Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-06-23
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Neghborhood and Elsewhere.

! has contracted for the shipment Of
! forty carloads of coke daily to an Hi
nois steel company.
DIR. James Logic has sold his farm
of 167 acres, near Halltown, this coun-
! ty, to Jacob Sites for $50 per acre.
He paid S34 per acre for this farm
few years ago.
| Ninety-nine students were enrolled
at Shepherd College the past year.
| 1t is believed that the attendance the
coming year will be much larger than
it has been for long time.
Fifteen carrier pigeons were brough-
from Carlisle last Sunday and liber-
ated at Shepherdstown. After cir
cling around awhile the birds struck
a Decline for the north and home.
a good rain is greatly needed. The
hot sunshine has baked the earth
very dry, and vegetation is showing
its effects. The crop of early pota-
toes will probably be very short
one.
Mr.. Braxton Davenport, son of Col.
II. g. Davenport, of Charlestown,
won the prize of thirty dollars in gold
for the best essay on the subject,
What was Shakespeare's religion, 'at
the West Virginia University last
week. The prize was offered by Mr..
IL. =. Mcmahon.
The ladies of the Southern Metho-
dist Church of Uvilla, will hold So
ciable on July l4th and 18th, after
noon and night Soup, ice cream,
confectionerieS, SC, will be served.
The proceeds are TO aid in improving
the church at that place. Thepublic
cordially invited.
The numerous breaks in the Cam at
the cement mill below town has had
the effect of making the water in the
Potomac very low here. The water
power of the cement mill amounts to
very little, and steam has to be used
to run the mill. There is some talk of
repairing the dam.
Mr.. Joseph w. Kerns and Miss Rose
l.. Grantham, of Middleway, were
married in Hager.town last Thursday
by Rev. +. II. Delk. The groom was
able to get his bride out of Middle
way and into matrimony only by hav-
ing her concealed with neighbors for
several days, aud thus thwarting the
watchfulness of the parental eye.
According to the yearly custom,
Huntsville Distillery was closed Sat
urday, pending repairs. There are
many repairs to be made, and the es-
tablishment will probably remain
closed until about the middle Of Sep
TENDER. About one hundred hands
are temporarily thrown out of EN-
ployment.-Ma,tmst,Ug World.
Rev. 5. w. Owen and several young
ladies and gentlemen from Hagers-
town were in Shepherdstown Monday
evening to select site for n camp on
the charming Potomac. They will
pitch their tents at the Big Spring a
short distance above town, aud it may
be satisfaction to them to know
that they have chosen just about the
prettiest place within ten miles.
The wheat has ripened very rapid
~ the past week, and some farmers
will make a start at harvesting today
or tomorrow. 8y the first of next
week harvest will begin in earnest.
1t has Leen discovered that in some
localities the wheat is considerably
damaged by scab, some fields showing
a great number of blasted heads. 1t
is believed, however, that the crop
will be a fair one.
For what appears to have been a
very trivial cause last Sunday night
Charles Dorsey, u colored youth, hit
Sam Turner also colored, in the fore
head with IL rock, inflicting a deep
and ugly cash and knocking Turner
in>ensible. Dorsey was placed in
Jail until Monday morning, when, af
ter hearing the evidence of the com
plainant, Mayor Ray fined him $500
~ woman was at the bottom of it,
The Sharpsburg correspondent of
the keedvsvile Record tells how
COW belonging to John II. Snavely,
farmer residing near Sharpsburg, was
MIXED regularly every day by n six
foot black snake The COW was OBJ
served to stop at tree in the lane
and below, when the snake would
come ont and have a milk shake
please The performance was
watched by some boys, who in turn
told Philip Lum, who climbed the
tree and shot the snake. This will do.
Daniel Weaver. a farm hand of Mr..
Joseph Martin, four miles north of
Hagerstown, committed suicide Sat
urday morning by hanging himself i'll
Martins barn. lie mad been III Ill
health for long period and was sub
jet to the deepest fits of melancholy.
He complained of feeling unwell in
the morning and did not 90 to the
field, but lay down on the hay NOW.
When the other hands came home
about noon they found him suspend
ed above the NOW, rope about his
neck and fastened to the purline in
the rafterS He was about twenty
years of age.
The special compensation that has
for nine years been granted the West
ern Maryland Railroad for running a
fast mail train will be discontinued
at the end of this month. President
Hood saws that the company will