Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-06-26
BRIEFS.

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up like jack-knife.
Spring chickens are scarce and high.
AS there is to be no convention Of
preachers here, this is strange.
New cabbage, new potatoes and pine
apples ordered and expected in this a.
m. friday. Trussell d Hess.
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad Com
pany have already thirty-one excursions
booked for Luray during the present
season.
Town Sergeant Arthur has had post
ers printed calling attention to the fact
that corporation taxes are now due.
Pay up.
Pineapples expected to-day. Several
persons have spoken to US for some to
preserve. Now is the last chance.
Trussell & Hess.
The property and plant of the Eagle
Manufacturing Company, of Charles
town is to be offered at public sale.
See advertisement in another column.
The young man Riley who was so
brutally assaulted near Wildwood, Va,
last week, is reported dead. His assail-
ant has been arrested at Upperville and
there is talk of lynching him.
Dead twigs on the trees are beginning
| to appear, the mark of the locust. EX-
animation will show that the branches
have been punctured in number OF
places aud the egg placed therein.
One Of the Shepherdstown baseball
clubs played game with Sharpsburg
club last Saturday, and the result was
the somewhat amazing score of IA to 40
in favor of the Shepherdstown boys.
By the new adjustment of the sala-
ries of postmasters the pay Of the Mar
tinsburg postoffice is reduced from
81, 500 to 81, 700. We don't think this
will lesson the number Of applicants,
though.
The young man who now lodges the
ice cream parlors when out walking
with his best girl should not forget that
she kept good fire for him to toast his
shins by during the cold nights of last
winter.
The ladies of Shenandoah junction
will hold festival on Thur sday, Friday
and Saturday nights, the Goth, 26th and
9th of June, beginning at five O'Clock
each evening, for the benefit of the
Chapel.
Rev. D. NJ. Gilbert, Of Winchester,
preached two able sermons in the Luz
theran church of Shepherdstown last
Sunday. Rev. Mr.. Hobbs, Presiding
Elder, also preached in the NJ. Z.
| Church.
Immense numbers of locusts fall into
the Potomac river in their flight, and as
a consequence the fish are gorSing
themselves with locusts. 1t is very
hard matter to catch bass now, on this
account.
As State Superintendent Morgan was
the only member Of the Board Of Re-
gents present, no appointments for
teachers for Shepherd College were
made for next year. Nothing official
was done.
Rev. G. II. Beckley, pastor OF the Luz
theran Church at Madison Courthouse,
Va, and for many years pastor Of the
Lutheran Church at Boonsboro, Nd,
has accepted a call from the Lutheran
congregation at Reisterstown, Md.
I Mr.. E. l. Lee has been appointed by
the Court special receiver Of the New
Dominion Paper Mill at ShepherGStown.
We are sorry to state that the prospects
are that this mill will be idle for long
time, the property now being in litiga-
ton.
A brand new flight Of steps has been
made at the entrance to the REGISTER
office. II any person has been waiting
to pay their dues until the new steps
were made they can come forward and
settle without any fear of breaking their
necks.
The Valley Branch of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad is being enclosed
along it's entire line by stout wire
fence. Much valuable stock has been
killed on this road and several wrecks
caused by cattle straying OIL the track
hence the protection.
Immense sw arms Of grasshoppers are
causing considerable loss to the farmers
in some parts Of this county. In the
neighborhood of Kearneysville several
fields of clover have been totally de-
stroyed and we have heard of some
wheat being injured.
We learn from the SPIRIT that Messrs.
John II. Colston and II. III. Cooke, OF
Charlestown, intend to begin shortly
the culture of carp. Wonder why 1t is
that our farmer friends In this section
have not taken an interest in this i'm
portant matter. Many Of them have
admirable facilities for cultivating the
fish.
Little Charley Miller was fishing on
Wednesday. He got big bite, and in
the excitement occasioned thereby he
stubbed his toe and fell of the wharf
into pretty deep water. A drowning
man grasping at q straw was nowhere
to the way Charley clawed for land.
He got out and dried himself in the
sun.
Last Thursday person who claimed
to be a Hindoo, and incidentally can