Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-12-17
BRIEFS.

papy is erecting new frame building
at Harper's Ferry. 1t is to be used as a
passenger waiting-room.
Full line Of raisins, currants, citron,
ngs. cocoanuts, fiavoring extracts, can
dies, nuts, cakes, crackers, cracker
! dust, at Trussell s. Hess's.
Some ice has been hauled for Shep-
herdstOwn ice-houses this week. 1t was
taken from the canal, and was about
three inches thick and very clear.
The efforts in behalf of the firemen's
fair are almost unanimous. The town
and country folks almost without excep-
ton are doing the handsome thing.
In Hagerstown last week John Moran
Charles Hayburn and Joseph Holmes
were sentenced to the penitentiary for
one year each for breaking into rail-
road car.
Trussell s. Hess have in stock n. O..
Sugar, syrups, mincemeat, buckwheat
maple syrup, preserves, jelly, prepared
mustard, sardines, pickles, and all kinds
of canned goods.
w. A. Adams has just returned from
the city with a nice line of confection-
cries and also handsome stock of toys
and notions of every description, both
for the young and the old, for the
Christmas Holidays. Please give him
a call.
The report Of the school taught by
Mr.. r. NJ. Huyett for the month ending
December Sth shows an average daily
attendance of IA girls and Z boys. The
pupils not absent or tardy during the
month were Rosa F. .Billmyer, Byrle Fl.
McQuilkin and Ella V. Staley.
We call particular attention this week
to the advertisement of our friend G.. B.
Moler, of Engle's Switch, this county.
His store is new one, and consequently
all his goods are nice and fresh. He
has in now a special line Of goods suita-
bic tor the Holidays. Give him call.
At meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Humane Society, held in
Washington city, committee was APP
pointed to devise proper medal to be
presented to Capt. David Knode, Of
Sharpsburg, in recognition of his hu-
name treatment OF mules or the Chesa-
peake Il Ohio canal.
Messrs. G. w. and 5. Z. Humrick-
house have received contract TO build
another set of church furniture, in the
manufacture of which they have become
well-known. This time the furniture
is for new Reformed church at Wood
bury, near Baltimore, and is to be fac
smile of the one in the Reformed
church at Shepherdstown.
Seven little "Injuns," three boys and
four girls, passed through this place
last week over the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad, en- route for the Indian school
at Carlisle. They were from Gston-
limos band, and their ages ranged from
twelve to fifteen years. One of the
girls was sick, but the others appeared
perfectly contented and cheerful.
A bill passed by the House of Repre-
sentatives last week provides for the free
delivery of letters in towns when the
population is 10000 or when the annual
revenue from the postoffice is $4,000 a
year. In West Virginia Charleston and
Parkersburg will receive the benefit of
the law. Hagerstown, Frederick and
Cumberland, in Maryland, will also be
entitled to the free delivery.
The farmers of Washington county
intend to build union elevator at Ha-
gerstown, which they claim will be for
their own protection, and will make a
uniform price in the county for their
wheat and corn. Books will be opened
in the county clerks office on January
l, 1887, to take stock in the project at
SO per share. 1t is understood that
considerable stock has already been
subscribed, and that the elevator will
certainly be built.
The almanac for 1887 gives few
items of general interest. New Years
day comes on Saturday; Washington's
Birthday on Tuesday; st. Valentines
day on Monday; April Fool on Friday :;
Memorial day OIL Monday: 4th of July
on Monday; Christmas on Sunday /;
Easter Sunday will be on the 10th of
April, Lent begins March ID. There
will be four eclipses, two of the sun ano'
two of the moon. One, February Sth,
visible as partial eclipse i'm the United
| States.
A special session of the County Court
was held on Monday and Tuesday of last
week, at which the following officers
appeared and were qualified, viz: Jno.
w. Rider, Lee II. Molsr and Jno. G..
Shirley, County Commissioners; VIM.
J. Moler, Justice of the Peace in Har-
psr's Ferry District; G. Frank Gallaher,
Justice of the Peace in Charlestown
District. License was granted Thos.
A. Kahn to retail spiriiuous liquors in
the store room Of Mrs. Jas. III. Rodrick,
| in Charlestown.
Thanks.-Itisa very pleasant thing
/ to be an editor-sometimes. Last Sat
urday was one of The pleasant times, for
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