Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-07-31
CITY School Board.


Hopkins, Kauper, Mckenzie, Wilmington
aud Whitllescy, Trustees, and r. L Carue,
Superintendent.
\. E. Addison, esq, elected by the City
Cuuocil a Trustee for SnoWder School District,
to bill the uncxplred term of Beuoni Wheat,
esq, resigned, then took and subscribed the
required oath before the Superintendent of
Schools aud took his seat as a member of the
Board, thus making up the quorum.
The minutes of the last meeting were then
read aud approved, the Superintendent acting
as Clerk in the absence of that officer.
MIR. Mckenzie, from the Committee on
Finance aud Accounts. reported, as correct,
the following bills, which were ordered to be
paid, viz:
J. Il. d. Smoot, lumber for steps, &C.,
Sl022; Green l. Bro, putting down benches,
&C., $40; Alexandria Water Company, water
rent to November lst, SIS R. j. Collins, ser
vices as clerk, $3.50; Il. S. King, services
as %janitor, 81. 81.
Ga motion of Mr.. Mckenzie, the sun of
81, $50 was appropriated to pay notes due by
the Board and falling due within the mouths
of August and September.
On motion of the Superintendent, be was
authorized 10 procure the necessary record and
permit books for the teachers and clerk, for
the coming session, and a sun not exceeding
$50 was appropriated to pay for them.
The Superintendent stated to the Board that
Mrs. Julia A. Jennings, the j~1nitress of the
Peabody School Building, declined a ~re-elec-
ton.
The Chairman said that the Superintendent
had recently visited Slauntou and Lynchburg,
and conferred with the school authorities of
those cities. lie understood that the salaries
OF Janltors there were less than ours. and hoped
the Superintendent would give the Board some
Information OF the subject.
The Superintendent said that in comparing
the statistics of Stanton with those of Aluxan-
drla be had found that, with the sam uuuber
OF children to educate, the cost for ~jauitors was
less than one-third. He was astoGished and
had asked Superintendent Ladd. of that city,
for an explanation. He found that a bulldog
certainly BY no means as large as the Peabody,
but having only one fire less to keep up, and
that with stoves which were not self feeders, a
mao did all the work, split the wood, white
washed the rooms and fences. and kept the
grounds in order for SIS a month and his room
and fuel and that that salary being considered
too high, 1t had been reduced to $40. He
thought that pay much too low, but tive per.
sons had been formerly employed to do the
work now done by the ~jaoitor OF the Peabody
Building, and their entire aggregate pay was
ouly $30.50 a month. whereas, last year, $40
was paid, or IS more than was given most Of
the teachers. He thought. some reduction
could reasonably be made.
The Chairman said that with rent the pres
ent salary was nearly $500.
On motion of Mr.. Hopkins, the salary was
reduced to s25 a month during the session,
with rent and fuel.
Applications were then presented from Cor
nelius Welles. Andrew Bissoo, Jas. q. Posey,
Calvin Smith, Mrs. Waring, Mrs. Driscoll add
Mrs. Magruder, and, on motion of Mr. Nc.
kenzle, the election was postponed until the
next meeting.
The Board then uaanim ously reelected the
others j@iultors as follows:
Washington Building, Mrs. Martha j. Glenn.
ents Seaton Building, Hannibal S. King {;
lace Building, John Fields.
And, at $40, the Board adjourned.
DEAN STANLEY AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
full act. % the eighth Of My las, an educa.
tlonal visit was made by Rev. William Barden,
a noUcontormlst Clergyman, and som sixty
gentlemen of a young meu'S society, of which
he Is pastor, requesting an opportunity 10 in.
spect Westminster Abbey. The Dean received
the visitors in che famous Jerusalem Chamber,
aud recOunted the most striking scenes that
had tranSplred within its venerable walls,
dwelling especially upon the sudden death of
Henry w., described SO graphically by Shakes
peare, aud upon the celebrated Assembly of
DiVlncs which sat there for five years and six
mouths, holding one Thousand one hundred aud
SlXty-threr SESSIONS, aud producing the Couies.
sion of Faith embodied in the Larger and
Shorter Catechism. He also gave a brief but
very comprehensive sketch Of the foundation
and growth Of the Minister. From the Jeru-
salem Chamber the company passed into
the nave of the church, walking over the
grave of David Livingstone, ADD taking spe-
clal note Of the fac monument 10 the
greatest Eoglishman inferred 10 the Abbey
Sir Isaac NaWtou-thence to the tombs
of the Kings III Heury VII S chapel, where so
much OF the history aud Of the superstition Of
EngIand through successive ages is embodied
10 stone. Most Of the time having been spcot,
10 this part of the building, the party went ou
to the Poets Corner, and tonk a curious glance
Of the almost countless cfhgies and Inscriptions
which there pcrpetuate the memories of long
hoe of English worthless, from Chaucer and
SpenSer to Thackeray and Dickens, and then
proceeded to the newly restored Chapter House
"hSlo u SuuiuouS VI IIilSldOu uTSt SemUl
and laid the foundation of English civil liber-
ties: Wheo the tour of the Minister had been
made. the Dean couluctcd the visitors into the
College Dining Hall oil Westminster school,
where he had caused an ample tea to be- pro-
vlded, which was served 90 tables formed Of
massive planks OF Chestnut wood that we're re-
lies of the Spanish Armada, presented to the
College BY Queen Elizabeth, ADD bearing marks
OF the rough treatment they had received from
the cannon balls OF the English ships.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. The Fairfax
Farmer reports the following transfers Of real es-
tate 10 that county for the week ending on the
80 h :
Thomas Moore, special com missioner of Fair
fax Circuit Court, in the ~cha1cerv cause Of
Walter Powell l. Go. against NJ. j. Wooster
and others, sold a tract Of land 90 Difficult
Kun, containing l9l acres and one rood,
formerly owned by Il. 0. Smith, deceased, for
zoos, to Naamau aud John n. Peacock.