Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-05-05
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The funeral Of the late John R. Thompson
took place in Richmond on Sunday afternoon,
and vas largely attencd. Rev. Joshua Peter,
kin p. D.. pastor of St. james Episcopal
Church, conducted the services, and Rev Moses
y, Uore, D. d., of the Second Presbyterian
Church, delivered brief aud touching dis
course.
The Direct Trade Allan Line Steamship Com
papy has purchased wharf in Portsmouth Tor
twenty-five thousand dollars, and will hereafter
make their landings on that side OF the river
Timber gcttcrs from Washington and George
town arc in King George county contracting Tor
timber for piles.
Five citizens Of Fauquicr have recently died
within a space of ten days, each of whom lived
upwards OF eighty years:
Some of the Richmond lulllcrs are using
Michigan wheat brought from the West via
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad.
The city of Richmond realizes about $500
pcr aanum from license tax on dogs
BANKRUPTCY DECISION Nathan and Leo
pold Ulrich merchants In the Southern District
Of New York k, were adjudicated bankrupts in
this district, and an assignee in bankruptcy ap-
pointcd to collect their assets for the benefit oil
the creditors Of the bankrupt's estate. Among
these creditors were II. 3. Cahn Il Co., and
Steiner l. Co., firms doing business in this dis
trict. A large part of the assets CT the bank
rupts was in the State of Illinois, being held,
rs alleged, by means of fraudulent assignment
of the baukrupts, by person named kaut-
maun. Mcssrs. Clafin & Go and Stci ncr y Co.,
Instituted suits against the property IN Illinois
to recover the amount of their claims against
the bankrupt estate, and were cnjOlncd by the
Bankruptcy Court of this district from proceed,
ing any further in such suits, on the ground
that the Bankruptcy Court of this district had
exclusive jurisdiction to collect and dlsburse
all the assets Of the balikrupts estate tor the
benefit Of all the creditors of the bankrupts
estate, wherever such assets might be found IN
the u S. 4 motion was made to vacate this
Injunction, which motion Judge Blatchtord
to-day denied, on the ground assumed by HIM
in issuing the injunction ordcr.-N. I. lost.
SINGULAR AND SUDDEN DEATHS. -Two col
orcd women died within an hour Of each other,
in Petersburg, on Friday, under circumstances
uncommon and singular. Both Of them were
well at 6 o'clock y. III. Soon after one Of them
was taken i'll. Dr. j. Herbert Claiborne was
called, but found her dying, and pronounced
the cause to be disease of the heart. Another
woman, who waited on and assisted in sllroud-
Ing the first, was taken suddenly i'll and died
almost Immediately. The singularity Of the
coincidence induced the family to insist on
coroncr's inquest and post norton examina-
ton revealed the fact that the death of the first
was from ancurism Of the aorta. This state OF
Affairs, in the first case, seemed sufficient to the
coroner, to justify him in dispensing with an
inquest in the second case, as it was evident
that death occurred from natural CAUSES
A SrUNKY RACE.-Thcrc was a certain
married couple OF Il Rockbrldsc family who
moved to Iowa some years before the war.
They were anxious to raise up name to the old
Virginia stock in the West, while another we'd
dcd member who remained in this county was
avcrsc to allowing the old patronymlc to perish
in the Valley.
A correspondence was opened after hosti-
ties and count made Iowa had thirteen
children, and the ''old home farm, tailed him
to baby.
Old Virginia never tire. --LGrington w.,
GcL=cttc.