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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-18
NEW VOL. 25-NO. 4.
A Soldiers Word.

Lieut. c. A. Coryell, formerly Of the
One Hundred and Forty-frst New
York volunteers, Twentieth army
corps, was with Sherman on the fa-
nous march to the sea. One bright
Sunday in December, 1864, the lieu
tenant was detailed to take charge OF
the picket line i'm front of Savannah,
on the edge of rice swamp There
was truce between the pickets, and
everything wore Sabbath like still
ness.
Coryell had nothing TO do and was
out OF tobacco. How To get chew
was the question. Finally a hand
some young officer from the Confeder-
ate line strolled out between the lines.
Coryell hailed him at once.
II say, Johnny, il come over TO
you can get tobacco and return
safely 10 my linesyh
Come along; I'll treat you right"
How do | know that I'll not be
taken prisonerf"
You have the word ofa gentleman
aud Confederate officer"
Coryell thought moment and then
decided TO make the venture. He
laid aside his sword and belt and
started across the narrow dixie lead
ing TO the Confederate line. On
either side Of the dixie the water In
the rice fields was five feet deep.
The lieutenant reached the opposite
shore without any misgivings. The
Confederate produced some tobacco
and a trade was made in no time.
Then the two fell into a pleasant
conversation.
Suddenly Coryell saw "A signal Hut
ter from house some distance In the
rear OF the Confederate line.
What does that meanSn he asked,
sharply.
II don't know" replied the Con-
federate.
Just then an orderly dashed up on
horseback and, with u dignitied salute,
said to the Confederate officer;
Lieutenant, the general orders you
TO take the Yankee officer to head
quarters
Coryell was dumbfounded. Then he
looked at the Confederate lieutenant
and noted his honest eyes and manly
face.
Am / your prisonery' asked Cor
yell.
The Confederate extended his right
hand.
IL offered you my protection, he
said. 60 to your lines. ] will fol.
low you over the dixie, and ifmy body
can shield you from Confederate lead,
you shall reach your command In
safety. Good-by, and God bless
your
The Federal started on his return
trip. He was half way across when
the first shot came. There was an
other and another, until whole bri-
gade seemed to be firing at him.
The fugitive walked rapidly onward
until he reached the Federal lines
and vaulted over the breastworks.
Then he looked back and saw his pro-
tector on the dixie. The Confederate
waved his hand, turned about and
marched Lack 10 his own side. lie
had kept his promise like true sol
dier.-1tidnta Consultation.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-18

Little Ike-Uncle Rastus, does cold
make ebrything git littlerf
Uncle Rastus-Yes, it do; cold will
always contrac'; don't you member
night TO las Christmas de wood pile
of Parson Jones dat Ibis mex 10 Inc
swunk up in one night { next to
nothin'?
Little Ike-But don't you member,
Uncle Rastus, how de pile o. wood by
de side o. de stove in de cabin got
heap bigger!
Uncle Rastus-Well, twas hot In de
room, you little idyot, heat makes
things bigger. You amt got de sense
you was born wild.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-18
A BAD PLAN.
AN ASKING PRICE.
a TAKING PRICE.

The plan of store keepers having an asking
price and a taking price for goods. charging
one more than another and not refusing a
reasonable offer is a bad plan for buyers.
The store keeper alone knows the lowest
price at which he can sell his goods. Buyers
never get them for less and often pay more.
This plan is justified on the ground that
some people won't buy unless they get some
thing knocked off or thrown in, and some
will only buy where they can get credit,
some never pay and that must be made up by
charging more to those who do pay.
Our one price cash plan avoids all such
methods, marks in plain figures the lowest
cash price on every article offered and moth
ing less can buy It. On every article the
buyer gets the advantage of the discounts we
make in buying for cash and the expenses
and losses saved in not selling en- credit.
The saving on these two items being salts
factory profit in live business and accounts
for some merchants saying we are selling
goods at cost.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-18
Gents Furnishing Goods

have been bought from the best manufacto-
ries, and have selected them with great
care. Neckwear, Shirts, Collars and Guns,
Hosiery, Underwear and the many articles
of Mems wear usually kept in a first class
store and all of these goods, as well as my
Ready Made Clothing, will be sold as low as
flrst-class goods can Oe sold anywhere. For
the past return my many thanks TO all my
friends and customers, and hope by strict at
tention to business and kind treatment In
the future to merit continuance of the same.
Remember the Boss Clothing Man.
Near the College Square.
JACOB WINTERMOYEP.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-18
NEW FALL GOODS.

sc for heavy Ginghams, Shirtings, Calicoes,
Bleached and Unbleached Muslins.
SC Best Bleached Muslins.
u to SC Tickings.
6 to lOc New styles Dress Ginghams.
Sto l2c Colored Canton Flannels
IL to soc Shirt Flannels.
10 TO soc Plain Red Flannels.
q to soc Red 1willed Elannels.
SI.25 Fine Wool Shirts.
SC Heavy Wool Dress Goods.
lOc Double Width Cashmeres.
Ice Solid, Fancy, Striped, and Twilled CASH
meres.
25c All Wool Tricots Is in. wide.
3gc Fancy Plaid Cloth for Dresses and jack
cts.
Fine medium and common qualities Of
Silks, Satins, Cashmeres, Henriettas, Serges,
Plaids, stripes, mourning and White Goods,
Worsteds, Threads and Silks for fancy work.
Ladies' and Misses Goats,
Wraps. Shoes, Hosiery, Umbrellas, Satchels.
and notions of every description.
prices.
BOYS CLOTHING, Hats, Shoes and Under
wear.
GENTS CLOTHING, custom and ready
made. Hats, Shoes and Furnishings OF all
descriptions. BURTS SHOES andIDUNLAP'S
HATS. Every article people wear OF the
finer, medium and common qualities except
Ladies' Hats every article has the lowest
cash down price marked on II in plain figures,
nothing less can buy them.
UPDEGRAFFS,
One Price Cash Store,
Hagerstown, Md.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-18

She-"Oh, my tooth aches Just
dreadfulIy. don't see why We are
not born without teeth" " Hell think,
my dear, that II you viii look up some
authority ON that point you win ind
that the most Of us are"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-18
CLOTHING
AND
Gents Furnishing Goods.

And we wish IL understood that my Fall
and Winter Opening will not and cannot be
surpassed. You will find that in buying
these goods you will save money, as my stock
Ia large, the goods are new and the prices are
low / will sell you honest goods at honest
prices, and warrant them To be as represented
! have large assortment OF BUSINESS
SUITS and suits for every day wear, and can
offer you better bargains than you can get
elsewhere.
MY line OF DRESS GOODS are made in the
best style of the tailor's art, and are bound
to give satisfaction in the wear as well as
ease to the wearer. All we ask of you Is to
come and see these suits before you spend a
cent with the risk of being dissatisfied. for
am offering these goods at prices that will
speak for themselves, when compared with
the superior grades.
My line OF Boys and Children's Clothing
is one OF the best that has ever been brought
10 this town. and in this line aim to give as
much as l can for as little as possible, for
wish to satisfy all. My line of
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-18
READY.MADE CLOTHING.

HAVE several hundred dollars worth Of
i Ready-Made Clothing on hand Am anx-
ious to close them out and quit the business.
Will sell them without regard 10 cost or pro-
ut. This Is the opportunity for bargains.
J. s. MELVIN.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-18

TANGLE FOOT.-A sticky fly paper that
i attracts, catches and holds the flies, at
MCMURRAN'S DRUG STORE.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-18

The proprietor Of a well-known pat
ent medicine lately received the fol-
lowing letter: Dear Sir: A couple Of
months ago my wife was hardly able
to speak. She took two bottles OF
your medicine, and now she cannot
speak at all Please send me two
more bottles Of yourvaluable mixture" +"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-18
Badly Twisted.

Customer crushing into hardware
store)-"I've just got time to catch a
train. Give me a corn-popper."
Facetious Dealer-''Don't you mean
a pop-cornerr
Yes, cop-porner. Hurry up"
Don't you mean pon-corperT'
"Hang it (excitedly), / said porn
copper, didn't If'
"No (also e1eited), you said pom
COPPER"
Il said corp-ponner."
"You said porp-conner.D
Il didn't"
You did"
"You lie."
You're another"
Take that
''And that"
Give dollars or thirty days next
morning)
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28

Albert White and w. 8. Hatha.
way Trade Farms.

Albert White has traded his
farm of 120 acres in the Southern
suburbs of Mexico, valued at slo,-
600, for the 800 acre farm of w. s.
Hathaway, z miles south of Mex
leo, valued at $12, 600. giving 81 900
to boot The Hathaway property
is one Of the best farms in the
and the White place can be
made the prettiest suburb home in
the State. We know of no place
which lies better or has
more natural advantages, and with
a very light expenditure Of time
and money it can be made a model
home for a semi-basiness or pro-
fessional man,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28
Land Sales.

VIM. J. Hamlet to Samuel o.
Graham, Al acres, north of Middle
town, $3.50.
John w. Arnold to Joseph Arm
strong, 40 acres, z miles northeast
of Mexico, $500.
James J. Mauk to Samuel c.
Campbell, 20 ares, 9 miles west
of Mexico, $500.
George w. Carr to George F.
Maye~, 26 acres, IL miles west of
Mexico, S400.
George w. Carr to Frank Hart,
10 acres I2 miles west Of Mexico,
500.
w. J. Wade to J. F. Wilson, so
acres 3 miles north of Centralis,
s25.
A. s. Houston to G. G. Wilburn,
lot 10, Barnes addition to MeA.v.,
800.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28

IT is safe to predict that more
blood will be shed in Africa within
the next ten years, than anywhere
else in the civilized world. As the
natives begin to appreciate the
scope of the plans of England,
Germany, Belgium and other pow
ers, the hostility now shown is GER
tain to increase and collisions to
grow more frequent. Ofcourse the
blacks have no chance of ulti-
mate success, but their great num-
bers, their inherited disregard OF
human life and the remoteness oil
the invaders-for such they must
be called-from supplies OF rein
forcements, will serve to make the
contest more nearly equal than at
first blush seems possible. This
later carrying of the war into Africa
will have terrible Issue.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28
The Century Magazine" in 1900
Joseph Jefferson's Autobiog-
raphy-Novels by Frank
r. Stockton, Amelia e.
Barr, and Others-A
Capital Programme.

During 1890 The Century Magazine
{whose recent successes have includ-
ed the famous War Papers," the
Lincoln History and George Kenan's
series on Siberia and the Exile Sys-
tenn will publish the long looked-for
autobiography of Joseph Jefferson,
whose "Trip Van Wrinkle" has made
his name a household word. No more
interesting record Of a life upon the
stage could be laid before the public.
Mr.. Jefferson is the fourth in a gener-
alton of actors, and, with his children
and grandchildren, there are six gen.
erations of actors among the Jeffer-
sons. His story of the early days of
the American stage, when, as a boy,
travelling in his fathers company,
they would settle down for q season
In Western town, playing In their
own extemporized theatre-the partic-
ulars of the creation of his famous
"Trip Van Winkle," how he acted
"Ticket-of-Leave Man, before an au-
dience Of that class in Australia, etc.
All this, enriched with illustrations
and portraits Of contemporary actors
and actresses, anecdotes, will form
one of the most delightful serials The
Century has ever printed.
Amelia E. Barr, Frank r. Stock ton,
Mark Twain, H. III. Boyesen, and
many other weli-known writers will
furnish the fiction for the new volume,
which is to be unusually strong, in
cluding several novels, illustrated
novelettes, and short stories. "The
Women of the French Salonsn are to
be described in a brilliant series of IL
Illustrated papers, The important dis
coveries made with the great Lick
Telescope at San Francisco 1.-THE larg-
est telescope i'm the world) and the
latest explorations relating to pre-
historic America (including the fa-
nous Serpent Mound, of Ohio are
to be chronic1ed in The Century.
Prof. Geo. P. Fisher, of Yaia Uni
versity, is to write a series on "The
Nature and Method OF Revelation, ("
which will attract every Bible stu
dent. Bishop Potter, of New York,
will be one of several prominent writ
ers who are to contribute a series of
"Present-day Papers" on living topics
articles, etc., etc., and the choicest
engravers can produce.
Every bookseller, postmaster and
subscription agent takes subscriptions
to The Century $500 a year,, or re-
mittance may be made directly to the
publishers, THE CENTURY Co., of New
York. Begin new subscriptions with
November tthe first issue of the
volume) and get Mark Twain's story,
"a Connecticut Yankee In Kirk Ar.
thurs Court" in that number.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28

Up to the time that Axtell pass
ed into the hands of u syndicate
for s105, 600 the $40, 600 given for
Doncaster stood at the top of the
list of prices paid for horsefiesh
with Blair Athol's $50, 600 in second
place. The American prices begun
at S51 900 which was the figure
paid for Bell Boy by his present
owners. Stamboul sold for $780,
600, while both Maud s. and
Smuggler changed owners at s40,-
600. A similar amount was also
paid for King Thomas, after he had
been knocked down at auction for
s3S, 900. Rarus enjoys the honur
of being the highest priced gelding
ever sold, his figure being s36 ,0U0.
Pocahontas Was sold fors35 COO, and
Dexter s33, 900, the last three
prices being paid by Robert Bon
ner. Jay Gould, Lady Thorn,
Blackwood and Anteeo each sold
for $50, 900, and Pansoast brought
s2S, 600 at auction, it being the
highest price ever paid for q trot.
ting stallion under the hamme,
until Bell Boy was led into the
ring. Governor Sprsgue and
| Patron each sold for $27 500 anG
| s25, 900 was given for Happy
Medium, Wedgew ood, George NJ
Patchen. Macy and Sultan
Among the other high-pricsd ones
Sam Purdy and Nutwood brought
500 ,OO0; the St. Biaisa- maud
Hampton colt s2l, 900, Rosalind
Lulu, Startle, Lady Maud. Edwsrt
| Everett and Socrates $40, Co.,.
RMral Warld.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28
The Kansas City Star says Presi-

The Kansas City Star says Presi-
dent Harrison WAS credited some
months ago with saying that he in
tended TO please himself, ss that
was the only way to have any
satisfaction. 1t 10 TO be hoped that
the President still enjoys the sp-
proval of his own Judgment. for it
Is qa;.e apparent tha. he has not
succ, lied in pleasing anyone else.
NJ : Geo Adams, wife of the
popn ar sheriff OF Audrain county,
was he guest of her father and
mother, Capt. J. d. Kincaid and
wife, this week. Mrs. Adams is
an ex-ci,izen of our city and was
quite surprised at the wonderful
improvement since she last saw IL,
Pike County Pet.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28

GEN. CAssIUs M. CLAY, the late
Col. Goodloe's great uncle, has a
record with the knife which is
noteworthy ,even for a Kentuckian,
says the New York World He
had three personal encounters be-
fore the war In which knives were
used, and in each case he succeed
ed in killing his opponent. A
fourth victim he cut almost to
pieces, but the man was stitched
up and recovered. A few years
ago he killed negro who had in
suited him, again using the knife.
Gov. Warmoth, of Louisiana, saved
his life in New Orleans few years
ago by vivisecting with 4 knife a
man who attempted to assassinate
him.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28

WE are very sorry to see that
Westminster College Is to be moved
from Fulton, but as a graduate of
that institution, we may be allowed
to say that we always knew the
school was at least twenty-five
years in advance of the town. Poor
old Fulton! If it was not for the
State institutions 1t would be plow-
ed up and planted in tobacco.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28

THE Legislature should pass a
more liberal law in regard to the
prosecution of criminal cases. None
of the 120 men summoned in the
Dusenberry case from their farms
in distant parts of the county get
any pay except those who were
members of the panel of forty.
There should be a provision also
for the State to expend money III
securing evidence and in bringing
witnesses from other States.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28
CHRISTMAS OBSERVANCE,
A Divine's Argument Against
Observing December 25th
as the Anniversary of the
Birth of the Messiah.

70 the Editor Of the Ledger.
CENTRALIA, Mo-, Nov. 21.-
With your permission I desire
to submit the following facts, in ad-
dition to what has already been
said, in reference to Christmas
observance.
First, no one now living knows
the year OF Christ's birth. Scholars
vary in their opinion from seven to
two years p. C. The usually ac-
cepted day, Christmas, was chosen
by Pope julius 1, in the fourth
century.
Second, the 25th day of Decem-
ber was fixed as Christ's birthday
in Difference to popular superstition,
because, at this time, ancient
my tbs in many nations believed
the sun of the new year to be
born. Romanism catered to this
superstition.
Third, according to the gospel
memoirs of the life and teachings
of Jesus the shepherds were watch
ing their focks by night when they
saw a star shining in the East,
which heralded His birth. 1t
could net we'll have been the 25th
of December, because at that time
of the year shepherds were not
watching their flocks by night in
Judea.
Fourth, when we reflect what an
amount of ripe scholarship has
been brought to bear on this one
point, and that it has been clearly
traced out that the religious OBJ
servance of the 25th of December
had its origin in the customs and
beliefs of the pagan world, it seems
wicked for Christians to celebrate
this day as the birthday of the
Mess
Fifth, Roman Catholics insist
that from the very beginning Of
Christianity, Rome was pre-emi-
nen.ly the head, and that it's bishop
always exercised the authority of
fixing days and dogmas to be OBJ
served by all the faithful. In the
exercise of this function Pope
Julius I fixed December 25th as
the day on which Christ was born;
therefore, all good Catholics should
recognize it as suoh. OF course
history knows nothing of these
claims, yet their influence is very
great with Christmas observers,
whether Catholic or Protestant.
Sixth, the same power that made
Christmas a Christian festival and
a holy day also gave the world the
doctrine of the authority of the
seven sacraments, of the authority
Of the priest, of the heavenly
treasure of merit and the preroga-
tive of the church TO dispense it, OF
purgatory, Of the invocation Of .he
saints, of the honor due to Mary,
OF her assumption and imnacnia''
conception If this Is good auiho.
ity for Christmas why not for alii
Jaisus in unnns tats,s in omnibus.
| Seventh, the defenders of Ch;i-t
mas Observance refuse to place the
facts in evidence. They 'ieuiant
only pc ~,i~rt~; they want III
agi,,t,a.. IL" Constant .xalta
ton vi blind i..ith as TO the ,ia,
and the childish legends which
cluster around it, all produce .
condition Of grovs.ling credulit,
that can scarcely be paralleled, ex
cept among the degraded dupes o
medieval Christianity.
s. MAGEE.
7
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28
without Foundation.

FToIH stfftxsfH6tf
The report that Dick Dusenber-
~ was killed in the court room at
Mexico is utterly without founda-
ton. 1t was reported on the street
here yesterday morning that q
brother of the young lady connected
in the case walked into the court
room and cut Dusenberry's throat.
Things are resting quietly in Mex
leo and no disturbance was thought
~
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28
A SUBSTANTIAL FIRM.
The Mexico Machine and Music
Company One of the Best
in the State.
From the St. Louis Trades Review.

From the st. Louis Trades Review.
The Mexico Machins and Music
Company, chartered in 1887, with
W. H. Upham as manager, occu-
pies fine two story building, Ok
65 feet in area, and handles first
class pianos, organs, sheet music,
musical merchandise and sewing
machines. They have an extern
sive and extending trade in Mexico
and throughout its tributary coun-
ties. Their line of pianos includes
the finest made-those that have
won encomiums from the most
eminent musical connoisseurs in the
world The same can be said of
their organs and of their whole
stock of wind and string instru-
ments. They keep constantly on
hand full supply of all the latest
sheet music, together with many of
the old songs that were sung q
hundred years ago-songs of such
vivid and vlrile beauty that are
as popular to-day as when sung
by people who have long been dead
and gone. The company handles
all the best styles of sewing
machines, and, in this department,
as in the music line, they have a
driving and thriving trade. Mr..
Upham is the right man in the
right place, is one of the brightest,
most energetic and upright trades
men in Mexico and his partners
are men of the highest standing.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28

The holding of the annual re-
union of the prisoners of war of the
northwest in Libby prison, with
Libby prison In Chicago, is a
curious event. 1t is only in
America that small matter like
carting a building a thousand
miles or so as a relic would be
thought of.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28

THE Washington Legislature has
decided TO pay nothing for prayers.
1t has long been doubted, in the
older States, whether prayers for
Legislatures have ever been
answered, and the new State is not
going to put out its money on un-
certainties.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28

SEVENTY horses are slaughtered
daily for food in Berlin. Perhaps
Bismarck S assault on theAmerican
hog was intended to protect the
infant industry of horse steaks and
chops.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28

Miss WILLARD says that the
saloons of the United States, if
placed side by side, would .orm a
continuous line from New York to
Chicago. If he latter city secures
the Worlds Fair an effort will be
made to have this done to attract
visitors.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28

SENATOR VESTS Beet Investiga-
ting Committee has sent the Ser
geant. alarms of the Senate with
an attachment to Chicago for Phil.
Armour
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28

PROF. FLEETS proposition should
be met inside of ten days if the
business men of Mexico know a
good thing when they see it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28

THE verdict in the Dusenberry
case appears to give general satis-
faction.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28

- days till Fulton proves itself
a better village than Camden
Point.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28

Harper's Ba.nr: 81 am leearn-
ing zee language varey fast. Zee
leetle poy zare a-spinning his top.
Hes q spinstsr-ehP,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28

The are
many white soaps,
each
represented to be
just as good as the Ivory"
Iney are not,
but like
ali counterfeits.
they lack
,ne peculiar
and remarkable
qualities of
the genuine.
Ask for
;vory Soap
and
insist upon having it.
'Tiis sold everywhere.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28

DROP nickle in the slot and see
If the Board of Trade won't wake
nm
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Jesse,
q son.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28
CRoss-ExAMTNATIoN.

"I am a member of the A. II. T.
A. Mr.. Lott, who was in the room
too, is also a member. I was a
stranger to Mrs. Scanland. /
weigh 100 pounds. / am about six
fee: in height. Mr.. Lott is also a
large man. I had on my big over
coat. / could not tell you whether
or not Mr.. Lott looks like a Texas
ranger or cowboy.
|. John Roberts was the next wit
ness called. He said: 81 worked
Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-28

at1I.aasan 1yN1efHo