Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-11-27
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ryville last Sunday just after Mr..
Shepherd had driven her there from
Shepherdstown.
Miss Jennie NJ Hill, of Elmwood
Farm, remembered the editor this
week with a fine pair of chickens and
one OF those famous butter ducks
the materials for a thanksgiving din
ner which are most sincerely ap-
preciated.
The Supreme Court, in session at
Charleston, decided last Saturday
in the case Of the State VS.. Workman,
from Boone county, that the law
which prohibits the carrying of weap-
on is constitutional, a fact which had
been questioned in various quarters.
Our esteemed contemporary, the
ClarksbuIg Telegram, is prospecting
splendidly under the management Of
Editor Reed. 1t las just put i'm a fine
new equipment, and begins its 3lst
year better printed and more ably
edited than ever We rejoice at its
evidences Of success.
A crowd of small boys at the Graded
| School created q sensation the past
week by committing some rather
mean ofrenses against the school prop
erty. Unluckily foi them, Principal
Banks captured the entire band, and
after making their punishment fit the
crime suspended them from school for
two months.
y war of determination of English
sparrows will begin in Illinois on the
LIST Of December, when a law passed
by the last legislature, offering two
cents head for sparrows, goes into
effect. The Secretary Of State OF
Illinois is sending out illustrated de-
scriptions of the English sparrow to
every locality in the State.
Messrs. Legge & Reynolds have
| found il necessary, on account Of in
sufficient water-power at certain sea-
sons, to put steam engine in their
Touring mill at Shepherdstown. Last
week 25-horse-power engine, made
by the Taylor Company, of Chambers
burg, was set up, and the mill now
runs merrily day and night. Mr..
| Horace Crow is the engineer
The recent eclipse having been an
nounced beforehand in that excellent
advertising medium, the Shepherds
town REGISTER, a number of people
went TO Shepherdstownfr from Martins
burg TO see it, and were so much
| pleased with the performance that
they are trying to arrange date for
Martinsburg. There can be no doubt
that judicious advertising pays.-Free
| Press
Mr. Chas. b. Rouss has again shown
his high esteem and regard for the
| place of interment of the beloved and
revered dead of this city by authoriz-
ing the cemetery authorities to place
trees around the same, inside the iron
| fence which will soon be erected, and
send the bill to him for payment. 1t
was well-timed in our friend to think,
amidst the cares Of business and ev-
ery-day life, of this act. The trees
will certainly beautify in few years
this sacred spot Winchester Times.
Judge John Blair Hoge has been
holding a special term of Court here
since Thursday last. Quite an amount
of business was transacted. The case
of Cam VS.. Cam, ct al, removed
here from Morgan county, and in
which the dispositions number 479
pages, was heard. The argument was
opened by J. n. Wisner in behalf of
the exceptants, and was followed by
Mr.. Stuart w. Walker and Senator
Faulkner upon the other side, Hon.
! f. BOYD Faulkner making the closing
argument for exceptants. -MaTtlnsburg
Independent.
A crowd of youths in this town
who are quite old enough to know
better-have been behaving for the
past month or two Ill most annoying
manner. They make a practice at
night to violently ring door-bells and
then run away as fast as they can,
so as not to be seen. The cowardly
part of the thing is the fact that they
are afraid to annoy anyone save ell
DERBY women, from whom they know
they are safe. They have been carry
! ing this sort of persecution so far that
! il is time the town authorities should
break it up.
Just about noon on Monday a rather
severe storm with sweeping rain
passed over this section. No damage
was done about here, but at other
places it was extremely severe. In
Washington City large building in
course of erection was blown down,
killing one man and injuring several
other persons Some damage was
also done at the White House. AT
Goshen, Va, the big rolling mill was
blown down. Throughout Maryland
and Pennsylvania many churches
and other buildings were blown down
or damaged.
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