Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-06-13
THE OHIO AND CHESAPEAKE RAIL
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The Other End of tba TT


We note signs of activity along the entire
line of the Ohio & Chesapeake route, from
Lexington, KY, to Richmond, Va The lat
ter city already begins to estimate her capacity
for transacting the business which will flow up,
on her with the completion of this road The
capacity OF her Touring mills, she tells US. is
even now equal to the consumption of sixty
car loads Of wheat day, but from short sup
plies are In operation only six months of the
year. Introduce the product Of our Western
fields, and not only will the capacity of the
mills be enlarged, but their operations will nev-
er cease.
And Virginia tobacco" who has not heard
of it-famous since the days of the cavalier
Raleigh? Where in the temperate latitudes
does the wonderful weed enjoy in such perfec-
ton all the prime conditions Of growth p
Where does the soil furnish elements more
kindly mixed? Where does the climate shed
more genial influence upon the gathered CROP?
Her tobacco factories are famous throughout
the world. Her manufacturers seem to have
extracted from nature the secret of her skill in
lmpartlng flavor and sweetness, and fragrance
to the marvellous leaf, and even the product of
our Western valleys shipped to that noted
mart, may gather new virtues upon the ''sa-
cred soil - or, indeed, in cline where the
very atmosphere is propitious to the curing"
of the herb, the tobaccoes of the West NAV
"a grace beyond the reach" of Yirginian art.
Our wheat, then, and our tobacco, our hemp
and our Bourbon, our cattle and our corn-all
these, We will pour into the lap of the mother
State. But our "Blue- ass''-that she can
not have. 1t has no affinity for the consecra-
ed soil. 1t clings with healthy tenacity, or
with morbid perversity (just as one may choose
to regard IT. to It's congenial habits In the
Dark and Bloody Ground"
/ G fo ha hA.o oP Al -.
ton? We think SO. Richmond already be-
gins to affect metropolitan air., She talks of
revolutions in tracks" and depot arrange
ments, shipping facilities engineering projects,
deepened channels, Dutch Gaps, golden gates,
concentrated commerce" leading men, COM
mendabe energy, increased life, development,
industry, and of all the pomp and circumstance
OF boundless metropolitan growth.
Lit is magnificent programme which she has
sketched, and will be faithfully carried out
Constitutions may vanish, Ku-Klux may -four
lsh, empires may rise, States may fall, parties
may come, and parties may go, but 'Od Vir-
glnla never tires. ."-Lecington (Ry.) Observer
and Reporter.
A TERRIBLE PICTURE. dreadful story of
wholesale massacre on Wednesday last in Paris
comes by cable. On that day thirty three COM
munist prisoners, among them seven women,
were slaughtered with repeated discharges of
musketry. Fifteen hundred Versailles troops,
under command of COL Guizot, were present
At o'clock, A. NJ, the prisoners, their hands
tied behind their backs, were brought into.the
square, and were made to kneel down close to-
gether-the women among the men. There
was nothing on the square but three empty
| scavenger carts, which stood in the rear of the
victims When all the preparations for the
execution had been completed, the Colonel ad-
dressed the prisoners and said that having been
caught setting fire to buildings and dwellings
OF Paris, they were to suffer death. The wo-
men shrieked and moaned dismay, and swayed
themselves back and forth helplessy, with their
hands tied behind them. In order to silence
the poor creatures an officer advanced and beat
| them with the fiat of his sword. The firing
! by platoon commenced. Six volleys were nee
essary before the miserable wretehes ceased
writhing. After the first voley three of the
women, who were in the middle of the row be-
tween the men, were seen amid the smoke
| twisting in agony upon the ground Of the
square. When all was over the bodies of the
dead were thrown pell-mell into the scavenger-
carts. which, with their grievous load, lumber
ed away to the place of burial. There were
| but few spectators of the ghastly scene.
The disaster at the West Pittston coal mine
| in Pennsylvania, whereby nineteen men lost
| their lives by suffocatlon, was very similar to
that at the Avondale mine, several months ago.
In both cases the absence of second shaft re-
suited, after the ignition of the single shaft, in
the death of the miners who were caught be-
low. Although the Pennsylvania Legislature
had ordered that these additional shafts should
be constructed in all the mines that lacked
them, the failure to obey this enactment with
alacrity has thus brought about another har
rowing calamity.
An inoffensive Chinaman was stoned to death
in the streets of San Francisco. on Thursday,
crowds of people looking on without interfer-
and attempt being made to .. arrest snasd the
deatb in Hong Kong, it would become an in
ternational affair. At Mendocino mob has
notified all the Chinese in the town to leave
within ten days, on peril of their lives.
| A man, named Alice, now confined in the
p;ttsburg Jail, is reported to have circulated
more counterfeit money than any other in his
nefarious trade. He is said to have disposed,
on an average, of about $4,000 month.
What is the difference between farmer and