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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-07-20

THREE conventions are to be held
next week The Senatorial on Monday
at Martinsburg, the Judicial at the
same place on Tuesday, and the Con-
gressional ON Wednesday at Pied
mont
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-07-20

IT is said that Mr.. MOrtons bari Is
on tap. and the Doodle will flow plen-
teously from now until the ides of No
vember. But that won't save the q.
q u
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-07-20

$50 p. m.
LUTHERAN CHURCH.
REV. ID. ". MosER, Pastor.
KNOXVILLE 1890 n. IN, Shepherdstown S.oO
p. IN.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
REV. CHARLES GHIsELIN, Pastor.
Shepherdstown, Communion, lO.3O a. m,
Kearneysville s p. III. Services preparatory
To the Communion Friday Sp. m, and Satur-
day 1890 Il. III.
REFORMED CHU RICH.
REV. Il. +. BAUSMANN. Pastor.
Shepherdstown 1890 a. m, Bethesda 2.So p.
IN.
NJ. +. CHURCH.
REV. II. &. MCDANIEL. PASTOR.
Sharpsburg 1000 a. m. and 800 p. III.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
REV. L. X. MASON, RECTOR.
Shepherdstown at 1880 n. IN. and i.OJ =. IN.
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Services fifth sunday OF every month by
Rev. Father Wilson, at III a. m.
Y. NJ. &. 4.
Services at College Hall every S"hday
afternoon at $3.50.
Forest Grange No. %, will meet the sec.
ond Friday of each month at l3O and last Fri
day, at u p. III.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-07-20

IT is stated that Hon. Stephen b.
Elkins is TO make number of cam
paign speeches for Harrison and Nor
ton. He calculates to do considera-
BILE missionary work in West Virginia.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-07-20
Iwn WAYS. Choose Which

There are two usual ways OF doing what Ma
ture sometimes does incompletely, namely,
to relieve the bowels. One is TO swallow
nurgatiye which evGcuates profusely, abrupt
" and with pain, the other is TO take Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters, the effect of which Is
not violent, but sufficiently thorough; anu
first il selected the person employing 1t need
not expect permanent benefit and he cann0t
hope TO escape the febilitatingr reaction when
leaves the organs as bad or worse of than De-
fore. IT. on the other hand, he resorts TO the
Filters he can rely upon the restoration OF n
regular habit Of body, consequent upon re-
neUai OF n healthfui tone in the intestinal
canal. Besides BEAUTIFULLY relaxing the bow
els. the Btters arouses dormant liver, I'M
parts a beneficial impetus TO the action OF the
kidneys, and counteracts the early tWihses
of rheumatism, a tendency TO govt, and ma
laria in all its forms.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-07-20

Presley Marmaduke,
VIM. Foutz,
Col. Morgan,
A. S, cambridge,
f. |. Lee,
j. S. Bragonier,
John W. Hill,
Henry Selby,
VIM. n. Myers,
Thos. II. Wysong,
Allen S. Staley,
Peter Morgan,
John O. AgIionby,
John III. Smith,
VIM. II. Fayman,
George Show,
Mrs. John Cook,
Daniel Cook,
Mrs. Emma Cook,
William Cothnberger,
George Coffinberger,
Raleigh Domer,
Henry Domer,
John II. Snyder,
Morris Hendricks,
George Colbert,
Adam Colbert,
Maj. Herr,
VIM. 7. Osbourn,
j. F. Osbourn,
John w. Hendricks,
Capt. Moler,
Washington Banks,
John Keplinger,
Charles Keplinger,
Charles Huyett,
Samuel Huyett,
VIM. II. Byers, (of Geo.
Allen Entler,
Mason Marshall,
j. T. Kearney,
Joseph Randall,
F. Gerling,
Richard Morgan,
John w. Hollida,
W. S. Myers,
Taylor Unseld,
Thos. Turner,
Robert Turner,
Adrian Miller,
VIM. NJ. Shepherd,
Thos. Griffith,
VIM. Weise,
John l.. Richard,
Jacob Wintermoyer,
I. II. Davis,
Mrs. William Rush,
Harry Rush,
Charles Byers,
John Daily,
Jacob T. McQuilkin,
Columbus Graves,
Thos. S. Williams,
DR.. E. G. Williams, Sr.,
DR.. Eli Williams. Sr,
Jas. a. Duvall,
Chas. b. Line,
VIM. Blaekford,
A. H. Myers,
VIM. f. Myers,
John J. Byers,
VIM. II. Byers, (of Joseph
VIM. T. Hoffman,
Jos. i. Walper,
David T. Jones,
a. 5. cambridge, Sr.,
David Grimm,
Mnten Collins,
Robert johnson,
John Miller,
Mrs. Pendleton,
Joseph Strine,
Murphy Tabler,
VIM. b. Cost,
Henry G. Mpmma,
Samuel Miller,
WA. Thomas,
r. ID. Lamar.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-07-20
Girls Home School,
LURAY, VA.

THIS school is now Ilrst-class in all its APP
| pOintments. Mental and Physical Sci
ence Mathematics, Latin and Instrumental
Music taught by experienced and competent
gentlemen. send for Catalogue to REV. j. /.
MILLER, Principal
JulN l3. INSS-lW
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-07-20
NOTICE TO TEACHERS.

rrHE Teachers County Institute Will con-
i vcne in the Court House, nj Charlestown,
on
.suIy 30th, AT o o'clock. Il. III,
with Prof. T. c. Miller, Of Farmont, as In
structor. All who expect TO teach in the pub
lie schools of this county are requested to at
tend (as the law requires, as business OF I'M
portance will be discussed. We also have the
promise OF prominent persons To address the
Institute during its meetings School officers,
patrons, pupils and friends, are most cordial
ly invited to attend.
The examination ofcandidateS for Teachers
Certificates will he held on WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST Sth, OF the following week. in the
stone school house next door TO the NJ. r..
Church, in Charlestown.
EMANUEL SCHAEFFER,
County Superintendent.
July b. 1855
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-07-20

MORROW will settle the fate OF
Jefferson county candidates.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-07-20
CHESAPEAKE


last season. These goods are all of
the highest grades, and are guaran-
teed to be pure. We manufacture
our own goods and sell to the farmers
only the highest grades, our lower
grades 90 to the MANIPULAToR.
These goods are used extensively and
have proven for themselves in every
instance where the farmer gives them
an opportunity to do so. Oil applied
to the outside of the hub is worthless
to the spindle; so it with Fertilizers,
unless properly applied to the ground.
| have the following brands, all man
ufactured by the Chesapeake Guano
Co., of Baltimore:
High Grade Dissolved Bone
Phosphate,
Chesapeake Guano,
Bone and Potash,
Alkaline Dissolved Bone,
Ammoniated Bone Super Phos-
phate,
Corn and Oats Phosphate,
Ammoniated Alkaline Phosphate,
Ground Bone.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-07-20

Get rid Of that tired feeling as quick as pos
sibIe. Take Hoods Sarsaparilla, which gives
strength a good appetite, and health.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-07-20

bliC DO"CAS' anu lioo DNCh WI iANoA
deaths door He was better at last
accounts.
THE Charlestown Democrat is getting
on the rampage again. We imagine
that the editor of the Democrat realizes
that his chances for controlling the
West Virginia Legislature in the in
terest of his debt schemes grow beau
tifully less each year. Hence he RACES.
THE tariff bill has made great pro
gress in the House of Representatives
during the past week The Republi
can opposition has been very feeble
and inconsistent 1t is thought posi-
BILE that a vote will be taken OH Sat
urday, and the friends of the measure
figure up majority of seven or eight
for it. If it passes the House it will
go before the Senate for action.
Col. r. p. CHEW has reconsidered
his determination not to run for the
Legislature, and at the request of his
friends throughout the county has
agreed to become a candidate. Mr..
b. ID. Gibson is also in the field, not
withstanding a rumor that was started
to the effect that he had withdrawn
The three candidates for the Legisla-
ture are Gibson, Chew and Lucas.
THE Charlestown Free Press thinks
that unless the County Democratic
Executive Committee will exercise a
modicum of common sense the party
had better dispense with its services.
Truth, indeed Instead of being an
organization to labor for the good of
the party, the committee by lending
itself to individual schemes is injuring
the cause of Democracy most serious
ly -------
The Republicans are making their
usual desperate efforts to parade the
old soldiers before the people so as to
work up sentiment against the Dem
ocratic party and President Cleveland.
But the manly and conscientious
course of the President on pension
legislation wins for him the respect Of
the country from Maine to California
always excepting, of course, the
blindly prejudiced partisan.
~~~~~~~~~~~>~~~~~~~>~-~~~
The Charlestown Democrat is very
much exercised because Hon. WIN. NJ.
Clements has been honored by the
Democrats, and predicts great disas-
ter on this account. Mr. Clements is
a man, and towers head and shoulders
over the insignificant, contemplate
politicians who continually pirate
about the dear people, while at the
same time their feeble intellects can
only contemplate political trickery.
>~>~~~~--~~~~-~---~~--~~>~~-
A MARTINsBURG correspondent OF
the Wheeling Intelligencer says: Hon.
w. II. II. Flick, whose recent illness
caused such general sorrow through
out the State, has so far recovered as
to be able to drive out. He is rapidly
regaining his strength and in week
or two will be able to resume his law
practice. The Republicans here are
determined to make him Judge of the
Thirteenth District at the next cleo
lion"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-07-20
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., W. VA.
HEADQUARTERS

~
FOR
Baseball Goods,
Artists ColQrs.
Stationery,
Strings FOR Musical instruments,
Pocket Books,
Diamond Dyes,
Bowleys Extracts and Flavorings.
Toilet Articles.
Standard Proprietary Medicines.
Varnishes and Painters Goods In general,
Pure Confectionery,
Tobacco aud Cigars and Smokers Goods.
or kinds Shoe Polish,
orr kinds Of Ink.
Rinmel's Double Extract OF iienna. not &C.
henna,
Binmel's Eau DE Qulnine. Hair Dressing
and Tonic.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-07-20
CHURCH DIRECTORY

NJ. L. CHURCH SOUTH.
REV. \. y. =. NEEL, Pastor.
Snepherdstown 1890 a. IN, Marvin Chapel
$50 p. m.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-07-20

THE Charlestown Democrat is getting
on the rampage again. We imagine
that the editor of the Democrat realizes
that his chances for controlling the
West Virginia Legislature in the in
terest of his debt schemes grow beau
tifully less each year. Hence he RACES.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-07-20

Forest Grange No. %, will meet the sec.
ond Friday of each month at 100 and last Fri
day, at q p. III.
The Progress., 1888-02-11
LATER NEWS.

THE government Is arnling the postal en-
ployes In the Sou Invest where train rot
berries ore frequent.
ASSISTANT Cashier Hopins Of the Gin
cirnati Fidelity bank, was found guilty by
the jury Saturday, and will join Harper IN
the penitentiary. -iss.-czsE
THE Phillip Best Brewing Company OF
Mimi, this season. f.
NEAR Manango, Crawford Co., Ind, q
White Cap band broke into the house OF
Thomas Williams, Friday night, tied Mrs.
Williams to the bed and taking Williams
into the ward whipped him until he became
unconscious and it is thought he will die.
AS Mrs. Cleveland came out of DR.. Sum
derland's church Sunday noon an immense
crowd had assembled to see her pass and
land had a narrow escape from injury.
For few moments the police were power
less and the scene was disgraceful.
A SECOND riot occurred at the Shenan-
andorh mines Saturday afternoon, when
the working miners started home
after their days work. This time firearms
as well as stones were use1. Agood many
were hurt but the police mastered the mob.
NoN-UN1oN workmen, mostly negroes,
employed at the Sailor iron works, at Pitts
burg, Pa, were assaulted by mob Satnr-
day evening ana three of the neg roes were
fatally hurt.
L., THE well known Minneapolis attorney,
A. l.. Levi, died at New York, on the Bird,
of illness caused by too close application TO
professional work.
THE gymnasium of Racine College near
Racine junction, Wis, burned on the 4th.
Loss S2S,O0O
THE Wisconsin logging camps are rushing
now to make up for time lost during the
blizzard weather.
On the New York Pennsylvania and Ohio
R. r., on the 5th, a passenger train was
partially wrecked by broken frog at
Steamburg, IL miles from Salamanca N. Y
One lady passenger and two men were
killed, two ladies and three men badly hurt
and a few sustained immaterial bruises.
THE Minnesota Court bill has passed the
House of representatives, giving both Du-
luth and Winona sessions OF the United
States Circuit an district courts, without
affecting the terms of those courts already
held at st. Paul
FIVE men were instantly killed Saturday,
Ohio. -
AT Buffalo, n. T., horse and man we're
killed Saturday by contact with q telephone
wire which had dropped to the ground.
AT st. Louis, Mo on Sunday fire which
broke out in the Hildreth printing house,
destroyed 100000 worth Of property and
at Chicago fire which originated in the
rooms of the Barnes printing company did
damage amounting to $90,OOO.
DURING Friday night Louise Kohler, aged
%, married, but deserted by her husband,
committed suicide at small hotel on 9th
street, St Paul, Mimi, by taking arsenic.
The unhappy lady was born and reared at
Mankato, where her parents reside and has
two sisters living at st. Paul. Three years
since she married travelling man, and the
udhappiness that followed resulted in the
desperate act
The Progress., 1888-02-11
THE PATENT FlEND,

He Invents q Safety Shoe Which Lands Him
--- -.... In u Safe Resort.
''Want to make $50, 900 this winter?''
queried hawk-eyed man with lap
shoulder to shoe-dealer ON Michigan
avenue yesterday.
"Of course" -
''rhen buy my patent. F."
He unrolled package and brought
to light a shoe, a tin funnel and quart
of wood ashes.
"What on earth is it?'' asked the
dealer.
at is Bronson's Patent Safety Shoe.
Here's the idea: In winter our side
walks are dangerous from, ice. By
sprinkling ashes on ice you produce
decomposition and render travel safe.
Do you follow?''
''But--p''
''Of course you don't, but I'll ex-
plain. This is double-solcd shoe.
There is space between the two soles,
and the toe and heel ends are open.
You fill this space with ashes and as
you walk it flips out in advance OF
you"
''The idea!''
Eyes, worked twenty-five years on
the idea. The funnel fits into the heel
of the shoe, and is used to load up
WITH
.'But the ashes?''
20, you hire boy to follow you with
a pail of them. When the shoe is
empty you whistle and he loads it up
again. There's nothing like it. can
walk twenty miles day over perfect
glare of ice. Will you give me an
orderp''
mo, sir. It's the most ridiculous
thing I ever heard Of
'.It is, eh! You'll see whether it is
or not before the winter is over! I'll
sell enough to buy you out and throw
your stock into the riverp'
An hour later he was arrested for be-
ing drunk and hilarious. and as he
went down in the wagon he was ex-
planning to the officer:
''You puz on 'er shoe, you know, an
you puz in 'er ashes. you know, an
you walk on 'erice an 'er patrol wagon
comes long an gives you sleigh-ride. !"
-DetroH Free Press.
The Progress., 1888-02-11
A Busincss-like Offer.

For many years the manufacturers Of Dr.
Sages Catarrh Remedy have offered, in
good faith, $500 reward for case of Nasal
Catarrh which they cannot cure. The Rem
edy issold by druggists at only SO cents
This wonderful remedy has fairly attained
a world reputation. If you have dali,
heavy headache, obstruction of the nasal
passages, discharges falling from the head
into tie throat, sometimes profuse, watery,
and acrid, at Others, thick, tenacious mu-
cous, purulent, bloody and putrid; if the
eyes are weak, .watery, and infamed; if
there is ringing in the ears, deafness, hack
ing or coughing to clear the throat, expec-
toration of offensive matter, together with
scabs from ulcers; the voice being changed
and has a nasal twang; the breath Offers We !;
smell and taste impaired; sensation of diz-
ziness, with mental depression, hacking
cough and general debi ity, you are suffer
ing from nasal catarrh. The more COM
plicated your disease, the greater the num-
Der and diversity of symptoms. Thousands
of cases annually, without manifesting half
of the above SYMPTOMS, result in consump-
ton, and end in the grave. No disease is
SO common. more deceptive and dangerous,
or less understood, or more unsuccessfully
treated by physicians
The Progress., 1888-02-11
LUCK IN A HUMP.
Singular Superstition Prevailing Anions
Professional Gamblers. '@

a SIuSuAhE Sup0TSClClOu fr0ValunS among
Professional Gamblers. '"
II will let you rub my. hump with
your gold if you give me franc,'' said
hump-backed girl to me one night in
the gambling saloon at Monte Carlo.
looked at her somewhat astonished at
the remark, but she seemed so much in
earnest and so desirous of the small
piece of money that I gave it to her
and rubbed her hump for luck, put the
money on IA and-lost. 1t was the
strangest piece Of tipping that l ever
encountered in all my European trav-
els. yet there are three or four hump
backs who are habitues of the gambling
saloon at Monte Carlo, and who make
a living by letting the superstitions rub
their lucky hump with money.
remember an experience once in
America of the same kind, but it was
not for tip that the hump was rubbed.
A friend once told me to rub the hump
of hunchback with money, not letting
him see you do it, and twas good luck.
It was race week and I thought would
try it; SO, slipping up behind little
hunchback who was going through the
corridor of prominent hotel in Wash
ington, pretended to be taking off my
coat, and, having money in my hand,
accidentally, as it were, let that hand
hit the hunchback, and thus rub the
money on the lucky hump. But, alas!
the man turned around and had to
apologize for thus seemingly assaulting
him.
| OF course knew then that no luck
would come from the contact of the
money with the hump, and so did not
put any on the races and perhaps saved
by it. But at Monte Carlo it seems to
be reversed, for you, with the knowl-
edge OF the unfortunate. rub your
money up against them, and very often,
at least they tell me so. the person wins,
Cor. Louisville Courier Journal.
The Progress., 1888-02-11
. PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Scientists say that the potato rot
comes once in ten years every de-
cayed. as it were. It'd Bits.
"A ton of diamonds is worth $780,
100000. Don't let the dealers come
the 1,SoO pound dodge on you. Puck.
Too cold for ice cream and no
sleighing. The young man who can't
save money now never can.-Al6any
Journal.
For thirty-two years Mrs. Catherine
Murdoch has kept the light in the
Rondout IN. ~ lighthouse burning
brightly.
One Robert Hickman has lat ely
patented a calf weaner. Perhaps he
can invent device to wean q dude
from nursing his cane.
There is nothing under the face OF
the sky that can be quite so stuck up as
sheet of stamps, when it tries to-
Detroit Free Press.
Some of the men who are anxious
for a revolution rs to theater hats
might do good work toward a reform
in theater breaths. Traveller.
1t is all we'll enough to say that
thirteen is an unlucky number. But this
country started in business with thir.
teen States, and seems to be holding
her own. g.. -..5.s- -.
-'Papa," asked little Bobby Nc
Swilligen, "what is railroad poolP"
"A railroad pool, Johnny?" replied Nc
Swilligen, lis where they water the
stock"
What this country needs is a so.
ciety to protect the innocent seals from
slaughter. At least that is what the
average impecunious husband thinks.
-Somerville Journal. -.
"A match vender entered a butcher
shop, when the following brief dialogue
was heard: Vender-'Hello, Chops!
How's your liver to-day?' Chops
''Ihree cents pound. How's your
lights? ?'-LoweW Citizen.
"A new cab company Just started in
New York. bases it's claim for patron
| age on a patent hanson with top that
lowers to suit the occupant. A cab
with price that lowers to suit the oc.
cupant would fill a long-felt want.
-" What is your speciality, my
friend?" inquired the visitor of a
| dime-museum freak. phenomenal
intelligence" I'm what direction does
it 1ie?" 'Tm the man who always
shuts the door, "-Harper's Bazaar.
People who have studied into the
origin Of phrases all agree that the say.
ing, II acknowledge the corn," was
invented by man. A woman never
acknowledges corn no matter in what
condition husband may find his pet
razor.-Somerville Journal. =.
An article in a newspaper the other
day was called "A Novel Railroad. "
We have travelled on it. 1t is the rail-
road on which a train-boy drops forty
seven soiled novels of the Suicide Ii.
brary series on the passengers lap be-
fore he travels ten miles. - brakes Nag
0zi7se.
| -Smith-'That fellow, Jones, whom
you introduced me to last evening, seems
to be business to his finger tips. y
Brownies, I can tell you he is a
cleaner, in his way S.-'.What does
he do?" B.-O, he runs carpet reno
waiting establishment Boston Budget.
| Tramp" Could you furnish me
lodgings of some kind to-night?'' "Why
don't you work and earn money to pay
your wayp' Il did work until month
ago." 'What business were you imp
II was pastor of one of the wealthiest
congregations in Connecticut. - 'Is
that SO? Then what reduced you to
this condition?' 'Seven donation par
ties in six months. .''-Omaha World.
The Progress., 1888-02-11
FOREIGN.

A SOCIETY was organized on the 31st ult
at Ottawa, Ont, which threatens parties
contributing 10 Ireland's relief with prose-
cutiOn .
The Guelph (Ont) Banking Company
suspended on the 31st ult
: REPORTS Of the 1st from Alden, Arabia,
were to the effect that the Somalis had
murdered an English officer and twenty
three natives of Berbera.
A LARGE wool factory ut Turcoing,
France, was burned on the lst, causing q
loss of $25O,OOO
The total receipts of the Dominion Gov
ernment for the last fiscal year amounted
to $35. 754, ,993, against $33. 177 ,O4O in
1885, The expenses were $35, ,65s, 161.
ANDREW j. STEWART, an agent of the
Mormons in Utah, on the lst secured from
the Mexican Government the grant OF
], 1,25O, 600 acres of land for colonization
scheme the M0rmons were getting up
Ex-MAYoR SULLIVAN, of Dublin, was re-
leased from Tullamore prison on the LIST,
after two months confinement
The Halifax synod of the Church of En-
gland on the LIST unanimously elected Rev.
DR.. Courtney, of Boston, Bishop of Nova
Scotia .r. st 81 &ss = --s.-...- ..
SHARP shocks Of earthquake were felt In
various parts OF England and Scotland on
the I'd .--..s .t..
EIGHT persons were sentenced at Kan
turk, Ireland, on the I'd to two months i'm
prisonment at hard labor for attending
meetings of proclaimed branches OF the
league.
A REPORTED settlement of the main ques-
ton affecting the fisheries unfavorable to
Canadian interests was said on the I'd to
have aroused indignation throughout the
Dominion.
DR.. DERBY, a chemist his wife and six
children were found dead in their dwelling
on the Sd in Manchester, Eng: 1t was sup
posed that they were poisoned by the man,
who was made desperate by poverty.
MGR. ADAM, of California, on the Sd pre-
sented to the Pope in Rome photograph
of Gabriel, an Indian Catholic, 40 years
old for whom he asked q special blessing.