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

Take your Wooi W
est market price,
ro.mOrrow, Saturday, is decoration
a.y in Charlestown.
I'D wanted for cash or trade. Apply
10 russell & Hess
rho bottom seems to have dropped
out of the wheat market.
r.o ladies' of .he Reformed Church
,omnlste holding a festival after
harvest.
IT,. usual reduction of toll will be
40 AZ the Shepherdstown bridge on
DecOration Day.
uodses is selling all kinds Of grocer
=. hardware, shoes &C., at prices that
Jsfy competition.
Tho iron fence around Elmwood Gem
tory is being painted. 1t is a very
great Improvement
The ninth annual council Of the Epis-
.,,,I Church will begin on Wednesday
next in Charlestown.
Rev. John 5. Lafevre will preach in
,ba PRESBYTERIAN church of Shepherds
town on Sunday morning.
There is a very curiously constructed
,,;o this vicinity. For further par
,iculars see Towner Schley.
Farmers are invited to call on j. S.
Myers and take look at the Hinch corn
,n,,va.or. 1t is a complete machine.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
n,ny has beguna general system of con-
,olidstions and reductions in expenses.
Call st Trussell & Hess and get a
niece of beautiful Mosaic Ware gratis
with each pound can Silver Star Baking
Powder.
Or. EFT. Gold, formerly of this place,
has retired from the drug business in
Turay, and is now travelling as tobacco
salesman.
The June number of the Century mag
,zpe contains an article by Col. II. Kyd
Douglas on the subject of jackson in
Maryland"
4 three-year old child of Newton
Stubs, colored, fell down a flight OF
steps last week and broke one of its
thighs very badly.
New cabbage, pineapples, straw ber-
ries. bananas, oranges and lemons, fresh
cheese and crackers received this week
by Trussell 4 Hess.
Saturday, May Goth, being Decoration
Dav. and therefore legal holiday, the
postoffice at this place will be closed
from Q a. m. to p. m.
A freight train on the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad was wrecked near Luz
ray on Sunday last. No one was hurt,
but passenger trains were delayed.
Mr. II. c. Marten put a new tin root
on Mr.. William Rightstine's house this
week. Mr.. W. 5. .Underdonk also re-
singled the roof of his mothers house.
The base ball club from ST. james
College played the Shepherdstown club
at this Place last Saturday and beat the
home boys badly. The score was y to
Il.
Henry 5. Hannis, the famous distiller,
died last week at the Norristown Asy-
lum of softening of the brain. He Once
owned the Hannis distillery at Martins
burg.
Mrs. Mary E. Rutherford, widow of
the late Thomas Rutherford, died in
Brooklyn, n. Y, Monday of last week,
and was buried in Charlestown on
Thursday.
match game of baseball was played
last week between the Harper's Ferry
third nine and the Bolivar third nine.
The game was won by the former club
bys score of u to l6.
We were in error last week in stating
that the Shepherdstown Manufacturing
Company had elected new board of
directors. 1t was the jefferson Savings
Bank that had the election.
The teachers institute for colored
persons will be held at Harper's Ferry,
beginning June lst and continuing one
week. Prof. Clifford, of Martinsburg,
will conduct the institute.
We notice that some Of our exchanges
have been victimized by the Gregg
Remedy Company, of Palmyra, n. Y.
On tnis OCCASION we profit by the ex-
perience of our less fortunate brethren.
The Charlestown Free Press says that
on account of an affection of the throat
Rev. Dallas Tucker has been advised by
bis physicians to stop preaching for SIX
months. He is now in Baltimore under
Treatment.
The house Of Mr.. John Rentch, in
Berkeley county, was entered last week
and robbed of fine gold watch, nu-
merous silver articles and $50. The
family were absent at the time. No
clue to the robbery has been obtained.
Prof. Julian A. Smith, of Charles
Town, is the pOssessor of violin marked
manufactured in 1877, which he pur-
chased of a German immigrant in Bal
uuiore some time ago. 1t is quite hand
some, aud said TO he fine instrument.
Spirit.
We have often heard that if the cows
are brought from their pastures Two
hours before being MIXED the taste OF
TIE garlic will at least be greatly modi-
Hed. Of course the same procedure will
relieve the superintendent taste Of clio
Yer, &c.
Mr.. j. w. Dodd stirred up things a