Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-02-12

ericau Review will contain discussion of the
subject of Eternal Punishment, written by SIX
Of the most prominent clergymen 10 the coun'
try, representing as many scots.
News of the Day.
Charles NJ. Conrad died at Now Orleans
Yesterday, aged seveuty.three. He was born
10 Winchester, Virginia, but was carried by
his father when very youog to Mississippi, and
thence to Louisiana. lie was Senator IN
Congress in 1912 and lS43. Elected to Con;
gress as Representative 10 l849. he resigned
in August, 1850. to assume the Secretaryshlp
of War under President Fillmore. During the
civil war he was a brigadier general 10 the
Confederate service.
Rev. Henry Ward Bceoher 10 bis sermon
Sunday evening spoke Of the late Pope as
''Thst dear and good old man who had Just
gone to Heaven from the Pontifcal chair.
When Plus TX. died. said Mr.. Beecher,
that instant God s angels bore him gently as
little child in the arms of it's mother into the
presence of his Saviour 1t was not because
be was Pope, but because new heart had been
given him. The nature Of the Pope was all
love.
Two murdered infants we're found on the
commons near Washington last Saturday night;
one on the low grounds south OF the capitol
was white, and showed terrible cash severing
its throat, and one side Of its head was bruised
as though an attempt had been made to break
its skull.
A general suspension Of coal production 10
the Schuylkill region commenced yesterday,
and will Continue until the 25th instant. This
suspension is 10 accordance with the agreement
of the coal combination, but falls With great
severity upon the miners. who have been
working upon half time for several weeks past.
Gideon Wells died at Hartford, Conn.,, last
evening, in the seventy. sixth year OF bis age.
He was the editor of the Hartford Times in
1926, and was Secretary Of the Navy, through
the terms of Presidents Lincoln and johnson.
Legislative.
In the State Senate yesterday. reso-
luton repeating resolution approved in
1850 transferring to the Orange and Alezan-
dria railroad claim of Virginia against the
Federal Government for $4,000 was passed.
MIR. johnson introduced bill TO provide for
the payment Of the public debt, and denied the
statement of the Richmond Wing that ne had
claimed the authorship Of the Brooke bill.
In the House of Delegates resolution was
introduced to reduce the license tax on phySi.
clans aud 10 provide for 40 addito nal tax of
one per centum o. every hundred dollars OF
professional incomes over 5000.
Bills vera reported from committees to
amend the Code 10 relation to the organization,
government and discipline OF the penltentlary
and providing for the lease of the penitentiary
and the hiring of convict labor.
The Salary Bill was taken up and considered.
The bill 6xoa the salary OF the Governor at
SIS, 900 per apnum; clerk $500; Secretary Of the
Commonwealth, $4,000; Assistant CLERK,
$1,000; Copying Clerk, $l,040; Auditor,
$4,000: Clerk Of Accounts, $1,000: two first
clerks, 1880 each; two second clerks, $l,040;
three third clerks 1850 each; two fourth clerks,
$500 each; Second Auditor. $4,000; first clerk,
$3.50; second clerk, 81 ,O4O; three third clerks,
5000 each; Treasurer, $4,000; first clerk.
81 $50: second clerk, $l,O4O; third clerk, $500;
Superintendent of Public Printing, $1,000;
Judges of the Court of Appeals, So. 900, except
the president of the court whose salary shall be
So 200; Judges of Circuit Courts, $1,000, ex.
oept the Judge Of the 7tb District, whose sal
sry shall be So, 300; County Judges $3.50,
and an additional compensation of 500 Tor
every thousand Inhabitants over ten thousand.
The Clerk of the Court of Appeals at Rich
mond, $500. and the clerks of said curt at
Stanton and Wythevillc, $500 each; the
clerk of the Circuit Court of the city of Rich
mood, $3.50. The President of the Senate
and the Speaker of the House Of Delegates
shall each receive the sum of seven hundred
aud twenty dollars. and each of the other mem
bers of the General Assembly the sum of three
hundred and sixty dollars for attendance and
services on each regular session of the General
Assembly; and. on all extra sessions, the Presl
dent OF the Senate and the Speaker of The
House of Delegates shall each receive three
hundred and sixty dollars, and each Of the
other members of the General Assembly the
sum of ooe hundred and eighty dollars for at
tendance upon the duties of their respective
houses Superintendent Of the Peniteutiary
81. 600; first assistant keeper, $720; second.
third, fourth, fifth sixth, and seventh assist
ut keepers each, $640; moreover. each Of said
assistant keepers shall be allowed $50 worth of
the manufactures of the penitentiary at the
price fixed by the directors every year. The
General Agent aud Storek keeper commission
of five per ceDtum on all sales amounting to
SIS ,O0Oland under, and on all Gales above that
amount commission of eight per centum,
other than sales made at auction by him.
An amendment, at the Governors instance.
allowing him no clerical force except that 10
the Office of the Secretary of the Common
wealth. was adopted az also one cutting down
the allowance of $500 for Different of the At,
torney General, and requiring the Governor to
furnish that officer with room 10 the Capitol,
# possible.
The bill to incorporate the Virginia, Ken.
lucky and Ohio Railroad Company was passed.
Mr.. Farr presented petitions of citizsns,e
Mount Vernon district, Fairfax county, for and
sesinst the repeal of the fence law in said dis
riot.