From the Harper’s Ferry Free Press.On Thursday last, a man named John Markley was arrested in this neighborhood on suspicion of being the murderer of Miss Evelina Cunningham, near Baltimore, and of having assisted in the […]
Ordered that it be certified that James Garrett being a White alien aged 29 years the 28th day of March 1825, came into Court and reported and registered himself pursuant to the act of Congress entitled […]
“When the British minister visited Harper’s Ferry, the band (composed of young men belonging to the manufactories) serenaded him; he invited them into his lodgings, and entered into familiar conversation with some of them; he declared […]
DIEDOn Thursday last, Miss Elizabeth M’Clure, of this place. On Saturday, Mrs. Leannah Butts, wife of Mr. John Butts. On Thursday the 26th ult. at his residence in Shepherdstown, Captain JOHN PIERCE, in the 78th year […]
From the Baltimore Patriot, May, 9.Fire at Harper’s Ferry.– We have been favoured with the following extract of a letter dated Harper’s Ferry, May 8, 1824: “A dreadful calamity happened at this place this morning before […]
Fires. The workshop and machinery of the United States Armory, at Harper’s Ferry, were entirely consumed by fire on the morning of the 8th inst. Two hundred workmen were employed at this place, and their loss […]
Richwood Jefferson City, 26th of Apr 1824 D. Sir / I see by a Commission enclosed to Geo. Humphreys he is appointed Col. of the horse he will accept of the the appointment. Therefore, it makes […]
MR. GALLAHER, Mr. Toohey, the Editor of the “Shamrock,” New York, lately offered the Shamrock for the next three years, free of postage, as a premium to the author of the best song suitable to the […]
This Indenture made the third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and twenty four, between John Barnett of the county of Jefferson and state of Virginia of the first […]
THE LANDSCAPE.E’en here, at home, what scenes arrest the view! Scenese full of int’rest and of beauty too. We have thought that a brief sketch of the spot selected for the culture of “THE GARLAND,” might […]
Ireland.– The number of inhabitants in Ireland is estimated at 6,846,949, and the number of Irish acres at 6,809,709; so that there is more than one individual to an acre. In England, the number of English […]
