Local court actions and election notes from Shepherdstown
The issue reports court cases from the circuit court including Hezekish Roderick vs. B&O Railroad yielding 1500 in damages and Mrs. Conegys vs. P.P. Marshall with 240 verdict. It notes a county election count and a controversial vote incident, listing county results and noting only one Conservative winner, Assessor Erwin. It also mentions a sermon by Rev J J Miller, staffing changes, and a Ballot Box incident with halted voting and forthcoming mail-status.
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Cincuit
E. M. Church Ve. E. L. Kregle
Licklider
Hezekish Roderick
B. & O. Railroad Company
Conegys Ve. P. P. Marshall
Phineas Marshall
Iiereat
Charlestown
Boreman
Smith
Witcher
Kennedy
Bristol
Burdett
Melvin
Richardson
Berkshire
Kitchen
Andrews
Hoke
Senate
Brady
Koonce
John E. Erwin
Noted Surgeon Visits Shepherdstown for Eye and Health Treatments
S P Bryan Lt Col and Surgeon U S V will visit Adams Hotel in Shepherdstown W Va for five days October 30 to November 3 offering cataract removal, eye straightenings artificial pupils and eye lid cures. He treats deafness ear diseases artificial eyes lip deformities club feet piles cancers tumors and other surgical cases.
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S. P. Bryan
U. 8
V. Will
Shepherdstown
W. Va
Adams Hotel
Difficulty at Middleway and canal progress report
On Thursday last the ballot box in Averill township was carried away by opponents upset at the Board of Registration. Deputy Sheriff Chapline and two West Virginia constables arrested Franklin Barhrenger in Middleway. arrests of others failed amid resistance, with gunfire exchanged. Concurrently, news from Georgetown notes canal repairs and rising coal and flour activity, with a Chesapeake and Ohio navigation opening anticipated and freight prices higher.
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Middleway
Averill Township
Board of Registraion
Chapline
West Virginia
Franklin Barrenger
Jefferson
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Georgetown
Cumberland
P. S
Jay
Alexandria
Leatit
Medina County
Ohio
Stewart Craven
Congres
Craven
Dan Rice
Old Guard magazine offerings feature Swart portrait
The November issue presents an accurate steel portrait of Gen. J. E. B. Swart and includes articles on Dewageguciem se an Element for Goverment plus historical pieces like The History of a Woman and Stonewall Jackson's Star. Published by Van Eyrie, Horton & Co. New York.
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Old Guard
J. E. B. Swart
Dewageguciem
Stonewall Jackson
Star
van Eyrie, Horton & Co
New York
Corn prices and military notes in Staunton and Harrisburg
Corn sells at fifty cents per bushel in Martinsburg and forty in Winchester. Major General Lomax visits Staunton to see relatives. Mies Victorian C. Mosby dies in Amberat county. Remark on winter, calico prices, and a Burden of news from China and Chicago. Obituary for Charles Gall in Hagerstown. funeral with large turnout. Pennsylvania governor race results and West Virginia election controversy cited.
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Martinsburg
Winchester
Lomax
Cavalry Corps
Early
Staunton
Mies Victorian C. Mosby
John S. Moeby
Amberat
Destitution in Alabama and assorted notes
Widespread hardship in North and Central Alabama as planters fail and lands are sold at ruinous rates. Greene County docket overcrowded with suits. Selma Messenger recounts a once wealthy planter who lost nearly all, with land sold for $600. Also notes the National Express Company reorganization in Richmond, a Mrs Brown in California, giant snakes escaped in Ohio, Polish settlement prospects in Spotsylvania, hog prices and breeding outlook, a severe St Louis wind storm, and local obituary for Frances A. Seward.
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Alabama
Greene County
Selma
Funeral Obsequies at Wry Chester
Fragmentary OCR recounts funeral obsequies at Winchester with Gov Wise address and D B Lucas poem. The speech extols Confederate dead, moral perseverance, and the war’s legacy, urging survivors to live worthy of sacrifice and uphold virtue amid defeat.
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Wry
Chester
Winchester
Gov. Wise
D. B. Lucas
Iternity
Gideons
Moses
Wesley
Virginia
Lexington
Stonewall Jackson
Michael
Flere
Jackeon
Leour
Otto Wat
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Shepherdstown, West Va
Board of Supervisors
Isaac Kidwiler
Engle
Wheelug
Supervieur. Com
Sud
J. J. Miller
E. M
John Henderson
County
Baltimore Daily Transcript
Neilson & Henderson
Olthia Place
Wharper's Ferry
Haseen
G& Owen D. Downey
Mineral ‘County
Internal Revenue
T. R. Carscadon
Jefferson County
Godey
Jl. A. Godey
Philadelphia
E. M. Churkh
Kregle
Poisal
Baltimore
Shoaf
Berkeley
Smith J
Qinisters
Comsideratie
Bern
News Jews
Tuscarawas (Ohio
John J. Wise
Wise
Norfolk
China
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Lake Superior
George D. Prentice
Louisville Journal
Col. Lynch
Father McMahon
Ottawa
Mr. Seward
Wisconsin
Marshall
Fauquier County
Lines
Michigan
Massachusetts
Maryland
Minnesota
Kansas
Delaware
Nevada
New Jersey
Boston
Anna Lickinson
Louisville
Euston
Defi
Mary Walker
England
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Shenandoah Valley National Bank
James River Manufacturing Company
Richmond
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Pennsylvania
Geary
Clymer
Galveston
Reagan
Heintzelman
Getty
Department For
Texas
Tribune
Union
Congress
Greely
East
Tennessee
Poland
Paltimore Transcript
Charlee Gall
Hagerstown
Harristown
Co. I
Logerstown
National Express Company
John Brown
Red Bluff
Cal
Hes
Brown Hase
Sid
Fredericksburg
Joehman
Spottsylvania
Cincinnati
St. Fours
Jeb Stuart Memorial Association of
Gordonsville
Vbw
Clarke
Griffin Taylor
Patterson
Iilinoie Floosier
Wes
Mies Frances A. Seward
Wm. H. Seward
Washington
Darby
Menace
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