Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-02-13
ERlDAY.FEBRUARY H, 1856
BRIEFS.

The Potomac river, from Dam No. 4
to Falling Waters, is said to be frozen
over with ice ten inches thick.
il. Richard & Son have the cheap
est Hamburg Edgings, Seersuckers,
&C., &C., ever brought to town.
Tomorrow Saturday is Valentine
Day, but not much interest seems TO
have been taken IN the sending of VAL
entines.
Mr.. A. A. Clapp, an enterprising Ha-
gerstown merchant, will distribute one
thousand loaves Of bread among the
poor on Saturday, February 2Ist.
Capt. John James, one Of the Oldest
boatmen on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal, died near Bakersville, Nd, last
Thursday, aged seventy-sight years.
The pay car on the Shenandoah Val
lev Railroad passed through Shepherds
town on Wednesday, distributing solid
comfort to the employees Of the road
here.
We are under obligations to our es-
teemed young friend, Master Elmer
Lambert, for bag full of walnuts. We
intend to make peanut taffy OF some Of
them, Eb.
Persons attending Court in Charles
town. and returning by the 10 O'Clock
train at night, were highly delighted
Wednesday night to find the train four
hours late.
DIR. VIM. White, respected citizen
of Mechanicstown, Frederick county,
Nd, dropped dead from heart disease
on Friday last, while returning home
from the pest-office.
And now a scientist comes to the
front and says, "That roller skating i'll
lsrges the feet" If this is so and he
can make the girls believe it, roller.
skating Kinks will have TO 60.
Last Saturday night a spreading
switch Oh the Shenandoah Valley Rail-
road near Buchanan, Va, caused the
partial wreck of freight train, making
the Sunday morning passenger train
late.
AswiL be seen by his card in another
column, Mr.. Abraham Shepherd is a
candidate for the position of Town Ser
geant. Mr.. Shepherd means to make a
warm fight, so opposing candidates
may as well clear the tack.
Mr.. l.. w. Robinson, formerly of
Berkeley county, but who, for the last
TWO years has lived i'm Washington, ID.
c., has rented farm in the neighbor-
hood Of Smithfield, Jefferson county,
and will resume farming.
Superinte ndent Stanhope, of the Ches-
apeake & Ohio Canal, says he will not
resign nor giveup his books and papers
until he has been paid all The money
the canal company owes him. Presi-
dent Baughman says he shall go, and
il is likely the matter will wind up in
court.
The Winchester (va.) Light Infantry,
under command Of Capt. Joseph A.
Mutton, will attend the Inauguration OF
President Cleveland with fall ranks.
This company is officered entirely by
veterans of the old Stonewall Brigade,
and many of the privates were also
soldiers in that notable military organ
ization.
We dropped in 10 see our new breth-
zen of the press, the publishers of the
Charlestown Democrat, the other day,
and found them very comfortably fixed
in large, well-lighted room. Every
thing seemed bright AS new pin, and
we sort o. missed the sight of the prin-
ter's plumber which adorns almost every
printing office.
An oyster supper will be held by the
ladies of Kearneysville, In the new
church building, on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday evenings, February 18th,
Goth and 2lst. Many are ready TO te.-
rify to the genuine merits OF Kearneys-
willie oysters. We understand there will
be several tables of fancy articles. The
proceeds will he for the new church
fund.
Mr.. A. Frank Spangler. proprietor Of
the Hagerstown Organ Works, appoint
ed Monday morning Buchanan Schley,
ESQ. trustee, and made an assignment
for the benefit of his creditors. The AS
sers are estimated Mt S4,303.25 and liz
bilities at So. s22 80. The creditors are
nearly all residents of other States, the
largest of whom is Samuel Pierce, of
Massachusetts -Hagerstoton Globe.
An exchange has the following,
which seems To he to the point: "The
man who refuses to take his county pa
per because il is not an eXpOunder OF
his own political faith is about rs mar
row minded a man as can be found this
side of the straight-laced aristocrats of
old England. We regret that il was
pre- ordained by the Ruler OF the Uni
verse that mortal man should never run
newspaper to please everybody, but
such is rhe fact. and We do not propose
to waste our tears, spoil our good looks,
or lose any sleep trettiDg over it,"
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Company will ut once proceed TO the
erection OF handsome passenger depot
at Waynesboro' junction, Augusta
county, VA, where the road crosses the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad. Over
head platforms and broad steps will con-
meet with the passenger station OF the
Shenandoah Valley Road and the pass