Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1870-08-16

DEATH Of A RAILROAD MAN."-Mr. j. AL
bert Hunter of this place, who died at the Salt
Sulphur Springs on Saturday, was buried yester
day from the Episcopal church. He was widely
and favorably known as a railroad man, and had
attached to himself host of friends who will
sincerely deplore his early death. Quiet in man
ner and prompt in the discharge OF duty, the G..
& o. r. r. Company has lost faithful en-
ployee and his brother railroad men loved
companion whose memory they will be slow to
forget
VALLEY r. r. STocK.-On Thursday night
last the 18th inst, meeting was held in the
Court House of this place-Mayor N. K. Trout,
chairman, and thu editers of the town papers sec
retaries--a at which resolutions offered by VIM FL.
Tams. Esq, were adopted, recommending the
Town Council to submit to the vote of the quail
fed voters Of the town, the proposition to sub
scribe the additional sam of $50, 900 to the capt.
tai stock of the Valley r. r. Company.
On the Sth inst, similar meeting was held in
Lexington which adopted a resolution recon-
mending the Town Council of that place to sub
NIT to the voters the question of subscribing the
sum of $4,000 to the capital stock of the Val
ley Railroad Company. 80 q
There were some voters in the county who vo-
ted against the subscription by the county for
the reason that they DO not think it right for
man to vote tax upon another against his will.
! This class fvoters have now an opportunity to
take individual stock, and We hope that many of
them will avail themselves of it. Vindicate
your consistency, and show your faith by your
works in taking Individual stock as your means
will justify. ,-.,.f -a,s.-tf
MOST DISTRESSING AccID KNT.-On Friday
last, horrible accident, caused by the explosion
of kerosene oil, occurred to two young girls,
aged about Is and Is respectively, the daughters
CT Mr.. Edward Heiser, residing several miles
west of Churchville, in this county. The older
members of the family were absent at the time,
and the accident occurred while kindling fire
with kerosene, the flames communicating to the
can. The affrighted girls. with their clothes
ablaze ran to the residence of A. B. Lightner,
ESQ.,. distance of half MILE upon reaching
which they were most horribly burned, their
clothes being literally burned off of them. Eve
rything in human power was done for the suf
ferers by the family of Mr.. L. The medical
aid of the Drs. Wilson, of Churchville, was I'M
mediately summoned but notwithstanding the
skill with which it was rendered, it failed to
save the lives of these unfortunate girls.
Death put an end to their sufferings-the cid
4er, Letitia. dying on Friday afternoon, and the
younger, Amanda, lingering until the afternoon
of Saturday They we're buried side by side ii
the graveyard at Hebron.
One or two circumstances connected with this
sad affair are worthy of note. The elder, alone
was burnt by the explosion and the flames were
communicated to the younger while trying tt
save her sister. The younger, after proceeding
some distance in the direction in which they ran
her clothes being almost if not wholly burn
from her body, returned to the house and pro
cured dress, which she carried in her hands T.
Mr.. Lightner's while the elder bore the entir
distance the only member of the family presen
when the accident occurred a child Is month
old, and her first words on reaching Mr.. LIZ
where also was her father, throwing her arm
about her fathers neck, were: Were burned t
death, but we have saved the baby" The ehll'
escaped without injury.
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