Apprehended. Two of the seven Slaves, who recently ran away from this vicinity, have been arrested and returned to Messrs. JOHN BOOTH and JOSEPH RENCH, their masters. The others escaped on the “Underground Rail Road.”
A Slave Stampede.
Two female slaves belonging to Mr. Wm. HEYSER, one to Mr. JOSEPH RENCH, one to Mr. HENRY K. TICE, and one male slave to Mr. JOHN BOOTH, citizens of this town and vicinity, absconded to Pennsylvania on Sunday night last They took with them a horse of Dr. E. WEIS, a horse of Mr. HENRY K. TICE, a carriage of Mr. F. J. POSEY, and a buggy of Mr. JOSEPH P. MONG. On Monday the horses and vehicles were recovered at Chambersburg, the slaves having taken the cars for Harrisburg.
A Desperate Act.
The Boonsboro’ Odd Fellow of last week gives the following account of a most shocking occurrence:
ARRESTED. – A negro man belonging to Dr. Wilson was arrested on Thursday last and brought before Squire Harding charged with an attempt to perpetrate a shocking outrage upon a Miss Hafer, a respectable white girl of some fifteen years of age. He denied the charge, but the girl testified positively to his identity, and he was held to answer at court in the sum of $500. - Frederick (Md.) Citizen.
A likely Negro lad, about nineteen or twenty years of age, to be sold: for further particulars apply to
JOHN CLAGETT.
Hagerstown, January 14, 1796
On the evening of the 9th inst. a negro named Jim Baker was decoyed from his house, in the neighborhood of the jail, and shot by two men whose names are unknown. Dr. Dorsey was summoned to dress the negro’s wounds, and finding him in a dying condition he enjoined upon him to make known the facts pertaining to his injuries. He stated that he had retired to bed and was aroused by some man who in a familiar manner told him that he had something to tell him.
Public sale of real estate
By virtue of an order and decree of the Orphans Court of Washington Count, the undersigned as Administrator of William Brown (colored) Deceased, will send as Public Sale in front of Taylor’s Hotel in Williamsport
On Saturday, the 14th day of October 1865 the following described Real Estate, whereof the said William Brown, died seized and possessed to wit:
TWO LOTS OF GROUND
ONE STORY DWELLING HOUSE
And other improvements. Possession given 1st of April next
Seven Negros Burned to Death.—
On Sunday morning at about two o’clock, our citizens were aroused from their beds by the ringing of the fire bell. The stable upon the premises occupied by Joseph Sprigg, Esq., had been fired by an incendiary. Mr. Sprigg not having room in his dwelling house for his servants had prepared the loft of the brick stable for their temporary accommodation. There were seven in number—one man, one woman, and five children—all of whom perished in the flames; also, a mule and buggy.—
Application has been made to the Governor for the pardon of JAMES HARRIS, a colored man, convicted in the Alleghany County Circuit Court for assisting his children to escape from Bondage and sentenced to the Penitentiary for six and a half years. It will hardly fail of success as the peculiar institution is looked upon in a different light from the time when the sentence was passed.
Tom, the Negro Pianist,
This musical prodigy had appeared and played in public at only five places before he visited Hagerstown. These were Charleston, Mobile, New Orleans, Baltimore and Frederick. He gave exhibitions at Cumberland and Martinsburg last week.