Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-07-04
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Neghborhood and Elsewhere.

ington, for which he paid $l3,500. The
house is new one.
The Norfolk & Western Railroad
has contracted to haul large number
of southern watermelons to the north
ern markets this season. Shipments
have already begun.
Eleven carrier pigeons belonging to
Adam Seippel, of Chambersburg, Pa,
were brought to ShepherdstOwn last
Monday and liberated. They arrived
in Chambersburg in 81 minutes,
Tuesday evening, at Clearspring, in
Washington county, Md, Jeff Nesbitt
deliberately shot and killed Alexander
Mccarthy, who was measuring out
corn in Nesbitt's crib. The murderer
has been placed in the Hagerstown
Jail.
The Antietam Paper Company, of
Hagerstown, recently sold 26 tons of
paper to a publisher of a monthly pa
per in Pennsylvania, the subscription
price of the paper being so cents a
year. The paper company agreed to
take 81, 800 of the price of the paper
in 2-cent postage stamps.
The ladies of the Leetown Baptist
Church will have supper and ice
cream festival on Saturday evening,
July 9th, in the yard of Mr.. John P.
Kearfott, at Kearneysville. The pro-
ceeds are for the Improvement of the
church property. Everybody invited
to come and bring their friends.
An attempt was made last Monday
night to wreck by dynamite the B. &
0. express train No. 46, known as the
money train, few miles east of
Washington Junction. The locomo-
tive and several cars were damaged,
but remained on the track. Five
tramps were arrested the following
day.
Miss A. V. Wilson left Tuesday for
Guadalajara, Mexico, and will be
joined in a few days by Miss Laura
c. Strider, recently returned from
fve-years' missionary work in Japan,
who will take part in the schools es-
tablished there by Miss W. under the
Woman's Board of Foreign Missions
of the NJ. f. Church, South.-Ffee
Press.
Mr.. NJ. V. A. Norris, for the Ha-
gerstown Spoke and Bending Com
pany, has bought from Messrs. Frazier
and Kanode the old Graves saw mill
at the river, and has moved it to Mr..
Lewis Lucass land near town, where
he will use it to cut the timber. Mr..
Lucas will build house and barn on
his property and put new fencing
around it.
DR.. a. S. Reynolds and Messrs. f.
H. Reinhart and H. NJ. Turner,
committee appointed for that purpose,
visited Hon. Vim. L. Wilson at
Charlestown the first of the week and
invited him to attend the Morgans
Grove fair and make an address in
September. M. Wilson promised to
come if possible and will endeavor to
have Secretary Carlisle accompany
him.
Mr.. VIM. H. Cox, an old Confederate
soldier who lives near Kearneysville,
received shock of paralysis a week
or two ago, the second within few
months, from which he has become
quite feeble. He was a member Of
the Rockbridge Artillery, of the Stone
wall Brigade, and was a gallant sold
Ter. He was on one occasion personal
ly complimented by Stonewall Jackson
for bravery.
Last winter while the ice was NOV
ing from the Potomac river Michael
Moran, an employee of the tannery at
Piedmont, fell into the stream with his
wheelbarrow and was carried down
the raging torrent in the sight Of fully
one hundred helpless people. The
body was never found, and it is posi-
bic that the head found in the river
near Shepherdstown last week was
that of Moran.
Last Thursday and Friday the peo-
pie living along Main street turned IN
with one accord and had the mud
and dirt scraped up in piles, and later
wagons came along and hauled itaway.
The street was made neat and clean
and big Improvement was at once
apparent. The corporation is having
stone broken on the street between
King and church streets, which will
still further improve matters.
Mr.. George w. johnson, of this city,
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