Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-12-11
Suicide i'm Rockingham County.

A WOMAN CUTS her THROAT WITH RAZOR.
On Thursday evening week, Mrs. Messick,
wife of Mr. Edward Messick, who lives about
| IL miles west of Dayton, in Rockingham coun-
ty, while laboring under temporary alteration
| OF mind, cut her throat with a razor, in most
frightful manner, which caused hsr death by
| hemorrhage, on the night OF the next day.
The Rockingham Register says that "about
month previous she had attempted to take her
life by strangulation, but was prevented by one
of the little children finding her and giving the
alarm before she could accomplish her purpose.
Prior to that time no evidence Of insanity had
| been observed. Since then her husband had
kept close watch over her. and it was suppos-
ed that she had fully regained her mental equi-
librium She was specially cheerful on Thurs
day, and insisted upon her husband going
| away to attend to some business he had to
| transact. After his departure, she got dinner
| for her four children, and sat them down to
eat, and then went into an adjoining room, and
with razor deliberately cut her throat from
ear to ear, barely grazing the jugular vein. She
evidently made two or three cuts. as the wind
pipe showed more than one incision from the
blade of the instrument
During the dressing OF the wound she seemed
to be perfectly rational, and expressed the be-
lief that she would not recover. The doctors
wanted to cut her hair off. as 1t was so matted
with blood but she told them it was useless. as
she could not possibly live. We have heard no
reason assigned for the act except that she was
supposed to have been insane erhusband Is
a carpenter by trade, and a good citizen, and
she leaves four small children. and was about
81 years of age.
They say "a word to the wise is sufficient"
Init We
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PEABODY EDUCATION FUNDING are indebt-
ed to the courtesy of Hon. A. H. II. Stuart,
member of the Board OF Trustees of the Peabody
Education Fund, for a pamphlet copy of the
proceedings of the Trustees at their 22nd meet
ing held in the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New
York on the Bird of October, with the Annual
Report of their General Agent, DR.. J. l.. M.
Curry.
During the past year, in the distribution OF
the income of the Peabody Education Fund,
Virginia received 4,l25.OO as follows: Hamp-
ton Normal Institute. $500; Teachers Institute.
81 525; Nashville Scholarships So 900; and Educa-
tional Fund, 500.
On the motion OF Hon. A. H. H. Stuart. Sec
onded by General Grant, Hon. Jas. d. Porter,
OF Ten nessee, was unanimously elected mem
Der of the Board, as the successor OF the late
Gen. Barnes.
AS Chairman of the Committee on the memo
rial to Congress. Mr.. Stuart reported as follows:
"The committee recommend that the petition
which was presented to the Senate and House
of Representatives by Committee of this
Board, in behalf of education in the South,
shall be renewed"
The report was accepted. and a resolution was
adopted requesting the General Agent to take
charge OF it and that 1t shall be presented as
early as practicable. This memorial was draft
ed by Mr.. Stuart.