Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-01-11
Sad Railroad Accident.
WOMAN BECOMES A MOTHER AND
WIDOW AT THE SAME TIME.

A WOMAN BECOMES A MOTHER AMI
WIDOW AT THE SAME TIME.
The fast mail train on the Piedmont
Airline Railroad which left Richmond
on last Friday morning, at II O'Clock
that night, ran into rock slide in a
deep cut near Lexington, N. c., wreck.
ing the engine and postal car and kill
ing the engineer, Mike O'Donnell, and
the fireman, Wesley Garrett (colored)
both of Manchester. None of the pas
sengers are reported injured.
Mr.. O'Donnell was a very popular
young man, and last spring married q
daughter of Mr.. T. w. Grow, ex-presi-
dent of the old Town Trustees, and one
of Manchester's most respected citizens.
Mrs. O'Donnell gave birth to child
just about the time her husband was be-
ing suddenly ushered into eternity, thus
almost at the same moment becoming q
mother and widow.
Wesley Garrett, the fireman, was one
of the most respected colored citizens OF
Manchester, and one Of the best and
most trusted firemen on the Danville
road. He leaves family who deserve
and will receive the sympathy of the
entire community.
/ COLD WEATHER IN SHENANDOAH.
AT New Market, the thermometer in
Dictated Is degrees below zero on the
3Oth of December, and Is degrees below
zero on the next day, the 31st.
On the 31st, at Capt. Prices, near
New Market Depot, at SO, and at Rosen-
dale, four miles Southeast Of. New
Market at %.
We do not think that standard Their
mometers would have indicated such
extreme cold weather. Most of the
cheap Thermometers are UNRELIABLE
They serve to indicate the comparative,
but not the real, temperature.
At Front Royal, Warren county, the
thermometer is reported, by the Warren
Sentinel, to have marked % degrees be-
low zero on Friday and Saturday MORN
ings, the 31st ult., and the 1st Instant
The thermometer, we suspect, was not
reliable. We do not think it was as cold
as that in any part of Virginia.
TEMPERATURE IN MONROE COUNTY,
w. VA--During the cold spell. the
thermometer ranged as follows, in diff
ferent parts of Monroe county, w. Va:
At Gap Mills, % degrees below zero !;
at Pickaway, rs degrees below zero at
Union, 20 below.
The WEATHER IN BEDFORD.-The
Bedford Sentinel says that the coolest
night of the season was Wednesday
matchmaking the 18th of December.
It was considerably colder here on the
morning of Friday, the 31st. than it
was on Wednesday night, the 10Th, or
Thursday morning, the 3Oth. The Sen
ti'sez says that on Wednesday night, the
thermometer registered degrees below
zero at Liberty, Bedford county. It was
lower than that here on both Thursday
and Friday mornings, the 30th and 31st
of December
WEATHER IN FREDERICKSBURG.-
The weather in Fredericksburg is re.
ported to have been, Thursday morn
ing, Dec. 30th, IS degrees below zero ;
Friday morning Dec. Dec. 31st, % be-
low zero; and Saturday, Jan list, 16 be-
low zero.
The COOLEST WEATHER.-TheD Dis
patch says that a private letter from
Loudoun states that in the Goose. Greek
neighborhood the thermometer ranged
from 800 to 800 below zero, and at Wa
terford, in the same county, it read 800
below-6So beloa0 the freezing point.
RABBITS. Creek is famous in
many things, or is said to be. That the
rabbit genus multiply and replenish
the earth" in that classic section, was
demonstrated at the Covingion Depot
one day this week, where one thousand
four hundred and fifty of these little
creatures were collected, the result of
the chase for rabbits on the creek
Alleghdny Tribune
We fear the Allegheny Tribune has
not recovered from the effects of the holi-
day festivities. Its imagination seemslto