The accident in Newark.
--The singular accident in Newark, N. J., on Saturday night, by which two persons lost their lives, has been noticed. One of the victims, John Murray, a young married man, while cleaning a gun from which he had taken the stock, put the muzzle in his mouth, and holding the barrel so that the nipple was near a burning candle, tried to see if he could agitate the flame by blowing through it, thus testing whether it contained a load. By the unsteadiness of his hands, it is supposed, the nipple came in contact with the flame and the barrel was discharged, blowing the poor fellow's head into a hundred fragments, and rebounding with tremendous force. struck his mother-in-law, who sat directly opposite him, and penetrated her right breast, just below the collar-bone, to the depth of six inches. The light was extinguished by the explosion, and the young wife, in hurrying across the room to her wounded mother, fell over the dead body of her husband, which was the first intimation she had that he was at all wounded. The old lady was found upon the floor, with the barrel so firmly imbedded in her breast that it could not be withdrawn until the arrival of a physician. She died in a few hours after.
