Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-11-08
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things Of Interest that are Happening In
Our Neighborhood and elsewhere.

ken fpolitical dissolution, we suppose.
Every now and then we meet man
who gets mad and stops his paper.
But we have never known one whose
anger prevented him from borrowing
that same paper right straight along.
Rev. G. X. McKaslin, of Harper S
Ferry, will deliver a temperance lect-
ure in the Baptist Church at Shenan-
doah Junction next Tuesday at 7.3O
o'clock, The public is cordially in
vited to attend.
DR.. ]. S. Billings says that the wa
ter supplied to Washington City from
the Potomac river is net fit to battle
in, much less to drink. We think the
doctor exaggerates. Our boys find it
just the very thing for bathing.
The ladies of Bakerton will hold an
oyster supper at Oak Grove School
house on Friday and Saturday even
ings of this week for the benefit OF
Zion Presbyterian Church. The pub
lie is cordially invited to attend.
Mr.. Martin Luther Eichelberger, of
Uvilla, this county, and Miss Ada V.
Brotherton, of Shepherdstown, are to
be married in the Southern Methodist
Church in this place next Wednesday
evening at half-past seven o'clock.
The B. & o. Chicago Limited ex-
press train ran into fast freight train
near Pittsburg yesterday evening,
causing an awful wreck. Six men
were killed and several injured. None
of the passengers was seriously hurt.
Mr.. ]. Frank Legge has just gotten
from Col. John T. McGraw very
handsome young stallion, Of Handle
tonian blood. The horse is beautl-
ful chestnut in color, graceful in his
movements, and has considerable speed.
He is four years old.
Thomas Muck bought the partially
burned house sold by the executive
committee of Shepherd College last
Saturday, paying $50 for it. He will
at once remove the material, using
that whichis suitable for the construc-
ton of dwelling-house.
Friday, November l6, has been des-
ignated as arbor day in West Virginia.
State Superintendent of Schools Lewis
has issued a very interesting pro-
gramme of exercises suitable for that
occasion, and urges the public schools
to use it or some similar arrangement
No family in this neighborhood
should be without the REGISTER, which
is recognized to be one of the leading
papers in this State, Special efforts
will be made this winter to make II
newsier and more interesting IN every
department. We will send the paper
from now until January l, 1896, fol
only $3.50 cash in advance.
&c away from home to hear the
news. Read this from the Hagers-
town Globe. On the Shepherdstown
turnpike, not far from town, there is
spot which is, in the evening, partlcu,
larly dark andsuggestive of "spooks.
1t is not possible to pay negro to pass
the place after shutdown. They say an
Indian was hanged there many years
ago.
Mr.. Geo. T. Light was accidentally
shot in the face by Mr.. Jay Eyster
whilst they were out hunting last
Thursday. Fortunately the hal
dozen or more shot were received low
enough to escape Mr.. Lights eyes, and
beyond quite sore face and the tenn
porary Disagreement of his usual gooc
looks, he is not seriously injured
Spirit.
The tower for the new fire bell ar
rived yesterday, and is being place.
in position in front of the engine-hous'
in the middle of King street. ltI
u feet square at the base and is 81
feet high. 1t is a very light structure
apparently, to sustain such heavy
object as the bell, but it is guaranteed
to sustain the weight. 1t was furnish
ed by c. S. Hunter, of Hagerstown:
Shepherdstown people Clipped IL
ten dollars Tuesday night to get tn
election returns, that being the amour
asked by the Western Union Telegraph
Company for the service. They pai'
the money, but they didn't get the re
turns. Once in great while an In
significant message would be received
-but there was no news to amount t.
anything until the daily papers cam
next morning. The company ough
to refund the money.
; Five colored men were arrested a