Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-10-17
BRIEFS.

chestnuts and worms are on sale.
re- time to pay subscriptions now.
The pumpkin crop is being gath
cred.
vaw corn is quoted at 40 cents a
bushel.
The coal merchants are bracing up
slittle.
annie butter will be a scarce article
this year.
Frank Allen looks happy because
its boy.
Tb.re's 10 be another wedding in
Shsnherdstown shortly.
Tho hands who built the bridge
III for their homes on Wednesday.
N,DL. Rentch has been shipping
large quantities of baled husks this
week.
vovember eth and Sth are the dates
,,r Mrs Jarley's Wax Works i'll
Shepherdstown.
The ferry-rope broke last Tuesday,
h,t the boat was safely Landed with
ont any trouble.
Mr.. H. C. Marten is putting a new
in roof on the house occupied by Mr..
Joseph McMurran.
vsssrs. Robert Gibson and Archie
Morgan shot eighteen squirrels in one
DAYS hunting last week.
The United States district court,
rrdre Jackson presiding, is in session
st Martinsburg this week.
The Democratic Executive Commit
rae Of this county will meet in Charles
,ownon Saturday at II o'clock.
Nearly 800 head of stock had to be
tarned away from the Hagerstown
Fair for lack of accommodations.
The Shepherdstown Band now
holds its regular practice meetings in
the hall OF the Knights of Labor.
This REGISTER goes to press earlier
than usual this week, so that the
force NAV 20 to the Hagerstown Fair.
Messrs Arthur Keith and Richard
II Gaines, of the U. s. Geological
Survey. are doing work in this coun-
~.
The editor of the Charlestown Spirit
has had given him handsome gen
tIemans tie Well, send it over,
Bro. Haines.
inducements will be offered anyone
who desires to subscribe for the
REGISTER. Well tell you what they
are when you call.
Mr. Arnold S. Yantis, OF Harper's
Ferry. and Miss Matte Dean, Of
Washington City, were married in the
latter place on Tuesday.
Mr. George II. Horner, former
school teacher in Berkeley county,
died recently. aged "a years. He left
swite aud four children.
Bad luck still purspes the editor of
the Charlestown Advocate. The cars
killed one of his porkers at Shenan-
doah Jucntion last week.
General Golf, the little idol, made a
whooping speech in Martinsburg last
Saturday night, to the intense salts
faction of his faithful followers.
Judge Duckwall held special term
Of the Circuit Court in Charlestown
on Tuesday, and confirmed the sale Of
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad.
Mr. Thos, S. Smith, of Washington
CITY, has purchased of Mr.. John W..
Doll the latter's interest in the Rat
Ting Spring property in this county.
Go toMcClung's photograph gallery
in Charlestown for elegant finished
photos Of all kinds and sizes. Also
picture frames, mats, picture cord,
etc
The excursion train to the Hagers-
town Fair was so crowded on Wed
nesday that a number Of persons
from Shepherdstown refused to ride
upon it.
Photographer McClung, of Charles
town, took number Of photographs
Of the new iron bridge across the Pc
tomac river at Shepherdstown last
Saturday.
MessrS. A. s. cambridge, Of this
place, Alex Parks, of Martinsburg,
and b. ID. Gibson addressed the
Charlestown Democratic Club last
Friday night
Some of the farmers of this locality
have not yet finished seeding, the
almost continuous rains of the past
week or more having prevented them
from working.
Samuel Munson, youth about II
Years old, was arrested in Hagerstown
on Friday for an attempted criminal
assault on thirteen year-old girl
near that place.
Our esteemed friend, Mr.. G. Lip
pitt Renner, has opened a general
Hour and feed store in Charlestown.
he is a clever gentleman, and We
wish him great success.
Mrs. Mary Z. Sponseller, mother OF
Mr. Abraham Sponseller, of Harpers
Kerry, died at the residence of her
daughter in Baltimore last week.
She was 90 years Of age.
The Republicans have put up a
county ticket for some reason or 9th
er. No one has an idea it will be
elected, and the candidates named