Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-09-20
BRIEFS.

Clarke county, at Berryville, Va, last
Sunday night. They couldn't get
into the safe, so didn't obtain any
money.
Before sunrise this and next week
an opportunity will be presented of
witnessing the triple conjunction of
the bright planets, Venus, Mars and
Saturn.
The Cumberland Valley Railroads
new bridge across the Potomac was
completed this week, and. trains are
now passing over it. The line is now
open between Harrisburg and Win
chester.
The autumnal equinox, according
othe almanac, occurs on Sunday at
4 p. M, as at that time the sun crosses
the line and autumn begins. Seems
to us, though, we have had an equi-
nox for two weeks past.
The REGISTER has much more read
ing in it than any other paper in the
county, and it should be visitor to
every household. Try it and see how
you like it. You can get it from now
until the first of January for fifty
cents.
We were shown by Mr. May berry
Mckee few days ago a bunch of
locust blossoms that he had plucked
from a tree near Col Schley's. He
said the tree was we'll filled with bios
soms-a very unusual occurrence at
this season Of the year.
A Shenandoah Valley locomotive
went into Hagerstown with a hot box
Wednesday morning. AS the train
was pulling into town, the wheel
came off and the front part of the
locomotive dropped upon the track.
No futher damage was done.
The attention of our readers is call
ed to the advertisement of Grove
Bros, tailors, Hagerstown. This
firm has recently lobtained the servi-
ces of one of the best city cutters,
and with their elegant line of piece
goods they defy all competitors.
Bill-posters for the Winchester and
Frederick Fairs were in town this
week with attractive posters. The
former fair will be October 1st, I'd, Sd
and 4th, and the latter on the 18th,
10th, nth and 1Sth-the same dates
that the Hagerstown Fair comes on.
There has been great deal of COM
plant recently that the REGISTERS
are not received by our subscribers.
When anyone fails to receive the paper
we hope we will be informed of the
fact, so that we can supply an extra
copy and at the same time locate the
neglect.
No person living will again date a
document properly without using
80" 1t now stands on the extreme
right-1SS9. Next year it will take
the third placs-1S90, where it will re-
main ten years. 1t will then move in
to second place-19OO, and there will
rest for century.
The following is a list of the jurors
drawn from this county for the Oc-
tober term of the U. s. Circuit Court,
to be held at Martinsburg on October
II, 1899: Grand jurors, j. s. Moler,
r. p. Chew, Lee H. Moler; petit
jnrors, S. V. Yantis, j. II. Snyder,
James V. Moore.
Myers Palmbaum s. Bro. will open
store in Charlestown on Tuesday,
October 18th, 1889, in the store-room
lately occupied by w. B. Dunlap, next
door to Watson House. He will carry
full line of dry goods, fancy goods,
ladies' and gents furnishings, etc.
Advertisement after October 18th.
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad
has more freight business than it can
handle at present. The crews have
been worked almost to death, and
still there are couple of hundred cars
waiting transportation. There has
been much complaint in regard to
the slow delivery of local freight.
Some miscreant cut the ferry-rope
at the river at Shepherdstown three
times last week-once on the Mary
land side, once on the Virginia side,
and once in the middle. The author
tiles have suspicious as to the guilty
parties, and if they can fasten the
crime it will 60 hard with the Grim
inals.
In 1880 a bass weighing about
pound was caught in the Potomac
river at Shepherdstown and returned
to the water after small tin whistle
was fastened to its tail 1t was caught
again a few days ago. The fish
weighed six pounds and the tin whis-
tie had grown into a good-sized silver
horn.
On Monday night of last week
party OF thieves undermined the
stone wall of Mr.. David Hawn's meat
house, below town, and getting inside
stole every particle of bacon that Mr..
Hawn possessed. The same night
they visited the granary of Mr.. John
Allen Link and stole about ten bush
els of wheat.
The Hagerstown Fair will be held
this year October 18th, 10th, 18th and
18th. The local board of directors for
Jefferson county is Col. w. A. Morgan,
DIR. A. S. Reynolds, NJ. j. Blllmyer,
Lee Fl. Moler, b. F. Harrison, G. T.