Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-01-23
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d.. Rentch has nice lot of Birth
Day Cards aud Scrap Pictures.
The Potomac river was very high the
first Of the week, aud consequently did
not freeze over during the cold snap.
If you want bargains go to Jacob
Wintermoyer, the Boss Clothing Man,
he is selling goods at cost. Read his adj
vertisemeut.
Read the advertisement of Reno, the
wide-awake Shoe and Hat man Of Ha-
serstown. His advertisement is not
hard TO find.
\ runaway horse and buggy created
some excitement on Main street on
:, ednesday morning. The team be-
longed to Mr.. Ensminger.
Read the advertisement Of ID. A. Hill
this week. He is selling part OF ms
stock at very cheap prices, and 1t VIII
pay you to investigate his offer.
Rev. Father Manly, Of Notre Dame
College, Govanstown, has been assigned
to the pastorate of st. Mary's Catholic
Church, Hagerstown, vice Rev. Father
Voiz.
If you have not yet done so, read the
big advertisement of LOwenstein Bros,
Clothiers, Hagerstown. They mean
what they say, and can be depended
upon.
Superintendent Flickwir, Of the Shen-
andoah Valley Railroad, reports the
present passenger and freight traffic on
that road as greater than last year at
this time.
An old negro, partly insane, was
found dead in an old still house OF w.
]. Granthafn, near Middleway, u few
days ago. 1t is supposed that he froze
to death.
The water back of cooking range in
the residence of Mr.. Charles Z. Rooch,
at Hagerstown, exploded last Tuesday,
and blew the stove into a thousand
fragments.
Col.P. E. Dorsey, proprietor Of. the
Carter House, Charlestown, has leased
the ST. Clair Hotel, at Msrtinsburg, for
five years, and will take charge on the
LIST of April.
We are under obligations to our
worthy State Senators, Messrs. j. S.
Melvin and A. X. Unger, for valuable
State documents and reports Of the Leg
islature's doings.
Mr.. John H. Duke, of this place,
while in Washington last week, assembled
TO the top Of the Washington Monument.
We suppose he was nearer Heaven then
than he ever was before.
The following notice has been handed
us tor publication: Near Billnyer's
Mill, on December 25, 1884, BY Rev.
Mr.. Luck, of Martinsburg, Mr.. Caesar
PineIop 10 Miss Fanny Roundtop.
Ed. Randall, the travelling evangelist,
turned up in Berkeley Springs few
days ago. The Mercury says he 10 as
crazy as ever Randall says he recently
sold the town of Romney for seventy
five cents.
Col. X. Z. Chew, Of Jefferson, Mr..
= 3ilkeson, of Hampshire, and Edward
Robertson, OF Wheeling, are among
the young members who may be relied
OH to be useful lcgislators.-- Wheeling
MteLigencer.
The value of advertising is shown by
the fact that the fur collar advertised
last Friday as lost by Mr.. Frank Get
zendanncr was returned To him on
Wednesday by Mr.. William Folk, who
had found it.
The first excursion to the New Or
leans Exposition over the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad passed through Shep-
herdstown Wednesday night Of last
week. The excursionists were from
Pennsylvania.
Messrs. Forrest w. Brown aud Jos.
Trapnell, trustees, sold IL acres, roods
ard l6 perches OF land, of Joseph b.
Anderson, on the CharlestOwn und Sum-
nit Point road, to Mr.. John Burns, at
$50 per acre.-Spirit.
There are 227 State prisoners in the
West Virginia penitentiary at Mounds
vile, and II Of these are from Jefferson
county. Berkeley county also has III
there There are 81 Federal prisoners
making in all 25S comvicts.
. The Virginia Tin Mining and Manu-
featuring Company, OF Rockbridge
county, Va, has commenced operations
aud will have a large furnace in opera
tion before July LIST. Two thousand
acres are owned by the company.
AT the recent meeting OF the Farmers
and Mechanics Mutual Fire Insurance
Company, at Martinsburg, DR.. Z. T..
Butler, of this county, WAS elected Di-
rector, and Mr.. Albert niehl, of Charles
town, Surveyor for Jefferson county.
Early Sunday morning w. W. Walker
& Co. s liquor establishment, at Hagers-
tswm, WAS entered BY burg lars, who
blew open the safe aud robbed IL OF $500
in cash Ii was probably the work OF
professionals, as the job was neatly
Gone.
The tenant house belonging to Mr..
Greenberry Ditto, in Berkeley county,
was burned to the ground on Friday
morning last. No clue NJ To how the
fire originated has been obtained, but II
il supposed TO have been the work Of all