Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-10-01
BRIEFS.

,ort for sharpers on circus day.
To-day is the LIST of October How
,enpu, does fusi'' ..a
"m ,,r on your advertisements, and
p,'"9 asople know what you have to
SELL - 80 .,.
,,is getting to be the season OF the
year when 'pOssum hunting VIII 0s !"
style. .,.. ,hs .nnlss are
falling from the trees In great q"""'''
ties.
n. Newton Moler's traction engine
hoen repaired, and he is busy thresh-
ing wheat again.
That old chestnut about the corn
.I1, ,,esenting a shocking appearance
!. going the rounds.
Winchester Presbytery will meet in
p.,srsburg, Grant county, w. VA on
wednesday, October 9th.
poh,ins' circus don't exhibit at small
,..es like CharlesGown. Sometimes
'ho little shows exhibit there.
m. weather was like July the first of
.,,x .ek. On Monday the thermometer
wa, ninety degrees in the shade
The sovereign Grand Lodge Of Odd
,,,,ows will remove its headquarters
from Baltimore to Columbus, Ohio.
The general convention of the Prot
o.,,nt Episcopal Church will meet In
chicago the first Wednesday in octo-
Der.
p.v d. NJ. Moser, of the Lutheran
ohurch. will receive contributions Tor
,be sufferers by the Charleston earth
quake.
Early nine shares of the stock of the
r.,.rsrowr. Bark sold last Tuesday at
Il. r,markable price of $3.50 per share,
-. mr. value beiLg but $l5 per share.
large number Of emisrants have
,,.s..d over the Baltimore Il Ohio Rail-
road during the past TWO weeks, among
,hem several car loads of MormoE con-
yers.
Mr. Everett W. Bedinger, who has
Loen editor and business manager of the
Roanoke Leader fer some months past,
No.. severed his connection with that
paper.
Uorscs are commanding very high
rrice in this neighborhoOd. AT the
n,blic sale ut Mrs. Pendleton's last week
both horses aud cattle brought excellent
prices.
The water supply at Hagerstown is
very low, aud the engines of the Shen-
andoah Valley Railroad are compelled
10 run over to ShepherdstOwn to fill
their tanks.
The pupils of the Hagerstown Female
Seminary went to Luray on Wednes-
day. The boys who were at the station
when the train passed said it was a
beautiful sight.
Mr.. George W. Moler, one of the lead
inc farmers of this vicinity, informs us
that he raised from one and a quarter
acres of ground 225 bushels of Irish po-
tatoes. 1t looks as ifthis would pay bet
ter than raising wheat.
Frank A. Robbins bill-posters have
been in town during the past week eX-
tensiyely billing the place. They had
immense bill-boards put up along Prin-
cess street. The circus is to be next
Wednesday, October 9th.
The Democrats of Berkeley county
will hold their convention October I'd,
and the Republicans October 9th, and
the Republicans of Jefferson county
will hold mass meeting at kearneys-
vile to make nominations October I'd.
c. NJ. Futterer, auctioneer, sold on
Tuesday in Hagerstown, the Antietam
Iron Works property, three miles south
Of sharpsburg, under foreclosure pro-
ceedings to Hon. William Il. Hamilton,
the mortgage, for $4,000.
\ little daughter of Mr.. Thomas j.
West, near Ripon, had two fingers Of
her right hand cut off while playing
with cutting box last week. DR..
Brown, of Myerstown, rendered the
necessary medical attention.-Free
Press.
Mr.. J. II. Myers, proprietor of the
Baltimore Clothing House, at Harper's
Ferry, has his new advertisement in
this week. Mr.. Myers carries an inn
mense stock of goods, and the people OF
that community cannot do better than
to buy OF him.
Rev. 5. \. Hedges, now of MELVILLE,
Pa, has accepted the call recently ten
dered him by the Lutheran congrega-
uOh at Jefferson, in Middletown valley,
to become their pastor, and will enter
upon the duties Of the pastorate about
ihe middle of October.
Mr. Warren L. Ely jumped from a
moving train at the Baltimore q Ohio
depot in this place, last Wednesday, and
dislocated his shoulder, and on Thurs
DAY Mr.. David Deck broke his arm from
like cause, ut the Shenandoah Valley
depot. The former received surgical
attention from DIR. VIM. Neill, and the
latter from DR.. j. d. Starry Charles
torn Spirit
Mrs. Julietta Candy, relict of the
tate Sam'l Il. Candy Of Philadelphia,
dled in Baltimore on Friday. the Gath
INST She was taken from Charlestown
Oh Thursday, the 10Th inst, from the
residence of Mrs. Maxwell, where she