Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-09-18
BRIEFS.

ful this week.
The West Virginia Press Association
vi,I meet at Charleston next Tuesday.
Baker & McMurran will sell to teach
ors ANYTHING in the stationery line at
reduced rates.
John Moriarity, railroad employee,
If Martinsburg, had his foot badly
crushed by car-wheel last week.
Mr.. 5. Y. Nixon, formerly of Mar
,irsburg, was killed by boiler explo-
sion ut Bowling Green, KY. some days
ago.
The cornerstone of the Southern
Methodist Church at Martinsburg will
he laid tomorrow Saturday with Ma
sonic ceremonies.
William Niemyer, cripple, of Mid
dletown, Nd, committed suicide on
Monday by taking dose of strychnine.
lie was % years old.
The man with the steam buggy passed
through Shepherdstown last week, but
very few persons saw it, nearly every
one being at the exhibition.
.sHow does the milk get into cocoa
nnt?" asked subscriber. 1t does not
gel into it at all; the cocoanut grows
around the milk. Ask us hard one.
When you 90 to Martinsburg do not
fail to call on Mr.. d. Myers, at the Day
Iight Clothing House. He will treat
Won we'll. See his advertisements
among our business locals.
Peaches are very scarce In this neigh
borhood, and have been selling at the
rate of 81 20 per bushel. Apples are not
scarce, and cider sells at the rate of SO
per barrel of thirty gallons.
WOOD.-GOod seasonable oak cord
wood delivered in town for $3.50 per
cord. Buy your winter supply now be-
fore the roads get bad.
TRUsSELL Il HESS.
We return our thanks to Mr.. G. Il.
Jicklider for some OF the magnificent
apples which he exhibited last week.
We believe he has the finest apples and
greatest variety in this neigh borhood.
REDUCED.-We are now selling
good Roller flour at $3.50 per barrel, 20
cents for Il sack, same price that you
pay for old process flour.
TRUssELL Il HESS.
An extremely sad railroad accident
occurred in Shepherdstown Sunday
night. DR.. Buffers dog was run over
by the cars and ground up into sausage.
No one ever sausage mangled corpse.
Mr.. Frank Billmyer caught bass in
the Potomac river IT ShepherdstOwn
last Saturday which weighed six pounds
and two ounces. Bass are seldom caught
as big rs this one. 1t was taken on a
trOt-line.
A shortage of 81 1898 has been discOv-
eaed in the accounts of the FredericS
postoficc. The postmaster's bondsmen
have given their checks for the amount,
and postmaster Miller will probably Oe
removed.
Colonel Daniel Dorsey, senior propri-
etor of Barnum's hotel, in Baltimore,
died last Monday at the age of "a years.
Col. Dorsey was brother of the present
proprietor of the ST. Clair Hotel, Mar
tinSburg.
Next week farmers will begin to cut
the corn crop, and in another week the
wheat seeding will be commenced.
There will be Il large acreage of wheat
sown this fall. The ground is no" in
excellent order.
4 successful robbery, evidently the
work of professionals, was pcrpetratcd
at II. 5. Landis' jewelry store, in VII
Transport, Md, one night last week.
The thieves secured about $500 worth OF
watches. jewelry, &c.
Our two esteemed contemporaries, the
Williamsport Leader and Transcript,
have each passed the first year OF their
existence and are two very bright and
newsy little papers. Wllliamsport does
well TO support both journals.
We are astonished to find this conun-
drum in one of our exchanges, and must
say that we thought Bro. Richard was
Il more modest young editor: ny
can'ta girl swallow her apron? Because
it goes against her stomach"
We have received several copies OF
the daily Erening Union, published at
Los Angeles, CAL, by company OF
which Mr.. Norman l.. Entler, formerly
of this place, is president, His brother
Ed. l.. Entler, is one OF the directors. 1t
is bright paper.
Our esteemed friend and subscriber,
Mr. j. Thornburg Kearney, has placed
ITS under obligations by presenting Us
with agenerOus jug of cider. 1t is such
remembrances az this that makes the ed
iior's lot happy one. Here's 10 your
good health, Mr.. keSrney.
Mr.. Joseph Mckee, of Washington c.
IL, Ohio, has sent us Il paper giving an
account of the terrible cyclone which
visited that place last week. Many
houses were demolished, several persons
killed and large number wounded.
The total loss to property was 81 900, 600.
A partial eclipse of the "soon will
take place Oh the 24th of this month at
10 minutes after o'clock in the morn
ing aud last hours and minutes. 1t
is visible here and would be seen by a