Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-11
roach the pavilion until the days work was

roach the pavilion until the days work was
done. Tie same wharf used as the landing
Of departure OF his market boat-a large
four ed ba'ean, in which market truck was
sent TO the Center market Nj. CuStis, besides
hand the responsibilities Of the Smiths Island
property, but at times at least he was
not well satisfied with the crops male
hardly enough to support themselves. Airing
ton being his place of abode, he could see
| daily that II was property worked, and it paid
In the latter part of his life he wrote some for
the press, and his RecollecSions OF Washing
tom published from time to time in the old
| the death of Gen Lingan KILLED by a mob in
Baltimore in 1879, he delivered an Grafton,
which was fine effort He also wrote play
at the National Theater in 1886 He also eS-
sayed painting, and on the walls of Arlington
+ were several large paintings of revolutionary
have disappeared, nobody knows when, where
or how carried away. They were not very
merltorIous as works of art. On one OF the
doors in panel there is yet existing some of
his wOrk-a hunting scene. AS president OF
the Society for the Promotion OF Liberty in
ireland; he for many years presided at its
banquetS.
ABOUT G. W. GUSTS LEE.
1t is interesting in this connection to notice
the TACT that the present claimant for the es
Light Horse Harry Lee, of the Rsyoiution.
whose deeds i'm those trying DAYS are known
to every reader Of history. Light Horse Harry
upon Washington. First in war. first in peacr.
and first in the hearts of his counfrymen.'
The last stirring act of his eventful life was
the Characteristic part he took during the war
OF 1872 in suppressing the mob in Baltimore
that destroyed the office of the Federal R9ptJ-
ncdn and assailed the house of the publisher.
William Rind, who had short time previous
ly moved his paper from Georgetown to that
city: Lee, who was friend OF Kinds, rushed
TO his defence with such reckless impetuOSity
that ina he rescued him, and two of the mob were
Killed and several wounded. The arrival of
body of militia saved Lees life, and he
i1r safety was taken to the jail: when the mob
Lingan, formerly of Georgetown, and father
OF the widow of the late Col w. B. Randolph.
ior many years inspector gr neral Of the Dis
Jail all the inmates were killed or wounded.
zen. Lee was SO badly injured that he never
fully recovered.
, Light Horse Harry left a large estate on the
famlnkey river, to which the contederat.
chieitaln, Robert +: Lee, succeeded, and his
children now have it in their possession. This
estate has been in the family over century and
half andi is said that no one in the family will
sen or transfer one acre of the property out of
the family, 1t being their Intention to retain
ms tract as long as there is Lee to inherit it,
Custis Lee is the Oldest son of Robert f. Lee.
and graduate of West Point. At the com
til!ery, and having spent some years in Cali
he was then stationed at Fort Washin:-
ton in full view of Mt. Vernon. He at once
followed his father, and, going SOUTH he was
placed on the staff of Jefferson Davis. In per
son he IS quite large, and in form and features
Is much like his father. He is the president of
washington and Lee University, at Lexington
Va, Succeeding his father,) and is about Al
years OF age, and unmarried.
RIPARIAN RIGHTs.-A case was tried a.
Pennington, Prince Georges county, Md.
Thursday, involving the right of citizens to
nsh In the waters opposite the government
property at Fort Washington. The case is
stated by the Alexandria Gazette, as follows:
A man by the name of JnO WeStchley, mail
carrier OF the government, had obtained per
mission from Major Breckenridge, comnlan-
Gant at Fort Foot, to fish in the waters at Fort
washington, and, AGING upon this assumed
authority, he procured warrant OF arrest
against Capt: JnO. M. Fraas, II Washington,
u. o., charging him with having placed trap
nets IN the river at that pOinC and thereby Oh,
Structing lawful fishery, t:le penalty of which
Is liked by the law of Maryland at $1OO. Capt
Fraas. by his cOunseI, Mr.. Edmund Burk, con.
tended that the privilege granted by the gov
ernment was mere license and was not ex-
elusive OF other Citizens, to take fish in the
waters at the Fort; that al! others might take
hSh there unless objection was raised by the
government: that the government had raised
no objection and the licenSee had no right to
40 SO, and that the government had no jurs-
dlct!0n orright beyond low water mark and
outside OF that no exclusive privilege could in
missed the case and discharged the accused
thus affirming the right of citizens to the free
use OF the waters opposite government pro-
perty.