Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-08-08
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this year at the Big Spring on Thurs
day, August 14th. On Thursday, the
21st, the Sunday School of the NJ. E
Church South will have its pic mic at
the same place.
Our neighbor Morrow, of the Adpo.
cate, at Charlestown, started out with
bad luck. The very first five-dollar
bill he took in he lost a few hours
afterward. After he has been in the
business awhile we'll bet he will be
more careful.
A young man named Joseph Thu
mel, of Martinsburg, fell under NOV,
ing train from which he had jumped
at Pen-Mar last Thursday. Besides
being cut and bruised, one of his
hands was mangled so that it had to
be amputated.
WANTED.-Rakings, Rye, Oats,
Screenings, and White Corn, or will
buy damaged wheat OF any kind.
Will pay market price. Best Family
Flour, $500, including Darrell.
JOHN d. STALEY,
Shepherdstown.
Twenty-Five shares of Hagerstown
First National Bank stock sold on
Tuesday for S23.92t per share, par
value $40, and twelve shares Of Will
Transport Bank stock sold for $14. 80
per share, par value 80 These were
the highest prices ever paid for this
stock.
Mr.. James Conrad, son of Mr.. w. B.
Conrad, Of this county, died at the
residence Of his father, ON Tuesday,
of typhoid fever, aged about 81 years.
Two sisters of the deceased have also
been i'll with the same disease, but we
are glad to know they are recovering.
-Adrocate.
The Democrats Of Berkeley county
held mass meeting at Martinsburg
last Saturday to elect delegates to
the State and Congressional conven-
tons. Senator Faulkner appeared
after the convention was over and
addressed the delegates in a rafting
speech on the issues Of the day.
The Greensburg correspondent Of
the Martinsburg Herald says: Mr..
Towner Schley, of Shepherdstown,
who is extensively engaged in the
sale of fertilizers, was in this vicinity
this week representing the old reliable
Chesapeake Guano Co., of Baltimore.
A great many of the farmers are OBJ
| tanning the best results from its use.
1t is said that syndicate composed
of Representative Baker, Of New
York, who has declined denomination,
Mark j. Runnel, of Washington, and
w. w. Rochester, of Rochester, n. Y,
have purchased Virginius Island,
near Harper's Ferry, and will form
stock company with 100000 capital
to build manufactures.
A certain young lady of this vicin-
ity who was thinking of making
foreign tour has about given up the
idea since she has learned that ocean
VOYAGES are destructive to the teeth.
Persons are liable to lose their teeth
on the ocean-but never when they
have the kind that are so useful and
ornamental to the lady in question.
Representative Wilson has received
cordial invitation from the Demo
cratic Committee Of the State Of
Washington to attend a convention
to reorganize the party, September
10th. They want him to start the or
ganization of the Democratic party,
and promise to meet him with spe-
cial train and show him every honor.
Mr.. Wilson will accept if he can get
away.
Chairman Riley, Of the Democratic
State Committee, has issued circu-
lar stating that all the railroads will
sell tickets at reduced rates to the
State convention at Grafton on Au-
gust 18th and the convention of DEM
ocratic clubs at Park,rsburg on the
18th. Orders on the b. q 0. Railroad
will be sent to the chairmen of the
county committees to be distributed
among the delegates.
q. S. Clagett, of the Hagerstown
bar, died early Tuesday, morning at
his residence, on West Antietam street
aged seventy-one years. In 1871 he
was elected on the Democratic ticket
as State Senator For the last few
wears OF his life he acted as auditor
for this county, and was considered
by the members of the Washington
county bar to be one of the best law
yers in Western Maryland.
Mr.. William Hughes, the owner OF
a large peach orchard near keedys-
vile, Md, has been offered, it is re-
ported. $40 a bushel for his coming
crop, which offer has been refused.
He estimates that his orchard Will
Weld about 600 bushels this year, in
stead of thousands if the crop had
been a good one. Should his orchard
Weld 600 bushels and he receive Sl6
per bushels, the gross receipts Will
amount to $4,000.
Allen Yingling and E. Wesley Em-
brey, of Hagerstown, have leased
from E. Tracey Bishop his cement
ouarries along the canal, about six
miles below Williamsport, for ten
years, with the privilege of purchas-
ing them. They will form a stock