Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1877-11-13

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the boy to let him win the first heat
which, according to accepted ideas, was
wrong, because Red Eyes great point
was his bottom. So at the finish of thai
heat there was such pandemonium as
was never heard on race-cOurse before
When Red Eye came to the string the
next heat his eyes were glaring diabOli.
cally and he reared and charged anG
seemed to jump forty feet every stride
The third heat was between the horse
and mare only, and, as / have said, the
former, at the close of the race, had run
twelve miles in 22:41i.
A Terrible Accident.
THREE PERSONS BURNED WITH COAL
Mrs Catharine Holt, wife of Geo. F.
Holt, bricklayer, No. 293 E. Lombard
street, her only child, Lille Holt. a year
old, and her mother, Mrs. Catharine
Hardy, Al years old, were all terribly
burned last evening, with coal oil in
such a manner as to preclude the pos
sibility of recovery in the case of Mrs.
Holt, and to render both the other cases
of a very dangerous character.
The three persons were alone in the
house at the time of the accident, which
was about p. M. Mrs. Holt, taking
her baby in her arms from the sitting
room, with small coal oil lamp in her
hand, started to go down a flight OF
about q dozen steps to the Kitchen
| When part of the way down the stair
/ case she stumbled, and with her child
in her arms. fell to the kitchen floor
| fNho 10 c1, hvv4f ho fn1 q nd
in an instant the coal oil was af1ame and
communicated the fire to her clothing
and that of her child. She was able to
rise to her feet, and clipging to her
child made rush to get from the Gel
lar, but seemed blinded by the flames
enveloping her person. Her screams
and those Of her child brought Mrs.
Hardy, her mother, to the scene, and
rushing into the kitchen she made an
attempt to extinguish the fire. Her eff
forts were of but little effect, and in her
endeavors to rescue her daughter her
own clothing was set on fire. Mrs. Har-
dy, to save her own life, ran from the
kitchen to the hydrant, where assist
ance reached her. Mrs, Holt, driven
almost wild by the dreadful torture she
was enduring, dropped here child from
her arms and rushing up the kitchen
stairway, ran through the sitting-room
and parlor to the front door. Failing in
her attempt to open the door, she ran
back through the house to the back
yard, where her strength failed her, and
she leaned against a fence unable to stir.
Patrick McNally, Sergeant Cook, police
man Paff and others, with blankets and
coats, smothered the flames upon the
persons of the two women and picked
up the child where the mother had let
lit fall, finding its clothing still on fire.
| The fence where Mrs. Holt leaned
against it was burned black, leaving an
outline other figure upon the boards.
Mrs. Holt presented the most pitiful
appearance, her body being almost
burned from head to foot. She died at
an early hour this morning. The child,
while its face was left intact, was burned
about the head, knees and breast, its
right hand also being scorched and
blackened. She was taken afterwards
to neighbours house. II is feared that
she may have received .injrry from the
fall from her mothers arms, but it is be-
lieved no bones are broken. Her life is
not despaired of, though her condition
is considered dangerous.
Mrs. Hardy was burned about her
person from her neck to her feet her
face, like that of the child, escaping the
flames. Her recovery is hoped for,
though by no means assured.-BaH.
Sun of the 7th.
EXTRAORDINARY DEVELOPMENT OF
THE SENSE OF SMELL.-Dr. .Maudsley,
in his physiology of Mind" speaking
of the loss of one sense being followed
by a notable increase in the functions of
A hi ioI rny, ,ofr in, of
the greater attention given to them, cites
the following instances related by DIR.
Howe of the Massachusetts Asylum for
the Blind; Julia Brace, deaf and blind
mute, a pupil of the American Asylum,
had fine physical organization and
highly nervous temperament. In her
blindness and stiffness her main occu-
patton was the exercise of her remain
| ing sensesDf smell, touch and taste, so
that through them she might get knowl-
edge of all that was going on around
her. Smell, however, seemed to be
the sense on which she most relied
She smelled at everything which she
could bring within range of the sense {;
and she came to perceive odors utterly
insensible to other persons.
When she met a person she instantly
recognized him by the smell of his hand
or glove. If it were stranger she
smelled his hand, and the impression
was so strong that she could recognize
him long after by again smelling his
hand, or even his glove, if just taken off.
She knew all her acquaintance by the
odor of their hands. She was employed
in sorting the clothes of the pupils after
they came from the wash, and could
distinguish those of each friend. If halfa
dozen strangers should throw each one
his glove into a hat, and they were
shaken up, she would take one glove,
smell it, then smell the hand of each
person, and unerringly assign each glove
to its owner. If among the visitors
there were brother and sister, she could
pick out the gloves by similarity of
smell, but could not distinguish one
from the other. This case furnished a
strong argument in support Of the con-
lecture that dog removed to distant
place finds its way home by following
backward train of smells which he
has experienced.