Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-01-24
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town many years ago.
Postmaster Fayman says that dur
ing the past three months 225 money
orders and 81 postal notes, amounting
to S1,713.S2, have been sent from
the Shepherdstown postoffice. and
during the same time 1862. 70 was re-
ceived.
News has been very scarce this
week, and it has been hard work get
ting together enough items to make
the paper interesting. But even as it
is, we think the REGISTER will bear
favorable comparison with its coun-
try contemporaries.
On the Sth inst, at Danville, ILL.,, in
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
Rev. A. b. Buchanan, pastor of that
church, and Miss Anna Lee Roberts
were united in marriage by Rev. G. II.
Little. Miss Roberts is a native of
Middleway, this county.
The Y. NJ. G.. A. convention at Ha-
gerstown last week was a most inter
esting one, and it is thought will be
productive of much good to the cause.
An Association will be organized in
that place, and will start with seven
ty-five or hundred members.
A Cumberland Valley Railroad man
says that 1.-The Winchester board has
given all the employees on the pas
senger trains dyspepsia" Probably
the change from backbone and saur
kraut TO fried chicken and batter
cakes was too much for the boys.
Senators Wade Hampton and NJ. G..
Butler, of South Carolina, have &C
cepted invitations to be present and
deliver addresses at a meeting of the
Camp of Confederate Veterans at
Leesburg, Va, February 25. General
Rosser will also deliver an address.
The following appointments of
BishopP eterkin have been announced:
Charlestown (Zion), Mountain Mis-
sion and st. Phillips, April 9Th Har-
per's Ferry, 9TH Shepherdstown and
Dui1ields, 18th Summit Point, Lee
town and Middleway, eth Mountain
Mission and Ripon, May 18th.
Mr.. John Maddox, superintendent
Of ElmwOod Cemetery, left at our
Office on Monday branches OF snow
wreath and japonica in full bloom
flowers that ordinarily would blossom
in May-which he had plucked from
bushes in the cemetery. Rosebuds
almost opened were also shown.
Last Thursday evening about dusk,
while brisk gale was blowing, con-
siderable alarm was occasioned by
the cry of fire. a chimney in the
residence Of Mr.. q. X. Lewis, in the
western end of town, had caught fire
and was burning furiously. Fortu-
nately the fire was soon quenched.
Mr.. Thomas I. Morgan, d brother
of Mr.. Jas b. Morgan, of the Gerards-
town Times, died at his home i'll Eure-
ka, Kansas, last Friday after Il brief
illness. The deceased was son of
the late Jephthah Morgan, and was
born near Shepherdstown, but for
many years has lived in the West.
Mr.. J. Thornburg kearney gave us
a few DAYS ago a jug full Of the best
cider we ever tasted. He had pre-
served barrel of the cider since last
fall by simply putting in it quarters
worth of sulphite of lime. The cider
is now perfectly sweet and clear, and
better than when it was first made.
The Circuit Court, now in session
at Martinsburg, has found upwards OF
| forty indictments for violations of the
liquor laws, such as selling to minors
and without license. 1t has caused a
panic among the saloon men, and
they are trying to devise ways and
means" to escape the penalty Of their
| wrong doing.
The coolest weather of the season
started in on Tuesday night of this
week, and on Wednesday the Their
mometer got down very low. 1t re-
vived waning hopes of the ice men,
but so far it is not nearly cold enough
to freeze the river over. Thursday
morning there was a slight snow,
Just barely enough to cover the
ground.
The Boston Globe proclaims that it
is only a solemn duty to the public
which compels it to state the unsav-
DRY fact.that the man who goes to
bed with his chest covered with hot
onion poultice, and his stomach full
of boiled onions, will wake up to find
la grippe Disguised and gone 1t is a
heroic remedy-but it brings with ii
great reward.
Last Sunday afternoon the teachers
and officers of the Lutheran Sunday
School presented the retiring Super
intendent. Mr.. Geo. NJ. Beltzhoover,
who had filled the office for fifteen
wears. with a fine umbrella with a
massive gold head suitably inscribed,
Rev. ID. NJ. Moser made the presenta-
ton speech, and Mr.. Beltzhoover re-
sponded appropriately
The other day certain well-known
Sbenherdstown man became quite
mellow from lingering too long at the
cup that inebriates, and when he got
home he wanted drink of water
He must have wanted it pretty badly,
for, not finding any about the house.
he deliberately climbed down the
we'll and scooped up some water In