Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-01-30

NAshlN6TONs Uauu8Iy ~, 1914.
Editor krening Star = AZ you have seen fit TO
publish most unjust personal criticism on me
in reference to what appers to be purely gra-
yet had the courage to father, would ask that
in the interests of fair play, yen give the same
PROMINENT place to the following card, to which
apprehend I nee1 add nothing, save the com
prehensive remark that the story that have
ever, under any circumstances, offered any
papess or Ior sse 70 any person
originator a liar, pure and simple.
Very truly yours. F. II. GAssAwAY.
WASHINGTON, II. c., January ~, 1874.
Mr.. Frank Gdssdgdg Dear Sir: In compli
ance with your request | write this note of ex-
plapatun, with permission to give such public
ity to it as you desire.
was, as you state in your letter published
custodian of the Huntington letters referred to,
and take great pleasure in stating that the
"copies" referred to in the same letter were al
lowed by me to be made under q mistake, and
without your knowledge, and that you are In no
wise responsible for the same, or their subss-
quent publication Very respectfully yours,
j. VAN RIswICK.
THE question now comes up how Mr.. Van
Riswick came to be the custodian Of the Hunt
iDgton letters. The public are not aware that
he is legal practitioner. Or did he receive
them in the capacity of correspondent of the
New York Sum- One thing appears evident,
and that is that the furnishing of this CORE
spondence for publication is now felt by all
concerned to have been most discreditable al
fair. 1t appears further that nobody did it,
and that he did it through "a mstake."-EdI
TRANSFERS OF REAL EsTArE.-District of
Columbia to Edward Knowles, lots q and 20,
BealPs addition to GEORGETOWN, Sl90.70; l.. S.
Chapman to W. ii. G. Thompson, lots No. IS to
%, in L. ). Chapman's subdivision of square
16i, $500; Walter s. Marchael to Mary Con
ners, lot ID, square 500, $50; P. Shoemaker to
4. A. Lawrence. part of a tract called Peters
Mill seat" S3l2.4s; Eliz G. Todd ct al. to VIM
Crux, lot Is. block No Il, Mount Pleasant,
$50; Henry Rupert and wife to w. w. Lever
square 3O3, 5000; Emil Bruehl to VIM. III.
Mohler, part lot IL, square Az, S51 80; Geo. W.
Stickney, trustee, to John II. Cook, trustee. lot
No. 20, quare 465. 81; John H. Cook, trus-
$40; S. L. LOOMS to W. W. lowering, lots No. No.
226, 22S, go, 232, 242, pa and 2i6, Loomis; sinh
division of MOtello, 81 400; John Meany to
Frank Stewart, part Of lot No. 80, Riggs sub
division 107, $1,000.
VICTIM OF BAD LUoK.-Mr. John w.
hlng, q we'll known resident of the County,
near BrightWood, may very properly be said TO
nave been during the past season the victim of
bad luck. First his dog died, then his chickens
dropped and died, next both OF his horses and
nnally, few weeks since, a dog not at the time
supposed to be mad bit both of his cows and
was shot therefor. The cows about a week since
went mad, showing unmistakable signs of
nydroph0bia, and being put up in the stable
The L. s. STEAMER TRIANNA left the navy
yard for the Norfolk yard yesterday afternoon,
with draft Of marines, under command Of
Lieut. Allen, consisting of two sergeants four
corporals and fifty privates. At Norfolk thew
VIII be transferred TO the Y. S. steamer Pow
hatan, and on her arrival at Key West they will
be distributed among the vessels of the North
Atlantic squadron.