Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-04-18
BRIEFS.

Mrs. Martha Hunter, of Martins
burg, widow Of the late Hon. Edward
p. Hunter and mother of Major
Robert w. Hunter, died Sunday last.
Miss Ella Fordyce, musical instruct
ress at Shepherd College, will give a
free concert in College Hall next
Thursday evening. The public is in
vited.
Mr.. Jas. H. Langdon, well-known
merchant of Berryville, Va, and a
former citizen of this county, died at
his home in that place last Friday
night, aged about 81 years.
The Ladies' Auxiliary to the Y. NJ.
G. A. will give sociable in Billmyer's
Hall next Tuesday evening. There is
no risk in prophesying that it will be
an uncommonly pleasant affair.
A party of unsteady inclined young
gentlemen from Charlestown visited
Shepherdstown last Monday night
and made some very sweet music on
our streets in the sma' hours. Come
again.
And now the Charlestown Free Press
is justly indignant that the Pan
American Congress passed though
that place recently inheralded. The
Charlestown people get to see hardly
anything.
Towner Schley, the fertilizer agent,
has Just gotten in carload of spring
fertilizers-for corn, oats, vegetables
etc.-which is stored in j. W. Ker-
ney's warehouse. Persons desiring
these goods can obtain them at that
place.
Master Will Myers, son of Mr..
James NJ Myers, was struck in the
eye by the handle of a well-windlass
the other day and was pretty badly
hurt. But the people asking what
was the matter bother ed him more
than the pain.
Mrs Ann Locke, widow of the late
Elisha Locke, who was one of the no.
ted California ''forty-niners, died
suddenly at her residence at the
White house Spring in this county,
last Saturday morning of pneumonia,
aged about rs years.-.Spirft.
Ex-Shcriff j. G.. Hurst, DR.. r. V.
Daniels and Assessor Charles Trail, OF
Harper's Ferry, visited Frederick,
Md, last week, for the purpose OF
taking notes concerning several in
dustries which they would like TO see
duplicated at Harper's Ferry.
Mr.. s. w. Lightner has at last pur-
chased the Harper's Ferry Mill prop
erty sure enough. A number of men
are at work cleaning out the flood
trade marks, and Mr.. S. says he will
have that mill running before
great while or break a trace.-Hdr'
per's Ferry Sentinel.
The Abingdon (Va) Vuginian an
nounces that Mr.. Thos. H. Mason, late
managing editor of the Charlestown
Democrat. will become the editor and
manager of that paper, which has
been sold to joint stock company,
with the view Of establishing in
Abingdon a first-class publishing
house.
The Beaver Creek correspondence
of the Hagerstown Globe of Monday
contained this item: "A number of
gypsies encamped for few days In
Mr. Jonas @. Huffer's barn and leav-
ing saw fit to appropriate his best
horse blanket. After leaving his
place they inquired the road to Shep-
herdstown.n
Our friend Mr. Edwin c.. Engle
showed us a queer sort OF an egg the
other day. 1t was an ordinary hen 5
egg, with a handle to it about two
inches long. 1t had soft shell. If
MIR. Engle can succeed in developing
a breed Of chickens that will. regularly
lay eggs with handles to them his for
tune is assured.
Mr.. Harry Wintermoyer and the
other members of the REGISTER force
were sky-larking after office hours
last Friday evening, when the above
named young gentleman accidentally
sent a stone through the glass front
of Mr.. j. l.. Richards store. For
tunately for him, it was the glass
that had been broken before, so the
damage was slight.
Tuesday evening by some means
steel hammer got into the stone
crusher on the Shepherd turnpike,
and the result was pretty bad break
in the machine. Repairs were tele-
graphed for, to be expressed from
Chicago. The pike is completed TO
the finger board woods, and a con-
siderable amount of work has been
done between the woods and town.
The company that has been boring
for coal near Ganotown, this county,
pulled up root and branch and ship
ped their apparatus back TO New
York. They have expended
about S2,45O in experimenting, and
we regret TO say that they accom-
plished nothing, or, at least, to en-
courage them 10 continue the WORK
The shaft is 700 feet deep.-Ndrtms6'rg
Independent.
Says the Martinsburg Statesman
1--WE learn from reliable source that
there is quite number OF good
farms in this county which Will not
be farmed this year, because renters