Telegram-herald., 1889-10-01
CAPITAL NOTES.

For assault with intent 20 kill, the assault
having been unsuccessful By reason Of bad
aim, Judge in Washington City has fined
an Official Of the Capitol the sum Of 500
For assault with intent 10 Kill, the assault
beng successful and the victim buried. the
same judge declared the assailant guilty OF
temporary insanity aud sent him To an
asylum for SIXTY days. Human life is valued
highly on the banks of the Potomac.
Alexandria. Va. ought TO DC a suburb Of
the National capital, and IL will be a hun
dred years hence. The improvement of the
fats along the center Of the Potomac will
make river transportation easier and more
rapid. Many Government clerks are living
in Alexandria now. Property is cheap
there.
There IS a big job in the Mount Vernon
avenue which Congress authorized 70 be
built between Washington and Mount
Vernon 1t will be twenty mile drive
along the south bank OF The Potomac,
through Fairfax County, Va. Survey
ing parties are running their lines
AL over the county, and no one
knows where the avenue will be con-
structed, save few real-estate dealers; all
others being kept in the dark. The land
contiguous will be bought for a few dollars
per acre, and will be sold in town lots.
Real-estate dealers have run the price Of
dirt up 80 high in Washington that it can
not advance for twenty years to come; and
they are now reaching out TO grasp the
earth for speculative purposes. When all
the land is sold, and there are no more pur-
chasers 70 sell, a real-estate dealer is lonely
and pitiable.
Newport News has the finest harbor on the
-. T~ Io 49, . II
improvement, Is always clean, is safe, and
we'll located for commerce There is only
one reason why the Eastern metropolis Of
America was built on Manhattan island, in
stead OF at Newport News" SAYS an old
naval officer Nothing could have pre-
vented the commercial supremacy Of the
Virginia town but slavery. That evil thrC.-
tied the energies and enterprise Of the peo-
pie The Dutchmen who settled on Man
haitian island were not a thriftier race, nor
more energetic, by nature, than the En-
glish who settled Virginia But the Dutch
had 10 depend upon their own labor, while
the English depended largely upon their
slaves IL enfeebled them from the start
and gave supremacy 20 tsc northmen.-
One Of the tinguishei men in Washing
ton has distiu guished Roman name. 1t IL
Mr. o. l.. Pruden, the executive clerk at
the " bite House. His fail name Is Octavi-
Us Leonidas Pruden. His best friends,
they who know him well enough 10 pene-
trs.e the mass Of dignity which surrounds
him, snd call him '"Tave," are few aad far
between Mr.. Pruden was private secrs-
.sry 10 President Grant, and has been as
sis,ans private secretary, or executive
clerk. at The White House ever since. All
nominations made by the President are
taken 20 the Senate by Mr. Pruden, and be
"a wei known. He is very quiet unob-
truslve. diguifed gentleman, and exceed
inEly popular with the leading men Of The
.ountrv. of both parties aud Of all shades
81 thought and belief AithouFh having
Jceu intimately connected with public
sEsirs for the past twenty years. be Is yet
; comparatively young man. indeed. he
ooks more ike a man OF thirty five than Of
.orty i've years Of age.