Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-04-17
BRIEFS.

properly.
The directors Of the Charlestown
Mining, Manufacturing and Improve
ment Company will have its drawing
on the 18th of May, and its sale of
lots on the 18th and 18th.
When you hear the frogs calling in
the evening, and the south wind
blows sweet and mild and fresh, and
the lazy part of your nature tries so
hard to get on top-then spring is
here. That's the way il was this
week.
They say that sugar is just full Of
acarius sacchari, and the Charles,
town Free Press, whose editor has
counted 'em, says there are 28S, 002 of
the creatures in every pound. Some
one ought TO invent a machine TO
sift them out.
Farms over in the Middletown Val
ley are worth something. The Joshua
Ahalt farm, $50 acres, near Burketts-
vile, has just been sold at 500 per
acre, and Elder Ausherman sold his
siXty-acre farm, two miles from Mid
dletown, for 500 per acre.
Mr. George Porterfeld's flock of
sheep was attacked by dogs on Sun
day night last. Six sheep and five
lambs were killed outright and 9th
ers injured so that he will lose about
twenty-five head all told, to say moth
ing of injury to the remainder by
fright.-Spirit,
Mr. T. w. Beale, of Harper's Ferry,
| took drink from bottle which, ac-
cording to the Sentinel, he thought
contained rheumatism remedy" 1t
happened 10 be double extract of am
momia, however, and Mr.. Beale has
the soreSt month you ever heard tell
/ of. He's lucky he is living.
! Ground has been broken at Mar
tinsburg for new Jail with all mod
ern improvements, including u war
| dem residence. Notwithstanding the
railroad scare the city is said TO have
more buildings in course of erection
and larger number of contracts let
! than was ever known there.
Lookout for gang of men travel
! ing about the country making con
tracts for painting roofs. lfthey offer
| to paint your roof for So, or any
price, don't fail 10 ask them how
much they charge for the paint they
put on before you close the contract.
In the price of the paint the fraud eX-
| lists.
S. p. Hulnrickhouse & Son, mer-
chant tailors and gents furnlshers,
are ready for the spring trade with a
mighty nice line of piece goods and
readvmade clothing, besides all the
notions and gents furnishings you
NAV want. There are certain points
that their advertisement in another
column will tell you of.
The Secretary of State has granted
n chatter to the Potomac Building
! Ston. and Iron Company, to quarry
stone mine and manufacture iron,
opera,e blast furnaces, bore for oil
and gas, etc. The incorporators are
Chas +. Keller, G.. b. Moler, j. Gar
land Hurst, Chas. II. Trail and For
est w. Brown. all of Jefferson county.
Mr. Robert Bolts, of the Norfolk y
Western Railroad, and Miss HamOthe
/ Lee Meade, daughter of Rev. Dr. W.
II. Meade, of st. Johns Episcopa
Church. Roanoke, Va, formerly of
! Charlestown, were married at ST.
Johns. Roanoke, last week, by the
father of the bride. Ii was full
dress wedding and one of the most
beautiful of the season.
On Thursday last very large bird
supposed to be blue heron, was
shot by Snyder Bane, near his home
near Charlestown. The bird was OF
a most beautiful blue-gray color, was
5 feet 3 inches high and measured e
feet inches from tip to tip. Its bill
was s inches long, and the legs ana
tins of wings were of dull salmon
color. The bird is not native or
this section, rs 10 old residenters rec
ognize ii.
Otho J. Eaton and Miss Martha f..
Bower. of Sharpsburg, were married
last week, although the lady parents
objected. The father of the bride
then had the groom arrested on a
charge of miscegenation, claiming
that Eaton was nearer negro decent
than the third degree. 1t seems that
Eaton was what is known as a
"swamper." and he satisfied the JUS
flee that he WAS within the lawiui
limit, whereupon he was released.
The postoflice department mas
adopted the new designs for the TWO
sizes of postal cards. There are two
sizes. one larger than the present post
81 card and one smaller. The large
one is manila and the printing on the
address side, including vignette OF
Gen. Grant i'm the upper right hand
corner is brown, while the small one,
which is white and is intended espe'
eially for the ladies, has almost the
same design on its address side printed
in blue.
runaway couple left Shenandoah,
Va, last Wednesday on a \. y W. IL
r train. intending to come to Ha
gerstown and get "spliced.' They
were arrested at Lursy in pursuance
of a telegram from the brides father
They eluded the officers and drove &c