Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-09-02
BRIEFS.

is desired.
Quite a number of our people went
to Williams Grove this week to at
tend the great grangers picnic. The
train Wednesday morning was about
three hours late, and occasioned some
little profanity.
A three-year-old child of James
Leonard, Of Bunker Hill, Berkeley
county, fell in the mill race and was
drowned. The child was found about
five minutes after falling in but too
late to save its life.
A young country editor fell in love
with the clergyman's daughter. The
next time he went to church he was
rather taken back when the preacher
announced his text: my daughter
is srievously tormented with devil. -"
John Allen Legge and John Rey-
nolds combined forces last Thursday
evening and gave a very delightful
entertainment to their youthful
friends at Mr.. Legge's. A large num-
Der of little folks had a most happy
time.
The ladies' aid society of the Re
formed Church at Kearneysville will
Civ a lawn festival in the school
house yard on Friday and Saturday
evenings of this week, September I'd
and Sd. The public are cordially in
vited.
The public schools of this county
will mostly begin the fall term next
Monday. In Shepherdstown district,
however, they will not commence I'M
til September 18th, as it is utterly use
less to try to run the schools during
fair week.
There will be concert in the town
hall on Thursday evening of next
week. The Martinsburg orchestra
will take part, rs well as number OF
the unsteady inclined people Of that
place. Prof. Smith, of Frederick, will
also assist in the performance.
Thompson & Tabler, the Martins
burg clothiers, are alwas in the front
rank. They have already gotten in
their fall suits and overcoats, and
their advertisement in this week pa
per tells all about them. Thompson
& Tabler have big trade from this
Sc elton.
Sam Jones was pretty rough on the
preachers at Harrisonburg in his
speech on Wednesday, declaring
that they had been preaching for
years and had saved very few if any
souls. He declared that if he had
h.hed there that long, without catch
ing anything, he would either go to
another fishing ground or change the
bait.
Last Thursday team of horses be-
longing to Mr.. j. ID. Derr and MIR.
Melvin Ronemous got frightened at
the cars at the station and broke
loose. They slashed around the
streets for awhile, splitting the con-
tents Of the wagon, but Mr.. Derr's
horse finally fell down and ended the
fun. The wagon tongue was broken
to pieces.
A big break occurred in the Chesa-
peake Il Ohio canal at Antietam Iron
Works, about three miles below Shep-
herdstown, last week. The break oc-
CURED at the corner of the aqueduct
over Antietam creek, and was about
90 feet deep and 50 feet wide. AS but
few men could work at the break at
first the repairs were necessarily slow.
Mr.. VIM. Il. McQuilkin is having
barn built on his farm near the Mar
tinsburg road, now occupied by MIR.
TAYLOR Wilmington. 1T is to be AZ
by IS feet in size. Mr.. Jacob Derr and
his able force of carpenters are doing
the work, and Messrs. Phillips, of
Charlestown, are furnishing the lum-
Der. The raising" will not take
place until after Morgan's Grove fair.
Charges have been filed at the post
office department by prominent ke-
publicans of ChariestoWn, against MIR.
). IL. Higginbotham, postmaster at
that place. They set forth that in or
der to get the position he claimed to
be n veteran Of the late war, and rep
resented that he served in Pennsyl-
vania regiment. when such was not
the fact. We do not understand that
any charges against his efficiency are
made.
The Hagerstown Fair directors met
Tuesday and ordered that a confer
ence of local boards of directors, edi-
tors and railroad officials be held on
the Fair Ground OH Thursday, Sep
TENDER 10, at o'clock p. H.; that five
complimentary tickets be sent to
each member of the local boards and
five each TO the Baltimore daily pa
pers, and that complimentary tickets
be sent to the different agricultural
societies.
The John Brown Fort Company,
of Washington City, has given an
order to Mr. Jefferson Schloosberg, a
local artist, for an oil painting OF
Harper's Ferry, as it appeared at the
time of John Browns raid in October,
1859. The painting will be twenty
one feet long and twelve feet high.
and when completed will be placed
ON exhibition with John Browns
Fort. in the companys building on
Wabash Avenue. Chicago.
rx+o,s;ya rapairs are being made