Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-03-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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interest. lt also provides that no greater
rate than six per cent. can be recovered except
where there is an agreement III writing.
The brig Mystic, Captain D. NJ. lloepman,
which sailed from Baltimore on the 2%d utimo
laden with coal, for Boston, fnuniered on Sun
day last at o clock a. m, IN fifteen tlthOmS
water, fnrty-fve miles south OF Cape Henry,
and about twelve miles from land
The Secretary of the Treasury hasinstructed
the Collector of the Customs at Brownsville,
Texas, not to clear any more merchandise for
Camargo and other points on the mo Grande,
above Matamoras now in the hands of the
rev"lutlonlstS
The weather was extremely clld yesterday
throughout New York, the New England
States and in Canada. The thermometer at
New York Yesterday morning was hive degrees
below zero =; at Boston SIX degrees below Zero,
and at Toronto twenty-five degrees below zero.
The county treasurer, district attorrhy, and
assessor of Solono county, California, REFUSE to
surrender their offices to their successors, a!eg
ing that the election was void on account OF
illegal interference of federal officers at Mare
Island.
Three justices of Castleton Staten l-land
we're fined $3.50 each on Monday for crimes in
office other justices $40 EACH ami the town
clerk was fined $40 for being drunk at the
town election Some OF the above will be tried
for perjury.
Sir Charles Moriaunt has applied for the
appointment Of medical practitioner to exam
inc into the sanity Of his wife, the lady who
created such great sensation short time
since in the fashionable circles of London.
A meeting of gentlemen connected with
banking institutions was held in New York
Yesterday for the purpose of organizing bank
as representative National bank Of the
country.
The General Congressional Radical Commit
tee yesterday appointed Mr.. Wilson Chairman
and James H. Platt ir, of Virginia, Secretary.
A full Executive Committee Was also appoint.
ed, with Mr. Chandler as Chairman.
The Baltimore Conference Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church adjourned sine die yesterday.
In the list of appointments in the Winchc<-
ter District, J. H. Marsh aud Samuel Nj. Al
ford are assigned to Winchester circuit.
| An election for Senator WAS held yesterday
in the Tenth District of Georgia, and resulted
in the victory of Styles, Democrat, by a large
majority over Armstrong independent can
didate
The clerks employed in the Departments at
Washington mailing from New Hampshire
have received ten days leave Of absence, and
will go home to vote at the State election on
the 18th instant
''The President AMI family" will leave Wa h
ington Tomorrow for Philadelphia, ''to attend
the marriage of Miss Drexcll to Mr.. Edmund
Biddle. ir.. Of that CITY. and will remain th're
until Monday next.
General Crittenden has entered suit aglin t
Stokes to recover four hundred dollars coun-
sci fees for defending him in the Tcnnes-
see bounty frauds case, which resulted III
Stoke being fined fifteen hundred dollars.
A Cleveland dispatch says REV. Mr..
O. Callaghan, prominent in preferring the
charges against Bishop Roree, has been tried
before the proper ecclcsast lcal courts and or
dered to retract
Rev. Peter Cartwright was striker with
paralysis, on Monday last, at his home, Pleas
ant Mills, Illinois, and his recovery is hopeless.
He is eighty seven years old, and has been IN
the ministry sixty eight years.
The Chicago board of public works is rapid
ly removing from the river the huks of the YES
sells burned and sunk at the time Of the great
fire.
The New York Assembly yesterday passed
bill legaIizing the bonds issued by the cities
of Brooklyn and Syracuse FIR the relief of
Chicago.
The comet which the astronomer in Switzer-
land, NJ PIantamour, predicts is heading for
this earth with indescribable velocity, will he
here Oh the II til day Of August, 1872.
The upper house Of the Austrian Rechsrath
has passed the compulsory election bill pre-
viousy adopted by the lower house.
Rev Mr. Gilmore, priest of Dayton, has
been appointed bishop of the diocese Of Cleve-
land, Ohio
Daniel W. Voorhees, has positively declined
to be the Democratic candidate for Governor
of Indiana.
The Earl of Lonsdale, formerly Postmaster
General and President of the Council in Eng
land is dead
The Planters Bank at Fort Valley, Ga,
was robbed on Monday night of $4,000 in
currency and $4,000 in specie.
The claimant in the Tichborne case has sum
moned meeting of his friends.
THE EFFECT OF LIGHT on SMALL Pox.-
The Journal Of the Telegraph says Among
the many investigations now being made of the
chemical action of light, there are none more
interesting or more important than those which
are directed to the observation of its effects on
the health. 1t has been observed by Dr.
Weber tibet the sensibiity Of the skin is very
much increased in those parts Of the body
which are always exposed to the light, and this
difference has even been measured by that
eminent physician. This remarkable fact is
especially observable on persons suffering from
smallpox, the severity of the skin disease be-
ing visibly augmented if the patient be not con-
fined in dark ROOM DR.. Waters has recently
published paper on this subject, in which he
states that if the room be darkened so that not
single ray can enter it, the effect is to arrest
the disease at the popular or vascular stage;
it never becomes purulent and the skin be