Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-09-09
ITEMS OF NEWS.

THE COST OF PAPER is becoming alarming TO
newspaper men all over the land. As long as
advertisers We're prosperous and eager in compe-
tition, the burden fell upon them. There was
hardly atom of profit in mere circulation. The
white paper that the New York Tribune was
printed upon, before its size was cut down, cost
as much as the paper when printed, sold for to the
carriers. The depression Of business cut down
the advertising patronage which it had de-
pended, and the Tribune had to haul in its horns
Thereduction Of the size Of the Tribune will re-
duce its "paper bir' SIX hundred dollars per
week, or thirty one thousand two hundred dollars
per year. The New York Journal Of Commerce.
a paper of immense dimensions, but of small cir,
cuaton, recently stated, that its bills for paper
amounts to near fifty thousand dollars per year.
The New York Times states.that its paper bill for
the last six months was sixty thousand dollars.
Gin. Conn.
A RAILROAD CoNNEcTIoN.-The Alexandra Ga
4ette says:
g The Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac
Railroad Company are-authorzed 10 make con-
nection oftheir road with the Manassas Gap Rail-
road, a distance Of some twenty or thirty miles
The point ofconnecton is 10 be between Freder.
icksburg and Aqua Creek. A survey is now be-
ing made by one OF their engineers. The main
track has been nearly all relaid with the rail,
and the condition Of the company is represented
as prosperous-the income having been increased
and the expenses diminished during the last year.
Edwin Robinson, esq. has been unanimously re-
elected president.
The GRNHELL ARCTIC EXPEDITION under DR..
Kane, was last heard from, Esd July, 1883, when
he was at Uppernsvik, west coast Of Greenland.
He is expected 10 report himself in New York in
the course Of next month. Should he not be
heard from at that time, il will be surmsed that he
has decided upon spending another winter at the
North. He could not remain there longer than the
first Of September. II was his plan to proceed in
the advance" as far as the ice would permit, and
then proceed with portable boat and supply
Of stores, TO establish depot at a remote north
ern point; and subsequently, TO penetrate to the
most extreme point accessible
Some GENTLEMAN Of Cincinnati of vauliing i'm.
agination has been writing TO capitalists in Balti-
more, trying to interest them in erecting for him
in the principal cities, building and machinery
for moving and managing balloons" according
TO patent he has obtained. He has no doubt OF
the perfect success OF his scheme, and Of the
ability TO pay a good per cent"
SALE OF THE WARM SPRINGS The celebrated
Warm Springs, in Bath county, Virginia. were
sold at auction the LIST instant, for the sum OF
$4,000. Messrs. Mays, Francisco, and gentle
man residing In the neighborhood were the pur-
chasers. There are about 1900 acres of grazing
land attached to the Springs.
THE CHESAPEAKE AND Ono CASAI.-The Cum.
berland Telegraph says: /" The drought has caused
total cessation ofthe coal business on the canal
The interruption is a serious one, and will prove
a heavy buriben to boat owners and shippers
were, in the middle of last week, tied up in slack
water, there not being sufficient water 10 carry
them through"
THE PRESS throughout the county, without dis
tnction Of party very properly condemn the recent
indignity offered 10 Senator Douglas at Chicago,
and express their disapproval Of the conduct Of
| those citizens OF that place, who prevented him
from addressing the peope.-Aiea. Gazets
! CoRRgcTIoN--In our paper Of yesterday, In an
article about the Ch,aertown Maryland bank, the,
types made il Cbarkstolon bank Of Kent county
Maryland. There is no spch bank in Maryland.
THE Ono RvER.--The Cincinnati Commercial
states that the Ohio continues TO recede at the rate
of two inches every twenty -four hours, and snow
down 10 the low.water mark OF 1888