Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-09-26
BRIEFS.

The man who predicts hard win
,.r has given his opinion.
Don't YOU want to try the REGISTER
.br., months for so cents?
Tn. Nellie BY cap has struck Shop
bsrJ.town-struck il hard.
Won can have any sort of job work
s,ca AT the REGISTER Office.
There have been great many
.-swp. in town during the past week.
The WiIliamsport Leader can beat
r.on sweet potatoes, we acknowledge.
Tobu Chestnut, of Martinsburg, has
been granted patent for car coup
Ter.
Most of the farmers are holding on
- tbeir wheat until it reaches dol
lar
Wheat continues steady in Balti-
more at about the same prices
quoted last week.
Mr. jeremiah knode, well-known
CITIZEN of Boonsboro, Md, died last
Saturday evening.
RM. Bilhnyer receives fresh pud-
din, and sausage from Hagerst0wn
three times week. Try some of
IT,
Mr.. James d. Butt, of Harper's Fer
~ has been selected as member of
the executive committee for the
Worlds Fair.
The once notorious Poodle" War
uer has been pardoned from the
Maryland penitentiary, where he was
serving time for burglary.
On the 18th of last February Mr..
Harry c. Getzendanner, of this place
bought lot in Roanoke for 5000.
Last week he sold it for $4,000.
For the best groceries, provisions,
canned goods, roller flour, etc, call at
R. NJ. Billmyer's store, where you
will always find the best and fresh
est
Sheriff Newcomer arrested Sylves-
ter Peacher over in Washington
county on Tuesday night on a charge
Of assault preferred by Cora Peacher,
his niece
After threshing the wheat on the
farm Of Mr.. John w. Hill below town
the first of the week the hands killed
G. rats And il wasn't good day for
rats, either.
Rev Wormley Hughes, a colored
preacher of LoudOun county, has
been sent TO the penitentiary for
stealing chickens, barbed wire and a
set Of harness
Anumber of ex-Confederate from
this vicinity will attend the reunion
Of RosserS cavalry in Winchester
next Wednesday. 1t will be big day
for the boys who wore the gray.
Harry Cronise, the young man who
was arrested on suspicion of having
set fire to the ShifIler barn, near
BOon>boro, was released from custo-
dy, on account of weak evidence
against him.
The coal company property, situa-
ted on Meadow branch, Morgan conn-
~. and containing $4,000 acres, was
sold recently for 100000, the former
hener>, the Pendleton heirs, being
the purchasers.
We understand that a corps of en-
glneers is at Shenandoah Junction
laying out streets and dividing the
property there into lots. The syndi-
cate which is booming the place is re-
ported very wealthy.
Mr. Robert Kennedy, who was for
merly in the real estate business in
AartiuSburg. and who has been liv-
Ing near that place, has completely
lost his mind He was taken to the
Weston Asylum last week.
NJ Palmbaum & Bro, of Charles
town, are receiving one of the largest
aSSortments Of fall and winter dress
goods, dry goods, &c, ever shown in
their town. They must expect to do
large buSiDpSS This season
\ cutting scrape occurred at Sum
INIT Point one day last week, in which
The telegraph operator, Mr.. Anderson,
was severely cut in the back with a
razor in the hands of one VIM. Wash
lnsion, negro youth of that vicini-
Y-Adrocdte
Attention is called TO the advertise
ment Of Jacob Wintermoyer, the
Boss clothing man of Shepherds
'Own tie has gotten in his fall stock
Or readymade clothing, overcoats,
furnishings, etc, and it is the biggest
aud incest stock he has yet shown.
he Invites all to come and see the
new goods.
The advertisement of the Hagers-
Town Fair will be found in the REGIS
TER this week. The managers conf
dently expect this to be one of the
biggest fairs ever held in Maryland,
and we do not doubt that it will be
AT a meeting of the directors on Sat
urday last the secretary was ordered
10 invite the Shepherdstown Band to
be present.
Mr.. George NJ. Bowers, Supervisor
VI Census Tor the First Census Dis
uict Of West Virginia, has completed
Tie count of the population of all the
counties of his district, which com
prise more than one- half Of tho Stafa