Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-04-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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DIR. Murray, Chief Of the Surgical Clinics at
the Philadelphia College, has revived the
troubles regarding the attendance of the lady
students at the clinical lectures and dlSSectlons
On Saturday he sent them note requesting
them to absent themselves from the clinics
that dav, and adds, repeatedly has the pre-
sencc Of women interfcred with the proper
management Of the clinics in ways too hume
rous to explain" The famalc students appar-
emily did not appreciate and were at the
clinics as usual. They were rudey treated by
the male students
SicLman and Smith, on the 9th Of April last
convicted, in the U. S. District Court in Bal
timore of selling distilled spirits without paying
the special tax required by the Both section OF
the act of Congress Of March 81, 1867, were
Yesterday sentenced by Judge Giles-Sickmann
to pay fine of 81 900 and to be imprisoned
one day. and Smith to pay fine OF $ POO and
to be imprisoned three months.
The papers bring us the intelligence OF the
death of Mr. John Saxton, Of Canton, OHIO,
the oldest editor in continuous service in the
United States. He died, says the Wisconsin
State Journal, on the 18th instant, aged cigh-
ty-onc years. He established the Ohio Repo-
STORY ut Canton, in the year 18Th, and has
been connected with that journal ever since.
The firm of Ben Holiday T. Co. have en-
gagged to lay OH il new line Of steamers from
Bremen to Portland, Oregon, to commence
immediately. Pass PaSsaGe ,! SO; This IS done y
connection with the Oregon and California
company combined in the Central
Pacific railroad interest-with Il view to stmu-
late the settlement OF its prlncely land grant
Testimony in suit pending in Syracuse, Tor
the recovery Of $4,000 against the Mcr-
chants Insurance Company for the goods de-
stroyed by fire in Benefits stores, IN Decem-
Der. 1869, has elected evidence duplicating
Adam Fralick, Samuel Bennett and MIR.
Briggs in the ;ncendiarism. Fralick has been
arrested.
\ man named Law renee, employed Ill
Good $ rope factory, New York, made al im-
portaut invention in the dressing of hemp,
which he patented. Good tried to claim the
invention ON the singular ground that 1t was
made by one of his employees in the line Of
his employment The Supreme Court has ma
turally rejected the claim.
\ new method Of treating the smallpox is
just now attracting the attention Of the medl-
cal fraternity, and has more special interest to
the public ut large from the fact that the
ability Of vaccination is being sharply question
ed The new remedy is the use Of the drug
hydraStlS canadenSls.
A man styling himself the Rev. Charles
Nanx, D. d., and one Henry Martin were ar
rested in New York yesterday, charged with
with. Henry N. karples, previously
charged with presenting Tor payment
forged claims for bounty money and back pay.
The Frecmasons of Paris have sent deputa-
ton to NJ THEIRS asking IN armiatice Oh be-
half OF the people Of the city tie replied that
General LAdmirault could grant Il truce
should it hr necessary, but that the Commune
could never BE- recognized rs l Government.
\ committee was appointed by the First
Branch Of the City Council Of Baltimore last
evening TO Investigate alleged charges of cor
ruption against members OF the Council in re-
atiom to the extension Of the wharvcs of the
Abbott Iron Company
y dispatch from Cincinnati dated yesterday
says REPORTS show that great damage was
dome to fruit of all kinds by FROST on Saturday
night, especially on low land. The injury is
slight on high land. The mercury fell to TWEEN
ty-tour degrees at Lebanon -
The anniversary meeting Of the Army of the
Potomac takes place in Boston on the 18th of
May; the reunion tl the Pennsylvania Reser-
yes on the 10th of May at Philadelphia The
President Is expected to 70 to the Boston re-
union.
Major POWELL the Colorado explorer, leaves
Normal, Illinois, to-day on second journey.-l
[1e goes under the auspices Of the Smithson-
al Institute, there being IN appropriation Of
s24 900 for the expedition.
At Il meeting in Baltimore yesterday ola ma
GRITTY Of the corporators of the Western Mary
and Extension Railroad Company, thirty-Six
thousand shares of the capital stock were sub
cribed.
\ number of citizens of Baltimore have
ormed Maryland Trotting Association"
eased the Park at Herring Run, and propose {
0 have an exhibition of horses there during t
lay ..-..... t
Secretary Boutwell, has directed that the I
ommlsslon of one-quarter of one per ct. for the
egotlatlon Of the new loan shall be paid in q
Oin 49,. II
a reception fleet under the command of Ad- b
liral Porter, will be sent to meet the Grand t
luke OF Russia ON his arrival here in June Il
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