Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-11-06

The buekwheat crop Of the State
o-omises to be the largest ever known.
Mrs. Julia Sheetz is having a new
roof mt on her dwelling house on Main
street.
The big pumpkin stories having run
ont. the next thing in order will be the
heaviest hogs.
The Potomac Cement Mill below
Shepherdstown was closed last Satur-
day and the hands discharged.
Mr.. John Shay, proprietor of the Shay
House, in Sharpsburg, is seriously i'll
with no hopes of his recovery.
The postoffice at Harper's Ferry was
broken into by burglars Wednesday
NIGHT of last week and robbed of about
SIS.
The small boy was effectually terror
lied Hallow Fen night, and did not
throw a grain of corn or head of cab
bsge.
Mr.. Mart Tlmberlake, popular and
well.known young man of Martinsburg,
died suddenly last Thursday Of typhoid
fever.
Mr.. Robert Hughes now has his lead
peacil mandatory in successful opera
ton in Martins5urg, and is turning out
5000 pencils per week.
Mr.. S. Fleming reports that the in
surance business is brisk. There is no
better way of investing money than by
insuring your property.
Mr.. A. C. Morgan, of this place, has
been appointed brakeman on the Shen-
anloab Valley Railroad. He will run
on the Riverton accommodation.
Potomac Building Association, No. 2,
will offer for sale several shares Of stock
next Monday evening in the room UNI
der the REGISTER office, at O'Clock.
About three hundred children make
the life of the postmaster happy by call
Ing at the postoffice between twelve and
one o'clock every day and asking for
mail.
Mrs. Ella Flood, wife of Col Joel w.
Flood, of Appomattox county, Va,
died suddenly ofapoplexy Saturday last.
She was daughter of the late Hon.
Chas. James Faulkner, of Martinsburg.
Quantities Of walnut logs are being
shipped from this place. They are ship
ped by rail to Jersey City, and from
there are sent to Europe. The prices
paid for the logs range from $40 to $50
each.
We refer our readers TO the new adj
yertlsement of Mr.. John ID. Swartz, the
fine tailor, of Hagerstown. Mr.. Swartz
has long been favorably known TO the
people Of this community as tirst-class
tailor.
Willet 81 Libbey, lumber dealers,
Washington, ID. &C., have hot-bed sash
for sale very low. Their prices on hard
ware are also very much reduced now.
See the change in their advertisement
next week.
Deer are reported to be most abund-
ant in the mountains of West Virginia
this year, and the woods and under
brush are simply alive with small game.
NpgOnniseS to be great season for
spOrtsmen.
Mrs. c. F. Thomas, of Charlestown,
has gotten in her fall and winter stock
Of millinery and other goods usually
kept in store of this character. Call
and see her large stock of fine goods
when you are in Charlestown.
The annual convention OF the y. NJ
c. A. of Maryland, West Virginia and
the District of Columbia will meet in
Martinsburg, commencing November
18th and ending November 22d. A large
number of delegates are expected to be
In attendance.
Last Saturday was the anniversary OF
the day when Martin Luther nailed tO
the church door in Wittenberg the nine
ty-fye theses, the pith of which was
that the Pope had no power at all to
forgive sins. The Lutheran churches
celebrated the event Sunday.
The Hagerstown Herald and Torch
Ligt has recently attained its 72d birth
day, and in the hands of Messrs. Adams
Mathews is indeed n model newspa-
per. We heartily wish it continued
prosperity. The Hagerstown Mail was
enlarged and improved with its last is
sue, and is now better than ever,
Mr.. Jacob Wintermoyer, the popular
dealer in Ready made Clothing and
Gents Furnishings, has his new adver-
usement in this weeks REGISTER, and
las store full of goods to back up what
ne says. His stock is certainly good
one, and he will sell just as eheaply MS
these goods can be bought anywhere.
Drop in and take squint at them.
Did you ever think of how much work
IL required 10 count a billion or the
length of tine it would take? An aritl-
metlcian makes this calculation. Had
Adam counted continuously from his
creation to the present day he would not
nave reached billion, for it would take
"'oi2 years. At the rate of 200 minute
'here would be counted $4,000 an hour,
zoo,oOO a day and los, 100000 a year.
any enterprising person disposed to
uouOt this statement can try the expert.
meht. One days trial will be sufficient.
We have received the premium En-
craving issued by "Peterson's Maya
Ahe"' for 1886, and it is of rare excel