Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-03-12
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Snyder.
Governor Wilson and his brother wer,
called from Charleston on Tuesday by 8
dispatch stating that their mother is dan
gerously i'll at her home in Harper's
Ferry.
There will be a meeting of the Stock.
holders of the Shepherdstown Manu-
featuring Company next Saturday
March Goth. Business Of importance
is to be transacted.
Mr.. Charles Davies, former resident
of Harper's Ferry, slipped on stone
step and fell while he was coming out
of church in Washington recently and
broke his leg.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad will
put on an early mail train next Mon.
day. The train will leave Baltimore
at 4 a. NJ, and will supply mail to all
stations on the branches and main stem
as far as Martinsburg. The train will
reach Martinsburg at 7.45 a. m.
Four carloads of iron bridge material
passed through this place this week
on the Shenandoah Valley Railroad.
The railroad company intends TO replace
with an iron bridge the wooden trest-
ling at Gooney's Run, in Virginia,
which has been washed out so often.
DR.. James NJ. Ransom, dentist. will
visit our town professionally next Mon.
day and remain one week, and will be
here regularly thereafter the first week
i'm each month. His office is over Baker
& McMurran's store, the room lately
occupied by DIR. Mccormick. See his
advertisement.
Mr.. Charles Davies, of the Pension
Office, Washington, d. c., formerly OF
this county, slipped and fel! while de.
scending the steps of the Ascension
Church, in that city, and sustained 3
compound fracture of the thigh, which
will confine him to his bed and house
for several months.
Mr.. G. NJ. Bishop, operating the saw
mill of Messrs. Frazier & Colston, in the
Cookies Woods" clearing, recently
sawed for Col. John Il. Gibson two logs,
cut from tie same tree, which turned
out respectively 625 and us feet Of FEM
cling plank. The butt measured nearly
six feet acrOss.-Spirit.
Mr.. G.. NJ. BeltzhOOver has commen'
ced repairs on the Greenwood proper ~
recently purchased by him. He will
rent the large store room to Mr.. d. l.
Rentch, and Mr.. ID. 5. Rentch will ust
the other room for the postoffice. Mr.
Rentch will occupying the balance OF
the house as a residence.
A meeting of the board Of directors Of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal wa:
held in Washington Tuesday morning
The unsettled condition of affairs at the
Cumberland mines caused a postpone
ment of the question regarding tolls
for 1886. 1t was decided to turn OH thu
water in the canal between the 10Th ant
10th of this month. The directors art
having the work pushed all along thu
line in order that traffic may open by
that time.
In the Conference of tie M. +
Church South ut Staunton on Wednes
| day Rev. j. +. Armstrong presented
memorial from the Quarterly Con
ference of Shepherdstown Circuit
earnestly and emphatically remonstra
ting against any disturbance of TIT
present conference boundaries, being
firmly persuaded that such action, ant
especially the transfer of that section
of the work, would be disastrous t
the peace and safety of our church
upon this border. Referred to the com
mittee on memorials to the Genera
Conference.