Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-09-27
BRIEFS.

airy we will offer inducements to new
subscribers
One day last week cow ran over
Mrs. Emanuel Staley, who lives below
town, injuring that lady very pain
fully about the hip and limbs. DIR.
Butler was calledin, and Mrs. Staley is
now much better
AT the town election at Berryville
last week Major s. J. G. Moore was
elected mayor, VIM. F. Kerfoot re-
corder, and James w. Gaver, John H.
Shackleford, r. X. Ogden and Lewis
V. Stole councilmen.
Two more rainy days this week
again gave the farmers a setback in
the pressing fall work that is upon
them now. Corn-cutting and seed
ing will keep the agriculturists on the
jump for the next few weeks.
About twenty members of the Lu-
theran churches of Hagerstown who
were dissatisfied with the new form
of liturgy recently introduced have
formed a new congregation, and will
worship according to the old form.
We have received the first number
of The Athenaeum, the journal of the
West Virginia University at Morgan
town. Mr.. f. H. Vickers, of this
place, is one Of the proprietors. The
copy before us is bright and interest
ing
The Maryland Synod of the Evan
gelical Lutheran Church will convene
in the st. Johns Lutheran Church,
Martinsburg, on Wednesday even
ing, October 2. The opening sermon
will be preached by the president,
Rev. p NJ. Bike, Phi. d.
Messrs. G. w. and s. p. Humrick-
house recently built very handsome
walnut altar for Christ Reformed
Church in Baltimore. Inacknowledg-
ing the receipt of it the pastor says:
1T is decidedly handsome and first
class piece of workmanship. You
have certainly done yourselves cred
it."
Attention is called to the advertise
ment this week of the Hagerstown
Fair, which will be held October 18th
to 18th. The fair will be fully as good
as usual this year, and that means
the best in this section. Jefferson
county will be there in force and there
will also be some exhibits from this vi
cinity.
Rev. l.. X. Mason, rector Of Trinity
Episcopal Church of Shepherdstown,
recently received a call to the rector
ship of the Episcopal Church at Pen
sacola, Florida. We understand that
the salary offered is $500 year and
rectory free. Mr. Mason has not yet
arrived at a decision in regard to the
matter
Mr.. Chas. w. Brown hasin his jew
elry store window a watch which was
plowed up in field of Col. II. b. Dav-
export a few days ago. 1t is supposed
to have been lost bya Federal or Con-
federate soldier, in some one of the
minor engagements in this vicinity
over quarter century ago.-Charles-
torn Spirit.
Mr.. Murtha Walsh, who has been a
well-known and successful business
man in Harper's Ferry for the past
thirty years, died at his home in that
place on Wednesday of last week.
Although he had been in feeble
health for several years, his death
was nevertheless sudden. Mr.. Walsh
was GA years old.
An exchange says that an editor
once applied at the door of Hades for
admission. well" replied his satanic
majesty, I'VE let one of your profess
sion in here many years ago, and he
kept up continual row with his for
mer delinquent subscribers, and as
we have more of that class of persons
than any other we have passed law
prohibiting the admission of editors"
Several children of Mr.. Andrew
Marsteller have been seriously i'll.
Two are now in a critical condition
and the anxious wife and mother in
Charlestown, jefferson county, West
Virginia, not knowing the present
address of the absent father, takes
this method of informing him of the
distressed condition of his family
Publishers kindly disposed will please
publish this.
1t has been feared that the heavy
rains during the summer had played
havoc with the young cartridges, and
the sportsmen have been very much
depressed. Information received
from different sections OF the State,
however, is much more encouraging
than was expected. In some counties
the birds are said to be much more
abundant than they were last year,
while the general reports indicate
fair average everywhere.
The First, Tenth and Twenty-ninth
Regimental Association, of Maine,
accompanied by Gov. Burleigh with
his staff and council, will leave Port
land. Maine, on the first of October
for Gettysburg, .Antietam and Luray
Caverns. They will arrive at Sharps-
burg about noon on Friday, the 4th.
At Antietam the party will be photo
graphed as they sit along the line OF
battle of the 10th Maine Regiment.
Going thence to Harper's Ferry, they
remain over night, spending Saturday
at Winchester and Sunday at Luray