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 […]
[…] By the projected route through Jefferson and Berkeley counties referred to (the original B. & O. survey), the road would not only touch Shepherdstown, where it would be given a hearty welcome, as was given […]
A man named Bradley was arrested in Maryland Saturday, charged with stealing brass from the B. & O Railroad at Sandy Hook. He was lodged in the Hagerstown jail.
Bakerton, W. VA.,March 10th, 1891, DEAR EDITOR– While all is quiet and serene at this place, yet there is one topic daily discussed with interest, viz: the C. & O. Canal. As many of our citizen […]
Capt. John Howard, mineralogist for the Charlestown M., M. & I. Co., and who during the late war was an officer in the 7th Md. Regiment, U. S. army, has shown us a pocket bible which […]
Bakerton, W. Va.February 16, 1891. EDITOR REGISTER– As we have not been represented in your columns for some time, we beg that you favor us this week if space will permit. While all is quiet here, […]
Mr. George W. Clipp, living near Halltown, has recently lost nine sheep by some unknown disease, and Mr. Vol Hill, of the same neighborhood, lost two horses by the epizootic.
Lines Numbered 6 Date of Birth Feb. 1st [1891] *date insterted by authority of S. T. Knott, M.D. (affidavit filed 5/1/42) Name of Child Caton, Chas B Color White Sex Male Born Alive Place of Birth […]
A correspondent of the Harper’s Ferry Sentinel says that Messrs. Moler and Keller have disposed of one-half interest in their ore land situated near the Virginia Ore Bank, this county, to the Sparrows Point Steel Co., […]
The Register force was very greatly indebted to Miss Martha Flanagan during the Holidays for a box of the most elegant cake we have ever eaten. There were seven or eight different kinds — all good.
