Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-10-16
BRIEFS.


very much shocked.
Full stock of of all kinds oil coal, dry
aud in nice condition. Trussell q Hess.
Look to your chimneys now and see
that they are all right for the coming
winter.
In one night this week over four hum
ared cells were caught in the tishpot be-
low town.
sixteen hundred and eighty brooms
ara manufactured daily in the Mounds
Vile penitentiary.
Aunt" Annie SeibeTt, an aged and
wsu.known colored woman of Shep-
herdstown, died last week.
The President has appointed Patrick
I Rogers postmaster at Piedmont Tin the
Mace of Geo. 4. Goshorn, suspended.
Fresh pork sausage ordered for Satur-
d,v Also fresh supply of all kinds Of
hocon ut Trussell & Hess.
turnip closely resembling ali ele-
miami is on exhibition at Key West. A
man closely resembling beat can be
seen in Shepherdstown.
Rev.J. NJ. Titzell, D. D., of Lancas-
ter, Pa, formerly located at this place,
will preach in the Reformed church on
Sunday morning and evening.
If good weather should prevail next
week the Hagerstown Fair will be an
immense affair. Nearly everybody in
this neighborhood will be there.
It's now denied that fish diet makes
brains. There never was any founda-
tion for the belief except theory, and
experiments have proved it falsity.
Potomac Building Association No.
will offer for sale several shares of stock
next Monday evening in the room UNI
der the REGISTER office at O'Clock.
Corn wanted, as soon as dry enough
TO handle, in exchange for boots, shoes,
and other goods in our line, by
Trussell & Hess.
We have turned ont some first-class
lob work this week. We print envel-
ones and note-heads neatly ard cheaply.
Letter-heads and bill-heads put up in
tablet form.
Persons whose pavements and cutters
need repairing should have the work
done now, before the ground becomes
frozen. A good many of the sidewalks
need attention.
Trussell & Hess expect to start their
saw mill again next week. Send in
your orders tor saving. Good seasoned
cord wood for sale, either delivered or
on the ground.
The 10th annual session of the Grand
Lodge, X. of 2. of West Virginia, will
be held on the 10th and 2lst instant, at
Piedmont, W. Va. There will be pa
radc and banquet.
The hours of work at the Potomac
Cement Mill, below town, have beer re-
duced from eleven to nine per
day. The mill will be kept going as
long as the weather will permit.
DR.. Richard McSherry, one of the best
known physicians of Baltimore, and
President of the Maryland State Board
of Health, died last week, aged 6S years.
DR.. McSherry was a native of Martins
burg.
We call attention to the advertisement
of LowenStein Bros, HagerstOwn, in
this issue. This firm will continue to
supply the public with first-class cloth
ing at low prices. Read what they have
to say.
Mr.. Samuel 2. Humrickhouse has just
purchased splendid new cornet from
Pepper, of Philadelphia, which he will
use at the Y. NJ. G. A. services in Bill
myers Hall on Sunday afternoons. The
music at these services is of a high order
Of merit.
a statement prepared at the Treasury
Department shows that the amount of
standard dollars put into circulation
during the month Of September in the
regular course of business was $780,
600. We got to see three of the dollars
during that month.
There is project on foot, originated,
we believe, by the physicians of
Charlestown, to establish Il county med
ical association, to be composed of the
reputable practitioners of Jefferson
county. Doubtless such an organization
would be beneficial.
There is said to be a greater abund-
ance Of squirrels this fall in West Vir-
ginia than ever before known They
are migrating from Pennsylvania into
West Virginia and Ohio. Near Neville
Island they can be seen every day cross
ing the river by hundreds.
William Brown, a colored man of
Clarke county, Va, was put in Jail at
Berryville last week for trying 10 poison
his wife with CROUCH on Rats" Friday
night Brown committed suidide by tear
ing his bed clothes to pieces aud hang
ing himself to his cell door.
Mr.. ID. G. Adams, of Dufiiclds, re-
quests us TO state that he has returned
from the eastern cities with large
stock of new goods, consisting OF boots
and shoes, hats and caps, and fine stock
generally, which he intends to sell very
cheaply. He will give unusually low
prices on boots and shoes.
"Babyhood" for October is an excel
lent number. IL is filled with just such
advice and information rs mothers need
to know. In its sphere it is one of the
best publications i'm the world, and its