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, […]
A MYSTERIOUS RETURN.– Mr. Richard D. Doran, a merchant of Harper’s Ferry, whose mysterious disappearance some few years since, has been a matter of newspaper comment, returned to his former home on Saturday last. He has […]
HARPER’S FERRY.— The Richmond Whig has an article on the proposition now pending in Congress, on the motion of Mr. Bedinger, the representative from the Charlestown district, which has for its object the sale of all […]
DISTRESSING SUICIDE.– The Spirit of Jefferson states that Mr. John P. Kennedy, a citizen of Harper’s Ferry, took his life on Thursday night last by taking laudanum. He was about 38 years of age, and leaves […]
Thomas Kiernan, a native of Ireland, this day applied to the Court to be admitted a citizen of the United States, and it appearing to the Court that more than two years ago, to wit, at […]
A TALE OF MYSTERY.– Mr. Richard D. Doran of Harper’s Ferry, who was for many years engaged in the mercantile business at that place, disappeared somewhat suddenly, about four years since, and all efforts to obtain […]
A Case of Poisoning.– We learn that the family of Mr. Francis Wentzel, of Harpers Ferry, Va. were poisoned during the last week, which has already caused the death of two of his children, and two […]
Yankee Sullivan and Robert Caunt, the fighting characters, returned last evening from their visit to Harper’s Ferry. I learn that they fought but eight rounds, in each of which Caunt suffered terribly, and was wholly unable […]
“THE BLOSSOM OPENING– That splendid water at Harper’s Ferry, the best, probably, in this country next to Niagara Falls, is beginning to be brought into use. A large cotton factory, one hundred by forty-five feet in […]
A letter from Harper’s Ferry, Va., states that the new church near Jefferson’s rock was consumed by fire on the night of the 7th inst. The flames originated in a school room.
[Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce.HARPER’S FERRY, Va., Nov. 1st, 1845. I spoke in my last of the village of Charlestown, lying between this place and Winchester. A curious fact occurred at that place the other […]
