Welsh of Harpers Ferry

Evidence Category: The Shepherdstown Register

  • Hardware, Steel, and File Manufactory Co. Sold

    The Hardware, Steel, and File Manufactory Company, located in Weverton, Washington County, Md., was sold at Public Sale, a few days ago, and purchased by Col. CASPER W. WEAVER of that place, for $3,000.

  • John Brown’s Outlaws, John Brown’s Son Found

    JOHN BROWN’S OUTLAWS. — The Harper’s Ferry Investigating Committee had another meeting on Thursday. The Sergeant-at-arms, who has been in search of John Brown, Jr., has returned, and informed the Committee that he is in Ohio, but refused to be taken. He defies the Committee and Congress, and says his friends will not permit him to leave the State. The Sergeant-at-Arms having no power to act, and being afraid of getting into difficulty, did not press the matter, but reported the facts as above to the Committee, who have the matter under consideration. They meet again on Friday, when the matter will probably be reported to the Senate. — Baltimore Exchange

  • Land Kills Flanagan, brother-in-law

    Walter Land, of Princess Anne county, Va., has been sent to the penitentiary for killing his brother-in-law, Benjamin F. Flanagan. He ought to have been hung. He sent for Flanagan and deliberately shot him as he approached his (Land’s) door. He was without cause jealous of Land. They were both men of position and property. Gov. Wise was the counsel of Land, and made a speech of six hours’ length in his defense.

  • Fugitive Slave, Horner

    It is stated that the expense of C. T. BUTLER, Esq., is attending the capture and delivery in the Charlestown Jail, of his fugitive slave Moses Horner, amounted to the sum of $1100.

  • Rockingham County Wedding Tragedy

    Sad Termination to a Frolic
    A correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch, writes from Harrisonburg, Va., under the date of April 7th, as follows:
    On Thursday night last there was a terrible tragedy enacted in this county. The circumstances, as near as I can learn them, are as follows: There was a wedding at the residence of Mr. Devier, on Briery Branch, in this county. Mr. D.’s daughter was married to a Mr. Sites. Some time in the evening, after the marriage was over, a party of young men, some eight or nine in number, went to Mr. D.’s house and commenced serenading the newly-married couple with tin pans, bells, &c. Mr. James Devier, a brother of the bride, went out to request the serenaders to leave, whereupon the serenaders took to their heels, and young Mr. D. and a friend who accompanied him, started in pursuit of the party. Devier, coming up near to one of them, a man by the name of Smallwood, the latter suddenly turned upon Mr. Devier and shot him–the slugs taking effect, one in Mr. Devier’s forehead, one below the eye, and one in the neck; either of which would have caused death. Mr. Devier was shot and died instantly. The parties in the affair, or at least a part of them are highly respectable. In any event it is a very sad termination to what was, perhaps, intended to be a frolic.

  • Moore Murdered by brother-in-law, Cox.

    Murder. — In Floyd county, Va., a few days since, Ambrose Cox entered the house of Mr. Moore, his brother-in-law, and shot him dead with a rifle. The cause of the murder was the division of a tract of land of Cox’s father by which Moore obtained half, which his slayer swore he should never occupy.

  • 1860 Berkeley County Nominations

    In Berkeley, the Democrats, in County Convention, have nominated Daniel Lafever, for Sheriff; Geo. H. Murphy, for Com. Attorney; and James W. McWorter, for Commissioner of the Revenue.

    The following gentlemen compose an Independent Ticket for Berkeley County: Alexander Newcomer, for Sheriff; Peyton R. Harrison, for Com. Attorney; and J.S. Strayer, for Commissioner of the Revenue. This ticket is composed of both political parties.

  • Miller, Deaner, and Myers visit California

    Messrs. JOHN S. MILLER, of Boonsboro, Md., and son of Mr. John Miller of Duffield’s Depot, this County, HARRY DEANER, of Boonsboro’, Md., and a Mr. MYERS, of Sharpsburg, Md., left on Monday of last week for California. They embarked at New York for the latter part of last week. May they return home with pockets full of “rocks.”

  • Sanborn, abolitionist arrested.

    A man named Sanborn was last week arrested in Massachusetts, by Deputies of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the U. S. Senate, for contempt in refusing to appear before the John Brown Investigating Committee. He was forcibly taken from the officers by a mob of abolitionists, and subsequently discharged by a Judge, before whom he was taken under a writ of habeas corpus. Is is thus abolitionism sets at defiance justice and the laws of the country.

  • Schoppert & Lopp Marriage

    MARRIAGES – In this place, on Thursday, by Rev. J. M. Titzel, Mr. William Schoppert, of Martinsburg, to Miss Elizabeth Lopp, of Sharpsburg, Md.