Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-04-25
BRIEFS.

town THIS week finding out how much
everybody possesses Of this worlds
goods. No one ever brags to Mr.
Trail of being rich.
Joseph HI. Blakeney, a painter. COM
United suicide in Martinsburg Friday
night by taking rough on rats. No
cause has been assigned for the rash
act, except that he had been drink
ing. He was about forty-five years
of age.
The annual meeting of the Y. NJ. c.
A. will be held this Friday evening in
the Association Room ut o'clock
AS there will be an election of Off
GERS, and other business ofimportance
full attendance of the members is
desired
We have received very neat and
interesting little book, called
Through the Shenandoah Valley
issued by the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad. Among the illustration are
several from Antietam and a few
from this county.
Gen. r. II. Milroy, not of savory
memory at Winchester and other
places in the Valley because of his
conduct when in command during the
war, died recently at Olympia, State
of Washington, where he had resided
for a pumha IF yaarS
Mr.. Will Boswell made a narrow es
cape from injury, or possibly death, a
few days ago. While attending to
his duties as engineer at the Antie-
tam Cement Works the governor of
the engine flew off and only missed
his head by very narrow margin.
In the warm days now at hand, and
before the general farm work comes
on, is a favorite time to wash the
trunks and branches of the young
fruit trees. Either weak I've or strong
soap suds make a good wash. This
will kill all the moss and give the tree
a clean, healthy look.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment this week of the new firm of
Wysong i Schoppert, who will con-
duct the agricultural implement bust
ness in Shepherdstown This is re-
liable firm, and our farmer friends
can deal with them with every assur-
ance of square treatment.
A set of swindlers are going around
the country selling barbed wire fen
cling They offer to furnish good
eight wire fence with iron posts for
eight cents per foot, which afterwards
turn out to be eight cents per foot for
each wire, or a total of sixty-four
cents per foot for the fence.
Work on the new quarries at kear-
neysville is progressing rapidly. The
switch from the railroad has been
laid, and the foundations are being
laid for the necessary machinery and
buildings We understand that most
of the laborers are colored men, and
Italians may also be employed.
The Morgan's Grove Agricultural
Society has decided to holdits annual
exhibition this fall at Shepherdstown
on September 9, 3, and5 The Win
chester Fair will be held September
TO -, and Frederick and Hagerstown
fairs October IA to 1.-THE same dates
having been chosen for the two latter.
Mr.. Martin f. Snavely, OF Sharps-
burg, has purchased point OF noun
tain land known as McClellan's Look
out, near Antietam battlefield, where
he will erect all observatory, making
If so attractive that it will become
popular resort for visitors to the field
of Antietam and for picnic parties,
excursions, &c.
The Martinsburg Improvement
Company has closed a contract with
b ]. Hickman, of Philadelphia, for
the establishment of his seamless hos
iery mills in the former city, and work
on the buildings will be commenced
at once. Mr.. Hickman says by the
first of November there will be at
least $50 hands employed in the es-
tablishment.
The following are the dates set for
the commandments Of the State edu-
cational institutions in West Virginia:
Marshall College Normal School, at
Huntington, June 9Th; West Liberty,
lime 10th State University at Nor
gantown, June 11th; Fairmont, June
18th Shepherd College, June 18th
Glenville, June nth; Concord, June
26th !; Storer College, Harper's Ferry,
May 3Oth.
The electric lights were turned on
with full power in Martinsburg last
Saturday night, and the streets were
brilliantly illuminated. Nevertheless
about midnight burglars entered the
hardware store of II. l.. Del y Co.,
in the public square, and made an I'M
successful attempt to crack the SAFE
They succeeded in robbing the money
drawer of So, and carried oil SOU
worth of pistols and hardware.
Wesley Seibert, the Shepherdstown
barber has the neatest, cleanest and
cosiest establishment of the kind III
the county. He has just had it new
" nainted inside, new windows put
in. new oilcloth on the floor, lace cur
tains at the windows, new mirrors,
new mugs, new pictures, etc. IL Is
first.class il every respect, and the
only thing lacking is some improve
mont TO the outside of the building.
100 j 1o1e and cain i'm 1873