Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-01-16
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1891.
BRIEFS.

SIaTItO
John n. Flynn, a Hagerstown
iereler, has failed in business.
The hunters are still a-huntin2, but
there's not much game to be gotten
now.
The County Court meets February
Oh and the Circuit Court February
10th.
Figures will not lie, but the female
figure will fool a man once in a
while.
The County Alliance will meet in
Charlestown Saturday morning at
10 o'clock.
The beginning OF Lent falls this
wear on February 18th, and Easter
March Goth.
The u. s. Secret Service has issued
a circular stating that a counterfeit
90 note is being circulated.
Mr.. Cyrus Helfenstein, bright
young newspaper man OF Frederick
Md, i. dead, aged % years.
Mr.. Jacob Z. Thomas, q former res
ident Of Hagerstown, has leased the
Baldwin House in that place.
Don't forget that the REGISTER of
fee can and does print the finest sale
bills in this section Of the State.
Both the Potomac and Antietam
Cement Works, near this place, have
shut down work for the winter.
DIR. |. s. Tanner recently received,
and declined, an offer of $500 for his
handsome young black stallion.
While cutting down tree rear
Kearneysville Benjamin Hart got
caught and had one of his legs brok-
en-.
Mr. T. NJ. Conner, Of Harper's
Ferry, has sold his nne horse Blue
Dick" to Mr.. e. s. Cummings for
$3.50.
The town authorities of Sharps-
burg have fixed the levy at Is cents on
the hundred dollars for the current
year.
The good luck OF the editor OF the
Charlestown Advocate continues. de
has another addition to his family
a boy.
jefferson Encampment No. 80, |. o.
o. F., holds its banquet this Friday
evening at the Watson House in
Charlestown.
Mr.. Joel HORNE, former residen'
of Martinsburg, dropped dead last
week at Jefferson, Md, while cutting
ice. He was 80 ears old.
Sixty tons OF hay belonging to
David Slower, over in Washington
county, were destroyed by an In.
cendiary fire the other night.
Two improvement companies have
been organized at Martinsburg. One
has purchased 1000 acres and the
other 500 acres OF land near the town
Last Sunday was a wild day-rain
falling in torrents from early morn
ing until late in the afternoon. The
churches had very slim congregations.
Senator FaulIner's family is grieved
over the death Of pet pony. The
+ ony caught cold while being ship
ped from Martinsburg to Washington
An adjourned meeting of the stock
holders of Potomac Building Associa
ton No. 3 will be held next Monday
evening at o'clock in the REGIsTEF
Office.
Work has been commenced on the
building to be used as canning lac
tory at Leetown. Mr.. James w
Strider will have charge Of the estab
lishment.
Alfred Coil, former resident o
Keedysviile, Md, was killed by b
& o. train in Cumberland, on Mon
day last. He was an employee o
the road.
The ladies OF Trinity Episcopa
Church will hold another OF their so
eiables at the rectory to morrow (Sat
urday) evening at o'clock. Th'
public are invited to attend.
Lost-A sealskin boa, on Sunda,
night last, between the Presbyterian
Church and my home. The hnde
will confer favor by returning Il
me. Mrs. Fannie Chapline.
The railroad company's ise-houss
at Shepherdstown are being fillet
with splendid quality of ice, ob
tanned from lake on the line OF thu
Cumberland Valley Railroad.
DR.. Talmage gets five dollars min
ute for delivering lectures. II some
Shepherdstown people could get five
dollars = minute for talking the,
would have been itch long ago.
One OF the necessities OF the year
the Baltimore Sun Almanac for 1891
has been received from the publisher,
OF that journal. 1t is q book Of 12t
pages OF most valuable information.
The Charlestown Improvement
Company will erect hotel there t
accommodate $50 guests 1t will b .
built on a commanding site a short
distance north of the b. & o. depot.
1t would undoubtedly be paying
investment il some one would erect 6
few houses in Shepherdstown fol
rent at a moderate figure. There il
considerable demand for houses jus,
now.
Mr.. Towner Schley is laid up with