Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-09-16
Briefs.


expected.
The corn crop in this section will be
about two-thirds of full crop, &C
cording to information we have.
Considering the great drought that
prevailed so long, the farmers are
thankful that they have this much.
The body of the late VIM. H. Fay
man, which had been in the vault at
Elmwood Cemetery since his death a
couple OF months ago, was on Tues
day taken to Columbia City, Indiana,
where it was placed in the family
burying ground of his wife's kinsfolk.
Nothing has been done yet to i'm
prove our mail facilities. The mail
lies in Hagerstown about three hours
in the morning, waiting until the N.
u w. is ready to start it southwark.
y star-route from Kearneysville or
the junction would give us our mail
two hours earlier.
Mr.. w. G. Yeaton, of Parkersburg,
was in Shepherdstown and attended
the fair last week, with the purpose
of arranging for an exhibit of agricul-
| tural products at the Worlds Fair in
Chicago next year. He rightly thinks
that Jefferson county should be in
the front place in West Virginia's eX-
hibit.
Melvin Jones recently found in the
| Potomac river near the cement mill
below Shepherdstown gun Of the
year 1862, loaded and primed. 1t was
supposed to belong to the Pennsyl-
vania Corn Exchange Regiment. The
| wooden stock is very much decayed
1t was purchased by Oliver II. Reilly,
of Sharpsburg, who has added it to
his collection.
Mr.. j. n. Trussell, proprietor of the
Entler Hotel, has bought new
vehicle for the transportation of his
| guests from the depot to the hotel
and for livery purposes 1t is hand
! some and comfortable carriage, far
superior to the usual country bus,
and Mr.. Trussell's guests will APP
preciate it we are sure. The vehicle
was purchased from Wysong & Schop-
| pert.
In 1859 Mr.. William Cunningham
offered Mr.. Geo. Seibert $50 per acre
for the farm now owned by Mr.
Aquilla Janney, OF Failing Waters
district The farm is now we'll i'm
ton, yet after twenty years of Repub-
lican protection Mr.. Janney is will
ing to sell his farm for less than $50
per acre. This is good object lesson
of how tariff benefits the farmers
NortiHsbIrg H0temaR.
Governor Fleming has issued
proclamation recommending that
Friday, October 21st, the four hun
dredth anniversary OF the disc overy
of America, be observed as a general
holiday, and that there be held in all
the schools of the State such apprO
pirate exercises as will impress upon
the minds of the rising generation
the progress Of our race, the grandeur
of our country, and the opportunities
and duties of American citizenship.
The Supreme Court of Appeals for
West Virginia met in regular session
in Charlestown last Wednesday, with
all the judges, Daniel b. Lucas, j. w.
English, Henry BrannOn and II. a.
Holt, present. The following cases of
local interest are noted J. NJ. Mason
VS.. Harper's Ferry Bridge Co., from
Jefferson county dismissed, agreed.
y. II. Swayne's executor, vs.. II. X.
Riddle, from Jefferson county; ar
gued and submitted. Joseph Trap
nell ct al VS.. Jas. III. Conklyn ct al,
from Jefferson county; argued and
submitted
Sunday morning George Wallick,
Young farmer, whose home was sew
eral miles from Funkstown, Md, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in
the head with shotgun. His body
was found on the outside Of the house,
near a window, and from the position
of the gun it is supposed he held the
weapon with its butt between his feet
and that he pushed the trigger witha
stick which was found close by. He
was about thirty-five years old and
leaves a wife and two children. He
was Just recovering from an attack of
typhoid fever and his mind must have
been somewhat affected.
Little Minnie Stuart, aged about
ten years, daughter OF Mrs. James
La Rue, met with terrible accident
on Tuesday afternoon. She was play
ing beneath the b. u O. trestle, near
the telegraph office here, while above
her some workmen were repairing
the track. a heavy adze fell through
the trestle and the child beneath was
struck in the top OF the head by the
sharp blade, which cut a horrible cash
clear through the skull. She was
carried TO her home, where she is now
receiving surgical attention and it is
hoped that the wound will not prove
fatal.-Harper's Ferry Sentinel
POISONING Case IN Washington County.
A dispatch from Hagerstown to the
Baltimore Sun of Wednesday says:
"A paculiar DOisOnin0 case has Just