Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-06-14
Briefs.

Martinsburg has organized board
of trade.
The Supreme Court of Appeals is in
session at Wheeling.
4 large number of Michigan
-,l5iers visited Antietam battlefield
tho first of the week.
Iohn Robinson's Show will exhibit
- Martinsburg June 25th and at Har
nar's Ferry June Goth.
LAST Tuesday was a good day fol
hiss and great many were caught
IN the Potomac at the dam.
The Charlestown town council last
week appropriated a hundred dollars
Tor the Harper's Ferry flood sufferers.
Mr. John 4. X. Brewer, a we'll
Known citizen of Hagerstown, died
Of his home on Saturday at the age OF
7S.
Thousands of members of the
Thinker Church are attending the
annual meeting at Harrisonburg,
Va.
Prof De Voc, the weather prophet,
nredicts cyclone for next Monday.
This will seriously interfere with wash
day
Hon. ID. b Lucas read an original
roem at the Confederate memorial
services at Norfolk, Va, last Thurs
day.
Mfr. J. c. Holmes has settled down
IN Charlestown and resumed his old
bu.iness-that of contractor and
builder.
The Western Maryland Railroad is
still running its through trains by
way of Gettysburg, as the main line
has not yet been repaired.
Potomac Building Association No. 3
will offer for sale several shares of
stock next Monday evening at the
REGISTER Office at 7.30 o'clock.
James NJ. Thomas, a well known
citizen of Berkeley county, died sud
denly few days ago, of dropsy, in
his sixty-ffth year. He leaves a
large family.
At the req Lest of one of our readers
We again publish the church directo-
~. We hope the ministers will hand
Us their appointments by Wednesday
Of each week.
General Passenger Agent o. How
ard Rover has our thanks for q couple
of illustrated books descriptive of the
Shenandoah Valley as seen from the
5. V. Railroad.
The Maryland Court of Appeals has
reversed the decision of the lower
court and ordered new trial in the
case OF Samuel Carly against the Ha-
gerstown Fair Association.
Ten thousand people were in Win
chester last Thursday attending the
decoration of the Confederate sol
dierS' graves Gen. Jubal Early
made very spirited address.
Samuel H. Cox fell from the trestle
of the b. & 0. Railroad at Harper's
Ferry last Sunday and fractured his
skull He died the same night. He
leaves a wife and four children.
Ii has been decided to abandon
the building of the Alexandria and
Charleston Railroad, which it was
proposed to construct from Stras-
burg TO the coal fields of West Virgin
ia
The meat-house of Mr.. Edward Il.
Leavell, near Shenandoah Junction,
was robbed of sixteen pieces of bacon
one night a week or two ago. a horse
was borrowed" to carry the meat
away.
The largest train ever pulled over
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad was
one that passed through Shepherds
town last Saturday. 1t consisted of
snty-one gondola cars, drawn by two
engines.
Confederate memorial day was OBJ
served in Charlestown on Saturday
last according to programme. Capt.
John j. Williams, of Winchester, de-
livered an eloquent and interesting
address.
Mr.. l.. NJ. Cole, the general ticket
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail
road Company, died in Baltimore
last week, aged 70 years. He had
been in the service of the b. & O.
since ls42.
\ correspondent of the Harper's
Ferry Sentinel wants Camp Hill cut
down and Shenandoah street raised
ten or twelve feet higher. Seems to
Us it would be easier TO go some place
else and build new town.
\ vast deal of freight is being
hauled over the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad now, much of which is for
The Cumberland Valley Railroad, the
loss Of whose bridge across the Poto-
mae interrupts the regular traffic.
Mr. Daniel Wright, of Brooklyn, n.
Y. member of the 51st n. Y, regi-
ment, states that the survivors of the
5lst will erect $4,000 monument on
South Mountain in the Wise field
where Gen. Reno was killed, and also
one at Burnside's Bridge.to cost $500,
this summer.
On Friday a young man at Weyer's
station, on the Shenandoah Valley
railroad, named Joseph Smith, met
with a rather singular accident which