Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-08-16

sion into the state of Ohio. After travelling
three months, be returned home. apparently
10 good health: but, upon receiving nlorma-
ton Of the de ata Of twin brother, who had
actually died of a schirrhous liver, be imme
diately staggered, and falling down, cred
out that be was dead, and had as he always
expected, died of liver complaint DIR.
Crawford being sen, for. Immediately attend
ed; and, on being informed of the notion
which had seized TIE hypochondriac. imme-
diately exclaimed, 20 yes, TIC gentleman is
certainly dead, aud il IS more than probable
his liver was the death of him. However, to
ascertain the fact, win hasten TO cut him
open before putrclaction takes place" He
called Tor a carving knife aud whetting IT as
butcher would to open a dead calf, he step
ped up to him, and began 10 open bis waist
coat. The hypochondriac became 50 horri
bly, frightened, that he leaped up with the
agility Of rabbit, and crying out "Murdel!
Murder! Murderl" ran eff with a speed that
would have ceied a score Of doctors 10 catch
him. After running considerable distance.
until he was almost exhausted, he halted; and
not finding the doctor at his heels, soon be-
came composed From that period this gen
tleman was never knowE 10 complain of his
liver; nor had he, for more than twenty
years afterwards, any symptoms of this DIS
ease.
a LONDON NEWSPAPER.
The lahours of Philadelphia daily joer-
nal, especia lily in these times of cholera ex.
citement, are irksome and laborious in the
extreme. but the following article from late
London Publication, exhibits what an extra
ordinary number of hands, degree of labour
and intensity Of application. are necessary to
the regular publication OF daily London
journal. -
"'The establishment of the Times newspa
per is an example, on large scale, of a
mandatory in which the division Of labours
both mental and bodily, is admirably illus
trated, and in which also the effect Of the
domestic economy is well exemplihed 1t is
scarcely magined, by the thousands who
read that paper in various quarters Of the
globe. what a scene of organized activity the
factory presents during the whole night. or
what quantity of talent and mechanical
skill is put in action for their amusement and
information. Nearly one hundred persons
are employed in this establishment: and, du-
ring the session ofparliament, at least Twelve
reporters are constantly attending the house
of commons and lords; each in hrs turn, al
ter about an hours work, retiring 10 trans
late into ordinary writing The speech he has
just heard and noted in short hand In the
meantime fifty composltofs are constantly at
work, some OF whom have already set up The
beginning. whilst others are committing to
type the yet undried manuscript Of the con
tinuation Of speech, whose middle portion
is travelling TO the Office ia the pocket Of the
hasty reporter, and whose eloquent coucie-
sion is perhaps, at that very moment, max
ing the walls of ST. Stephens vihratc with
the applause Of its hearers. These congre.
gated types, as fast as they are composed,
are passed IN portions TO the other hands; till
at last the scattered fragments Of the debate,
forming when united with the ordinary mat
Ter, eight and forty columns, re appear in re-
guar order on the platform OF the printing
press. The hand OF man is now too slow
for the demands Of his curiosity, but the
power of steam comes to his assistance ink
is readily supplied 10 the moving types by the
most perfect mechanisn: four attendants in
cessantly introduce the edges Of large sheets
of white paper to the junction OF two great
rollers, which seem TO devonr them with un-
stated appetite; other rollers convey them %
the type already mixed and having brought
them into rapid and successive contact, re
deliver them TO four other assistants, COM
pleteIy printed by the almost momentary
touch Thus, in one hour, 1000 sheets Of
paper are printed on one side: and IAN i'm
preston of 10000 copies from above 800 900
movable pieces of metal, is produced for
the public in six hours"