Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-06-21
BRIEFS

when the can exploded and he was
burned so severely that death result
ed in few hours.
An insect that did the same thing a
couple of years ago is again at work
on the ounce trees. The ends of the
branches are stung, and then they
die, causing not only permanent in
jury to the tree but materially short
ening the crop of fruit.
The Baltimore and Ohio Company
is reported to have recently contract
ed for seventy locomotives, three hun
dred fiat cars, five hundred box cars,
twenty-five passenger coaches and
some baggage and postal cars. They
are to be ready for delivery about
July LIST.
The apportionment of the school
fund shows that the number of youth
in the State of West Virginia is 25S,
934, and the net sum to be distributed
among the counties is 1886, 9s1.33. OF
this amount Jefferson county gets
$40, 1905, Berkeley "a, 476.4 Al and Nor
gan SO, 54294
The Becker Brothers, of Baltimore,
have four hundred acres of land on
the mountain slopes at Harper's
Ferry planted in fruit trees, and ex-
pect to add six hundred or
thousand more, and when these
thousands of trees are fruit-bearing
will establish a cannery.
Two baseball clubs were organized
at Shenandoah Junction last Satur-
day, with Ed Drawbaugh as captain
of one and Jack Bell of the other.
The clubs are composed Of first-rate
material, and hope soon to play
Charlestown, Shepherdstown, Mar
tinsburg and other mines.
Edward Cooley, the extensive lime
manufacturer of Georgetown, has
quit the business there, throwing
forty men out of work. He proposes
to continue operations along the b.
& 0. Railroad near Harper's Ferry,
where he has property, and thinks
eventually a railroad will take the
place of the canal.
During the recent flood in the Po-
tomac rick of straw, upon which
were four hogs and a pup, all belong
ing to Mr.. William Cook, floated off
from Poffenberger's island upon
which he lived A few days ago he
found straw, hogs and pup safe and
sound near Harper's Ferry, where
they had lodged.
On Monday evening an agent OF
the Baltimore relief committee stop
ped in Shepherdstown, his business
being to ascertain the exact amount
of loss sustained by people living
along the river and canal. He had
made the trip all the way from Cum
berland i'm a skiff, and intended to go
on down the river to Washington.
This has been the opening week at
Pen Mar, 1.-The gem of the Blue Ridge"
and with all trains running accord
ing to new and convenient schedule
on the Western Maryland Railroad
this popular resort will be fully as
attractive as ever. Prof John Zeigler
is leader of the Pen-Mar orchestra
this year, and good music furnished
every day.
Our people were greatly disappoint-
ed last Monday that the cyclone
predicted by the alleged prophet
DeVoe failed to turn up There
ought to be law passed TO prevent
people from being deceived so. When
a man predicts cyclone, the public
prepares for it, and no cyclone comes,
then the man ought to be fined or
imprisoned-or hung.
Last Thursday the Mines accom-
mediation train, bound north, ran
into the rear end of freight train at
the water-tank at Shepherdstown.
The caboose was neatly loaded on the
car ahead of it with very little dam
age, and the cowcatcher of the pas
senger engine smashed. No one was
hurt. 1t is said that the airbrakes
of the passenger train failed to work.
Uncle Lewis Porter, a well-known
colored man of this town, caught at
one draw of dipnet three very pc
culiar fish in the Potomac river last
Saturday, the like of which have new
err before been seen in these waters.
The fish very much resembled shad in
size and general appearance, but the
mouth was different from u shad's.
No one could tell exactly what they
were.
The contract for rebuilding the
Cumberland Valley Railroad Com
pany's bridge over the Potomac
river, that was washed away by the
recent flood, has been awarded to the
Union Bridge Company of New York.
The new structure will be through
bridge and will rest on piers fifteen
feet higher than those now standing.
The work will be completed about
September |.
Messrs. A. p. Conner, of Hagers-
town, and his brother, L. M. Conner,
of Harper's Ferry, have purchased
privately Mountain View Hotel, stu
ated in Harper's Ferry, of Capt. Geo.
w. Green, for the sum of $4,000. 1t
has recently been remodeled and i'm
proved, but Mr.. Green was discour-
aged over the recent flood and sold
the property at great sacrifice.
Messrs. Conner have leased ii to Capt.
Doll, of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road.