Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-07-26
A Touching Tale.

SAD HOMECOMING FOR THE OLD
MARINER.
Captain Newall, master and owner Of
the schooner Robert NeWall, which arriv-
ed at Philadelphia July /, tells painful
story of disaster. When the Robert New
all came to anchor, her yawl-boat came
ashore, manned by the the Captain and
one man, and bringing in addition to the
two living, five dead bodies. They were
those of the wife, two sons, and two baby
daughters of the Captain. The Captains
stoly, told in his own way, expresses the
rough elcquence of his grief. which no
written version can do more than approx
mate:
[ sailed for the North Carolina coast last
fall, and traded IN oysters for 4 spell, run
ming into Norfolk and York river and go
ing to Baltimore. o. &c l took my two
sons with me; Joseph, him that lies there
in that bOx-e WAS SiXteen-aS hand
and Frank who was eleven. rs cook. In
February my wife Game down with the
two twins. and met NE in Norfolk, and l
had a state-room built III the cabin; and
then went down to Wilmington, where
1 Ildu u CtldI eOI W Cdt 1C3OUO lCCb VI luIi-
Der to Newburn and 900 barrels of pitch
to Wilmington.
On the 3rd of June got freight to
Baltimore, d'passed to the Chesapeake
on the 10th. 1t blew pretty stiff, AID
came to anchor on Frying Pan Shoals
The twins, Fannie and Julia, four years
old within week, were playing On top OF
the afterhouse | Was forward payin' out
cable and helpin' to stow the jib, when
HEARS SCREAM
from mother. 1 went rushin' aft There
was the two little ones agoing down and
floatin' out with the tide. The boat was
on the davits swung on board, and no
chance to get her out; so Joe and l went
over board at the same moment, but we
were two late-the little ones were gone.
We had hard work getting back to the
schooner, but we did, and then we got out
the boat, and the next morning we found
the bodies OF them / oth-one OH the wreck
of boat on the Virginia shore. and the
other on the beach. | lad them buried
at Hampton, near Fort Monroe, and then
went to Baltimore.
b One day the next week Frank was help
ing Joe get new thrn -t-halyard block
aluft Joe was at the cross-trees and Frank
on the deck. Ti.e bl ok got Loose from
the boys hand. and it struck Frank fair
on the head. fracturing the skull. lie
died on the 18th Then mother and Joe
both get the typhoid and died-one on the
Goth, the other On the Dist. You see there
were five inside of two weeks. l went to
Hampton and got the two babies. [ took
the other three with ME, and have just
got here to-day, Yes, sir; it is pretty
rough Pm going to bury them all down
nome. Iwsnted 10 bring them back, YOU
see. The Oldest child has a little grave
there. I'll put them all together.
Mrs. VIM. Richardson. an elderly widow
of Locustville, Accomac county, Va, while
standing in hei porch on Thursday night,
was shot from behind tree and killed.
So saws the Baltimore "Gazette' which
gives no motive for the crime.
Edison said to Chicago reporter who
asked him if he had ever been in the
Western metropolis before: Yes; | vas
here !, thirteen years ago, | had {. linen dus-
ter ST SO and a railroad pass Was not
then"
Judge VIM. T, McConn, OF New York,
who was at the bar with Alexander Ham
i1Son and Aaron Burr, is dead. a...s, =,