Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-03-30
NEWS OF THE DA 2.
$50 s!oao tie ve7y age and body Of The times

"A new I UTh correspondent Willis = LIZ
work of unearthing goods from under the ruins
of the .Chittenden fire is still going on. I'm
mediately following the fire the Board of I'm
derwriters took charge of the ruins and offered
to sell the chance for So, OOO No one took
it, however, and they went to work themselves.
They soon found whole cases of goods unlnjur-
ed, and so far have recovered more than one
hundred thousand dollars worth. The lower
floor was stored with boxes of dry goods, and
the walls falling upon them quickly after the
fire commenced, protected them from the
flames"
A curious case of alleged fraud has been de-
yeloped in Chicago. A man named Rainforth
simulated death and disappeared. His will
was read, leaving all the property he had to
certain persons, accompices With him in the
fraud. A rule of court being obtained to com-
pei the executors to prove the will, they con.
fsssed that Rainforth was still alive, and that
his death was simulated to defraud several lie
insurance companies, in which he had effected
policies amounting to $4,000 A long search
for Rainforth ensued, and he was found at New
York on Saturday last.
An order of arrest for Daniel Drew and Fisk
& Belden brokers, was issued on Thursday at
New York on the complaint of Joseph B.
Stewart, the assignee Of Leonard Huyck,
charging them with wrongful conversion OF
capital furnished by Huyck for a joint opera
ton. Judgment is demanded 10 the sum OF
S300,000 and petition is entered to have the
defendants render an account Of their opera,
tons in Erie stock for the last year and halt
Drew was held to bail in the SUN of $3.50, 900,
and Fisk & Belden in $50, 900 each.
W. 8. Huntington, Esq, cashier OF the First
National Bank Of Washington, has been before
the House Judiciary Committee upon subpoena,
and testified as to the condition of the Presl-
dents private account in the above-named
bank The account was shown TO be in q
healthy condition, and 4 balance sufficient to
support family ''for small spell was found
to be in Mr.. Johnson's favor; ...
4 suit was tried at Biug champion last week,
in which lady brought an action Tor assault
and battery against young man, the accuse
ton being that he kissed her while occupying
the same seat in railroad Car, she being
asleep at the time, with her head resting upon
his shoulder. The jury failed to agree.
Our advices by the cable are to yesterday.
The coronation Of the Emperor Francis Joseph,
Of Austria, as King of Hungary, is to take place
at Pesth in July next The Greek Govern
ment has asked the leading European Powers
to iDterpose in the Island Of Gambia to prevent
further bloodshed.
A party of burglars entered the office of the
paymaster Of the Jehersonvie Railroad, in
JefersonviIle, Indiana, on Thursday night,
bound and gagged the Waterman and carried
off i tin box containing twenty thousand dol
lars No arrests have been made
The bankrupt act has been left as it originally
passed, the proposition Of MIR Anthony to 6x
the lst of June as the day f5r its going into
operation failing. 1t becomes therefore, the
duty of the Chief Justice forthwith to nominate
the registers of bankruptcy.
Fifteen hundred freedmen have applied 10
the American Colonization Society within the
past six months to be sent to Africa and six
hundred of them have been forwarded there.
Cat milk has been analysed by member
Of the French Academy, and it appears that
that newly suggested beverage Possesses i'm
mense strengthening qualities
A duel took place in New Orleans lately
between theatrical manager and newspaper
editor, in which the latter was very seriously
wounded Cause, an actress
Hon n G. Taylor, new Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, confirmed by the Senate on
Wednesday last, will assume the responsibility
of his office in few days. 49,.
Eight cen car loads of fertilizers passed
Goldsboro' few days since from the port Of
Wilmington, bound to the interior Of North
Carolina.
The New York Tribune states that the new
police Of New Orleans is to be constituted Of
colored persons, as we'll as whites.
The house Of Mr. Heckel with five Of his
children, was burned last " Wednesday night, ct
Suf1ield Centre, Ohio.
RICHARDS AGAIN.--By direction Of Cover