The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-21 00:00:00

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CURIOUS DEATH.—A few days since a child, five years
old, was burnt to death, at Manchester, through her
clothes having caught fire in consequence of the poker,
which had been left in the fire, falling on them. -
Mr. Young, a chemist, of Manchester, has discovered
that a waste product from the manufacture of chlorine.
consisting chiefly of a solution of chloride of manganese,
destroys the odour of nightsoil and other decomposing
matters, without impairing their fertility. The liquid is
produced in very large quantities, and has hitherto been
thrown away.
SWEDE TURNIPS.—An excellent crop of turnips has
this year been raised by George Fishwick, Esq.. of Spring-
field, Scorton, from seed supplied by Mr. Skirving, of
Liverpool. The turnips were pulled from a quarter of an
acre of land, statute measure, and, after their tops and
roots were closely cut off, they were found to weigh 9 tons
5 cwt, ; being after the rate of nearly 60 tons per custo-
mary acre. The means used per acre were, 4 cwt. of
guano and 5 tons of farm-yard manure.—Lancaster Ga-
zette.
OPERATION UPON A MARE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF
CHLOROFORM.—On Friday, Mr. Lawson, veterinary sur-
geon, Manchester, unnerved a mare while under the in-
fluence of chloroform with complete success. Two small
sponges were soaked in the chloroform and secured in the
nostrils with tape. In about two minutes the mare stag-
gered and fell. The operation was then performed. The
mare was in no way secured, and lay perfectly still while
the nerve was cut down upon, and with the exception of a
slight twitch when the nerve was divided, she did not
evince the slightest feeling: The sponges were then re-
moved, and in about six minutes she got up all right.

LYNCH LAW IN CHESHIRE,—A woman having endea-
voured to corrupt the honesty of an errand-boy in the ser-
vice of Mr. Booth, grocer, Halton, Cheshire, the lad pre-
sented her with some parcels of sawdust, &c., made up to
represent the booty which she coveted. o sooner was
she in pos.ession than three stout men, armed with holly
branches and stinging nettles, who had been stationed by
the boy's master, rushed out and inflicted summary
punishment, concluding by dragging her through the
horsepcnd. _

HOW TO SCARE THIEVES.—During the last week
"some person or persons" attempted to break into a but-
cher's shop at Barden-lane, near Burnley. Having ef-
fected an entrance, and no doubt in high expectations of
" roast and boiled," they were preparing "to help them-
selves," when a most tremendous noise and.the approach
of footsteps so alarmed the robbers that they decamped
with precipitation. Whence all this hubbub ? was a ques-
tion the thieves did not stop to ask ;—but a live cow
which the butcher had put into the shop for the night, on
rushing up to receive the unexpected visitors, had knocked
down the weights and scales, and thereby had occasioned
the (to them) untoward alarm.

FATAL ELECTIONEERING AFFRAY.—On Thursday,
during the polling at the election, a gang of about 100
men, armed with staves, brickbats, &c., went to the
Lyceum, Stockport, and commenced the demolition of
the doors and windows. Several of Mr. Kershaw's
friends were within. Information had been previously-
received that an attack would be made, and a number of
men were accordingly collected in the hall of the building
to protect it. These last rushed out, and a general battle
ensued. One man (not owned by the last accounts) was
killed, by severe blows on the head and face, his skull
being fractured. The windows and doors of a house and
shop opposite, which had been occupied by Mr. Mars-
land's committee, were all broken to pieces in the riot.