Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-08
BRIEFS.

lngton street, and Ii VIII be shortly Oh
fered at public sale.
Col. Henry Kyd Douglas will deliver
his famous lecture on THE Southern
Volunteer" in Charlestown on Satur-
day evening. A number of Shepherds
town people expect to go over to hear
the sloquent address.
About one o'clock Wednesday morn
ing while Dan Morgan, colored man,
was walking on the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad track at Martinsburg, he
was run over by an engine and in
stantly killed. He is thought to have
been intoxicated.
Editor c. b. Hart, of the Wheeling
Mtelligencer, wrote to his paper in
very complimentary terms about the
people of Shepherdstown and Jeffer-
son county, speaking from his expert
ence here as President of the Indus
trial Association.
The well-known "Entler Hotel, un-
der the management of Mr.. John n.
Trussell, is fast regaining its old time
popularity, and visitors to that his
toric town will find at this hostelry
ample and comfortable accommoda
tions at all times. - Charlesto,cn Spirit.
During the month of May 265 boats,
carrying 29,711 tons of coal, cleared
from Cumberland on the canal, bring
ing in a revenue of about 81, 800. The
months shipments are a slight in
crease over those for April, and over
10, 900 more than those for May, 1887.
The COWS in the eastern end of town
or at least their owners-do not
seem to know that there is law
against allowing them to run at large.
Half a dozen or so can generally be
seen browsing along the streets down
that way, and only occasionally one
gets taken to the pound.
a village newspapers a photograph
of the town where it is printed, and is
the only evidence its foreign readers
have of the towns prosperity. Every
business firm should be represented
by well displayed advertisement, be
it large or small, thereby giving
strangers a favorable impression of
the place.
The resolution introduced by Sena-
tor Faulkner calling on the Secretary
of War for information why the ST.
500 appropriated by Congress for the
improvement of the Shenandoah river
above Harper's Ferry had not been
applied to the purposes for which 1t
was intended, passed the Senate last
Thursday.
David ID. Johnson, chairman of the
State Executive Committee of the
Prohibition party, has called a con
vention to nominate u State ticket in
Parkersburg on July 31st. Delegates
from every county in the State are
expected, and full ticket, with posi-
bly, Congressional candidate, will be
nominated.
The baseball clubs of Charlestown
and Moler's Cross Roads played a
match game at Shepherdstown on
Saturday last. The Moler's Cross
Roads Club fell easy victims to the
Charlestowners The score was "a to
IA. A game will be played at Charles
town tomorrow between the club
there and Shepherdstown nine.
Wednesday afternoon man named
Bowers-said to be an inmate of an
asylum from Baltimore or Washing
ton-was seized with fit on a canal
boat opposite Shepherdstown, and
fell overheard into the canal. He
never rose TO the surface until he was
dragged out with boat-hook half
hour later. He was about % years
old
The handsome brick mansion Of
Mr.. John McCauley, situated on his
farm about five miles from Hagers-
town, was totally destroyed by fire
last Saturday, with the greater por
ton of its contents. Mr. McCauley
and his family were absent from home
at the time. and the cause of the fire
is unknown. Loss about $4,000, with
an insurance of 50, 500.
AT barn raising at Mr. Louis Mich
ael's farm. near Bedington, on last
Monday, Mr.. Moses Seibert, son OF
Mr.. j. NJ. Seibert, fell from the purline
of the roof TO the floor of the stable
below, distance of thirty-five or forty
feet. The wonder is that Mr.. Seibert
was not killed, but fortunately he
escaped with deep cash on the head,
and a severe bruise on the leg.-StdteS-
man.
A very brilliant wedding was cele-
brated at "Boydville," the Faulkner
homestead, at Martinsburg, Wednes-
day evening, when Miss Ella Bocock,
daughter of Hon. Thomas Bocock, of
Virginia. and grand daughter of the
late Hon. G. j. Faulkner, was married
to Rev. Charles Dabney Price, of
Richmond, Va The occasion was
most interesting one, and is said TO
have been one of the most brilliant
social events that has happened in
Martinsburg for years.
Hagerstown had another destructive
fire on Tuesday night of this week.
The large frame building on Antietam
street, occupied by ID. L. Wolff as a
carriage repository, was burned to
the ground, together with its valuable
contents, consisting of vehicles of all
kinds, farming implements, hardware,
etc. Several adjoining houses were
also pretty badly damaged by fire and