Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-04-01
BRIEFS.

Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, when
decisions in several cases will be an
nounced.
There will be public speaking at
Chariestown this Friday evening at s
O'Clock, when Hon. William l.. Will
son will deliver an address. ADemo-
cratic club will be organized at that
time.
No town OF the size Of Charlestown
in the Valley can boast of more ex-
ecrable street crossings.-Aduoeate
We have them just as bad in Shep-
herdstown-but we don't boast of
them.
Little Miss Lucy Beltzhoover cele-
brated her seventh birthday Wednes-
day afternoon by giving party to
about twenty-five OF her youthful
friends. The children had delight
full time.
Miss Lalla Harrison, of Leesburg,
Loudoun county, Va, has been select
ed as the most beautiful woman in
Virginia to represent the old Common
wealth as one of the thirteen original
States at the Worlds Fair at Chicago.
Mr.. Cruger w. Smith, of Charles
town, will deliver u bible lecture be-
fore the st. Andrews Brotherhood,
in Trinity Episcopal Church, next
Sunday at o'clock. A full attendance
of the Brotherhood is requested, and
men generally.
We understand that there is con-
siderable alarm in Charlestown on ac
count of several fatal cases of diph-
iberia that have occurred there with
in the past week. Mr. and Mrs Robert
II. Phillips lost three children by the
disease, Emma Lee, aged nine years.
died on Wednesday,; Robert. aged
three, on Friday; and Jennie, aged
six, on Sunday.
A certain Shepherdstown man who
Keeps bachelors hall, and makes up
for the lack of family by keeping
plenty of chickens in his room, broke
the molasses jug the other day and
allowed the pool of sweetness TO re-
main on the floor. In about ten min-
utes seventeen little chicks had gotten
stuck in the sticky stuff and We're
held fast. 1t was a funny sight to see,
but it was no fun to get the molasses
off of the chicks.
There is considerable complaint,
says an exchange, among the farmers
in some couu les of the State, that
their sheep are infested with small
lice. They say the sheep are losing
their wool and many lambs are dying.
If your sheep are not doing right, eX-
anime them. 1t may be that they are
the same way Here is the remedy
that is given. Simply make a decoc-
ton from tobacco stems or leaves and
dip the sheep in it.
After very earnest municipal cam
paign, the Democrats made a clean
sweep in Hagerstown on Monday,
electing DR.. j. Nc. p. Scott by 167 ma
jority. The colored candidate for
council wa. defeated by 62 majority,
though his ward was strongly Repub-
lican. The people also voted on the
question whether or not 500, 900 should
be appropriated to drainage and
street Improvement. There was a
large majority in favor Of the appro-
priation. Half Of this money will be
spent on the streets and half for drain
age.
At the investigation before the com
mittee from the Maryland House of
Delegates regarding the present
management OF the canal, Mr.. F.
Mertens, said; The condition Of the
canal to-day is as good as before the
freshet Then we had 100 boats on
the canal; now we have 80 boats ready
to load. | built IL boats last year,
and have contracted for 45 boats to
be completed by August. The boats
which we will have by May will de-
liver 262, 900 tons. In tonnage on coal
alone the canal should take in $l52,-
600. | think the canal ought to be
operated so as to yield a profit of s52,-
900 over and above expenses"