Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-01-23
BRIEFS.

The Hagerstown Steam Engine Works
resumed operation Tuesday with force
OF 60 hands and q reduction Of 10 per
cent. In wages.
The quarterley meeting Of the direc-
tors of the Jefferson County Mutual
Fire Insurance Company will be held
at the compsnys office in Charlesto~n
on Tuesday next at II O'Clock.
A revival Of great interest is being
held in the Colored Baptist Church of
Shepherdstown. The pastor, Rev. w.
J. Barnett, has been holding services
every night, assisted by Rev. b. F. Fox.
At meeting Of the stockholders Of
the Shepherdstown Manufacturing
Company last week the old board Of d.
rectors was reelected, and the board
organized by electing the same officers
as last yerr.
The dwelling of Rev. d. G. Miller,
OF Cumberland, was entered by burg
lars one night last week and robbed Of
silverware and other articles to con-
siderable extent. Mr.. Miller was form
erIy pastor of the NJ. Z. Church here.
Mr.. Rowland Hill broke through the
ice while skating on the canal the other
day. He made narrow escape, for If
the water had been about six feet deeper
he would have been drowned. Where
he broke In, il was about six inches
deep.
There was very severe gale Of wind
last Friday night and Saturday, and 1t
seemed as if the wind was blowing
about million miles all hOur-more or
less. Several signs were blown down,
fences hatttened, and other minor dam
age done.
The largest shipment of cattle that
ever left Charlestown was that OF last
Saturday, on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. Mr.. VIM. Beall shipped eight
and Mr.. Daniel Gstzendanner one car
load-payments amounted to $1,000
Democrat.
LOST.-A mourning Breast-Pin, set
In hair, with the anne of Lucy Baylor
upon it, was lost on Sunday morning
last, between the toll-gate at Kearners-
Vile and Shepherdstown, or In Shop
herdstown. The finder will please
leave 1t at this office.
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad Is
busy transporting an immense quantity
of pig iron and iron ore to various
places in Eastern Pennsylvania from
the South. Shipping iron from the
South to Pennsylvania Is like carrying
Goals t. Newcastle.
The corporation officers of the town
of Middleway, elected for tho current
term, are Mayor, Hon. John w. Gran
than; Recorder, Samuel l.. Myers;
Councilmen, Thomas Johnson, .Jno. NJ.
Nicely, K. w. kearns, David Farms
worth and r. W. McIntire.
The people of Halltown and vicinity
are somew hat alarmed over wild AMI
NAL of some kind that is proving
around in that neighborhood. Persons
who have seen and heard IL think Ii Is u
panther, but probably 1t is wildcat
s,rayed from the mountains.
Rev Il. S. Johnson, ID. d., of Leb-
anon, Pa, WHO'S Secretary of The Board
of oleign Missions of the Reformed
Church, will deliver an address at
missionary service at the Reformed
church of this place on Sunday morning
and will preach in the evening.
Joseph Till, the celebrated lamp
lighter Of Shepherdstown, knows the
value of good name. His three chill
dren are nulned, Salem Alonzo Jordan
Hill, Nathaniel Abraham Garfield Hill,
and John Landon Randolph Hill. Ii
these children survive it will be mir
acle.
Many persons have already broken
the vows they made OH New Year, but
WI are not that kind at this office. On
January LIST we resolved TO have clean
towel every three weeks, aud We have
stuck to our resolution ever since. We
think few printing offices can show the
same record.
A colored man named james Gattis
III IS A
Ring, in Middleway, this county, under
circum Stances which looked very much
as if he WAS trying to steal u horse. He
was committed to jBil, but was after
ward bailed out 10 answer before the
EeXt grand jury.
A dispatch from Hagerstown to the
Baltin ore Sun states that a case OF
smallpox three miles west OF Hagers-
town has caused cOmmOtiOn in that
locality. The person affected is young
lady who contracted the disease Oh the
cars between Eagerstown and tile West.
Every precanLion has been taken TO
prevent the spread of the disease.
Tuesday morning, the station agent
at Cremora, Shenandoah Valley Rail
road, north of Waynesboro, Va, dis
covered the ltel, IS body of Dunkard
preacher living in that locality lying
along the track. 1t is understood that
he designed boarding the southbound
train from that point the night previous,
and it is thought that in the attempt he
was knocked down by the train and
killed.
PersonaI.-Mrs. ID. NJ. Moser and
her mother, Mrs. Wattles, are visiting
friends and relatives in Reading, Pa.
Mr.. c. p. Staub, wife and two daugh-