Fourth of July.CELEBRATION AT SHEPHERDS-TOWN. The 57th Anniversary of our National Independence was celebrated by the citizens of Shepherdstown and neighborhood, according to the arrangements previously adopted and published. At 10 o’clock the procession was fromed […]
THE JOHN BROWN RAIDSOME CLIPPINGS FROM OUR OLD PILES OF 1859. Thursday, October 20th, 1859.OUr citizens were startled on Monday morning last, by the arrival of a messenger informing us that a band of lawless Desperadoes […]
Practically neglected and gradually merging into the characterless undulations of the Old Colored Cemetery in this city, is a grave that the colored people should especially honor. Over its apparently neglected surface they should raise some […]
THE HEARING AT HAGERSTOWN– DETAILS OF THE CRIME, ETC.[Reported for the Baltimore Sun.] HAGERSTOWN, MD., June 27, 1877.– James Gardner and J. W. Grove, who are in the county jail at this place on suspicion of […]
Hayward Shepherd, the free negro who was shot by the insurrectionists at Harper’s Ferry because he would not join them, was buried at Winchester with the honors of war by the military companies of the town, […]
