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 […]
Harpers Ferry, Aug. 8. — The cholera is spreading rapidly and is creating much alarm; six deaths occurred here last night. The public works are deserted, and the people are flying from the place in every […]
“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 […]
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 […]
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.– We regret to state that about five o’clock yesterday morning, while a burden engine, without any lading attached, was passing over the railroad bridge at Harper’s ferry, one of the spans of the bridge […]
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.
FIRE AT HARPER’S FERRY.– The Frederick Examiner says, the mill of Rowlland & Hefflebower, at Harper’s Ferry, was burnt on Tuesday morning. There were 15 or 20,000 bushels of wheat and 3 or 400 bbls of […]
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, […]
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 […]
HARPERS FERRY, (Vir.) July 17.Medical Discovery.– Doctor T. C. Smith, of Dublin, lately obtained 5,800 premium from the English Parliament for the undermentioned recipe for Typhus malignant Fevers. Six drachms of powdered nitre, six drachms of […]
The late rains have caused an almost unprecedented rise in the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers. Great damage has been done to mills, fences and other property situated on the margin of the rivers. At Harper’s Ferry, […]
