Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-07-02
BRIEFS.

the REGISTER
pssd Pendleton's advertisement this
r.sg II i. appropriate to the season.
There have been no picnics SO far this
...oo around here. What's the mat
Ter:
psmember the Rainbow Tea to be
held in the College grounds this even
inc and tomorrow evening.
coIored woman was immersed in
,,s Potomac last Sunday morning by
,t. pastor of the Baptist church.
The Ladies' Missionary Society of
clio Lu,hern church will have meet
ING on Saturday afternoon at 4 O'CLOCK.
The ladies of the Reformed Church
,iu hold a lawn festival in the College
Grounds ON the 9th and 9Th OF August
next.
Usger,town is to have bicycle pa
,,le on Monday next, the 9th OF July.
number OF visiting clubs will be
there.
John W. Castle, of Williamsport, Nd,
can 20 up head. He caught bass last
week that weighed eight pounds and
one ounce.
The corporation of Berkeley Springs
Inst week voted subscription of 1000
10 help build the Berkeley Springs and
Potomac Railroad.
The lawn festival for the benefit of
the Band will be held OIL Friday and
saturday evenings, July 10th and 18th,
in the College grounds.
Rev. Mr.. Grammer, of Hancock, Nd,
son of Rev. DIR. J. Z. Grammer. of Bal
timore, preached in the Episcopal
church of Shepherdstown last Sunday
morning and evening.
In the Supreme Court Of Appeals at
Wheeling, on thursday, in the case of
|. Crumlish's administrator VS.. the Shen-
anlOah Valley Railroad Company, a
writ Cf eertiorari was awarded.
The attention of our readers is called
TO the new advertisement of Trussell &
Hess in another column. Their lumber
lardi now well supplied, and they are
Ad!rg new stock as fast as possible.
Mr. John Q. Fleming has taken the
asency for the Singer Sewing Machine
in this locality, end will, with the as
.i.lsnce of his father, push the trade for
,ll il is worth. The Singer Is 3 good
machine and the Mes.rs. Fleming are
good agents.
The following days and dates are
taken up with excursions 10 Island
Park, at Harper's Ferry: July I'd,
Episcopal, July 18th, Baptists; July
18th, Reformed; July 24th, Catholic
July 3l,t, United Brethren; August Sd,
Presbyterian.
Instead of preaching a sermon last
Sunday morning, Rev. Charles Ghise!in
4 gave an account OF the recent General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at
Augusta, 10 which he was delegate.
Ills remarks were both interesting and
Instructive, and were enjoyed by large
congregation.
Clara, ten-year old daughter of Mr..
Carleton Shank, residing near Myers
vile, Frederick county, Nd, ate very
heartily OF cherries anG was Immediately
afterwards seized with a spasm, which
resulted ia her death before physician
could be summoned.
II affords us great pleasure to an
noahee the convalescenee of Re. J.. l..
smith. He has been suffering with an
AVacS of sC@elhing like peritonitis with
'!pho'malaral symptoms. For several
uays his condition was extremely crit
'c'' and elected the deepest anxiety on
Tue part OF his friends and parishioners.
! -NTa'6rTg Nelcs.
Mr. Louis McMurray has planted nj
"H Iarm, near Frederick, two thousand
a''S OIL mountain sugar corn. Other
''uers in the neighborhood have
painted eight hundred acres, and the
f'Oduce OF all this land will be canned
'"'ms tile season, which commences
'V'u' the middle of August. Four
,"''''oh cans are on hand, and forty tive
1''u' are at work adding to the num-
'"e contracts for the construction OF
' riedmont and Cumberland Railroad
were a~arded last week. The road was
,'Ued ih'0 twenty-nine sections of one
'"''e each. The contracts were awarded
'oHows: john Humbird & Co., OF
4noerland, five sections; Page, Carey
= w. Of Washington, ID. c., eight Sec
D. Nolan O'Reilley, of Reading,
~ ~ eve" sections; Kennedy Crossan,
-, "''adeiphia. six sections. The
,' W. Two sections, which are at Cum.
,o "u' were not let, owing to the loca'
nut oelng fully determined upon.
r. PROJECT OF the completion Of the
o.. ~ railroad tOa connection will
,,n, "es'ern Maryland IN the Cnmber'
R.as, "l'ey is again discussed. The
l,s, officials went over the route
h,s week A bridge across the Susquc'
Rs,a a al Harrisburg would give the
bnS ng a connection with the Harris
bn,s anu Potomac Railroad to Shippens
uon,, VI The Western Maryland. This
Ohio u give line to the Baltimore and
Be- .,,l Na'lrOad at Hagerstown, besides
cal t,,s" ageous for the exchange Of 10
IN a rich and populous section