Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-08-19
ALEXANDRIA, I'd. CO.
MONDAY MORNING. AUGUST 10. 1888.

The sections of the Law referred to by "a
Subscriber" will be published in our next
A coored boy accidentally fell into one Of the
docks on Saturday, and was drowned.
Liberia Co6es-W have been politely pre-.
sented, BY an esteemed friend, with sample Of
Coffee raised in Liberia. We have found It very
good. This is one of the products which IS to
form vast trade between our own country and
the colony in Africa
William CASTOR, of North Carolina. snd Tho.
mas S. Grilnke, Of South Carolina. are two Of the
nobIest and purest spirits Of the south-abie men
eminent statesmen-triej patriots. Why are
they not nominated for some Of the honors of their
country?-and why cannot their nomination be
sustained by the whole Southern press!
The Fredericksburg Arena pretty nearly de.
monstrates that Mr.. Leigh cannot be elected Pre-
sident, and thinks that Henry Clay must be ia.
ken up in order to secure the defeat Of Mr.. Van
Buren,. Patience! gentlemen-patience! Let
US calculate chances hereafter Its too soon to
begin the contest.
The I" rhompsonian Practice" Of Medicine IS
making some stir 10 Norfolk and Richmond. Its
advocates ia those cities publish wonderful &C.
counts of its success in cases of Cholera in Ken.
lucky. Perhaps what the Wing says is true:-
Tbompsonism is certainly on the increase-whe-
Their fortunately or unhappiIy. we undertake not
to say. Many men Of 6ne sense are converts.
We suspect the truth lies in the middle-that it
has killed, and that it has cured-that it deserves
neither the strong Reproduction Of the faculty, nor
quite so much enthusiasm as its disciples display
that it possesses certain valuable discoveries,
but that these, 10 the hands Of ignorant men,
have sometimes destroyed life.
Mr.. McDufie being present at the commence.
ment Of the College at Athens, Georgia, dinner
was rendered him and accepted. 1t was attend.
ed by grea, numbers, and the guest received eve.
~ demonstration of the most enthusiastic ADM.
ration. His speech. requested for publication by
the Committee, will speedily appear.
The accounts before this left him quietly at
home, raising wheat and attending to his cotton,
not speaking of Modification. What regret does
his course on that subject give to his real friends
and admirers!
Plagiarism. We give below some rather Gu.
riods instances of bare-faced plagiarism lately
brought to light and exposed.
The New York American says
ga Remarkable Coincidence! is exposed in
the Post OF last evening, between an oriyinap
article in the Knickerbocker Of this month. and
one in Fraser's Edinburgh Magazine for Juoe
last This second hand originality is of a piece |
with the ingenuity we have lately seen exposed. .
OF approprIatlng, under the pretext Of a second |
title. the contributions meant for and addressed
TO others"
The New York Commercial says
" A very excellent grafton was delivered two
,r three years since, by Mr.. Thompson. of
ohio. who represents portion of the SOVEREIGN.
y OF that state in Congress. He also caused il
o be printed. 1t was worthy Of the richest IT,.
biographical drapery-as every other composition
which comes-as Mr. Thompson's Grafton did Z
IRON the pen OF Mr.. Charles Sprague, of Bos. Is
W. ~ was eiuei Jul NtF. Spr8gue thus To steal ]
dr. ThOmpson's ideas. and his very word. aIsn
nme two or three years before they were want.
The Newburyport Herald says il
We can inform the editor of the CONNER.
lal Advertiser that MIR. Sprague's case does MT
am" alone. MIR. Timothy Flint, a we'll known !,
r'ter' has been guilty Of similar piece of fraud. !,
his Geography of the Western States, rub. "a "a
shed in 1882, he has copied uer6aiim et Itero n
m from the productions of an editor ~ of G.
mi: weekly paper, in Essex County; which pro. e.
lotions have been ushered into being within two "a
udths." WV IL
And the Boston Atlas closes up with the fol. !"
wing instance of on
Plagiarism up to the hub Within T., r., ha
Us sermon has been placed on our table. st
cached in Andover few DAYS ago. nv ,hs fe
". J. ID: Yates, and published BY reouest. en-. de
led 1.-The CalviDistic Doctrine of PreJes,;n.. of
o . anmasked'" Our only object in NOTICING un
discourse OF the Rev. Mr.. Yates-is IN Le w
lIh L.