Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-02-07
BRIEFS.

| town.
MIR. Isaac w. Chapline, an aged and
well-known citizen of Shepherdstown,
received stroke of paralysis several
days ago. and at this writing is quite
ill. DIR. Butler is attending him.
Mr.. II. S. Wightman and Miss Bes-
sic Mcdonald, both of Edinburgh, Va,
were married on the bridge at Har-
per's Ferry on Tuesday. Rev. C. o.
lsaacs performed the ceremony.
The Presbyterians of Gerardstown
are contemplating the remodeling of
their church, or the building of new
one, and have appointed committee
to consult an architect as to the rela-
tive cost.
The West Virginia Historical and
Antiquarian Society was organized in
Charleston last Thursday night
Judge ID. b. Lucas, Col. r. p. Chew
and Delegate b. d. Gibson, of this
county, We're among those enrolled
| lOr membership.
The ladies of Duffields will have an
oyster supper at that place on Fri
day evening, February 14th, for the
purpose of raising funds.for the COM
plition of the Episcopal Chapel. The
public is cordially invited to attend.
The house and lot of Mr.. A. c..
Drawbaugh, at Shenandoah Junction,
was sold last Saturday, by Messrs.
Jos. Trapnell and Geo. Baylor, Spe-
cial Commissioners to Messrs. James
n. Hurst and Chas. w. Brown, at
S1,625.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of Rev. J. T. Rossiter and Lille
G. Welch, the ceremony to take place
next Wednesday in the First Reformed
Church of Baltimore. Mr.. Rossiter is
well-known and highly esteemed in
this place.
The Ladies Auxiliary to the Y. NJ.
G. \. will meet in the Association
Room on Friday afternoon, February
| 14th, at 4 o'clock. AS there is to be
an election of officers, and important
business is to be transacted, it is hoped
the attendance will be large.
Several of the new freight engines
ordered some time ago by the Shen-
andoah Valley Railroad have been
received and placed in service. They
are powerful locomotives, weighing
60 tons each, and are called Jacks"
They were pretty badly needed.
Mr.. James ID. Butt, of Harper's
Ferry, has been appointed assistant
counsel in the Attorney Generals
office, at Washington. If long and
unwavering allegiance to his party
makes a man deserving of such a
place, then the right man has been
appointed.
Mrs Drusilla d. Packet, wife of
Mr.. VIM. b. Packet and Youngest
daughter of the late Thomas Ruther-
ford, Esq, died at the residence of
her husband, near Charlestown, last
Friday night, aged 35 years. She was
an estimable lady in all the relations
| of life, and had been a consistent
| Christian for number OF years
Our friend, Mr. Adam b. Moler, who
lives near the Virginia ore bank, de-
sires us to inform the public that he
| has for sale the finest seed corn in the
county. Its we'll matured and of a
very early variety, ripening two
weeks sooner than any other. 1t is
of excellent quality, and Mr. Moler
first got the seed from the West.
An exchange offers the following
TO its readers to figure out on rainy
day a certain family consists of one
grandfather, two grandmothers, one
| father-in-law, two mothers-in-iaw,
three mothers, two "a Tiers, two daugh-
tiers. one son, one daughter-in-law,
one son-in-law, one granddaughter,
and there are only six persons in the
family.
The bird which Roger Chew cap
tured in the Court-House yard is not
a hawk, but streX pratincola; and
feeds on coleopterous insects. 1t has
a face resembling the Didelphis Nir-
! giniana-a genus of marsupiate car
niyorous mammals: but it hasn't a
prehensile ail.-Free Press. It's some
thing between an apteryx and meg
atherium, we suppose.
At a recent meeting of Samaritan
Lodge, No. 80, |. o. o. F.. located at
Leetown, the following officers were
installed for the ensuing term: Jos.
Wageley, n. g.. Charles E. Jones, v.
G.; Geo. II. Ramsburg, Secretary
John j. Ramsburg, Treas. j. Chap
man, Chaplain Ben. F. Wageley'
w. John T.. johnson, Con. Geo. ID.
Johnson. 0. e.; VIM. Ramsburg, l..
ID. S. Snyder, II. S. to n. g.; John
Lindsay, l.. s. to n. e.; II. b. Homar,
r. 5. to V. g.; Philip Lindsay, l.. ).
TO V. q.
Once there was grocer named
Berry. He sent in bill before 1t was
due. The person who received the
bill wrote in reply as follows: Here
a pretty null, Berry you have sent
in YOUR bill, Berry, before it was due
Berry. Upon my feelings you rasp,
Berry, YOUR father, the elder, Berry,
would not have been such goose,
Berry. But you needn't look so blue,
Berry. for don't care straw, Berry,
and if Won write again before June,