Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-01-23

SALE or real Estate AT BRIoHrwooD.-
Mr.. j. Z. Moses, brother Of w. B. Moses, has
purchased lot Of ground At Brightwood, con
Crystal Springs road and the eth street railroad,
for the purpose Of erecting large hotel as a
convenient suburban resort. This lot Is por-
ton Of the M0reland estate, and directly oppo-
site the country residence Of ex-Mayor Emery,
and contains a handsome grove OF oak trees.
The Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities,
ures to erect q large hall at this village. One
hundred and fifteen shares of stock have been
subscribed, out Of the one hundred and seventy
e work
in the spring and completed during the coming
summer.
attention was sometime since drawn to several
short articles in your valuable paper on the sub
ject Of heating, railroad cars. After careful
study Of the subject, have devised q process
whereby the desired ends, safety and comfort,
can be attained, and will have . model ready
for exhibition by Monday next. You asked in
the country was not equal to the emergency.
now respectfully ask through your columns,
which of our great ra1road corporations will
grant the opportunity of testing such inventions,
as 1t Is rather more than some inventors can do,
unaided to prove the merits of their productions,
by building frst-class passenger coaches for the
purpose. My invention consists of a much more
safe and economical mode OF heating than that
in present use, as well as a safer and quicker
mode OF egress from the car, in case Of accident.
INVENTOR.
GRAND COUNCIL, Sons OF JoNADAB.-The
annual session of the Grand Council, Sons of
.Jonadab, for the District Of Columbia, was he'd
last night. The officers reports show the Order
to be in fiOurishing condition, the number Of
councils having increased from two to eight,
and the membership more than doubled during
the past year. The membership here il nearly
600, Pioneer Council numbering 500. The fol-
lowing officers were elected for the ensuing year:
X. o. POlknhorn, grand chief; John Goldin,
grand deputy; w. q. Perry, grand secretary;
W. H. Young, grand treasurer; Z. L. McGaw,
grand marshal; James II. Maxwell, grand inside
sentinel; VIM. H. Folk, grand outside sentinel
REroRrKD SHOCKING MURDER OF CoLoRED
MAN IN VIRGINfA-It is reported in the CITY
this afternoon that the body of a colored man
was found in the woods about mile from the
Virginia side of the Long bridge last night.
1t is said that last evening the murdered man
was seen in company with several other colored
men, all OF them appearing to be intoxicated.
At a BARRON on the road they got into q quar-
rel, after which one of them left the tavern and
started up the road in the direction where the
body vas found this morning. Soon afterward
man passing along the road, reported that he
heard loud cries OF tsmurdOr!
SMALL POx CAsEs.-The following were re-
ported at the board of health office to-day:
Henry Frazier, Union street, between n and D,
southwest; Miss Dixon, 825 9Th street, south
west; at RObt. Hawkins, X street, between 9Th
and eth, southwest; and case at corner LIST and
street, southwest; s. Boston, eth, near l.
street, southeast: Maria Chapman, corner of n
and South Capitol street. Mrs. Stevens, corner
18th and nj streets, southeast; and Rosa Red
mond, alley between Az and 9th and c and
Louisiana avenue, were reported dead.