Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-03-17
ALEXANDRIA.

The Gazette Of last evening has the following :
The Alexandria and W ashington Railroad case
was again before Judge Underwood yesterday
IN ehambeIsl upon q petition presented by 8.
Brent and r. T. Merrick, representine them.
selves to he the President and Directors of the
Alexandria and Washington Railroad Company.
stating that the question OF title to the said road
had been decided in favor OF the said company
and therefore asking that the order made in tie
case OF Adams Express Company VS.. VIM. A.
Marbury, and also appointing Stevens and
Phelps receivers of the road should be revoked,
and the possession Of the road delivered to the
petitioners, the following named gentlemen ap-
beared as counsel in the case, viz: Messrs.
Brent and Wattles, for the petitioners, j. d..
Smith, for Adams Express Company, Gen. j. l..
Brent, OF Baltimore, for certain creditors of
the Washington. Alexandria and Georgetown
as Company, and Governor F. P. Stanton
OF Washington, H. .. Claughton, and Law
renee b. Taylor, for the Alexandria and
Washington Railroad Company, Cthe French
their counsel, consented to the granting
OF the prayers of the petitioners.
motion, upon the ground that the decree of the
Supreme Court of Appeals in the case of the
A.. q W. Railroad Company VS.. the W., A. & G..
IL; x; COMPANY; was puiiity, the judges who
tbs o6cio," and admitting that they were not.
tbereupOn the ground that said decree was NOT
final, inasmuch as the Legislature Of Virginia,
view by the Court Of Appeals. to be appointed.
Of this and all other DEGREES made by the late
court since the readmissiOn of Virginia into the
Union. The counsel for the French Board of
Directors made no objection to the removal Of
Messrs. Stevens and Phelps as receivers. as
they had Med petition to effect that pur-
ed. and had been doing all that Law in their
power to bring it about ever since. Neither
did they object to the order being made
to the A. & " r. II. Company, o 1is rG fss
French board was to be considered as the true
an and lawful representatives Of that company, and
be committed by the order to them. They sun
posed, however, that inasmuch as the question
which Of the two boards was the legal represent
az atiye OF the company was involved in the suit
Circuit Court of the United States at Richmond,
his homer would not undertake to decide that
question incidentally upon this motion. His
honor desiring time to consider the questions
the case, but said he would endeavor to do 50
before going to Richmond next Monday.
FIRE'IThe alarm Of tire Tuesday night was
northwest corner of West and Commerce streets.
the locality known az Bull Town: 1t was rented
by Mr.. Holmes. The fire department was soon
combustible material ofShich the building was
constructed. lit was impossible TO extinguish the
names nntit the whole was raised to che ground.
BLOWN DowN.-During the storm that pre-
vailed Tuesday night three walls OF the newly
erected two-st0ry brick house Of Mr.. III. Schuief.
on the north side Of King street, between Fay,
cite and Payne, fell in. The brick work had
just been completed and the roof sheathed ready
fer shingiing. The water from the adjoining
buildings Hooded the foundation.
The TREsPAss CAsE.--Justice John Moore
and Constable OsNeal are defendants with w.
Z. Montgomery in the suit brought by the
receivers of the A. and w. r. r. and Euoch
Cook for the recovery of $1,000 damages for
trespass, committed In bre asing open the bag
gage room of the st. Asaplh-street depot and
removing therefrom trunk.
. SHINY ON, Your Own SfDE.-The poliee
have been Instructed to arrest hereafter an
noys caught playing handy within the corporate
limits.
CHEAP.-Two new velocipedes sold for s5 at
the late sale of the unclaimed packages at the
Adams Express office.