Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-01-11
BRIEFS.

tissue.
The January moon fulls next Thurs
day, the nth.
Mr. Zeph Bane, of Charlestown,
,nlsd a 6S-pound hog last week.
Mrs Priscilla Barber, wife of NJ. s.
porber. ESQ.,, di I'd in Hagerstown last
week.
Dandelions came out in bloom on
Tuesday. They thought spring had
come.
Mrs Ellen Armstrong recently died
IN the County Infirmary at the age Of
&C years.
II will be money in your pocket to
rssd b. S. Psndleton's advertisement
this week
The Martinsburg City Band cleared
$50 by a fair held during the recent
Holidays.
Rev. r. NJ. Stricken will preach at
RiIImyer's Hall next Sunday morning
at II o'clock.
Master Harry Wagner has started
in 10 learn the timers trade with Mr..
H. c. Marten.
You may know an old bachelor by
tbe fact that he always speaks Of a
baby as 1T.
Mr.. Joseph H. Sherrard, widely
known citizen of Winchester, died
last Sunday, aged SO years.
good rain last Saturday filled up
the farmers ponds ready for a freeze
and consequent crop of ice.
4 l.. Martin, grocer, of Martins
burg. made an assignment last week
for the benefit of his creditors.
Quite a number of fish were caught
in the canal lock opposite this place
when the water was drawn off.
Messrs. j. S. Fleming, b. F. Harri-
son and Washington & Alexander
have our thanks for handsome calen-
dars.
Prof. ]. S. Renner desires us to say
that he will not hold a concert at
Browns Crossing, as announced last
week
l. s. Grant Pitzer, Martinsburg,
will give all legal business entrusted
TO him prompt and careful attention.
Try him.
The members OF minstrel company
wanted to give a performance here
this week, but could not obtain a suit
able place.
There was ruInor on the streets on
Tuesday that the Halltown paper
mill had been burned, but it was a
false report.
The oldest inhabitant will have to
come forward now with yarns of a
winter similar to this away back in
the thirties.
Mrs NJ. l.. Harrington is selling her
millinery goods at cost, and will offer
good bargains between now and the
first of April.
Some of our exchanges seem to have
taken two weeks for holiday this year
at least they have turned up miss
ing at our desk.
Judge Jos. S. Duckwall began his
frst term of court in Morgan county
last week. The Berkeley court con-
vened on Tuesday.
The Sentinel says water will be
turned on the wheels of the new pulp
mil on the Potomac river at Harper S
Ferry on Saturday.
Eugene f. Smith, Hagerstown
printer, tried to commit suicide by
hanging himself last week. He was
cut down just in time.
Ex-Judge Frank Beckwith has
formed law partnership with Mr..
T. c. Green, and the firm will have
its Office in Charlestown.
Mr.. J. F. Welshans expects to retire
from business shortly, and will sell of
his stock of goods at cost. See adver-
tiSement on second page.
The Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad will
give one Of its popular excursions TO
Washington next Thursday. See
notice in another column.
Miss Bessie w. Mason, of this place,
clerk in the Patent Office at Wash
ington, has recently been promoted
from 5000 position to S720.
President Gambrill's report on the
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal will show
that the canal last year about PAID
expenses. for the first time since 1855
William Lovett, an aged and we'll
known colored resident OF Harper
Ferry, died recently at his residence,
the Lock wood House, on Camp Hill.
Mr. q. NJ. Beltzhoover was elected
anu I'LL
Barnhart Assistant Superintendent OF
the Lutheran Sunday School last Sun
day.
For pleasant and profitable trip,
90 To Hagley's, Charlestown, and BUY
fur robe, or some of the great bar
gains he offers in his card in another
column.
The organ of the Episcopal Church
OF this place has been moved from tins
gallery to the main floor, and now
occupies the corner to the left of the
chancel.
Our friend Sam Hensell. Of Knox
vile, Tennessee, sent us the handsom-
est calendar of the season, but unfor-
'unately it was terribly mutilated LII
the mails.