Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-10-23
BRIEFS.


A newspaper is like toothbrush IN
that every one should use his own and
not borrow his neighbours.
The first ice of the season formed on
Wednesday night. 1t wasntquite thick
o.onch TO bear ones weight, though.
The farmers have been hauling in
,oms new corn and selling it at retail.
Forty cents bushel has been the price.
Dr VIM. 5. Stoncbraker, a respected
-0sident of Washington county, Nd,
died last Saturday at the age of 6S years.
Mrs Catharine Julius, aged lO3 years,
aiad At her home in Hagerstown last
Tuesday. Her mind was clear to the
last.
All Uallow Fen will be tomorrow a
week. the Slst instant. The small boy
will not allow any one to forget it, we
suppose.
The November term of the County
Cnrt will begin on Monday, the End,
and the Circuit Court will begin on
Tuesday, the 18th.
Mr.. William VI. Clements, late of the
BALTIMORE and Ohio Railroad, has been
made a general superintendent of the
Erie Railway system.
The State Grange of West Virginia
Patrons of Husbandry will meet at RAJ
yenswood, Jackson county, next We'd
nesday, the 18th instant.
In one night last week, so we have
been informed, over one thousand cells
were caught in Ii fishpot at Harper's
Ferry, in the Potomac river.
Mr.. Vincent NJ. Lucas, of this yicin-
ity, has been appointed postal clerk on
the route between Baltimore and Graf.
ton. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
The frigid winter brings its woes,
As we'll as torrid summer,
For then our water pipes are froze
And we must pay the plumber.
Potomac Building Association No. 2
will offer for sale several shares of stock
next Monday evening in the room I'M
der the REGISTER office at o'clock.
PRICES OF GOAL REDUCED.-We
have reduced prices of all kinds of coal
and the quality is better than we have
ever had. Trussell Il Hess.
Mt. Wesley NJ. Z. Church will cele-
brate Good Tidings Day" next Sunday
at 1890 a. III. with an unusually inter-
esting programme. Everybody invited.
Our esteemed friend, Mr.. j. Thorn
burg Kearney, had one OF his fingers
cut oil a few days ago by the fertilizer
attachment of grain drill. We are
sorry TO hear of the accident.
The biggest eel that the editor Of this
paper ever saw was one taken from the
fshpot near ShepherdsGow last Thurs
day night. 1t weighed Az pounds, and
was wicked looking creature.
Robert Burdett said 1.-THE Lord wasted
mud when he made the man who will
take my paper for five or six years and
never pay cent, and then order the
postmaster to send it back refused ]"
Mr.. Burdett is right.
TrusSell & Hess were disappointed in
getting their saw mill started this week,
but expect to start next Monday. Send
on your orders for all kinds of oak lum-
Der. They expect to finish up their
saving in few weeks now.
Tie bold burglary reported from
Washington county last week turns out
to have been big joke, originated to
test the courage Of the young man
guarding the house. The owper of the
house was himself the ringleader.
Rev. DR.. John Leyburn, for nearly
twenty years pastor of the Associate
Reformed Church, Baltimore, has re-
signed the active pastorate, owing to
the increasing feebleness Of old age.
lie has been made pastor emeritus, with
salary of SO, 900 year.
Read the new advertisement of Sim
gletOn & Fletcher this week. These
gentlemen keep line of goods that it
will well pay you to inspect when you
visit Washington. They are always glad
to have their friends from this neigh
bOrhoOd call and see them.
We have received from the publishers
Lippincott's Magazine for November,
and very good number it is, too. Lip
pincott's is as bright as one can wish,
and is free from many of the OBJ
jectiOns possessed by some of its more
pretentious competitors. We heartily
recommend il TO our readers.
Mr.. e. e. Getzendanner while coming
In from the country on Monday night,
when it was very dark, ran into the
ditch on Maple avenue caused by Dig
ging up the water pipes on that street.
Ills buggy was broken and he was
thrown out and badly bruised. There
was no light, nor protection of any kind
placed at the dangerous point. Such
catelessness is very culpable.-Martins-
,tlTg Statesman
10 meet the requirements of classic
figure i lady should be feet 4334 inches
tall, 30 inches bust measure. "a inches
waist, 8 inches from armpit TO waist,
long arms and neck. A queenly wo-
man, however, should be feet inches
tall, 81 inches about the bust, 2612 about
the waist, 30 over the hips, ll12 inches
around the ball of the arm and g.
Inches around the wrist. Her hands
and feet should not be TOO small.
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