Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-01-22
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number OF West Virginia editors are
sick with it.
The Supreme Court Of Appeals OF
this State is in session at Charleston.
All the judges are present-Judge
Lucas presiding.
Mrs. Nancy Willingham, an aged
resident Of Duffields, died at her home
in that place last Sunday morning,
aged about 80 years. The funeral
was held on Tuesday.
Avery pleasant party was held at
the residence OF DR.. 8. NJ. Knott the
other night, when the young people
Of that vicinity were gathered to-
gether for charades.
We are indebted to our friend, Mr..
Harry c. Nicely, OF the old and reliable
hat firm OF Eli Keen's Sons, Philadel-
phia, for favors OF a very pleasing
and substantial kind.
At an oyster supper in . New Jer-
sey town the other night . woman
found a pearl worth $4,000 in her
plate Of oysters. That's the way to
make oyster suppers popular.
The Berkeley Republican is the
name Of a new paper to be started in
Berkeley Springs. The Neps and the
Mercury, it seems to US, cover the field
pretty thoroughly already.
A party from Keedysville recently
went seining in the canal below Dam
No. 4, aud in one haul, with a hun
dred foot seine, caught 81 bass and
o. her fish. Good luck, but it's against
the law.
Mr.. Jonathan Thatcher, one Of the
oldest citizens OF Berkeley county,
while attending the funeral Of a neigh
bor's daughter last Sunday morning,
| suddenly fell over and died in about
fifteen minutes.
The Court OF Claims last week rem
dered judgment in the sum OF $50. 657
| in favor Of the Winchester and Po-
tomac Railroad Company in compen
sation for the use OF the road by the
government during the late war. ----
The new Merchants and Farmers
Bank of Martinsburg last week elected
the following directors: J. w. Bishop,
N. d. Baker, E. L. Hoffman, John
Kennedy,S. N. Myers, j. H. Gettinger,
j. E. Boyd, G. P. Matthaei and VIM
H. Kilmer. Mr.. Bishop was chosen
president.
The county Of Berkeley, the town
Of MArtinsburg, the B. & o. Railroad
and the street car company are en-
deavoring to come to all agreement
by which Queen street will be carried
under the railroad tracks by means
OF tunnel The improvement will
cost about $4,000.
Mr.. r. NJ. Huyett writes to the
| REGISTER from Miami, Mo-, that the
thermometer there indicates weather
10 to Is degrees below zero, and that
| the ice on the Missouri river is 10
inches thick and still freezing. We
think we'd prefer the old Shenan-
doah Valley to that country.
| There will be a stereopticon enter
tainment and lecture by Rev Dallas
Tucker in the Episcopal Chapel at
Shepherdstown next Tuesday night,
under the. auspices of st Andrews
Brotherhood OF Trinity Church. The
| entertainment will be free. but ad-
mission tickets will be required ut the
| door.
There was a big fire over in Mid
dletown Monday night. The large
brick tannery building occupied by
the creamery company and by Thomas
Shorb and G. A. Gross as Il carriage
shop, with the shedding and stabling
on the premises, was burned TO the
ground. The loss is over 1000, in
surance 200.
| Monday will be a great holiday in
1892. Washington's Birthday falls
on a Monday and so does Memorial
Day. The Fourth Of July 10 billed
for q Monday and Labor Day will
also be celebrated on Monday.
Christmas is set down on the calen-
dar for Sunday and OF course will be
celebrated on Monday.
| Attention is called to the new ad-
vertisement Of Washington l. Alex
ander, the insurance agents at Charles
town. on the second page OF this is
sue. They represent the best COM
panies in the United States and Eng
land, and have always been noted for
the prompt and satisfactory manner
in which they adjust losses.
Petitions are circulated in Bruins
wick, Md, asking the legislature to
repeal the act Of 1890 Incorporating
the town, with a view to keep the old
town OF Berlin under its formt r name
and outside the corporation. The
object OF the movement, it il said, il
to remove the prohibition against
the sale Of liquor in the town which
now exists.
Mr.. C. n. Lloyd, OF the Bloomery
neighborhood, who has been in a
state elaboration Of mind, consequent
on la grippe, for few days past, wssar'
rested by the authorities Tuesday
and locked up. 1t is reported he
burned his stable on Monday, and
lust before arrest manifested dis
position to Larm himself and others.
Free Press.
Mr.. Samuel Michaels, an aged and
| ,u.n Lnaun citizan Of this county