Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-09-01
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our NeIghborhood and Elsewhere.

the prevailing dizziness in the build
ing trades that lessened the demand
for lime. The shutdown, it is said,
will be but temporary.
Mr.. George Turner has bought of
Messrs. w. j. and A. NJ. Shepherd the
Entler tract OF land in the neck that
they recently purchased. He paid
$500 cash for the 262 acres. 1t adj
joins Mr.. Turner's and.
The examination of teachers at
Charlestown last week showed that
good work is being done at Shepherd
| College State Normal School in this
place. Every one of its graduates
got No. certificates. About forty
teachers were examined
Capt. w. Frank Landers, formerly
general agent of the b. n o. Railroad
at Cumberland, and who now resides
near Martinsburg, has been appoint
ed, through Senator Faulkner, to a
special inspectorship in the Interior
Department at salary of about
$4,000 per year.
Mr.. II. c.. Getzendanner and party
of friends caught $40 cells in the Shep-
herd fishpot Tuesday night. Mr.. Will
Tubman, of Washington, had agreed
before they were caught-to carry
all the game up the hill to the house.
He didn't carry out his contract,
though, by good deal.
Mr.. Joseph Shaffer, of Martinsburg,
left few days ago for Stratford, On
tario, to see his brother, Mr.. i. NJ
Shatfer, L. 5. consul at that place.
He received telegram from his at
tending physician saying his illness
was serious and but little hope was
entertained for his recovery.
At the tournament at Inwood fair
last week Scott Grant, knight OF Win
chester, won the first honor and
crowned Miss Rosa Myers queen;
! Wright Morgan crowned Miss Edna
Ridgeway first maid of honor, and
Marshall Payne crowned Miss Kate
| Stewart second maid of honor.
Antietam Post, No. II, SharpsburS,
Md, will hold a monster campfire on
the Antietam battlefield from Sep
| TENDER 18th TO 18th, covering the an
niversary OF the battle fought on Sep
| TENDER Us, 1862. Prominent men from
Maryland and elsewhere will be pres
ent and take part in the proceedings.
The Charlestown correspondent of
| the Baltimore american says that some
! time in September the Young Mems
| Democatic Club of Charlestown will
give banquet in that place to Con
gresham Wilson. NicePresident
Stevenson is to be there, and a long
list of distinguished Senators and
| Representatives.
| The new brick pavements in front
of the properties of Mr.. Philip Barn
hart, the Southern Methodist par
sonage, Mr.. J. 5. Bragonierand j. w.
Seibert have been completed, and
material is on hand for that in front
! of William Wells's house, making
fine stretch of new sidewalk along
that part of New street. Mr., George
Turner has also had Il new pavement
made in front of his dwelling on Main
street. Let the good work go on.
When flies become troublesome in a
house they can always be expelled by
a very simple mixture. n hall tea
spoon Of black pepper finely ground
should be mixed with double the
quantity of brown sugar and the COM
pound moistened with cream. The
flies will generly eat greedily of this
mixture if placed where they can get
it. but it will be their last meal, for
the least taste of it is to a fly rank
poison.
An important change of schedule
will be made on the Norfolk & West
ern Railroad on Sunday. The schedule
has not vet been officially given out,
but we understand that the mail
train due here at II a. IN. will come
three hours earlier, arriving about
s o'clock-a very desirable change.
/ Train No. G, now due at 52S a. m,
/ will arrive about :, and train No i,
due at S.44 y. H., will reach here
about D. III. The new schedule
promises to be much more convenient
for our people than the old one.
Samuel Seal, the lumbermsn from
near Luray, Va, who was accidental
" shot by Gordon Davis at Charles
town on August 18th, hasso far recov-
cred as to permit of his being remov-
ed to his home. His physicians state
that his case was very critical, ana
one from which few patients would
have recovered, but, owing to his SUI
perior strength and vitality, he was
enabled to survive The ball has
never been located, but it is certain it
entered his abdomen, and, it is
thought, passed through his liver.
The Board of Public Works of West
Virginia has finished its assessment
of the railroads in West Virginia, and
the rates are considerably higher than
those of last year. The total valua-
ton of the Baltimore 4 Ohio, lnclud-
ing the Parkersburg branch, the Win
chester and Potomac and the various
small branches owned by the Is. y
O., is IS, 100, 1885, %; of this sum Jeffer-
son county is assessed with S515,6G9,
Berkeley S4S4, 466, and Morgan $751;
Gil. The Norfolk & Western is as
sessed at S2,977, $50, of which S25S, 9S1