent wrote that Mr.. Mason said
the Virginia Legislature had its price and
lie was prepared to pay it.
A large box of clothing and quantity
OF provisions, supplemented with some
cash. was sent from Shephcrdstown to
Wheeling this week for the benefit OF the
flood sufferers ia our State.
Messrs. Updcgraff entertained the gem
,lemcn of the press who attended the car
nivsl at Uagerstown last Friday, devoting
the second floor of their large new build
ing TO the comfort Of ye editor.
The Martinsburg Herald says that Mr..
David l.. Eubanks has raised fine young
horse, Norfolk Hero, of English imported
stock, which though but three years Old
weighs ] 200 pounds, and for which lie
has already been offered 81 900.
The Alexandria Gazette says that the
fishing season has commenced in the Po-
tomac River, and that shad and herring
are being caught in small quantities, aud
fine rock fish are unusually abundant.
Rev. +. Curry will deliver sermon be-
fore the members OF Oak FALL Lodge No.
1927, Of colored Odd Fellows, on Sunday,
March 2d, at three o'clock.
LEE WILLIAMS, Sec'y.
Election day is drawing near. There
will probably be no great contest over the
Mayoralty aud for Councilmen, but the
temperance people will make strong
effort to have temperance town next
year.
The boys had a parade in Shepherds
town on the 22d, aud we must say they
made rich display and had some surpris-
lngly original costumes. They paraded
I'm u '.chariot" drawn by four spirited
steeds.
MIR. G.. T.. Hodges has received large
snnr,, Of tl,Nsa stan,la r,l remedies Eoutz'S