Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-05-03
BRIEFS.

Tbere is some Likelihood OF orich
lin being burned here in the near
future. =.
h.on new fence has been built
md the garden at the Lutheran
parsohage'
Mr. NJ. s. Hiteshew comes to the
= with a new advertisement this
week. Read it.
Formers who have corn planted are
.nob afraid that the cold, rainy
,rsather will cause it to rot.
The Lutheran Sunday School will
,a,dits annual foreign missionary SER
,,i,e on Sunday afternoon.
Dr w. w. Rowan, native of
cb,rlestown, was recently elected
mayor Of Ouray, Colorado.
Tbi. has been the boss rainy spell.
Tor seven consecutive days there has
haen more or less rainfall.
The Shepherd College botanists
have had several pleasant and profit
able excursions lately.
F C. Gaskill has been appointed
,o.,master at Millville, this county,
- succeed David Hoke, removed.
The County Court of Berkeley coun-
~ last week granted licenses for six
..sn LIQUOR saloons in Martinsburg.
Good reading on every page of the
REGISTER this week-an especially
touching poetical selection on the
first page.
The REGISTER office has just turned
ont a neat 13-page book containing
the bylaws of the Odd Fellows Lodge
at Leetown,
The Potomac river was pretty high
here last Sunday, the result of the an
r.uallv large fall of rain on Friday
and Saturday.
The regular meeting of Democratic
Club Mol will be held at the usual
place on Saturday, May 3rd, at s p. III.
A,ull attendance is urgently requested.
We congratulate our esteemed con-
temporary, the Martinsburg States
man. which has just treated itself to a
new steam engine.
The Mccormick Binder people have
invented an attachment to their har
yesting machine by which wire can
h. used TO bind sheaves instead of
Irvine
An unknown man was run over by
train of cars on the Baltimore Il
Ohio Railroad near Martinsburg last
Saturday, and was terribly mangled.
He was not identified.
The dedication of the Catholic
Church in Charlestown has been
postponed until the last Sunday of
this month. The services will be at
eleven o'clock in the morning.
Rev. l.. c.. Miller, q well-known
minister of the NJ. Z. Church South,
died at Harrisonburg, Va, last week,
aged 40 years He was at one time
stationed at Martinsburg.
Mr.. f. r. Lucas, in the department
OF the L. s. Fish Commissioner Nc
Donald, recently placed large sup
ply Of California trout in the Flowing
Springs Of Col. Francis Yates.
The Roberts land, about one hun
fred acres, near Summit Point, was
sold on Friday last, by Capt. George
Baylor, Special Commissioner, to Mr..
James \. Robinson, at $3S per acre.
Willard c. Bovey, and Harry Bit
finger, of Martinsburg, have been APP
pointed postal clerks on the mail
route between Harrisburg and Mar
tinsburg in place of G. w. Boyer and
Peter Slingluff, removed.
The editor is away this week,
having gone on short trip to the
western part of the State. If the
paper is better than usual this week
that is the cause of it. iSigned) THE
DEVIL
The board of directors of the Lou
doun Live Stock Exhibition Associ-
alton, have determind that the next
annual fair of that association should
be held on the grounds near Leesburg,
On August eth, 2Sth, Goth.
Mr.. Charles j. Berry, well-known
citizen OF Jefferson county, died few
DAYS ago in Georgia. He was son Of
the late Rev. DIR. r. L. Berry, and dur
Ing the war was member of Compa-
ny B, Twelfth Va. Cavalry.
Tuesday was observed heIe as a
National holiday The bank and the
Schools were closed, and the church
bells were rung shortly after 8 o'clock.
aud also at noon. Rev. l.. r. Mason
held special services, in the Episcopal
Church.
The tract of land of the late Will
nam Ferguson, containing about 30
4 acres, near Wheatland, in this coun-
W was sold at public auction last
thursday, by David Howell, Esq,
Executor, to Mr.. John Burns, at
~3iO per acre.
The Ladies' Town Hall and Library
association will meet at Mrs. j. NJ.
Mohebraker's on Thursday evening
Nay 8, 1889, at 7 p IN. All members
aAu others who take an interest in
'1s association are requested to be
4 Present.
Uncle Wash Wilkinson, a we'll
AuoWn colored man of this place, died
va Friday last after long and pain
'u'lIness of disease like cancer that
2''dcked his face. Wash was an in