Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-07-24
BRIEFS.
II has been hot in the cool.

dozen ears.
A bass that gets away rarely weighs
less than five pounds.
A shoemaker may die, but he can
never breathe his last.
How many of us will live to see the
seyenteen-year locusts again?
Burglars have been a-burgling in our
neighboring town, Sharpsburg.
Hon. VIM. L. Wilson has recovered
from his recent spell of i'll health.
We hope we will not shock our read
ers when we say that during the past
week it has been as hot as sheol.
Mr.. Daniel Heflebower has purchased
the farm of Mr.. James Ii. Conklyn, in
this county. He paid $1,000 for s1A
acres.
A big fire was noticed several nights
this week raging on the highest peak
Of the South Mountain, near Middle
town, Md.
The machine shops and plant of the
Eagle Manufacturing Company at
Charlestown will be sold at public sale
next Saturday. See advertisement.
A young man started life in Balti-
more twenty years ago with five dollars.
Now he is worth $4,000. He married
= wife worth that amount the other day.
There will be an excursion on the
Shenandoah Valley and Western Mary
land Railroads to Pen Mar tomorrow,
the 25th. The Iound-trip from Shop
herdstown is 20 cents.
The Williamsport Leader says that
Mr.. James Flynn, of Four Locks, has
been confined in the asylum at Hagers-
town, for insanity. He becomes so wild
at times that he has to be chained.
Henry Turner, colored, climbed up
on a girder in the bark-house to take a
rap. He had bad dream and tumbled
off, and at the present time he is walk
ing on crutches. He spTained his ankle.
The surviving members of old Com
panv are requested to meet at Mr..
Frazier's shop in Shepherdstown at Z
o'clock on Saturday evening, July 18th,
TO make arrangements for their annual
reunion.
The lawn festival to be held in Shep-
herd College grounds this and to-mor-
row evenings will afford pleasant di-
version for our people. Entertainments
will be held in College Hall at the same
time. Let every one attend.
Two "traveling gentlemen" set up
business in the open air on Monday
night, selling jewelry. There was no
difficulty in finding lot of men willing
to give a dollar for two-cent watch
chain, and the sharpers made good
days wages.
IL is said that small dish of charcoal
placed in your meat Harder will keep
the article sweet and wholesome al
most rs well as ice. Charcoal is great
lisinfectant. Occasionally used for clean
ing the teeth it will Sweeten the breath
when nothing else will do so.
Mr. Frank Kennedy, superintendent
OF the Hagerstown division of the Ches-
apeake and Potomac Telephone Com
pany, died at his home in HagerstOwn
last Thursday, aged 30 years. He was
married about eighteen months ago and
leaves widow and one child.
y party of fishermen from BoonsborO,
numbering about dozen, while fishing
with nets in the Antietam the other day
in the neighborhood of the Burnside
bridge, east of Sharpsburg, were arrest
ed for violation of the fish law and taken
before Justice Grove, who fined them
500 each.
Several COWS belonging to the herd of
Timberlake d Master, of MiGdletown,
Frederick county, Va, have been de-
clared by DR.. Rowland, veterinary sur
geOn of the department of agriculture,
Washington, to have pleurO-pmenmonia.
The infected cattle have been strictly
quarantined.
The Board of Education of Middleway
District has ordered a school election 10
be heid in the district, July 2Sth, at
which time the sense of the voters will
bc taken "For" or Against" months
more than the 4 months which the board
WAS empowered to levy by vote at the
school election in May.
We were misiniorlned last week in re-
gard to our statement that the roller
system recently placed in the Potomac
Cement Mill was success. The rollers
have been taken out of the mill, as they
did not grind as much cement per hour
as the contract called for. Burrs will
5e used until some better process is sat
isfactorily proven.
The Martinsburg Independent of last
Saturday says: 'Workmen on the farm
"t Mr.. w. Manning Lemen, at Rocky
Marsh, three miles from Shepherds
town, captured mouse out in field
one day this week, which was snow
white and had beautiful pink eyes. The
mouse is now in the possession of DR..
Res noldS, and is regarded us quite a
curiosity"
Mr.. Charles l.. Nichols, of Point of
Rocks. Nd, was drowned in the canal
at Georgetown last week. 1t is supposed
that he sOugh; cool place to sleep on
the canal boat, on which he had made
one OF his occasional trips, and accident
ally fell over. He was about 81 years Of
age, and was proprietor of the American