Baltimore & Ohio RailroadWe learn from the “American” that this Company has now in its employ about 1000 mechanics and laborers. In the department of transportation, 700– machinery, 2,400– road repairs, 900. The total number of […]
PETRIFIED MAN.– The Morris (Ill.) Yeoman states that not long since, while some men were digging in a coal bank, near the canal, they exhumed the body of a man in a perfect state of petrifaction. […]
THE SUFFERING POOR OF IRELAND. The New York Courier has the following article:The warm-hearted Irishman is an expression that has passed into a proverb.– The facts we are about to relate, and which have just been […]
Remarkable Outrage.— Incredible as it may seem New York yesterday the scene of a deliberate attempt to burn a woman and her two children to death. The victims were the wife, son and infant child of […]
A few years after Elmwood mansion house was built the stone house was erected on Cold Spring Farm– where the new barn is now being built! This was also most substantially constructed, designed to stand for […]
Shocking Outrage.– We learn that a most outrageous murder was committed last night on the Washington Rail-Road, 8th section, about 18 miles from Baltimore. It appears that a dispute arose between some of the workmen and […]
GREAT FRESHET IN THE POTOMAC.– The rains of last week melting the masses of snow on the Alleghany Mountains caused a sudden and heavy freshet in the Potomac River. The water rose higher than at any […]
WORKING MEN, HOW DO YOU LIKE IT? — The Hagerstown Torchlight says that “the laborers on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, west of Harper’s Ferry, at the commencement of that work received $1.25 a day — […]
The work on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road is advancing to completion, the whole distance from Harpers-Ferry west-ward.– Indeed, for miles, the road is graded; and it is only at some deep cut, of deeper […]
DISTURBANCES ON THE CANAL.A correspondent of the National Intelligencer writing from Clear Spring, under the date of 31st August, thus speaks of the measures adopted by the military who have marched to the line of the […]
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. […]
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 […]
Thomas H. Welsh, better known as “Tam” on account of his Scotch-Irish ancestry, and well known retired local iron worker, of Hollidaysburg, marks his sixty-third birthday today. Tam was born at Harper’s Ferry, Va., on Feb. […]
RIOT ON THE CANAL.– The Hagerstown Herald of Freedom states that a riot on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal occurred in Washington county, about 58 miles above Hancock. The fight took place between the German and […]
Winners in second, third, fourth, and fifth places for Certificates of Achievement in Safety in the nonmetallic-mineral mine group: p. 831948 – Bakerton mine, Bakerton, W. Va., Standard Lime and Stone Co., 120,624 man-hours without a […]
Electrocuted At Plant.Hagerstown, Aug. 5. — Elmer Giffin, 27, of Samples Manor, Md., was electrocuted today when a switch at the Washington Building and Lime Company, at Bakerton, W. Va., where he was working, was accidentally […]
