Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-01-15
VOL. LXXV.

PER ANNUM, payable in advance.
A SENSATION IN WESTERN New YORK.
The spiritual excitement or revival iu the neigh
borhood of Rochester, N Y, seems to have
eliminated in the case of Miss Eleanor Bon
ney, an adopted daughter of MIR. Preston, living
in or near the village of Avon. The story ID
regard to this young woman is that she had,
since the beginning of last Autumn, constantly
asserted that she would soon leave her body
and be absent several weeks, returning hnaily
tu communicate such news of the spiritual
world as had never yet been given to man.
This prediction was renewed and dWelt upon
until her friends grew heartily weary OF the
subject. Finally, on the lith of November,
she informed them that the time had now come,
and after making some personal preparations
with great cheerfulnesS aud composure, lay
calmly down, her breath growing shorter and
fainter until at a. H., when life appeared en-
tirely extinct.
Six weeks have passed since then, and still
the body lies 10 Mr.. Preston's house, guard
ed aud watched over by the little circle OF be-
levers who still wait for the terminating spirit
to return. In spite OF their care, the matter
has now become public, the Coroner has been
called, and physicians have insisted on Inspect
ing the body. The ghastly description given
would seem conclusive as to its being really
corpse, but still in Difference to the intense de-
sires of the friends, further proceedings have
been postponed aud they are still watching tor
the re-aminated body 10 rise again. Finally
the Coroner ordered medical postmortem ex-
animation, which after some opposition Oh the
part of the friends, was completed, revealing
the ipterDal organs far gone into decomposition.
tbo &c
Since then spiritualist medium has published
a communication, purportiDg to come from the
deceased girl, stating that at any time during
the six weeks after death she could have re-
turned TO the body, but delaying to a longer
time, she found herself unable to re-animate
the decayiug frame. With this explanation
the believers appear to be satisfied.
THE SALARY BILL.-The following is the
text of the salary bill, as it finally passed.
BE it enacted, &c., That so much OF the act
Of March Sd, 1878, entitled s'An act making
appropriations for the Legislative, Executive
and Judicial expenses OF the government for
the year ending June 80, 1874, as provides for
the increase of the compensation OF public Of
fcers and employees, whether member Of Con
grcss, delegates or others, except the President
and judges Of the Supreme Court, be, and the
pensaiou aud allowances of all such persons ex-
cept as aforesaid shall be as fixed by the laws
10 force at the time of the passage Of said act:
Provided, That mileage shall not be allowed for
the first session OF the Forty-third Congress-
that all moneys appropriated as compensation
to the members Of the forty-secoud Congress 10
excess of the mileage aud allowances as fixed
by law at the commencement OF the Forty.
second Congress, aud which has not been drawn
by the members of said Congress, respectively,
or which, having been drawn, have been re-
turned u any form to the United States, are
hereby covered into the Treasury of the United
States, and are declared to be the moneys OF
the United States, absolutely the same as IT
they never had been appropriated.
TExAs.-The following is the Governors
proclamation
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. l2.-Whereas the Su-
preme Court of the State, IN q recent decision,
declared the election held on the I'd day of De-
cember, 1873, 10 substance to be invalid by rea-
son Of the uuconstitutionality of the law under
which said election was held; and whereas great
public injury and further dangerous compllca-
lions of public affairs are likely to result from
any attempt on the part of those claiming to
have been chosen as members OF the Iegisla-
ture and other officers at said election to assume
the positions they claim: Therefore, for these
and other reasons which it is not necessary to
Incorporate herein it is deemed advisable, and
it is so ordered that those who have been
chosen legislators or other officers should not
attempt to assume the positions unless by fur
may hereafter be validated. All good citizens
are advised to abide by the decision of the
competent tribunal and aid in maintaining pub.
l;o ordor md moderate cOunSels
(Signed) E j. DAVIS Governor.
ELECTION CONTESTS The Committee on
Elections yesterday heard Mr.. Snyder, of Ar
kansas, in opposition to the continuance of the
contest now urged against him. The ground
taken is that the contestant, MIR. Bell, has not
followed the usual procedure IN giving notice
of contest Morgan Rawls, of Georgia, was al
so allowed to file additional testimony to sub
stantate his right to a seat Thus action was
taken 10 consequence of the destruction by hre
Of the papers prepared at an earlier period IN
the preseut session. Neither case was finally
concluded
The West Virginia contest has been post
roned until Wednesday, but it is not probable
that favorable judgment will be given on
either side. The entire matter has been con-
sidercd impartially by the committee, and in
view of the conflict of legal principles, three
separate reports will be submitted to the
House. the general opinion prevailing, however,
that new election should be ordered Wash.
Republican,
LAcoNIcs. Smiths charity sermon
from the text, 'He who giveth to the poor,
lendeh to the Lord" IF yoh like the Sc
curity, down with the dust, is admirable alike
for brevi,y and point. Our point just here is,
that Laconics are the order OF the day. And
our Legislative bodies to whom that phrase is
so familiar, having already received ample ad-
vice in regard to amplitude of speech. We do
not propose to press our point further, but fol,