Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-06-12
BRIEFS.

steps towards having q Dig parade In
that place on the fourth Of July.
The boys have commenced to 20 in
swimming already. Any one except a
boy would perish with cold in the chilly
water.
The Potomac Cement Mill below town
has been provided with clear sound
ing bell which is used to call the hands
to and from work.
Our exchanges our beginning to
chronicle cases Of persons who have
been stung by locusts. Better keep your
hands off of them.
Everybody is invited to attend. the
praise and promise meeting by the Y.
NJ. c. A. at Billmyer's Hall on Sunday
afternoon at half past three o'clock.
An item for our colored friends: IA
farmer in Marion county, Florida, has
los acres planted in watermelons, which
he expects will yield AS, 800 melons"
Fish Commissioner Delawder has or
dered for the Game Protective Associa-
ton of Hagerstown $4,000 young brook
trout for distribution among the streams
of the county.
The most enterprising Of our garden
ers are feasting on home-raised aspara-
gus, peas, beets, &C., while potatoes and
cabbage will be large enough to eat in
the near future.
The girl wearing the blue dress with
the yellow overskirt and green sash was
in town last Saturday. She was accom-
panied by the youth with the paper col
lar and variegated necktie, and both
were sucking oranges.
Some thief broke into the pantry Of
the editor of the Charlestown Free Press
last week and stole two hams. It's u
mighty mean thief that would rob an
editor, but we would just like to know
where the editor got all those hams.
We have noticed by our exchanges
that hogs have been dying in different
parts of the State from eating locusts.
We think this must be a mistake, for if
Professor Riley, of Washington, can eat
them with impunity, surely hog can.
We find the following item going the
rounds of our exchanges. We do not
vouch for its accuracy: "Mr. f. w.
Bednger, of the Vest Virginia Democrat,
has entered suit for $4,000, for libel,
against Mr.. P. w. Morris, of the Richie
| Gazette"
Armistead Rust, of Virginia, who for
merly attended school in Shepherds
town, graduated from the United States
Naval Academy at Annapolis last Fri
day. He stood nineteenth in class of
thirty-seven. He has been placed on
waiting orders.
The grand jury OF Roanoke, Va, has
found true bill against Wilson Step
toe and Louis Watkins, charged with
the murder of Miss Lizzie Wilson, a
white lady, November 4th, 1884. The
trial will be had at the July term of the
Corporation Court.
The annual Interstate exhibition at
Williams Grove, Pa, widely known as
the "Grangers' pic nic," will be held
this year from August 3lst to Septem-
Der 5th. Considerable space has already
been engaged, and applications are
coming in every day.
We regret to state that our friend Mr..
John w. Hill, living below town, met
with quite a painful accident last Fri
day. He caught his finger in the cogs
of a corn-sheller and had it badly mash
ed and the ED torn of. 1t is feared the
finger will have to be taken of at the
joint.
A base ball club went from Shep-
her6stown last Saturday to play
match game with the boys Of st. James
College. The Shepherdstown club beat
the st. James by score of 20 to 81. We
are sorry to learn that the amenities
were not preserved as well as they
might have been.
President Baughman, of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal, has arranged to
pay off the employees of the company
for the month of April on or about the
18th instant. The work of completing
the towpath at Great Falls, for which
an appropriation was made by the gov
eminent some time ago, was commenced
this week.
A very important suit has been insti-
tuted in the Circuit Court of Baltimore
city by the proprietors of st. Jacobs Oil
against the proprietors of Salvation Oil.
The former charge that the latter are
endeavoring to defraud them by taking
advantage of their advertising and
trademark. Eminent counsel have been
retained by both sides.
The Town Council has decided that it
is not eXpedent to invest $3.50 in new
hose and hose carriage, their objection
to the investment being on the score of
economy. Persons whose property lies
out of the reach Of the hose we now
have can either have the course of the
river changed or buy themselves nice
stock of hand grenades.
The colored order of Galilean Fisher
men laiG the corner store Of n new hall
in Charlestown last Saturday, with in
teresting ceremonies. About 1000 per-
sons were present, including deiega-
tons from Baltimore, Shepherdstown
and other places. An address was de-
livered by j. Shadrick Brown. The
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