Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-03-24
Notes From Nearby.

Notes From Nearby.
Hagerstown Bank stock sold at
$40 a share on Tuesday-par value
SIS. This is the highest price it has
ever reached.
The street lamps of Sharpsbur9
have been cleaned up again after an
idleness Of year. The citizens do the
lighting for 81 lamp, the town to
furnish the oil.
William Renner is the champion
egg eater of Hagerstown and chal-
lenges the world. The other night
he ate three dozen hard-boiled eggs
and at last accounts was still alive.
Scott, the bright little four-year-old
son of Mr.. Geo. E. Wysong, Of this
office, fell backwards into a bucket Of
boiling hot water last Wednesday, and
was terribly scalded. Fortunately,
however, it is thought no vital parts
were affected, and although great
sufferer the little fellow is, under skill
full treatment of DR.. William Neil
and kind ministrations Of neighbors
and friends, as we are pleased to learn,
gradually improvihg.-Charle8to
Spirit.
Gardner Piper, on trial at Frederick
for the murder Of the old herb doctor,
Elijah Addison, near Brunswick, was
found guilty Of murder in the second
degree. He was sentenced to eighteen
years in the penitentiary. His broth
er, George Piper, plead guilty and was
given ten years. Afterward Gardner
Piper made confession, in which he
gave the details of the murder. 1t
was brutal and horrible killing Of
an inoffensive old man, the sole pur-
pose being to obtain his money.
Mr.. H. n. Watson, who has been
the efficient and very popular deputy
for Sheriff Eugene Baker in the sher-
ifs office at this place, has bought
out Mr.. Nelson R. Roberts, at Mid
dleway, and will conduct a general
mercantile business at that place.
Mr.. Watson is a young gentleman Of
pleasing address and good business
qualifications, and will be very accept
able to the people of that community.
We feel assured that his enterprise
will be equal to the emergency Of
hard times.-Charlcsto1cn Advocate.
The Charlestown Spirit says that
the Citizens Fire Company on Tues
dav night last presented to President
w. F. Alexander handsome gold pin,
made of the gold piece awarded the
company as a prize in the recent Shop
herbstown contest. The pin, which
was procured by ieweler Charles W.
Brown, bore The initials of the COM
pany and year Of organization (l804).
The formal presentation was httingly
made by Capt. Jno. w. Russell, and
present received by President Alex
ander with appropriate remarks.
Robert Newcomer, Of Williamsport,
was tried by Justice E. A. Gruber on
the charge Of wife beating, found gull
ty and sentenced to receive % lashes
on his bare back. Newcomer was I'M
der the influence Of liquor, and pulled
his wife around by the hair and other
wise cruelty misused her the other
morning This is the second time a
man has been sentenced to the whip
ing-post in that county. Newcomer is
an uncle Of Samuel Newcomer, who
was one of the convicted "Hooley-
Cooley" who desecrated the cemetery
at Williamsport. Sheriff Seibert, into
whose hands Newcomer was given,
was getting ready to put the lashes on,
when the mans wife, woman-like, sue
ceeded in getting her husband liber-
ated on bail.
The horticulturists of Berkeley coun-
ty met at Martinsburg last Friday,
and the consideration Of the San Jose
scale was taken up. DR., A, D. Hop
kins, the State entomologist, who had
been inspecting the orchards in the
county, reported that he had found the
insect in five of the sixteen orchards
visited. The large orchard belonging
to J. T. Janney, he says, was so thor
oughly infested that the only way tc
get rid of the pest there was to destroy
all the trees, many of which had al
ready been killed by the insect. In
deed, he thought this was the only safe
method in any instance. To those
who wanted to save their infested trees
by treating them, he suggested the use
of pure kerosene in thin applications
when the weather was most favorable
to its evaporation. R. c. Burkhart
was appointed committee of one t.
see what the owners Of the trees would
do respecting their infected trees.