Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-01-10
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FRIDAY JANUARY 10, 1890
BRIEFS.

NanIeu
John d. Staley'
-, Iobn f. Ridenour, a Hagers-
merchant. died last week.
For Sale-A fresh COW and calf.
,an,y 20 J. c. Unger, Dufiields, w.
Va.
= Won want mems, ladies' and chill
,.,n:. shoes cheap, call at once at j.
: Jennings
VIII Toliver, son of Mat Toliver, an
,.arstrious colored boy, died during
the Holidays.
George Manius, a Hagerstown boy,
,o5 one of his legs cut of by loco
,,oriye the other day.
r.v r NJ. Strickler will preach at
ch.rherdstown next Sunday at II a.
and at Unionville at lisp. III.
Mr. Pendleton Kindell, a former
...i5ept of this county, died in Ber-
willie December eth, aged 73 years.
The old and always interesting
,l.,andria Gazette has entered upon
#. DIST volume. Long may it yet
live
Mr. J. II. Myers has sold out his
business at Harper's Ferry to V.
Kopian y Bro, and removed to Nc
Keesport, Pa.
II j. said that diphtheria is raging
:, Back Creek Valley, Berkeley
',uutv. John Wilson has lost five
children with it.
Dogs killed six sheep and crippled
three Others in the flock of Mr.. L. l..
Rj,,ler. in helower end of the county,
the other night
New Years Day was the quietest
,c,. have ever known here. a cold
and penetrating drizzle efTectually
kent down all enthusiasm.
Read this paper carefully, and own
ND il j. the best country paper in this
section. And if you are not now
subscriber come in and pay up for
year.
Mr.. L. +. Upright, of Bolivar, re-
ceiyed very severe wound in the
hand few days ago, by the acct
dental discharge of gun whilst out
hunting.
Miss Mamie Grant entertained
uarrv Of her friends on New Years
Eve with most delightful supper,
and the old year was watched until
the new one came.
\ po>toflice has been established at
Antietam Iron Works, about three
mile, below town. in Maryland. 1t is
named Antietam, and Aaron G.
Wyaud is postmaster.
If housekeepers and others who use
coal oil lamps. would, after filling the
lamp. throw i'll teaspoonful OF com
mon salt. a much clearer and better
light will be the result.
Mr. Henry Ramsburg, of Vancleves-
Vile slipped from freight train at
that place last week and had one of
his feet so badly mashed that part of
it had TO be amputated.
Mr.. Mary Jones, a widow residing
in Martinsburg, was frightfully
burned while attempting TO make
fire by the use of coal oil, and died
from her injuries soon after.
Rev. ID. VI. Moser was unable TO fill
his appointments last Sunday on ac-
count Of the grip" and Postmaster
Fayman was incapacitated the first of
the week from the same cause.
Acolored man named Maj. A. Bolts,
from Summit Point, has been ar
rested and placed in Jail at Charles
town for forging checks and passing
them upon Charlestown merchants.
Mr. Geo. T. Sperow, of Berkeley
county, sent us a few days ago
>priL from an apricot tree, on which
the blossoms had come out full and
free This shows what sort of weather
We are having.
y Martinsburg young lady recently
presented her lover with an elabo-
rately constructed pen-wiper, and
was a>tonished the following Sunday
10 see him coming into church wear
ius it a. IA cravat.
y piece of plastering fell from the
ceiling of the residence of Mr.. Thos.
II. Jones. in Harper's Ferry, last
Week, and striking Mr.. Jones upon
thrIes. injured him so "a TO necessitate
the U.s. Of crutches
Tommy Hill, an eight-year-old
grandson of John Thornton, colored.
Tell backwards from freight car at
Ties. y. depot last Saturday and went
INTO rouvulsions and died on Sunday.
-C'1rI,s'oun Spirit.
Tie following pupils of the Shep-
herd>tpwn Graded School did not
Miss single day up to the Christmas
Holidays: II. H. Hartzell, Albert
'ooku> Maggie Hoffman, Samuel
heltrr>tay. Locher Grove.
Nr. Samuel Miller, living near the
stone bridge over the Opequon, has
exchanged farms with his brother,
Ar. X. ). Miller, living on the home
larn, near Smoketown. They will
oo'I move i'll the spriRg Statesman.
again call your attention 10 the
following low prices Best Family
I''ur, including barrel, $3.50; Best
ia'Hiiy Flour per sack of 24t pounds,
D cents corn meal, bolted, per bush
r" ~ cents buckwheat flour, 3 cents