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

A Heroic Innovation.
We have just looked upon the
neatly engraved wedding cards of
Miss l. W and Mr. E. G..
j married in Christ Church, Win
chester, Va, April 10th. We read it
with composure, as nothing unusual,
until we came to the startling an
nouncement, engraved with unmis-
taxable distinctness-no presents
We forgot everything else and
gazed on those two words with won
der and admiration. "Wonderful, I'M
precedented woman. We bow be-
fore you in the deepest alteration !.
Nav your married life be long and
happy. You are the pioneer in the
era of regained responsibility.
Louisville, when stricken by the de
vastating cyclone, instead of crying
aloud for help said she would help
her own sufferers and wanted no out
side aid. This new couple announces
tnat tneN Will start Ill Oh NIIdl llitN
can buy, and not wish their wedding
cards to be considered as hints to
friends to set them up III housekeep-
ing. Bridal presents are getting to
as great a nuisance as flowers at a
funeral and it is high time some
body should call a halt. We have
often seen notices at funerals : no
flowers = but mo presents at we'd
dings, never before. Who will follow
next? Don't all you brides speak at
once All hail, Mr.. j. and Miss w.
A man who married Nanderbilt.s
daughter persuaded her to lock up
the presents from public view, and
all the wellbred social world applaud
ed. This bridal couple are not Van
derbilts, but they must be of the
best stock of the "Old Dominion.
To them, again, thrice hail !-Hagers-
town Globe.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02
SPRING CLOTHING.

New STYLES, new cloth effects in nncst
American and English makes. These are The
kind We are running on now, while the small
er concerns are tinkeflng win WINE.
NreigbIs piling up new things where the old
ones used To be. Already our stock OF
SPRING CLOTHING L. we'll nigh complete
livery day adds something new, anu the az
creation is beautiful and extremely choice.
No gentleman can fancy any thing inner
Progress in the art OF tailoring has raised
the standard. while competition pulls down
the price. Hence, you can ouy from ten 10
twenty per cent less than You could last
SPRING Take time To look through orr
SPRING CLOTHING and see wnatyou think
OF IL. DO II this week
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02
This Will Interest You
II You Want Nice, Fine Suit Of
Clothes, call on the
.M Clothing u. 'i 's'Iar!'''gs,
Jacob WintermOyer!

lie II now Just getting In bls large and WELL
selected stock OF Spring Clothing for men,
boys and childTen-the largest variety Of new
goods ever brought 10 this town-and we
want everybody To come and see them. Pri-
ces will interest you, and all We ask IL for
you 10 try us. and We Will convince the clos
estibuyer that clothing bought at the Boss
Clothing House IN cheaper than you can buy
anywhere. We sell no shoddy goods. our
prices are the lowest. and we give the value
for the money.
We say. buy your goods at home and save
money. We buy our goods for each. aud only
goods Of standard reputation, and from the
most reliable houses. Our stock IL large ana
the selections the best. our prices are lower
than you will ind anywhere. and we give you
every advantage you can obtain In any city.
our line OF
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02
Children's Novelties for Spring

Were opening things IN juvenile apparel
from the leading juvenile tailors OF both con-
tiuents. SCHOOL SUITS predominant just
now, and as we clothe the largest percentage
OF school children IN this section, we carry
an enormous line OF SCHOOL SUITS. bura-
blltty Is their highest recommendation. The
toughest boy viii mud IL a hard task To tear
nur I'InDl
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad has
recently granted the demands Of
their employees at Pittsburg for an
advance OF wages. giving the day con
ductors. -. - and night conductors
-. 80. The. day brakemen will be
paid 50 50 and the night men % 20,
ten hours to constitute IA day 5
york
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02
Tho Circus IS Coming.


The show of VIM. Main 4 Co. will
exhibit in Shepherdstown on Tues
day, May 18th. Here is what the In
diana pa Times says of it:
The circus troupe of VIM. Main x
Co. exhibited in Indiana on Tuesday
both morning and evening, to very
large audiences. This is the old style
show with all the modern additions.
ANY one that couldn't get twenty
five cents worth of amusement out OF
it must be short ofappreciation. The
acrobatic, trapeze, slight of hand and
other performances were marvellous
ly interesting throughout, and kept
the audience convulsed with laugh
ter. The minstrel concert at the
close was excellent, and gave general
satisfaction to all. ut was better
than Barnum and Forepaughs com
bined for fun" was the remark ofsev-
eral young ladies.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02
ReHqioUS Notes.

neiyIO0s
1t is thought that two new Bishops
will be elected at the general confer
ence of the NJ. f. Church South,
which meets at st. Louis on May 6,
one of whom will be from Virginia.
The General Synod of the Reformed
church will be held in Lebanon, Pa,
on the 2Sth of May. Several ques-
tions of Importance will claim its at
tention, among which are the new
Hymnal, the foreign and home mis-
sion cause and the new constitution.
The Virginia Chassis Of the Reformed
Church will meet at Woodstock on
Nav 14th. Rev. Geo. q. Everhart and
Mr. ID. S. Rentch will represent the
Shepherdstown Church at Chassis.
\ class of fourteen persons were
confirmed in the Catholic faith at
Shepherdstown on Wednesday by Rt.
Rev Bishop Van de Vyver, of Virgin
ia. They were Larry Wright, Mich
ael Wright Remington Wright, Her
bert Osbourn, Samuel Hodges, Will
lis Hodges, Mrs. f. McChan and Ger
trude Spohn, of this vicinity Stella
Highberger, Will Hishberger, Robert
Myers and Thomas Myers, Of Sharps-
burg George Mckinney and Daniel
Mckinney, colored, Of this place.
At a meeting of the Y. N. G. a. of
Shepherdstown last Friday evening
the following officers were elected for
the ensuing year President, y. 5.
cambridge; Vice President, j. f. AL
len Secretary, John Edwards ; Treas
urer, b. S. Pendleton; Correspond
ing Secretary, f. |. Lee.
The first quarterly meeting for Shop
herdstown Circuit, M. f. Church
South, will he held at Unionville
May Sd and 4th Preaching on Sat
urday at II o'clock by the Presiding
Elder, Rev. Rumsey Smithson, i'm
mediately after which the quarterly
conference will meet. Preaching on
Sunday morning at II o'clock by Rev.
! II. +. Carson, of Winchester
The Northern Methodists will erect
a church in Roanoke to cost $4,000.
Rt. Rev Bishop Van de Vyver con-
firmed class of sixty persons in st.
Peters Catholic Church, at Harper's
| Ferry last Sunday.
At the session of the Baltimore
Presbytery, held on Tuesday of last
week, the congregation of the Fred
erick city church, which had been
cited to show cause why the pastoral
relations between it and the Rev.
| VIM. l.. Ould should not be dissolved,
reported against the dissolution, but
Mr.. Ould insisted upon resigning and
the presbytery permitted him TO do
so. He resigns, he says, in the inter
est of peace and harmony, though
DIR. VIM. H. Purnell, a ruling elder of
the Frederick church, spoke of him in
the highest terms. The resignation
is to take effect the second Sunday in
May, when the pulpit will be declared
vacant.
The Baltimore Presbytery last week
adopted the majority report favoring
a revision of the Confession of Faith.
Announcements for Sunday have
been handed us as follows.
Services in the Lutheran Church on
Sunday at 1890 u. H., and Sunday
School missionary exercises in the
evening at o'clock.
Services will be held at Unionville
at II a. III. and at Bethesda at $50 p.
III. by Rev. j. II. Van Horne.
Services in the NJ. +. Church at
Mt. Wesley at II a. H., and at Shep-
herdstown at p. LII.
No services in the Presbyterian
! Church.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02
Please Read!
q THEN VISIT %
w. p. LICKLIDER'S.

nUR stock OF Spring Goods IN now opened
" and marked at prices TO suit tie times.
We sell low. and II viii pay any one To come
and spend their cash with us as We give YOU
value received. We are the largest dealers In
China, Glass aud Crockery. buying from the
best houses In the city. aud eau supply your
wants d. this line with the best goods for
the least money.
When you need shoes. come aud s"e how
cheap We sell them. An sizes and kinds for
the youngest To the oldest.
Now IN the time for gardening. Get your
Garden seed and Tools from us. All fresh
and new.
And there are lots Of goods In Hardware
and Woodeuware that we sell very cheap.
Don't forget our Notions, Table OH Cloth,
Hosiery, Overalls. Gloves, Suspendcrr and
above all our large line Of wbitewash
Brushes aud Bruoms.
our Grocery Department Is full OF choice
groceries OF every dcst riptIon. Fruits In sea
ton, also a choice line OF Tobacco aud Cigars.
Come with your cash, Potatoes, Bacon. Lard
and Eggs, aud deal with
w.P. LlCKLIDER.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02
To Make New Blood Good for Old People.

cd and infrm persons need some mild
tonic or gentle stimuIant, especially in warm
weather fhe wine made in New Jersey by
Mr.. Speer. called Speer's Port Wine, makes
new healthy blood by reason OF the iron III
the soil. II is used 10y the most eminent
physicians and in hospitals a. the best tonic
wine known. Speer's Claret Is also regarded
as the purest.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02
Our Custom Tailoring.

Now the time Is here that you are thinkins
about having "a SPRING SUIT made TO order.
We hope your thoughts Will turn towards our
model departments of ARTISTIC TAILOR
ING. our facilities for the production OF
nrst-ciass made Ia order garments cannon be
surpassed. lou'ii md our display of correct
MkANES all that could bc desired. ana
priccsa fourth less than you'd have To pay
any exclusive merchant tailor IN our city.
Therefore OUR CLOTHING is first.class In
every. detail a. workmanship and hnish.
We ARE manufacturers, which tact enables
us TO recommend the clothes We sell.
4 null line OF
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02
NECK WEAR
AND
Gents Furnishing Goods

~ all new. and have my doubts whether you
Will md a nicer selection anywhere. have
every thing IN the Gents FuTulshing line
that men or boys need. and they are al
cheap. have just gotten h.. Another line u
TRUNKS, right from the manufacturers,
which viii be sold low. something Sew il
the roller tray truDk-tbey are i5e most sale.
sblc ana desirable trunk made.
win many thanks 10 all Of my friends and
customers FOR their past fayors, ! ask a con-
tlnuaDcs OF the same Ia the future. Keep us
in mind when you want a genuine Dsrgnin.
Remember the old staDd-COllsgs hquaIs.
JACOB WIS1EkaOGEK,
The Boss Clothing Man.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02

wanted-A good appetite. You can have i
easy enough by taking Hoods Sarsaparilla
IL tones the digestion and cures sick head
ache.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02
Beschley,
Tailoring is an Art.

HagerstoWn's live merchant, always had tbs
name Of being the leader IN 4Ow prices 1'
and see.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02

The Domestic Sewing Machine j. the bes
I'm the world, for sale only az Beaehieys-
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad to be Sold

The Shenandoah Valley Railroad to be Sold.
In the City Circuit Court at Roam
oke, Va, the case of the Fidelity In
surance Trust and Safe Deposit Com
pane of Philadelphia VS.. the Shenan-
doah Valley Railroad Company,
which has been pending five years,
was disposed of, and a decree will be
entered directing the sale of the road
to satisfy claims aggregating SD, 75l,-
S64. including interest to July |, 1890.
The claim of the general mortgage
bondholders for Sl,560,0 900 of first
mortgages deposited with the Fidel-
ity Company as collateral security
for general mortgage bonds, although
resisted by counsel, was sustained, as
was that of the Central Improvement
Company Of West Virginia for S77l,-
38S. 60 1t is thought the road will be
by the Norfolk and Western Compa-
ny.
As indicated in Thursdays Herald,
Judge Blair, of the City Circuit Court,
rendered decree in the cause of the
Fidelity Insurance, Trust and Safe
Deposit Company VS.. the Shenan-
doah Valley Railroad Company, au-
thorzing the former, as trustee, to-
gether with A. Moore, Jr., special
commissioner, to sell the road a an
entirety, after advertising the time
and place three months, two times
week, in papers published in New
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore,
and once week in papers published
in Roanoke, Charlestown, w. Va,
and Hagerstown, Nd. Speculation is
rife az to who will purchase the road
many thinking it will be sold to the
Norfolk & Western, while others say
Col L. l.. Boyce will buy it.-Rodnoke
| Va) Times.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02

IfyOu want nice suit 81 clothes ana al
very low price, Beachley's u the place.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02
IT'S EXCELLENT QUALITIES

Commend to public approval the Cal
ifornia liquid fruit remedy Syrup Of
Figs. 1t is pleasing 10 the eye and
TO the taste and by gently acting on
the kidneys, liver and bowels. it
cleanses the system atTectually. there
by promoting the health and comfort
of all who use il.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02

William Lambert, the richest col
ored man in Michigan, committed SUI
icide by hanging, last Sunday night,
ut Detroit. He was great TREND OF
John Brown.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02
Corrected weekly by c. T. Hodges.
SHEPHERDSToWN MARKET.

sEngcrsIoND Business Locals
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02
Ladies'. Misses and chadrens

Coats aud Wraps, the largest stock and best
assorted in the city. see before sou boy, AZ
f5eachleys, Public square.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-11-14


Mrs. Thomas G. Platt receives many
more letters than the ex-senator. Most
of them come from unfortunate and i'm
pertinent people, who want everything
a mortal can want. Money is the gen.
eral demand. Other supplicants want
assistance in getting employment, pro-
motion or transportation. Some want
autographs; others politely ask for let
tiers of introduction to the families of
the cabinet officers president or senators;
others beg for sufficient influence to get
a precOciOus son or aspiring daughter
admitted to an educational dramatic or
musical organization.
Among the requests for material aid
are calls for books, old clothing, second
hand furniture, wash boards, tubs, type
writers and toys. She is asked to sign
leases, buy stock, advance capital, take
subscription books, purchase poems,
stories. pictures and souvenirs, and go
security for rents, household supplies,
tuition and dry goods. The commune
cations from institutions and charitable
organizations asking for contributions
are only exceeded by the demands of
the cranks. Nine out Of every ten let
tiers read, although stranger to you,n
etc.-New York World.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-11-14

1t has about been decided that million
dollar art gallery shall adorn the Chicago
lake front and that Professor Marquand,
now president of the Metropolitan muse
um at New York. shall be its presiding
genius. But broad expanse of water
still covers the ground on which its
foundations will have to rest. Elated
with their success in securing a dual
site, the local directors have undertaken
to raise a cool 800, 000-independent of
the capital stock, the bonds and the gov
eminent subscription-for the purpose
of filling in the forty-four acres. I'm
fortunately the same spirit of patriotism
did not animate the would be contract
ors, for when the bids were opened the
other day they We're found to range from
% to go per cent. above the amount in
question. Hence the breaking of ground
or rather the breaking of water-hangs
fire, and it will remain so until a con-
tractor is found who is willing to bring
both his patriotism and his profits with
in the stipulated limit.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-11-14
Smiled i'm French.

The late Judge Noyes had remarka-
BILE voice. 1t was the voice of man of
fine physique, and its owner used it as
slillfully as trained elocutionist
Judge NOyes' voice was of remarkable
timbre, and it was wont to be his boast
that give me an audience of 10000 peo-
pie in the open air, and III make every
one of them hear" When Gen. Moves
was minister to France his great voice,
round and musical rs note from a
bronze bell, was the marvel Of the
French people.
Lew Rosen, the playwright, was in
Paris when Gen. Noyes came to repre-
sent the great republic at the French
capital, and was engaged as French tutor
for the American minister's family
Gen. Noyes had difficulty in learning
French, and freely confessed it. One
day Mr.. Rosen called upon Henri Mar
tin, the famous French historian, and
in the course of the conversation he
mentioned Gen. Noyes difficulty in ac-
quiring French. "Ah," said the great
writer, "Gen. Noyes does not need to
learn to speak re French language; he
smiles re French language. Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-11-14

A man stepped up to the delivery win
dow at the postoffice Saturday night
and in a savage voice said: See here.
you fellows, want my money back.
You can't fool me this way" What's
the trouble?" inquired the clerk. wal,
hired one of your gosh burned boxes
most two weeks ago and have not got a
letter since had it; but see most 'er
the other fellows that has boxes gets
somethin in theirs. Give me back my
money. | say 1t was useless to argue
with him, So the clerk told him there
had been some mistake, and if he called
around later he would find something in
the box. He went off satisfied, while
the clerk filled the box with patent med
icine circulars. Belfast Age.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-11-14
THE OLD CLERK.

Az he bends DER the ledger that shining old head,
Which reflects every mood of the sky,
While he stealthiy blackens the figures In red
CThe mistake Of an age bedimmed eye),
Oft wonder how time will effect his release,
What he'll do when vote him too Slow"
Tween the days that his use and his heart beat
ings cease
Where will the old clerk go7
One can learn of the temperate days that are gone
From the rolingpin rule and quill PEN
And he answers to Toby at Il
As he answered to Toby at 10
From its first infant struggles, to credit and
wealth,
He has watched the great enterprise grow
But his hand trembles now-he is broken in health
Yet-where can the old clerk gof
II each pound Of success had but left him grain
What nugget of rest he might own;
But a lonely old heart and weary old brain
Are his need for the years that have flown
Every blossom he loved in the heyday of life
Has been withered and lies meath the snow;
And cen memory's barred from this hustle and
strife
Then where should the old clerk go'
That the world has heart none will seek to deny,
And it softens, It's said, year by year;
At the end of full many walk we espy
Golden promise of comfort and cheer.
"Theres a sweet little cherub' that steers poor
old Jack
To a "harbor" where storms cease to blow;
But when drops for the last time the pen on its
rack
Where can the old clerk go!
Thomas Frost in New York Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-11-14
Wheia Is She?

Where is that "divine perfection of a
woman" entitled 1.-THE loveliest of her
SEX" to be found? There THERE
There shout nc end of enamoured
bachelors each pointing at his hearts
idol. The husbands are less enthusiasts
tic, for it isa lamentable fact in aesthetics
that matrimonial familiarity modifes
very materially the ante-nuptial opinions
of the parties implicated with respect to
each other But almost every unmarried
man with malleable heart knows or
has known some woman whom he re-
CARDS or has regarded as 1.-THE loveliest
of her SEX"
Yet the superlative is ridiculous, for
the simple reason that there exists no
absolute standard of womanly beauty.
The sculptor who shaped the Medician
Venus thought he had bined all the
rarest physical charms of the sex in that
remarkable work of art, and yet we have
heard it criticised as too short, too tall,
too plump, too thin. etc. ETC.; and six
foot-four Vermonter who went to Rome
to perfect his taste in vertu recorded in O
visitors register" there the unsenti-
mental dictum that the figure is pretty
good, what there is of it, but there isn't
more'n half enough" SO that even the
statue which. we are told, "enchants the
world" is not everybody's paragon
New York Ledger.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-11-14

Few people probably realize how rare,
OFFICIALLY speaking is a really perfect or
normal eye among human beings. Out
of 200,0 900 persons examined by German
oculists only one was found who had
normal vision, and he, strange to say,
saw nothing, as the generality of man
kind see things. A star, for instance, to
him was perfectly circular figure, with
no radiating points, and he seemed to
be incapable of recognizing lines and
projections essential TO many geometri-
cal conceptions.
May not the myope and astigmatic
comfort himself, therefore, with the re-
Election that his vision, if in the strict
sense defective, has compensations not
to be lightly disregarded? Is it not bet
ter to see things in Il picturesque way,
with harsh outlines softened and with
variations in curves and angles in har-
mony with ones sense of beauty, than to
be held rigidly to the letter of nature
and so find the external world an affair
of blank monotony?-Boston Beacon.