Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-05-10
BRIEFS.


Moore has long been the efficient
deputy clerk.
Mr.. Stuart Kearney, of Sykesville,
Md, son of the late Kearsley Kear
ney, Of this county, was married re-
Gently to Miss Nenie Geigan, of Druid
Hill Avenue, Baltimore. Mr.. Kear-
ney is a brother of Mrs Ohio Williams,
of this vicinity.
The Lutheran Sunday School of
Shepherdstown held it's annual for
eign missionary meeting last Sunday
evening, when very interesting pro-
gramme was rendered. During the
month of April the school raised $40
for the missionary cause.
DIR. William H. Pinkney, a talented
young physician of New York, died
suddenly in that city few days ago
of heart failure. DR.. Pinkney was a
nephew of Col. John +. Schley, of
this vicinity, with whom he spent
much time in his youthful days.
The following patents were grant
ed to citizens of this State for the
week ending May 18th, as reported to
this office by j. f. Beale, of Washing
ton: VIM. ID. Guseman, Morgantown,
broadcast seed-sower; J. f. Ogden,
Buckhannon, window ventilator
The first mortgage bondholders'
committee of the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad will take steps for fore
closure. The decision of the Court of
Appeals in the suit of the first mort
gage against the general mortgage
bondholders is not likely to be ap-
pealed.
A hog that weighed between eight
hundred and nine hundred pounds
passed through Shepherdstown on
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad last
Sunday on its way from Knoxville to
Baltimore. But it did not reach its
destination, having died on the cars
near Hagerstown from exhaustion.
The fifteen-mile strip of railroad
between Blue Ridge Summit and
Gettysburg, Pa, known as the Balti-
more and Harrisburg Western Ex
tension of the Western Maryland Rail
road, is rapidly nearing completion.
1t may be safely asserted that regular
trains will be running by the Goth of
May.
The closing exercises of the Shop
herdstown Graded School will begin
in the primary department of the
school Tuesday, May 18th, at 100 p.
IN, and be continued in the other de-
/ partments at the same hour on We'd
nesday, Thursday and Friday. The
public are invited to attend these ex-
ercises.
Mrs. Langdon, aged so, wife Of
Robert Langdon, a tanner, of Charles
town, was as apparently in good
health, and while talking pleasantly
with her husband and children, Satur
day last, suddenly complained of an
acute pain in the region of the heart,
and died before she could be carried
to her bedroom.
The entertainments given in Bill
myers Hall last Friday and Saturday
evenings were well attended, and
were very interesting to the audience.
Misses Emma Nc Daniel, Sallie Miller
and Lizzie Boswell deserve great
credit for the pains they took in max
ing the programme such successful
one. Something over S35 was cleared.
The recently organized Sons of Jon
adab at Harper's Ferry consists of the
following members: Rev. n. G. Brack-
EFT, A. Cockrell, f. ID. Collegiate, Rev
b. w. Kindley, VIM. l.. Erwin, E. G.
Rulings, W. Benjamine, Jos. Webb
Jas. Anderson, John Bridener, Chas.
b. Wentzell, Dr. w. II. Cannon, John
Kirby, John Billmyer, j. f. Cook
Edward Decker and f. Tattersall.
The annual election for board of
directors of Mountain View Cemetery,
Sharpsburg, resulted in the reelection
of the entire old board. The board
reorganized as follows: President
Henry W. Schamel; secretary, John
p. Smith; treasurer, Jacob Snyder
The other members of the board are
Charles w. Adams, Samuel II. Miller,
Moses Cox, and Jacob \. Myers.
Well whitewashed fences make your
premises look neat, cheerful, prosper
Gus and comfortable. The cost of at
tending this matter is small, and it is
the duty of every property-holder to
make this Improvement as soon as the
weather permits. The air of GOODNESS
and freshness which it insures is of
itself sufficient return for the small
outlay of money and the time and
labor consumed
The Wentzell property i'll Bolivar
was sold last Saturday by Forrest w.
Brown and JAS ID. Butt, Special Com
missioners, as follows: The Shuster
house on Washington ST, to Geo. W.
Chambers for S1,e10; the house on
Rowles St, to G.. Bloom Wentzell for
S41; the house on Gilbert ST., to w.
w. Wentzill for $50; the tract of p
acres of land and dwelling house to
Benona Eakles for $3.50.
The survivors of Company \, Fifth
MARYLAND Regiment, entered into ne
gotiations with Mr.. Peter Grice and
contra cted for $35 for a plat of ground
on the hill in the Hoffmaster lot, near
Bloody Lane, Antietam Battlefield,
where they intend erecting shat or
| some suitable mark i'm memory of their
color-bearer and other fallen COM