National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-07
BUYING REAL ESTATE.
SOME FOLKS WHO HAVE INVESTED.
"The Republican," Record Of Important Trans
actions Distinguished People Who Have
Bought and SOld-Good Prices OBJ
tained-Nem Buildings.

Messrs. A. L. Barber & Co. during the
past week have made sales of nearly two hundred
thousand feet of their Columbia Heights property.
Among the purchasers were DR.. Smith, of the
Marine Hospital Service; Mr.. Cole, of the Pension
Agency Office; Mr.. Clark and Captain Judson, OF
the Treasury Department; Lieutenant Keller, U.
S. N, and Messrs. Kellet, Michaels, Murphy and
Casey.
The following sales of real estate have been re-
Gently negotiated by Fitch, Fox Brown, real estate
brokers: For Mr. Ulysses S. Grant, jr, the two
story brick dwelling, with basement and mansard
| No. 1874 Vermont avenue, near Iowa Circle, to
Hon. William Lawrence, of Bellefontaine, Ohio.
for $1,000; for Hon. John Q. Adams, of Boston,
Mass, a lot on G street, near Fourteenth street
northwest, twenty-five feet front, to Mr. Rufus K.
Helphenstine for 81 26i for Mr. David Hall Rice, of
Boston, to Hon. Washington Mclean, of Cincinnati,
sublots 81 to IS inclusive in square 1885, for 1S511
for Mrs General R. C. Buchanan her residence,
No. 1907 street, to the Hon. Robert NJ McLane, of
Baltimore for s11 800; for DR.. W. " Marmion, lots
10 and g. in square 49, fronting forty feet on Six
| teenth street by ninety-seven feet on street
northwest, improved by three frame houses, to
Mrs. II. T. Biddle of Philadelphia, for $3.50; for
Mr.. Joseph Mackay, of Montreal, q lot on Vermont
avenue, near Iowa Circle, to Mr.. Thomas P. Simp-
son, for 5000; for the Hon. William Window,
Secrctaryof the Treasury, his residence, No. ZIG
Vermont avenue, to Mrs Ellen L. Platt, wife of the
United States Senator from New York, for $50 900;
| for Mr. John R. Ford, of New York, the build
ing site at the corner of street and Vermont ave-
nue. to Mr.. Andrews Sohey also of New York, for
$4,000; for Mrs. Thomas P. Simpson, her resi-
| dence No 1405 street, to Dr. Seth +. Beckwitn of
! Cincinnati, Ohio, for ST 900.
| A fine lot corner of Eighteenth and 1 streets
northwest, improved by three-story brick dwell
| ing has been sold to Ellen Frazier, for S., 100.
| Duncanson Bros. have sold large lot on Eighth
street, between and streets northwest, to E. J.
Ill., for forty one and quarter cents per square
| foot.
| Mr. L. Sands took out a building permit yester-
day to erect five three-story pressed brick front
| dwellings at the corner Of Twenty-frSt and P
| streets northwest, to cost $4,000.
B. II. Warner, real estate broker, has recently
made the following sales: TwO-story brick house,
No. CSC street southwest, to John T S. Croggan,
for So 1O5; house corner of Twelfth street and Park
Place northeast, to J. w. Starr, for Sl400; els K
| street southwest two-story brick, to Lawrence
Clark for 81 200 lot 20 by 60 feet the north side
Of street, near Eighteenth street northwest,
Thomas Wilson to P G. Campbell, for $50; lot on
the north side of Iowa Circle near Thirteenth
street. to Sevellon A Brown price S1.15 per foot;
two lots Thirteenth street, near street. for A.
| S. Fuller and D. L. Morrison for twenty-five
cents per foot; also, three story brick house,
No. 1884 Columbia street. to the same purchaser,
for 81 $50; Also for W. Tayoe Snyder lot co. square
949 improved by small frame house, to William
Chase, for $40 for Senator John p Jones to Wash
ington Mclean, esq, lot at northwest corner of
Sixteenth and X streets northwest for $4,000;
also, lot on north side K street. near Sixteenth
street northwest, to DR.. w. W. Johnston, AGO. lot
X, near Sixteenth street northwest, for Neal T.
Murray, to Washington Mclean, esq, s., 100; lots
south side of street, between Sixteenth street
and Seventeenth street northwest to General
Myers and Colonel Jones, for 81 500 each; lot on
southeast corner of Sixteenth and X streets north
west, to Colonel Nicholas L. Anderson, of Ciucin
natl, Ohio, for $1,000; also, lot adjoining
to James NJ. Johnston, esq, for $3.50;
lot on K street northwest, near Fifteenth street
northwest &c Washington 6fcLean, esq, for 81 533
st on street northwest, near Eleventh street
northwest, to F. J. BoOraem, esq, $500; to Mrs
Lydia Smith, three-story brick house No. ass C
street northwest $500; to Washington Mclean,
esq. lot on street, Seventeenth street north
west, 81 $780, toJ. B. T. Upper, esq, two lots on
Twentieth street, corner of street northwest,
1885 to Herschel Main, 1742 K street northwest
$500; to o. S WOrthington, esq., lot on north side
Massachusetts, avenue, near Twenty-frst street
northwest, S3OSl; to J. W. PiIling, esq, lot on
street. near Seventeenth street, $780, to
E. C. Holiday, of Baltimore, lots Nos.
- and IS, square 139, street, opposite
the British minister's residence, $500; lots on
Jefferson place, near Connecticut avenue, to Cen
eral j. Lippitt, James NJ Johnston, Z. st. Ledger
Thouay, and Miss Mary F. Parsons two lots on
Sixteenth street corner of Madison street north
west to Dr. Henry B. Noble, for $780, four lots on
NJ near Nineteenth street northwest, to Messrs
HELEN {; Nicholson for 81 G6i; to Robert McMeen,
lot on Madison street. near Sixteenth northwest,
$40; to General L. p. Graham, lot ON street,
n William
Wheeler, two-stOry frame on L street. near Six
teenth street northwest $1,000; to E. s. Parker,
three lots 4 street, Sixteenth street north
west, $685.; Also to. same purchaser, lots
OF NJ, near Twenty-siXth street northwest, $500;
Also for J. o. Wilson, esq, lot 81, square 30,
street, near Fifteenth street northwest, 10 cents
per foot for r. T. Morsell, esq, lot 81 square 212,
at same price; two-stOry brick house on Q street,
near Fifth street northwest, to Daniel Killigan,
81 100 for Henry s. Davis, esq, house ola Ninth
street northwest, to Oscar NJ. Bryant, $4,000; 20
the Belt Line Railway Company, lot Of ground on
the corner of Twelfth and V streets, $500; to
Thomas Hyde, lot GO feet 'front.' On Montgomery
street, Georgetown, near West street. S675 to Seth
Schell lot (5 feet 'front.', location, $500; lot
corner of Eighth and streets northeast, for Mary
Baldwin, SS25:
A HANDSOME HOUSE.
Architect ClusS is engaged in the preparation of
the plans of handsome residence for Major T. P.
Ferguson, to be erected on the terrace known as
" Highland Place" The edifice will be a double
house, ff1yfour feet front by fifty feet in depth.
two stories on a basement, sumounted with a
mansard roof The material will be brick and
terra Gotta. and the estimated cost is $4,000.
= District of Columbia Decision.
In the matter of judgments against the
District Of Columbia, First Comptroller Lawrence
yesterday rendered decision in which he main
tains that-frSt. Judgment against the District
of Columbia is not negotiable, and though it is on
common law principles assignable, the act of June
&C. $780, requires payment directly to the judgment
creditor; second, judgmentin the Court of Claims
against the District of Columbia, under the act of
June 16, 1880, 3 is not payable until the
time for appeal expires-ninety days after the
dition of such judgment; third, such judgment
does not bear interest by force of the general in
terest statute of April D. 1870, hut the original
claim on which it is founded does bear interest at
three-sixty-five per centum per annum, under the
act of June 16 1885, during the ninety days allowed
for appeal fourth, such judgments are payable at
the option of the Treasurer of the United States,
ex-oficio commissioner to the sinking fund, either
in money or in District of Columbia bonds, bearing
interest at the rate of sixty five per cent. per
annum, payable semi annually.
Son OF Grease,
Tachymintis, the long-haired Amphic-
lyon, a surgeon and physician in his own country
who wears, while i'll the United States, number
nine hat and sixteen shoe, and who has never or
hardly ever, entered bathroom since his advent
in America, desires to return 20 his native land.
Walking is wet between here and the land that
Hooks DER a-girt Salamis." The Doctor wants
to ride. He desires to hire out upon vessel or
steamer departing from New York other ports of
the United States to Europe, ASIA Africa, Austria
st. Charles Hotel. If this should meet the eye of
any skipper, he would confer favor upon long