Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-02-20
40. 1885
BRIEFS.

d.. Rentch has the best two for I'VE
Cigars In town. Try them.
There is twelve inches Of ice on the
Potomac river, and still freezing.
There will be religious services at the
Newtown school house on Sunday after
noon at two o'clock.
The latest agony comes from Fred
erick, Nd, where skating rink for
colored people is to be opened.
Candidates for the corporation offices
are not as numerous as the sands on the
sea shore, but they are as busy as bees.
FOR SALE.-Two gooc secondhand
Basket Slsighs by
F. c. GETzKNpANNER, Kearneysville.
A Philadelphia business m an says
that he can trace 81 900 worth Of sales
to a $l2 advertisement single news
paper.
1t Is said that the gold production of
1884 amounted TO over $50 ,OoO, 900, but
it is mighty hard to get an editor to be-
lieve it.
1t is a remarkable fact that every
young man in Shepherdstown can drive
with one hand while out sleighing with
his girl.
The woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the NJ. Z. Church South Will
meet next Wednesday at p. m, at Mr.
G. r. Licklider's.
A Shepherdstswn girl has lover
whose name is Claude. Having occa-
sion to address Il note to him recently,
she spelt It "Clawed."
Mr.. Frank Smith, of Chsrlestown,
who was feared by his friends to have
been lost at sea, has turned up all right,
and Is on his way home
Farmers should take care Of the part
ridges while the snow remains Oh the
ground. 1t won't take very much food
to keep them from starving.
DR.. James N. Craighill, eldest son
Of Col. VIM. z. Craighill, was married
Tuesday, at Georgetown, D. c., to Miss
Annie F. Berry, of that city.
Bishop Peterkin, of this State, will
be in Shepherdstowu on Sunday, Feb.
22nd, and will preach in the Episcopal
Church morning and evening.
Some of the Methodist clergymen OF
Baltimore are strongly opposed TO roller
skating, as they thiuk it demoralizing
to the young people who patrouize the
rink.
The family physician reported to the
Health Department last week the birth
of the oath child TO a mother who is
wife OF IA prominent member OF the Bal
timore bar.
Lent began on Wednesday last. The
Episcopal and Reformed Churches OF
this place will observe the season Dy
holding appropriate service during It's
continuance.
The Baltimore Annual Conference OF
the NJ. E. Church South will hold its
next session ut Salem, Roanoke county,
Va, beginning March 18th. Bishop
Parker will preside.
During the month OF January, 1850,
there were shipped over the Shenan-
doah Valley Railroad $50 more carloads
of freight than passed over the same
road for the same month last year.
Shesherdstown folks have been kept
busy cleaning snow FROM their side
walks. A good way to avoid cleaning
snow off would be to carry the side
walks In the house when it begins to
snow.
An average of one hundred and fifty
tons Of phosphate pass through Shep-
herdstown daily over the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad. The shipments are
made from Baltimore TO points in the
South.
A tumor was successfully removed
from Mrs. Thomas Shoemaker, at the
residence Of her uncle, Mr.. Jno. T. Col
ston, last Wednesday, by Drs. Richard
son, Mason, Lippitt, Neill and Long
Spirit.
Mr.. Jas. Findlay, prominent busl-
ness man of Williamsport, Nd, was
married i'm Hagerstown on Tuesday to
Miss Anna III. Kennedy, only daughter
of the late DR.. Howard Kennedy, of Ha-
gerstown.
The House of Representatives has
passed the appropriation for the contin-
uance of the fast mail service. This
makes almost sure for another year our
early morning mail from Baltimore and
the East.
Several candidates will be immersed
In the Potomac river at Shepherdstown
on Sunday afternoon, by the pastor OF
the colored Baptist Church here. 1t GER
tainly takes faith to go into the water
in such weather as this.
The Cumberland Valley Railroad
Company will follow the example Of the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company and
equip its passenger coaches with the
Westinghouse train signal, which does
away with the bell rope.
The Order Of the Oriole, of Baltimore,
has completely collapsed, and all it's ef-
fects are to be sold at auction. 1t has
heavy debt and has not received suffi-
cient encouragement TO warrant at
tempts at another exhibition.
Mr. G. T. Hodges has purchased the
large brick house and lot occupied by