Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1877-01-09
The Inauguration of the President.

IL Is as Qlncult TO know now as IL mas
been for the past two months who will
be inaugurated President, and whether
it will be done peacefully or not. l.. @
Washington, at II o'clock On last Satur
day night, telegraphed from Washing
ton City to the Richmond Wing as fol-
lows:
'It is reported that the reorganization
of the Police Commissioners in this Dis.
trict is for the purpose of having a large
police force sworn in to be used by the
Executive in aid of the army to inau.
gurate Hayes. Everything now tends
to collision, and there is no prospect
of an agreement. The Senate commit
tee sat all day without reaching any con-
clusion.
The Republican managers were much
exercised by the reports of yesterday
from Florida, that the Supreme Court
would direct recanvass of the vote fol
electors on the basis of precinct returns,
thus giving the State to Tilden. Messrs
Tucker, Hunton and other members &c
on tonight to New York to confer with
Mr.. Tilden."
A special telegram to the Richmond
Dispatch from Washington under date
Of Saturday says:
1.-THE long silence of the Democrats
upon the questions involved in the preai-
Dental controversy will be broken in a
few days. So far the only aggressive
politicians have appeared on the Repub-
lican side, and the conspirators have APP
parently succeeded in the mean time in
impressing the country that Hayes will
be inaugurated at any cost, and the army
will sustain the movement after the
manner of its use recently in some States.
The fear that war would follow the in
auguration of Tilden affects the bond
holding and moneyed classes, and among
them, therefore, the conspirators are
cultivating the idea that the Inaugural
ton of Hayes means peace. Until the
Democrats actively assume the aggres-
sive no Republicans-if there are any
disposed to give Tilden a fair show-will
be likely to declare against the Chandler
conspiracy. OF this class the House
Democrats are assured there are not a
few in the House; but nobody is willing
to name them now.
The House members of the Committee
on Electoral Count held another meet
so far the prospect ofagreeing upon some
missing; but, being under injunction of
secrecy, they decline to indicate the
basis of the probable agreement. No
meeting of the joint committee as a
whole will be held until one or the other
division has agreed upon some definite
proposition to present."
The Richmond papers of yesterday
contained call from the Chairman of
the State Executive Committee Of the
Conservative party for meeting of Con-
servatives to be held in the House of
Delegates at 4 o'clock yesterday after
noon for the purpose of considering the
grave Issues involved in the solution of
the Presidential controversy.
SOME OF THE AsHTABULA VICTIMS
The following facts are published in re-
gard to some of the victims of the recent
railroad disaster al Ashtabula, Ohio.
C.P. Bliss, the evangelist and author
of "Hold the Fort" was on the train
with his wife and children. The Rev.
-. ~. 4noouy, Vi OuiCaSO, Stut uISpdtCu
to the president OF the Cleveland Young
Mems Christian Ass ociation asking that
the bodies be forwarded to that city.
They have not yet been identified.
A. Burnham is the travelling agent of
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
railroad. He is 50 years of age, and is
spoken of as an intelligent gentleman
He escaped with severe Commissions of the
body.
Dayly Chittenden was the Cleveland
agent of the New York Central railroad
He was seated next to Mr.. Burnham
when the crash came, and was not seen
afterwards. Mr.. Burnham is of opinion
that he was crushed beneath broken
timbers, and that his body was burned.
Mr.. Chittenden has been in the employ
of the New York Central and Lake Shore
Companies for 80 years. He was native
of Newport, New York, and was "a years
of age.
Miss Minnie Mixer is among the dead.
She lived in Buffalo, was the daughter
of DIR. S. +. Mixer, and was on way
to Chicago. She was a beautiful girl,
but barely out of her teens, and held a
prominent position in Buffalo society.
She was also q member Of st. Paul's
chorus choir.
DR.. A. Fl. Washburn was rector of
Grace Episcopal Church, Cleveland,
Ohio, for more than eleven years, and
was loved and respected wherever
known. Memorial services were held
in the Protestant Episcopal churches of
Cleveland on Sunday night. His body
was taken to his late home by special
train on Sunday.
BURNED TO DEATH.-In the vicinity
of Wilson's Depot, in Dinwiddie county,
there has resided for some time three
old maids, we'll stricken in years and
poverty, and named Vaughan. They
occupied one of those miserably dilapi-
dated novels SO often seen in the rural
districts, and eked out miserable exis.
tence by begging and performing such
tasks as their ability led them to think
they could undertake. Recently while
one of the three sisters was out begging
another caught on fire in the house. The
other was in the yard hard by the house
at the time, and the cries from the one
in the house caused her to rush to hel
assistance; but she, finding her efforts
powerless to subdue the flames, ran out
into the yard, her clothing on fire, her.
self horribly burned, and giving vent
to piercing screams, which attracted the
attention of some people at a considera,
BILE distance, who FASTENED to the scene
Upon reaching the howell they found one
of the old women in the yard, her hands
and one of her feet horribly burned
while in the hut lay the charred and
burnt remains of the other. Her flesh
was burnt entirely from the bones, and
it is said some of the bones were reduced
| to ashes Several chairs and q roDrt
table had been consumed, and the house
was set on fire when the parties arrived,
Their efforts subdued the flames and the
suffering condition Of the woman burn.
ed received prompt attention. 1t is sup
posed that the cold weather caused the
one burned to get in too close proximity
to the fire, and that before she was aware
of the fact her clothing was ablaze.-
Petersburg Post.
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