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, […]
There was a riot among the laborers on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal a short time since. They assembled together to the number of 1000, nearly all of whom were Irish. The paraded through Hampshire and […]
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 […]
The relating of one interesting event in Shepherdstown’s history calls out another. The recent article in the Register concerning the old mill east of town brought to the remembrance of Mr. Beltzhoover that some years ago […]
ALBERT SMALL,Attorney and Counsellor at Law.Hagerstown, Md., July 28th, 1883. The Hon. The Secry of the Treasury:Sir:Just at the close of the Rebellion, while a student here my predecessor found among his father’s “papers” a bundle […]
Jefferson County, Sct:Jonathan Meredith againstRedman Burke In the County Court, on the complaint of the Plaintiff, that the Defendant unlawfully and against his consent withholds from him the possession of a certain tenement, called the Ore […]
While in a fit of intoxication, Robert Shipley, an employee of the Virginia Ore Bank, four miles up the Potomac River from Harper’s Ferry, created a miniature riot on Sunday afternoon. Using a heavy piece of […]
In 1827, the steady rush of the Potomac River gave life to Boteler’s Mill. This thriving cement works helped build the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and anchored industry along the eastern stretch of Jefferson County, WV. Powered by innovation and the hands of immigrant laborers, the mill’s story is one of ambition, hardship, and transformation.
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 […]
CAUSES OF HIGH PRICES.— A correspondent of the New York Express attributed the enhanced value of bread stuffs, and provisions generally, to causes independent of speculation, and considers it the natural result of the arrival of […]
The disorders on the Washington rail road did not terminate with the atrocious murders detailed in our last. On the night of the 22d ult. some of the ruffians forcibly entered a tavern, kept by Mrs. […]
Rail Road Travelling. — It appears from a paragraph in the Gazette, that the amount received by the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company from persons travelling between Baltimore and Frederick during the month of July […]
Riot on the Rail-Road. — On Sunday evening last an altercation of a very serious character took place between the white and coloured laborers employed on the line of the rail-road near New-Market. It was quelled […]
1,700 LABORERS WANTEDAt One Dollar Per Day. The subscribers, contractors on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-Road, want to employ 1,700 LABORERS, To whom One Dollar a day will be punctually paid. This work is in one […]
To be Rented,TWO valuable PLANTATIONS, situate in Chanceford township, York county, The one known by the name of the BROGUE, an ancient Tavern, with a good house, good stabling, meadows, and orchard. The other in the […]
