The small arms now made at Harpers Ferry and Springfield, for the use of the United States, are constructed with such exact similarity in their several parts that a perfect gun can be made out of […]
Among the estimates of the appropriations proposed to be made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1858, the Secretary of the Treasury transmits the following. Harpes Ferry Armory.– For iron fence and gates in front […]
We extract the following complimentary notice of the inventive genius of A. M. Ball, Esq., of Harper’s Ferry, from the Scientific American: At the U.S. Armory, Harper’s Ferry, A. M. Ball, foreman, of the millwrights, has […]
COUNTY COURT.– Redman Burke, who stabbed Phillip Engle, of Harper’s Ferry, on the 4th of July last, had a hearing on Monday and Tuesday last, before an Examining Court. He was remanded to jail to undergo […]
Harper’s Ferry Appropriations. The following sums have been recommended by the Secretary of War, for repairs and improvements of the National Armory at Harper’s Ferry : Total – – – $38,892 00
MIGRATING.– A large number of the citizens of Harper’s ferry, Va., left for the West a few evenings ago– among them, Jesse Schofield and family, Adam Young and family, and R. H. Hoffman and family, the […]
At his residence in this county, on the 15th ultimo, Mr. WILLIAM FLANAGIN. He had been a member of the Presbyterian Church, for 20 years, and died in the faith and hope of the Gospel.
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT. — Mr. Francis McCabe, in the employ of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was run over and killed by an engine in Martinsburg on Saturday evening last. He was formerly a citizen of […]
HARPERS-FERRY ARMORY. Some sixty or seventy of the operatives of the U. S. Armory have suspended operations in consequence of awaiting the new model gun, now projecting at the Springfield Armory. How long they will have […]
REMOVED — The Virginia Free Press states that Mr. Adam Young, who has been one of the acting clerks connected with the Superintendent’s office of the Armory at Harper’s Ferry, for the last two years, has […]
We clip the following paragraphs from the Charlestown “Spirit of Jefferson, of Tuesday last : The Fourth At Harper’s Ferry. — The celebration at Harpers-Ferry was one long to be remembered by the thousands who participated […]
