Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-09-06
BRIEFS.

A lawsuit between Beall & Phillips,
ofCharlestown, and Mr.. R. l.. Wysong,
of Duffields, was tried before Squire
Rentch in Shepherdstown last Satur-
day. The jury rendered verdict in
favor of Beall & Phillips.
VIM. T. Aisquith, a native OF
Charlestown, died recently in Ray
mond, Miss, of blood poisoning. He
was a member of Baylor's Confeder
ate cavalry company during the late
war, and was distinguished for
bravery and dash.
Col. II. P. H. Staub, of Baltimore,
a gentleman who was formerly we'll
known in Shepherdstown, has been
appointed an examiner in the Depart
ment of Justice at Washington. We
notice with pain that the Baltimore
Sun refers to him as Captain-it
should have said Colonel.
The Shepherdstown baseball club
went down to Berryville last Satur-
day to play a game with the club of
that place. Our boys came back
with feathers fallen, having been
beaten by score of 30 to II. 1t is
due to say, however, that three of
their best players failed to go with
them at the last moment.
Edward, little son of Mr. +. l..
Lee, of Shepherdstown, who with his
father has been visiting the family of
Mr.. r. A. Alexander, fell from a BIZ
cycle on George street Monday morn
ing, and fractured one of his arms
DR., w. f. Lippitt, Jr., reset the limb
successfully, and the little boy is do
ing well.-Cha' leSto,on Spirit.
Last Tuesday some careless or in
capable mail agent on the Shenan-
doah Valley Railroad neglected to
throw off the mail pouch for Shop
herdstown, and the consequence was
that the people here had to do with
out their papers and other mail until
four o'clock that evening. The same
thing happened a week or two pre-
vious, and the question arises, what
are the Republican postal clerks
good for?
Enough weeds can grow along an
ordinary fence row out of reach of
the pillow TO seed abundantly acres Of
land, thus causing hundred times
the necessary amount of labor to keep
the fence row clean. A growth of
weeds along a fence row, by holding
the moisture and keeping away the
sun and air, will cause fence to rot
in one-half the time it would if kept
clean, thus adding a tremendous tax
to the farmer.
The closing concert in Shepherd
College grounds last Saturday even
ing was very largely attended by
people from Shepherdstown and the
surrounding country. The music
was good, the fireworks brilliant, and
the balloon ascension a success.
Among the visitors We're large
number of ladies and gentlemen
from Charlestown, who were enter
tanned by Mr.. Shepherd at Wild
Goose Farm before the fireworks be-
gan.
1t will pay you for the trouble it
costs to file home papers. Novolume
in your library will afford you more
pleasure, more lasting benefit 1t
contains dates of local events which
YOU cannot get elsewhere, marriages,
obituary notices, etc. In short your
paper is a history of the world in
which your friends live and occasion
ally reminds you that you are prob
ably wear or two behind on your
subscription, and that the printer
ought TO have his money.
p. w. Leafley, of Licksville, Fred
erick county, Md, who visited Fred
erick Saturday, told a strange circum-
stance connected with the recent
death of his wife. He says that three
weeks before her death she dreamed
that she would die, and the next day
called in several of her friends and
told them about it. She named the
day and the hour she would go.
The night before she died she was in
her usual health, but remarked that
the end was near, and five and a-half
hours later she was a corpse.