Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-01-30
BRIEFS.

time.
Three or four colored boys got into
scuffle one night last week that
ended in free fight and many wicked
threats. Sergeant Show escorted the
disturbers of the peace to Mayor Lem
en-, who imposed fines and lodgings
in the jug"
Mr.. Alex. Bennett, Of this place,
who has been running as freight con-
ductor on the n. & W., has been pro
NOTED to be yardmaster at Shenan
doah. He will remove with his
family to that place from Hagers-
town in the near future.
Mr.. Jacob A. Myers, OF Sharpsburg,
butchered his four big porkers which
weighed respectively 527i, o27t, 5473
and 549t pounds; total, 1852 pounds;
making in all, with the four he killed
before Christmas, 4211 pounds. he
ought to be able to worry through
the winter.
president Eddy, of the Nor
folk and Western Railroad, says his
company is going to make vigor-
Gus effort to get New England farm
ers to settle in Virginia to engage IN
wheat growing. He has great faith
in Virginia as a wheat producing
section and wants grain farmers all
along the line.
The Harpers Ferry Sentinel says
that detective arrested two men in
that place last week on the charge OF
robbing a hardware store and jew
elry tablishment in Baltimore.
The men were put in the corporation
Jug" but Friday night they broke
the lock on their prison and skipped
by the light Of the moon.
The first fresh fish Of the season
were in town on Wednesday. A Bal
timore firm consigned lot to the Emf
Ter Hotel without an order, and OF
course Mr.. Trussell refused to receive
them. Then Express Agent Bsrnhart
retailed them out at 10 cents pound.
They were called dinner fish" and
were an unfamiliar variety here.
st. Nicholas" for February has
been received from its publishers,
the Century Co., New York. This
magazine is the best periodical that
we know OF for boys and girls, and 1t
ought to be in every home where
there are children. The most in
teresting article in this number is the
completion OF the story of the Golden
Fleece, by Andrew Lang.
Rumor has it that the Herald and
Torch, of Hagerstown, the paper
largely controlled by Mr.. Charles w.
Adams, the doorkeeper of the House
OF Representatives, will pass into the
hands of a stock company and be
converted into a morning daily.
Hagerstown, with a population OF a
little over IL 200, will then have four
daily papers Cumberland Timer.
Postnaster-Gene Wanamaker
has kindly sent us a copy of his last
annual report, for which we return
thanks The report contains many
interesting statistics concerning the
mails. But what we would like to
know is why it takes three days to
get mail matter from New York and
Philadelphia when the trains make
the run in from six to ten hours.
Mr.. j. Shirley Smith, formerly OF
Charlestown, was here last Saturday
in the interest Of the Beckley Mar
BILE Company, Of Fincastle, Va. He
had some magnificent specimens OF
marble with him from the quarIies
owned by the company. Stock is be-
ing solicited for the development OF
the property. and Mr.. James W..
Kerney will accommodate anyone who
| desires to take stock.
About 0 o'clock Monday morning
Col j. q. Sperry, an old and highly
respected citizen Of Botetourt county,
| Va, was run over at Cloverdale by a
| Norfolk 4 Western south-bound pas
senger train and killed instantly. He
was about seventy years old, very
deaf, and did not hear the train as it
Numbered along in his rear. Motto
ing some children in front OF him run
rapidly from the track, he looked
around, and in a second was killed.
| He leaves a widow and several chill
| dren.
In the circuit court at Martinsburg
last Thursday Judge Duckwall SEN
fenced Harry Holman, a 17-year-old
boy from Baltimore, to one year In
the penitentiary for burglarizing the
store of James NJ. Billmyer at Van
| clevesville last November. The Judge
was so much affected that he burst
into tears, but his sympathy seems to
| have been wasted, for as he was leav-
ing the courthouse Holman struck
his companion, Harry Duvall, and
knocked him down. Duvall, who
was but IA years old, had turned
States evidence and thus infuriated
, Holman. The next day Holman was
taken into court again and sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary.
II the plans now under considsra'
ton are carried out without any
hitch, the banquet TO be held in
! Charleston, this State, on February
12th. will be q fine affair. 1t is to be
given to the Worlds Fair commits
sioners, members OF the Legislature,
representatives OF the press and the
leading capitalists aud manufacturers