Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-11-23
BRIEFS.

weeks. He was in the 10th year of his
age.
The firemen of Hagerstown will
have a parade on Thanksgiving Day.
The Shepherd Fire Department of
this place has been invited, and will
go as company provided a sufficient
number are able to go.
Mr.. III. III. Garrigues, of Baltimore,
died at his home in that city last Mon
day, aged As years. He was promi-
nent worker in the Sunday Schools Of
the NJ. E. Church South, and was well
known to many Of our people.
There was change of schedule on
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad last
Sunday There is not much difference
in the time of the trains passing Shen-
andoah Junction. We will publish
the corrected schedule next week.
Our friend Mr.. Coon Snyder had
bad luck while out 'possum hunting
the other night. He fell while climb
ing a fence and dislocated one of his
shoulders. Dr. a. S. Reynolds got
the bone in place again, but it was a
painful operation for Mr. Snyder.
George Trundle and Elmer Arnold,
of Unionville, made a bet on the Pres
idential election. George being a
Democrat, lost his bet, so last Satur-
day night he wheeled Elmer in a
wheelbarrow from Striders store TO
Stroup's amid the cheers of crowd of
spectators.
Last Friday night an attempt was
made by some person or persons to
enter one of the rooms of the Entler
Hotel in this place. a ladder was
placed at the second-story window,
but the depredators were frightened
away by the passing of some one go
ing for a doctor.
Last Thursday morning Chas. Per
rell, of Martinsburg, a Baltimore 4
Ohio brakeman, fell from his train
near Vanclevesville, and the entire
train passed over him, killing him in
stantly. Three trains passed over his
body before it was discovered, man
Cling it in horrible manner.
Col. Henry kyd Douglas has been
confined TO his bed in his home at Ha-
gerstown during the past week by Sc
L. i 4 l,a,,
orrhages of the lungs, and his friends
have been much alarmed as to his con
dition. OverwOrk and exposure dur
ing the recent campaign are the causes
of illness.
A fat young rabbit that had proba-
bly come to town for cabbage Tues
dav night and found the social attrac-
tions of the place so great it couldn't
tear itself away, took its seat in the
editors front yard Wednesday morn
ing. 1t then went to the churchyard
next door, where it fell victim to
Mr.. Grants gun.
There is considerable complaint
among the farmers as to the condition
of the corn crop. The unusually wet
fall has prevented it from being
cribbed, and much of it in shock and
on the stalk has become mouldy and
rotten. Unless the weather should be
extremely favorable from this time
forward there will be much loss.
Joseph p. Brilliant, a brakeman on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was
knocked down while regulating his
train. near the Hannis distillery at
Martinsburg last week, sustaining
severe fracture of the right leg be-
tween the thigh and knee, and had
his left leg badly bruised. He made
a narrow escape from instant death.
The thieves who have pestered the
people in the Harper's Ferry neigh
borhood for several years, have started
in on the regular winter campaign. a
fat hog was stolen from the premises
of Mr.. A. NJ Sponcellor, in Bolivar,
last Saturday night, and butchered
on the common near by, where the
head and intestines were left upon the
ground.
Barney. the bright little son of Mr..
Geo. l.. Hoffman, met with an acct
dent that came near proving serious
some days ago. a wagon loaded
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the knee and ankle, but luckily the
ground was soft and yielding, and in
stead of being broken the limb was
ONLY bruised He is able TO get about
now with the assistance of u crutch.
There was heavy decline in
western wheat in Baltimore on Tues
day. 1t dropped 81 cents, and for the
first time since Hutchinson's big cor
ner last summer ii went below dol
lar. Southern wheat held its own
pretty well, and several lots sold al
Slip On Wednesday Southern fol-
lowed the decline, and dropped sew
eral cents. The highest price offered
in Shepherdstown Thursday morning
was 81 90.
A single page in one issue OF the
Centurv taken for advertising purpo-
SEES costs $500, in Harper's $500, in 9th
err magazines from $3.50 down to 800
A yearly advertisement of one column
in the Chicago Tribune is S35, 900; in
the New York Tribune 500, 544 for the
lowest. and S14s,O0 for the highest
price columns. These figures Will
doubtless be of interest to the man
who invests so and tiatters himself
with the idea that he is an extremely
liberal advertiser.
Mr.. c.. III. Anders, well-known cit