Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-25
BRIEFS.

the opportunity and were quietly
married.
A dispatch from Charlestown to the
Baltimore Sun says that DIR. John d.
Starry, a well-known physician of
that place, was paralyzed last Satur-
day morning in his left leg and arm.
He has since gotten considerably bet
ter.
Mr.. p. Nc. Pierce, a farmer residing
about four miles east of Berryville,
lost his granary and the contents, in
including 1900 bushels of wheat, some
corn, etc, by fire on Monday night.
The origin of the fire is unknown
Be,ryriHe Courier.
The first show of the season fell on
Wednesday morning. There was not
much of it, and it was so mixed with
the rain of dismal northeaster that
it could scarcely be seen, but it was
snow, nevertheless. Later in the day
there was plenty more of it.
Mr.. John H. Gatrell, sheriff of Wash
ington county, Md, died at his resi-
dence in Hagerstown last Saturday.
He had been in failing health for
couple of years. Mr.. Gatrell, who was
So years old, had been boatman on
the G. & o. Canal since his boyhood.
The merchants of Martinsburg
have signed a petition, providing
that a license of $3.50 Ii year be requir
ed of peddlers. They also ask the CO
operation of the merchants through
out the State, in order to secure the
passage of such law by the Legis-
lature.
Rev. l.. r. Mason expects to return
to Shepherdstown to-day. He will
conduct the usual services on Sunday
in Trinity Episcopal Church of this
place, and will also hold services in
the new Episcopal Chapel at Duffields
at half-past three o'clock Sunday
| afternoon.
The session of the Presbyterian
Street Presbyterian Church at Win
chester Tuesday night. DIR. Scott, re-
firing moderator, preached the open
ing sermon. There are about two
hundred ministers and ruling elders
in attendance.
Mr.. Henry Shepherd, Jr,, had his
An 1rit or VI "a
town Fair last week, and she won the
first premium. This animal is home
product, having been sired by Joe
Register and raised in this vicinity.
We understand that Mr.. Shepherd
refused an offer of $3.50 for the mare.
At meeting of the Exhibitors
Union at Harrisburg on Tuesday
resolution was adopted by vote of
81 to : denouncing Col. r. II. Thomas
for unfairness TO exhibitors at the
Williams Grove Exhibition in August.
The Union visited Mount Gretna TO
look at the grounds there, as many OF
the members are determined to find
new location for their display.
Rev. Edward Randall, the evangel-
list, has been holding revival services
at the almshouse for some time past.
He deserves credit for his good work
among the class of people with whom
he has been working for several
years. He is constantly travelling
about preaching to convicts, paupers
and others who have not the advan-
tages of attending church like other
people. -Martmsbug Statesman.
Mr.. John Tice, who resides on Poto-
mac street, has Il volunteer pump
kin vine growing in his lot from
which he gathered 81 full grown
pumpkins this fall. Now, Mr. Shep-
herdstown REGISTER man, how is
that for crop of pumpkins on a volun-
teer vine without any cultivation or
attention. Can you beat it-Ha?-
Wiliamsport Leader. Weacknowledge
| that the Leader man is entitled to the
| pumpkin prize.
At Republican meeting at Rock
vile, Md, Tuesday, Hon. l.. f. Nc
Comas indicated a poor outlook for
| office-seekers. Henotified his constit-
| uents that the Republican majority in
| the next House was so small that he
would remain in his seat from the
opening of the session to its close each
dav, and that no consideration
would induce him to leave the Capitol
to visit the department in the interest
of any constituent.
An inventive genius in Rome, Ga,
has constructed little machine that
he calls the chicken. walker" Itpro-
noses to do away with the fences
around gardens and protect the gar
dens from damage by chickens. When
the machinery is placed on a chickens
feet. and the fowl goes in the garden
TO make an effort to scratch the soil,
instead of accomplishing its desire
the attachment walks the chicken out
of. the garden; the harder 1T scratches
| the faster it goes.
We advise our lady readers to be
on their guard for a swindler recently
operating in southern Pennsylvania.
This is the way he said to work: Upon
entering town he lays in supply
of small glasses These he fills with
earth. into which he places couple
of stalks of milk weed or any other
plant, sprinkled with ottar of roses. lie
is now prepared to furnish contiding
purchasers with shoots from the Gel
ebrated "Ceylon rose" using that OF
some other high sounding name, at