Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-02-10
E2HnetI'S ssS!s.

lha gift Of Sl0h, 900 to tho starving irrh by
james Gordon Bennett is large enough tn Al
tract admiration IN every quarter Of the world
TO have given $4,000 would have boon a
great pilt; TO have given 500. COZ would have cS-
cited admiration, b1Lb ior tho aiycts generosity
and resources. Bat young Bennett discounted
Oil criticism, and no gAvo nj once SlIO Geo. ore
OF tho largest gifts over given by an individual
Tor any purposo-l&rgor than Any monarch in
Europe has over given 10 his o~n poor and
large enough 10 BIO tho entire capital Of - msj or-
ty OF successful newspapers, This WAS the ssuo
amount of money that Eennet! ga7o to tho first
child Of his only sister, Mrs. Bell l suppose
That The sum represents about Two months' Iot
income of tho Herald, and even behold in this
proportion 1t Was g sacrificing gilt for how
mhny men will give away two InuTihS Of !hu
year.
Tho manner of this gift WAS n!so admirable. Il
WAS not SCI in Italics or put all through tire cL;-
torial columns like sensation, bu. modestly
embodied in general editorial. There ARC lar
more pcrtiuaclous papers whose publishers aEd
editors affect TO look down upoa the Her.
AIDS English and TASTE, ami perhsps On tho
personal habits and associations Of young
Bennett, but acls speak louder than professions,
and Lot one Of them can either 6elitio or initiate
this supreme performance, which in y minute
declares tho good -hesrtedness andtho prosperity
OF tho Herald and its owner. No other vel will
and give 30 much prominence 10 tho Horald
He would be q small and niggsrd critic who
should put this proper result in place Of the good
motive of the giver. Nor is tho gift TO people
starving for bread, gnswing cold turnirs, ard
hearing tho Wailings of their children with hoI :.
low stomachs upbraiding their parents TO he dis.
missed as moro piece of advertising. Poor
people throughout the world will drGW tho in
ference that this Press, which they hsye set up
and maintained by their advertising and cub
scriplions, is q moro boneicen. power than tho
king who wears crown. 1t returns in their OK
tremlty to poor people portion ofthcir tribute
like bank TO its dopositors.
In tho life OF tho older Bennett no never did
anything like this. With all Horace Grecloy,s
attentions to topics of philanthropy, bo mover
made liberal gift except TO such = shystor as
the son OF Vanderbilt. Mr. Bonner buys horses
of himself. MI Bryanrs love OF money is al.
most as conspicuous as tho delcacy Of his poet
~. Bennett dignlios tho profession of pub
Usher, mitigates widespread affection, aad eno-
bles tho uses of the newspaper. GATH.
MELANCHOLY TALE-A soung lady from
Philadelphia visited the Morgue at New York
on Wednesday and rccognizol the remains Of y
young woman lying there as thcso Of loI sister,
who had disappeared from hor homo two weeks
before. She had died at the Rochester Hou.e,
where her name was regis tered as Msrgiro. Ms
lind. The deceased was the daughter of Phil.
ad elphia merchant and at tho ago of sixteen was
quite bolo. Sho olopod with young man,
Ind on returning homo two weeks later 4 mar
1isge certificate WIS exhibited, which forced her
parents 10 accept tho inevitable. Tho young
couple lived hsppily together until about two
weeks ago. when tho young wife discovered that
her husband was paying considerable attention
TO young woman of doubtful character. Sho
upbrsided him for his conduct, and the result of
TIE dispute was that he informed hor that hor
marriage vas bogus" Sho won't in search of
the clergy man who performed tho ceremony
and ascertslned that che had been imposed upon.
Shocked at her disgrace sho refused to return to
her home. friends or children, ard in fit Of
melancholy went TO New York with fomalo
companion, engaging board under an sasumoi
name In her despair she took to drinking, and
wa: strlcked down with congestion Of the brain,
which proved fatal Tho real name Of the M.
fortunate woman was not disclosed, and htr
relatives decided 10 allow tho remains to bn bur-
led under tho alias she bore when she died.
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