Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-08-01
BRIEFS.

week:
Remember, every vote will count to-
morrow.
County Court meets next Monday, Au-
gust All.
The frequent showers this week have
been of very great benefit to the corn and
other crops.
Three hundred persons are sojourning
At the Blue Mountain House at Pen Mar.
The hotel is almost full.
Betwixt the candidates and the Teach
ers' Institute the town has been more
lively than usual this week.
Wonder where all the circuses ale?
There doesn't seem to be one within a
hundred miles of this place.
The pic mic season is at its height. The
various resorts in this section have daily
excursions of pleasure seekers.
The crop of blackberries is immense
this year. The market has been well
supplied here at five cents a quart.
Judging from the scarcity of weddings
in this ncighborhooG, the girls have en-
tircly forgotten that This Is lear-year.
Prof. J s. Pierce will open his school
in Shcpherdstown the first day of Septen-
Der next. Advertisement next week.
Or. T. Hodges has just received car
lead Of stoncware, which can be sold for
less money than the common earthcmware.
\ Shepherdstown lady says she is real
Glad that Cleveland has been nominated
for President, for she thinks it is lovely
city.
Several shares of stock will be offered
FOR sale by Potomac Building Association
No. on Monday evening next at O'Clock
in the council room.
The farmer with his wheat yield, the
pcnickcr with his snake story and the
fishermen with his big bass are now con-
testing for first place.
A boy on canal boat opposite town
caught fish of the sucker variety last
Monday that was - inches long and
weighed over four pounds.
The north-bound morning passenge!
train of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad
vas seven hours late on Tuesday, caused
by wash-out up the road.
One of the sea lions recently placed in
pond at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, died
:. few days ago. The muddy water was
too rich for tie sea lions constitution.
Amos Bishop, of Washington county,
Md, was drowned in the canal near Dam
No. 6 last week. He fell into the water
while intoxicated. His body was recov-
cred.
John RoJinson's circus will be in Mar
,insburg on Tuesday, August l2th, and in
Uagerstown on the nth. He has many
,,nu and attractive features lion In wait
for visitors.
1t i. said that the Secretary o. tAe
Treasury will in all probability offer the
Government property at Harper Ferry
for sale at public auction about the middle
Of September.
There were seven young ladies and one
Young gentleman made sick in Cumber-
LAND, 4 few days ago, from eating ice
cream. 1t was necessary TO call in a ply
stefan in two cases.
The annual pic mic of the employees OF
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad VIII
take place at Island Park on Wednesday,
August 18th. There will be excursion
trains from all points.
Jupiter Pluvius ''''raincd" supreme on
Sunday and Monday. The, fall OF rain
was especially heavy Monday night, ana
it is unnecessary to state that the town is
now well supplied with water.
4 conference Of the Young Mems
Christian Associations of Maryland and
West Virginia was opened at Mountain
Lake Park, Nd, on Tuesday. The excl
ciScs have been most interesting.
The corporation is having the crossing
n !.ambert's saloon raised out OF the mud
and made passable. 1t is entirely too mar
row, however. 1t ought to be about ten
feet wide ut that particular point.
Young man named lIav ermiil, from
Morgan county, West Virginia, visiting
relatives in Frederick county, Va, was
drowned in Back creek, near DE Harsn's
mills, on Tuesday afternoon, while bath
ing.
L, mn nf Npr
tinsburg, has been seriously i'll at his
home in that place, and fears were cX-
pressed that he would not recover. The
last reports were more encouraging, how
ever.
Spring chickens are very scarce in the
ShepherdstOwn market. The travelling
hucksters scour the country and carry of
the greater part Of poultry, butter anu
eggs before the town people have chance
10 buy.
DR.. W. w. Rowan, formerly OF Charles
town, and we'll known in this place, is,
with two other persons, owner OF the
"Army and Navy" silver mine, Hear
Ouray, Colorado. There is said TO be
millions in it,"
A party of iifty-two Georgia editors and
their friends passed through this place
last Friday in special palace car on 'h"
Shenandoah Valley Railroad. Most OF
them returned home this week By 'he
same route, stopping OF At Lrray.
The West Virginia Press Association IL
considering an excursion 10 Florida the