Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 13, 1873, Page 4

4 IIE CHICAGO DAILY ,I'RIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 13, 1873. . REAL ESTATE. A Fair Degree of Success in Auction Sales. The- Now Manufaoturing Distriot in . the Southwestern Suburbs, Ubstacles to the Improvement of tho South Parks. Improvements Toward Humboldt Park and Elsewhere. Transfers for the Week. The real estato markot conlinues moderately active, and, 03 will bo seen below, suction salos, which are becoming & more important fenturo than ovor beforo fu thia cily, bave beon roason- ably succossful dnring tho past weck. Clarke, Layton & Co., in conncotion with Wm. A. Butters & Co, s0ld at public auction on tho . premises, on tho 9ih inst., twonty-threo lots situated on Forty-third stroot, Viuconnos ave- nuo, and Chatles atrect. Prices rangod on Vinconnes avonuo from $63 to 872 per foot; on Forty-third stroot from €41 to 348 per foot. On Oharles streot lots sold at £406 por foot. Total amount of sales wos $33,- 288, B, F. Clarko & Co. sold ot public action, Iast Thursday, 50 lota located on Morgan Park; con- sideration from £9.50 to 14 por front foot. The nuction salo by C. 0, Thayer & Co., July 9, of property botweon Forty-fifth and Forly- sixth streets, lying dircotly oast of Dextor Parlc and tho Stock Yards, was n success. It waa quite largely attended. Tho bidding was lively, aud every lot offored was Rold, over 76 lota being gold at pricos rauging from $376 to $626 por lot. Tho suction salo of property on Humboldt boulevard and Milwaukeo ayénuo, by tho above nnmed real catato nuctioneers, was not aglargely attendod ns expocted, owing to soveral postpone- ments on account of bad weathor. About 15 lots woro sold at from §18 to $20 per foot. Mesers. Thayer & Co. nlso hold a alo, nt public auction, of Washington Hoights proporty, yestorday afternoon, reporta of which did not roach us, * OTHER SATES, John P, Olinger has purchased 100 fool front on tho northwest corner of South Park boulevard and Forty-socond street ; consideration, £20,000 cash, Ifenry W. Brooks has sold during the Inst fow dnys 28 lots in South Englowood; considoration, from 2300 to 300 ench. L. L. Wilson gold fivoacres in 8. W. { of tho 8. W. X 8ec. 1, 87, 13, situated on the lino of the proposed new routo of tho C., D. & V. R, R., aud about o milo and onc-halt wost of Wash- ington Heights; consideration, $500 por acro. Also two corners, sixlots, fronting the Dummy track near the dopot ni Washington Hoights'; consideration, 2,000 for tho six lots. 11, T. Clarke & Co. sold at privato silo last waek 150 feot front on l’rofl}wct avenue on Blorgan Park ; consideration, $3,000. A $2,000 two-story cottngo will at once be orocted on this proporty. ‘Tho samo parties sold at priyatoe salo six lots ut Washington Hoights, within threo blocks of tho station ; considoration, 29 per front foot, J. L Curtis & Co. sold 100 feet on Star nvenuo, in Robertson's Subdivision of Woodlawn ; con- gideration, 38,000 cash. Also two lots, 50 foet front ench, in the ramoe location ; consideration, £27.50 por foot. _Also 117 feet vornor of Bixty- fourth streot nnd Star avenuo, in the snmoe sub- atylslon, for $92 per foot. - ) Mason & Mitls sold two lota containing ono- half acro each, situatod on Walluce stroet, at Tifty-geventh streot, just north of Englowood, this week ; considoratisn, 3,300 for the two. On Englowood and Junction avenue, botween Wallaco street and Stewart avenuo, Spofford & Byrno havo eold within the Inst throe wooks thiirty lots for tho following pricos: On Junc- tion nvenuo, 40 por foot ; on Englewood avouus, €35 por foot, Henry L. Hill #old two_and a half acres on Vinconnes avenuo, estending back to Charles avenue, belwecn Forty-third and Forty-fourth streots ; considorntion, $22,600, Lord & Waller soll ono acre, corner of Lang- ley nnd Forty-sixth stroots ; consideration, 910,000 cash, TFORTHCOMING AUCTION SALES. Eliron & Fostor will scll, on Saturday next, Tuly 19, at 3 p. m., on *the ground, soventy-ono lots, fronting on Division, lioyno, ' Crystal, and Dryeon stracts, being_within the_old city limits, and located between Wickerand ITumboldt Parks and near the Milwaukeo nvenue stroot cars. Terms, one-fourth canh, and balance in one, two, aud threo years, at 8 por cont. Wimn. A, Buttors & Co. will sell at public auc- tion, on Mondey, July 14, at7 o'clock p. m,, &t Nou. 55 and 57 South Canal stroot. 160 residonce lots ot Norwood Park. Torms, 810 cash down, and bulance in monthly payments of 5 por month, 4 ¥ Wm, A. Butters & Co. will nlao sell at public auction, on Wedn July 16, at 12 m,, on tho ground 200 building loty and four now two- story framo dwollings wilh largo lots, all_at Elmhurst, formorly known ns Cottage Hill, Torms, 10 por cont ensh on day of salo and bals ancoinl, 2, 9, nd 4 Feum 4t 8 por cont. A special freo train will lenve tho Wells etreot Qopot at 10 8, m, R ASRLAND AVENUE, ‘This beautiful ayonue of the Wost Side, from Madison street to Twelfth streot, with its many fina residencos, lawns, and largo’ clm troos, Lias beeomo one of the popular drives of the eity, Tt has Leon graded and poved from Union Park to Tylor utreet, and nioon will be to tho South DBranch of tho river. Tho troes aro to bo con- tinued to Twonty-second stroot. Lots on {his nvenue, betwoon Madlgon and Twolfth streoty, rango' in prico from S150 to €300 por front foot ; from Twolfth to Twonty- eecond streets, from 60 to &80 per foot, On Ashland avenuo, south of Twonty-second trect, will bs loented the Weat Sido Oity Water-Works, now heing orected, and_which, when complotod, \gl(lil compare with the Water-Worka of thoNorth ide. At tbia _point hogmins the great manu- facturing distviot, bounded on tho north by 'Iwonty-sccoud stroet, ecast by Ash- land avenuo, south by Archer aveuue, and extending two milea west to tho eity limits, which han all the facilitics of railrond and wutor connoclions, with cily wator and gas oxtending at prosont to Wostorn ayonne. Passiug wont from tha contemplated City Water-Works at the junction of Ashland oud Diue Islund avenues, and noxt adjoining, arothe Chicagostono-workas, next to this is_the oxtensive car and bridge works of Wells, French & Co, « 5 Adjoining this on tho south are B. I Russell & Ca.n car-wheol works, and adjolning south of this, i the Columbian Tron Fouadry. Noxt wost, now in coursa of crccllow, wre tho extensivo car-wheel works and’ founderios of Barnum & Richardson, and next adjoming west, across Roboy stroot, is the Philadelphis Farnituro Mannfactory of Bwan, Clark & Co. Noxt adjoiniug is tho car and bridge works of F. X, Cands & Co.; and noxt udjoining to this, wwont, i8 tho gront reapor fuctory of tho McCore mick Bron, which is located on tho Houth Branch, at the junction of Blue Ieland and Westorn nvonues, West of this, Potor Schut tlor & Co, havo purchased ground on whicl thoy will ercet their now wagon factory. Houth of the river, in the same -district, aro _the'furuncen of A. 1, Mccker & Uu.élhu Joliet Iron Worls), Chichgo Btaal Works, Union Rolling Mills, the round-oute and #hops of tho G, D. & V. R ., now hoing coustructed, eilver smelllug ks of Bmith & Co,, cotton mills, oto, P'heso uro all_oxtonsive munufactories, most of which ara in full oporation, Wells, Fronol & Co., bridgo and ear works, omploy 925 on. Thoy mnko tho Howe truka pridgo, and box, coul, and oar cars,” ayoraging fivo earn por dny. B. F. Russoll & Co, will omploy, whon opon, twonty-five mon, and mako car whoels a spo- cialty, Ellrinn, Brackett & Co., of the Columbian Iron Works, omploy sixty mon aud use up eight tons of notal mrdnf'. "The Philadelphia TFurnitare Factory, Swan, Clark & Co. propriotors, cmplay 200 mon, Thoy make all kinds of bluck walnut and soft wood furniture, DBaroum & Richardeou’s car-wheol works will open sool. F, I, Conda & Co, employ a largs forco in the manufucturing of street, passenger, and box cars, &e. The McCormick Bros, bave an establishmont that covers sovon acres of ground, in which 125 combined roapors and mowers nro manufacturod por dn{. . They omploy 800 men, It is the most oxtensive worka of tho kind in the conntry. Lots on Blus Island nvenuo, 24x100, withont improvemonts, aro rolling at 89,000 anch, About ouc-half of tho lots on tlifs avonuo fronting botwoon Ashland avenue and West- 2 vonno, hnve boon mold . to partion for,. improvomont, most . of which are airondy ocoupicd’ with Dusinows _lonses. Oung yoar ago, whon this proporly was firat unb- divided, insido lots sold ut 1,600 ench. Whoy aro now aelling at 82,000 encli, as abovo statod. Lots north of Bluo Islund avenuo as far o8 Twonty-socond atreot and went ns far ns Westorn avenuo on Ambrotio, Mooro, Linughton, and Coul- tor ftroots_nro belug bought for rosidont pur- posos, at pricos ranging from 9800 Lo §1,000 onch, TI'wo yonrs ago thoeo loty sold at from B600 to $800 ench. Lots on P'wonty-socond stroot, botwoon Ash- 1and avenito and Wostorn avenue, at presont sall ot from 81,200 to 81,600 cach, 'L'vo yenrd ainco realized from $700 to 2800. Proporty south of Biuo Island avonuo as faras tho Ilfinols & Michigan Ganal, and botsweon Ash- land avenue and tfin Qront Lastorn Railrond woat, throngh whicli tho Bouth Branch runs, is used oxprosely for manufacturing purponcs. Proporty wost of this_along tho rivor and caunl i8 also usod for manufacturing purposos, Loty which lio immodiatoly south of Biuo Island svenuo and north of the river, hotwoen Ashilnud and Wostorn avenues, which huve beon docked and hiave railrond connections, 100x250 feot, goll for §125 per front foot. Proporty cast of Ashland avenuo sloug tho rivor, and sonth of t'wenty-second stroct, is used for Imbor ynrds, and ranges tn prico fiom $125 to 8160 per foot. This is probably tho lnrgest lumbor district of any eityin the world, covering about 500 acres, on which, in addition to the lu~ ber, aro various factorios. ON WALASHL.AVENUE, from Thirtioth to Thicty-fifth utréet, therois much activity in bullding just now, thore being fiftoon fino residouces in process of oreclion. The avenue is also being paved from Lwonty- ninth to Thirey-fifth strest (Douglus place) with wooden block pavemont. Most of this is dono by privato contract. : BOUTH ENGLRWOOD, In our article of last weok we woro in orror in saying that the Rock Island DBranch Railroad would run from Washington Hoights to Houth Chicago, Tho place of departure from tho main [ine of tho Rock Islnnd Rond is Bouth En- lewood, & new station 134 miles norih of Wash- ington Heights. Fifteen new houses have boon bullt at Bouth Englewood during tho past four months, and the money has_been subscribed by tho property-owners to build n $20,000 hotel. Lighty-sovonth streot, which runs throngh South Englowood, Is boing graded to the lako, and will goon bo mncndnmlzcs. The branch of_the Rock Island Rosd, from South Englowood to South Chiengo, is now graded, and will, as mentioned lnst ook, bo comploted within tho noxt sixty nya, OBYTAOLES TO TIE IMPROVEMENT OF THE SOUTI PARKS. Tho South Park Commissionors hnve run agnhmb o stump in their proposed improvement of South Park avonue through the park as far a0 Sixtioth atreet. It was intonded to grade and gravel tho stroot the whole distance to Bixtioth streot and nlso Bixtioth strect to the Lake Shore Park. To carry out this plan it was necessar; that tho ownors -of property fronting on Soutl Park avenue should %i\'a thoir half of tho street (33 feot), a8 in usunl in the opening of strects, .and, though Bouth Park avenuo was originally oponed in n logal mauner, tho owners of some of the )l)foporty sonuth of Fifty-ffth atreot clnim thnt tho subsequent location of the park in somo way ' abeolvo them from _givin the 88 Teot off tho onst front of iheir land abuiting tho park. Mr. J. C. Dunlovy, ropresonting tho Cincinnati owners of somo of the ground south of Tifty-fifth stroet, has, thoreforo, givon tho Park Commissionors logal notice not to enter upon the eaid 33 feot, or improvo it for o stroct. As the Park Commissionors havo authority to arrango tho ronds in the park in nccordanco ith their own viows, thoy can provont auy of that part of tho grounds fronting the lots of tho Cin- cinunti owners from lmhx{‘l used either for car- rlngfvmruls or walks, aud the Gincinnati peoplo will have to solve tho problem of how to got to the park front of thoir lots. Ar. Dunlovy, ot whoso suggestion tho Cincinnati own: ors have Vrolub]y talien this stop, goemAa ambitions of being known as ay _oppovent of tho improvoment of the Bouth I'arks, and is, wo undoratand, one of thio original projectors of the plan to meke the Park Commisslonors pry twicofor o cortain truck. of 120 acres in tho centre of the Lake Shore Park. . NORTII OF HUMNOLDT PARK, . The neighborhood north of Fiumboldt Park is attracting & good many purchasers who wanb sitos for homes. The means of transit from tho contro of tho city to this quarter are being rap- idly increased.” Milwaukeo avenue will soon bo paved to its interscction with North avonuo, and_the_domand for menns of transit to Humboldt Park will make the oxten- sionof the Milwaultee avenuo linc in that dircc- tion & necossity which the railway comprny can not ignore. 1Tho Chleago & Dacifio Railrond have just finished a flno station on their line nt, Californis avouue, o short distauco north of Humboldt Park, aod,.when their line of road is oxtonded down to the vicinity of tho LaSallo street tunnol, as it will oventunlly bo, tha prop- orty north of Humboldt Parle will be practically a8 nonr to business ns Cottago Grove. In tho district about = quarter of s mile squaro lying noxt north of the park, a hulf-dozen Tanglsomo rosidoncos aro mos being oracted. ho Doulevard from the park northward hns been planted with a doublo row of largo elms and ash, and now Lionsos aro boing scatterod along it afl tho way to Maplowood, oue of tho bhaud- somest suburba of tho city. PROPOSED NEW BUILDINGS. Wm. James. n 4-story and basomont marblo- frout building, 10x102, on East Washinglon streot, adjoining the Staals Zeitung Building. G, Madon Porkor, & 4-story nd basoment marblo-front, on Washington stroet, east of and adjoining tho Roaper Biock. unt, Preston & Koun, :n 4-story and high basement building, on Washington™ stroet, ad- joining the M, B. Church Block, for banking and othor purposcs. o i T'wo pormits for fino buildings on Washington stroot, enat of the Field & Leiter Building, Lnve hoen teken out, This about complotes the Duilding line of Washington streot frow Miohi- gan syenue to Franklin stroot. A LIVE OITY AND A DEAD ONE. A The following puragraph from nrecont odi- torinl in tho Cincinuati Gazelte has beon driftiug around, and turns up now in n Sau Francisco papor : A friend of ones, who vielts Chicogo frequently, says whon he sponds four days thore he is not what o Is when hove in Cinelouatl, 1o gets inspired snd brim- ful of cnthuslaam, Ho belleves in progress, walks fant, gocs i1 for Improvement, and blows cqual to any Chitago blower, io caw't belp it, Lo says, whilo thero, But when Lo roturnd to Cielunati, falka to half-a-dozen of our old citizens, who have got rich by tho advanco in real catate, ho 18 another kind of man. o walke Ianguidiy, talks gloomily, thinks it best to Tence iu roal chlito rather thian improve it, disapproves of apwors, sncers o parks, bus no rospact for pooplo ‘o want good ronds to. drivo ovor, sud yrowls gouer- ol ly. ‘The (azelte hit the nail on the hoad exactly. ‘When a man comes to Chicago ho gots into_thoe current of business, and whatever energy there is in bita {8 stimulated by tho oxample of thoso around him, When ho goes back to Cincinnati ho goos to sleop. ‘The differenca. i not in the men, but in the places, and their prospects and opportnnities, WHAT AN TGLY NEIGUTOR DAN DO, Quarrels about division walls are not unknown inany city, but the following, from the Bun Trancivco Secal Estate Circular, shows that city to he entitlod to tho prize for the mosnort man on record : Miclincl tecso owin tho property adjolning (it re- contly sold on Hansnmo strect, 1Ils bullding wus ercet- ed uftor thy olker, When ho ‘was: preparing to build ho nskied permivsion to ueo his nelghbors wall, by means of which ho would have saved abont a foot of Lislot and the ercetlon tkercon of & wall of his own, The ownor of tho bullding was wiiling Lo nee cedo to Michaol'a request, but io wanted the latter ta yuy for tho privilege, (ho amount to bo_ dotermined by uny compatent mechunfe, Atichnol, however, rofusud fo pay onything, and fhreatenct thuty If hid request wuo not granted gratuitously, b would 1imdormine his nelghbor's foundation, ~ And'he carrind ont his threat, too, nnd eaused the bulldivg to eottle four inches on tho frout cornor, This 8 not the first time, wo aro toid, thot our friend Michnel has played tho samo o, "lio following Instruments wore filed for roc- ord vn Bnturday, duly 12: OITY PROTERTY, Tt 28, n Tk 63, Koo 13, U0, 14, dated July 10 con- sliloration, $35 1.t 29, i1 same, dated July 103 conslderatlon, $560, Tot lifl‘ in Bloek 1, of 8w ¢ Boc 20, 99, M, dated March 14 ; conslderation, $1,000, - Wood al, botween Motfoo and Aduma ata, west front, 18x100 ft, dated Juno 17}; conlduration, 33,675, Kowsuh f, 250 ft wof Wallnco st n f, 25x125 ft, dated dJuno 26 5 auukllll.’ml(unasl,m. East 5 of Lot 14, i Dlock 20, of Carpenter’s Addis tlon, dafed Hoptomber 10, 1872 ; considoration, $1,400, TAucoln ut, nof and near Jdackson st, w I, 24x135 £t, with hulldlnul dnted Tun 10 2 consideration, $1,0 t 3, in 1l Lol ok 3, i O'Noii'y Bubdivision, in'n o Ben 0, 39, 14, dntod May 127 conslderation, $350, Houtli 18 £t f Tot 46, aud 'n 14 1t of Lot 47, in Block 8, of Millard & Docke’s o 3 0 36 of n w X, Hoc 20, 9, 10, dated April 80 § consldeFation, 1,600, 09-1000 of an’ acre # und Adjoluing n 2 neres of Dlock 23, n D, B, Tae's 8 w A 0012, 49, 13, dated July 11 ; conslderation, 1,600, ‘Wanover st, 95 £ 8 of Twenty-fourth at, w £, 25x00 £, datod duly 1; cousldoration, $,%00, Alordeon pt, n 6 corof Gurloy at, w_f, 36104 tt,. dnted Juno 7+ conpldaration, $1,76p. 2 21 3-Gx191X If, Turk nv, 45)¢ thw of Pago al,n f, dated July 1 { conatdoration; $11,000. ‘Wost ITuron t, 1 o cor of Toboy #i, 8 £, 33 4-10x123 - £t, dntod July 8+ conafdoration, $1,600, "Burnsidost, 176 1t n of Thirty-soyonth st, w £, 26z 110 ft, dated July 9 ; conalderation, $1,500, Fulton st, K0 ft w'of Cossitt st, nf, 26x120 ft, with vildings, datod July 03 couelderatlon, $2,400, bark av, B w eor of Leavil ut, u £, SUx121 £, dated July 03 consldoralion, $3,000. Lincoln av, 476 ft n w of Bu}ahln at, nof, 26x125 ft, datod July 83 conslidorntion, 81,600, 3 ‘Coniro av, 302 ft n of Taylor at, w f, 24x160 £, dated July 83 conkideration, $2,000. Wanlorn nv, n W cor of Harriron st, o £, 403101 ft, dnted Juno 303 conslderation, $2,400, Milwaukos av, n w cor of Wood nt, trinnglo of 102x 113 £t, dated April 26 ; constderation, $7,000, drant court, 110 ft A of Weat Twonty-second ef, un- divited 3¢ of Lota 62 to 73, daled May 15 conaldlora~ lhgl, 18,000, #5655 cymonr u n of Terach nt, o f, 26x126 tt, datod July 13} conslderation, 450, = Dastitoll at, bet Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh nta, ®f, 24 {t to alloy, dated Fob. 20 ; conalderation, $600, Y0t 20 of Lot 4, In Block ‘29, 'Boa 99, 89, 14, duted July 1; conalderntion, $500, FOUTIL 'OF OFTY LAMITH, Lot 14, in Black 12, n Admn Smith's Subdiviaton in 8w 1 Hoo 00, 9, 19, dnbad March 18 constdoration, 100, 100, Lol 1012, fn Block 8, of A3 wignign igotaw 3¢ Soc, 4, 38, 14, doted Ny 13 s n,)sf;,mo‘ Norlh 100 uit. of Viock 0, of Bunby'nn i 0 3 of Tomna B0, 10,8, 14, dntod Apeii3 ; consldoration, 000, : BUMMATIY FOR TIE WERK. e following i thio total smount of ity and subur- ban property transforred during the woek ouding 8a urday, July 12: City xvro}){crly. number of sales 16! wnnldnmuun, $060,016, Norih of cily imits, number of salea 51 coneidoration, £10,700, South of ity Jim- its, number of rales 235 connldorntion, $00,845,” Went of clty limlis, numbicr of aalos 0 3 coniduration, $118,- 540, Total sales, 203, Total coueidoration, $388,100. sl ot SPITEFUL SAMMY. Iow Hlc Will Try to Retard Swporior Court Businesy, Aftorhisrocent discomfiturein the Cirenit Court eleotions, Bamuel Ashton crept into obscurity, and it was the fond hope of bhis friends that ho would romain thero, ‘ITho bittorness of dofeat, howover, gave way to tho sourness of onvy, and, bocenuso hio could not wear tho wooluaclk himsolf, ho sot to worlk to fiud out how ho could hinder moro fortunate aspirants to logal honora from plying those avocations whick Judgo Booth's in- terposition deprived him of tho plensure of shering. Though still retalning a snenking ro- gard for the Bar,—tho logal bar, of .course,~he hold the Boneh in avorsion, and an apportunity aroso which gnve him a chanoo of exerclsing it. It is in the memory of all that Bamuel tried to got pnesed in tho State Legislature a bill entablishing a new court, to lave concurrent Jurisdiction with the Supoerior and Circuit Courts of this county, with & view, in all probability, of lending to its Boncl tha 1 sht of Lt own. udioial countenance. 1lo wns afi’snppolmd. The bill did not paes. About tho same time a bill was in- troduced by Seunator Walte, which gave to the Jndgius ot Cireuit Courts Kower to invite Judgos of ather courts to assist thom. In tho originel Dill thoro was a clauso providing for tho paymont of anid Judgoes b tho rate of $10 por day, but this clauso was strucl out ng unconatitutlonal, and the amended bill was made law. ‘I'he work- ing of tho now Inw bay boen admirablo. About six weeks sinco, additional Judges woro om- ployed, and the work of tho Buperlor Court, which had got bmdly in arroars, las, over sinco, beon progresging rapid- o ‘and the prospocts oro that - Jin a short timo the Buporior Court businoss will bo woll up. Tho payniont of these Judges was pro- vided for bytho County Commissionors, who passod o resolution allowing them $10 for ench day's gorvico. Bamuel looked upon tho progress with vindictive foolings, and, it s snid, from motivos of more porsonal spite, mado up his mind to plnco nn obstaclo iu the way. To thia ond, ho purporos trying' togot the resolution providing for the paymont of the invited Judges rescinded. Thoro can beno doubt that tho County Commissionera will not lond thomeelves to support thy motion, and that its suceess will just about aqual that of its author’s attompts as & noy Court logislator, and &8 a Circuit Court eandidate for the judiciary. —— END OF THAT LIBEL-SUIT. The Fury Award Linda the Hinndsomo Sum of Six Centu, At 10 o'clock yosterdny morning Judge Rogers' “tourt-room was crowded with -spectators, the logal fratérnity being ‘vory fallyropresonted: Congidorable disappointment was folt at tho non- presonce of tho fair prosecutrix and hor numor- ous lady retainers, which Dlasted tho hopes of those who hnd como to gsc *“how she would stand it.” Judge Van Buren was norvous and excited, and, whon the Clerk took in his hand tho envolope containing the written verdict of tho jury, thero was not o sound to brouk tho silence of tho court. Judge Rogers asked for the vordict; the OClork broke open the seal and rend: Wo, tho jury, find the defondant (the Post) guilty, and award the plsintil 6 conts damages.”. Thon the spectators buzzed, and tho Clerk tend tho following quories, propared by tho defoudant’s counsel, with a view of spociul findings on the points: Ffrat—\Whothor Lhic business or scheme referred to in tlo publications-complalued of was a lottory, and 0 - Second—Whother the nowspaper articles complained of woro published of and converning such lotlery, and tho plafuliir’s connection therewith alone, or af and coucerning (he plaintift as an_indlvklual ovor and bos yond her connection with such lottery, Tho jury, with regard to tho firat query, an- sworod in the nllirmativo, but wore reticent as Lo tho socoud. In rosponso to n qnestion by M, lerrick, who has helpod Mr. Swolt in _the caso, the Court said that an application for a new trisl would Lo in order st nny timo boforo tho ond of the torm. Judgo Van Buron expressed his satisfaction at ~ tho verdict, inssmuch a8 it fully vindieated the honor of hig cliont. The sufferors in the caso wero the jury. Aftor their vigil thoy looked vory wan and woe-bogone, and for the bonofit of those of the moring nowspapors which havo big libel- suita on hand, not to mention mechauic’s lion ac- tions agaiust thoir now buildings, wo publish tho list of Jurors who lot anowspnper down 8o easily. Thero I 1o doubt tho propriotorn will endosvor to engago their sorvices in the coming canscs colobres of Wicker va. Inter-Ocean, aud Butlor v8. Tumes: A. O. Abbolt, foreman; R, @, Groov, M. M. Merrick, Jacob Aruold, D. Wit~ Kowsky, Charios V. Gross, O. D. Noble, Max Frank, Ralph O. Horn, 8. O. Good, A. Helinyer, J, Bawyer. 2 5 P S - Fine Family Grocories. Mesars, Wyntt & Wustum, wholeeate aud retail deal- ors Iu fino grocerles, teas, wines, lquors, clgary, &c., whosa eatabllshment i located at tho cornerof Wabash aveuuo and Eighteenth strect, Lave always on thelr promises o good stack of fne family groceries, They mako teaa o spocialty, and are also noted in tue trato for their relections of fine wines aud figs, Of cigars and other articles periniuing to the tolmeco trade, thoy hiavo o fino uesortmont, Solllng ot wholesalound retafl aud buylng for cash, they aro enabled to offer a8 favorhblo terins na olher fivst-class houncs, Itjsa well-known fact that ihey undersoll mauy houses, Thoy guaranteo that country orders will bo promptly attoiided to and glvo matisfaction, nnd point lntlmlr loug oxporlence in all ninttors pertaining to tho gro- covy business with pride, pa s i A Tax-Paying Firm. During tho six moutha from Jun, 1 to July 1, 1973, the tubacco manufacturivg firm of Spaulding & Mor- rick, Nos, 9, 11, 19, and 16 River streot, paid s Govern ment tax of $219,455,20 on_ 1,097,376 pounds of manu- fuctured tobnceo, Thera coit bo no mistalto about the figures, ns thoy ute vonched for by tho oflicial refuram, “To bustens done by (his Arm I certainly enormous, aud I o eredit to tho cily, Its eales for tho past six ‘months reached $500,000, nnd there {s only ong lousa $u tho United States kot can say an muck: et g i O Bitter Wino of Iron, For general dabllity, vr weaknesw, and all dfscases laving thelr orlgin in fmperfect digestlon and s do- ranged condition of tho stomuch, uso Bitler Wino of Iron, n combiunation of Pernviun burk, ellrate of iron, and sherry wine, As n tonfe it connot bo cqualed, Prepnved by dumen Boland, Drugglet, No, 63 Clark sireot, opposito Shorman 1ow ———— Truth is Strangor Than Fiotion, Durlng the swmmer months, and when money 1o a cash article, Colly & Wirts, Nos, 202 nud 204 Blatestreet, huvo doclded to soll furniture of overy description at orlees dofying compotition, Chamber Bets it from $43 154030, ' Abin Nouno, walkei o apocluty of upholieris and purchosors can bvo work got up to order with no exira chargo, Moxsre, Colly & Wirts nroof long stund- fuygus o Hen, ond purchusors ean. rely on gottiug good ‘work at low prices e M Vesnols Passed Dotrolts DerROIT, Mich., July 12,—Passzn m'«-l'royn Tady Fraukiin, Almu, Munro, Scott, Blouchard, Nebrask Nashun, Ennpirs State, Fred ' Kolly und Large, Bealt Inry aud barges, Merchant: selits A, G, Moawoll, Munzanilla, Alva Bradloy, Ontarjo, Proston, Cavalier, Tilmoro, Telndecr, James Iing, Sawyer, Honry Dald” ‘win, Gardner, Johi Mages, Clnyfou Bille Collisgwood, West Bldo, Paukn Dows—rops D, M, Wilson, Floteher, Annio Youngs, Anno Craig, Bay Gity sud. birges, Oleveland ; bark City of Milwaukeo ; schirs W. 8, Croathwaile, W, B, Allen, Evaling Butes, Guiding Star, Deals, Empire 8iato, Gltmore, Thowaa Quoyle, ‘WiNp—Northcaat, - BALLOONING UNADORNED. _ - Pieasailt _Anficipations for Prof. Wise’s Companions, Dnfigors to Be Inourred at Sea in a Balloon, Disagreeable Possibilities of Freezing to Death or Being Drowned. The Consequences of Landing in a Con- neotiont Apple-Orchard. Evor sinco it liaa boon known that the Graphio people futended to allow tho roprosentatives of a fow lending papers to have bortha in the balloon with which they intond to tost tho foasibility of sorinl navigation to Europo, thero has boen con- sidorablo stir in Obicago, sinco it wns assumed that Tur Trinune would contributo its quots to these Modern Wiso Men of Gotham, who aro going to Rea in n balloon, aud thero has beon s stondy slream of individuals offering their sor- vices ns correspondents on this oxpedition, Thoro hiave beon so many of thom, that.the work of tho man who runs tho elevator Lias beon mora than doubled, nnd he consequently has o very low opinion of a balloon, preforring his own con- voyanco, which Lo can loave whenever ho ploases, and at any story. Binco some know that thora is su improssion that thoro is o possiblo risk attonding thia jour- noy, and that thoso who tako part in it may nover bo soon , again till the day of judgment, when thoy will make their appenrance with their hair crustod with salt, and their clothes dripping from the brine, each ono of thodo volunteors assumes an afr of grim determination or reclk- lessncss, such as Mr. Blaisdoll ig in tho hobit of wroathing around his' noble countonaneo when ho goes in to doanything particularly dangorous, such na roseuing Miss Mook from a gray-bluo canvas river, tumbling mndly over woodon rooks. With those poople ovory featuro soems to say, ** Hore stands n man who fears not death.” * Tho renaons why those folks waut to go vary considerably, Ono is out of work, and wagé to got anything to do. Aunothor has a few notes coming duo in Beptomber, and it strikes him thot if ho wore in Europo at that time his -mind would be more at oago thanif he were Loro. Amnother has some thoories of his own concerning tho distance of the clouds from tho enrtl, and hio wants o chance to take up a tape- lino to mensuro it. Anothor has bot that the concorn will come to griof in mid-ocean, aud he wanta - to bo on tho spot to seo that ho wins his bot. But the majority seem to believe there is no particular peril, though they may pretend to think there is, and that if they go they will have good pay, & pleasant trip, aud somothing to brag sbout for fho rost of . their livos; 80 that whonover any ouo bogins to talk of hin shipwreck, lis Californis oxporioncos, or bis adventuros during tho war, ho may ernsh him by tolling how Lo went to Eu- xopo in o balloon, One young Englishman ap- pliod, whoee iden sooracd to bo that tho balloon would doscond ir. his uncle’s lawn noar Exotor, Just about bronk{nst time ; that ho would get out of thocar, walk inte tho house, and say © Good morning denr _unclo, horo,. is day bofore yostor- day’s Now York papor, just glance over it while I am cating my bronkfost.” Yot in spito of this roal belief, thoy all want to bo paid as if thoy wore voluuteering for tho for- lornest of foriorn hopes. The least that in ask- od by the unmarried ones is their traveling ex- ponses to New York, lottors "of credit for all tho principnl elica in Turopo and-Africa, and pormigsion to send - unlimitod enble dispatches. As for.the married ones, thoy all want the oftice to insure their lives, and to sottlo an annuity on thoir wives, and all agree in the statoment that, if those torms are granted, the aforesaid wives will make no objections to their doparturo. Up to this timo, however, nono of theso propositions havo been aceooded fo, for that is paying o littlo too dearly for the privilogo of hoving n reprosontative of tho papor lost. Men enn bo hired at much cheapor rates to com- 1mit auicido oxclusivoly for tho benellt of Tue TRIONE. But tho probabilitios avo that if theso von- turesomo follows knew exactly the risk they ‘wero about to run, they would not allow even an annuity for thow wives to tempt them. What ~ Prof. Wiso enys, thinke, is not to bo taken ny Goupol. Thero iy an infatuntion nbout ballooning; as about all those porilous omployments which ara _not pnroly mochanical, Tho samo thing is found amon, lion-tamors and the companions of othor wil beuats, Thoy liko tho businoss for it vory dan- ger. 'Then one day tho pitchor goos too” often to tho woll, The list of norouauts who havo diod on tho fleld of honor is vory large and is etendily increasing. Tho last ono foll & milo or &0 tho othior day, and *expired without s groan," a8 tho novels say. But then his chances wero far bottor than thoso of the gontlomen who nc- cnmynny Prof, Wiso, who aro exposed to a suc- cogsion of mishaps rivaled only by thoso of Baron Munchauson when he was blown up to tho moon ; and tho chiof trouble is that there will bo no survivor to toll tho talo and magnify thio sufforings of bimself and Lis companions, "Theso disagreeablo possibilitios bogin at the beginning. Theso travelors with their little carpot-bags in thoir Linuds, and, cigars in thoir moulhs—no, that will not do, for smoking is strictly prohibited—with their' carpet-bagu and nmbrollng theu, step iuto the car sud Jyok around them with that Laughty air sumolimes obsorved in & brovot Socond.Ltoutenaut of In- foutry, draw ont their handkerchiefs, and havo thow’ rondy to wave. Tho crowd looks on re- spectfully.” A fow women bogin to ery, and souio small boys on n feucy cali out to ““lot hor off.” The signnl is given. Tho ropes aro out. And then olthor the balloon mysteriously refuses to go at oll, which is gonerally the easo in Chiongo, or it goos off without the car, and suddenly bo- comes o spock in tho sky, whilo tho pas- songors feel like pooplo’ who have got- ton into an omnibus with no horso hitchod to it, snd an odmiring throng lookng on. ‘Thoy ot waving thoir handkerchiofs, they take thefr umbrollas nnd valises and march off through that shouting assemblage, dociding to pustpone thoir trip to Lurope until a future occasion. Or tho balloon may start oll right. It ma sonr oft majostically aftor tho fashion of bal- loons, and leaving far bohind and below it tho steoplos and crowdod stroots of Now York, mny ‘movo upon its castward way until it ‘gets some- whoro over Windham County, Coun., when, for oo unkuown renson, possibly tho' lenling of tho gos, which astronomers oall * oxosmosis, it wifi doescend in .an apple orchnrd in the aforossid county, 'The proprietor will come out of his litlo dingy rod plank houso, will ask thom what they monn t:ly coming inlo Ll orohard with thoir damod old Laskot and domond incrodiblo sums, Oaliforniug an Yorus, as compensation for damage done. 'Lhe pasgengers, boing somewhat bumpod and tossed, wiil poy no attontion to him, snd will proseutly bo gurrounded by able-hadied citizons of Con- nocticut, nrmed with pitehforks, who will take them to s Justico of the Pence, whero thoy will bo chargod with having brokon into this gentlo- man's onclosure, trampled down bis horbage, and dono divers and sundry things tending to injure the said complrinant. inco thore aro so-many of them, they will probebly be callod o 1ob, or & riot, and will ba committod to the County Jul, to which thoy wiil bo takon in an ox-toam, the journcy ot asum- mor's day. Tut supposo them safely off, the sky above thom, tho * fonm of perilous sons ' bolow, nud tho stendy air ourront whirling thom along, the Important L}uustiun is, whero are thoy to folch up, for in this kind of businoss it is the lust stop which in gerious, not the flrat ono, According to tho programmo, thoy aro to land somewhero bo- tween Cape Bt, Vincout and North Capu, ‘That is, thoy may land in Portugel, Spain, I'ranco, Gront “Britaln, Ilolland, Demmark, or Norway, with all of which countrios we are on friondly torms, and whoro thoy might not nsist on poss- orts, But n local soientist of ominence, cole- hrated for his investigations into the Theory of ot Corn, hug stated Lhut as the balloon goos uf) or it gots a twist put on it like u bil wmed” ball and that ¢ goes spins niny off nt an aungle, eubtended by the plano of its own moridian, or neurly Ho, aid proportionato to tho oarth's purallax at that purtioular moment. ‘Lhereforo, tho batloon will eithor roach Bpiizborgon, if the twist Is to tho lort, or & point near tho Gungia River inwAfrica, if 1t i to tho right. ‘I'ho nolious of the porsony dwelling in this last nuined country as to tho rights of property and porson are not very dis- tinct to begin with, and the Lravelors msy ba strippod of all thoy have ou, ‘I'lio heat of tho » climata 8 auch: that they will not mind this miol; bitt they will-aluo bo hold s slaves and ut to hard work, whivh {s not ploasaut, and will owor tholr opinion of tho colored raco. 'I'ho; hiad bettor rond Capt. Riloy’s narrativo of his advontures in Africa; and soo what a timo ho hind of it, Tut this in calos and gingor-broad to what will' Tappon if thoy go to tho norlhionst, on the way to tho Polnr Bou.. Bonoath them, Hioy roo vt strotchos of hnlf-frozon water, bioken by land,, fringed with'icoborgs, and covered with oternal snow. No hotols, no markots, no grocery stores,, no placo where they can stop and buy even abox: of sardinos or a can of oyators. It [8 positively ' distressing. Provielons are nearly out. Iomo is'sovernl milos away. It ia getting ohilly.. Tho 5“ is nonrly all oxosmosod., 'Lhoy aro coming down noarer and nearor to enrth, whother thoy will or no, .Aftor having caton thoir valuon and umbrellas, thoy will probably cast lots as towho shall bo—but lot the curtain drop hore. Thon it is vory possiblo that tho balloon may .burst while it I8 high up in tho air, and the con- tonts will run o livoly xaco to the ocoan. Whilo thoy aro coming dowvn tuo‘y can amuso’ thom- solves by estimating the lioight, and thon, mul- tiplying thelr own Lioighit by the squaro of _thelr volooity, got a fair idea how hard thoy will hit, Of courso this will not save_thoir lives, but it will sorvo to pass the time, Down they will £ unnoticed and uncared for, nuless some ship should happen to bo sailing by and tho Oapinin should mako an eutry in his log to tho offoot that govoral things, supposod to bo moteorio atanes, foll nenr thom thnt duy, Every sciontifie reader osn ‘fmagine for. hinwolt tho hazarda -to which ono of those graat balloons i8 exposod, Tranquil a8 tho Dbright worlds beyond tho clouds may appear, thoy are in & stato of constant change, ‘Liny ephores of mattor bresle up and dash madly earthward, but are moslly «consumed by rongon of the intense heat goner- atad by friction with tho atmosphero, boforo thoy rench tho surfuco. Just fancy the conse~ quonces if one of those mossongors of wrath, moro dangerous than the angel with the flory aword,were (o hit the balloon. It would blazo in o minuto, and tho car would come tumbling down. Oz the bulloon may fail thom, and_ thoy mey hove to talio to the lifo-boat. Itis o deli- cato operation, this swapping horses, and, it succossfully dono, rosults in leaving o party of coplo, mostly unncoustomod to salling, affont n a. cockla-shell, possibly to bo bocnlmed far from vossols, and to ba drivon to sctas if thoy lind boen caught off Spitxborgen. | § Boaides, thoso volunloors do not soem to re-. ‘momber that, whon they got in thouo higher ro- glona which tho balloon must necossarily tra- vordo, in order to gob tho Dbonofit of tho ent air-rivor, thoy reach s placo whoro {l‘;o cold iu 80 intonso and conatant that tho chil- lieat daya of last wintor are a8 nothing toit. 1t is womso than standing on Randolph stroot bridge whon tho wost wind biows, Hore, too itisalvays blowing n stendy gulo of aboub G0 milos an hour, an irresistiblo torront which will swoop tho balloon’ before it no one knows' whither, It may bo borne into, gome airy maelstrom that _lies far away beyond tho'uttermost stara. It may he; hurried lioyond tho bounds of space and wreck- ed on the shores of unknown worlds, whenco the nowepapor reprosontatives could foe tho sun that lights us shiuiug 08 & mero point in tho in- finite distance, Lot thoso young men refleck Tow thoy will fool when they are up nloft, wild winds nnrunmlug and howling through the cordage of tha balloon, they thomsolves lashoed tightly to tho car to koop from bamfi; blown out, tho thormometer sinking lower and lower, untit tho air itsolf bocomos gmlun'n% crystals which sting their faces, and their life-blood running moro and_moro sluggishly, Their frozon ands canno pull thie Tope fo dischargo the gas. Tho intoneo frost does its worl, and with oyes frozon in & glassy setaro, thoy sit” in an oternal sleop. The balloon, with this remarka- Dlo eargo, might go foating along for yoars, the Flying Dutchman of the upper world, o warning to all who carry curiosity boyond natural bounds, and ot Jast, in thoe slow courso of time, it would descond somowhero, ind the pooplo gathering around would soo theso frozen mon, sitting in & circle, clothed in the garments of other days, with gaunt and obsoloto instrumonts aud uten- sils around thom. 4 - It must bo remembored that thes (}mupln aro not going to travel in a Pullman diniug-car. They have no toves, for firo is & dangerous thing in_ tho windy ways thoy avo to travorso. Their coffco is warnied ouly by tho Lent gen- orated by slacking lime. Thoy cannot even smoko. ‘Thoy cannot pxeroiuo, They Lave to sit wrapped in overcoats with gloves on, and cannot play cards, Thoy cou ‘only talk with clattorivg teoth and bluo lips, and sigh for Innd, and wish they Lad not come. Is it, then, worth while to oxpose oncsolf to all theso dis- coraforts and perils, for the sake of a littlo mon- ey, aud o littlo temporary roputation ? And if thoy dio, on sen or shoro, thoro will moroly bo n paragraph in tho papors that the moveral idiots, nawes given in full, who nudertook the fool- Tardy onterprise of going to Europe in o balloon, diod, a8 might have boon expocted. * The sacri- fico of o many livos might be mourned, if thelr migfortune did not nat detor botter men from following thoir example,” It is hoped that this pinin statemont of tho caso will have n tendoney to reduce the number of applications for pormission to roprosont Lux ‘Trinune in this oxcursion noxt August. —_— - ‘The Handsomest Lamps in Chicage- Mossrs, Chupin & Otfs have within a fow Jays placed two snmplo Jamps Ju front of thefr mp and reflector manufactory, No. 113 Fifth aveiio, These lamps, with the posts, present afiner apposrance than any othera in tho eity, Out I8 ploased with tholr symmetry and generad ontituo ; nor do they fail to merit tho nt- tontion and praiso of thoss who examino thom closely. Tho Jnmps thewselves aro efght feof in hoight, and fAtied with gilt trimmings, 'The sidea aro of ruby glass, emborsed. Tho four cornors of each lautern aro bupplied from™ top fo bottom with cut-glss ‘prisms of ‘aiffcrent colors, arranged in an aitractiv mauncr, On tho north sido of the morth lsmpiss Largo lous arrauged €o sa Lo throw a atrong ight o- ward Washinglon etrcot, On tho gouth sido of tho south Jamp 19 o corrcaponding lean facing Madison sirect, Tl posts nro of a neat pattorn snd aro richly gilded, The pancls on (o baso of tho’posts are orna- Biented with an viegant and very exnct imitation of Qifteront cvlored procious stoncs and marblo, Thia {enign 1 the only ono of tho kiud fn tho United States, and was brought from Luropo short, timo aluco, Tho posts are 11 feat in hoight, giviug au nggregato lojght of 19 feot for cach lsnip. and post, ‘Thicso lamps ura well worth nvisit to any ono who fa nterested Iu fin ‘workmanship, —_— Extraordinary Inducements. To make a final closing out of geasounblo goods, A, G, Downs & Oo,, 324 Weat Madison atreet, will begin on Monday, July 14, a clearing-out salo of thelr outire spring aud summer stock, (ncluding suits, ehawls, dress goods, Iawns, porcales, hoslory, gloves, quilts, ‘whito goods, trimmings, and embroidories, Thoabove goods have been munrked witliont Togard fo cost, snd customors cau roly upon thiy sale a8 genuluo, us wo aro determined not to carry OVEr any summor” goods: Tu order to give work fo our sewlug glrls during the Aull season, wo will munufacture goods at a reduction of 16 per cent from usual prices for the uext sixty days, e ‘Valuable Proporty. Merara, Lilison & Fosters will aclt at auction on Sat~ urday afternoon moxt, July 19, on tho ground, 7L aplendid restdonco lots, sifuatod on Division, Hoyno, and Cryatal streots, and ryson streets. This prop- erty i8 finely located, being between Humbollt and Wickor Parks, Tho lind fa g anid s lots vory clioico, boiug in o thickly scttled portion of the city, and aro valuable for residenco purpuses, The terms aro caty and any ono desiring on inventment should attond the sale and purchase ono or moro lote, fic o e To Horco-Ownors, Messrs, Deardsloy, Newton & Co,, have just opened thelr now atable, on Court place, rear of tho Timea Building, cornor of Fifth avenuo and Washington Aroct, ‘Thia etablo liag been bullt with spoctal rogard to ventilation, drainege, and lght, and s the lsrgest and finest boarding establishmont fu tho vity, Yartics wishing olo‘znnz and vomfortabla quarlers for thoir horsen will do woll to call and examine, A fine stock of carringes and light Hvery on haud, —_— Manufacture and Ropairing of Jewelry, Every ouo muy not bo nwars that 1, J, Morso, corior of Lake and Olark wtreots, who s a goneral jowelor and gom merchant, makes a epoclnity of tho manu- facturo of goods to ordor. Vartica can solect their own partioular desiigns or utyles, and bo nccommodated with the very best work, both us regards strengtl and findi, 'Tho ropalrlug of watche 18 also wado & yrimary featuroof thls establlslunent, il i g B Lacos and Suits, On Mondny wo stiall maka n sweoplng reduction -in pricon on Jaca poluts and jackots, aud linen and whito suits, Theso gooda will bu tho beat bargalna over yet offered, Splondid laco jackets for $10, $12, $14, $10, and upwards, together with a splendid assortment of sults at ogully low pricos, lotchkiu, Palmor & Co,, Nog, 137 ondh 199 Bluta sirect, — Gontlemen in want of vory pleasant und destrablo rooms, fure nished, con socurs them by applylng o Mra, Hixon Ttoom 16, third floor, corner Stafe and Monroo streets, ontranco renr of Mayo’s jowolry storo, aud apposta Talinor’s Motel, Theroe are no moro central or des're abl rooms i (ho eity, tho location belng one of o ety e g Froo Rido Out and Baoclk fo attend the gale at Elmburat, on Wednesdsy noxt, Do not fail to read the particulars fu thoadvertisemont of Wiiliam A, Buttors & Co,, in the auction callmlll‘ snd mske up your mind to go to tho salo and buy o vl or ong of tho hvudsomo now dwellags to bo solds TAXATION. ‘Workings of the New State Revenue Law. “Obnoxious Features of the Personal Property Tax. City Wise-Hends Puzzled by Com- plex Statistical Conune il drums, Thore s abgolutoly no subjeot which more dirootly affoots tho moterial interests of evory claeg in community, to which so lttle intolligent attontion {s pnid by the mnjority of ourcitizons, 88 thosubjoct ombraced within tho above caption. It is true, that tho vory imposition of taxos is, gonerally, regardod as & burden, and tho pay- mont of thown as a griovanco, which is mado tho oceaasion of any amount of grumbling and fault- finding with tho officials, whoso position make it their duty to ouforce the multiform provisions of the laws made to croato rovonuo for tho purposes of govornment, oither National, Biato, or local. Tho costly improvemonts demanded by tho rapld growih of Chicago has caused an incroase of taxation from yoarto year which has boen comparativoly unhocded, because business and materinl prospority have more than kept pace with tho éxpenditures rendercd necessary. So tho peoplo havo boon content toseothoe improve- monts going ou, and the business, and manufac~ tures, and commorco of tho city progrossing so marvolously, and have not paused to take noto how tho machinory of thoir loczl government has gono on incroasing ; how this Board has boon cronted, ss o branch of tho oxecutive of tho governmont, and then nnoth or DBoard has boon added, thon s Jommissionor liad to be appointad for carrying out another branch of the oxccutive power of tho local governmant, and thon a board of com= missionors for atill another branch, until now, oven tho clear hiend of our worthy Chief FExcou- -tlvo hiaato stop to think how many branchos,. snd -honds, and boards, and commissionorships tho Exccutivo Dopartment of tha Oity Govornment: igdivided into. ' 8till; whilo all this hna boon golng on, tho original primitive system is still in oxistonco, and the great City of Ohicago! to-day hos undergone all - these mowly crontad branches of her local government suthoritativo local bodies, similar to the smallest bucolie town in any of the countics under towne ship organization, with this grand difforonce, that in tho smaller towns tho tax-payer can al- ways learn when he has paid all his taxes. Of Into years this knowledgo is o luxury which s donied to o Chicago proporty-ownon To him it is n mattor of tha greatost dificulty to lenrn whon nll his taxes aro paid. On the firat publi- cation of notice that the Btato, county, and town toxos are duo ond payable, o8 n good citizon ho hastens to the Court-Houso, aud secks to pay bis toxes. . o finds that ho has to go and hunt up the Tn\yu Collector, who, on inquiry, ho lenrna ‘has no right - to an office in the Court- . Houso, but has to hire an offico in gomo ‘private building in the town, Tho tax-pnyer, liaving found the Town Collector, eay for tho South Town, asks for his bill of taxoes, after ho has handed in the description of his ?mpnrty. Bu psosiug ho owns real estate in the hroo towns of Soutlr, Wost, aud North Chicago, Lo is informed that ho can unly}my taxes in that office for his_proporty in Solith Chicago. Ho thon proceeds to tho Wost Town, and, aftor hunting up tho Collector, who occupies an office, of course, in' o private bullding nlso, ho lad then to cross the rivor twice again and hunt up tho Collectorintho North Town, who may bo fonnd probably in a hat store or a Justice’s office. Ho thon, suroly thinking his full duty performed, mildly inq‘nirun it thag io-all ho o to oy, whon ho is asked, ** Have you boon to the Clty Collector's offica to seo if thero is anything againat your property thore ?” By this timo he begins to think it is o serions business to learn how to pny taxes in_Chicngo ; howaver, Lo pro- coeds to tho City Hall, and, atter s plensaut in- terviow with oo of the gentlemanly clorks in that office, ho vontures to ask, “Is thore sny- thing moroe that I have to do to ascortain if all my taxes aro pnid ?* Ho iy asked, * Havo you paid your water-tax ?" ¢ Ido not Jmow,” says the 1nfortunate ownor of property, ‘I asked you to make out my bill for all my axcs—have You mot dono 80?” ‘‘No, sir,” is the ro- ly, ‘yon must go fo the TWater offico £ %o north ond of this building.” Aftor having visited this office and paid his dues thero, he moots with a sympathizing friend to wham hocon~ fidos his troublos, Symputhizing friend, who has been proviously put through by samo entorpris- ing tnx-buyers, adviges him to go to the Comp- troller’s offico and soo the list of anles for de:. linquont taxos, and ascortain whother any of his lots Lavo boon sold, His discoveries herd meod not bo recited; nolther is it necossary to ox- patiato upon spocial_asscsamants, or similar dif- tlculties of various kinds that tho tax-payer hng to encounter undor tho bungling and comglhcmgud systom of rovenue-raising aud tax-collecting with which thia city ia afilicted, Tmmodintoly on the adoption of tho new Con- stitution in 1871, Tur Trinuns urged strongly upon the Legislaturo ta adopt o sweeping ro- gzrm in the matter of tho revenuo laws of this ate, oatabilshmont of & hitroau of taxes, where every cont sesoseed upon ‘Fmpurly, for gll purpoecs, could bo ascortained and poid, The Rovonue Taw of 1872 waa evidently dusiglnud to curo tho ovils above rocited, but in only one particular doos it ovon approsch Aromedy. Itiganadvanco in tho right direotion, but the whole lnw is _so complicatod, 8o hedged’ abont with dif- ficultios, that the larger citles of fho Stato domanded from tho Loglslaturo of last wintor a modification of tho law as rogards municipalities, Othorwise, they would overy one have become baukrupt. The Legislature, in enacting the law of 18']7, really imaginod that thoy hnd found o way out of the diffculty in which the tax-payers had becomo involved, by limiting to ono oificor in cach county tho duty of solling all lots and lands for delinquent taxes lovied for all purposos in the county, and giving him alono tho authority to issue cortificates of such sales, and roquiring him to keep an acdu- rato record of tha samo in his oftica. ‘Lhis in do- cidedly & movo in the right dircction; and, if the theory were fully ecarried out from its propor commencomont, would prove o gront public haon. As an economic measure in Chicago it has proved a dacided failuro, baving added mensurably to the burdons of tho tax-pay~ ors, ‘Tho city chartor provides for a Oity Collce- tor, whose duty iy to soll all lots and lands for delinquont municipnl toxes, and ho is not allow-~ ed any emolument for o doing boyond his reg- ular snlary of 84,000 por annum, shioh, consid- arinE tho responsibility of his Hunltinn, indicated by tho larga amount on his bonds, i 1ot aven a ressonablo compeneetion. Under tho now law this portion of the Gity Collector's dnly in ro- quired to bo turned over to tha County Crensu- ror, s ox-oflicio Uolloctor, who, in addition to his salary a8 County Treasuror of £0,000, draws o ealary of 24,000 os Collector, and is sllowed by Inw & cormuission of 2 por cont upon his sales, which in tho caso of tho oity snlea for tho taxes of 1871, amountod to over ©17,000, which added just so much to the cost of colloct~ ing tho city revenue for that yoar, * 'hio cost of collacting the taxes in this county is rondored much moro _costly than {a necossary by rotaining tho old and clumsy aystom of_town- hip organization, Thoro are thrao Town Bourds. in tho City of Chisago, who respoctivoly assens, lovy, nud dollect taxos inench of the towns, Nortls, Wost, and South. The town officors elected on tha first T'ucaday in April aro as follows : Tor tho town of South Chicago: P, O'Brion, flu];ervlsnr; L. M. Cleary, Collector; Edward Phillips, Asscsuor ; John ficthIor, Town Olork Oflico, No, 170 Adams stroot, For the ''own of West Ohicago: Thomas F. Wall, Bu‘mrvluor; Lawrenco O'Urion, Collector ; M. M. Milllor, Town Olork, who holds over, Mr. Clark, who was olected, hnvix:fi failed or declined to qualify. Ofilce, Wall's Bu/ding, cornor Hal- umfi and Adams stroots, Yor tho Pown of North Chiengo: Robert Konny, Buporvisor; Albort Pasch, Assossor ; JohnJ, Healy, Tovn Olork, ~Ofico, coruor of North Glark aud Miohigau stroots, Boma wdes of tho importance of thoso town or- anizations may be dorived from tho fuct that in the Town of Bouth OhlnnI;o under the man- ngomeut of Aflr, Edward D) utli , tho Assossor, wlilo lias, from all wo havo hoard, faithfully an impartiaity fulfillod Lis onorous dutios, the work of ussossing thoe roal estato und porsonnl prop- and among othor plaus suggestod tho. orty of that one division of the city alono on- aged tho labor of twenty competont nssistanty gar sevonty-six days, aud the resultisto be found in twelve lurgo volumes, coutatning, in all, 1,400 pages, T . e o “g H lnlk‘:%r :n:nun»mnut of tho roal os & Riimbor of lim Nombor of iy blocka, ,. i Fn‘:;' casli vaiue of nunimproved ioia’ hnd Do locka, e 10,220,440 “otal falr*dasti valus of lota and Wéeka, T ¢ and improvementa on lota and hl‘lch‘flfl,flfl,mfl \oN OF WEST OIIOAUD, Falr caeh yalno of Improvanta on Tand..... 534 Fair cash valuo of o0 1,03T,87C Fair cosh valuo i on1andseeersirses 1,184,870 Number of Improvod. 22,5 Numbor of unimproved lots and bloc] 89,7, Fair cash valuo of improved lots and blocks. 11,067,40 Fair cash valuo of improvementa on lota and BRI s o on i aii s b o L ,257,08 Falr cash value of ‘unfmproved lots and * bloeks,ive sy v 10,086,17 Tolal fair cssh valuo of lots and blocks and improvomenta on lots and blocks,$28,010,68 Total falr cash valuo of assosament roll, 80,095,45 The roturns -for North Ohlcago aro not yt comploted. Tho roturns for porsonal prupgl{g aro not_complato ‘in oither ur the towns, modo of making tho asseasmont may bo interot= ing to our readors who have to foot tho bils, {)nrllun.lnrly when 1t s understood that preclsiy ho anmo monna have to bo adoptad to ascertin tho valuo for taxation for municipal purposes y snother large forco of ufllnlall‘ undor tho londr ship of Mr, O, N, Holdon, Tax-Commisslour, and Mr.W. H. B, Gray, Asséssor, with thoir Litls army of asnistants, = Porhaps this account of somo of the cosflgmnchlnory of our local pv= ornment may have the effact designed, to stizu« lato the nmbition of somo of our pragtical-mnd« od cltizons, both in and out of the Leglslatire, to devise a simplor, more economical, and rore effootivo systom for the assessment, lavy, and «ollection of taxos for local governments in Arga citios in- thia Btate, particularly, ra wo il goon bo relieved from tho necessity of resing diract taxos for the purposo of Btato rovem, Tho presont plan for asscesing for Eate, county, and town tnxos, may be_briofly sated a8 follows: On the first Tuosday in Apn tho town officers aro - olocted at & town moding. In Obieago, prior to this year, heso officors wera elooted at the regularcloctian for county officors in Novembor. On or'aboit’ tha 18t of May tho County Clerk is roquired o de- lyor to_each Asscasor a dekcriptive list of all blocks, lots, and parcols of laud of record [n Lis offico on May 1, situntod in the town. Tlo Ase sossor i8 thon required to proceed and porsnall; viow the property, and assess the valuo o encl lot, block, and parcol of land, aud tho imrove- monts separatoly, and foot up the variow cols umns, oxtond the amounts, and thon reapitue Inte tho wholo in & gonoral obsirad, On the fourth Monday in Juns, the Town Board, aftor bhaving givon ten days pre= vious notico, . meot for the purpise of .rovieing and n{)pwv!ng tho assessmont, and of, henflusob{une lons on tho part of intoresbd par< 4ies. On the second Monday in July thoCounty oard, having tho books of all tho towns In tho county bofore thom, mot for tho purpss of farther revising and oqualizing the aspmsmont ‘before tho returns aro sout to Springfled to bo etill further rovised and oqunlized by tlo Btato Board of Equalization, which meots in Augnst. Bo much for the real estato ; now, as totho per- sonal property to bo listad for taxation ~ Kach Asgostior is provided with an ample nunber -of small books, couvoniont in sizo, to bo car- ried sround by his deputles, tnd nn une limited oamount of blanx schedules forms, statemonts, afidavits, ole.,, numberitg novon difforont variotios, of tho most comjlox and ingenious character, Tho echiedules for lsting tho items of porsonal property, orodits, aad de- ductions aro curlositics in their way, sud have excited during tho past month the wander and astonishmont of many o shrowd merdiant and banker. In tho minds of some, wonler gave place to tho moat profound- admiratisn of "tno ‘ominent statistical goniug who had cantrived to elaborate such yrnlmuzd connndruns, Our worthy Uounty Attorney, Jim Root, 1nd n lively time,* holding 8 dally loveo, iying - to cxpouud to excited nudienccs tle boaut; and simplicity of the Rovonue lay of 1873, Having had tho honor to be a monber of tho Assembly when tho lIaw was onacted, some ¢x- cited citizon would demand with n fious explo~ tivo, # Why In——thundor did you get up such & Iaw, it you'can’t explain it to s #" In vain tho learned attornoy denied all respontibility, and azsorted that tho journal of tho Hcuso would show that ho entored his solomn protost against its pasengo along with other of the Caok Oounty mombers. One of the most eminoni members af tho Bar rushod oxcitedly into the officy of the . Bouth Town Asscutor, seying, *I have practiced at tho bar- for wearly thirty years, N and think I have ‘some reputation for ~ boing mble to consiruo . & statute, but that thing,” throwing 'down tho wohedulo, * takes mo down, I confess.” I cannot manko my roturns, Iam worth o much (naming amount) persoual proporty, and am willing to pay taxes upon that amount.” A fow moments aftor a messengor ontorod with o note from a distinguished journalist, himsolf o statistician of roputo, in which b writos : I cannct sparo two wooks of hard study to try aud undeatand what is roquired of me by this” document;and oven thon do not think I could succeed ; please make out my roturn from tho following daia.” Anothor diauufim'ahud Journalist; more omi~ nent, though in another snd _ moro rofitablo occupation, utterly declined Fa ‘make any return or furnish any information 10 onablo tho deputy to doso. But this is not surpriping ; that distinguished individual's namo always figures prominoutly in tho tax-fightera® cataloguo, ) ‘This manner of ‘obtaining infornation for the purpose of taxation ia offensively inquisitorial, and hay nlwa{s been cousidered objectionablo, Tho present law roquiring tho Asswmsor to ontor privato rosidonces ond in tho moest sonrching manner inquire into tho private afairs of citi zong, and at his option examine them under onth as to their rosources, their debts, tho value of their wifo's piano, jowolry, eta This s ro- garded gonorally ' by citizons ns odious and oppressive ina_vory high dégree. During the war the imposition vf an incomo tax waa borne with ns o necessity of the Governmont, but ovon as that tax was tho oconsion of muich fraud, falsehood, and it ig snid ovon of porjury, and thorofore unequal in its brrdon, 8o 18 the Immnnt porsonal proporty tax. The fraudulent, ho false, and tho mean ovade ho law and de- coivo the Asossor, It isat presont nn odious 1aw to the poople, and needs nuch amending, Parties, howover, who havo beet in_the habit of ovading the payment of this tax in formor yoars, should foarn thnt tho amount sssossod agnivh them'undor the now law will remain nntil paid as & lian upon any other. yrupnrt{ thoy mny posscss, and “tho Colloctor has authority to obtain execittion on a porsonal judgmont for its piy- mont with costa, It will, thoreforo, be poor economy to attempt to Judge par'""':“i any Justico of tho Poaco has jurisdiction in such cases, _ The appropriation bill 33 tho Oity Council calling for o lovy of 0,000,000 for city purposes; tho neoossity for a larger lovy than ordinary for county purposos, will awake a more livoly. intorost In tox “mattors than " or- dinafy among tho citizons of Chicago, and will sot many minds to work thinking Low tho cost of raising this enormous revenus, which ia nocossary, can_bo implified end economizod. Perhaps the solution may yet be found in abol- fshing tho town organizations and concentrating tho local zi:c,vsmmuntn in ono, Ly oxtonding the limits wit] roquiromonta, hin _tho ‘constitutional and orecting Ohicago into a county and city with an ndministration modeled on the plan of the National Governmont. i S o THE RELIEF SOCIETY REPORT. Thore scoms to bo somo littlo hitch at present in tho publication of tho Grand Roport of the Rolief and Aid Bocioty, upon which the Rev. RR. Laird Collior hias beon working. Tho intention of tho Publication Committee was to make the volumo one of rare intorest, to have the me chanical part of it clogantly gatton up, and make it sa attractive In apposranco as it s in its contents. Tho Exccutive Committen proposo to allow a genorous snm of monoy for tho ypreparation of this stupendous affair, which is to bo o epecimen of something or other. .Now comes tho troublo. Mr. Collier has finishod Lis Inbors, and bag his work roady for the pub. luher, Who is to have the houor of publishing n volumo of which ono copy will go to Quecn Victoria, another to Kaiser ~Willism, another to cach of tho other contributors to tho Chicago Roliof Fund? It seems likoly that it will bo givon to tho Rivorside Pross, Camluldge, Mass., when it could be douo hero. A roporter interviowed Mr. N. 8, Bouton upon tho eubjoct, and loarned from him that tho ress son for dnfng thia wns that tho Lakesido Pub- lishing Company hava doolarod thot Chicsgo could mot do euch flne work; that, sinca Mr. Collior's doparturo for tho Last, a Ohiea. 50 firm hes ogreod to do it, and that tho omnitteo are in corrospondenco with Mr, Coll« for upon the subject, 1o thinks the matter will bo very anxcably settled, and the publication of any vdforonoo t0 the mattor will be hishls in- iurlom to tho prospoet of the work being dono [ this city oventually, On the ofber band, the Lakosdo Company dony haying mado any suoch dispanging statemont.