Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-06-27
BRIEFS.


delays are dangerous"
Senator Camden, Of West Virginia, has
Como to Europe on recreation trip. lie
will be gone about six weeks.
Mr.. John w. Hill has left at our office
a bunch Of rye containing over eighty
stalks, all said to be the product of one
grain.
During the past week there have heop
some rather disagreeable odors floating
around on tko breeze, an evidence that
some hog-pen needs purifying.
The date Of the holding of the West
Virginia Educational Association, to be
held at New Martinsville, has been
changed to July l, . and 3, 1854.
In the trustees report of Rcinhart's
school last week the name Lulic II. Banks
should have been Lulic II. KoonZ, who
did not miss one day from school.
The thermometer was very heightened
the first of the week. Sunday was prob
ably the hottest day Of the season 50 far,
the mercury being almost up to the boil
ing point.
Work has commenced on the walls OF
the new Methodist Episcopal Church on
North Potomac street, Hagerstown. 1t
promises TO DO the finest church III West
ern Maryland.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has
begun its Wednesday excursions from
Baltimore and Washington to Luray, the
first one having taken place on Wednes-
day of this week.
Another jewelry establishment has been
opened in Shepherdstown. Mr.. Frank y.
Alder has begun business in the room
lately occupied by Ludwig Sailing. Read
the advertisement.
THE Williamsport Pilot says that the
cornct band of that place culivens the
town with its music twice month. The
Shcpher,lstown band enlivens this place
about twice a year.
Messrs. Chas. II. Trail and r. \. Alex
ander, our present efficient county asses
sors. arc candidates for reelection. They
cannot he beaten, and there will doubtless
be little opposition.
Communion services will DC held by
Rev. ID. n. Moser in the Lutheran Church
nj Unionville on Sunday, June. Goth, At
1890 a. M. Preparatory services Sunday
morning at o'clock.
Mr.. f. T. Lynch, Clerk of the Circuit
Court Of this county, was Marie! on
"Wednesday to Miss Brady, of Hochbridsc,
Va.-or at less. that was the day set for
the important ceremony.
During the storm last Saturday after
noon four barns were struck by lightning
in Washington county, Md. One OF them,
belonging to Mr.. Samuel Sword, was en-
tircly consumed, with all its contents.
Rev. D. NJ. Gilbert, pastor of the Lu-
thersu Church at Winchester, Va, has
been elected professor Of dogmatic and
polemic theology in The Evangelical Lu-
theran Theological Seminary OF South
Carolina.
Byreference to our advertising columns
IL will be seen that the candidates for the
various county offices are beginning to
announce themselves to the public. There
will be plenty of good material to choose
from this year.
Z carload of watermeions passed
through Shephcrdstown few days ago,
on the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, from
Georgia to New York. 1t was trial
shipment, and II 1t proves satisfactory
large shipments will be- made this summer.
The first now wheat received on
'Change In Baltimore was sold last FRI
day. 1t was Of the Fultz variety, grown
in Middlesex county, Va, and though
damp brought one dollar and ftty-tiVe
cents per bushel for the lot of thirty-four
bushels.
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad Com
pany will sell local excursion tickets at
all stations Oh Saturdays and Sundays,
good to return until midnight on Monday,
III regular avs i'iNSS ''Si'~N'
will be sold only between the hours Of
a. m. Saturday and II noon on Sunday,
There will be meeting OF the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society Of tho NJ. f.
Church South next Wednesday evening
after prayer meeting for the election OF
officers for the ensuing year. Every
III OF o.horc in
terested in the missionary cause a-c ear
nestly requested to be present.
Geo. d. Hughes, Inspector Of bridges
OF. the Cumberland division OF the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, fell from Patter-
son Greek bridge last week, a distance of
twenty feet. In falling he struck with
his side on a projecting sill of the bridge,
causing internal injuries. He WAS sent to
his home in Harper's Ferry. His injuries
are considered serious.
The Shepherdstown Base Bsll Club
went to Martinsburg last Saturday to play
4 match game with the club Of that place.
Five innings were played, and the visitors
were two scores ahead. The MartiTsburg
club then played their half Of the sixth
inning, but the Shepherdstowners refused
TO play longer on account of the rain and
wind, and forfeited the game.
The Boonsboro Times says: Mr. Joseph
Gantz, assisted by some neighborS, killed
fourteen polecats on Friday last. They
had taken refuge under the floor of the
feeding room. BY cautiously removing