Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-30
HAGERsTOwN NEWS.
Reminders of the Battle of South Mountain
Items of General Interest.

Reminders Of the Battle of South Mountain
Items of General Interest.
Correspondents of The Evening Star
HAoERsrowN, May %, 1892
There were Inferred in the confederate GENE.
tery-a portion of the beautiful Rose Hill
at this place on Thursday seven CHASTITY re-
minders of an event that occurred thirty years
ago-the battle Of South Mountain, where the
gallant Reno and many other heroes gave up
their lives in the defense of the Union. Mr..
Luther Warrenfelt, blowing farm one mile
north Of the summer home Of Mrs. Admiral
Dahlgren several days ago, unearthed the skele-
ton OF soldier. Further investigation was made
the next day and six more were brought to light.
Fourteen bullets were found with the bodies,
some Of which were imbedded in the skulls.
Shoes, buckles, &C., were with the skeletons,
but no buttons or other accouterments were
discovered bearing the ~. y" of the Union
soldier, and this fact sufficient to show that
the remains were those confederates who had
been killed in the battle Gen. H. K. Douglas,
then on the staff of Stonewall Jackson, but now
at the head Of the militia of this state and res
ident of Hagerstown, had the remains brought
here and inferred as above indicated.
Wednesday at Williamsport, this county,
died one of the oldest and best known citizens,
Mr.. Benjamin Grosh, aged seventy-seven years.
He was the father of Mr.. D. f. Grosh Of Wash
ington.
One of Martinsburg's leading business men,
Mr.. II. N. DIETRICH. dropped dead in his store.
He was fifty-four years of age, u man of family
and had been in bad health for several years.
Invitations are out for the approaching nup-
tials of j. A. Mason, late states attorney for
this county, and Miss Rachael Theodore Bell.
The ceremony will take place June in the
Presbyterian Church, this city.
Prof. Richard III. Alvey, jr., of the Maryland
Agricultural College, will deliver an address be-
fore the graduating class Of the Hagerstown
High School at the commencement.
Thursday the remains of Ohio Crutcher. a
boatman on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal,
were inferred at Sharpsburg. He was drowned
in the canal while attempting to open the paddles
in lock gate by the giving way Of the lever.
or to Hagerstown.
People from Washington and Baltimore are
already making preparations to spend the sum-
mer months in the mountains about here. A
number of new cottages are being erected in
the neighborhood Of Blue Ridge and Buena
Vista. Three are already completed and others
partly finished.
Courtnay, the convicted prisoner who quietly
walked out of court, is still at liberty. Geo.
Marshall, also awaiting sentence, and who
broke jail the same day, surrendered himself to
a constable at Clearspring upon the promise
that he would receive portion Of the reward
offered for his capture.
Rev. Atwell Connor of Funkstown has been
elected to the pastOrate of Walkersvjle charge
and will take charge the first week in June.
The bridge over the river at Cherry run
now being erected by the Potomac Valley rail-
road. the Western Maryland's connection with
the B. and o., will be completed in the next
ten days. This bridge is 700 feet in length,
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