Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-06-05
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the debt on the Episcopal Chapel.
We hope that all who can will fur
nish flowers for the soldiers graves
on Saturday. This tribute to the
memory of brave men is asked for on
ly once a year-let it be a generous
one, worthy Of the occasion and our
people.
The Valley Land and Improvement
Company has sold to a New York
syndicate the famous Luray caverns
for S125, 900 cash. 1t has also sold
several tracts of its land for so, 900
and is negotiating the sale Of the Lu-
ray Inn at handsome price.
Hage rstown has been filed with
visitors this week attending the an
nual meeting of the Dunkards, and
it is estimated that from five to ten
thousand strangers are in the city. A
number of persons from this place
have been over.
Decoration Day at Antietam Gene
terry did not attract as many visitors
as usual to Sharpsburg last Saturday,
nor were the services as interesting
as they generally have been. The
address was delivered by Rev. a. w.
Pilhower, of Boonsboro. The Shep-
! herdstown Band furnished the music
a certain young lady of Shepherds
town pretty nearly caught bass re-
Gently that weighed about forty
pounds, more or less. She was
drawing the fish out of the water,
when turtle grabbed it by the tail
and pulled on it so hard that the line
broke and it got away. We can give
names, il necessary.
Mr.. Charles b. Rouss has given
81, 500 for the erection OF an iron fence
around Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Win
chester, Va 1t includes the Stone
wall Cemetery. in which over four
thousand Confederate dead, from
every Southern State, are buried Mr..
Rouss's parents and a son, who re-
Gently died in New YORK, are buried
in Mt. Hebron.
! VIM. Pope, a young man aged 10
years, left Charlestown for his home
at Middletown on Thursday evening
last on a mixed train. When a few
miles above Winchester, whilst stand
ing upon the top of a box car, his
head came in contract with an iron
girder of bridge and he was instantly
killed His body did not fall from the
car.-Free Press.
Mrs Patty Meade, the wife OF Rev.
DIR. w. H. Meade, formerly rector OF
Zion Episcopal Church in Charles
town, died suddenly Wednesday night
of last week in Roanoke, and was
buried Friday afternoon at Charles
town, Rev. Dallas Tucker and Rev.
Osborne Ingle, of Frederick, Md,
officiating. DIR. Meade has many
friends in this locality who deeply
sympathize with him in his affection.
There is to be a new departure in
the style of government greenbacks.
They are to be made with not quite
so much engraving on them ard thus,
it is hoped, less easy to successfully
counterfeit. 1t would seem that such
a change ought to work just the other
way, but it is claimed that there is so
much on the present greenbacks that
! the eye gets confused more readily
and is less able to detect counterfeit.
You had better be careful to whom
YOU show courtesy in Cumberland.
The other night editor \. V. Doug
lass, of the Keyser Tribune, politely
offered to assist a lady-a fellow pas
senger Oh a train-with her baggage
from the cars to the hotel, when he
was arrested by an officious police
man, thrust into Jail, and finally fined
$50. Mr.. Douglass is naturally very
indignant, and he proposes to make
it warm for somebody.
Col. VIM. a. Morgan left on Tues
dav for Moundsville with Fidinger,
Fry, Weller and Allen, the four boys
who have been in the Jail at Charles
town as witnesses in the Souders case
since the last term Of court and who
were brought from the penitentiary
in February to give their evidence.
| Col. Morgan took as deputies MIR. j..
f. Hunter, one of the penitentiary
guards. and Messrs Lee Moler, Daniel
Morgan and Chas l.. Barnhart.
During the past week two colored
men of this end of the county have
subscribed for the REGISTER, and
this reminds us that most of the in
telligent and well-to-do colored men
of this section are prompt-paylnS
subscribers and interested readers OF
this paper. Some of them who can
not read themselves take it for the
benefit of the children, and say they
consider newspaper good eduea-
tor in the family.
A small band of Gypsies camped IN
"Colston's meadow got into a row
"Wednesday over game of cards and
some carving and shooting was done
One fellow lost part of his lip, we
understand They were arrested by
Sergeant Kahn and brought before
hi. honor, Mayor Brown, and fined
$500, after which they divided
property and separated. One fellow
took the horse and left, the other got
the wagon and still stays Chdrlesto'cn
AdvOcate.
\ colnred man in the employ Of DIR.