Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-10-23
BRIEFS.

Die attention next year to the raising
of stuff for the cannery.
Twenty-Five locomotives on the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad have been
equipped with smoke consumers, an
invention Of the superintendent of
motive lower on the B. & o., which
is said to be showing excellent results
so far as it has been tested
The Messrs Knott, who started their
limestone quarries below town some
time ago, have begun the shipment
of stone to Georgetown by way of the
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. There is
a strong demand there for the pro-
duct Of these excellent quarries
The Cumberland Times says Merton
& Sons have laid the keel for new
canal boat at their basin and are max
ing repairs as speedily as possible on
others. There is general demand
along the canal for boats and they
are being loaded as fast as they come
in.
A meeting OF the Ladies' Town
Hall Association will be held this
Friday evening at the home of Mr..
Reynolds, at o'clock. All who are
willing to assist in a bazar to be held
In the new town hall during the APP
preaching holidays are requested to
ha nraoanf thio ,naat;nn
Mr.. Henry NJ. Loyns has moved his
harness shop into his new building,
where he is now very comfortably
nXed and ready for business. The
room, which is divided off into sew
eral compartments by glass partitions,
is finished in the natural wood, and
presents quite a handsome appear
ance.
Mr. Towner Schley, of Shepherds
town, West Va, who did such inval-
liable services in the capacity of mar
shall at the Fair last week and was
here the four days of the event, re-
turned home Saturday afternoon.
! The Fair Association owes debt of
gratitude to Mr.. Schley.-HagerStoWn
! Herald.
Miss Emeline Clark, of Smithsburg,
Washington county, Nd, committed
suicide by hanging herself in the
smoke-house at Mr.. Barney Flory's
residence, where she had been making
| her home with her married sister, Mrs.
Flory. She was forty-five years of
age. No cause could be assigned for
the act. 1t is said she is the third of
her family to commit suicide.
a force of workmen in charge OF
Mr.. o. L. Kemp are at work on the
culvert under the Baltimore Il Ohio
Railroad tracks at Peacher's Mill,
near Harper's Ferry, through which
the county road is to pass. When
this culvert is finished the most dan
gerous railroad crossing in this coun-
ty will be abolished We understand
! that the work is to be paid for Joint
ly by the railroad company and the
! county.
Coffee drinkers will be delighted to
know that the prices of that great
table necessity have fallen. There is
an unusually heavy crop this year,
and growers are putting their pro
ducts on the market in great quaint
/ +;ae Drioas bu ~ a a lras Il ~ ia Hon IL cts
per pound on Rio, and yet greater
decline is expected. The great nerve
regeneration is selling lower than for
several years. New York dealers have
suffered heavy losses in their dealings.
jacob Loose, Il day laborer, living
near the North mountain, had
frightful encounter with wildcat
| Friday. The beast took him un-
awares and clawed his face and arms.
Being man of great muscular
stength he managed to get his hands
around the throat of the animal, and
with all the strength at his command
rescued himself by choking the life
out of the cat His face and arms
were terribly lacerated. MarttnsbUg
| World
Mr.. c.. r. Hardesty had two car
loads Of sheep in a wreck on the b. q
| O. somewhere between here aud
Baltimore the latter part of last
week. Quite large per cent were
! killed and the remainder so badly
crippled and injured that they were
turned over to the railroad company,
who acknowledged their liability
and requested the weigh bills so as
to adjust the damage. The value
of the shipment was between 81, 800
and 81, 900. -Adcocate.
The Harper's Ferry Sentinel says OF
Messrs. Hurst & Trails Peacher prop
erty at the Old Furnace, that besides
a good mill, in which they are grind
! ing frst-class flour, corn-meal, etc,
they have on this land two valuable
paint minerals in large quantities,
plenty of iron ore, and an unlimited
amount of what experts have pro-
nounced some of the finest building
stone in the world. The b. u 0. will
soon Law a branch track to the quar-
nv and the work of getting out the
stone will begin.
Samuel Stride, who lives near James
Snvders warehouse Oh the CheSa-
peake and Ohio Canal, one mile west
of Sharpsburg, on Wednesday shot a
splendid specimen of the bald eagle
near his house The bird weighed
eight pounds and a quarter ana