Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-04-12
BRIEFS.


Billmyer's Hall next Sunday morning
at 1890 o'clock.
The Senior performance at Shep-
herd College will be postponed until
Monday evening. April 18th.
Next week being Holy Week, ser
vices will be held every evening in
the Lutheran Church at $50 o'clock.
There are, necessarily, some matters
OF interest this week that we are COM
PEELED to defer until our next regular
issue.
We go to press little earlier than
usual this week, in order to get our
big business edition off as soon as
possible.
The growing wheat has probably
never looked better in this section at
the same season Of the year than it
does now.
This is missionary month in the
Lutheran Sunday School, and the
children are very energetically col
Letting money.
Mr.. William w. Trail, son of AS
SCISSOR Trail Of Harper's Ferry, was
married in Washington last week to
Miss Annie Furtney.
Mr.. John p Smith, of Sharpsburg,
has the position of assistant to Mr.. II.
w. Potts, engineer in charge Of the
Antietam national road.
The local-option election in Chapel
district, Clarke county, Monday last,
resulted in victory for the ''drys,"
the vote standing-drys 143, vets 81.
Mr.. John l.. Richard has sold his
half of the lot on the corner of High
and Mill street to Mr. John H. Show
for S145. Mr.. Show now owns the
whole lot.
The Martinsburg Jail leaks like a
sieve. Another prisoner dug a hole
in the wall last week and was just
getting away when he was discovered
by the jailer.
The Maryland fish law, which went
into effect on the first of April, con
tinues in force until the first Of July.
Fishing is prohibited in the Potomac
and its tributaries.
Rev. J. r. Van Horne, of the NJ. E.
Church South, will fill his regular APP
pointments on Sunday-Shepherds-
town at II a. IN. and 7.3Op. H., and
Marvin Chapel at p. IN.
Mr.. Robert j. Nicely, an uncle of
Mrs. Jacob Terrell, of this place, died
at his home in Berkeley county on
March 2Sth of heart disease. He was
in the 10th year of his age.
Thomas Delaney, of Sharpsburg,
was a seaman on the United States
ship Nipsic that was wrecked by the
hurricane at Samoa last month. His
name did not appear among the list
of those drowned.
According TO the report eff the Com
missioner of Railroads for Virginia the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad was
operated last year at loss of $50, 1885,
49, and the Valley Branch Railroad
at loss of s3,50336.
The recent break in the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal, near Shepherdstown,
gave employment to eighty hands and
twenty carts for period of eight
days to complete the repairs. The
cost was about $4,000.
Mrs NJ. l.. Harrington invites the
public to call and see her new and
handsome stock of millinery, fancy
goods, notions, etc, at her store III
the room lately occupied by j. +.
Welshans. Advertisement next week.
d. l.. Rentch has just received a full
line of samples of wall paper (new
patterns) cheaper than ever. Now is
the time to paper your house. Cheap
er than whitewash. He is also pre-
pared to contract for hanging paper.
Call and see.
4 friend from the lower neighbor-
hood says that Mr.. Robert Duke Is the
proudest man in the neighborhood-
in fact, it is said he is so tickled he
can't keep his face straight. And all
because a fine, large boy has come to
live with him.
G.. Il. Hodges is receiving his ire
msndous new stock Of ladies', gentle
mems, misses and children's shoes.
They are coming from New York,
Rochester, Boston and Baltimore.
Don't fail to examine his varied as
sortment. He will give you the
greatest variety to select from and
the best value for your money OF any
house in town.
Messrs. Geo. Campbell 4 Co. have
awarded the contract for the erection
of the large frame building for their
bark mills to VIM. Phillips 4 Sons,
work to begin at once. Mr.. +. l..
Beller will do the carpenter work and
Mr.. Jno. w. Russell the tin roofing
Employees of the B. & o. and 3. V.
railroads are pushing forward the
work of constructing sidings for the
mills, which are expected to be in OPP
GRAFTON by the first of June.-Chartes-
tOtcn SPIRIT
On Wednesday Mr.. Martin Boward,
from near Falling Waters, in this
county, entered the saloon of Mr.. j.
A, Blondel, and demanded a set
Element of some matters existing be-
tween them. Mr.. Blondel made some
excuse for not doing SO at that time,
when Mr.. Boward, who was under
The influence Of liquor, declared that