Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-10-20

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"NornlNG INTHE PAPER The Richmond
Examiner has a spicy chapter on the subject Of
newspapers. elected by the stereotyped remark
ofiaditferent readers after scanning the nina
ture world of q daily issue Of news, that
there nothing in the paper. 1t says:
"Aud men are always grumbhng about their
papers, and in>inuating how much better they
could do it, They talk as fippantly about
fine articles on every imaginable subject as
# they could effect such change. Let some
of these Overrunning philosophers try 1t tor one
hundred and fifty days in succession
And then they think it is nothing to select
for newspaper have merely TO run the
scissors through halt dozen exchanges, and
you have got matter enough. Now this Is the
most important, and the most difficult depart
ment TO til on newspaper. cry few men
have tho slightest idea how to do the work, Ii
requires q thorough aGCspapc' mdR-who
knows the public appetite well-who knows
what IS going on in the world-and who knows
how to rcwrtc and pack 4 column into dozen
lines,
"llcn who skim newspaper and toss it aside
Gttle reflect how much brains and toll have
been expended in serving up that meal. Busy
heads and busy hands have been tOlhng all day
10 gather and prepare those vlands.
"Nothing 10 the paper - Nothing in your
head that's what's the matter.
Clark Bell, esq. a few days siuce gave to the
farmers Of Steuben county au address at their
Agricultural Fair, which was full OF matter OF
immediate and practical interest to his hearers,
One passage of his address is worth copying
here. and we give it, as follows:
mo Que can too highly estimate the value
Of a good newspaper IN u family OF children,
and | am of the opinion that II one IS taken
constantly in family, that it will be impossl-
bic for the children TO come up without being
intelligent upon all current questions OF the
day.
Every household should bring in the news
paper. then, as an absolute aud Indispensable
necessity.
A PETRIFIED HEART. Yesterday, as Henry
81. Paul was at the office of Mr.. r.. II. Cald-
we'll, one of the intelligent and enterprlsing
proprietors OF the Mobile Gas Works, he was
shown by that gentleman several specimens OF
petrifaetious or fossil remains, dug out on the
ground OF the Gas Works, where excavations
are now going on for the purpose OF building
new gas holder. Amongst those fossil remains
was one to which Mr.. Caldwell called his special
attention, and which, he stated, was, in his
opiuion, q petri6ed root OF some bulbous plant,
and had been excavated at a depth OF over
sixteen feet. Mr.. St. Paul at once, however,
pronounced it, not vegetable fosSible remains,
but heart, and a human heart, as complete
as the knife of the most skilful surgeon could
have extracted. This curious specimen was at
once taken to our talented friend, DR.. Gilmore,
who, after careful investigation, agreed with
the diScoverer that it was heart, bearing all
appearances of being that of human being,
although it might be that OF some quadruped,
such, for instance, as deer. This precious
relic of past ages is now in DR. Gilmore's pos.
session, aud will soon be submitted to a Scien-
ti6c irQury By our Medical Society.
This petrifcation is admirably well preserved.
The auricles are perfectly visible. The vacuum
ofthe aorta can easily be probed, and sinuosltles
Of the blood vessels are perfectly dlscernable.
-NIIe Trijme
SINGULAR OUTRAGE. The Evansville, (Ind,l
Journal relates the following extraordinary
outrage
I'VE are told that on Wednesday night, Just
aGer dark a Young girl, aged fourteen or nj
teon wears who was remarkable tor the great
beantv and length of her hair, which she wore
in two large plaitS, went to the wooG-house oi
Mr.. Daussmau, iu whose tamiiy she res'oeS'
for wood, and while she was gathering II up 4
man seized her BY the hair, and with some
sharp Instrument SeVereu quo VI III" 'ANN~' -
plaits, completely from her head. As soon a, as
She recovered sufficiently from her terror she
gave the alarm, and Mr.. Daussman rushed TO
her assistance As he entered the wood mouse
the Scouu1rel sprang out into the alley aud
made his escape. 1t will be remembered thaI
two outragCs of ike character were committed
10 the same neighborhood, in this city, veal
or so ago. and no clue has ever been found to
the perpetrator or perpetrators. It Is more
than likely these several outragcs were com
mitted by one aud the same person, as they
were all effected in the same manner, and most
expertly.
WHAT THINK We OF Miss Salie TalmadCe, F.;
beautiful, talented girl Of sixteen, who, dis
daninp the swefs OF Saratoga and the noodle:
of Newport. struck for Gen. Custer and TIL
rrairies of Kansas. to huOt the Buffalo Sh
hunted the b., shot two OF them ia iull galoI
ana returned 10 the East with their hides IN
hrre parcel. .-Hupcr's B,9ar
Wm. NJ. Sutton Il Co., bankers. of Riet
mon6. Va, have received from Mr.. Georg
PEABODY, the great philauthropist> $4,000
worth Of registered State stock, to be transfer
red 10 tho trustees Of the Peabody Institute
Baltimore.