Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-05-31
BRIEFS.

town June 5th.
Mrs. John W. Hill, below town, has
two ducks that have laid over hun
dred eggs since the first of February.
We are told that one of them fire.
quently lays two eggs in one day.
Persons who may have suitable rel
les that they may wish to place in the
cornerstone on Saturday will please
leave them with Mr.. B. F. Harrison
either today or tomorrow morning.
Some Of the good things for Satur-
day: Good speakers, good crowd of
people, good dinner, good strawberry
festival in the evening, good-looking
ladies-and, we hope, good weather.
The Episcopal Council for the
State of West Virginia will meet in
Trinity Episcopal Church, Shepherds
town, ON Tuesday next, Jnue 4th.
The public is invited to attend all
the meetings
At an election for postmaster at
Middletown Md, last Saturday, d.
Calvin Long was chosen by IA major
ity. AT Williamsport, by the same
plan, VIM. H. 10y was elected by
majority of II.
There will be a strawberry and ice
cream festival at Uvilla hall ON Sat
urday night, June Sth. All are in
vited to come and have good time.
There will be some excellent music and
other attractions.
Confederate memorial day will be
observed in Charlestown Saturday,
June Sth. Capt. John J. Williams
will deliver the address, and there
will be parade and the usual exer
cises at the cemetery.
The Census office asks that public
attention be called to. the fact that
the census year begins June l, 1889,
and ends May 80, 1890, and requests
that physicians keep a record of all
deaths and births occurring in that
period.
The prospective marriage of Flora,
daughter of Mr. J. II. Siler, to Rev.
HI. G. V. Campbell, is announced, the
ceremony to take place on Wednes-
day morning, June 5th, at II, 30 o'clock,
in the NJ. f. Church, at Berkeley
Springs.
The Teachers Institute for Berke-
ley county will begin at Martinsburg
next Monday and continue five days,
under the instruction of Prof. U. s.
Flemming. The teachers eXamina-
ton will be held on Saturday of the
same week.
They say it is wonderful sight to
see the carp in the river at the Ce-
ment Mill below town. Dozens of
immense fellows can be seen there at
any time sporting in the water.
They won't bite at anything you may
put on a hook.
The dinner to be given by the la
dies for the benefit of the town hall
on Saturday will be sumptuous
affair. They have ordered all the
spring vegetables, such as peas, to-
matos, etc., and their bill of fare will
tempt the most fastidious.
VIM. D. McGill, a well-known citi-
zen of Hagerstown, Md, died at the
residence of his sister Mrs. Ellen
Swan, in Baltimore, on Saturday. He
was a son of the late DIR. McGill, of
Hagerstown, formerly of Richmond,
and was fifty-four years of age.
The Craighill farm of Mr.. Joseph
Starry, near Bloomery,.a little over
1903 acres, has been sod by Messrs.
Cleon Moore and Joseph Trapnell,
Trustees, Mr.. VIM. f. Anderson, auc-
tioneer, for the sum of 1864 per acre
Mr.. J. Frank Myers, purchaser
Mr.. John p. Kearfott, the newly APP
pointed Superintendent of the Shop
herdstown and Smithfield turnpike,
entered upon his duties Tuesday
morning with his sleeves rolled up.
He is an energetic and capable man,
and will no doubt give satisfaction to
the people.
At Martinsburg last Thursday one
of the kilns at Baker Bros. extensive
lime works caved in on Richard Jack
son, a colored employee. Jackson was
breaking,stone on the top when 1t
gave way and was carried some dis
lance below before he could be extri-
Gated. His limbs and lower portion
of the body were completely roasted.
The seventh annual Convention of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of West Virginia will be held
In Huntington, June 10th and Goth.
Mrs. c.. b. Buell., National Correspond
ing Secretary, will be present and adj
dress the Convention on the evening
of the Goth. The railroads have grant
ed two-thirds rates to all delegates
and visitors attending.
An election for councilmen was held
in Martinsburg on Monday. The
fight was upon strict party lines. The
Republicans carried the first ward by
8, the second by 81 and the fourth by
9 majority. The Democrats carried
the third by 80 and the fifth by SO, the
Republican majority in the whole
town being 80. The Republican ma
iority has heretofore run from rs to
100.
Information has reached us, to the
effect that Pitchers Mill has been
leased for a term Of three years by
Mr. Godey IF WASHINGTON and will