Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-02-26
BRIEFS.


a week. Ii there is no decided opposi.
ton there will be no taxes collected.
Bustles are coming into fashion again.
Old papers can be had at this office
cheap. Copies of the REGISTER, for
Sunday bustles, may also be obtained.
DR.. James NJ. Ransom, of Charles
town, was In Shepherdstown on Tues
day making arrangements to spend part
OF his time in the practice Of his profess
sion-dentistry-in this place.
we are requested to state that Mr..
Harry NJ. Turner will deliver a lecture
before the Debating Society Of Billmy-
er's Mill the second Friday in March,
on the subject "The Duties of Man"
He will be assisted by Mr.. George
S:aley.
Two West Virginia editors have re-
Gently been getting married-John H.
Holt, of the Grafton Standard, and NJ.
B. Henderson, of the st. Adams Nonpa.
re,l. We hope that they may have as
good luck as Brother White, of tn e
State Journal.
We learn from the lola (Kansas) Reg
lister, that Mr.. William Snyder, former
ly Of this county, is now superintendent
of the Allendale Breeding Farm, and
is meeting with much success. He has
recently disposed of large number of
fine young Aberdeen Angus cattle to
Texas stock-raisers.
There is said to be fraud now roam
ing through the country, who processes
to cure all diseases of eyes, ears and
head by means of spectacles with electric
attachments. He charges $40, requiring
So cash and the balance when the pa
tient is cured. The spectacles are not
worth more than twenty-five cents.
Becky Williams, the colored woman
who was arrested in Msrtinsburg a
short time ago, for taking letter from
the post office belonging 10 another per-
son and abstracting money therein con-
tanned, was tried in the L. S. Distric t
Court, at Parkersburg, last Thursday,
found guilty, and sentenced to thirteen
months in the penitentiary.
From the census reports it appears
that in 1860 The population of the State
of West Virginia was 37s, 6SS, in 1870 it
was 442 OLA, and in 1880 reached 6lS,-
456, having nearly doubled in twenty
wears. The increase from 1860 to 1870
is less than 100000, while the increase
from 1870 to 1880 is nearly 100000,
showing rapidly increasing current OF
immigration.
Mr.. David X. Miller has sold at pri-
vate sale his farm lying OIL the Hagers-
town and Sharpsburg Turnpike IL
miles north of Sharpsburg, to Mr.. f
X. Hoffman, of Keedysville, for the
sum of $3.50 per acre. Mr.. Ezra Mark
err, of Sharpsburg, sold at private sale
his farm adjoining the Antietam Iron
Works, and containing l53 acres, to Mr..
John F. Schamsl for $1,000.
II is stated on what appears to be good
authority that "a project is entertained
looking to the organization of Chesa.
peake and Ohio Canal Towing or Trans
portation Company, under the manage
ment of the State board of directors. Ii
Is argued that the canal under the pres
ent law can DO no other business except
10 provide the waterway for the carry
ing Of freight and collect the tolls. The
plan proposed is for the canal company
to engage in the towage and Transports
ton business.
The presidents Of coal companies OPP
Grating mines i'm the Clearfeld, Irwin,
Garrett, Meyersdale, Georges Creek,
Elk Garden aud Pocahontas districts
have been notified by circular that the
convention of miners held in Cumber-
land. Md, last week had decided to de.
mand an increase of ten cents per ton,
TO go into effect March 9Th. The circu-
lar states tina. at present rates miners
are unable to earn living for their
families and that they are not In favor
of strikes, but feel compelled to take
some steps for self-protection.