Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-06-25
BRIEFS.

Kearneysville on Sunday morning at
1890.
The fashionable bathing costume for
the small boy is stone bruise on the
heel and an eel-skin around the left
knee.
George Dill, cOlOred, convicted of rob-
bling house, and James Dill escaped
from the Martinsburg Jail Tuesday
morning. Five prisoners have escaped
from that Jail within the last six months.
Dir. George d. DeShields will manage
the B. & .. hotels at Oakland and Deer
Park this season. He is u weli-knOwn
hotel man, and was at the head of the
Riggs House in Washington for many
years.
G. =. Saner, furniture dealer. of Hag-
erstown, on Tuesday executed deed of
trust for the benefit of his creditors,
naming Alexander Armstrong trustee.
Attachments amounting to several thou
sand dollars were issued against Saner
during the day.
Most Of our farmers were ready to be-
gin harvesting on Tuesday, but it rained
all day and half of the night, preventing
them from starting as soon as expected
All of them are hard at it now, however.
So many self-binders are used now that
there is little or no demand for harvest
hands.
A protracted meeting of the NJ. Z.
Church, South, at Middleway, closed,
after continuance Of seven weeks, last
Sunday night. As result of the meet
ing there were AZ accessions to the
church, besides quite a number who
made professor and joined other
churches.
Mr.. z. G. Peine, near Vanclevesville,
awoke one night last week and found
his chimney on fire, the flames blazing
out at the top. Remembering having
heard it said that discharging gun up
the chimney would put out the fire, he
did so, with the desired effect, thus say.
ing his house from destruction.
\ superstitious subscriber, who
found spider in his paper, wants to
know if it is I bad omen. Nothing of
the kind The spider was merely look
Ing over the columns of the paper TO see
what merchants were not advertising,
so that it might know where to spin its
web across the store door and be free
from disturbance.
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad will
sell excursion tickets to Luray, July Sd
and 4th, good to return on the 9TH. The
fare from all stations as far south as
Riverton is $3.50, including admission
to the Cave. Also tickets to Natural
Bridge, including back transfer to the
Bridge, for $3.50, from all stations as
far south as Luray.
The ravages of what was supposed to
be fly i'm the wheat fields of Queen
AIMS and Kent counties Nd, are now
thought to be due to English sparrows.
These birds have been known to commit
serious depredations in wheat fields, and
as they have multiplied very rapidly i'll
recent years, it is more than probable
that they are the authors of the mischief.
Mr.. b. Frank Rohrback, we'll
known and highly-respected resident
of Sharpsburg, Md, died at his resi-
dence, in thar place, Sunday morning,
aged about sixty years. The deceased
was n great sufferer for several months
with an affection of the knee-joint. He
was a leading saddler and harness mer-
chant, and of late years has kept store.
The newspapers of the towns along
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad are
kicking very vigorously at the recent
change of schedule on the road that
makes the mail four hours later than
formerly. We sincerely hope that some
thing will be done by which we can get
our mail earlier in the day. We have
as much right to good mail facilities as
any town in these United States.
The ladies of the NJ. L. Church South
will hold Rainbow Tea on the College
grounds Friday and Saturday evenings,
July 2nd and 3:d. In connection with
the bill of fare on such occasions, there
will be served an excellent lunch, and
the very best chicken soup that can be
had. The proceeds Of this tea will be
used in purchasing new chandelier
for the church. Come one, come all,
from far and near, and help purchase
the chandelier.
Mr.. Z. l.. Miller, General Agent OF
the Emmner Telephone Company, and
Mr.. G.. IL. Morgan, assistant, are in
town with the object of establishing Il
telephone exchange here, between this
and other points in the county, and
the outside world. They have two in
strumen;s up apG lines connecting the
law Office of MeSsrs. Grove d Brown
with Messrs. Sadler Bros shop, and
working very satisfactorily.-Cha
torn SPIRIT.
A mule belonging to Mr.. Patrick
O'Brien, residing near Halltown, was
found, one day last week, minus the en-
tire hoof of one Of his feet; search re-
vealed the missing hoOf npon the rail
road crossing. Whilst no one about
that locality witnessed tie accident, it
is supposed that the mule must have
been caught by some passing train in
such manner as to cause him to lose his
hoof, whilst, remarkable as it may Sc M,
the animal was otherwise uninjured.-