Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-08-26
BRIEFS.

gan, Grand Secretary, Gerardstown.
We thought there was law against
swearing on the public street, but it
seems that there is not, judging from
the amount of it which is done right
on the most crowded portions of the
streets in this town.
Mr.. Geo. II. Ramsburg, County
Superintendent of Free Schools, will !
hold another teachers examination
on Wednesday, August 81, in Charles
town, beginning at 8 a. ILL., Appli-
cants for certificates are requested to
attend.
There will be four legal holidays for
the last four months Of the present |
year, one in each month, viz: Labor
Day in September; Discovery Day (of
America) in October; Thanksgiving
Day in November and Christmas in
December.
a western editor says: This week
we have taken in potatoes and pickles
on subscription. Now il you will
bring in some vinegar for the pickles,
and some wood to roast the potatoes,
we can live till artichokes get big
enough TO dig"
The ladies' aid society OF the Re
formed Church at Kearneysvile will
give a lawn festival in the school
house yard on Friday and Saturday
evenings OF next week, September I'd
and 81. The public are cordially in
vited.
While shooting mark with party
of friends at her home near Hancock
the other day, Miss Clurie Bowles re
ceived painful though not serious
injury from being struck near the eye
by bullet that glanced from rock.
1t Just made another beauty spot.
The trotting and running races at
Shenandoah Driving Park, Berry
vile, last Wednesday and Thursday,
attracted large number OF visitors
from adjacent sections of Virginia,
West Virginia and Maryland, aud
some fine horses were put upon the
! track.
Last Saturday the Surbridge Bi
cycle Company was Incorporated
at Hagerstown by r. g. Surbridge, OF
Martinsburg; Martin l.. Main, Of
Westminster; Frederick A. Baker,
S. Milford Schindle and Cornelius l..
Keedy, of Hagerstown. Capital
stock $4,000
Mr.. p. A. Wilmer, who has been
school examiner for Washington coun-
ty, Md, for "a years, has been deposed
from Office by the present board,
which elected Mr.. Frank w. Mish to
the position. Mr.. Wilmer will not
give up the place until he is compelled
by the courts.
Some very meaniy disposed person
poisoned Mr. John Quigley's fine Cor
don setter bird-dog, Mack, last Friday
night. The poor animal suffered
tortures, and finally escaped from its
ward and ran out to Mr.. Dandridge's
place, when 1t died. Mack" took
first premium at Morgan's Grove last
YEAR, and was valuable animal.
Injudicious indulgence in cooling
drinks of q spirituous character is re
sponsible for many of the cases OF
heat prostration. The cooling drink
is fascinating, but deceptive. 1t cools
for a short while only, and the ac-
cession OF heat afterward is very I'M
comfortable. The cumulative effect
of many spirituous cool drinks Is
dangerous, and occasionally fatal.
Mr.. Hunter Swan, of Haltown, was
struck by passing freight at the b.
a. o. station at CharleStown, last Fri
day morning, and had both legs cut
off from which death resulted three
hours later. He was, it is supposed,
sitting by the track waiting for the
train. and had lapsed into an uncon
cious condition. He was aged about
thirty-fve years, and leaves wile
and two children.
When a young married woman goes
home to her folks on visit, and her
husband writes that he is lonesome
and won't she please hurry home, her
relatives abuse him and call him sell
fish. But il be tells her not to hurry
home and that he is getting along all
right, they say he must be up to some
mischief and plant so much suspicion
in his wife's mind that she takes the
first train home to investigate.
Get your gun ready. a swindler Is
abroad in the land, Offering box con-
tanning 80 pieces OF soap for a dollar,
, and he gives as prize rubber door
mat with the initials Of the purchaser
on if He delivers the soap, which Is
fraud. and promises to deliver the
,,et as soon as it can be manufactured
viii, the owners name on, collects
the .1oi,sr and vanisEes TO be seen nc
=, more.
Saws the NaEtinsburg HoTtd' a
sad illustration # woman's inhdeht!
is found right hen, in Martinsours
On Tuesday night Ii t husband
found upon his return, h. uh:aitqt"
wife with two young men o. his city
sharing the comforts of his Eolne
Hearing his approach the wrec,'Hr'
of his domestic happiness decampe"'
both leaving their hats behind one
was afterward recovered the cine
+ the righteous indignant HUSBAND
5 seized and burned in efiigy'