Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02
BRIEFS.

get it from now until January 1, 1891,
for dollar.
Mr.. II. ID. Lamar, who has been in
the general merchandise business at
Moler's Cross Roads for several years
past, has sold out to his brother, Mr..
Charles E. Lamar, who will conduct
the store at the same place.
The concert in College Hall last
Thursday evening under direction of
Miss Ella Fordyce passed off very
pleasantly, and was much enjoyed by
a large audience. A number Of rude
boys, however, disgraced themselves
by ill behavior.
The Hagerstown Manufacturing,
Mining and Land Improvement Com
pany has been incorporated and is
ready for business. 1t hopes to ac-
complish much for Hagerstown and
its surroundings in the way of bust
ness improvement.
The attention of our readers is re-
ferred to the advertisement of the
/ Wheeling Register in another column
| 1t is by long odds the leading paper
of the State, and those who read it
may be assured that they get all the
news-local, State and national.
The two liquor saloons closed up on
Wednesday night of this week, and
for the ensuing year no liquor will be
legally sold here except upon a ply
sician's prescription. Mr.. S. V. Yam
lis, we understand, sold his stock on
| Wednesday TO Mr. Theodore Conner,
of Harper's Ferry.
Every property holder save two or
three on the main street between
| Church and Princess streets had the
mud and dust cleared from in front
of their premises last Monday, and it
| doesn't look like the same place now.
1t would be a vast improvement if
| the same thing were done all over
town.
The Secretary Of State of Illinois
issued license last week to the follow
ing John Brown Liberty Museum,
at Chicago, TO purchase and remove
to Chicago the building known as
John Browns, at Harper's Ferry ;
capital stock S1S0,00O incorporators,
H. II. Beck, j. A. Coleman, Alfred
! Moore.
Virginia Lodge, Harper's Ferry,
last Saturday evening celebrated the
list anniversary of Odd-Fellowship.
Mr.. Stuart w. Walker, of Martins
burg, delivered an address, and a
sumptuous dinner at the Morrell
House was partaken of by $50 mem
beers of the order from jefferson and
adjoining counties.
Winchester's boom seems to be
gathering great force. Over SiOO,-
| 600 of the stock of the Equity I'M
provement Company has been sub
scribed, and probably within the next
week the amount will be increased
to 81, 900, 600 A new hotel will be
built and a number of manufacture
ing establishments started up.
Wednesday sucker fish, fourteen
inches long, was swimming in the
! fish box at Weverton. 1t had been
captured high up on the mountain
side by Mr.. Shep Gattrell. The un-
fortunate fish was in the talons of a
large fish hawk. which Mr.. Gattrell
shot. The fish was alive and we'll and
was living when we saw it Wednes-
day.-Hagerstoao Mail.
Four hard-looking men, named
Francis Martin, Charles harrington,
James Ford and William Cross, were
arrested in Baltimore last week FOR
the burglary of II. l.. Dolls store IN
Martinsburg. They were trying TO
sell the goods they had stolen, and
when Mr.. Doll went down he identl-
fed his property They will be taken
to Martinsburg for trial.
The Valley Land and Improvement
Company has just been organized at
Luray, Va, under an act OF the last
Legislature, with the following named
officers: d. F. Kagy, President; q. c..
Marshall, Vice President; L. +. Nc
Corkle, Secretary, and II. Nj. Kerr,
| Treasurer. The Luray Inn and Cave
have been purchased by the new com
pany and will shortly pass into its
control and management.
Charlestown has been congratulate
ing itself that at last it would have a
chance to see one of the many curios-
tiles that pass through that place
namely, the Pan-American Congress.
MANY of the people had resolved to
see it if they had to stay up all night.
And now comes the announcement
that the excursion is off-and again
orr sister town is in the soup. We
condole with the Free Press.
lanes, son of Mr.. Geo. f. Showers
met with quite painful and what
might have proved very serious ac-
cident last week. While he and his
brother were running the cutting
box. he raised the cap off the knives
and was playfully jobbing at the fly
wheel with u cornstalk, when his
hand was drawn into the knives.
One of his middle fingers on his right
hand was entirely cut of and the
other nearly off He is now getting
along reasonably well.-Nartms6ur9
Statesman.
The new pike at SharpsburS built
bv the government doesn't strike the
haholdor ~ altnrether a thing OF