Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-09-05
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things Of Interest that are Happening In
Our Neghborhood and Elsewhere.

1t is possible that the Moller organ
company, whose factory was recently
destroyed by fire. may move from Ha-
erstown. Shepherdstown would wei
come the industry and give it fine
lot of buildings, perhaps.
A new lock has been put on the
engine-house door, and the keys dis
tributed among the fremen and neigh
bors. No lock was placed on the love-
ly galvanized iron tower, for there's
no danger that it will be stolen.
Mrs. Eugene Baker, wife of Sheriff
Baker, lost gold watch and long
gold chain on Tuesday between her
home and Morgan's Grove on Tuesday.
Fortunately neighbor found the prop
erty and restored it to Mrs. Baker.
Mr.. E. G. Williams, popular drug
gist of Martinsburg, has just finished
new building in that place in which
he has opened a drug store. 1t is
said to be one of the handsomest and
best equipped drug stores in this
State.
The Hagerstown baseball club has
won the championship of the Cumber-
land Valley League, taking the final
games from Chambersburg Monday
and Tuesday. Chambersburg was Sec
ond in the race, Carlisle third and
Martinsburg last.
Last Friday night Town Sergeant
Dunn arrested a colored boy named
Frank Clark for disorderly conduct on
the street. While he was taking him
to jail the boy started to run and
darted down an alley and hid himself.
Next day his father paid his fine.
1t is said that the menagerie con-
nected with Sells Brothers great shows,
which will exhibit in Hagerstown on
Friday, September Goth, is the largest
private collection of wild beasts in
America. There will be big parade
at 10 o'clock on the day of the show.
The attorneys for the defense in the
case of the State against Dr.. W. L.
Perry, who was convicted at Charles
town of assaulting Miss Rose johnson
in his office at Halltown in June last,
are preparing the necessary papers to
carry the case to the Supreme Court
of Appeals.
A petition will be presented to Gov
ernor MacCorkle, asking him to COM
mute the sentence of Andrew Scott,
colored, to Imprisonment for life. Scott
was convicted at the last term of the
circuit court at Charlestown of poison
ing his wifeand sentenced to be hanged
on October4
The Charlestown Free Press Of
yesterday says that Miss Laura C.,
Strider, who spent five years in Japan
as a missionary and returned to her
home here few months ago, left
Monday night for Gaudalajara, Next
co, to teach in school there Of which
Miss A. V. Wilson is the principal.
W. T Lyon, postmaster at Selma,
Cal, was also editor of the Selma
Lrrigator. His newspaper published
articles rejecting on President Cleve-
land and the administration and Mr..
LYON was removed from Office. Mr..
W. S. Staley, formerly Of Shepherds
town, was appointed postmaster IN his
place.
Two farm sales are reported from
the southern end of the county. The
farm of w. A. Shaw, containing l34
acres. near Wheatland, was sold at
trustees sale to Adam Young, at $40
per acre, and a farm of John NJ. Coyle,
deceased, containing 1876 acres, near
Summit Point, was sold by Executor
George Baylor to E. A. Colston, at
| $50 an acre.
Circumstances could not have been
more suspicious for the observation OF
the eclipse of the moon than they
were Tuesday night, when fair Luna S
face was entirely obscured. There
was not cloud in the sky, and the
air was soft and balmy Everything
was just right, and who wouldn't be
happy to sit up with his best girl and
watch such sight? The eclipse be-
gan at IL o'clock, was total an hour
later, and was over at q "a a. IN.
The Bloody Lane observatory, An
tietam battlefield, has been completed.
1t is sixteen feet square and twenty
feet in height. A circular stairway
leading to the top is surrounded with
an iron railing. A magnificent view
of the entire battlefield of Antietam
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