New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-06-07
From the Interior.

From the Interior.
CHoLERA.--This dreadful scourge seems to be
progressively descending the Tensas, and is now
within six miles of us. On Sunday evening last,
we understand, three cases occurred at the
plantation of Mr.. William Stanton, formerly
Hovey's) two of which proved, speedily, fatal.
Trinity Advocate.
THE SEAsoN-For some time past, the rains
have been very frequent, occurring almost
daily, and sometimes several times day.
Notwithstanding, the citizens of the parish are
quite healthy, with the exception of those cases
Of cholera on Tensas, previously reported
The corn crop grows rapidly, but the pre-
sumption is, that if the above mentioned state Of
things continues much longer, the cotton plant
will be d mere barren weed.
Our rivers, in spite of the rains, have contin-
ued low, comparatively, and probably they will
soon commence seeking their summer level The
weather, as is usual this time of year, is very
warm. lib.
THE WEATHER.--It has rained here every day
| for the past week, and we hear good deal of
complaint among the farmers that the corn crop
is good, but the cotton is sorry. The Bayou
Darbonne is rising [Farmeryille Enquirer,
SERIOUS AFFRAY.-A difficulty occurred last
Saturday, at Smithport, in this parish, between
Mr. Prevyst and Mr.. Sebastian Robleau, in
which the former was dangerously cut with
knife, the blade penetrating his abdomen, and
inficting wound from which recovery is IN
certain. The parties are neighbors, and the
quarrel arose from momentary impulse, no pre-
vious difficulty, we believe, having existed be-
tween them. Mansfield Advocate.
RAIS.-For several days back we have been
visited with continuous showers of rain, and as
yet we have little prospect of fair weather,
Corn and cotton are suffering, lib.
The following, from the Frankfort (Ky.)
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| accidents we have ever read:
| HORRIBLE ACCIDENT FROM CAMPHENE.-We
are informed that on Monday night, May %,
three daughters of Rev, Mr.. Perry, Methodist
preacher, living at FL Dorado, six or seven miles
this side Harrodsburg, were horribly burned by
| the explosion of a camphene lamp, and that
| there is very little hope of their recovery.
| p S. Since the foregoing was written, we have
conversed with G, w Craddock, Esq the uncle
of one of the unfortunate victims, and from him
we learn that the whole three are dead, and
were buried in the same grave on Wednesday.
The circumstances of the horrible catastrophe
are briefly as follows: Mr.. Perry, his wife and
| infant child were absent from home, and in
Jessamine county, where he had gone to fill an
appointment. There were at home three daugh-
tiers and a servant woman. Two of the daugh-
ters were grown--aged, perhaps, nineteen and
seventeen. The third was d girl of nine years,
dock. After supper on Monday night, while the
servant was washing the tea dishes, and the
oldest daughter wiping them, the second daugh-
| ter undertook to replenish the camphene lamp
by which they were working, and called the
youngest daughter to hold it. She took the
lamp in one hand, and held the top through
which the wick passed in the other. The wick
was still burning as before, and the lower part
of it yet in the lamp, but she held the wick away
some little distance from the mouth The other
commenced to pour camphene into it from o can
containing about half d gallon. By some means
it caught fire and exploded, covering them and
the whole room in an immediate blaze, and sat
urating their clothes with the combustible fluid.
The servant woman sprang out at the door and
plunged into o barrel of rain water, by which
her life was saved, although she is badly burned.
The door, it seems closed after her; the daugh-
tiers, in their confusion, could not open it. They
then went through the parlor and out at the
hall door, and ran about sixty yards to their
fathers store, screaming and enyeloped in flames
that completely covered their bodies, and ex-
tended at least three feet above their heads,
There, and near there, some persons came to
their assistance, and enveloped one in quilt,
and another in a web of linen, and succeeded in
extinguishng the flames: but it was too late to
save their lives. From their hips upward they
were burned horribly. The youngest died the
next morning at 8 O'clock, the next in age at
H. and the eldest at o'clock Tuesday evening.
Each II tanned her senses to the last, and was
able to give full account of the circumstances
of the terrible affair.
BENToN's LAsT--A gentleman recently asked
Col. Benton if he thought Douglas had chance
for the next Presidency to which old Bullion
Replied No, sir no, sir; his legs are toe
short that portion Of the man to which the
toes of gentlemens boots are sometimes applied
| is much too near the ground
The clerk of the propeller Milwaukee reports
that on the last trip to Buffalo a passenger,
name unknown, jumped into Lake Michigan
He was well-dressed, about five feet ten inches
high, and an Englishman. He was supposed to
have been deranged, and was understood to be
} going to see sister in Geneva.
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