The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-21

NOTES On NEWSPAPERS
How did the word "exciting'' get such hold or
the newspapers? | cannot imagine. It seems fr tr
me very silly and verv much misplaced word
as they use it. They talk of an erciting debate
an erciting crowd, and so forth and so forth / OBJ
serve that the English journals say ercited debate
winch has sense. We confound the subjective and
the objective in our of the word which in eth
er form, whether of erced or erciting seems to me
very commonplace expression.
outrages what does that mean in the news
papers: whenever anything is done by the public
authorities OF any foreign country which we have
or think we have occasion to find fault with we call
II an outrage. For instance controversy occurs in
raparaiso between the local authorities and the
united states Consul, and then all the newspapers
cry out-''the recent Outrages upon Americans in
Chlie is not that mere extravapapce and exao-
geration as well as bad taste, if not bad grammerq
thlnk the word ftibustering, in anv use of il.
" one ol lhe most ABSURD OF all the inventions
we Americans have picked up somewhere a mum.
DER Oh spanish words, equally absurd with US We
cannot say that a man left or ran awav hut we
must needs say that he Uamosed. Not content with
the hohest vernacuar term chatter we have i'm
ported the Spanish words la redfa and corruntad
them into tdrrtat. And at length we have apnlied
The word fti6aStering to irregular or tumultnons
or even merely and strictly parliamentary devices
OF parliamentary law adopted to stave off a ones
and expression = - " "
now did the newspapers get into the fashion of
saying that such bill was killed. Why cannot
they say rejected1 ~
noted in the testimony taken on the Sicklas,
trial, as reported in the newspapers some extraor-
dlnary forms of expression A certain PennsyIva
man man says; " him and Black came out talking to-
se'1ers anu PACK looked as scared he did-a
kinu OF eXcitaole Is not that rich English?
lind the following statement in the news
papers, '"
A DESPERATE FIGHT IN RAILROAD CAR.-We
!earh from passengers who arrived yesterday morn.
ing from the Cleveland and Pittsburo Railroad
that desperate and bloody rencontre took nIace
on the night train, a short distance above Wells
'iiie, IN winch one man was shot in the leg and an
otner beaten so badly that he had to be carried ont
ana medical aid called. 1t seems from all we can
learn, that Capt. Moore of this city was occunvng
a seat by himself, when farmer, living in the Vi
entity OF SlOan's Station, came up and either trod
upon or kicked his leg, probably unintentionally-
Mr. Moore raised up and made some offensive re-
mark, to which the other replied in the same tome
A cross-hrlng of words continued until the farmer
In answer 10 some epithet, struck Mr. Moore when
the latter drew pistol and fired twice at his as
saliant, lodging two balls in his tbiph Al this
point one or two of the passengers Including the
man that was shot, pitched into Moore and heat
hlm most numerically, mutilating his face and nar
son without stint A pe'
On reading this, could not but excaim s.TbonL
you, Mr.. Farmer, for kicking Capt Moore ftrnst
you old II on purpose If So YOU inflicted merited
punishment on one OF the many brutes in human
form, who stretch themselves out on seat of tba
rairoad car and extend their dirty boots into the
as br,,. - -. a. - amy "hee vi all persons not
as brutal as themselves" Indeed the manner in
Whlcn Americans generally dispose of their Iegs
Is such as to lead to suspicion that most of them
are affilcted with some painful disease in those
lmbs. Else, would so many of them place their
ulrty boots on the seats of the cars? Would they
so constantly sit with one leg crossed over the other
swinging the boot to and fro against other people3
ould they persist in putting their feet on tables
and desks? 'e'
remember not long since that Marshal Rvnders.
OF New \ lork, was very much blamed in sundry
quarters for what seemed to me a very command
ole act On entering his office, he found one of
hese legsIck Americans sitting with his very dirtv
boot on the desk, covered with law papers, which
ot course were begrimed, defaced and rendered
worthless, so as to have to be copied anew. Mr.
kynders Knocked the man down. | thought that
quite right. Certainly the act of the sore-egeed
man deserved it. 7e0N