Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 30, 1873, Page 2

IPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. Forthicoming Confegsions of a Chicago Newspaper: Its Thrilling Adventures in Search of that Valuablo Bird, the Re- Inctant Adverdisor, All About the Celebrated “Circular to Merchants.” How It Played the Chariiable Watch*” Dodge at the Ex- Position, Great Success of the *‘Most Popular Journalist” Trick at Foley's. The Coming Effort---A Grand Libel Suit Against *The Tribune.” Tt is our special privilege ‘and pleasurs to an- nounce this morning ‘that the editor of the Times, Mr, Btorey, i now preparing, and will soon publish, abook. Tho namo of tho pub- lisher and the price are as yot unknown. It wo woro 1naliclous, and wished to kesp tho poople of Chicago in a state of puspousa and nnxioty, wo should stop just here, leaving them in uncertainty ss to whothor.tha forthcoming volume was a continuation of ** Raids Among tho Churches,” or tha binck-list of thoss who do not aubscribo’ for the Times, or somathing cqually uncomfortable. B But bappily it is nothing of tho kind, It is simply & narration of personal advontures rival- ing in their boldness and audncity those of the trappor, who, as 1a told in tho . Dimo. Novel, tracks the boar to his den; grapples- with him, -:ringle-handed, ' .and overthrows - him, - --Mr. Btorey, in'an artless and pleasing ‘manner, gives an nccouut of s’ thrilling adventures in search of that rare and valuable bird kuown as tho Chicago advortisor. Ho tells of tho tricks, stratagems, and devices to which he hiag resortod in order to put ssltupon tho tail of that fowl, aud while, like the scoker aftor the Phonix or -tho philosophor's stono, ho has not succcoded in his designs, hopo stil] burns immortal, :* The proof-sheots of this book were sent to ua with a roquest for n notice thoreof.' While it was ovidont that this was simply & plan on tlie part of Mr, Btorey to securo a littlo gratuitous advertising, and that ho was norvously waiting to soo whether it would bo auccesstul, etill, in viow of tho intoresting fosturcs of tho publica- tion, it will bo noticed without charge. It appears that o fow months ago Mr. Storoy's attention was called to the fact that the advor- tising columus of Lis paper werebecoming ompty, and that it was nocessary to fll them up with general nows, or with bogua reports of mootings alleged to bave been Lold in this city, This method of filling spaco was costly, and did not give his paper that businesslike and pros- perous appesrance which he would like to seo it bear. Bo he concontrated hisintolloct upon this eamo - quosiion, and set ont in' search of the reluctant advertiser, tho merghant who had goods for sale, the girls who wanted places, and tho places which wanted girls, tho lots which wanted pur- ‘thasers, and the people who wanted lots. Tho first attompt made in this direction was to pub- lish o page of what purports to be comparative roturns of the threo Chicago morning papers, in the various cities and towns in the Northwost. By resorting to what is known as cooking the roturns,” tho Times was figured out to have an immense majority, Copies of the pu- pors containing . theso figures wero cir- culsted far and wide, wero left on mercantile doorateps, and in (ho homes of the poor. Mr, Bteroy eays he confidently oxpected that the sewing-girls of Chicago, sccing the im- moneo ciroulation of the Times in Streator and Peru, would at ‘once rush to his office and hand In their anuouncements of wante. He snt in his room, and looked out to seé tho expected un- usuel rush of custom, Butitdid not come. The solemu slilinoss of the northwest cornor of ‘Washington and Wells strests was undisturbed by o single footfall TLike Marians in the «Moated Grango,” Mr. Storoy kopt on looking out of his windoy, snd dolefully repeated, ' Tho advertiser comoth not.” Tho only result of it,. acoording to the book, was & hoavy expense int curred for printing and circulating a number of oxtra copies, and tho receipt of sevoral scores of cotrections from Wostorn villages, giving the truoe figures as to the. circulation of the papers. Owing to an unaccustomed lack of epacs, thoy ‘wero not published. * The next devico, inys Mr, Storoy, wns the proparation of a clrcular. to morchiants, calling on taem to advertise in the Zimes, aud pointing out tha speclal ndvantages of that paper. Ad- vertiremonts published in it could not be buried fn & mass of others, but would stand out boldly and conspicuously. The editorial managemont waa exceedingly fustidious as to what should find its way iuto tho Times, and preferred to invite only persona of Ligh standing in the community —old aiid honored merchents—to advertivo o it. 1t therefore dechined to yeceive. any advertising from commou peoplo, that its patrons necd not be shocked by being brouglt into contact with plebeians in any way. MMoroover, the Times waa 8 purely Chicago cuterprise. Thero was nothing like it elsewhiere. It wus as much of a Chicago institution as the renderivg establishments on the South Branch, and, to suffer it to dle outy would b to deprive this city of ono of its lead- ing fosturos, und which bad gained it so many motices in other places. These circulars wore also distributed, and, .while thoy did pot answat the object for which they were intondod, atill proved o godsond for tho girls and old women who live by picking up 2nd solling tho wasto papor and scraps swopt out of stores, The little boy who stood al the cor- ner of Wishington and Wells streets, and who had ordors to press this circular into the hands of every woll-dressod man who went by, was called off, aftor it was found that even tho in- ducements contained in this appoal had noeffect, Tho result, it appoars from the records, wasn considerablo oxpenditurs, without any corro-; spondlng profit. After thodeoided failuro of thesetwo attompts, Mr, Storey dotcrmined to try somothing which wag o little out of tho ordinary routine, sumo- thing which hiad the clements of a aensation in it, somothing whick at the first glunce would not remind ono of the Times, It way to bo oneof thoso sensations in which tho peoplo would geb ontangled, uad bofora thoy Lnaw it, the Zimes would come up grinulng likoa jack in a box. Wo all know the advertisomout whioh bogins by & thrilling adventuro, and winds up with s puf of » clothing atore. This sousutiou of Mr. Btorey's was intended to conform stiictly to that model, Tho Lxposition was then in progress, but was drawing ton close, and the dyiug hours of It woro to be given up to #woeet charity, It struck Mr. Btorey that this wae as good a flold of opora- tions as ho would fiud. Accordingly, ho dotailed Mr, J, L. Rock, ono of tho employos of that puper, to work up the business, r. Rack, ae- soclating with himself a pereon by the name of Ford, succeeded in proouring s watoh, and put it up to be voted for, aftor the honorable fashion which prevails in church fairs, tho procoeds to bo donated to the chantable lnnm:ltinns o: ll:oulty. i oly compotition was gotten up hotwen & &J:»vln zlapnol ;la‘. and tho vlfmm began pouring in rapidly. Tho confest was au anlmated one, and volon onongh wore cast to Lring in 2840, U to thia timo overything bad run swmoothly, Nobody had droamod. that tho Times had any- thiug to do with the matter, or that Mz, Btoroy.| was &nlhmuy waiting for the moment when lie could fire tho mine and attract public_nttontion to his paper. Dut tho Oharitabls Exposition wad over.—The Exeoutive Commiltos bogan-add-- Ing up tho funds, and oallad upon Mr. Rock nnd his ansociato to rendor to tho poor what bolonged to tho poor. _Mr. Rook dolayed. Ho dallied with them, " Followin) membora.of thoTixecutive Committe in o state of. nuspohise. Ho mado n&»rolntmnuu.muh,tpam which lie did not keop. Thoy eallod at tho Zimes oflico time aftor timo, BIr. Htorey.watchod de- llqhtm!l,\' as- lio saw {hom marching up-stairs, “Ihis looks ke businoss,” oriod ho. This golm{ and coming gava an appearance of un- | usual animation to tha Z'imes office, and & Po-. licoman noticing tho stir went ovor to soo what tho mattor was, and to make an arrcat if” noces- sary. ‘This, - too, pleasod Mr. Btoroy, and whon 1o Jearnod that ono of the in & *‘ porsonal " rogueating Mr, Rook to call and sottle, ho rubbod his hauds glosfully, The Comsmittco kept on hunting ‘after Mr. Tock, They called . as. tho office, and woro told e was not in, ‘oven whon Lo was, Anything to keop up an animated bustle ~ around thoe offleo, At Tst he camo . fo timo, oud gave In an sccouut which would refleot orodit, upon & doxterous bookkeoper. Tho number of votes cast was 1,680, which should roprosont $840, but Alr, ook’ claimod that ho was 235 tickots sliort, snd that cousoquently thoro was 911750 for which Lo was not rosponeible. Bomebody may havo gotten it, but ho was cortain he did not. Bo¢ sides that, ho had a bill for contingont ex- enaos amounting to $202,60. Ho and "his col- oague hiad spent a good doal of valuable timein Lunting- up voters for tho watch, whioh ho ex~ pooted to be pald for. at 85 cents an hour, which ‘wag the ordinary rate. Bosides that, thoto were some othor little items which .would have to bo aid out of .the, recoipts. Aflor muoh bogging T8 patd aver 3460, ang hos promised 670 Lioros which it is hoped will bo paid over. This exporimont was & successful one. It got for the Times about $200 in cash, ono advor~ tigomont, and an immonse amount of froo no- ticing, A great many people’ interostod in ro- ligions and othor gharitios, who'haa never put thoir feat inside tho Times Building boforo, had ‘bean induced to go thiere, For a time, tho place beeame quite a charilablo centro. As for tho watch, it is roportad that it was an old ono bo- longiug to Mr. Storey, who thus got rid of it to good advautago. L Encouragod by the- sucoess of this undortak- ing 21, Bloroy, dotormuod to {rycanotlor ufior tho same atylo. But, sinoo tha cliarity business: had beur:, protty thordughly oxploited, lio defor~ mined Lo'try *operations in_auother flold. Ml Took was ngaln orderod to tho front, and “sgain nusocinting with bim the faithfal Ford, 'ho got anolber watoh, and put it on_exhibltion at Toley's, to bo voted to the most popular jour- nalist of Chicago. Hore again nobody could at tho first glanco suspook a puft of tho Timcs, Noarly ovory-one iu Chicago knows somobody who works upon a papor, and, ccnnuqnont:ly soveral individuala callod in at Foley's and pald half-a-dollar ench for tho priviloge of votiug for tho man of thoir heart. 4hoy paid,.aud they. voted, but, owlng to the. forgetfulness of tho judgo of eloction, thoy were cither not racorded at all or tholr votga woro Annlly oreditod to tho wrong porson. After tho balloting liad baon car- | riod on for a day or two, tho papera publishod & report of tho progress made up to date, glving. the namos of sovoral persons who had got .as high a8 nineteen votes, but who were not men- tioned at all whon tho‘final rosult was published, nnd who feol sad that tho world was not pormit~ tod to know how many Chicagoans, lovod thom. In tho course of a few.days .tho votes logan rolling in, and they wore nelrl¥ all in_favor of persons cmployed “upon tlie 24mes. - Mr. Btorey #nys that this was his idea. .. The,.monoy paid in for them camo from tho counting-room of tho Tinies, and it was undorstood: that it was to be roturned as fast as it was .rocoived. ‘l'hus ono day. the counting-ronm ‘would_sond over 230, which would bo voted for Mr. Wilkio, ‘and tho noxt day it would sond over Bomo moro,’ to bo voted for somobody elso. This caused advertis- ors to'boliove tbat the omployes of tho Times were pretty popular peoplo aftor all, and set them to thinking whether it might not, aftor all, bo worth while to give it a bit of advertising now and thon, p But undoubtedly somo money was taken in, A fow people, in Lha innacence of their bearts, did vote, as did somo of the hewly-elcotad county ofil- cers, .on tho dtrongth of na intimation that things would bo'made hot for them if thoy did: not como down and voto for the most popular Lfluflmlmt in Chicago, which his name was Wil- io, ‘According to tho ofiicial roports the pro- ceeds wero §740, which woro to go to charitable purposs, butinreality they werenot so large, tha imes having to bo paid back what was advancod by it,.in order to crento tho improssion that tho Times pooplo wora popular. Then, when the lists wore closod and Mr. Wilkio was found to be elected, the Boss sent for Rock and informed him that the ond was not yot. There must be n variation in the pro- grammo. ‘Thore must bo a sensation, The publio must be worked up to the uttermoat ou tho subjoct of that wateh. Bo valuable an articlo could not be suffercd to go without doing still further duty in the adyertising line. Bo ho unfolded his scheme. Mr. Rook was to get hold of tho watch and the monay, a8 if he intended to sbscond with both of thew, Then n- deteotive, ‘would be sout in search of Rock, and would got tue watch from bim. Doubtless the matter would be reported in the papers, and’ ho would bo spoken of harshly, 'Then be, .tho aforesaid Rock, could bring o libel suit, the cost of which would be defrayed by the papor. 5 To this Mr. Rook demurred, It occurred to him that he was doing altogether too much work for his pay, ‘To be financial editor, to Tun & couple of charitable entarprises, to bo_writton up, and to go into the lbol suit business and have his character exposed scomed to Liim a congolidation of employmonts which re- quired an incroase of salary. Mr. Storey ad- mitted the justico of this view. of the case, aud romised him 10 per cont of the profits of the fibel it if anylliing was obtatned o6 it - To this Mr. Rock agreod, for he had not {he courage to contradict™ Mr. Storoy, and he went throngh bis part of tho programma, though with reluctanco, it will bo remembered” how the frionds of the succoséful candidate met to con- finm]nla him on bis victory ; howit" waa sud- only discovered the.watch was missing ; how Detootive Dixon took a couple of swift haoka and sot out in pursuit of it ; Low it was secured Dy tho intrepid Dixon, and Was finully prescnted to Mr. Wilko, SR Thé noxt morning tho affair was writton up, and'it was 8o naturally doue, that all the papers jumped at the conclugion that.Mr. Rock had lo- vanted with. tho: watch aud’'tho money, The editor of thoe Tines read those roports wilh cx- ceoding satisfaction, for he at last paw tho way to a wider notomcfi and 8 botter advertisomant thap ‘ho-Lad yot had; and atonco ordered Mr, Rook to bring Lis sulb' aganst Tue Tumuse, which bhe did, claiming that e had boon damni~ flod, Injured, wounded, and. grievously wronged by the way in which he had been spoken of, to tho 'amount of §10,000, * - Wi Tlug brilliant stroks worked woll. It attracted moro attention to tho paper than anything which bad appented in it during its life, and it {8 prob= ably read now by more people than_over boforo; owing to tha curlosity which they have to soo how this libol suit {8 golug on.” A8 tor tle mono; which waa renlly colloctod for tho ivatch, it ia- resumed that Mr. Storoy hay hold of onough of 1 to cover oxpouses, . . : B The charitablo institutions have received a lit- t10; and aro pathatically inquiring Whether thoy. 8ha)l seo any more, . Mr; Storoy slso gives 5 statemont of his .ef+ forts in search of the corporation printing, to~ other with somo hints 08 to. bow to deal, with ildarmeu ‘who will not bo reasonablo, but as tho result will not be known for a couplo of woaks, that chapter is as yot unfinished. ~ Ho bas grent hoped that it will result In his favor, and if, so Lie will couclude his book aud ond it out to the world imumedintoly. - . ——re— “BILLY” ARLINGTON HARNESSED. . Mr, Matt Loman, Mr, Billy Rico, and soveral othor’ evil-minded gentlomen, prosentod: Mr, Williatn Arlington with a sot of harness from Puillips'. Buch a presont, ono would hope,, would * rein in” tho recipient's tendency to pun, ‘but 'no! Lo has given his inclination *its head," und ropled in the following *“lnoas " Y Marr . LoMa¥, Brnby ILio, xD GExTLEMEN: I fool I shull not be able to expresy mysell uslisfac- torily for thls clegaut present, und L wusure you was uever moro surprised, and agreesbly %o, than” at _tho yrecut timo, 1t affords me uubounded plesaure to BINW fhat Tamn purrounded by such. truo friends, Bpeec-making fs not oxactly my forle, oxceytivg Whon i+ 1 4Cork but I focl happer st tue rencnt {imo fhen I would i tho formor place, In selocting this presont you have not anly showed good taste, but plessed me,” I will usa it, and sadl 7 be my fate abould T over laose trace of you, 10y friends, hera to~night} oud muy I have the croup- or the nieatlos if T aver forget you, May you, llko niy lorse, nover know what i¢ 1f 8 to bo witlout a'dit fu your ‘moulli; sud, ‘a8 you lLave not gous aiig “uilud ™ on o, I fool't am well Aarnessed, 1t ia got- lng late, let's “phitl-up,” Mry, A, will think I am loat if I remain I:muur, and when I Fel homo should e appoar sulky sud continuo her Fwagan * tougue, 1 will remind her of tho **bridie,” Ibhsve * spoke,” 1 presting you felloys ((ellows) ure goltiug tired, T have oome to the !' hub ¥ of my discousse, aud will “yrhosl " off, X “tho ‘instrictlons of hin supé- [~ rior, hie kopt Mr. Billings, Dr. ydor, and thoother | Gommittoo had put |- ‘por”_;noro, | -/ REAL ESTATE. . - The -- Monetary-- Stringenoy Coneos- s in the Real Estate Dullness N Market, i h T An Advanee in Real Estate in New “York, and Its Causes Probal tios of the Same Experi- ence in Chicago. Progrqss .qf Suburban Improve- ment Schemes, Recont Sales of Lots and Acroa. Thoro haa scarcely beon a time in two years whon thioro was so littlo being done in tho salo of real'oatato in thiscity as now, unless it was during the oxtreme stringenoy of money in Decombor of Inat yoar, Tuo onuso, however,-of tho small valumio of salos now is tho eamo as it was then —stringoncy of monoy. - It may bo accopted a8 a gonoral rulo that, whenevor trado is extremoly nctive,—when larga crops are being moved and ‘monoy Is tight,—real catato businoss is always Qull, for tho vory good -renson that thono who lLavo moncy can {tomporarily make mora by londing it at high ialod of iutorost to tho mercantilo community, . For & month post, money bus” commandod from'134 to 2 per cont” por month on loans . for thirty to ninety days on .the best collatora! socurity in this markot. Tho “monoy of tho banks being absorbed in the tran- anction of tho immouss pork-pscking businoss of this fail in Ohlongo L obligod capitalists and speculators to borrow ini the open market at high ratos. Those ratos of intorost afford quicker proflts to thosd'who Lave roady cash’ than the slower movement of tho advance- in -resl estato. The ‘capital that seeks investment in tho ' lattér’ ‘is only the . -ncoumulated profits of trade. - Thin class of capital nover bo- comes 80 abundant as to seck permanont invest- mont until after tho groatost activity of trade is ovor ; consoquently, the groatest demand for roal .ostato i85 uenslly 1w Juauary, Fobrunry, and March, when the disbursoments of- tho Janusry divideuds has ‘mado a surplus of, capital that is not raquired in activo trade in commodities, ~. But thero ia reason to boliove thal the demand for roal ostato as on iuyestment for such surplus oapital tbis yoar will bogin * eatlier than usual, 'for mapy ‘of the ususl avenues for "investment do mot ' afford ‘tho usual inducomonta j; United Statcs bonds aro soarde and high, and, as for railway stocks and ratiway bonds, thore iu” los confldonce “in their value thian thoro used to bo,- Thostooks havo already boon ndvanced so largely by tho spoculative ro- action from the pauic that comparatively little' consorvative capital will seek investment in that dircetion. A woll-known bLanlor of thin clty, who has just roturned from Now York, says that alroady the domand for some more conservativo andsafe invesiment than stocks and railroad bonds -has -coused aun ‘advance in tho Qriees -of mearly’ all renl- estate in Now ork City aud its suburbe. It is also probable that .the quick recovery from the panic is convincing poople thatthe United States was in fact novur no xich 88 now, and that now that legitimnto Lusiucss is recovering 8o rapidl thero: will be 'gronter concentration of wonlt] in the- great commercial citics of tho Union within thie noxt yoar than ever before. Tho col- 1apse of speculalive scliemes whick careful poo- plo féarod 8o, mucl, has come and_passed, and Wo are” nouo‘ the worso' for ‘it Chicago, as o city, has cortainly beon beucfited by it, and now that thero is no such threatening tloud in tho orizon 8s the formor approhomsion of tho collapso, it scems rensonabla that as 8oon a8 _Inonoy becomos abundaut in this mar- kot, a8 it undoubtedly will within the next two ‘months, thoro will bo s groat » domand for roal ontate in..fhis city and suburbs ns over before, and probabiy at bettor prices, Of tho various entorprises for ' BUBURDAN INPROYEMENT in all dircctious thero is uot much to be said just now, excopt that In overy case things aro pro- greseing oveu moro favorably thau could be ex- Enclcd in_such winhy weathor and undoer such nancial difiicultics ag havo prevailed for somo time past. ‘At the * . NORTHIWTSTERN. CAR-STIOPS, bullding ia still progrossing rapidly, notwith- standiog the inclomont weatlior. Lots are daily boirg sold to mechanica who want homes, and when spring comes mnny.pooplo Who hinve 1ot vistted that-quartor since last fall will find that, to thoir Burprise, n new town Las grown up as it by magio during tho winter, & ; AT ENGLEWO0OD thero is an oqual activity, and the long string of bhouses- that stratchios down nlong the Kool Island Raiiroad to that point is gradually be- coming continuous to Washington Heighta by the building at South. Englowood, Auburm, snd Normal. . AT COXNELL AND EOUTI CIIICAGO, i thero i au equal netivity iu building. T'he work on the now rulroad from. Park Sido Station, on the Illinois Contral, to South Chicago Las boen temporarily suspended,. but it will bs completed beforo spring, and, in all probability, will bo tho routo used by the Baltimore & Ohio Road for comiug into the city, re ., i7 i TUEBELT RAILTOAD, * " A'fow days ago a contract was sigued botwoen Meaurs. Snydor, & Lee, on bolalf of cartain w‘wufi-‘uwuoxs, on the one part, and the Belt rond Company, on the other, in which it is nagroed that,"in consideration of §2,600 to.be paid to #aid Bolv Ruilrond Compauy, they will conatruct their tracl from the Ruck Inland Rail- rond, just north of Washington Hoights, along: tho centre ling sl'mm enst to west) of' Bec. b5, -Town 87, Runge 14 - onst, boforo the first day of ‘May, 1874. This bonus | to the Bolt Railrond Companv is given \‘-‘y tho owners of laud in the south half of snid Sec. b, ‘whioli' adjoins the original Washington Hoighta Bubdivision on the unorth, ,One of the objects of the property owners in' giving this money is to maka & uow stopping place for traing .on tho Rock Iulaud Road at the proposed junc- tion, g Messrs, Boyder & Lee have juat completed the salo of twotraotuof landof twonty-sightacres oach, in the soulh half of tho Beo. 5 abuvo referred to, via: twenty-vight nores b ©1,600 por acre,. and, mun;e‘-m ght noros ab £1,800 Doth {rofs wore sold 'for ir. Isaze’ Crosby to Mr. Bamuel A, Bawyer, of Now York City, tho total prive Loing 895,000, of which one-fourth was to Lo cask and the balanco in long paymonts of two, thron, and tive yoars. The Largain wan really. concluded about threo wedks ngo, whon tho panic mada nvm‘y:hinf in the iy of spaculative purchnses look much Jo attractive tlinn now, but tho traneaction was not finally completed until within a fow days. A gnla of flve nores in bee. 18, Town 38, Rango 13, beitigs about ono_mile from Sammit Siation, - was mado a féw dnys ago by Mossrs, D. L, & G- W, Porry for 8800 por nuro. ‘A good ninvy nles of choap lots are belng .mado/ from which wo soleot a fow as indicativo _of the raugo of pricos : Meysrs. Lorkin & Jouks sold a lot on Kimball avenue, 175 fost south of L'ullorlon nyenus, at $25 per'. frout foot, A Honry J.- Goodrich sold 'Offiht lots, 26x1256 ench, corner of Sovoutléth and Charles streots, for 4,000, Ona lot, 74x175, cornor of Wabash avonue and Bixty-firat stroot, for #52 por front foot, all cash, One lot fu Blook 2 of rving Pavk, for 81,400, Heury W, Brooks sold four lots just wout of ;lm é%%k Tslaud Railroad, at South Englowood, or §700, Tevi Wing & Co, sold No. 4 Park Row, lot 25x 180, with Iurgo thrac-story and basemout build- ing, with wtoam hoating, ota,; prive £30,000, ) . BATURDAY'S THANBFELY, ‘The followlug instrwnests wore filed for roc- ord on Saturday, Nov, 403 ‘ oIt FROTERTY, Central Park av, 1 e coc of Wust Monroo st, w _f, 202 2200 £t with 11 otticr lots u satue additton, dited Nov, 17 consideration, $13,438, ‘Wost Ohio st, 40 (¢ 0 of ' Ourtia at, a £, 203110 ft, dated Nov, 20 3 counideration, $5,000, Woat Elghteeoth ul, 100 £t of Siring at, 8 f, 253111 #t, datod Nov, 283 consldoration, $1,400, ‘Waslington place, 68 ft v of North Clark st, n £, 23z 1200 ft, dated Nov, 6 1 conelderation, 0,000, Lot 25, in Block 4, Buttows Addfflml, datod July1; cousidoration, §1,675, Toot 43, in Moorunatv's Addition, dated July 12; cone shilaration, $850, Lots 6 und 7n Gano's part of Blook 10, Bec, 53, 89, 14, dsted Oct, 373 cousiderntion, $200. NORIL OF OITY LiMtTa, Lot 81 In Out. Lot 0, Wrightwood, dated Nov, 6; consideration, $5,600, i : T VS it OUTI OF OFTY LaITS, B3¢ 0t'n 3L T, o Avatanors Lot 97, Boc, 10, M, dated Nov, 294 countderntion, 1,800, Undivided i-12'of 60 neros ‘in-a & X Boo, 17, 38, 14, dafod Nov, 13; consldoration, $0,350, Lot 870 Larnod & Plumbla a'w 3 nw 3¢ of 8; 14; dated Novs20; consldoratiom, & -, AUMITARY OF SALES FOR THE WEEK, £ ‘Tho Tollowing iq tho total amgunt of eity and snbrir- Dban property travsforred during tho weck ending Saturilay, Nov. 29: - Oty 87; cousidoration, $440,160, North.of Clty Limita— Number of sales, b + connldoration, # South of Olty Limits—Numbor of nalos, 173 $20,445. Weat of City Limite—-~mber of salos, 1 confderation, $1,000,._ Total ‘saict, 110; total consfd: cration, $484,403," o 3 s © ¢, ! RAIEWAY MATTERS. Mr, F. it Mycrs Defends s Actlon on the Abolition of Commnl Questions . - Tho Tiolot Agonts aud scalpera, who, by tho Into action of tho Railway Association of Amer- ica, aro In imminont daogor of losing thelr im-, ‘monso cmoluments by tho abolition of tho com- miselon syatem, loave no-stono unturned to thwart the _conshimmation of this much-noedoed roform. Every railroad man who in any woy wont against the Ticket Agonts, and goslpers wan at onco tabooed, and moasures taken to injuro tho futorests of tho line with which that person happened to bo conneoted. It will bo romembored that some time ago tho Gen- oral Tioket-Agonts passed s rcaolution recom= monding tho discontinuanco of paylug commis- slons to scalpors and agonts. This reeoliition was signed by Gon, T R, Myors, Gonoral Tiokot-" Agent of the Pittaburgh & fort Wayno Railrond, 04 Prosident of the Association, - Thongh ‘Alr. Myora lind no more to do with ,the adoption of the resolution: than any of tho other Gon- oral Tioket-Agonta belonging to tho Assaciation, still the acalperd, snxious to vent'thelr wrath agalnat somebody, * went for™ Mr, ' llyfim‘wd the -road he ropresonts, and ‘rofusod to tiell any moro_tiokéta over, hiszond, Bofno'of the Qoil-, oral Tickot-Agonts aven, in their anixioty tomako capital ‘out of. this atalo of foolliig gainst tho Pitisburgh & Foit Wayno, Road, lssued oirculara to the scalperaand local agonta urging.thom to discrimninato ngamst Mr.-Myors' lino in favor of’ tholr own, and that- thoy ivould contini® o’ pay’ commissions, ' In consequénco of all-this Mr, Myors has issned the following circular, which explaing itsolts ©, . i RS Przranunaw, Pa., Nov, 24, 1§70—DrarSir: T hava, «ocoived from & ninber of 'Cicket Agenia In varlous ‘scctions of the country 5 airaular ombod: ceedings of amooling of tho Raflway Associution of America, held in Galcago Oct, 0, 1670, which purp to embraco u rocommendstion ‘to . that_organizetion, slgnod by mo as Obalrman, and Samuel Powoll as Soc- roiuty, in which cortain reform in tho prodent systom of 1aying commissions aro suggnated for thalr constd~ cration, This elrculsr, in ita distribution, is scoompa- niod by anothor, rouding ke foliows: , i, 44 Oi1aAgo, Oct, 16,1873 —Boys: You senby.tha ine closed what the Van-Haudig, Pittaburgl, Fort Wayno & Ohicago, and -tho Tounsylyania Roads jutond to do for you, . ONE or Tuix Boxs. I must confess this eireular, quoted above, surprised mo, 1 did not supposo thore was an . oflicor in_ tho ontiro railrond organization 5. devold of honorablo. principlo s (o coudeicend to 49 mean and oulorpl- ble o subterfuge to". bring_ discredit ot s successful compotitor; Tito familiar insolenco of tho" suthor, in addressing the gentlemon ' representing ‘the local |** tloket depurimenta of tho various roads na ¢ boys,” proves either {hat ho {8 iguorant. of the proper courtesy duo you, or that-ho is mot o gentlo- ‘mun, I.would not uotice this .* boyish” production, iwera i€ not 1o acknowledgoto our many friends smong the Tickot Agents, who have forwarded to me tho cir- culars, that 1 approciato thelr' kindness, «To all agents. 1 prolest that I um not tho author of the rocommenda~ tion to tho Goneral Managérs ; thit I was only-ouo of fourteen General Passenger Agonta whio donstituted tho meeting, and in whick overy road lesding- from Chicago was ropresented, I was appointed Oliairman,. and Mr, Powell Scaretary. - Tho ori, recotumanda- tion, na presouted to the Goneral Managers, atatod thut fourtcen promincut rosds were roprescuted in the mceting ; and ‘I hero add that every reprcsontas 1ivo,vated In favor of the rosolutlon.. A the hanor of presiding over tho meeting was conferred on me, tho proceedings of our mecting ind to bear my signatura o8 Chufrniun, but thoy.iave been sout broadeast over tho country, garkled and falsified in such & mennor os to cast the eutire responaibility on me, not as Olair- man, but as nolo origiuator and framer of the docu- ment, In conclusion, I desiro o eay to all Ticket Agenta selling coupon tickets that, asaropresontative: of tho Yassenger Dopartment_of 'tho Pittabutgh, Cln- clonati & 8t. Louis Hallway, -Dittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Oldcago Ratlway, sud Peunsylvania Rafiroad, I will continua to pay fullrates of commissions, untll avery competing line decides fo discontinue tho sysiem 3 that, an 0 tha past, 1t will Bo our faturo endcavor o pay you promptly aud eatisfactorily, notwitlstanding tho fabricativna of our _competitors,” I append an extrict from proceedings of meoting of Goneral Mau-~ ngers, ;licld in Ohicago Nov, 19, 1873, Yours, very respecitully, - L. " "F, R, Myzas, R Genoral Pasadigor and Ticket Agent, Extract from minutes of procecdings of & conven- g{m of Rtailrond Munagers hield at Chicago, Nov. 19, * \YareneaAs, Tt having beon brought to-tho kuowl., edge of this Conventfon that a circular hns been eirculated throughout-the Weat, the import of which ia, that Mr, Myors, Gencral Paxacnger Agent of tlio Ponneylvanis Compsuy, was alons fustrumental in bringing forward tho question of nbollahing commis-" nions, tho fntent being to injure the interests of the rond represented by that gentioman ; and, 3 4 Wien] Such stateraent ia totally untrus, in thad “tho recommendation to the Railway Association of Amorica was prepared by a convention of fourteen roprosentatives of prominent Western railroads, and tliat its recommondations bavo becn Sndorsed by gevanty-nine prominent railronds; tlerefore, Lio it * Jtcaolved, That, in tho opinton of (hia Convention, tho canduct of the party distributing tho ciroulat above mentioned cannot bo too strongly condemned, 8 resorting to unfair and contemptible means of in- fuencing trafic.” SR True extract, oy E. Suanre, Seoretary, Cuicago, Nov. 20, S R, 1813, % L IN'BANKRUPIOY. . | Yestorday’s Tranunctions Deforo Rege Aster Mlibbard.— Tdward Bolroso was-on- Saturdsy - adjudged ‘bankrupt, by dofauit, and a” warrant issucd re- turnablo Doc, 29, 1678. R. E. Jonkina .was' appointed -Provisions] . Amnignos of tho oslate of Thomas Whitford, aud Loovard G Klinck of tho" ostats of Conlos & Bralthi, . e s * The order of dismisanl in-tho- caso'of Jamea O'Reilly was mads absolute. . . . B % 2 Tordinand' O.- Lighto et al. bankrupt_by defsult, and turnable Doo. 80, 1878, * - o warrant madg ro- Pierco & 8ilvey wero also adjudicated bank= | rup "f dofanlt, o warranp_iesued returnablo, Deo, 81, 1878, and A, 8. Bradloy:&ppointed Fro- visional Assignoo, i Bonjnmin ‘Lombard was. deolared a bankrupt by dofoult, and s warrant of seizure. entered, roturnavlo Jan. 2, 1874, « . A ralo was onterod against William F, Mahon, . to shiow ocause why he should .not be attached for “contompt “in collecting debts swhich ghould have boen received by tho Assignes, . - X ‘Hunt, Holbrook & Burbour, of Hartford, Ct., filed o potition against William Young nnd John A, Xellor,- alleging thnt thero is 329476 dve. thiem 'for" merchanding s0ld, sud chrging. that respondonts have allowed thawr property to.ho takou by atcachment. - A rule to shiow-cause and providionnl warrant 6f seizure wera iuguad, Te~ |’ turnable Deo, 9, 1873, - . Tha Registor’s roport in tho ‘case of Franols Mungon 08 to oxempL- proporty wag fled, and ordored to bo confirmed unless objosted ta by Aesignao or croditors within five days, - d Tha Assigneo's roport in ihe caso of David’ Rood . ot al. was' filed aud ‘ordered tobo con- firmed. - 3 . J. Mitchell Provouchas was adjudicatod bank-' -rupt by dalnul;hnuq tho warrsnt_made roturne- ble Deo. 29, 18" Bradford Hancock was appoiuted Provislonal f\nuhlgnao. of the oatato of Brownlee & MaCul- ogh. ¥ 5 i . In thocree of tho Chirago Fireman's Insur- ance Company, au order was entered that tha As- signee, O, B, Horton, bo discharged from all linbility excopt as to about 88,200, whick lio now has in his hands, atill duo to sud not called for Dy creditors, who have proved thoir olaims. AN EXPOSURE PROMISED. Thore was & rumor on tho strost, yesterday sfternoon, that Blayton and Gallaghor, the Armory dotootives, hnd boen making more ** out- slde money,” . Thoy are mixed up, it is smd, with the Allen * panol " party 1 somo way, audif & now trial is not granted to Mattie and Johu Al- lon to-morrow an expoao is promisod, All that is known now is that 550 was paid to two "‘cor- tain ofilcers ” by Allen {0 hava the case ** fixed" in the lower courts, The Allens wore dischiargad by Justico Doyden ; buttho * man from White- slls Gounty arent befora the Grand Jury and lind them indictod, Binco their trial and con- victlon tho two ofiiors havo falled to “help " thom, or give up any man%iur ox- pouses. Allen hag alre Lu pant £1,000, and iu out of funds. ITence the *‘kiok * and threstened exposure, It 18 useloas to make chiargea agalust any one befare tho Board of Polico, aapeoially if ho’belongs to *tho ring.” Allon's teatimony can bo easily coutradicted by gamblors, thioves, and thelr doleotive neuociates, nnd,bulond furnishing anothor ohaper in mfim\ to the way “lmlluo businoss " 18 dono at tho Armory, * squeal iog " wal do o good, Dropgriyo-umbar ot ler-| ~ ying .the pro- |. orta ‘| th y‘vo;; .‘nd‘]’ dlo;:tn‘;l i LULL'S DEFAMERS. - Mayor - Bond's - Report - on the -Charges . Against tho West Sido: Captain, All the Accusations .,Aguinat .y - Him Disproved. 'Lull, an Efclent and Zealous OMcer, Whose Only Crimo X8 Making Himself Offensive to . Viclous People. The following communication from the Acting- Mayor, giving hin decision in the caso of Oapt. Louis J. Lull, agalnst whom a varioty of chargos wore presontod somo timo ago, was rend at tho mooting of the Board of Police Qommissionors yoatorday afternoon aud ordorod on file s To the Ionorable Board of Police Commiseioners of the Cily of Chicago : 3 GexTrEMEN: Home Hmo ago I inquired nto the fonting charges mado against Polico Gopt. Lous I, Lull. No rogular chargos or complainta having beer mado, it fs, perhaps, unnecessary to mako any roport 3 et §t'seomed to mo to bo s matlor of jualico to Capt, ull to advise you fully in regard to the swmo, Tho Inw i well sottled that no chargo can bo mado ngainst an officor for nots dono prior to his sppointment or oloction, I did mat, bowever; enforco tho rule, bus allowed each ano to tell his or hor atory, wills as thany flourishen aa deafred, Oapt. Lull was commiasionod Mny 10,1873, “All of tho chargoa ware for acts dono prior to that thine, and mony, indoed most of them, weromade bofora tho Gommittes on Polico when-uis sprolntmont was beforo thom for coufirmation. No arges could Le lawfully mado for these scls, sod ~ tho wholo mattor might, therefors, havo . beon summarily dismisscd, But, desiring to know all that could be brought ngatnst i, I called in all whoso monios had, boen huided to me, mont of whom ro- sponded; P Tho’ fiat mattcr was that of recetving, with Officor . Biuhm, £50 for recovering n stolon horsa and buggy. 'ho tostinony sliowed that Oflicer Binbm recoived the roward properl§, and gavo Lull, who bud asalstod him, $16 of it This wan in June, 1870 .~ Tho second chargo waanasociating with lowd women., ‘Tho tostimony shiows that ho sometimes went into housea of fll-famo in soarch of thieves, It was shown that o weut fo Jounio Clayton's, four times in acarch -of ono Willlnm Tracy, With regard to others, thero was no apectfia Lostimony, ouly thio genoral alafoment that ho waa novor thioro excopt on_potico business, and . that {n' mattora of arrcet (hoy considered him * rough on thom.” Tt also appoars. that part of tho charges | grow out of tho fact that yart of the timo tho Speclal jominitteo of tho Council on the Social Evil wero in- ‘yeatigating tho subjoet Lull waa dotailed to sccompany om, . Tiio third wag trading watch-chatns with Al Bmith, 8 gambler, with great pocuniary ndvantage to himself, ‘Tho -teatimony shows that tho trado was with Al Hanking, iu tho pregonco of Justico Binyon and somo twanty polico ofiicors, and that tho chiain traded off by Lull was ou old-fashioned one, but of geeator valuo in purity and ywelght than tho one recelved, which was of n Inter puttern, b 2 ~ Tho fourih was visiting houses of fll-famo at Nos. .| 495 and 600 Btate atroot, Tho proof shows that after leaving Hflllfi!mnn‘i lis et young lawysor, Wash- Lura, who asked him to go with him to this place to’ #ca o certain Dr. Ryder, who, 1o Ler other medialistic " accomplishmente, added that of & ‘ospital for discased and disablod caulnes,— ‘ 3 g 4 Both mongyel puppy, whelp, and hound, + And-cur of low degroo,"— and nlso an utter negation of roap and water, but notling immoral, 8ho ocaupied tho front. Tooms, and reapoctahle familics the rest of the rooms, Washburn snskod Lull to.go with bim, atating that he had heard De. Ryder’s rooms woro tho greatest curiosities in tho city, + J{fth—Catiylig off. Madamo Ruolpho's dog, know- iog itifo bo stolen, Tho proofa ahow thnt Donni- combo! stolo tha dog, aud gave it to tho ack driver, who, in roturning trom Dowmanavillo, mot Lull and Liptiarat in lo ciy, and in an open Luiggy, and {brow tho dog o thow 3 that thoro was o collur on tho dog's neck, Dut no nanio onit: and that Lull kept the dog sovoral dnye, and no on ealling for i, Lio gave 1t away. ; Dennjoombe eoms o bo tho oniy one who at whon the driver threw it away, Sizth—Throwiug off tho goods of o rospectablo man toload;a fruck at No, 43 West Vau Burcn strcet with goods ‘o lowd women, = Tho proofs show (it tho women ' were not of . bad character Moy wero both workiug in 8 perfumery manufactory, and {bst the truck was sent for their os= pocial bonetif s that 6omo $300 worth of goods woro put on for.Mr, Fitzpatrick, sud saved for bim ; that Fitz- patriel; crowded on his’ goods withont leavo or right, and-~ s mad booauso o sowlng machine, for wich thero was no .room, was put off ; and that Lull and Slayton ld uotlasow wlo sout tho wagon, tey belng tioro simply bocsuso tho Wero sent thory'by tho Firo arsbal, Seventh—Recommending - Oficor Liphardt for ro-, sppofutment, knowing lim 1o b0 a° Lad” man, proofs show Officer Liphardt to bo an eflicient offcer, of good charactor snd. habits . that tho Powell Hougo, of which 1o ot one tmo waa o part owner, was o housa of gaod roputation. Tho principal witncss against ita chiaructor - was_ejccted thorefrom for attempling to . steal overcoats ; and that upon only one occation was thero o dance by improper characterat and on that oc~ casion tho bnll Wn rented by two, rospoctable-appear- ing men, and the character of the parties waa uuknown until thoy nssomblod, Itfhith—That the number of Liousos of- prostitution 1ad increased in the West Divislon during hin ndmin- iatration, On this the record shows seventy-threa houses, May 1, 1873, and forty-nine Sept. },—a do- creaso of 30 ior cent, % 0 ~ From tho {estimony produced, T fonnd nothing which would warrant mo in using tho excentionor's brondax, and I think tho ouly concluslons any*ono who - o tostimony, and from the majority of tho ‘witnesses, aro, thai ‘Tull, by his zoal and ciflcioncy, Dad offended {ho vicious clasacs of tho clty; that tho hiad combinod to broak lfin- down, and thit, by thele persistent offorts in this dircetion, they misled somo g0od and worthy oftizens, and impored upon the nows- Papora which gave thiom publicity, ‘Aftcr tho Hulstod atroat firo of Sopt. 17, 1873, Mr, T, Naclmann prosoutod an ailduvit. clirglog Lull with reventing hirm from saving his goodw, ond with vio- ont trentinent of bim as o cltizen, On this, tho proof shiowod that Lull way acting undor ordors fu ostablisli~ ings linc, ond thathe prevonled . Mr. Nachmann'a {oam froni pasuing. That 3z, Nuchwaun was roughly Liandlod §n bis attempt to pass the lino on faot there 18 10 doubt, a8 Lio wes thrown-dawn aud his clothen torn, Afr. Nachuuno and Mr. Hirech nro_quife poitive that it was dono by the Captain, whilo two mombers of your Lionorablo body sud Ofiicor Qunningbam aro cqually psitivo that he was not thoroat tho time, 28 it hap- Jened on the pidawall nad that Ll waa i the atzect, 1 did not follow it up o ascortain who actunlly did the iolenée, ne Mr, Nachmann stated tnat the objoct of tho complaint waa to Liave citizens properly treated, and did .not Lavo any ono punished or discliargod, and from tho furthor fact (it tho oxeltoment at the .Umo rondered it ulmost impussible to como ot any« tling with cortainty, Tospectfully, i b L. L, Boxp, Acting Mayor, . PERSONAL Mason, of Doston, i& at the Palmer. 0, D., Rogors, of Bostdn, is at the Palmor, . Wellor, of Now York, is at tho Palmor. Norman Finnite, of Now Yorlk, is at the Sher- man, Capt. F. W. Lord, U, B. A, is-at tho Grand- Pacitic, i 5 . xA’Tlmmgm_ Jones, of "Liverpool, is.at the Grand . D, T, Littlor, of Bpringfeld, s at the’ Gon, R, 0, Donon, U. 8. A.,is at the Grand Paoifle. The' Ion, 2, Osborn, of North Carolina, is at 4ho Pplmor, | : : ‘'he Hon, A. D, Morso, of Boston, is ab tho ,Grand Paciflo, ‘Tho Hon, W. H. Brickett, of Lynn, ia at tho Grand Pacifle. Phe Hon, A, P, Damon, of Doston, is at the Grand Pacifle, ‘Cho Hon, R, J. Adamson, -of Clucinnati, is ab tho Bhorman. . 16 Tho Hon, J. 8, Spencor, 'of New Yorlk, is at tha Sherman, & i Tha Hon, F: 8. Blanchard, of Doston, Is at the Grand Pacio, II. H, and J, W, Lippincot, publishors, of ‘Philadelphis; are at tho Grand Paoiflo, Elisha Mann, Jr., Boston; J, 8. Dlsfihum, Phil- adelphis, - and’ Willlum Goodonough, Atlantn, | Gn., aro guostu at tho Grand Pacitio, Trank Kofth, Loulsville, Ky.; Jobn 8. Spurr, Now London, Coun., and Gaorge Mattison, Bt. Touws, uro registorod at the Bhorman, Gpgo Brothors & Rico, of the Grand Pacific, avo to tho guosts of thoir Louso, last ovening, Elm third of tho serioa of hops to be given dur- iug tho winter, P, Hall, Rock Taland; IT. Gallagher, Raches- tors I W. Langdon, Milwaukos; J. A. Bont- loy, Sheboygan, and 0, Bpear, Philadolphua, ate stopping at tho Palmor, The Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira. N. Y., who appoats in tho Union’ Purl Locture Course, on ‘Lucsdny ovening next, i one of the moup brilliant- pronckiors in tho laud. Ripo in thought, rich inldons and raoy in siyle, ho s muoh "m“,fm of by the uougrugnfinn whom ho has worked among for twenty years, and when his volco is heard elwewhere lie nover fuils to mako the Ime)flmulan that he shares fully the intallootual vigor (and originality distingulshing the Boeohior family, The Pittaburgh Oazelts of the 24th jnatant containsg the tullnwhlg oongorning tho T'iro Mar- shal of this cllf’( “Mr, M. Beunor, Ohlof of the Chioago Firo Dopartmont, Is in' this cily, utopping &t tho Union Dopot Hotol, Mr, L., who is some £3 yeurs of age, und a German by Dbirth, has boou twonly-five years in this country, " tho tirho know It o bo stolon, and Was very sngry 7 ) Ho is one of the most oxport and 1ligent firo~ onglncors in the umm"i)‘ and hae besn s mom= bor of tho Chioago Fire Department sinco--1858. Ho 18 horo on n visit to tako notes, and ho will vigit all tho principal Enstorn ocitisa boforo hs rotmena homo, for- tho~purposo -of - findlog-ont: auch improvomonts ns he may find nocossury to ndopt for thoe conduot of the Deparimont in his own o&ky." s 1 IN GENERAL, Eugenio will pans tho winter in Nico, Bommes is nominated for Mayor ot Mobile, ° Gon, Fry, U.8. A, I8 now onaviait to his fathor, Gon, Jacob TFry, who livea noar Jersoy- villo, Il & 2 . It wasn't ex-Presidont Johnson, but Andrew Johinson, of 8an Francinco, that recoived n pat- ont fér a'combination plane. - The inventor in much obliged for tho goncrous and gratuitous advartising which his plane has recoived.—Dos- ton Post. o K On Friday last ‘Judge Caton uhl&!‘w by the Umtod Btatos Ixpress Company, to San IFran- olaco, ‘Cal., two olk, buck ‘and doe,—tho formor wolghing in _oxgess of 1,000 pounds, the Iatter abont 800. Both aro prosents from tho Judge,— tho male to R. B, Woodward, tho fomalo to ox- Gov, Latham.—0lawa Republican, Poor King Albort, the now King of Saxony | Ho put his foot in his crown tho vory firat thing. Ho'committed tho orime of * want of rospoct go tho Emporor " by {ssuing an army-order in which no moention was mado of that distinguished old gentlomnn who claims to bo Horr Commander of all the armics of tho Empire. Tho Prussian Govornmont * questionod" the young manabout l:' ‘a‘nd'wu prosume ko will * never lot it ocour gain,” : £ The President's stables at his Missouri farm oro ‘still in a flourishing condition. Thore are only twenty-twa horuoa thero at prosont, though others aro on their way thither for tho wintar. Willism Elrod, who has-hoon the Prosident's chiof hostlor for tho past seven yoars, will loavo in the.course of o month. He has beon Tecolv- ing 9750 por sunum and found, Ho wanted $1,200, but this advanco of salnry was vetoed b; E\’m.( Grllnt. nm} aflfl;mfle] %nl:lln ‘will succee: ‘lim in charge of the farm and horses at $05 per month and find bimsolf. kil , Theodoro Formes, tho German tenor, woll known to opera-goors, haa gone mad in Qor- meny, and Los boon gent to s lunatio asylum nonr Bonn, Formon, it is snid, was attachod to & young lady, the dnui;htflr of & wealthy bankep from Indiana. He insisted upon, Misa Reynolds’ ‘hecoming hlu wifo without delay, but hor mothor. wns opposoed to the marriage; nnd. sho ordered: Formes from hor house, Ho made sovernl at-' tompte to moot his boloved, but aiwaya without. siccess, Ho finally wroto Mra. Roynolda a lottor, in which ho threatenod to. kill herself and hor daughtor. Fflghtunud. tho ladies left Bonn, o vainly tried fo discover -‘their : wherenbonts, and tho fruillossnoss of his long search throw him into & paroxysm of excitoment, which final- 1y resulted in inganity,- For days,he’.wanderod about the mountalnous environs of Bonn, with- out tn](lnf any food, and sleoping in tho woods. Somo chiliron saw bim Iately walking with un- Xompt bair, raggoed clothos, and wildly declnim- ing to himsolf. 'Thoy told somo possants sbont: the apparition, and tho possants srrosted him.. Thrust into & natrow cell thero, Formes bocamo w'raving manino; - Aftorward ho was sent in'the .| strait-jaoket to tho ssylum. L G e f ' Oil Paintings ‘at Auction: On'Tnosdsy and ‘Wednoaday of. this ‘woek, Mesarn.. Elinon, Pomoroy & 0., will offor at auction at thelr. stores, | Nos, 84 and 80 Randalph atreat, vory largs collection of high class, modern oil paintitigs, from the Brooklyn ArtGallory, which havo_ been: sent horo ‘aspocially for this ssie by Obatles Rode, Eaq, Amon tho collection are several goma by sgme of our bes Amorican and forcign artists, Thia colleotion and palo should command moro than ‘usual attontion from our readers who are jntercsted in sccuring a valusble ofl rointing ot this imo, The salo will bo peremptory. Heo advortisoment. Piotures will be .on oxhibition Monday morning, e © ) —_— . 7 The Ennbe Picno, - e This celebratod {nstrunicnt in all it variotics, grand, ' Bquare; nnd upright, with all the modern invontions, both as apptled to the mechonfsm and cabinot work, can bo visited and cxamined at Julius Baner & Co.'s, cornerof Stato and Monroo streots (Palmer Houso), Tho publio are cordially invited during the - holidays, 88 0 Tnige disconnt will bo allowod during that periad, 1t is gratifying to {he manufucturcrs of this magnif- cont insirument ‘to inform tholr patrons that their factory fa being run up fo ita utmost ' capscity, no handa boing discharged or the regular handa reduced, 28 tho sales oven durlug lhoso panlo times incrosso sg usual, ; .. C. W. & E. Pardridge, of Nos. 112 and 114 Blata atrect, offor for salo 500 dazen ladics’ hom-stitehod handkerchiefs st 1234 cents, 16, centa, 25 conts; and 51 conts, but littlo over their gold. coall They arc now oponing a large lino of black and colored dross sflks and cloaking velvats at less than {hoy cast manufacturera, Their 60 cents, 75 conts, and $L carpotinga aro disposed of at littlo moro thau half tliolr value 10 manufacturers, aud their good English Brussols carpelings areselling at $1, “Thoy &re now opening over 30 balos of nesortod dry-goods, warrant- «d at lower prices than at any other Mouso in’ Chicago, ¥ Mearked Down. * All our goods, 1iot only aur whole stocl of hats, caps, ,and glgves, but all our superior line of ladies and mia- e’ furs, comprising clegant suits of _mink, #eal, o | mine, etc. ; alao our largo stock of gentlemen's seal caps, gloves, mufilors, etc,, for beauty and fexcellency aro not surpassed by anything in the Weat. We donot ‘merely aunounce our goods a8 marked down, but positively soll ot fram 10 to 20 per cent reduction on regulnr prices, Coopor & Hennogen, hatfers and fure riors, No, 130 Clark street, % ! ZLadios’ Seal S8aoques. Mosars, Bishop & Barnos, tha well-known fur manus porticulur attention to the manufacturs of Iadfea’ per- fock Otting scal sncques, Thotr senl goods are mnds from Opponheimer’s dsd seal, best quality, and full, stylo. : Ahia fm, by fafe dealing, Bold. (he 'samg po=! siflon 1n the fur trade of tha West as Gunther, of Now York, Gocs in tho East, Thoao.looking for futs of auy doscription ehould give them a call bofore pirchasing. - _-- Arion Pinnos and Entoy Orgnns. * Porsons In scarch of & piano or orgau in which they will tako satisfaction should not full to give Mussrs, Bloréy'& Camp, No, 211 State stroet, call, ‘and, in-' spect the Arfon plano or Estoy organ, These insiru- monts aro mado with all tho-modern fmprovemepts and .aro of moet exquisito tone, ‘Now is o' favoralig timo'to buy, as these aplendld instruments aro belug sold at greally reduced prioca. . e ‘Those Handsome Fanoy Chairs,: mannfactured and now retalled by O, . Holton & Co.,, Nos, 269 and an Stato strect, make &' very suitablo present, You can have thom “upholstered to match other furniture at $12 each, Thelr stock of foot-zests, casy chal and fanoy articlea s very large and do- sirabla to solect from, while ‘I»rlcel in ther compare with thoso beat tick 40-pound huir st Sl!, .nm‘l liadr-cloth cr rop parlor-suits at 535. —_— ; Good Jommon Sense. Do Fou supposo for one moment wo could. do buis’ inesa long i¢ there was auy auch slaughtor of priées in clotmg “eléowliore and not with us? We want tho peorlo’ to distinetly underatanid: thint our facllitios for affering low pricca in elothng 510 oiual to any clotling. house in Chicsgo, Wo chullengo ono and ail to s fair” compurison of goods and yriccs, and wo linve heroto< fore. claimed, a8 wo" do now_clnfm, to, dall &t 10 per ceut lowor than tho loweat. D, 3. Luca; No, 120 Clark atreet, | = % Ladies 4 Stryker, 231 West Madison. strest, s offering extra fnducemeinta fn fine furs, Manufacturing all his own furs, ho is able to succesyfully compete with any ong- in tho buslness, , Every garment is gusranteod jusl a1 reptosentod. Savoral now stylea particulsrly hia ‘own, Furs of.all kinda.meds. to order, irlmmed,. nltered, and ropairsd at sliort notice. ' Remomber 251 Weet Madison streot,.in. looking for Larguius | and:good goods, 2 .+ Ponio or. No Panio, 1t ganuing goods of tho Auest quality and low prices combined will draw ,custom, MvElwaln, corner of Btato sud “Randolph’ sreots,- in bound to do it, Hix stock of gold and silver watohes, solld silver and lated | ware, Huwnlry, ote,, is complota n every do- partment, ad, buyers will wtudy tholr, dulersaty by lving (bls elogunt establishment an exrly Visit,. - i s i ke i Photographio Painting, Mz, Dodge, tho artist, will commence his course of inatruction in painting the photograph, on Tucsday moruing, Doc. 3, at Lis studio, Major Dlock, Room 16, 1ils sygtom ia alinplo, his torms reasonablo, aud Li ability] unsurpaseod, —_— Metropolitan Business Oollege, Now, 105, 107 and 100 Madison sireot, This now dnstls tution fadna vory prouperous condition, bacauso its meets the wants of young men by glving them & “sonid businoss edueation for only $50, Nove should {all {0 avall themselyas of theso oxceltout facilltion, Day snd evening sossions, 5 sk e e S ) _Groat Tur Sale, Defore purchasing mink furs, partics will find it to thelr Intorost to call at Swest, Dempster & Oo,m,, “Nos, 230 anit 213 Mudison streot, Thoy are sclling off thalr finmonuo stock of fino furs at very low ilrlcnl. Weo call attentlon to thelr sdvertisomont in auother column, o =8 Onnned Fruits Reduced in Price, Pekiu ‘lea Company, No, 370 Btate atreat, note a ro- Quotfon i price of 35 to BO per cont, They quote § facturers, cornor Bluto'and Monroo streeta aro paying | ; _fgio_ngm fo Lo thoenfoty of- the note-holders, - AN IMPORTANT QU‘EESTION. .Can. National- Banks- Be Put Inta Bankrupley ? d;)’li]t‘i!l‘ilfi‘:fi(;n of the Argument Be« . fore Judge Blodgett. Romarks of Mr, Ayer in Behelf of the ‘Manufaotirors’ National Bank. The atgument on tho question as to whethey ‘National Banka can'bo put into bankruptoy was continued yestorday bofore Judge Blodgott, On tho former srgument, a weok mgo, Mesara, Harding, McCoy & Pratt and Mr. Whiteside argued tho queation for the potitioning credite org, R.J. 8mith & Co., and Judgo Lawrenco oponed tho argument for tho rospondont, tho Manufacturers' Nationsl Bank, Br. Ayer yostorday continued tho disonssion for the' bank. Tho quostion, ho eald, was whothor! tho assoolations organized undor the Natlonal Ourrency act of 1864 aro within tho provision ofy vho Bankrupt law of March 2, 1867, Tho quess, tion is entirely now, and vory important In ita renults. If tho Bankruptoy Inw has & jurladios ton ovor National Danks, it 18 strangs that in' the six years that it has hoon in operation the Court has nover been callod on to oxerclse it.' Aféom Juno, 1867, to Novembor, 1872, 2,061 Nae' tional' Banks havo boen organized, Of theso, 21 thave failed and gono inta .8+ -Recelver's - hands, 068 gono inta voluntary liquidation, loaviog 1,942 atill ‘existe is conferrod by Scca. 87, 89, and 48 of tho Bank< Tuph, act; that banks aro corporations,—monoyed businees corporations; that the Baukruptoy act, -boing passed lator, must override tho Currency 8ot; that the word *banker” includes a banl, and thnt thoro are dofocts in .the Curroncy sch wl:h}h‘um only be fllled up by tho. Bankruptey It s claimed now'by the bank “that the only quostion is whothor.banks aro included in the words' *“ all moneyod, businoss, or commorcial corporations; and’ joint-stock corporations, as ueed in Bec, 87. Tho word * person " might, by its onlarged meaning, be made to comprohond ovory lcorporation ; bub it is submittad that, by comparing the whole act, it will be clear that it 'wag not tho intentlont of Conpress to includo Na- all éados whoro it can bo ascortained.—6 Do Ges, AL, and G. 1,46 TIL;} 985, 43 1L, 803, 4T Rop, 2 Agaln] » lator statuto will not - ropoal & formor unless repugnant *'in the vory matter,” utterly inconaistont with ench other. And an act cone forring spocinl rights or regulations will not bo ropenled by o later goneral statuto; unless tho intention is mamfest, snd the implication irree sintiblo.—6 Ooko, 19b, 80 Law Rop., 415, 63 I, 8, - -“Another rulo in the exposition of tho statutes 15, that tho goneral words of o statute do mob includo the government, unless such intention bo olenr-ot tho facoof tho act.—3 Mason, 814, 14 Masbn, 427, 1 Walts, GL. - . What, thon, is tho zoal status of s banking nagociation orgauized under the National. Cur- roncy Act?- It in o monoyed corporation, and somothing more. Tho main purposo of thelr organizatton is to furnish safo and convenient circulating-medium for tho business of the coun- try, shd these ultimately connected with the They bre justruments which the Government 1as called into existenca to aid in osrrying out its ‘cobstitutional powers. $ Wallaco, 589; 14 Wallaco, 398, 0 i X As such agonts they aro public corporations, snd not within the strict souse of x;-‘ll.\o worda of tho thirty-seventh scction of tihe Bankrupt aot.” How then can they be declared to bo nothing more.than mere private. business _corporations ? * Agaln, tho United States has not only a broad genoral intereat in b conduct of .the affairs of the National Banks, but also a diroct pocuniarg, intorest in overy individunl bank, All are banlis of iasuo, and tho Government has_guarantoed . tho payment of ¢l notes, and, thorefore, ta protect it “provided for a deposit of.-bonds, and_onactod that it ehall have ;& permauent lien on the gonoral assots, and roserved the right to appoint s Ros colvérjunder certain restrictions, 'liose provis- {ons, and tho mannor in which it is dirocted that tho asgots shall bo distributed in case of insol« voney] aro, it ia claimed, uttorly at variance with the Bankrupt aot,” and it a impossible’ that tha, two can bo in forco at the sametime, The quol tion to be determined then, is, whother this-ine congistont part of the Currrncy act has baon re« calod -by--tho - subsoquent Baokrupt ack lounsel for tho -petitioning croditors take tho; affirmative,: and, pomnt' in suppork “{-of their theoryto,tho genoral worda of tho 87tk soction, eeylog tho *Bunkrapt act is the later, On tho othor sitle, 1t i denied that these hava auy applloation 10 National Donks—that it was ‘not the intention of Congress that suoh should be tha caso.’ Tven lllnth the words might be applicalle; no;such intention s cloarly manifest. by tho Bankrupt nct, and any fmplication is ran- doréd impossible, since bysupplomentarystatuas. ‘tho_provisions bf ‘the Currency act: have been Tiold to bo in force, - . - - . Tho noxt point is, that the Notional Banking-- system was organized undor an act of Congross which! mado. Bpecial _provision for this clnas of “corporations,” and the .systom is comploto im itsolf,. It is not nocessary that it should bo por- fect ; “enough that it kas moro than realized tho expectation of its framers, and proved moro. ac- coptablo “to ‘tho business community than any , other flscal achome bitherto originatod, The pri~ mary object of all Javarelaling toa paper n\mun&‘ an 1 i8 fully scourod by tho Baniimng act, and tho sceurity to d6positors iy &4 roat n'can bo. ob- tainod. A doposit is roquirad to bo kopt, and many | restrictions: are made ‘around ity opera~ tions,, Congress has_from time to time passod laws to battor it, aud, nioro than this, the pys= tom has withstood tho attacks: of timo and ox- povience, L. “The argument was not concluded, as tho coungel for-petitionors havo xmt'{ut advancod” their most cuuuutmrfiumema, but it will bo con- tinued in our next—Sunday’s edition, rooi « ., EVA HESKEMANN'S STORY. iér | omantle Marringo _with - a + Qntholic Pricst nud flis Desortionm ** ok fllcr Aftor o Short Iloncymoon. Eyva Heskemoun filed a bill in the Cirenit Court, Butupday, agsinst hor busbsnd, Bornhard Hoskomanu, asking. for a soparate maintenance, Bhe statos that for goyoral yoars Lo lind boen & Ttomnn Catholic priost, fu Poru, TH., where sha Lind boen topching achiool, Sbio was also n mombor of tho eamo “church, and thoreby -became acquainged. with. Berahard, and suffered bim to becomp a suitor for Lior hand, sgainst tho pator= nal yishos, - Bhe, howevor, luowing that her fathor would not consont, Tan away with Born= hard, and 'was privately married to him,.in T~ Ballo, on tho 16th of Jauuary last, by & Congre- gationnl minlstor. Aftor thoir marriage’ thoy united with a° Lutheran Church, tho husband acting: from time to time as the clorgyman. ‘A$ " that timo bio ownad tho E. }{ of the N. E. 3¢ of 800, 95,40, 18, in Cook County, About thé middle of this lagt month, ho persunded hier to rolinquish. Ler dower in tho’ above proinises, by telling hor e wished the mouoy therofor, to enablo him to comimence business in Chlcago, Bho atates that the deod was mado to ono Rudolph Belffert, but cohargas that Boiffort novor }miu any mouey, but ounly guvo o principal nate for §8,000, and an in~ torast noto of $760 thorefor, and a mortgage. Iu tho mm‘lgf:ffl it was provided that the note bhould bo pald in 1870, or the land reconveyed, As noon as Bornhard obtafuod the doed ho protonded ha wished to givo Boiffert possossion’ of the land, and must 50 snd seoit, 1o did ne but hns. never voturnod, Ooml)lmunnt oharr that ho hias been in collusion with some Calr leoulu, who have persupded him to rotr i ho Catholic Ohurob, and that ho haa ¢ her. Bho also atatos ho owna some e orty horoabouts, and asks that sho may' & #eparato maintonanco, that Beiftr be compolled to m{ over tha pror urohao of tho above-mentione property to hor, and Boiffort roatrained fr o go) ing” the samo; that tho dood may ba 74acroed void 88 to canvoying hor oatato, and th it Greonobaum and Y ro prop- o allowed Jrt may also soods of tho Tieat” tomatocs, 3 1b cans, 160; 81h cans, 2201 bost ll’elwl.\ll, 9 1h canw, 9203 3 1b cans, 3053 Elgin corn, 3403 armoutl, 230 bost baking powder, 1 1b caus, do; & I caus, 3125, Toroman, who aro supposed (o hold some soourle tios of Bornhard's, may be, resirained from sell~ ing the enma until ardor of Qourt, Au fujunce tion was accordingly beyd, by Judge Willlame, ingNov. 1,1872; It is {nslated that jurisdiction Governmont, like the Old United States Dauk. ' fionnlinnukn. and tho intention mist govern in »