Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-07-04
Virpiuia News.

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Tn. following is list of graduates in Law
and Medicine, and the Masters of Arts, in
the University for the present session:
| N,1ficiue, with the title of Doctor of Med
icine.-B. B. Hunter Texas Il. ?. Page,
Clarke w. II. Peek, Hampton; n. NJ. Read,
Henry A. L. Slaughter, Culpepper: j. 3.
Stovall, North Carolina W. T. Thurman
Bedford; j. r. Ward, LynchburS; ". Il.
Wilson, North Carolina.
Laqc-With the title of Bachelor of Law.
Edward C. Anderson, Jr., Savannah, Ga;
Samuel P. Davis, Liberty: John u. Mason,
Falmouth; John l.. Massle, Augusta Camm
Patterson. Buckingham VIM. Thomson,
Beaufort, S. c.; VIM. f. Towles, Bayow Sa-
70, La.
Masters of Arts-Wm. Allen, Winches-
ter; L. NJ. Blackford, Lynchburg Jas M.
Boyd, Lvnchburg Charles NJ. Gibbons,
Lynchburg; John Nj. Gregory, Jr. Rich
mond Herbert H. Harris, Louisa r. M.
Il. Hunter, Jr., Essex Wm. Ii. Mackoy,
Kentucky John B. Magruder, Albemarle !;
Joseph 4. Turner, IIickstord Richard Wal
Ike, Jr., Norfolk.
In the other schools there arc the usual
number Of graduates.
We regret to learn from correspondent
of the Richmond Enquirer, that Professor
John B. Minor, the distinguished Professor
of Law at the University of Virginia, has
suffered seriously of late from a disease Of
the throat and that Professor IIocombe,
assistant professor of Law, has returned from
Europe in such feeble health as to be una
| BILE to lecture.
ATTEMrT AT SUICIDE-G. W. Sites, for
merly connected with the Petersburg Press,
but moro recently engaged as associate edl-
tor of the Bedford Sentinel, made an attempt
| ON Monday, while laboring under temporary
| alteration, to commit suicide. lie first
went to Mrs. Jourdan' $, about seven miles
| from Lynchburg, and asked for knife, stat
ing that he desired to cut his throat He
also requested them to lend him a gun, with
which to blow his brains out. Both of these
quests being of course, refused, he went to
an adjoining wood and butt his head against
large rock, with jagged edges, mutlatlng
| it in horrible manner. lie then went to
the kitchen Of Mr.. Hilsmau, where he got n
ase-knfe, with which he inflicted an ug y
cash across his throat His condition is such
| that his life is not considered in immediate
danger. No reason was assigned for the
rash act
SuIcIDE.-John Hughes. wealthy citi-
zen of Gloucester county. Va, worth Sloo,-
| 600 and one of the most honorable and estl-
mable men in the country, committed suicide
| on Thursday last. About two weeks pre-
| vous to the commission of the deed he lost
| his Youngest sou, which had powerful i'll
| huence on his mind, he took laudanum, but
the dose did not fulfill his purpose, and on
the day mentioned he repaired to one Of the
out-houses on his farm, where he sat down
and, as is supposed, deliberately cut his
throat with razor.
| ARREST The young man Gornto, charg-
ed with rohbing the letters at the Post-Of'ice.
| Princess Anne Va, OF money, and who fled
az soon as it was discovered, has been arrest
ed in Nicksburg, Miss, and is now awaiting
the action of the L. S. Marshal.
The Clarke County Conservator says: -
'"rhos. Ii. Duke, Of this County, who was
sentenced at the May term Of our County
Court to the Peniteutiury for one year, for
shooting man named Turner, has been par
doned by the Governor, and was released
from confinement in jail Oh last Tuesday
evening. This act upon the part of Gov.
Letcher will meet with the almost unanimous
approval of this community. The petition
sent on for the unconditional pardon of
Duke was signed by fully nine-tenths of our
citizens, which Showed that they considered
the act Of shooting Turner & Jnstifable one.
The Charestown, Jefferson County. indie
pendent says "A child. apparently just
borne was found near this place, on Friday
evening last, with It's skull smashed to jcl-
| ". and its body secreted under some brush.
\ coroners inquest was held over it, but no
clue to the perpetrator Of the horrid deed
was elected"