Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-05-14

Sheph erdstOwn TINS week making MS
annual assessment. He Is a popular
and efficient officer.
We are under infinite obligations to
an esteemed and thoughtful friend in
Norfolk, Va, for newspaper contain.
ing our favorite song. We shall surely
sing it the next time we are invited 20
favor an audience. 1t is such sweet
thing.
Antietam Post, Grand Army Of the
Republic, of Sharpsburg, appointed
Henry Heck chief marshal Of the deco
ration ceremonies at Antietam cemetery,
on the Goth inst, and Richard Hebb,
Frank B. Blackboard, DIR. C. F. Russell
and Samuel Hebb assistants.
The REGISTER is newsy and readable
this week from beginning to end. The
first and fourth pages have selections
of the greatest interest and of great va
riety, while the inside pages are brimful
Of fresh news and interesting miscel-
lany. The REGISTER is one Of the best
papers i'm the State.
The Hagerstown Globe thinks that the
settlement on the CavetOwn pike, north
of Hagerstown, should be called Bridge
port. We would remind our contem-
porary that there is already one Bridge
port in Washington county-the village
opposite Shepherdstown, on the Chesa-
peake & Ohio Canal, having long been
called by that name.
At Shenandoah Junction, on the line
of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, a
new camp meeting ground has been laid
out, to be known as Aglionby Camp.
Buildings will be erected at once, and
camp will be opened on July IL and
continue for one week. The Baptist
congregations of Martinsburg, Charles
town and Berryville will unite in the
service.
Mr.. Jacob Mitchell, native Of Wash
ington county, Nd, died in Forreston,
Illinois, April 4th. aged "a years. One
week later his wife, Sarah McGlincy
Mitchell, aged 81 years, also died. For
nearly fifty-three years they walked
down life's hill together, and after one
brief week of separation were reunited.
Mrs. McGlincy was native of Charles
n1 els of a
D. McGlincy.
Clarence Bowers, a lad Of Sharps-
burg, was arrested and taken before
Justice r. w. Grove, charged with set
ting fire recently to Mr.. Urias knode's
stable, in that place. States Attorney
NJ. L. Keedy ordered his discharge on
account of his youth and supposed men-
tai incapacity. He was seen commit
ting the act, and gave as the reason
therefor that Mr.. Knode would not let
him ride his horse.
A Pennsylvania fisherman has made
the discovery, as probably others have
also discovered, that potato bugs make
an excellent bait for trout. An eX-
pertinent might prove this bug to be
equally as valuable in the capture Of
some of the fish that inhabit the streams
in this locality. An experiment OF this
kind might open to oppressed potato
growers a source of relief in the extin-
puishment of the annual bug crop
The incorporates of the Piedmont
and Cumberland Railroad Company on
Monday organized at Piedmont by the
election of S. B. Elkins, president,
Harry G. Buxton, secretary and treas
urer, Henry G. Davis, S. b. Elkins, L.
Z. Davis, A. p. German, E. w. 5.
Moore, Harry G.. Buxton and &. w.
Harrison, directors. The company was
incorporated in West Virginia and Ma
ryland to build the road from Piedmont
TO Cumberland to connect with the
West Virginia Central Railway.
A certain young man has name and
initials similar to those Of one of the
REGISTER firm. Hence it was not
strange that we received a letter last
week belonging to the other young man.
We felt sure we were getting a new
subscriber, but when the letter was
opened Judge of our surprise when we
read, Dear Tootsy Wootsy," and so
on, finally winding up with words that
must have been joy to the heart of the
young man. We didn't get new sub
scriber, but that other Snyder fellow
certainly has sweetheart.