HARPER’S FERRY, Aug. 9. — The sun is very oppressive. Six cases of cholera were reported in town to-day, and three at Bolivar Mill, but no deaths have occurred. Business has been suspended, and more than […]
DEATH OF AN OLD CITIZEN. It becomes our painful duty to record the death of Mr. JOHN KENNEDY, aged 81 years, a resident of this town for more than half a century. Mr. K. was a […]
Fatal Railroad Accident.HARPER’S FERRY, May 18– 6 P. M.We have again to inform you of another fatal accident on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad this afternoon, near this place. A man named Jacob Greenhodge, or Greenwood, […]
FATAL ACCIDENT.– As a man named Joseph Priestly, of Harper’s Ferry, in company with several persons, were going up the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, by some misstep he was precipitated over a ravine some ten feet […]
At the residence of his uncle, W. A. Stephenson, of Upperville, Va., Mr. JAMES RUSSELL, in the 35th year of his age. Mr. Russell was a native of Ireland, having been born at Burnside in the […]
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.– Mr. James Cromwell, of Kentucky, when on his way homeward, stepped from the cars at Harper’s Ferry, on the 6th inst. and unfortunately fell from a bridge over a precipice of 15 or 20 […]
MAD SUICIDE.– On Thursday, a poor fellow, while laboring under mania a potu, was killed on the railroad near Harper’s Ferry, Maryland. The engineer observed him run from a house and take his stand near the […]
FATAL ACCIDENT. — We regret to learn, says the Baltimore Sun, that Mr. John O’Hara, a young man about twenty years of age, was killed on Tuesday evening. From what we can ascertain of the particulars, […]
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.– On Friday last, Laurence Boyl, a native of Ireland, and laborer upon the bridge now being built by Mr. Dunn, on the line of the Rail road, about four miles east of town, was […]
At Harpers-Ferry, on the 11th inst., Mr. THOMAS FOLEY, in the 81st year of his age.– The deceased was a native of Ireland, but a resident of this country for fifty-one years.– During a long acquaintance […]
On Friday the 26th ultimo, at his residence opposite Harper’s Ferry, Mr. NEIL CHRISTY, in the 56th year of his age. The deceased was a native of Ireland, and a highly respectable and worthy man. His […]
Died,On Thursday morning last, in the 11th year of her age, Miss Hannah A. daughter of Mr. John Moore, of this county.On Wednesday, the 24th ult., Mrs. Nennis, of Halltown.On Friday last, Mrs. Walsh, wife of […]
No new case of Cholera has occured in town for more than two weeks— the laborer from Halltown, who brought the disease with him, is dead— and we can again pronounce our village almost entirely free […]
On the same day [Saturday last], in this town, Mr. John Still, one of the workmen from Halltown, who had recovered from cholera, but whose disease assumed a typhoid character.
AWFUL MORTALITY.It becomes our duty this day to make a most appalling record of “Death’s Doings,” in our neighborhood. The desolating malady which has swept over our country, has no where been more fatal in its […]
