Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-07-15

| absence of anything exciting in local matters
| we have ''stolen a sernon' from somebody, ad
dressed to the ''dear creatures" to which we cal
| their attention:
"Ladies-caged birds of beautiful plumage
but sickly looks; pale pets of the parlor, who
vegetate in unhealthy atmosphere, like the pota-
to terminating in a dark cellar-why do you not
go into the open air and warm sunshine and add
lustre to your eyes, bloom to your cheeks, elas'
ITCHY to your steps, and vigor to your frames
Take exercise; run up the hill for wager, and
then down again for fun; roam the fields, climb
the fences leap the bitches wade the brooks land.
after day Of exhiarating exercise and unre-
| stricted liberty, go home with an appetite acqur-
ed .by healthy enjoyment. The beautiful and
blooming young lady-rosy checked and bright
eyed-who can darn stocking, mend her own
dress, command egiment of pots and kettles,
feed the pigs, milk the COWS, and be the lady
when required, is girl that young men are in
quest of for wife. But the pining, screwed up,
wasp-waisted, doll-dressed, consumption mort
gagged, music-murdering, noye-devouring
daughters of fashion and idleness you are no
more fit for matrimony than pullet is to look
after brood of fourteen chickens. The truth
is, my dear girls, you want less fashionable re-
straint and more liberty of action; more kitch-
en- and less parlor; more leg exercise and less So
ia more pudding and less piano more frankness
and less mock modesty. Loosen your waist strings
and breathe the pure atmosphere, and become
something as good and beautiful as nature de-
signed"
ACCIDENT AT THE Neutrality-suspicious. 10
| o'clock on last Thursday morning, fearful &C
cident occurred at the Round-house of the @. s.
0. L. r., by which three of the men who were en-
gagged in putting up the iron rafters were very
seriously but, it is hoped, not fatally injured
They had a number of the rafters set up on
the walls and. as was supposed sufficiently
braced, but, from some cause unknown to US,
these tremendously heavy beams toppled or gave
way, falling to the ground with terrible
crash, precipitating the workmen to the ground
amidst the breaking irons and crashing tmbers.
1t is miraculous that not more of the workmen
were killed or injured. The following is list
of the casualties:
Mr.. VIM. Gallaher, of Richmond, had a terri
BILE fracture of the SKULL about two inches in
length, and his right arm broken below the ell
bow. He is at his boarding house-Mr. Shaw's
where he receives all the domestic and medical
attention which kindness and skill can bestow,
and there are but faint hopes of his recovery.
Mr.. Phillip Watson, of Millboro, had his
right ankle and wrist badly sprained and his fool
severely bruised, besides receiving other slight
injuries. His mother arrived On Saturday and
took him to his home at Millboro.
Mr.. Charles Bare, of Mt Crawford, had his
face cut and was injured internally. He was
carried to the residence of his step-father, Mr..
Showalter.
The other three workmen escaped unnjured,
Mr.. Chas. A. Lushbaugh leaping to the wall
when the roof timbers commenced swaging,
Mr.. E. c. King coming down on piece of tim
Der, and Mr.. T. Wilkeson grasping rope, to
which he was left swinging when the wreck went
down.