Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-07-28
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that Happening in
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere.

and placed In order, VIII be held on
Saturday, August 18th.
a spark from a locomotive on the
\. Il. w. Railroad set fire to the stub
bic int field belonging to Mr.. William
Butler last Satur day and about fifty
bushels of wheat in the stack was
burned.
Mr.. Benjamin Trapnell will be in
his Office in Shepherdstown on Tues
days and Wednesdays of each week
during the month of August. The
balance of his time will be spent at
the Charlestown office.
Mrs. Susan NJ. Glenn, wife Of Capt.
James w. Glenn, died last Thursday
at her home near Shenandoah juno
ton after an illness of several weeks.
She was buried at Charlestown on
Friday. Her age was ca years.
Roy Kohler and Michael Hammond,
two little boys of Hagerstown, ran
away last week, starting for the
Worlds Fair. By the time they got
as far as Clearsprine, and had slept
one night outdoors, they got enough
of tramping and returned home
Capt. Lee II. Moler's horse, BLACK
Prince the famous old dog trotter,
died natural death a few days ago
at the advanced sSe of 80 years. He
was faithful old horse \ mare be
longing to Capt Moler broke its leg
somehow one day last week and had
TO be killed
The Lutheran picnic at Morgans
Grove last Thursday was a great sue
cess. The day was an absolutely per
feet one, and the large crowd present
enjoyed themselves thoroughly. y
short programme of exercises was
held, consisting Of an address by the
pastor, Rev G. II. Hockey, music, etc.
Provisions were SO plentiful'that even
after the small boy was filed basket
fuls of fragments were left.
The REGISTER narrowly escaped n
heavy loss 10y the fire in Hagerstown
last Sunday. Two thousand copies Of
the Morgans Grove fair book, printed
here, had been sent 10 Hockman's
bindery to be bound, and the fire and
water got so close to them that Il doz-
Ell or so copies were damaged. One
room of the bindery was badly
wrecked by fire and water, but the
fair books fortunately escaped.
Mr. NJ. Z. Snavely has purchased
of Mr.. Jacob Slime five acres OF land
lying near Antietam battlefield for
the Ninth New York Veterans As
ISOLATION, known as the Hawkins
| Zouaves. This regiment took an ac-
tive part in the battle of Autietam.
\ handsome, large bronze monument,
which is now ready, will be erected
on the plat and dedicated with ap-
propriate ceremonies ON September
l..
According to an exchange, there is
one editor in heaven. How he got
there is not positively known, but it
is conjectured that he passed himself
off for a minister and stepped in un-
suspected. When the dodge was dis
covered they searched the realms Of
beauty in all their length and breadth
for lawyer to druw-up the papers
for his ejectmeut, but they could not
find one. and of course the editorheId
the fort
The deputy sheriff of Montgomery
county. Md. was in Shepherdstown
one day last week in search of a per
son charged with being one of several
men who assaulted young colored
girl on a caualboat recently, from
the effects of which she died in hos
pital III Washington soon afterward
lie did not find the man he wanted,
although he found an important wit
ness. The crime is said TO have been
particularly brutal one.
Joseph GilTem, OF Samples Manor
over in Washington county met Il
frishtful death last Friday afternoon
While at work along with a number
of fellow employees in an ore mine,
the bank caved in upon him, crushing
hin beyond recognition. He died
instantly. The young man was
about eighteen years of age and was
an industrious youth. The condition.
of his body was of such character
that ne had to be buried the next
day.
The other day u resident OF this vi
cinity went to the bank to get ten
dollar bill changed. Cashier Harrl-
son gave him for it a five-dollar bill
aud five silver dollars. The old gen
tleman declined to take the silver,
saying that he had heard that silver
dollars were only worth forty odd
cents. and he didn't want that sort Of
money. Mr.. Harrison obligingly
gave him five oue-dollar silver certi-
licates in places of the other money
aud he departed contented.
Mr.. Howard Allen, second son of
Mr.. Owen Allen, died at the residence
of his parents, near Summit Point,
last Saturday. after brief illness OF
congestion of the bowels. Mr.. Allen
had been residing in Ohio for year
or two. and was on visit to the pa
rental home. He was a bright, prom
ising young man of about % years OF
age, and his untimely death casts
gloom over a large circle of friends
and acquaintance, who admired him
for his manly virtues and loved him
for his worth.-SpirH
4 GIRL i'm Martinsburg recently found