Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-09
HAGeRSTOWN NEWS GRIST
Death of Rev. Jacob Hassler After Long
Career as Minister.
Dedication of the Mansfield Monument
Farmer ttneyer's Wife Files
Hill for Divorce.



HAGERSTowN. Nd. February :. 1870.
Rev. Jacob Hassler. for many years an
active minister of the Reformed Church in
this section of the country. is dead at his
late home in Fort l-oudoun. While Rev. Hass-
er had been in i'll health for a number of
years. his death was unexpected He at
tended church Sunday morning last and
rartook Of the sacraments. Rev Hassicr
was formerly pastor at Boonsboro', this
county. where during his ministerial ca
leer of five years he did excellent work a
church building being erected through his
efforts at cost of s16.GS0. The deceased
WAS seventy-sx years old
The Mansfield monument, on Antietam
battlefield. erected by the state of Con-
necticut and members of the Grand ARMY
of the Republic. will be dedicated on June
q The excursion party is expected TO num-
Der about es'. and viii. leave Connecticut
on June !. going to Gettysburg. and arriv-
ing at Sharpsburg on the evening of June
u General Mansfield was wounded and
taken 10 the residence of George Line
Smoketown, where he died on September
II.
Rev. Charles X Bell A son of Rey l.
J. Bell pastor of the Lutheran Church at
Snithhurg, this county, was married in the
College Lutheran Church at Salem. Va. to
Mrs il. A. Fox. The ceremony was per-
formed in the church of which the groom
is pastor by Rev. Junius Fox of stanton
III Gle of the bride. Rev. Bell and bride are
visiting at Smthburg
e. 6. Sc by, representing the Baltimore
Turnpike Company. and A. w. Miller the
LEGAL representative of the l.. A. w. held
IA conference in HaeerStown relative to the
l-cent bicycle toll charged by the COM
pany and which has caused so much dis
satisfaction. 1t is stated the turnpike COM
pany may reduce the toll TO one cent
The struggle over the appointment of
trustees of Bellevue Asylum has been end
ed by the county commissioners Sc Getting
}. W. Monath, q. w. Eyer,ey and Samuel
Strife. The two first named are democrats
and the last one republican.
The Times is the title of Il new seven
column folic newspaper established "A Han
cock, this county. George c. Huber is edi-
tor and proprietor.
Thir;y-nne canal boats on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio canal are tied uD at the
landing near Sharpsburg, and thirty-two at
SnNders Landing. Many of the boats have
families aboard. giving both places the ap-
pearance of lit towns
Mrs. Alice ltneyer has filed bill for di-
vorce from her husband, Joseph B. Itneyer,
by occupation IA farmer. She alleges in her
bill that shortly after their marriage in
1S,2, the defendant hired her out as a serv-
ant. receiving and approprating the wages
to his sole and separate use. Some two
Years ago. on account of cruelty, harsh
ness and brutality, neglecting and refusing
to provide for her and her child the COM
mon necessities of life she was forced to
leave her husband. and since then he has
refused To support her. She asks for ali
mony and the custody of her daughter,
Alice NJ. Itneyer. The prominence of the
I;neyers and the large family connection
throughout this county attract great in
terest in this srit.