Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-11-19
BRIEFS.
In the Shepherdstown market butter
is selling at 90 cents pound, and eggs
have jumped up to "a cents dozen.

uc Cioseu vi Thanksgiving LAY all udy,
except from 10 to IL o'clock and from
II to o'clock.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the NJ. E. Church South will
meet Tuesday afternoon, November 90,
at o'clock, at the parsonage.
Citron, currants, raisins. cocoanuts
flavoring extracts, iceing sugar, nuts,
and all articles used in making cakes,
also cranberries, at Trussell & Hess.
Hodges has full stock of all kinds
of gum boots and shoes for men, boys,
ladies and children, which will be sold
at the very lowest prices for cash or
trade.
Pure mountain and self raising buck
wheat, maple and New Orleans syrup,
fresh sausage, hominy, bears, mince-
meat, sweet potatoes, now in stock at
Trussell g. Hess's.
This has been the week for shooting
stars and meteors. On the 9th of this
month the earth will cross the track Of
Biela's comet, when another meteoric
display may be expected.
General Sheridan and Senator Don
Cameron have been taking horseback
trip through the Shenandoah Valley.
They visited Luray, Front Royal, Win
chester and other places.
A special meeting Of the Shepherd
Fire Department will be held in their
hall this Friday evening at eight o'clock.
All the members are requested to be
present, as business of Importance is to
be transacted.
A beautiful swan was seen on the Po-
tomac river at Shepherdstown on Sun
day. 1t swan majestically up the
stream as far as the bridge, when some
boys frightened it into flight. 1t dis
ppeared flying up the liver.
In the Supreme Court at Charleston
last week: Mason VS. Harper's Ferry
Bridge Company, from Jefferson coun-
ty; opinion by Snyder; judgment Of
Circuit Court reversed and judgment
here entered in favor of Mason.
Andrew Snyder, farmer on the Po-
tomac river, one mile west of Sharps-
burg, raised this fall Oh single acre of
ground, eighty five bushels of good corn
and four bushels Of short cars. II total
yield of eighty-ninC bushels to the acre.
During October $50 boats, carrying
oil ,057 tons of coal cleared from Cum
bertrand on the canal. The revenue was
| about $4,000. Canal shipments so far
aggregate 250, 600 tons, ard it is estime-
ted that the seasons tonnage will reach
300, 900.
Edward Caffman. white. and Chancey
Arnold, colored, were arrested and put
in jail at Martinsburg on Saturday on a
telegram from Woodstock, Va, eharg-
ing them with the larceny of valuable
harness, &C., belonging TO DR.. ID. ID.
Carter, Of that place.
Mr.. Lewis e. Smith, formerly presi-
dent of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal,
has been confined to his bed in Hagers-
town for over month with consump-
ton, and is now in very critical condi-
ton. No one is allowed to visit his sick
room except his physician and nurse.
Town Sergeant Arthur requests Us to
state that the ordinance forbddng COWS
to run at large on the streets has never
been repealed. For the past couple Of
weeks the cows have been taking the
town, and he warns their owners to
keep them up if they don't want to pay
some fines.
Last Monday No. passenger train
| happened to be on time, and about half
dozen persons missed the connection
at Shenandoah Junction by just two
minutes. AS the neXttrain was not due
until ten hours later THAR reflections
may be imagined-but not described in
these columns.
Ayoung lady on Frog Island aroused
the household about 3 o'clock the other
morning and wanted to alarm the town
to put out the fire she saw raging in the
| PRESBYTERIAN church. When it trans
pired that she was looking at the moon
shining through the windows, things
aimed down again.
A new schedule went into effect on
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad last
Sunday, but there was no change III the
! time of running Of the trains except
one, and that was only couple OF mill
utes. We had hoped we might get an
earlier mail, bu; ii comes rs heretofore
a few minutes after eleven o'clock.
The Potomac Island Steamboat and
Excursion Company has collapsed.
Sheriff Cost sold the property of the
Company at Wiliamsport last week.
The excursion toat Island Queen was
Knocked off at 1910, and the steam tug
Lizzie May brought $3.50, while the scow
went for 500. Potomac Isle fails to at
| tract as picnic grounds or excursion
| point, and those who have invested their
money in this venture have generally
come to grief.
The Gem iron furnace, in Page county,
Va, on the Shenandoah Valley Railroad,
has chilled, and it will require three
months TO remove its contents. This
furnace chilled in August last, and ope-
rations had just been resumed when this
second misfortune befell it. Hon. VIM.
Mines, Jr, manager, has gone to Phil
adelphia with view to arranging for
resumption of work. Between 800 and
600 hands will be thrown out of employ
ment by the accident.