License to celebrate the rites of marriage in this State is granted to Rev’d A. Van DeVyver (Catholic Priest) within this State on complying with the Law. Whereupon the said A. Van DeVyver with Edw. Tearney, […]
NEW PROJECTS. To keep pace with the progress of the times, it will be seen by reference to another column, that two Railroad projects are now suggested, in which our County has a deep interest. A […]
Bolivar Names New PolicemanBy MARTIN D. WELSH JR.Herald Correspondent BOLIVAR, W. Va. — Mayor Robert Dunn has appointed a Bakerton man as policeman with the Bolivar Police Department. Gerald Eugene Jamison, a laboratory technician with the […]
THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.The number of States which have passed the Fifteenth Amendment is twenty-one, and of these, four cannot be regarded as having legally ratified it. The St. Louis Republican (Democratic) accuses the Radical papers of […]
ON THE BRIDGE.– Three weddings recently took place “on the Bridge,” at Harper’s Ferry. Of course they were all runaway matches from Virginia, where marriages are illegal without the consent of the parents of the parties […]
Washington.[Correspondence of the Herald.]WASHINGTON, March 30. The Senate — Mr. Clay. Among the petitions and memorials presented in the Senate this morning, was one by Mr. ARCHER from the armorers at Harper’s Ferry, complaining that the […]
ARMORY AT HARPER’S FERRY.– A report from the Ordinance Department states that this armory consists of 3 buildings for officers and clerks, 154 buildings for workmen, 2 arsenals, 4 store-houses, 4 magazines, 2 offices, 9 workshops […]
“When the British minister visited Harper’s Ferry, the band (composed of young men belonging to the manufactories) serenaded him; he invited them into his lodgings, and entered into familiar conversation with some of them; he declared […]
In the House of Delegates, the clerk read a communication from the Senate announcing their agreement to a Joint Committee, on the subject of Harper’s Ferry expenses. Reports were also made allowing a pension to Mrs. […]
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 […]
From the National Intelligencer.Potomac Canal.– We have been favored with a copy of the following correspondence, which we publish with great pleasure, as it presents a view not hitherto taken, of the importance, of the proposed […]
It appears from a Winchester paper, that a canal is cutting at Harper’s Ferry to turn the machinery for manufacturing gun barrels; and that Col. Lear I[?] purchased for the United States 166 acres of land, […]
Recurring to the business of Harper’s Ferry, we are warranted to assert, that the lands purchased for the use of the U. States, are exclusive of the advantages of the ferry, and that a private contract […]
THE IRISH SOLDIER.The following is an extract from a Speech by G. W. CUSTIS, at a recent celebration of the birth day of O’CONNELL: The recollections of America’s days of trial must the more and more […]
IRELAND.DUBLIN, May 8.– The indictment against the proprietor of the Pilot newspaper, for publishing Mr. O’Connell’s first letter to the Irish people, charges him with bringing the act of Legislative Union and the Irish Disturbance Bill […]
This Indenture made the third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and twenty four, between John Barnett of the county of Jefferson and state of Virginia of the first […]
