Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-01-17
ALEyA. GAZETTE & VIRGINIA ADVERTISE
Lineage Of the Modern Newspaper.
From Hudson's History of Journalism.


News letters and news circulars we're written
in Venice. Nuremberg, Augsburg, Amsterdam
Cologne. Frankfort, Leipsic Paris as, long be:
FORE they had been written and distributed
from Rome by paid letter-writers in those news
centres to those who purchased them IN other
cities or 10 the country.
l. The manuscript news letter sent by pro.
fcssional letter writer's In London, out to the
rich aristocracy, every post day for s3 or "a a
year, and thumbed by all the neighboring gen
try, was the first and feeble attempt to satisfy
the same need which is now supplied by tele-
graph daily 10 the news columns of the modern
newspaper In Boston such news letters we're
written as late as l7O3 a year when in Londpn
IA daily aud printed newspapers had been pub
lished twelve month. For America was 81
years behind England in her first print, d
weekly newspaper (l622l70D and also exactly
81 years behind England in her first daily
printed newspaper l702-l7S4)
3 As the craving for news spread
News Ballads, iu the reign of Mary,
were printed, and sung, recIted or sold. One
was entitled, Ballad of the Queenc's being
with Childc;" another, "Newsout of Heaven
and HE'LL
3. News -phamplets, in the reign Of Eliza
beth were published, descriptions of some Que
-'Wolu uewes from the west parties Of Eug-
land Of the burning Of Tverton.' 'Newes
from Scotland declaring the damnable life of
Dr. Fian notable sorcerer, who was burned
ut Edinborough in January last. "Newcs
out of Germany. Warranted Tidings from
Ireland 'Newes from He'll and Rome and
the Inns of Court
1. In the reign of James l., letters and bal
lads still continuing, these news phamphlcts
'ccamc periodical sheets of news.
5. 1t was one Nathaniel Buffers who in Lon
don, May %, 1922, made the first newspaper,
printed, not written, printed regularly every
week not overy now and then, or numbered
sheets.
G. After ncws-letters, news ballads, news
phamrhcts, weekly sheets, after the
iirst Charles reigns and is beheaded- =
Cromwell the Lord Protector rules-thc
second Charles is restored-the second
James reigns and flics-the Prince Of Orange,
third William, comes and rcigns and dies and
Queen Anne mounts the throne, the daily news
paper is born March II, l70o
Cromwell was brewing his beer aud holdlug
praycr meetings ut Huntingdon; Shakespeare
had lust died; the boy Milton was writing La.
tin verse; james the First was boasting his
kingcr7ft, laughed at in his face by Bucking-
ham as his dead dad and gossip, asserting
the Divine Right, ''slobbering, shedding un.-;
manly tears and trembling at drawn sword;
and England was setting in order the scene tor
that great game between King Charles and his
Parliament, on which were staked the destlnes
of her people, when Nathaniel Buffers, news
writer, became Nathaniel Buffers, news printer
and began to say I'VE" as wit SAID that only,
kings and editors do. No single link is OF
much consequence In the web OF human affairs.
The -events-demand che man. 1t one
is dead another sufices, but it is hard to say
which of these FIVE might best have been un-
born
Docs AND SnEEP.-A farmer in Loudoun
writes to the State Journal Five years ago
last summer | went north and bought 5l4
sheep to keep on my mountain farm. When
we rot through we had SOP. They seemed to
do we'll for time, but during the winter We
lost number. In the spring they began early
to thrive, and became healthy and took on
flesh finely, so that we began to think 1t was
not a bad investment after ALL But soon the
dogs began their rayages, and we lost some
times near twenty night, and almost every
week the dogs would be among our flock, until
we lost some sixty, and as many more were
nitten. We lost most Of our lambs, so that our
loss from the dogs 10 one winter and sprlng,
could not fall much short of three hundred dol
lars, This was Il larger tax than was willing
to nav, and as soon as We could, we got clear OF
our last sheep, and do not intend TO try it again
until there is something done to protect sneep'
besides guns, which We used to the best OF our
ability. We have three guns and three boys
to use them, and they can do it as well as any
loly | ever saw, but We we're threatened oy
some ofour neiehbors, and if any dog was
missing we were accused Of killing him. We
were not willing to have half Of our neighbors
against us, feeling that We were their enlm'es'
and still lose as We were doing.
There is much land 10 Virginia that Is worth
thrco times as much for raising sheep as 1t is
for raising grain, and certainly it is the most
pleasant business that ever | followed. and at
present prices for wool and mutton, know OF
no business that pays as we'll on farm.
FATrENINa YoUNa WOMEN Throughout
the interior of Africa, and indeed in some parts
of Asia, woman is priced for fatness Beauty
is associated with excessive obesity; and such
being the public sentiment, mothers seasonably
commence system of diatetlc treatment that
makes their daughters irresistible. Coonel
Heating 5 travels give an account OF the pro
cess or fitting young women Tor IuDis mar
kct. As soon as bethrothed she is cooped up
in a small room, with gold shackles on her
ankles, Ii here proprietor mas loSt wife oy
death or divorced one, her anklets are sent tor
ward to the new matrimonial candidate. When
she has attained desirable size, indicated by
filling the pattern rings, she is carried in tr'
umph to her new home. The preparation o
food that actually produces that coveted di
mrn>ion-a mountain of tatncss-is calico
dough, made Of the seeds of a vegetable pecu
lla, to the country Some positively die iron
excessive iatucss in an effort to surpass in tina
hewitching accomplishment rival candidate
Tor matrimonial positions. These famous NOR
tails are not the poor girls. They are the highe
orders in society, and therefore are ambitious
like iashionabes 10 some civilized States, .
securing an elevated position with a rich hus
band Bruce, the traveller, saw a great qucc
in Ainca-a gem Of women, the envy Of he
sex aud vile. hunters who weighed over tou
hundred