Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-03-16

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INTERESTING INCIDENT. Miss Sale Brock,
Of Virginia, who is now on visit to Rome, is
furnishing series of interesting letters from
the Eternal City to the New York Metropolis.
tan Record From her last letter, dated Feb.
ruary 18th, We make the following interesting
extract, which will be read with pleasure by
every admrer Of that great and good man
Stonewall Jackson. After describing her visit
to the church of St. Maria di Ara Coeli, Miss
Brock writes as follows:
From the church | continued my walk to.
wards the palace of Cesar, and as stood at.
tempting to read an inscription on the arch of
Septimus Severus an incident occurred which l
think we'll worth relatng--at least that sent
me onward with feeling of pride in my heart
which must have been akin to that which many
Roman woman has experienced at mention
of certain names that give brighter glory to
Rome.
Wishing some information, | ventured
question to friendly priest who passed me.
At that moment French soldier, in the uni.
form of the Pontifcal Zouaves, approached,
and politely lifted his hat When the priest
had given me an answer, he said:
"Are you not an American lady?'
II am,' replied.
"Are you not from the States Of the South p
| proudly confessed my nativity in Virginia,
and gratifed smile lighted up his sunburnt
visage.
II thought 80 thought so p he exclaimed.
Il cannot mistake the accent l was soldier
in the Confederate army! | fought for the
South under Stonewall Jackson"
You may rest assured was not slow in ex.
tending to him my hand. and expressing graft
tude in all the language | could at the moment
command.
The priest stood by in astonishment, not
understanding the remarkable demonstrations
"A great man Ia great manStonewalL] ackson
Was!'' continued the soldier, while shade OF
the deepest sadness settled over his oontenance,
and be touched his hat and passed on.
IMPRISONED IN Bo1LER.-A somewhat
extraordinary and very alarming accident oc-
cured recently at the steam printing office OF
Messrs. Norman, at Cheltenham, Canada.
The engine boiler is powerful Cornish one OF
Tuxford's make, there being two hrehoIds IN
narslIe tubes passing through the middle OF
the cvliuder. At the time of the accident the
boiler was being cleaned, and two persons,
man and bov. were at work inside OF it, the
man being in the further end of the cylinder,
and the boy Just inside the man hole.
1t is supposed that the lad was about get,
ting out through the man hole when ms 1905
slipped between the two tubes, anc, loslo0 DIS
nerve, his struggle to eXtrlcate hlmsef only
forced his leg further in, until 1t became Jam,
med above the knee joint. An effort to pull
him ont was resisted by the lad, and very soon
his leo began to swell, so as to make ITS reno.
val increasingly difficult. His body being liked
in the aperture of the man. hole almost e1clu-
ded air from the man al the end OF the boiler,
and things were looking serious before cou.
nle of surgeons and gang OF smiths from the
wagon works could be fetched.
Fears being entertained for the man, the
first tack was to wrench off the safety valve
pipe, and to give him air and pass stimulants
to him. The men then applied themselves to
the extra6tion of the lad and at once tried to
free him by forcing wedges in through the
man. hole to drive the tubes asunder.
After some time this was found to be
impossible, the lads body leaving little room
for the insertion of the wedges, and the tubes
bruising instead of bending, the men then had
to face the task of locseninR one of the tubes
from the boiler plate; and as they were
fastened together by counter sunk rlvets the
task was O formidable one and two or three
hours before it could be effected. The lad had
tainted several times, and twas with difficulty
life could be kept in him. Both are now suffer
ing from the shock and from the bruises which
the iarr:ng of boiler ocoasoncd.
THE MYSTERIES OF CREAM--The micro
s,cne is certainly an invaluable aid to science,
but its revelations at times are not OF the most
pleasant character. A French medical gentle
man reports some very curious facts in relation
10 milk, which will, perhaps, account tor some
Of the gastric difficulties which so frequently
affect children, whose diet is Of the lacteal or.
der. The writer states that It the surface OF
fresh cream be examined under the microscope
there will be found among the myrlads OF
uI;Lv and fatty globules large number of
either round or oblopg corpuscles, sometimes
sccompapied with finely clotted matter, being
ust what is seen in substances in state OF de-
cav. He finds that these disagreeabe looking
cornuscles make their appearance within ut
teen or twenty hours after milking, and In WIN
fer after the lapse of two or three days. Con
tinuipr his observations until coagulatlon took
nlace. the corpwscles were found TO increase IN
humber. bud, form, ramiGed chains, and at
length transform themselves into mushrooms,
or flaments composed Of cells placed end to
end in simple series. and supported at their
ends with spherical knob filled with granu'
lous matter. An American journal remarks
that these facts may be disagreeable to country
folks, whose misfortune it is 10 get pure milk
and cream. but as 10 city people, the artifcia
character of the compound they, use Tor these
ort;cIss etfectuslIy torbids the idea that they
ha