Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-11-05
BRIEFS.

One of the largest fish that we have
ever heard of in this section was caught
In fish-pot in The Shenandoah river
last week. 1t was scale carp, and
weighed l41a pounds.
The general merchandise store of L..
z. Jameson & Co., Piedmont, was enter
ed early Sunday morning by burglars,
who blew open the safe and took about
$500 worth of valuables placed there for
safe-keeping, among them two gold
watches and some jewelry. There is no
clue to tho thieves.
On Sunday at $3.50 p. m. the Y. NJ. c..
A. will have a service in Billmyer's Hall
devoted to the young people of Shep-
herdstown. This will be the first meet
ing in the Hall since last spring, and it
is hoped there will be a large attend
ance. An effort will be made to have
exceptionally fine music.
The wheat is coming up very nicely
throughout the country. our farmer
friends inform us, and there is good
start for big crop next summer. We
notice by an exchange that some of the
Washington county farmers are COM
planning of the fly in the early-sown
wheat, but they probably "holler" be-
fore they are hurt.
The proposition to increase the num-
Der of County Commissioners from three
to five carried by majority of SSS at
the election on Tuesday. The new
Commissioner from this district is Capt.
Lee II. Moler. The court will be COM
posed of Messrs. w. II. Il. Lewis, JAS.
Law. Hooff, Lee II. Moler, j. w. Rider
and John G. Shirley.
Mr.. Benjamin Tomlinson, one of The
Oldest and best known citizens of Charles
town, died at his residence in this
place on Saturday morning last, aged
about eighty years. He had been
, member of the Methodist church for a
long period, and was esteemed by those
who knew him best for his strict probity
in the business relations of llfe.-Spirt.
The surviving members of ihe fifty
first regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers,
propose TO erect memorial tablet on
the Antietam bridge in commemoration
Of the battle fought there on September
1890 Dra,iIant Grhnph IF rho Eifty-
first Regiment Association, has APP
pointed a committee to secure tablet
and prepare for placing the same, with
fitting ceremonies, on September IL
1887.
Major Joseph G.. Pangborn has re-
signed his position as assistant general
passenger agent of the Baltimore q Ohio
Railroad, to enter the house Of the
Charles A. Voge.er Company as gen
eral manager of the advertising depart
ment and all pertaining to it. We may
soon look tor some very interesting fea-
lures in the advertising of st. Jacobs
Oil, for the Major is wideawake and
original
The 369th anniversary Of the Refor-
nation was observed last Sunday in the
Lutheran churches. October 81, l5l7,
Martin Luther posted his 50 Latin
theses on the doors of the church at Wit
tenburg, Germany, and the date of the
utterance of the protest these theses ex-
pressed is accepted as the anniversary
of the Reformation. Rev. ID. NJ. Moser
preached Reformation sermon in the
Lutheran church of Shepherdstown
1t is said that Mr.. Albert Spencer, re-
siding at Harper's Ferry, has III his
possession acooking stove that originally
belonged TO John Brown while living on
Maryland Heights, just before he seized
the Government arsenals at Harper's
Ferry. Mr.. Spencer purchased the
stove, which in good condition, from
family who lived neighbors to Brown.
He will place it on exhibition next year
at the Ferry, and it will afterwards be
shipped to Boston.
j. Frank Legg, railroad man of first
class reputation, Monday assumed the
position of general agent of the Balti-
more and Ohio in Washington city,
where he will represent all the depart
ments of the company. Mr.. Legg was
formerly B. and D. agent at Washing
ton, and latterly has been a division SUI
perntendent of express on the Erie Rail
road. He returns to the Baltimore and
Ohio service as the general agent at
Washington, which is new position.
Much regret was expressed by some
that Hon. Z. Boyd Faulkner could not
fill his appointment here on Monday
night. In note to the editor Mr..
Faulkner says nothing would have in
duced him to have absented himself but
the imperative request of the Executive
Committee that he should remain in
Martinsburg that night. While we
! should have been glad to have had Mr..
/ Faulkner here, we KNOW all VIII appre-
ciate his reasons for not coming.
Mr.. Geo. NJ. d. O'BrannOn, a native
of Jefferson county, w. Va, died re-
Gently in Colorado, where he has been
engaged in business for several years.
When quite youth he entered the
Confederate army, and served CALAMITY
in the Second Virginia regiment, Stone
wall brigade, until transferred TO Mos
by's command, where he distinguished
himself by his intelligence and bravery,
and won the confidence of his COM
mander.
Mr.. William Updegraff, who has been
foremost in the public enterprises that
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