Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-11-13
BRIEFS.

Corn wanted by Irussell q hess IN
.vchange for goods at cash prices.
Fresh pork sausage three times 4
week.
Mira. Markell has had fine new roof
mt on her dwelling house in this place.
chickens are plentiful in this place,
ood have been selling as low as six
cents pound.
voxt week the mails will come so
.,rIr we can read our morning newspa-
ners before we get awake.
Tonight is said to be good time to
uo,cb for meteors. This will be a good
ov,r.e for lovers to sit up late.
Thanksgiving Day is approaching.
We hone to be able to "shoot mack
oroln for our dinner on that day.
Its predicted that the price of pork
nil, he low this fall. Hogs are said to
No nleptiful in this neighborhood.
los. l.. Walper, near kearneysville,
lost valuable horse few days ago.
Distemper supposed to be the cause.
Major Blunt's Potomac Cement Mill
vas started up again last Monday after
having been shut down for one week.
BOYS, improve your minds by reading
and studying this winter, instead Of
,o,6ng around in the stores or on the
streets.
By actual timing one day this week it
took the town clock one minute and
forty.eight seconds to strike twelve
o'clock.
The enrolment Of the Shepherdstown
Graded School for the month Of October
wa, III, and the average daily attend
ance l25.
The Dayton Hedge Fence Company
will start branch office at Martinsburg
shortly if the necessary amount of stock
is subscribed.
Mr.. John Moorehead, a tobacco dealer
Of Baltimore, and well-known in this
vicinity died in Baltimore last week at
the age Of 65.
The fishways now in course Of cree
tion at the Great Falls were somewhat
damaged by the recent high water in
the Potomac.
Bring on your corn now to Trusscll
{ Hess and get in exchange for it boots,
shoes. gum boots and shoes, tar rope,
salt, coal, sc.
Mr.. Jos. NJ. Stonebraker tells in his
advertisement to-day where you had
best buy your oysters and celery. Read
it, everybody.
The coming Easter will fall on the
18th of April. This has not occurred
before since 1874, and will not happen
again until 1913.
The farmers are busy husking corn at
this time. The present week has been
just what was wanted to dry the corn
and make it fit for cribbing.
Received this week queensware and
glassware, lateststyles and lowest prices.
Corn wanted in exchange for any goods
In our line. Trussell & Hess.
M. Brophy, superintendent of the
Washington and Ohio Railroad, has re-
signed, and will be succeeded by Robert
Bell, now chief engineer of the road.
Some of our sportsmen have succeed
ed in bagging number Of wild ducks
recently. They shot the ducks on the
river and ponds above Shepherdstown.
russell Il Hess started their saw mill
again this week, and expect to finish
saving their timber in 4 short time. Or
derS for lumber should be sent in at once.
Rev. Sam Jones says that "the Lord
won't stop to criticise your grammar in
prayer. Speak right out from the shout
der and trust him to overlook your blum
der,."
In the Supreme Court of West Vir-
sinia last week at Charleston an appeal
and supersedess was allowed In the case
Of McCleary aud others vs.. Lucas.
trustee, from Jefferson county.
Mr.. II. B. Mattox has sent to the RIG
i'rrR Office radsh that stakes the
cake" for popularity of growth and
size. IT weighs nine pounds and has
grown in thirty-seven different direc-
tiOni.
A red-bre2sted game rooster, with
horns two inches long, resembling COW
horns, and without spurs, passed
through this place last week on Its way
from Moody, Texas, to a dime Museum
In Philsdelphia.
Mr.. n. S. j. Stridcr, of Unionyille,
has gotten In his new stock OF goods for
The Fall and Winter trade. Mr.. Strider
sells goods about rs chesply as any store
III the county, and those who deal with
him will not 60 wrong. Read his new
advertisement.
Last Thursday morning an umbrella
member was run over by the cars at the
depot Of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
At Hsrtinsburg and instantly killed. He
Was about fifty years old, and from pa
pers found on his person was identified
as Robert Fenton, of Brightwood, D. c.
Mr.. D. A. Hill announces the open
ing Of the winter campaign in another
column. He has received his supple,
OF dry goods, notions, boots, shoes, hats,
caps, glassware, Queensware, wooden
ware, groceries, provisions, tobacco, CT
gars, &C., &C., and respectfully invites
share of the public patronage.