The distance by the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal from the guard lock at Cumberland to tide-water at Georgetown is 184.4 miles. The canal was opened for navigation over the whole route from tidewater […]
The Charlestown and Washington City Improvement Company, has very beautiful residence sites in the eastern suburbs of town, and the engineers are dividing and subdividing the lands of the company to the best advantage, whilst energetic […]
Secretary of State Ohley has granted a charter to the Limestone Company of Harper’s Ferry, which has a capital stock of $10,000. It has the privilege of buying land, building furnaces, mills, etc. Its stock which […]
In the Circuit Court at Hagerstown last Friday the trustees of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal bond-holders of 1844, Bradley S. Johnson, Joseph Bryan, Henry H. Keedy, Hugh L. Bond, Jr., and John K. Cowen, filed […]
Bakerton is the name of the new town that is being built up at Oak Grove school-house. It is two and a-half miles from the main line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, by which it […]
The Harper’s Ferry Mining, Manufacturing and Improvement Company has been incorporated for the purposes, as set forth in the articles of agreement, of mining, selling and shipping minerals and ores and for manufacturing said ores; to […]
Transfers of Real Estate. Deeds in fee have been filed as follows: M. S. Hopkins to Mary A. Ferry, pt. 10, sq. 369; $–. S. Ross to J. L. Poston, lot 11, sq. 640; $1,500. John […]
LADIES’ GOODS.LADIES, TAKE NOTICE.– IN ORDER TO MAKE room for my Spring Goods I offer for the next 30 days LADIE’S FINE BOOKS of every description, of my own make, at 20 per cent discount. CHAS. […]
Col. J. G. Berrett, who, as a member of the board of directors, has been giving unremitting attention to the interests of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, expresses the opinion in decided terms that the canal […]
No better idea can be had of our advancement than by visiting these annual exhibitions of industry and skill. The management this year have been successful in securing some new and unique attractions. Pierce’s Great Racing […]
