Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-08-01
BRiEFS.


still in excellent health.
The Democrats of Berkeley county
will hold mass meeting at Martins
burg tomorrow to select delegates to
the State and Congressional conven-
lions. The Republicans will hold
precinct primaries on the 9th for the
same purpose.
They say that the Hagerstown ice
company has been obliged to put
down the price of ice. as the demand
had been growing beautifully less.
The company would not have much
sympathy if there was no demand at
all for its product
Judge Duckwall has been holding
a special term of court in Martins
burg this week. Francis Martin and
Charles Harrington plead guilty to
the burglary of Dolls hardware store,
and were sentenced to five years each
in the penitentiary.
The members of the Reformed
Church at this place tried hard to get
excursion rates to the reunion at Pen
Mar on Thursday, but the Shenan-
doah Valley people wanted such a
high price and such a big guarantee
the effort had to be abandoned.
Secretary d. s. Rentch received a
letter on Tuesday from the King Iron
Bridge Company, of Cleveland, Ohio,
stating that the iron for the bridge
at Shepherdstown was then being
loaded on the cars. 1t should, con-
sequently, reach here very soon now
At meeting of Samaritan Lodge
| No. 80, |. .. .. F., of Leetown, the
following officers were elected for the
ensuing term Chas. +. Jones, n. G.. {;
Philip Lindsay, V. g.; Geo. ii. Rams
burg, Sec'y; S. j. Ramsburg, Treas. :;
Benton b. Blue, W.; Cecil Baker, Con-
Charles Pierce, was committed to
Jail last Sunday, charged with hav-
ing robbed Mr. Robert Osbourn Of
$40 or $50. Seven dollars was found
in the lining of his hat He admits
having taken Mr.. Osbourn's pocket
book, but says there was only 5000
in it.-4drocate.
Miss Alice Pendleton, Of this place,
has been appointed to the position
of second assistant at Shepherd
College. Miss Pendleton IS a grad
uate of this school, and is daughter
of the late lamented Dudley ID. Pen
dleton, who was for so long connect
ed with the College.
\ straw rick belonging to Mr..
| Thomas Frazier, in the lower end of
the county, was fired by spark
from Shenandoah Valley locomo-
i've last Wednesday and destroyed,
together with about ten panels of
fencing. Straw insured with Agency
of Washington & Alexander.
The new bell for st. Peters Catho-
lie Church at Harper's Ferry arrived
on Friday last. 1t was made by Nc
Shane, of Baltimore, and weighs
/ 400 pounds, is 3 feet 6 inches high,
with about the same diameter at the
mouth. 1t cost S430, and was first
rung on Sunday afternoon at six
o'clock.
The barn and contents, wheat, hay
and farming implements, belonging to
John w. Rice, cashier of the Shenan-
doah Valley National Bank, at Win
chester, was destroyed by fire last
Friday morning. The loss is $780,
covered by insurance. The origin of
the fire is supposed to have been in
cendiary.
The Jno +. Shaull farm, containing
100 acres, near Middleway, was sold
last Friday, by Special Commissioners
Stephenson. Kennedy and Baylor, to
Mr.. Remington Kownslar, at Sl5 per
acre. Mr.. Kownslar left Middleway
thirty-siX years ago, and has since re-
end his days in old Jefferson.
The United States Senate has
passed the bill for the appropriation
of $500 for Antietam battlefield.
This sum will be eXpe nded by the Sec
rotary of War in the purchase of land
for sites for forty-three tablets to be
erected to the honor of the organiza-
tions that took part in the battle and
to Law out and mark the lines of bat
tie.
The directors of the Washington
County Agricultural and Mechanical
Association have extended invitations
to the local boards of Franklin and
Adams counties, Pa, Jefferson and
Berkeley counties, West Virginia, Car
roll county, Md. and Washington City,
to meet at Hagerstown on Thursday,
August eth, 1890, for the purpose of
general conference in regard to the
approaching annual exhibition in
that city.
Our esteemed friend, Mrs. William
Anderson, of Harper's Ferry, has
again kindly remembered us with a
splendid cap of honey-a yearly pres
ent which we highly appreciate. We
are glad to say that Mr.. Anderson,
who was partially paralyzed a couple
of weeks ago, is improving considera-
blv. Indeed he is getting so lively
again that we are afraid to say half
the complimentary things about his
good wife that we think.
We failed to make mention last
,unnL of the fishing triD To Mint SDrlng