Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-11-11
Notes From Nearby.

Mr.. P. Clayton Pendleton, of Berke-
ley Springs, died last Sunday, aged
So years.
John Henson, of Hagerstown, died
of paralysis Monday, aged seventy
nine years.
Mr.. Jacob johnson has purchased
the Geo. |. Pitzer farm at Bunker Hill,
for which he paid 81, 0O0.-&atesn'an.
Mrs. A. R. Sherman, daughter of
the late John Rufus Smith, of .Berke-
ley Springs, died few days ago at
North Wilkesbarre, NC.
The Samuel Miller farm, near Spick-
Ter, Washington county, containing
SO acres, was sold Tuesday to Isaac
Ankeney, Jr., for $l00.l0 an acre.
Hon. Marshall Mccormick. of Ber-
ryville, is seriously i'll. Nervous pros
tration, caused by over work, is the
trouble. His physician has ordered
dOSOluLe quleC anu IeSl'
Samuel Neikirk, Sharpsburg, has
had about three hundred peach trees
that have been infested with the San
Jose scale in his orchard. He intends
cutting down all that have it.
Miss Anna M. Funkhouser, of Fred
erick county, Va, aged about fifteen,
died suddenly last Sunday at Kee-
Mar College, Hagerstown, of Bright's
disease. She was student at the
school.
The frame fruit-package factory of
A. A. Lecklider in Hagerstown was
burned early last Friday morning.
Loss $4,000; no insurance. 1t is
thought incendiaries are at work in
Hagerstown.
A wild cat is reported to have been
seen few miles west of here on the
road. Mr.. John Weaver says it fol-
lowed his engine along the track yes
terday fora mile or more and was
frightened off by another train.-Mar-
tiaaS6rg World.
Capt. John N. Opie, native of this
county and son of the late 81. L. Opie,
was elected Senator to represent the
Staunton, Virginia, district, at the re-
cent election. His opponent, Colonel
James G. Cochran, a wealthy citizen
of Augusta county, died suddenly of
apoplexy on the morning of tie cleo
ton day,
Justice Preston E. Miller had be-
fore him the gang of young men who
were accused of robbing the Balti-
more and Ohio freight cars at Sandy
Hook and other places. He sentenced
Samuel Burlington, Thomas Burlington,
William Waters and Nimrod Barn
hart each to thirty days in the Wash
ington county Jail.
In the circuit court at Martinsburg
Tuesday, Mr.. Forrest W. Brown sit
ting as special judge, opinion was rem
dered on the exceptions to the COM
missioners report in the case Of the
Improvement Loan and Building AS
ISOLATION against the Auburn Wagon
Company. The court sustained the
exception to allow the lien of H. T.
Cushwa g. Brother for Sd, 900 as the
first lien on the real estate Of the de-
fendent and amended the report so as
to give the lien of the Building Asso-
citation for $4,000 priority. The ex-
ception of auditing the debt of Mrs.
Ward, assignee Of T. G. Wards sal
airy of S. 900, was sustained.
Superintendent J. NJ. Heidwohl
showed us last week copy of the
Farmers Repository of December 5,
1910, which was found behind an old
mantel at the County Infrmary recent
ly. 1t contains the message of Presi-
dent Madison, gives the population of
Jefferson county as II, 1874, notes the
nomination of John Baker, of Shep-
herdstown, for Congress, and the cleo
ton of John Tyler as Governor of Vir-
ginia. Among other matters two
runaway apprentices are advertised,
and there is offered for rent "a good
Ferry across the mouth of the river
Shenandoah, at Harper'S Ferry" as
being ain the most direct course from
Martinsburg and Shepherd SHOWN to
Leesburg, Washington, Alexandria,
&C., through Hillsborough, at the gap
of the Short Hill ; to which place from
the said Ferry there is already good
road. Spirit.