Evening Star Newspaper, February 10, 1883, Page 2

STAR: WASHINGTON <p eos aes) Sem ISCENCES THE DUELLO | night dispute, if any had been reached, and OUR GROWING CITY. in ash. At the rear of this is a hall 16 by 20 fect, | THE SEED THEORY. OF VEGETA-|THE QUESTION OF POLICE BRE» AT WASHINGTON. while standing in front of the door, exchanging — the wood work of which will be oak. There TIO: FroRx. few words with a passer-by, a hack drove up, | Present amd Prospective Building Op- | sre each Will be a fireplace here, and the French windows peneaiay — xo. 2 out of which sprang Dr. H. and Dr. Charles Bell erations. 1@ Soundacss Questioned. ‘What A Policeman bas to Say to Exe << Gibson, the surgeon who had been engazed to Ju anbie Police Agent. , Fhe Duel Between Dr. Daniel Johneon | attend the party to the field. Dr. Gibson thrust Inti ing aud Thos. F. Jones, both of North Car-/ his arm into mine and hurried me into the |“ OCTLOOK OVER THE FIELD—THE FRICES OF | on i4tn , iaa—The Last Occasion in which house. I immediately noticed a drop of| LABOR AXD MATERIAL, AND THEIR EFFECT | of cottage ee Toof, to cost some Blood was Shed ina Duel Fought im | blood on his gaiter, and _assconas weentered | ON THE PROSPECTS— INSPECTOR ENTWISLE'S | where from $9,000 to this Vicinity—Extraordinary Sequel | the passage he exclaimed: “My God! Dr. John-| views—“Tae FLATS” IN WASHINGTON—THE | The unique residence which Gen. prc be Leg rng Shorty alter he late therasont teames the other | SOLCMBIAN PREPARATORY SOHOOL—THE MET Sener ite aad eevoete eplosreng bee ples back. thas shortly after he let e nig! fore, of mple- did ex) WRITTEN ESPECIALLY FoR THE STAR BY Cot. cH: | side had withdrawn their objections and accepted || BOPOLITAN CLUB HOUSE, AND OTHER NOTABLE | tion, ‘The work has not been done hastily and | finished inoak and cherry, In the reer isthe | dently commits himself to the popularview that mepeeaderta yew men porated ( LEE JONES. the terms precisely as orcas, and insisted | "PROVEMENTS. : the building when finished will be one of the | butler's pantry with a dumb-walter to the wine- | Primarily all vegetable life (and, per conse- 7 feel 3 pets upon an Immediate meeting; that they had gone — most solid structures ever erected In this city. | room below and an elevator running from the | quence, all other forms of life also) begins with | #8 Something ore about him, and_that his One day in the month of February, 1846, the | out at daylight, each party accompanied only | ‘The demand for houses both from those who | The basement walls are 23 inches thick and from | basement to the kitchen on the top floor. | seed.’ Such a belief is so agreeable with com- |! rather than his views wanted ventilating. writer, returning to his office after a short | by hissecond and surgeon, and had sought to | wish to buy and those who propose to rent has | that to the top the walls are 18 inches thick, | The third floor has rooms for the kitchen, pantry mon observation and experience that few carry | He starts out to tell us what he concetves to be abse from the Hon. | ind the famous old Bladensburg dueling |4,o4, while the jnner are 14 inches. The wood | and store rooms and servants’ rooms; also sev- the best and puts hi above that nee found on his table a note from the Hon. | ground, where Decatur fell, not being aware if | Pee Femarked upon by dealers as the feature of | Work in met the first floor will alone cost | eral handsome sleeping apartments, with a | thelr inquiries beyond the generally accepted peer dinoclgremticll cea Daniel M. Barringer, then a Representative im | jiaq been long since abandoned for such pur- |the real estate market in this clty during the | $10,000. : alls and. cellings of the two | bath room. The besrment contains the billiard | fact that, outside of the seed, natureis endowed | Proposed by someof our newspapers. This may Congress from North Carolina, stating he had | poses. the property having been purchased by | past year. The constant accessions toour popu- | outer vestibules and that of ‘the inner hall, | room, 23 by 35 feet, which will be finished and | by the Creator with no reproductive resourees. | be rather egotistical but excusable on the ples called, was very desirous of seeing me, and | the late Joha’C. Rives, and he was at that very | lation of people, who’ make this thelr winter | Whence the main staircase goes up, will | wainscoted in Florida pine. There will be also | A8 to the soundness of this doctrine, I must con- | that the inferences of his article are unfortunate asked the favor that I would immediately, on | time erecting his fine mansion in the immedi- | restdence, as well as those whom the growing |e paneled in oak. The dining ' room | a barber shop, with an entrance on 17th street, | fess myself skeptical. In my younger days I | for him, and place his standing as a citizen and z ate vicinity of the old duelling ground. All " will be finished in mahogany, and the parlor in | the wine cellar, store and coal rooms and lava- | Was engaged in agricultural pursuitsin one ofthe | reformer in an unpropitious light. Men of too my return, come fo his rooms in the house only | the harties were strangers fo the neigh. | Dusiness of the executive departments adds to | Ny Cay wood carving wili be elaborate and | tory. ‘The afchitect's design has provided | western states,—lowa. My curiosity was often | much Knowledge of the inner life of thieves next door to my own. This request was com- borhood, and their hackmen were unable to lo-| the civil service is the foundation of this m original designs. Instead of terra cotta | for every requirement needed in a modern club | excited by observations like those cited in | gain It by associations that would hardly bear plied with, when I was introduced to @ gentle-| cate the ground, when. finding themselves in| demand. The new residents must have homes, | ornamentation on the outside walls, various de- | house sad the builders, Robert Davidson & Co.,| Mr. Turner's article. I will refer to | the investigation of day. “Ex-Police a 4 Tan pe lexander Henderson. of North Caro- | view of the village of Bladensburg, they select- | and hence the new houses springing up in all | slgashave been carvedon the bricks by artists | are executing the designs in the substantial }two or three memorable instances of | after along detail of robberies committed, Ima. whom I tound anxiously awaiting my | ed ground on a hill, right in sight of the village, of the city is the legitimate | Tm Boston, ata cost of $700. Several hand- | and handsome style for which they are sowell|this kind. In an enclosed field | Amounts stolen and by whom, enters upon @ coming.and was then informed that he had come | and proceeded to arrange for the fight. When | Pats v el some mosaic glass windows will be put in at the | known. The plumbing is being done by Hay- | Cleared in a high upland forest of gigantic oaks, | criticism of the police, their fitness and capacity Daniel Tohasee te a eae prother-in-iew, Dr. | atthe word “Fire!” Mr. Jones quickly wheeled, |Tesponse to the wants of @ growing | head of the grand staircase and other places, | ward & Hutchinson. ‘The cost of the building | several acres of land had been plowed and left | for promotion to. the higher grades, and verily Daniel Johnson, ina duel impending between | fired, and hit his adversary in the head, killing | population. The activity in the real estate | the windows costing about $250 apiece. The | will be 30,000. to ran wild again. The following year a thrifty | concludes that there is notone of these him and Mr. Thos. P. Jones, a lawyer of some | him instantly. Of course, it was purely an accl-| market is, therefore, not a speculative move-| entire cost of the ‘building will 260,000. BACHELOR wuare: growth of fir, or fire-weeds, higher than man’s | ed to fill the required places, consequently the distinction, and both gentiemen ‘of the very | dental shot, as the parties are always instructed | ment. The record of the last season proves this | Charles Edmanston le the builder. On the lot adjoining th the Metro- | hesd..came up. The next year, from the seed | two hundred men or more of the fore lack the highest social position in his state, and being | notto alm higher than the knee, as one is lia- | conclusively, and as pointed out inthe arinual | The new residence which is being erected by n the lot adjoining the property of TO-| of the first sprang up a thicker growth, but | broad views, cooler judgment, knowledge of entirely unversed in: the rules and etiquette of | ble always to hit rather above than below their | report of the inspector ot buildings the amount | Mrs. Admiral Rodgers, on N street, between 17th | Politan club, and facing on H street, several | dwarfed to two or three feet in hight, and some | human nature. etc., which mental endowments the code duello, he wished to be Se alm. In the meantime, they had attracted the | of money invested in building operations ex-| and 18th, will be finished about the middie of | members of the club are erecting a handsome | strawberry vines began to show themselves. | must be sought forelsewhere, The writer then some points,—which seemed to ving him attention of the people of the villaze, and imme- | ceeded that of the previous year, although at | the summer. It will bea very elegant and com- | building for use for what is known as Bachelor | The third year the fir-weeds had almost disap- | States that “there are many men outside of the mental trouble. First he wished to be in-/ diately after the fire were surrounded by the the very outset of last season there was an dp- | modious house; the cost being $16,000. $16, et, | peared, but the ground wasin many places well lice who are much better fitted to fill the of- formed. whether, being the brother-in-law of | police, who arrested Mr. Jones and his party, | prectable advance both in the price of labor and | Mr. Hubbard: the president of the Bell Tele- | £98. This building has frontage of 23 feet, covered with strawberry vines in good bearing; | fices than those already there,” and it is reason- Prins rid, Consistently with the re-| but Dr. Henderson and Dr. Gibson managed to | material. In the price of labor this advance | phone Co., who bousht the residence formerly | ®°4 1s 75 feet deep. It has four stories and @ | and here and there the shrub known eeremed, | able to conclude that ‘bx Delice Agent” would Gflizements of the code, serve as his second. | reach thelr hack, and after being hotly pursued | was as much as 20 per cent, yet In spite of the | occupied by Wm. M. Galt, on Connecticut ave-| basement. The design is one of the happy and | eprang up and grew lustily, besides many black- | be @ notable example. He takes exception to He was informed that a brother-in-law, not be- | till they crossed the District line, effected their | increased cost extensive bullding operations nue, facing Dupont circle, has about completed | tasty ideas ofthe architects, Gray & Page. The | berry vines. the mention of the naine of one member of the ing # blood relation, did not come within the ! escape, leaving the dead body and their pistols | were carried on. the improvements and alterations. The resi- | Tomsare insuites suitable forsingle gentlemen, Such was the succession of vegetable life on | force in last Sunday's Capital for major of polices, degrees of consanzuinity prohibited by the code, | on the field. Dr, Henderson was much con- THE DEMAND FOR HOUSES dence is now one of the most convenient and com- | 4nd are to be rented exclusively to members of | this plot of ground in three years. I marked in | Which one, as there were two spoken of, the whieh extended ‘ , father belesee cerned at the necessity which required his leav- | still continues, and there is, therefore, not much | plete in the elty. The interiors of some of the | the Metropolitan club. The building will con- | conneetian with these observations that none of | Misguided public are left in ignorance. This is And if the other tet ie need | i ing the dead body on the field, and stated that Tooms are very striking. One called the bronze | tain four suites of two rooms'and eight single | these plants grew in the outlying lands joining | Unfair and unjust—but to make prominent the give himself no concern on that point. He -re- | some years previously Mr. Badger, then ayoung | “Peculatlon as to the prospects for the season, the ‘Writes for Tae Bran by E. Coombs. — D. Turner has an article in your last Satur- ee Renieet tas Benepe Wah day's issue entitled The Earth is Full of Seed, In yourissue of Wednestay ““Ex-Police Agent® head of the stairs, are the dining-rooms, the | which isinteresting both inite factsand nits de- | "8S given epee sr ponscl ic — large one fronting on street and two smaller areef our ‘ones "All the rooms on this floor will be | etlons. With respect to the latter, he evi- | Vlews upon aystem. room has the walls covered with paper which | 70oms, each suite and room having a bath at- | thisfield, except in a few small spots where the | one he held in mind, he states that “he isaman ' plied, that on the other hand, they had ex-| man, acted as second in @ duel in which his | W2!ch will open with the termination of the | jas the design of flowers and pt ealigeir Shit out | tached, and all the rooms having open fireplaces, | earth had been artificially broken or stirred; and | Who has never been a hundred miles from Wash- Pressed great gratification at meeting him in | friend was killed, which so overpowered him | Cold weather. That there will be a good deal of | in relief. The color 1s bronze. The interior finish and wood work will be of | that no asumach could be found nearer than a| ington, and who could not distinguish between Such position; and then stated, what seemed to | that he fled, leaving the dead body on the field. | building goes without saying with those| Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of | modern and elegant designs. The building will | quarter of a mile from this clearing, in a deep | ® thief and an honest man.” It may be possible give him much pain. that his principal had in- | That while Mr. Badger was ® unquestion- | acquainted with the state of affairs here, and | the telephone, who has recently taken posses- | be completed early in the summer, and will cost | ravine, through which meandered a little brook. | 88 to the first particular that neither one ot the formed him, he intended to throw away his fire | ably the first lawyer in his state, and ranking the only question that arises is what will be ite | SON of the Broadhead house, {s furnishing it in | #17,000. The builder is Thomas Kinney. More than a mile away from the forest of | Heutenants have traversed the Atlantic or Pa- and fire in the alr, and wished to know if It | among the very first in the whole United States, | extent? Tt sooma te be aoror alle cca eered chug | superb style. Ho has devised an elaborate sys- | THE COLUMBIAN FREPARATORY scoot per.prxa. | which I have sppken, on the prairie adjacent | cifle oceans to gain the excellencies so much Would be proper, with such knowledge, to ac- | this act had materially retarded his advance- sp ea J di tem’ of electrical wires and bells, that connect | One ot the most Important improvements | thereto, my father broke up and enclosed | needed for the office of majorship of the me- company him to the fleld. He was answered | ment in life. While his great abilities were con- | ‘"@,,®08wer to this question depends pon | every door and window in the h ith fitteen acres of land, which, on account of sick- | tropolitan police; likewise this broad continent that there was no rule one way or the other on | ceded, yet the people had never conferred on Sil maine roe fidiag te ion roota whleh he calls bis central ofice, "An inas | tat has been made for some time is the new | ness and other misfortunes, was also allowed | in search of knowlede and.experience no neces the subject. and it was a matter entirely within | him sny of the political honors his talent so | Nd material, If the cost of building Is “ili | Cator In that room shows instantly when ever | Preparatory school building tor the Columbian | to run wild after the first year, ‘There. was the | fry. This is sad. why did they nol anticipate hisown Judgment, and to be decided by him- | eminently entitled him to recelve. Mr. Badger | rotuse to Invest thelr mance with es Ml | a door is opened or shut. If it Is only partially | University, fromthe plans and under the super- | same succession of vegetable life till after the | this infallible solation of the police problem, self. A a very few years after this ably represented his | Of waiting until cheaper rates prevail. | Opened, that fact is indicated. By a glance at the | intendence of Mr. W. M. Poindexter, architect. | third year, as in the former instance, when «| and wait till this late date to be told of thele THE CAUSE OF THE DUEL. state in the Senate of the United States. .The An Interesting topic then Gaeae presente the | electric dial he can tell exactly whether the | The building is located on H street, between | Peculiar kind of oak began to come in, different | deficiencies. How many Washingtonians are I was informed the parties had been intimate | writer endeavored to allay Dr. Henderson’®ap- probability of an advance in the price ot mate- | 10ors are open or shut. At night it would be | isth and 14th streets, and is now nearly ready | 2.Yatiety from any kind known to grow in the | there similarly fixed who have a prospective J triends, and that their present attitude | Prebensions, and volunteered to go out and impossible for any one to enter the house with- b ¥ ready | forest lands of that part of the country. Now, | ¢ve to the majorship? Take warning from personal friends, a P | bring in the dead body. Dr. Gibson enjoined rial and labor. A Star reporter has made care- out having his nce announced by the bells. | fF occupancy. An inspection will convince the | T have a decided conviction that the seed of | this, and prey your letters of recommendia- grow out of the charge of an improper intimacy | nimto secure the platols loft on the feld. which fal inquiries among snose, posted jm regard to.4 “xr. John Sherman, the real estate agent, has | Must exacting of the fitness of the bullding for | these oaks was not planted there by man nor by | tions to be In accord with this requirements Seateanen creams and the wife of the |niad heen borrowed by him for Dr. Johnson | qerPr cs o|macetals and has ellolted the pre-|| caioted the handsome row of houses on 1otn | it8 {ntended purposes. | The dimensions are 50 | any other living creature, nor wast carried | #lso file your passports at the sane time. T was also informed that Dr. J.had | trom a friend in Battimore, who highly prized | {n' prices. In regard to bricks, it 1s thought | Street, south of Massachusetts ayenue. One of <a sho Pavia ie one eed cor there by the wind, though we do sometimes | One point more and I am through. The settled up hls affairs in North Carolina, and if! them. Procuring @ hack, and with an under- | thé Cetag to th t My bel tty | these houses, with a front of 40 feet and a side | Pasement inhelght. The front 1a faced with | have cyclones in that part ofthe country which | Writer eays that on last Inauguration A he survived the duel it was his intention to | taker I went to the village of Bladensburg, and ‘at owing le present supply Ing pret yard, has been old to Gen. Roghester, the pay- pressed and molded bricks and North River | are quite equal to the production of such a | S@wa lHeutenant and detective standing settle permanently in New Orleans. From this | there, stretched on a plank, elegantly dressed, | an ia the surier, thre lll be mene deny | master general of the army, for 818,000, ‘The | blue stone; the openings being of larce | phenomenon, but ho candid, piilosophic ina | four tect of notorious: thieves whe ke moe T inferred the chare was well founded and per- | Saw, for the first ttme, the body of Dr. Johnson, | Early in the season, but as the now ick ance | next one has been sold t0 Col. Leiber, the | dimension and so disposed as to impress the | would urge this as an argument to make out» | tions by name, as handsome a specimen of mankind as I ever < “ ying their plans. AM that sigs : : if on- assistant judge advocate of the army, | beholder with the character of the buildinz. | case against the doctrine of spontaneous pro- | cat be sald Is ‘that if Ex-police Avent at thas Mendy) (ha qe wes eet to ee pro- | beheld. Obtaining the permission of the coro- ou the market the prices will return to the pres- | Poets hos Uqeo, ,aavocmee OF very clegaat | The approach is by a massive stoop of brick and | duction. PPO" | time was an officer of theiaw it wax his per sort of pistols to be used. Dr. H. stated his | ner to remove the body, it was delivered to the ware: = appearance, and is built in a solid and snbstan- | Stone, with separate entrances tront and rear to | — But there are other facts equally suggestive | to arrest the thieves, or, if he was then @ principal had an idea that the old fashioned | undertaker, taken to Washington and thence THE PRICE OF LABOR. tial manner, with the Introduction of whatever | the basement story. ‘The main entrance ls by | that point my argument against the theory thet | 2, he should have told the nearest poliee offic flint and steel, and not the percussion, was the | shipped to North Carolina. The pistols| It 1s further ascertained that probably, a8 a | in modern ‘ideas of architecture and interior |tW0. Sets of large double doors into a hall | the earth is always and everywhere full of real | Cef and have seen that the parties were arrested, Weapon recognizni by the code, those whieh | I found in the hands of the constable, who re-| rule, the building trades will not ask for in- | finish that tends to the comfort and elegance of | 12 feet in width. communicating directly with | seeas which produce the varieties of vegetable | If he states the truth. that the thieves were had been secured forhim were of the latter | fased to deliver them up, and only after resort: creazed wages this eeason, but will be satisfied |® home. The two houses; built by the same | the stalrease hail 16x25 feet, from which you | life that we see. On the wasted ruins of an old | then laying plans, and he failed to have them sort. and while it was immaterial to him which | ing to a bribe, as the cheapest and least trouble- | with the present rates, ‘The only execpt gentleman, on Massachusetts avenve, near 14th | enter the three large class rooms and office. » close to the western banks of the Missis- | locked up, he ts no better than the thieves, and sort was used, yet ished to conform strictly | 80me_mode, could they be secured. The case present rates. e only exception are street, have been sold to Capt. McCann, U.S. This story is 14 feet in heivht. A broad and | sinpi, six miles above Muscatine City, Iowa, I | It 18 a diggrace to himself to mention the matter to every punctillio, and if it was comme | had, fortunately, been left in the hack, and was | the painters, who have already asked for an in- iy and Mrs. Bradford, of Cincinnati, for $10,506 | massive stalrcase lends to the second story 16 | saw ‘burdock and poke, or cocumberry plarita, | at this late date. All tint Icam make out of i faut to carry to the fleld the old flint and steel | safely carried to Washington with the escaping | crease to $3 per day. The rate of wages at pre- | each. BOs feet in height, which contains the general , growing rankly in its rich mold, just as 1 have | his assumed system of reform is that citizens pistol. he would ask my kindness to assist him | second and surgeon. Had It fallen into the | sent for the various bullding trades are as fol- THE PORTLAND FLATS EXTENSION. school room 35x50 feet, a cloak room 12x17 | seen them growing a hundred times in similar | Should be appointed, under bonds; and it he ts im procuring a pair. The writer replied he had | hands of the police it would probably have been | lows:—Bricklayers, €4 per day: earpentors,$2.50 | ‘The detaile of the extension whiten will be | {et and & cosy little teachers’ study. | places in the older settled staterat Now icnorent 68 this Mack, WwiR Be Geld tte tenes heard there were in some parts of the south, a | the last seen of it, and proved a valuable prize $2.50; plasterers, $3.50; plumb- MD eed hepa euch will be} The’ school room is. lighted trom two | jand; though I have reason to be e these | that the United States statutes requires ap- few years back, some *sticklers for old fashions | to them, as it was well stuffed with gold. The 50; iron workers, #3: inborers,22, | Mided to the “Portland Flats.” given below, | sides by larze windows and Is clear of all ob- | plants are not indigenous tothe soll of the weet, | Pointments on the police force to be reade from and old thing’, who insisted that none other | currency of that day was not like it is at this : is stone cutters, $3 and | Will give some idea of the improvement which | structions, such as columns, the floor above be- | Urn states under ordinary circu: i among the discharged soldiers and saliors of the Mertie Gab tat i ocd eee ne cee Pe ee ee intr aniseee Gatco meee iscontemplated. Messrs. Class & Schultz are | Ing carried by two compound tron beams 37 feet | "In the autumn of 1893 T was United States service, except the late amend~ Used. but he believed this notion hadnow every. | heavy diseount in another state; and Dr. J..0n |” gowx oF THE LARGE spnixo coNtacrs, | the architects, It will bo of the same height as | 1 length, dividing the ceiling into three larze | nouse of a Mr. Haynes, a farine N. | ment to the bill giving the Commissioners powet Where been abandoned; that 1t would be quite | leaving North Carolina, intending to settle in ; the present building. The size of eround plan | Panels, deep plaster cornices skirting the wails | J. T went with him to eee one of the immense | t0 appoint six citizens. r &@ difficult thing to procure, at least in this re- {| New Orleans, put his funds into gold, and on | The question of the advance in the rates of : pi ing. The size of ground plan | and beams. Continaing up the ata half | marl-beds in that vicinity. ) rs gion, a pair of the older kind, as they had preparing for his position this gold was taken | Material, and, as some maintain, the rates also | 110 feet freee poe by 0 foe on Vermont landing we find another cosy teacher's study, | more the earth had been excavated to bring Mrs. Ann Benois Rudd. erally been altered to the detonating system, | from his person and placed in the pistol case, | for labor, will depend in a great measure upon hese) ae oid hs pales ot ine os ioe and on the third floor two larze pgetice @/ forth the rich deposits of marl which farmers One of the best known and most beloved tm and. like the Jo. Manton gun, been ruined and | Which was fortunately put in the hack. the amount of work to be done. If there is a eee 3 Se rhe ane | society hall and library. Above the third floor | use for enriching thelr lands. Mr. H. informed Sea Weel tee caine Ge hee oe HE TEREER CURB T EVES smounter wed sone: highest potnt of roof will be 84 fee is a lofty attic, which serves only for storage t wherever that was used as @ dressing, | her Social circle sank into the repose of death were not now equal to the modern cheap de-| The trial of Mr. Jones and hie party before | oo oe sending, and, in consequence, a | terial and the ventilating ducts roof is high il would, without any other invitation, | Thursday morning at the residence of her son- ‘tonat that the practi fa thincountry aud jal of r. Jones an his party before | large demand both for labor and material, the | of external walls, 21 inches; first story, 17 pitched and coyered wit! } In the base- | come into white-top clover,—abundant proofs of | in-law, Judge John James Key, In West Wash- are afforded | which fact I saw everywhere in that vicinity ! c ear ‘ : : ington. The death of Mrs. Rudd will be heard asthe amount of work is concerned, it is yet | fourth, fifth and sixth stories, 13 in for the heating apparatus and fuel, and | and { dare venture the assertion that the moat | "= bates to exeved the usual length, | of the village lawyer, who was taking the op- | to» early in the season to predict with any cer- | Ness. The party walls will be solid; the | janitor’s | living room. The balance, | rigid test to which this marl can be subjected | With sorrow by all who knew her, and will call ‘ies, the principal fo be armed with | portunity to make an effurt to display orator | tainty as to the extent that individuals will |Tial for front, press and moulded brick; | consisting of two larze rooms, will be play | will fai to show that there Io formats e eaeele | up along trala of associations in’ the minds of : If, how- | Cal powers, which the writer at once saw was | Maze tn building. There are, however, | mansard flat roof: cornices, ealvanized iron. | rooms for the pupils. ‘The water closets are in | seed of clover te be. heed ee eee | Thndreds in different and distant parts of the ever. one of the parties should bring a superior | do’ he party more harm than good, and see- | Several large contracts that will be carried on | AD bemoan passenger elevator will be | an annex to the basement. Allof the partitions | necessary to. the production of clover that | Country. Few persons have lived a life so fall * Pair. which mizht be supposed to give him any |ing that they needed his assistance he intro- | i the spring. The work on the Pension office | Constructed in tiyls addition, running from the | except those over the general school room are | there shouldbe such seed in the sell upon which | Of usefulness and beauty as hers. | With @ grace Sdvantaze, the great principle of the duello, | duced himself and tendered his services which | building will be pushed forward as oon as the | basement to the: sixth story, all fire proof, by | heavy brick walls. ‘The interior finish of the | the marl is cast. and refinement, which won all who approached parties must be on equality.Intervenes, | were thaukfuily accepted. At noon the jury | Weather will permit, and will give employment | brick, and with tron doors. | It will be heated by | building is neat and attractive in appearance, | Now, if’ there be any who think that the doc- | her, she also combinedar unselfish seuse of duty other side may insist that the better | took a recess.the village lawyer not having con- | t @ large number of workmen. Then there are ata There wilt be six square cut corner bay | very superior in workmanship and wearing | trine of spontaneous production is materialistic, | Tately equalled, and never surpassed. Fair shail be used by both principals, or they | cluded his speech, the writer toox the occasion | the new flats on 16th street. a large brick build- | Windows, each 69 feet high, with a width of | qualities. ‘The stairs are of ash and yellow : u : peruicious and contrary to. the cosmozony of |. AltS. Ludd’s father was Col. Palmer. a native ie by the toaa of we to consult with him. and asked the - | ing which will cost $250,000. The extension to | 14 feet, and 5 feet projection. At the sharp an- | pine, except those to basement, which are of | Moses it can be easily shown, on the cont , | of South Carolina, and a first cousin of John GC, WEEE which pate enalt bs wand. Unser tee |cusig a betas onions hae the jury choad | the Portiand Flats will invoive an expenditure | gle at. the Intersetion of Vermont avenue with | boca a othe reed ane gic are of that this is the very doctrine which he pre: | Calboun. Her mother was a Caldwell. In the h code, a dith le prevails; | commit the parties. He insi that the of $72,000. 14th street there is to be a tower 108 feet high; | yellow’ pine, finished in oil and shellac. All junds in the first two words of the first chap- | mouth of April, 1798, she was born, Ann Benols [epee iia iarvieion ie the tela en way wouldbs tosendto epee comioaies THE POPULARITY OF THE FLATS. inside width 14 feet, including the projections, | rooms and ‘halls are wainscoted five feet in| fy : id ter of Genesis, and the whole of this chapter | Palmer, at the Springs, in Mercer county, Ken- honor is pledved that the principals have never | distant. and~ procure a writ" directed | ‘This addition to a building, which is already | Which will be 5 feet. The tower will have orna-| height. Special attention has been given by | and the first five, verses Of the ceed chapter | tucky. "Gov. Adair was her unele, Mrs. Adair cticed w them. The distance is never |toajadge. This would necessitate the impris- sle | mented columns, on. the first floor porches, one |'the architect to the heating and yen-| are in clear elucidation of the same, as an being her mother's sister. She grew into a wo- thay entry dcitis Sul toa tees Wen bee | oor oe parties till a writ could bepro- |r tied Papcpacen dic ee, Style | on the extreme ed and one on each side, and |tilation of the building, and from “the | Sarnia ciuciaation of ‘the same, For the | manhood so beautiful and attractive as to be the first fire, and the principals fire at will and | cured. The coruner's jury reassembled, the law- a = ngs are adap above these several porches will be a succession | tests given the working of the apparatus | wordsb'reshith bara are not so translated in any | Temarkable even ainongst the beautiful womem. with deliberate aim. In cases of cross aggrava- | yer renewed his speech. Gladly would his eli- | 48* become in this city. Tne suite of rooms are | of balconies up the entire height of the tower | perfect success appears to have been attained. modern versious of the Old Testament as to | Of Kentucky. The Clays, the Rowans, the Wick- tion the first fire is conceded to the challenger | ents lave doubled his fee could they without | Tented at prices tor which an entire house in a | = Boot ae mule thing completed will | The system of heating employed is that of indi- bring out the true sense of the Hebrew, which | liffs, the Prestons, and others famous in the OF offended party. In this country the usual | offense have stopped Itis harangue. ‘The writer | good locality can be obtained, and yet the pres- | MaKe Probably aie ay ornainental and com, | Tect radiation by low pressure steam, combined | ig not In the beginning God created, &c., but | hil of her native state, were her Siatanes, 1s from ten to iifteen yards, miscalled | learning that Judxe Clement Dorsey lived only a | ent supply of flats apartments are not sufficient | will cost @72. 000, “Meters iiteny the sity. It 4 with the direct eystem for the halls.’ The work | should’ read At first, in principle, Goa created, | 8nd thelr names, in gentle, pleasant speoch, “paces,” and the parties fire between the worda, | inile from tne village and was then at home, pro- Soc thoat ths dewiada’ ‘Tlve eande'orithis a shee plac alee a Brig’ ie Humph- has been well and thoroughly done by Messrs. | That is to say, the whole of the first chapter re- | Were often on hertongue. Her reminiscences ‘ “fire, one, two, three, balt,” given at intervais | cured a horse and rode out to-see him. He x6 popu- | rey have the contr: for doing the carpenter | Chas. Ball & Son, of this city. The ventilation lates to_principiation. Everything was created | Were fall of light and love, showing how much of one second each. A wide spread notign onee | found that talented and genial gentleman about | !arity is found in the social surroundings which | Work, and David T. Cissell the brick work; | has been effected by four ventilating stacks, the | in contingent puissance of being,—framed out, | 8he had enjoyed life's glorious morning, and prevailed that the chuilenged party bad the right | sitting down to dinner, to which a hospitable | the occupants of the flats enjoy. The same a ee & see the galvanized iron | draught in which is accelerated by lines of steam | established, elementised and existing potenti- | how dear to her were the scenes through which to name time, place and distance. This vulgar | invitation was given. Communicating the ob- | CUS makes all the smaller hotels popular, and for - The rest will be given out by contract to | pipes in thelr entire height. In the attic they | ally in the Divine will, and ready to descend | 8he then passed. In 1815, at the age of seven- error has long since been exploded. The time | ject of my visit, and asking to be informed how | !t has been difficult this winter to secure rooms | branches of the respective trades. are connected by ducts, and have a common | into ultimates in the natural and material plane, | teen, she was marriea to Dr. Christopher mp Must be as soon as practicable,the place such as | to bring the case before him on habeas corpus if |‘ any of them. The people who come here A NINTH-STREET IMPROVEMENT. outlet above the roof. Workmen are now en- | just asa thought or conception of the mind | @Telative of the Carrolls. of Carrollton, one has ordinarily been used where the parties are, | the coroner's jury committed the gentlemen to | 9° Strangers, when living at such places} An important improvement will begin about | 4zed in putting in the desks and other fix- precedes and ultimates in external acts and | the handsomest men in Kentucky, and one of and the weapon the smoch-hore | duelling | jail without bail, which I was quite sure they | Make many pleasant acquaintances which | yarch ist on 9th street by replacing the four | tes, Préparatory to an early occupation of the | Creations. A hint of this idea is afforded in the | the most brilliant and promising im Pistol. The details arranged by the seconds so | would, he informed metiat all I had todo was to | theY Would not make fn the wilderness of the | March ist o1 gaia bering 418 to | building. | Mr. John Henderson, contractor, was | rourth and fifth verses of Genesis, second chap. | his profession, From this marriage ‘as to put the parties as far as send for lum and he would immediately come to | !arge hotels. Mr. Weston, the proprietor of the | One-story frame buildings, numbering 418 to | the successful competitor, and the entire cost | ter, common version: “These are the genera-|there were but four children who reached ity. The very words of a challe the village. After dining with the judge I re- | Portland, recognizes the fitness of flats for | 424, and extending from Boyd’s hardware store | has been $18,000. tions of the heavens and of the earth | maturity—Mrs. Huntington, the wife of Elisha smansdl tiie eatistacaion wanal an turned to Bladensburg and found the lawyer still | Washington. life, and. it is said, 1s considering | to Jarvis’ confectionery store, by a handsome es a when they were created, in the day that | M. Huntington. formerly commissioner or the and if the challengee refuses to giv haranzing, which he continued to do natil near Gis len Ren te will Conupe tte coe eee and substantial brick row of three stories. Ber ee ee een Again, the Lord God mate the earth end the general land fie, and for tw faction by nai ntlemantike, or unequal | sundown, when the case was given to the jury, f ‘ ; | Gray & Page, the architects, have prepared for | 7° tbe Fait me SemaS Sees eavens, and every plant of the fleld before it | prior is death judye of the terms, he « self, under the code, to | who ina few minutes brought ina verdict of | The accommodations of the Hamilton house er of th f Y Tcertainly have no desire to misrepresent | a8 in <he earth, and every herb of the field | district court of Indiana; Mrs. Smith, whose the penalty of being posted as a bully and a f willful murder and committed the parties to jail. | haVe also proved Insufficient, and the owner, | he owser of the property, Mr. M. W. Beveridge, y pt md was for each party to bring | “ Coroner's jury was proceeding at the time | prices for bath will tend to higher rates. As far | Inches; second story, 17%; third do., 17 inches; | ment ample accommodations field his own pistols, smvoth-bore, of | Of mv arrival. They had en: : * oe i = rr l, Hamilton Smith, was a gentleman of r he 0 lans which contemplate a brick building | your correspondent “Nous Verrons.” He now | “fore it grew; for the Lord God had not caused | husband ; Baty h pti . | Mrs. Bridge, the wife of a former paymaster in | P : fi Gere great prominence as a lawyer and business man, — DUELLING MANIAS. tess, and Judge ‘Dorsey was, immediately sent | the avy, tins purchased thehouse Girectiynortn | ee sPories, hich, with a handsome deco-| Genios in his recent letter over stating that a | 2 Tala upon the earth, and dere was not a Indiana; Mrs, Judge Key, man to till the ind.” And yet we see in the | both in Kentucky a During the reign of Queen Ann a duelling | for, who ina very short time made his eppear- | Of her property, and proposes to build over the | Fated front, the brick work to be carved in | ronq could be constructed on a grade of a foot z. 4 r the | accordance’ with original designs. tores : preceding chapter that all these things were | of West Washington, and a son, who died many mania broke oat in Enzlant similar to that [S862 aud took cognizance of the case. He at | alley and include this House, In the addition, | Wir hare large calisea, ithe realte en | to. the mils from’ **Thres' laters” to (Falls | proated gad hen sxisted: but as yet in poten- | Sears ago. But Mrs. Itudd's married Ite ter. Which disfizures French history at different | Surety: amd diseearecn tha eee amyaelt the | Sponding in style to the preseurbulking | ME Under the pavement. On the first floor| Church. An examination of ‘his frst eommunt- ra peli sas Dil Live metres barre is Sonat Gal Riauiiiel’ wile, alas ark epochs. The sword then formed part of the ules Dorey died “a tow jens toad ake THE INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS’ OPINIO: Pe etl eee eommedious stores, one of | cation. under date of December 23d, shows that Dre eat eee a es, * nis oe which will be occupied by Hayward & Hutchin- | he so states as a matter of information, and yet | ®2/mals, and man himself—when the ultimate | her orphan children. Although __ the eo which Building Inspector Entwistle stated to aSrar | son, the plumbers and gas-fitters. ‘The upper | arques out from it as a inatter of fact,’so mach | #¢t of creation took place—in the full maturity seats aah tac becotiet neo man that the indications point decidedly to the | loors will be fitted up for offices and apart-|so that I naturally presumed ne assumed full | Of their existence, severally, as to have created | the good and the beautiful of her sex alwa fos erection of a large number of dwellings, dc, | Wants, , Tne cost of this Improvement, which | responsibility in’ the premises. Having ran a | {B® Seed whence, as a rule, they were to be | Cele, Set tie tia ne eet at hercules Paces. the firing at will and with deliberate | UPFght jude. et he Judged 60 | ir gy Une Me We ae eearace of the street, | Line of levels up the ravine “Spout Run,” which | repraduced in the earth; and on either hypoth | Jove ot A ae etic thee Ie aim, and the duels fought with them always | - At the meeting of the court, about two | the coming season. He éaid that he judged 60 | j5 ¢90,000.. Mr. W. C. Morrison isthe builder. ” | shows a prade of 150 fect to the wake frome nce, | esisthere are difficulties which are insurmount- | and. her ¢ dren's ¢hildrea, waning their Joys terminated with one oF Loth of the parties being | Mouths afterward, Mr. Jones arid myself, In an- | from inquiries made at his office by some of our | ‘The’ work on the Gareld memorial church | rusdwayof the, bridee: stoetend of aoe kee | able by human reason, I am content to rest, Drorid wot ialngling ber tense wits thetr Cason Kilied or wounded. In the latter part of the | wer 40 the Teduirement of the bail bond. pro- | best builders and by strangers as to the build-| has so far advanced that the interior is now | tide,” it was but natural shouldtake less wien | HOWever, in the conclusion that the same poten” pack non Pace, Wastes wanes Seow nse century the sword was ceneraliy abandoned for | ecded in @ busy from Washington to Upper | ing rules aud what privileges may be given by | ready for plastering. The steeple is completed | hita’ on Ie aecrting tan sane te | tial forces exist throughout the realm of Nature five sears all her earthly cares were for her fam- the pistol. and the duetio was characterized by | Nariboret: sixteen miles. During the drive a | such rules. In most cases theseinquiries refor | and alsd the front of the building, and as soon | ‘easy ‘grade ot ‘not more ‘than’ a fie| to-day, as were in It er ae aan las end Sikeaac Goats tan am ok tex eee umanity and macnanimity, the usual | Pedrersanon cnsued, in which Mr.J. stated that | to first-class and costly buildings. In answer | as the weather permits operations will be re-|to the ‘mile, and at a very trifling ‘costs | Gay wien “God eaw everything that He had | lly for God alone, Mrs. Rudd was a devout distance was ten paces. and the mode of Sring | Mewes considering the propriety of taking his | to a question as to how prices of bullding ma- | sumed, and it is expected to lave the church | There is a radical difference of opinion betocea | made [existing potentially}, and, behold, it was Roman Catholic and reposed with the sbsolute Fery sunilar te that which now prevails. Note | Wife back. and desired my views on the subject. | terial compare in a general way with prices last | completed by June fret. him and myself as to the engineering problems | Very £004.’ seep pepe yptgien geen poetic | the chivairous bearing of the parties in the duels | He stated he had a large family of very young | year, he said prices are not unreasonable, nor THE MKTEOFOLIVAN CLUB HOUEE. involved in this particular roadway. whichmust | 2*hington, D. C., Feb. 4, 1883. the Church. She loved this beantiful world between Charles James Fox and Mr. Adam, in | Children; that his father-In-law, Mr. Deveranr, | are they likely to be, certainty not above the| The building which the Metropolitan Club has | Becessarily overcome an elevation of at least 300 ee and the dear ones it contained for her, but she 1779. and in that of the Duke of Weilington and | WS one of the most noble and chivalric of gen-| prices at the close ‘of last building season. e feet inside of two miles from the Potomac. Madagascar. had no dread of that inevitable doom which Lork Winchilsea, iu 1807. And while om the | tlemen; that be was greatly aitached to him.in- | here are a number of materials which enter | erected for its own use, at the corner of 17th | {eet however, need not be discussed here, / The Island of Madagascar, which is exciting | awaits all the living. The memory of a fe so Subject. the writer cannot restrain expressing | ded couid not bemoreattached toanowutather. | into modern building construction of «fancy | andH streets, is oompleted as far asthe outside though they are serious enough in their 8 2 nd pres 4 eir nature < a Ria admiration for the lofty dignity with which | T had, previously heard the lady described ss a| character which are costly, and a8 | ts concerned. The Interior work, it isthonght, | to compel the engineer’ departinent to ass’ | JUS Now considerable attention in both Eng- | lofty and devoted to duty,so pure and noble in Our own creat statesman, Heury Clay, stepped | Temmarkably quiet, modest, refined and ladyiike | fesieas haven’ much to “wit hone an additi an, and that weapon was | Village lawyer succeeded him as judge. And rally used, but the pistot was | While his effort as an advocate in titis case was a tue. the distance only six and elght | Signal failure. nevertheless he made a fair and lan tes ore precious inheritance to France, appears to rise, says a writer | @ll its attributes is a.m & i " will be finished early in the summer, and the Jonal appropriation of €80,000._ ft ts | land and s all her wide-spread family kindred than the down from his high position, Secretary ot State, n,and that her fall was generally attributed | construction those having work done will ans f bridge at Three Sisters | in The Nineteenth , like a huge sea mon- ~ in 1896, to call Mr Randolph an came ee | to the profeseional selations of Dest. setae have all these new things which ingenuity ead | PWiding will then be ready for oveupancy.. Tho not go much a o 81 Century, ig ion of millions. “A good name is rather te , and on this point alone hes | ster out of the waters. It has a remarkabl: ‘thi riches.” The world 7 earactiow cian. Onder th, erection of this buiJding marks an epoch in the | 98 f approaches, an ly | to be chosen than great Seth erases ee ans heniete ta cares ae SC hs eat jot | aid gaa Rae the es Of Shome; AB! growth of “club life" of this city, which iudi- | 6 ret Gimiculty. My profile of the river shows | compact and regular outline; for many hundred | better because she haa lived. The influence & depth of wi 70 feet between Three her life is sweet and lovely here on earth, while stances of the case, of his being useful in bring. | the act, to disregard any supposed censure of fe sh architect has his own hobby, and cates, in some the changes in the social Sistera and the Virginia shore. This deep water iniles its eastern shore is almost a straight line ing about an amicable adjustment, and he de. | the world and restore his wife to himeeif and his se them all there 1s probably a greater va- ee of, ie at ‘the Capital city. Cubs, com. | must be spanned, for no pler oan be Proftably | but on its northwestern side it is indented by a | ®t her coming m heaven Calat ¢lined an invitation to accompany the party, as ae ‘The grand jury retused to find a bill riety of methods and ideas than can be found in quarters solely devoted to their pen Gace constracted in such a depression, and, while its | number of deep land-locked gulfs, which in- ‘The mercy of God, wud strung Qn impartial spectator to the fleld. He drew up | of indictment, Mr. J. returned to his home, and | any city in the United States. Some designs never succeeded in attaining a very strong | bottom may not be of such treacherous natare | clude some of the finest harbors in the world. Their harps,” Cpe oe De A. jerma for the meeting, in ae pares heey ue was restored to her meet pace ieerecoee. eae —— on iiecatrat on hold here. The «Metropolitan cinb rer as to involve most serious engineering coma About a third of its interior to the nortn and | t© did her welcome to their midst. D.W.¥. e mi e ance twelve paces, novelty, have ruo, and are gradually = ded in its tt rd- | cations, yet my impression is that they w laced the parties back to back, and required | _,Thus was settled, under the laws of the Code | being discarded. The Queen Anne style ls one | &tadually expan Rone 1tB: oor e: less formidable a: than hat"tney’ whweel andre between the Gora | Of Honor, fataly’to the aggressor, without | OF Mego omnes, gts cueen Anne tries one | Sree with the Jncrease in ite” membership, | found eventually ioe f oy Vive im Humbug! 4 1 | the ap] es of the bridge proper. No expe- ‘Tocks— q Five, Our, Two, Three. Halt.” And suggested | Undue notoriety or shock to the community, | mentation ‘that are being left out ot plans for | 204 with the erection of this building, which engineer can question the soundness of To the EAitor of Tux Evewrna Sram: to him thai b truct his pri Pp one of those cases involving what is considered | dwell hich used to be used # great point of accommodations and facilities will bear Wri granite, uickiy, drop his pistol to ax'aim, ana “nee ee | one of the grestest wrongs und faults thar esa | ore Old plan of making light and apmmetrioal | Co™Parison. with similar club houses in New |Judgment of Col. abert and Gen. Wright, ehiet Now, Just read this section from the legisia « ” recommen: it See hls adversary's tre fo elevate it and fre | fe Perpetrated by one gentleman on another | stairways is again coming into vogue, and the | Yo" Oty aad other, plages, “clab life" tn this | BEtSe" seo cnn Cg0,000 of whiok hal In the air. I thought the wheeil id ss) ions le of settling such dif- | square landi id gothic surround ngineering ‘based ment of the arm weald in sctte winetre ae | ficdltieal How dltterest the ahock te the conc being left out newpenn. ‘Thertake ‘upmact | Ment. The building ttself, occupying a Lath pene) See ie ene approaches, and possibly it is one of tract his adversars's alm: if, after the fire, his | Munity from that which occurred on the streets | room, are dusty and ‘dismal affairs, espeially if ON easvertone™ “chard. Blows" in virtually principal was unhit. and the other side were un- | Of Washington, within view of the Presidential | the situation for stairs is in a dark place. Some lagascar, especially on ite western and Satistied aud insisted on another fire, the best | Mansion, thirteen years thereafter, when an un-| of the ornamentation put on the outside of | and engin, is superi engi-| Southern sides, were ayain, and again under advice I could give was for hits to protest and | Timed gentleman, for such a supposed provoca- | houses is overdone and’ absurd, and ie, falling Lz neer department. My attention has been called | rater, and are still raised omly fer lavaca take his principal (rom «the fleld, ‘This | 00, without an opportunity to vindicate or de- | Into distavor, as being Costly ana useless, Possible. to Col. Abert’s report on improvements of sea the eater Pine scien Would have necessitated his procuring | fend himsesf, was waylaid by two assassins and NEW HOUSES GOING UP. Georgetown harbor, dated August 8, 1883, oct apd martian there -extenae : band of another second before the matter could be | Shot dead by one of them in the most cowardly A tage on Ji street. ite iPr | following extract from which is very pertinent | orth and northwest grobel r Fenewed, and the effect of such delay would | ™#nner! ‘The following are some of the houses now in Just Rowe our free-bridge discussion: Sp pehyaegee —_ bly, bad in 7 probably be the ending of the affar. The AN EXTRAORDINARY SEQUEL. Progress of erection, or the erection of which is pall ‘The sotnal head of navigation for gam and sailing | Char tiatiy ek sae gcomnOre romp, wi = terms suxxested were iormally proposed to Mr. | This narrative concludes with the relation of | contemplated in the spring: : ‘lime fixed by the ‘a Saye eee On en ee White. the secoud on the other side, who | a very sad and extraordinary episode connected | ME. Fields, of the firm of Tichnor & Fields, the the wun tee . island a of iene cies Se finegtimber and valu- i i | with the duel. Some three or four years after | well-known Boston publishers, will build a ick, laid in red mortar, and it took place Mr. Jones had remo from his | handsome residence for himeelfat the intersec- | the square-cut ye frames heightens the former residence to the county town of a neigh- | tion of O street and New Hampshire avenue. substantial effect Of the building. In style the boring county. As a lawyer of large practice he | Mr. Geo. McIlhenney Is preparing to build, in was necessarily often from home: During one | the spring.a fine residence on the northwest i i Bs He i Fe sulted. Dr. H. was explicitly again Informed H. w f these absences a brother-in-law who had his M0th and O streets. It will be three- Orie elsontiere: that the arrangement of the terms of the meet- | ° brick. ornament here 4 Ing should be mutual; that he had no a eae wees < ood Son ayretme Foseureh, Fight to dictate them than the other side; that | sesmging? ei Of & toll-gute ae So eae While the flora the idea of the challenged party having the ood, ‘A. T.. Barber & Co, are prepari ndant, its fauna and con- Passing 2 privilege of absolutely prescribing the terms ot southern porti or Osta btn hel ‘Deing hacer ones forma oe ia @ meeting was a vulgar error. But inasmueh as _ sueen on grr apres farm, - his principal had communicated to him bis in- ecaee’ orien ie i E £ i fi H i &. H | He if PH tention not to fire at his adv , he take advantage of this een: aod i ; i BB i ; i H i uf Hi i | i peculiar and ie Bg Ere probally “survivors” of an O14-We forid exist- Aque- ace, When Hafagaecet us "ene of Sa gus. tes whose remains are only islands Seychelles and Mascarene atolls like the i if i uit Hi