Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-08-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"To sAoao the, ve,y age and body oftte Times

."To sAoav the very age and body ofMe Times
A Louisiana newspaper says that complaints
are beginning to come in of more or less Injury
to the cotton crop on account OF heavy rams.
| Fears are entertained that the warm, damp
weather will develop the cotton worm. The
young corn and other crops are doing we'll. In
North Louisiana the season continues very
favorable for sugar as also in the lower paris,
hes The South will, with a continued tavora-
bic season, probably make from 5000 to $500
hogsheads OF sugar this season, against 800
as the produce Of 1867. 's 2.". .
Coon, Radical member Of the Alabama
Legislature, threatens, if the blood Of any
Union man is spilled in Dallas county, to lay
| the houses of that county and of the city OF
Selma, in ashes. This threat was made to the
| Governor of the State, in the Governors Office,
and is made public by another Radical, who
| was present. - 80: .a.... Il.
Most of the stone. cutters who lett the Gov
eminent works at Rock Island the other day,
on account of the reduction Of pay to the eight
| hour standard, have found employment on
! private contracts in Davenport, Dubuque, add
other towns but in all cases they are working
ten hours day. 5, 49,. - ID 49, .....'t
A man was killed on, Saturday afternoon on
the Hudson River Railroad, near Catsk!ll Sta
ton. He was walking on one track, and, see
| ing train coming, stepped on the other, when
| be was instantly struck by another train com
| ing in the opposite direction. #-'
1t is said that James Green, of Missouri is
the name of the former u. S. Senator whom q
brief paragraph few days since stated had
| been picked up in the streets of New Orleans
| in sick and destitute condition, and taken tc
the Charity Hospital.
"Rev." Joseph c. Lovejoy, a political orator,
on Monday assaulted the editor Of the Cam
bridge, Mass, Chronicle on account of com
! ments made by that journal on one OF bis
speeches. Cambridge editor wited and the
reverend orator triumphed.
| The body of the murdered man recently
found in the East river, New York, has been
identified as that of Charles Elicit, Of the firm
of Binuinger & Go. He was murdered, robbed
Of 50, 900, and then thrown into the river.
| Later developments in the strike Of the jour
neymen brick layers of New York for eight
hours, show want of harmony in their OWL
counsels incompatible with as speedy close OF
the strike as was anticipated On Saturday.
According to the New Orleans Picayune,
Mr. Jefferson Davis, will in Il few months re-
turn from Europe and take up his residence in
that city az the agent OF an eminent London
comm ercal firm. ~ --..
| The Tennessee papers continue to give &C.
counts of the outrages on and robberies of de-
| tenceless families, by lawless blacks, providing
\ about the State. Some Of these accounts arc
most distressing.
The New Orleans Republican, (carpct-bag,)
publishes two columns Of extracts from letters,
ETC., 10 support of Governor Warmouths let
| ter in reference to reported murders In the
State.
The Governor of Alabama has vetoed the
bill authorizing the Legislature to cast the cleo
| toral vote of the State. The veto gave rise TO
an excited debate. ...1
| The grasshopper army, which has devssta--
ted parts of Iowa for two years, has turned
westward again, and passed Council Bluffs on
Wednesday, going toward the setting sun.
| A family near Cumberland, Md, we're re-
Gently poisoned by eating what they thought
| were mushrooms.
The Washington Chronicle appears 10 mourn.
|
Thaddeus Stevens.
| Both House of the Louisiana Legislature
have passed the Militia bill.
The cholera has entirely disappeared from
Havana.
HEART AND LUNGS OLA LIVING MAN. "A
man named Sack Stead, who had been shot by
an Indian, was brought recently to the hospital
in San Francisco, being considered almost In
curable and it was there concluded best to cut
the man open and take look inside OF him.
he was placed under the influence of chl,,ro-
form, and an iucision of six or seven inches in
length made in his left side through the cavity
containing, the heart and lungs. Looking
through the incision when it was held open,
the heart could be plainly seen. The lungs
could also be distinctly seen, and the left one
was found to be collapsed; fiat and dead-he
was only breathing by the aid of the right lung.
One of his ribs was found to be shattered, and
section some three inches in length was cut
out of it. leaving the ends smooth. Several
pieces OF splintered bone were taken out Of his
chest, and water Or some other liquid was then
poured into the cavity Of his chest, agitated
| therein, and afterwards turned out, when the
incision was sewed up. The man was kept about