Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-03-18
BRIEFS.

quested to notify US, so that the REG
IsTRR may be delivered to them
promptly.
1t is said that the old Antietam fur
mace property, about three miles be.
low Shepherdstown, on the Mary
land side, has been sold to New York
capitalists.
Judge Faulkner has set the trial of
Harry F. Smooth, for the murder Of
Miss Susie Terrell, for NJ onday, May
esd, at the regular term of the JefYer-
son circuit court.
There are six weatherboarded log
houses in Morgantown, some OF them
built away back in the seventeenth
century.-Horper's Ferry Sentinel. Isn't
this going a leetle too far back.
We hear of much complaint con-
| corning the slowness Of the mails
nowadays. 1t usually takes letter
about three days to go from one
point in this county to another.
Tn. Maddox property was bid up
to S775 last Saturday, when suits
factory arrangements were made for
meeting the obligations against it and
the sale was indefinitely postponed.
The G.. A. r. seems to be taking
The management Of the decoration
Il nf Mt tatA Af at
into its own hands 1t is getting
down to very small fry for orators Oh
that occasion.
Minnie West, a colored woman liv-
ing at Hedgesville, was arrested aud
taken to Martinsburg on charge OF
having given wounds to boy, from
which he afterwards died. She was
held for court.
Mrs. Charles Ghiselin was called
home Wednesday by the sad an
nouncement that her brotherin-law,
Mr.. X. S. Hutchinson, had died very
suddenly Tuesday night at Rock
bridge Baths, Virginia.
Mr.. Win. l.. Reinhart has moved
from the neighborhood of Moler's
Cross Roads to the house on MIR.
Aglionby's place, about half a mile
from town. We understood he will
go into the butcherinS business in
Shepherdstown.
The Jno. w. Gardner "home farm"
a few miles from town-one OF the
best in the county-three hundred
acres at $S7 per acre-has been pur-
chased by Mr.. Geo. w. MARROW, OF
this county, and Mr. w. r. Percy, OF
Frostburg, Md.-Free Press.
Although the time for selling liquor
in Shepherdstown is yet good way
off, we have heard that five saloons
will be opened here just as soon as
the privilege is granted. One or two
OF the delectable Sharpsburg estab-
lishments are to be moved over.
The Shining Stars Juvenile Mission
ary Society OF the NJ. f. Church South
will give an entertainment, consisting
70 dialogues, recitations and selec-
tons, in the lecture room OF the
church thisFriday evening at Z o'clock.
The public are cordially invited to at
tend.
A dispatch from Martihsburg to the
Baltimore American Of Tuesdays says:
Mrs. Gletner, clearinghouse keep
or OF this place, cowhided David We'll.
a merchant, on the street this morn
ing, for having addressed her in words
which she construed as derogatory
TO her character
c.. p. Smith, V. s., OF Hagerstown,
Is again in this locality with very
superior stock horse. This one is
Clydesdale and is in every way typi-
cal OF his breed-low, blocky, stylish
and smooth-of good action and
sweet-tempered. He is pronou need
bv horsemen to be the best OF Ills
class ever introduced in this locality.
The doctor is Offering him at price
and terms most reasonable.
This newspaper has adopted SEIZED
ule OF prices for candidates cards
which will not be deviated from, and
which will be made known TO all in
terested persons. One Of the accom-
panying requirements is the cash
when the card 1. inserted. This rule
will be adhered to in every case, and
we hope no one will ask us to deviate
from it. Communications for the ben
eft Of particular candidates will be-
charged for at regular advertising
rates.
Peter Garlitz, married, and aged
about forty years, drove a wagon al
the cement mills of Messrs. Bridges y
Henderson, near Hancock, Md. Mon
day he WAS engaged III transferring
some stone from II tunnel in hill,
close to the mill AS he approached
the mouth OF the tunnel. without
warning, a large piece OF stating I'll
from the top Of the tunnel, striking
Garlitz squarely on the head. inflict'
ing long and deep cash and result
ing in almost instant death.
Since the opening on Monday al
ternoon OF the special term OF court
Judge Faulkner's demeanor has elici-
ted nom members of the bar and spec
tators of court proceedings express
sions OF satisfaction and confidence
not disappointing those who eX-
pected Of him business-like methods,
all readiness in deciding points OF law,