Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-05-28
BRIEFS.

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will be in Shepherdstown next week
prepared to take photographs. See adj
vertisement.
Potomac Herring and Family Roe
Herring, by barrel, half barrel, hum
dred or dozen, also new brand cheap
Syrups just received by Trussell & Hess.
Shepherdstown will be lively next
week. Commencement will take up
three evenings and Saturday will be
decoration day. A visit to town will be
we'll repaid.
The strawberry festival for the bene-
fl of the Episcopal church will be held
next Friday and Saturday evenings,
June 4th and 5th. The public is invi-
ted to patronize it literally.
William Floyd was arrested at Mar
tinshurg last Saturday and taken to Bal
timore on the charge Of being concerned
in a number of small robberies in the
latter place. He confessed to the thefts.
The canal authorities are getting
ready to commence rebuilding Dam No.
6. Shanties are now being erected for
the men, two hundred of whom will be
employed. The work will be in charge
of Boss Carpenter S. d. Young.
At a meeting of the Town Council on
Wednesday night the Street Committee
was authorized to continue the work of
cutting down the hill in front Of the
residence of Mr.. H. w. Potts, on New
Street.
The Champion Light folks
come to the front this week with new
column advertisement in which they
set forth the merits of their machine.
Our farmer friends will do well to read
and ponder over what is said.
Mr.. Karicofe, the Leetown inventor,
has invented machine to catch grass
hoppers. The insects are gathered on
to a canvas sheet and carried back and
crushed by rollers at the rear end Of the
machine. We believe its capacity is
twenty bushels per day.
The Chassis of Virginia adjourned at
Timberville, Va, last week, to meet
next year at Mt. Crawford, Va. Rev.
B. F. Bausmann was President of Chassis
this year. The sessions were well at
tended by delegates and visitors who
took much interest in the proceedings.
A patent medicine firm in New York
State wants us to do some advertising
and take our pay in pills. We are
willing to occasionally take wood, corn,
potatoes, pumpkins, sewing machines,
aud so forth, on account, but we feel
obliged to draw the line at pills. We
can't swallow them, quite.
In the Circuit Court at Charlestown:
State VS.. Sidney F. Tyler, Receiver of
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, in
dictment for MISUNDERSTANDING
public road. Found guilty. Motion
made in arrest of judgment, and notice
! given of motion for a new trial.
Brown for State, Travers for defence.
Town Sergeant Arthur arrested a
colored man on Tuesday on suspicion Of
having been implicated in II robbery in
| Martinsburg. A search of the mans
yalise, however, showed that instead of
being filled with stolen silverware it
contained a Testament and Bible.
There being no testimony against him
he was released form custody.
At the corporation election in Mar
tinsburg on Monday the Peoples
Ticket" was elected after very vigorous
cam paign. Mayor c. o. Lambert was
reelected by majority of 1879. The
councilmen are DR.. Jas. w. McSherry,
John II. Picking, E. V. Little, Richard
Boyer aud John Bowers. Mayor Lam
bert, accept our congratulations.
The heavy rains of the past month
have washed the plowed fields greatly,
and many war relics have been I'M
earthed. On Mr.. b. f. Graves farm,
on the Antietam battlefield, last Satur-
dav, three boys found about hundred
bullets, parts of guns, an2 other re-
minders of the great fight. Some fine
specimens of Indian arrow-heads have
been found i'm the fields around Shep-
| herdstown.
We mentioned last week that Mr..
Josiah Watson, of this county, had Sc
cured place in the internal revenue
service. He has been appointed store
keeper in charge of the Hannisville
distillery at Martinsburg, vice ii. w.
Daniels, "offensive partisan, removed.
This leaves but one more Republican in
office under Collector McGraw, who
will remain as target for the unterri-
ed but hopeful Democracy.
An attempt was made last Monday to
destroy the Books and papers Of the
Charlestown council. The tax book
was saturated with coal oil and set on
fire, but was fortunately rescued before
il was burned. The corporation election
on Thursday is supposed to haveinspired
tie rascally act, as certain persons
wanted the books out Of the way at vot-
ing time. The Mayor offers 500 re-
ward for the guilty persons.
1t was stated OH the stock exchange
in Baltimore on Saturday that the West
Virginia Central Railroad syndicate
had bought 100000 of the bonds Of
1878 of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal
company at IS cents Oil the dollar.
The result has been rise in the stock
of that road. The Baltimore and Ohio
officials are said to feel somewhat baf-