Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-09-05
LITTLE LOCALS.
me Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

the Potomac river. the rains of the
past week made the stream so muddy
again that the fishermen are about
ready to put their tackle away in dis.
gust until next year.
Mr.. Joseph X. Zombro, of Summit
Point, in renting his subscription,
writes: The REGISTER is a welcome
visitor to our house, and we look for
ward to its arrival each week almost
as if it were an absent friend.
The Shepherdstown Graded School
will begin its session next Monday in
the handsome new building, which has
just been completed. The school-house
will be thrown open to public inspec-
ton on Saturday of this week, and on
Monday at the beginning of the school
year the friends and patrons of the
school are invited to be present at the
opening exercises.
The old stone warehouse at Rafting
Springs. on the Potomac river near
Harper's Ferry, was destroyed by fire
one day last week. Liveryman J. L.
Elgin, Of Charles Town, had a lot of
furniture stored in it, and his loss will
be $500 or $500. The warehouse was
over hundred years old, it is said,
and was built when fiat. boats were
used to carry goods up and down the
Potomac.
There were AZ wrecks during the
month of July on the B. & o. Rail-
road between Frederick Junction and
Baltimore, on the main stem, and the
August record will be as great. The
attempt to run the new heavy engines
with long trains of SO steel cars over
the old roadbed has proved so disas-
trous that heavy trains may be aban-
doned until the extensive improve
ments now in progress are completed.
The "Schaetfer Cross Roads farm"
has been purchased by Mrs. Daniel
Hefebower, for $4,000. This we'll
known and excellent farm has changed
hands but twice within sixty years,
having been purchased that long ago
by Mr.. William Schaeffer of Henry
Garnhart, at $50 per acre. 1t now
passes into the hands of a daughter
Of Mr.. Schaefer, and will likely re-
main in the family again for years to
come.-SPirH.
The Columbus (Ohio) Citizen in its
criticism of the production of Coriola-
nus, played in that city on Monday
by the MacLean-Tyler company,
speaks in the warmest praise of the
play and of the performers. Of our
home folks it says: In character Mr.
MacLean moves with great stateliness
and delivers his lines with force and
fire. Proud, almost with the pride Of
Lucifer. his very eyes speak the con-
tempt which he feels for the unworthy
plebeians. His reading is stern and
forceful, BETTING the uncompromising
foe of falsehood. His method is one
of strong lines and clear effects, detail
surrendering to general effect, and
command rather than persuasion be-
ing laid upon the emotions. Far re-
moved from Coriolanus is the part Of
Virgilia, the only part open to Miss
Odette Tyler. She appears beautiful,
graceful, queenly, she could hardly
help that, and she reads her lines SYM
pathetically, albeit with a peculiar
little catch in her voice, and that is
about all the part permits.
Mr.. Augustus MacLean as Junius
Brutus, one Of the Plebs, gave strong
character Interpretation to the part.
1t is a thanklsss part, as far as the
front of the house is concerned, and
the way he worked himself into the
four corners OF the character is highly
commendable.