Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-03-19
BRIEFS.

| Will return 10 MS Oiu nome at EiliCott
city, Md.
The Western Maryland Railroad Com
pany has organized an orchestra, which
will be known as the "Blue Mountain
Orchestra" The musicians have been
carefully selected from the very best in
Baltimore.
Two large blocks of marble quarried
in Tennessee, and weighing about
twelve and a half tons each, passed
through Shepherdstown few days
since over the Shenandoah Valley Rail-
road. They were consigned to New
York firm.
Robert Gasssaway, a cOlored man Of
Hagerstown, set a spring gun for
thief, and forgot what he had done and
entered the door that discharged the
gun. He received three bullets in the
leg, SCATTERING the bone. Amputation
may be necessary.
Simon Fisher, brakeman on the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, was fatally
injured at Sandy Hook Friday night.
He was on the car of freight train
next TO the caboose, and another train
coming up behind struck the caboose,
mangling Fisher SO badly that he died
ON Saturday.
The work of building the Monocacy
| Valley Railroad, which will run from
the Catoctin iron furnace 10 the West
ern Maryland Railroad at Mechanics
town, will be commenced, it is said, this
week. After its completion measures
will be taken, it is understood, looking
to its further extension to Frederick.
At a meeting of the Shepherd Col
lege Alumni last Saturday afternoon, it
was determined to make an effort to
lengthen and make more interesting
the anniversary exercises Of the society
This year. A committee was appointed
to invite speaker for that occasion.
The exercises this year bid fair to be
very interesting.
A Miss Murray, residing near Clear
Spring, Washington county, Md, ON
Monday attempted to commit suicide be-
cause her beau left the neighborhood to
90 West. She declared she did not
wish to live alter his departure, and
took ratsbane, which threw her into vi
client spasms. The prompt effort Of the
family physician saved her life.
Consid cradle excitement has been
| caused by the announcement that gold
has been discovered on the farm of
George Long, near Greencastle, Pa.
The yellow substance has been ana
lyzed by practical assayers, who pro-
nounce it gold, but it has not yet been
ascertained whether paying quantities
of the valuable metal can be found.
One day last week Mr.. William d.
Bennett and Miss Nina NJ. Kelly, both
of Hampshire county, West Va, were
married by Rev. John B. Hall, OF Paw
Paw, on the bank of the Potomac river
below high water mark, or in other
words, on the boundary line between
MARYLAND and West Va, the contract
ing parties not caring to be in any 9TH
err than state of happiness.
Col. II. Kyd Douglas, Of Hagerstown'
delivered his eloquent lecture upon
"rhe Southern Volunteer" in Lowell
Institute, Boston, OH last Thursday
evening. He was given cordial re-
ception. The Boston Herald Of Friday
published the lecture, which filled ten
columns in that paper. Pictures OF
Col. Douglas and the principal charac-
tiers named in the lecture were, also,
given.
George Grouse, aged twenty-seven
wears. a resident of Martinsburg, and a
brakeman on the Second Division of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, was run over
and killed by the cars Sunday morning
near Cherry Run. He was employed as
a brakeman on the freight train going
East drawn by engine No. 40, and when
near that place slipped and fell under
the cars, "a number of them passing over
him. He was unmarried.
Col. VIM. z. Craighill, writing to the
Charlestown Spirit, says in looking
through the journal of the General
1 a J.. .i,,i. ha hui
vember 23i. l7SG, petition was pre-
scented i'm tie House from sundry in
habitants OF Berkeley, praying the es-
tablishment of an inspection of tobacco
at Shepherdstown, in that county. What
a cnange! Such an office would be
rather a sinecure in this town at pres
ent.
We take pleasure in calling attention
to the advertisement of Mr.. Henry
Shepherd for first-class carpenters and
fence makers, ut his "Wild Goose
Farm" at wages Of 81 per day. There
are no doubt quite number of skilled
craftsmen in the lines called for out
of employment, who will be glad to
avail themselves of this opportunity.
We understand Mr.. Shepherd has quite
an army of employees now at work in
still further improving his already
magnificent estate. 1t is good move,
good pay, and we add, let the good
work go on.
We are rejoiced to see that an effort
is being made to establish creamery
here. Everywhere else creamery
means to the farmers who patronize it
more cash than ever for the product OF
all the cows they can keep, while it
diminishes the labor. 1t means more
aud better manure, and improved land
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