Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-05-06

The Ladies' Auxiliary to the Y. NJ
| G. a. will have meeting in the Asso-
! citation room on Friday afternoon,
May 18th, at O'Clock. Officers are to
be elected, and all the members are
urged to be present.
A writer in the Charleston Gazette
suggests TO ex-confederates the pro-
priety of erecting monument to the
memory of Stonewall Jackson's
mother, whose remains are buried in
! Fayette county, this State.
In the distribution of the estate of
the late Henry Shepherd, Esq, Mr..
Henry Shepherd has taken the hand
some town residence as part of his in
heritance. He moved into his new
home from the Lower Farm this week.
Messrs. Baker & Son, formerly of
Emmittsburg, Pa, have opened
bakery in the Show building on Main
street, and run a wagon daily through
/ the town with bread and cakes. This
is home industry that should be
patronized.
4 matter Of interest to all house
keepers is the fact that the Diamond
Match Factory has bought up all the
smaller Establishments in the East
with but few exceptions, and COM
bined to raise the price from 80 cents
to 81. 40 per gross.
The April number OF the Reformed
Church Visitor, published by Rev.
j. \. Hoffheins, Of Martinsburg, is Il
particularly interesting one. 1t con
tains a biographical sketch of Rev
Daniel g. Bragonier, at one time pas
tor Of the Reformed Church in Shep-
herdstewn.
Mr.. Henry Shepherd last week
brought from New Orleans all alligator
about a yard long which he gave to Mr..
Robert Gibson. After edifying the
people for few days in the drug store
window, the alligator blasted the
hopes Of its owner by turning on its
back and dying.
On June 4th, decoration day, the
ladies of the Town Hail Association
will have dinner for the public, and
in the afternoon a matinee in the
town hall, when Prof. Arthur Hawks
will give the "Deestrick Skule' per
s. L., . h.. lff-oN ~
berry festival will be held in the town
hall
DIR. ID. w. Border will lecture on
The Ten Tribes of Isreal," at kear-
neysville, w Va, in the y. NJ. G. a.
building, at o'clock Friday night,
May 9th. The lecture is to be given
for the benefit of the Ben Franklin
Lyceuln." a silver collection will be
taken up at the door. All are cordi-
ally invited TO attend.
Mr.. Charles h. Myers, who learned
telegraphy in the railroad office at
Shepherdstown, and who now has
position with the b. & o. Railroad at
on April Goth to Miss Margaret Math-
ews His fellow operators presented
the bride and groom with hand
some china set, and many other pres
ents were received.
The members of the Town Hall As
ISOLATION are requested to meet the
home of Mrs. X. W. Reynolds on Sat
urday evening, May eth, at 8 o'clock.
The object of the meeting is to make
arrangements for dinner and straw
berry festival to be given on decora-
dav. All who are willing to assist,
whether members Of the association
or not, are invited to meet with them.
Last Saturday, in the vicinity of
Mr.. w. H. Il. Lewis residence, on the
Shenandoah river, a carp was caught
which only lacked three inches of
being a yard long, and weighed 224
pounds. The fish was dressed and
sold, by the boy who caught 1t, at
10 cents per pound. This was the
nearest approach to whale catching
that we have heard of lately, and
starts the fishing season amid APP
plause -AdrOcate.
The storm that passed over this
section last Monday afternoon was
very severe west of us. AT Cherry
Run sixty bents of the trestle APP
proach on the Maryland side TO the
bridge being built by the Western
| MARYLAND Railroad over the Potomac
river at that point for connection
with the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
/ road were blown down. Thirty work
men went down in the wreck. One
man was killed and a number injured.
We are informed that Maj. {. II.
| Knott will not be Il candidate for re
| election to the Senate. This is but
/ confirmation of our understanding
several months ago. The Free PreSS
I has not been delinquent in expressing
it's appreciation of the worth OF Maj.
/ Knott as a legislator; but just now
we will say that we heard, few weeks
ago. a very prominent man of this
State -one occupying a position that
gave him opportunity to observe and
| to know-speak in high terms OF MAJ.
Knott's efficiency and zeal in legisia-
tive work at Charleston.-Ch drleStoWn
Free Press.
DIR. S. Weir Mitchell, of Philadel-
phia. is the author of very interest
ing serial now running in the Century
Magazine, entitled characteristics. -
/ n, NJ. lo.;laS hoipu a IA lpnted