The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-01-18
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Another chapter has been added to the
lisl Of fearful accidents resulting from the
use Of y combination fluid, which is, per-
haps, the most terrible warning that has
vet been given to those who persist in
usingihisdangerous compound. The story
is sad and simple one. Mrs. Carr, who
lived near Morton's Station, on the West
Chester railroad, in Delaware county, Penn
sylyania, was in the act Of filling lamp
with the fluid. when the can, containing
about gallon, exploded, barning to death
Mrs. Carr aud three OF her children. II
is stated that the lamp had not yet been
lighted, but that the heat of the room was
sufficient to raise a vapor that ignited either
from stove or a lamp at q distance OF
two yards.
Additional details of the battle between
the troops and Apaehes on Salt River, Ari-
IONA. show that not warrior escaped, that
al the baud were killed. and that twenty
five women and children were captured
A New Mexico freight train for Camp
Bell was recently attacked by Apaches,
and the wagon master was killed. 1t is
also stated that some white men were killed
by Indians who afterwards appeared On
the reservation wearing the clothes oftheir
victims.
A terrible accident took place on
steamer ON the Chatahoochee river near
Eufala, Alabama. 4 fue of the boiler
collapsed, and the steam rushing out scalded
thirteen persons, most ofwhom were colored
deck hands; one died Immediately, one
was drowned, two are MORALLY injured and
one is missing.
At New Haven, Conn, ON Saturday,
Mrs. Lydia Sherman, reputed poisoner Of
three husbands and two or three children,
and convicted of manslaughter for the
poisoning finer last husband, was sentenced
to Imprisonment for life. She has made
a confession of the murder Of eight persons,
Measures are pending at Washington
seeking to secure an international coinage
of silver, for the immediate use of nations
in America aud Europe, now embracing
population of more than l60, 600 900, and
for the eventual use of all the civilized
countries Of the world.
The ice on the Hudson, a, Poughkeep.
sic, averages / inches in thickness. Nearly
1000 men aud 10000 horses are gathering
it, at the rate of $500 tons daily, and it is
estimated that crop of 100000 tons
will be harvested by February LIST.
A fire at Petrolia City, Pa, on Sunday,
destroyed 1000 barrels ofoil, four dwellings,
the Central Hotel, and several engine houses
aud derricks Loss, $50, 900. Seven dwell.
ings and stores in Centralia were burned
the same night Loss, $4,000.
The manufacturers Of American cut
nails and spikes of the Atlantic States, at
special meeting in New York. on Saturday,
decided to reduce their wholesale prices
fifty cents per key
The peach crop &c Delaware and the
Eastern Shore in 1872, is estimated at t.
100000 baskets, netting the farmers about
one million five hundred thousand dol.
lars.
The horse on which Cardigan rode
when he led the famous Charge of the
Light Brigade, has just died, age 30.
He survived his gallant master four years.
Well-posted judges estimate the tobacco
crop in Missouri, this year, thirty thousand
hogsheads, Last year it reached over eigh.
teen thousand hogsheads.
A destructive fire broke out at Green.
vile, Pa on Thursday, destroying thirty
houses, including several mills and other
large buildings.
Four hundred aud lightweight thousand
hogs have been slaughtered in Cincinnati
since the beginning Of the packing season.
LIST of November.
Chiselhurst, where Louis Napoleon died,
is parish situated in the county of Kent.
eleven miles southeast of London.
The Office of the Democratic Standard
at Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, was burned
on Saturday night
A newspaper is published in the dia.
mond district of South Africa at the low
price of sixty dollars year.
A deficiency of $4,000 has been
discovered in the accounts of the Harbor
Commissioners at San Francisco.
Mr.. John Wilhide died near Mechanics
town, Frederick county, Md, on Friday
last, in the sith year of his age.
Hon. Daniel NJ. Smyser. died At the
residence of his son-in-law, at Gettysburg
on Saturday.
Corn is selling in Kansas for fourteen
cents bushel, and no market even at that
figure.
IL is announced that canal is to be cut
through the isthmus connecting Nova Scotia
and New Brunswick.
Six of the signers of jeff Davis bail
bond are dead, but Gerrit Smith, who headed
the list, still lives.
There we're Sc deaths from small.pox in
Boston last week, out of a total mortality
of 207.
Thirty State Legislatures will be in ses.
sion by the 10th Of this month.
The jaw bone of whale has been dug
up in Jewel county, Kansas.
England will import one hundred mil
lions Of bushels of wheat in 1873.
Forty different estates are offered for
sale by the Sheriff of Chester county. Pa.
The LATE TERRIBLE SToRM.-A spo-
cial despatch to the Tribune from Minnea-
polls, Minnesota, January II. says:-Yay-