Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 19, 1874, Page 12

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 1874 REAL ESTATE. Review of the Operations of the Week. of [Iuside Property---New Touses and Stores in Erection. Sales Proposed Important Sale of City Real Estate, Suburban Tmprovements—The Forthwest- ern Car Shops—South Evanston. The B. & 0. Right of Way he Campbell Dower Suit. Formation of the Board of Real Estate Brokers, Operations in real estate were neitheractivenor Jarge duriog the past week. Some transfers of importance were made, and are given below, but the testimony of nearly every desler showed tlat the negotiation of heavy sales dragged 2long elowly, and most of them still hang fire, In sales, rents, ioaus, and building, small opera- tions &ro tho most numorons. The new stores t szc being erected zre 1t nlmost every case tended for the occupancy of retail tradesmen ot a distance from tho centre of the city. Tho Louzcs and stores that rent the most easily are held at o moderate figure. With a W elegant exceptions, like thoso wt ibe corner of Wabash avenuo “ud Twenty-sixth street, the dwelling hous- €s thiat are in erection are for the uso of those who waat comfortable homes, but want them cheap. Tle majority of tha loans sought are for zums less than $5,000, Theso facts show diiztin rexl estato as in overy department of busi- \ Iedple are going elow. Lsrge specula- tions aro lifeless. There is money, and plenty of it, in tho banks, and in the hands of idivid- ual depositors, but it is in search of safety first, and luigs profits afterwards. s PROPOSED SALE OF OITY REAL ESTATE. It is oxpected that at fho Council meeting Mouday night tho Committco on Wharves and Public Groands will make a report in favor of advertising for gale ttie threo blocks of ground on the like front, about which thero is mow so much contention, and also the buildings and wound now occapted by tho City Government, on the corner of Adams and LaSsile streets, During the past week sppraieals of the latter piece of property bave been made by the City Compizoller, Board of Public Works, and a prom- ineut real cstate dealer, which foot up £271,000 for tho groundand §78,000 for the buildinge, making $3:9,000 in all. ‘A plat of the property will accompony the report, dividing the property into nine lots on LaSatlo ktreet, six on_Adems, €ix on Quincy, fronting the Grand Pacific Hotel, aud three on the alley fronting the rear of the Lekeside Duilding. The resolntion proposes tat theee picces of property shell bo rdvertised by <he City Comptroller for eale, but the bids to be merely provisional, that is, not to be accepted unless they aro satisfactory to the City Govern- weat aud to the business community. 1 a sale of tho property now cecupied by the city oball Le effected, it would nccessitate the reuu:j; of other quarters meanwhile. It is argued that s reason for this proposod action ex~ ists indepondent of auy immediate stops for the building of a new Court-House, in the fact that tho city is ** shinniug " a tloating debt of $1,500-, €60, and payiog a Ligh rate of interest thoreon, which enother erampin the monoy market might reuder it impossible to carry any longer, The poisume and pestilential air fn which the courts 10 now held scems to malio it_necessary at all eveuts to procure more wholesdme quarters for them before iho warm weather sets iu. —_— THE SCAMMON-PROPERTY SALE. e Ciucinnoti Gazette and other papers, com- Wenting upon the eale of a portion of Mr. . Y. Beammon's property in this city for less than one-half of the money that had been borrowed ©on it, assawe that this is evidence of the decline io valus of real eslate generally in Chicago. They erroneously assume that this property is in the business centre of Chicago, and leave the tuferenco that tho declino_in value is goneral and not epecial. The mistake of these papers is in be suppoeed location of this property. At the tims of the firo the comer of Congrees Elzeet aud Wabash avenne was half & mile be- yond the business districts of tho city. The Innd was ucod by Mr. Scammon for s gare den connected with Lis private residence on Michigen avenue. It was good reidence properts, but nothizg more, nnd it constituted tho soathern limit of the fire in that quarter of The whole district previously aceu~ x business property was swept cloar, nnd AIr. Seawmon end goveral of Lis neigzhbors con~ ceived tho idea that by rapidly covering the ~neighborhood with buildings adaptea to come mercial wants they could make 1t the promi. hent business centre of tho city. Convinced of thie, Mr. Scammon bravely invested his means in ‘improvivg the corner of Wabash avee nue and Coogress sircet. As has been moro then onco eaid, he Lt lus bottom dollar on tiransferring to that avenme the centre of business in the new Chicago. He lost the bot. His anticipations bave not been verificd. Butiness generelly returned to its old quar‘ers, and whenever it hus extended it has £one in eome other direction than towards Mr, Beamion's properts on Wabash avento and Gon: gress strcet. That locality is no nesrer the bus- iness centre now than before the fira; and what velue it had 13 a site for residences has been lost by the extraordinary chango that has taken Tlace in property of that charZeter. Itis boyond {he cireamferenco of bueiness on the one hand and of residences on tho other. Consequently the prico at which it sold is representative of Dothiny except an unfortunate investment of money. * e THE. B & 0. RIGHT OF WAY. Messrs. Kayser and Quincy, Directors of the Baltimore & Obto Railroad, bave been in the city all tho week trying to secure the right of a3 1nto Chicago, but finding that no satist ac- tory arrangements conld be mede, they have re- ‘urced to Baltimore. The Company being anz- :0us to completo 1ts line into the city in time for the fall business, has, thercfore, decided to give p the idea of coming in on a lie of their can. Thes havo dotermined to accept tho offen made by tho Michigan Southorn and Db fois Central Tuilronds, and will come over thy {7ack of the former road from Pino Station, Tng. © Grand Crossing, from whence fhey will come ever thotzack of ule latter road into the city, in tho vicinity of the North- Besvora Railtoad car-ghops, thero a0 many nen amony o b erection. These shops, which are moug tho finest of their kind fn the countrn aford the nucleus for g thriving tomn, ey are Complet men will bo at work tnere. Qr?,:;d;, = fiety families, will number many \gssungs, au when tho boarding-house & 1nd - other miniurants © tar g ey wo added thore - wil e bo clust, zound the shops the population of & ¢ U5tered ipoctable size. The shops o withony mal SO imits, and investors in land tnere have cawCil) the Lurden of ety tasation, Thers is § cpealed and Lake adizon g u:hn mofl;mdm cost. % of the railroad shops, Henry H. Ho = building Livenis Houses on Madisop, Wastumre tcn, sud Randolph strocts, Between Forty-sixth and Forty-eighth streets, 2n Meaison, Kerr, Davieon & Weleh are building en nouses. . OnKinzie and Lako strovts, between Forty- a'th and Forty-sighth, Mr. Hennessy is build. ing ¢weuty houses and fonr stores. N, Routh of dison street, between Forty- piXih dud Fortv-eiehth streety, Messra, Forler 20d Honore are building ten houges on Madison, Aouroe, and Adams streats, Mr. W. M. Derby s erceting - seven houscs be- tween Toriy-cighth and Fiftiolh streets, on Alnrge and commodions echool-house, in which the children of the neighborbood will got good instruction, is in comso of orection on Lake atreat at Forty-fourth. It is to cost 50,000, In the neighborhood under considaration, about 150 new houves and stores will bo put up dwing the present season. They aro smoll, neat structures, adapted for the use of the class that are likely fo ecek homes in that qdarter, at loy rents, Ouc of the most attractive features of the rogion west of the city_limits s tho fins bonlo- vard, which has becn laid out by tha liberality and enterprise of ihe owners of Praperry thero. Tt i8 o continuation of Madison street, and rans, with 2 long stretch of broad, bard rondway, to Maywood, a distance of § railes. It mekes one of thobest dnves oty of the city, and isin striking contrast with the shabby and rough con- dition ‘of Mudlson street, betweea California avenne and the city limite, ' The Doard of Pab- Lic Worka wera directed by an ordinance of tho Commen Couneil, on the 22d of last September, to widen Madison street, went of California avo- nue, to 120 foot, and grade and gravel it. Noth- ing has been dono to comply with the ordinance, or secommodate the large population that must tsd this street. Thousands have their homes beyond Califarnis avenuo, and the present con- dition of Madison streot is an obstacle to sny extonsion of the West Chicago City Railway's track for their convenionce, while it maiea tray- el in any other way vory uncomfortable. BALES. Henry P. George has sold 50 fest on Western avenue, near Polk street, at £40 per foot; 50 foet on Arch streot, Bridgoport, at $37 per foot. Kerr, Davizon & Walch have fold $3x125 feet on Park avcnue, near Roboy strost, at S140 per foot ; 4 lots at car-shops at €850 cach. Henshaw & Lyman have gold 2 lot 50x125, on tho corner of Congress and Wood strects, for 4, D. Cole & Co. have sold Iot on_West Madison street, near Lincoln, for $14,000 cash ; lot on May streot, noar Washington, $4,500 ; lot, 75 feet front, corner of Mubbard and Lincoln streels, $6,000 ; lot on Madison streot, east of Contral Park, §2,000 ; No. 284 Tyler street, £2,000, all cash ; houso' and lot No. 933 Fulton' street, 3,000 ; 100 feat front, cornerof Ads and Ran dolph troets, §15,000, ovo-halt cash s lob on Randolph street, mear Sholdon, €7,500'; houte and lot on Aberdeen streot, noar Adwms, £6,000; three houses and lots on Randolph street, Nos, 462 to 466, 818,500, - Campbell Bros. bave sold a_brick house and lot fronting on Congresa Park, botween Van Bu- zen and Barrison streets, for $3,500. Samuel J. Walker reports the sale of 75 feat on Ashland avenue, near Adams streot, to W. P, Wrenn, for $250 a foot. He has aleo closed Ewo sales, one of £16,000, the other of $3,000, 300 feet 1n all, 1u tho Parker subdivision. Slaughtor- houses will probably ba put on the ground. John H. Avery & Co. havo sold 250 feet in Afiller's Addition to Irving Park at $20 Yru foot. Also five acres in Sec. 5, near Bolt Railroad, at South Englewood, £10,000. NEW STORES. A pumber of new stores are in cour; tion, some of which are as follows : Af the corner of Milwaukeo avenus and Divis- ion street, a threc-story brick block, to cost f erec- At the corner of Stewart and Twelfth streota, & four-story briclk store, to cost £10,000, Eight new stores ato boing built at the cornor of AMadison stroct and Westorn avenue, five of them fronting south and three north. Their cost will be between 87,000 and £8,000. J. D. Harvey & Co. have sold four lots on Lake etreet, near West Forty-firat street, 8550 each—§3,400. S SOUTH SIDE. The block of six stone-fronts on Washington street, west of Fifth avenue, are now up to the third story. This block belongs to Messrs. Chap- man Br others, Wrenn, 2od Blair, and will bo s Landsome addition to this section of the city. Charles Stoso has lot the contract this weck for the erection of & four-slory stone-front, 106 feet on Fifth avenue, by £0 feet on Randolph street, to cost $60,000. . m’l‘fihis will fill another gap in the business dis- ct. It will bo remembered that this is opposite the Briggs House. Thera are oaly o faw spaces left Tor tne dilatory to build upon in_ order that this part of tho city may become a solid wall of storea Bnd wareboutes. A Jarge number of brick stores are being bails on State strect, botween Twenty-fourth and Thirty-ninth streeta. On Indisoa avenuo, south of the city limits, cightcen now houses ro in courso of construc: 100, ™ Tho houses which are bing addod by Mr. Tol- lansbee to the block of _residences at the corner of Wabash svenue and Twenty-sixth street aro seven in numbor. Theyaro five stories high, cost 814,000 apieco, snd will be rented at §2,000. . BALEY, Willism A. Buttera & Co. “sold at suction to Jerome Terwilliger, yesterday afterndon, 50 feet fronting northwest corner of Wabnall avenuo and Thirty-third street at $168 per foot. Heury P. George roports tho s2leof 60 acres in Sec. 13, 89, 13, at $1,000 per acro. Abell & Hotchkies have sold 200 feet on Burn- side street, near Forty-eighth, at 230 per foot, Mason & Mills Lave gold four lots at Fitty~ eighth and Wallace streets at $100 each. olin M. Waite has jast olosed n salo for Mr. H. M. Higgins, of San Dlego, Cal., of 498 lots (about 50 acres) in Frisbie's Add: on the Calg. met River, in Sec. 19, 87, 15, for a trifle over £30 per lot, ono-third cash, balance in oue and two cars, with semi-anunal jnterest ot Sper cont. ;‘ho sale was made and the property deeded, subject to the Douglas oloud. Much of this roperty is now under water, but the purchasers Lave segurod. it for an invostment, snd it is ex- pected a fow years will effact in that respect. C. T. Wheeler haa sold to Joseph A. Kohn the houso and lot 34 Calumet-avenus, 76x177, for 965, 00. Cushing & Billings havesold No. 663 Michigan- avenue, & three-story and basemsnt stone front Tesidence, for $20,00U; north 72 feet of Lot 8, Block 2, Ellis’ west addition to Chicago, fronting west on South Park boulevard, and running through 1o Vernon-av., for £20,000. F. A. Bragg & €o., have sold house and Iot on Indiana avenue, mear Thirty-cighth - stroat, £7,500; 10 lots in Georga W. Hill's' Addition to South Chicago for $2,000; 100 feot on Michi-~ gan avenue, near Forty-sixth street, $4,600; and 7 lots nt Melrose for 2,500, Morey & nagidl report sales a8 follows: Five acres on the corner of Indiana avenue and Fifty- sovanth strect, running through the Par] £37,500. Three hundred foot on the corner of Calumet aveoue and Fifty-ninth streot, to & non-resident, for immedinte improvement. ———— NORTH SIDE. THE LAKE SHORE DRIVE. A moeting of the owners of lako shore prop- erty between Loke View and Evanston was held yesterday. Tho object of the meetiog, which was called ot tho request of tho Park Commis- sioners, was to designate the line of the Lake Shore Drive for the three miles and a half which remain to be laid out between the Lake View House north to the eonth lino of the Town of Evauston. It will be remembered that the line of the drive between Lincoln Park and the Lake View House was fisod two weeks ago by a meot. ing of the land-owners of Lake View, and the action of the meeting yosterday completes tho lino of the drive betweon the park and Evans- ton.” & material change NEW BUILDIN0S. Ex-Ald. Schintz is about to build two Lonses on North Dearborn street. Alr. Hiram McChesney haa begun the erection of fine block of seven bouses, of marblo, with octagon fronts, on Rushstreet, betweon Superior street and Chicsgo avenue. These houses are built for sale. Henry Weschmeier is building & block of five houses, for renting, on tho corner of Superior and ‘Pine. They will be of marble, and threo stories in heiglt. On North Clark strect, near Superior streat, Ar. A. T. Galt is about to put up & new store of brick, with stone trimmings. Cost 310,000, SALE, Bnrder & Leo hove sold 50 fect on Mohawk Street, near Centre, to krank G. Townsioy, for $35 & foot. —_— HYDE PARK. Thevew Hyde Park atation has been com- pleted, and sdds much the appesrance of the towm, A fine block of brick stores is 1 erection on Oak streot west of the depot. They are six in fumber, will be t¥wo storiea in height, 100 feet dee , and will cost €4,000 or §5,000 each. Judge C. B. Waita is putting up a block of five brick houses, thre ies hi finis mfiify"!tyle é ee stories high, to be hed‘ . J. B. Calhonn is buildi i nnmhsgf lhayStons Canr:lb’.mng * fogeailencs At South Park station threo dwelling] o bufl\iixxi. ion, divel -honses The number of builgings in Hyde Park, the congtruction of which has bLeen contracted for, isabout 40, 5 proah VR BOUTH EVANSTON. B Bouth Evanston oxhibiis considerable activity in its growth and improvoucnts. Warren, Keenoy & Co. and Mr. 8, F. Allon are the largest proprietors, and, under their management, the town is becoming an attractive suburk. On the cast gide, botween the Chicago & Northwestern Zailroad track and the lake, the land I8 broken with pleaeant undulations, and commands a wide view of tho lake. It is traversed by broad evenues, which are all sewered, and will be soon lighted with gas, as the Evenston Gas Company is now laying its pipes through them. Along the lake shore a fino boulovard, . 200 fect wide, is boing graded, ond will be finished this summer. It is a part of the grand drive that is to be constructed botween Lincoln Park and Evanston. This part of Evanston has been planned with great care to attract the bet- tor claes of residents. Property 15 scld only to those who intend to build residences of Bupo- rior character. Every house is set 40 foet bacl from the street, and the appearance of tho place gains much in elegance and roominess from this arrangement. The houses are of the “villa" style, and range in cost from 3,000 to $10,000. Land is worth from $40 to $50 & foot. Sinco the paute about $300,000 worth of property bas been sold hero, and, during the present scason, sbout fifty mew buildings will be erected, including four stores near the depot. The depot bas just boen completed, and is one of tho finest between Chicago nnd Milwaukeo. An ordinance for a streot railway, connecting with that at Evanston, Lias been passed by the Village Trustees, and the cars will be running about the 1st of Beptember. A fine ridge, affording good sites for residences, runs through the western part of the village. Warren, Keeney & Co. bave sold at South Evanston a brick houso and 800 feet, corner of . Wheeler and Keenoy avenues, to I. C. Esteo, for £25,000. Also 100 feet on Whoclsr avenue, near Rion avenue, and 100 feot on Arnold, near Rinn avenue, to C. T. Lathrop, for $5,000. B. F. Allen's houses at this placo are going up with rapidity. -Fivo of them Lave already beon 8old. tho purchasers being mostly employes of the Cnicago banke. S > IMAP OF EVANSTON, Dobson & Rascler are preparing & new map of Evanston in the scalo of 500 foet to the inch. Tho dimensions of each lot will be given. g ke THE CAMPBELL DOWER SUIT. ‘The suit brought by Mrs, Sarah Campbell, the widow of the late Maj. James B. Campbell, to recover her dower right in lands sold by him, in- volves an extraordinary amount of real estato in this city and in different parts of tho State. Maj. Campbell was one of the earlicst settlers of Chi cago, and in 1832, with G. 8. Hubbard and William D. Archer, turned the contest for supremacy betweon Calumet and Chicago, which was raging with great fervor, ana at almost equal odds, In favor of the lattor. His acquisi- tions of real ecstate were enormous. At ono time he offered for sals in England o parcel of lands which, it is calculaled, would now be worth somo £20,009,000. Mrs. Campbell claims her vower right in ten acres and 400 vacant Jots in Chicnin, held by uunknown owners, and in 600 lots, held ~ by known owners, the whole comprising tle S, 3§ of theS. E. 1f of 12, 89, 13, extending from- California avenie onthe west to Madison strect on the south, Madison avenue ou the east and the north side of Lake street on the north. Their value is $1,250.000. Large smounts of land in Will, LaSalle, Tazewell, Winncbago, and Stevenson Counties aro also concerned In tho litigation, Most of it was eold under oxecution or in bank- ruptey-gnles, and Mrs. Campbell's dower right, 1t 1s held, attaches to 8,000 acres. One h!maqui acreslicin the middle of Jolet, end in Will Cnllnlg altogether thero aro 1,440 acres. Thera are 160 acres affected in Freeport, and aiso in Rockford. The land on which the Infer-Ocean Builaing is situsted i3 included in the claim, as is the lznd on which stands the Northwestern Railroad Depot at Wells aud Kinzio stroats, val- ued at $133,000. DS REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE. The movement for an association of real es- tate dealers resulted this week in the organiza- tion of the Board of teal Estate Brokers. A consti- tation eod by-laws bave beon adopted. A Com: mittee on Nominations was appointed to report at the mecting to-morrow. A formula has been prepared to b signed by those who join the As- sociztion. Tt is given'below with the signatures which have been secured : e, the undersigned, members of the Board of Real Estate Brokersof Chicigo, do by our own respective eignuturcs, and by virbe of our membership i maid Association, hereby mntusily sgres und covenant with each other and with eaid Ascoclution, that wo will in our actione and dealings with eac other, and the atd Association, be in ali respects governed by, and repoct the rules, regulations, and by.faws of sald’ Association a6 they now cxist, or 1A they may hercafter bo modic fled, altered, or atnended : George R. Clurke, R. P. Layton, Clarke, Tayton & Co.; P. A. Drown, Brown & Horton; A. J. Cooper, A. J. W. Cooper: Jolin . Wallace, Gustin & Wal- Welch, Kerr, Davidson & Welch: J. P, vans, F, Evans & Co.; Joln W. Carring. Thaser, C._C. Thsyer & Co.; W. 0. 8. M. Flloschman, Flitschman & Bhub: Waton; Brian Philpot, Philpot & Honore; A, Gagne, Gagne & Morier; 8. W, Sea; O. 8. Engle, Morrily & Engle; B, M. Dunhiamj F. A, Eragg, F. A. Bragg & Co.; George J, Shermon, Sherman & Bradley ; Bolden F. Galver; A. T. Tomkids, A.- ¥, Tomkins T, Blenchard, C. W, Colehour, B, P. Blanchard & o, ; Alexander H.'Gunn; Jumes T. Kent, —_—— THE LAKE-FRONT, o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Smm: Having trospassed eo abuntantly hers- tofore upon this throadbare subject, 1 feel os if an apology were due the public for any further intrucion on my part. Still, the subjoct is so important, and the apathy on tho part of the Council so conspicuous, that I am emboldened to adda few words 1o what hasalready boen ead. There can be no question that public opinjon in regard to thus Lake Front question has boen gathering volume and force. Nothing csn be more certain than that public opinion will in the end assert its power. Public opinion, in this sgo of general reading and thinking, i alvays xight ; and this is particularly the cuse when the ‘passions of men are not aroused, and when their minds are free from prejudice. The roasous for selling a portion of the Lake Front to the railrosds have so fully been ex- pressed that it is needless to repeat them, Thess reasons are so complete and logically unanswer- able that they may bo considered as univorsally admitted. Then the sum offered for the threo blocks has been 80 closely scrutinized aud so carefully ox- smined by those best able to form a relizble opinion, that its adequatencss may be deemed to Lavo been demonstrated, i The necessity and value to the busineces in- terents of thocity of such a dopot as the rail- road companies propose to build, no one has had the boldness to deny. That the city necy rs}uirex 10 proof. + has been reported that cortain of the Alder- men bLave entered into a combination to extort from the companics &_congiderable snm in the ehape of blackmail. I am compelled to say, in justico to tho Aldermen, that Ican find no actual basis for thia report; snd I am frank to sdd, that I do not tsliove in the existence of such o combination. After the experience of the past, it does not scem probable that any Alderman would, for ‘s mess of potiage,” betray the interests of the city, partioularly in the face of inevitablo discovory and diegrace. This sus- picion, thereforo, muy as well bo dismissed, on the ground of simple improbability.” But thers is & fear, on the part of many of the Aldermen, that the railrosd companies are not nc'-mfi in accordance with tho principles of com- mon honesty and good faith. ~ It is to ho hoped that this spprehension is groundless. Aost un- questionably, if evidence conld be produced con- victing tho companies of any attempt to defrand the city, I should be among the first to denounce them, regardless of anything before gaid in their favor. What has been said has been said in the belief that they were acting honestly ; and, up to this time, I have seon nothing calcuinted toshake such conviction. A test, howover, will soon be applied, which will shed light upon this subject, and deternune, bevond the shadow of o doubt, whether the railrosd companics are acting honestly or not. If they are really acting in good faith, aa op- portunity will, in all probability, soon be pre- sonted to them to get possession of the three blocks on such terma 88 they have themselves the mones, is 5 fact which Proposic i 1 have been credibiy informed that one of the Aldermen will otfer a resolution at the next meeting of the Council, which will have tho ef- fact of bringing this question to & final issue of some sort. This resolution will provide for the condemuation of the property iu due form of 1aw,—at the samo time guaranteeing o tho com- panies an nppraisal nos excecding $300,000, 1f the hni therefore, is all the rmilroads want, they will not hesitate to comply with the terms of such an arrangement, and particularly 88 it will be imposeible for them, in &ny other way, to get 50 comploto and perfect s titlo to the Toperty. i} K If flxg cnmfimnies want anything more they will be compelled to * show their hands.” It1is to be hoped that they will be able to show both *clean hionds and a pare heart.” That such a resolution will meet with the a) probigi>n of a large majority of the Council, there is no roason to doubt, It is the true way to bring the matter to o settlement tbat will be satiefactory to the great mass of the community. It is the only way to silence objections, and to placo the railroad companies in a strong snd. favorablo light before tho public. Respectfully yours, J. Esanss Wannex: g 4 C0-OPERATIVE BUILDING SOCIETY. o the Kditor of The Chicago Tribune: Sm: It often happens that a good suggestion is lost because itis the business of no onein particalar to carry it into effcct. Your paper of April 12 containg such a suggestion in rogard to 8 Co-operative Building Society for sslaried por- sona; and you oxpress the hopo that ite practi- cability may be tested in this city. Some years ago I partially worked out a plan for the ‘establishment of such s society in the subarbs of Chicago, und collected some informa- tion 85 to the operations of such socicties in England; but, being at the time engaged in tha improvement of some property in the city, Isid it aside. Inow resume the subject that, if thero ere auy considerable numbor of porons in the city interested in ity discussion, your suggestion may not fall to the ground for lck of some ona to f1ke the initiative. If there are any numbor of peraons who would liko to meet and talk over tho mattor of ostab- lighing o Co-operative Bulding Socioty, with n view of setiling at some suburban point whera 1and may be had in something more than 25~ feot lots, and there helping each other to build respectable Lomes, I shall be glad to servo as a medium of communication between thom. Of course, such a socioty should not consist entirely of pereons who wanta homo this year, but should include those who can wait awhile, a0d 2180 persons who wonld only uso the socioty 88 & meand of making a profitable investment of savings, = If those intorested will send their addresses to mo, I will endeavor to find meahs of bringing them together; aud, if any can control the use of n suitablo room for meeting, I shonld be glad to hear.of it, ns my own house is too far from the centro of the city to bo conveniont. It ma; be proper to add thet T am iu_no way interesto ih any particular location, as I own no property out of the city Limits. Respocttully, DaNg Creng. 188 Manisox sTREET, pnis A : TRANSFERS. The following instruments were filed for rec- ord on Saturday, April 18: CITY TROPERTY. The premises No. 34 Calumet av, 763177 ft, dated April 173 consideration, §63,000, Calun T, Whoeler o Josepl A. Kohn, Woud at, 34 {t south of Fifternth, e f, 24x127 ft, dated April'17; consideratioa, $1,300" Twcnty-third at, 150 ft east ‘of 'Portland oy, n f; 25x 123 1t, dated April'17 ; considoration, £4,060; Boliawk st, 187 ft torth of Menomonee st, w f, 24x. 119 {t. dated April 15 ; conslideration, 1,000 Huron ste85 1t east of LaSaile at, 0 {, 25100 ft, dated April 17; consideration, $2,856, Larcabee et, 104 ft south of ‘Elm st, w , 20x100 £t, dated April 17 ; consideration, $4,500. State at, 209 £t u of Thirty-sccond st, W f, 373 x181% ¢, buildings, dated March 2¢ ; conaideration, $16,000, Lois19and 200fn e\ noX e i Boc, 13, 3, 13, dsted April 18 ; considérution, 3,330, Lota 46 to 49in Biock 25, i Walker's Subdivision, south of canal, in u w i Scc. 31, 33, 14, dated April 107 cousideration, $2,400, Twenty-aintl st, 23 ft & of Wallaco st; 8 £; 602125 11, dated Aprit 16 ; con: deration, $2,230. Bouth Dearborn st, 225t 66 Twenty-niuth s, w1, 253160 {1, dated April 9 ; consideration, $2,000, Stoarna nt, 153 (t e of Main st, 81, 87x105 1t, dsted June 6, 187’; consideration, §2,700. Indixnn v, 2735 {ts of Sixt-enth st, w1, 252177 11, datud April16; consideratio, §10,000, © Prafrie av, 114 {t 8 of Thiny-frst sf, w'f, 82x135 18, dated April 15 consideration, $8,000. Flournoy st,13 fr0of Oakley' er, n{, 24108y ft, datea Jun. 20} conmderation, 1500, Warrenav, ' w corner Oakley st, af, 10292-100x 124 7-10 ¢¢, diited March 80 ; consideration, $15,000, Humboldt st, 2055 ft 0 of North av, o, 100x120 £t, dated April 18; contderation, $2,000. North Market at, 25 £t s of Whiting st, w £, 25100 £t, dated April ; consideration, $2,600, lonros st,278 3-10 {1 w of California at, n f, 25x124 ft, datod Aprit 16 ; considaration, $3,00, Jackeon s, 48 £t e of Throo, April 18 ; consideration, 5,020, South Park av, 333 715 of Thirty-coventh st, w £, T2x 297 £t, dated Aprdl 14; conciderstion, 320,000, eter A Xe'wton to Sara F. Brud: Rumsey 8t, 125 £t & of Tmily st, o 1, 5013011, dated April 6 ; consideration, 2800, NoaTR O¥ CITY LIS, South 30 £t Lot 10 of n 174X f¢ Diock §, in Lafiln, Smith & Dyer's n o X Bec. 20, 40, 14, dated April 10 § 1K $4.853@ 4883 983 & fut. par &int. Cook County 7 Ty 9835 & int, par &inc, Town, county, and ity 10 p Cent bouda terse. 9330736 Mooy on approved collaterais, 8@10 per ct, latest aud asked prices in tho New York market of defaulting reilroad bouds, is furnished by A. 0. Slsughter, bnker and broker, northwost cor- ner Clark and Medison strcets ¢ § Bid. "éf‘" Northern Pacifc firat mortgage 7 3-10, gold. 31 Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Minnesola £rst Tho folloviag Lit showidy tespectively the p mortgage, 7%, guld, Ainn, DIv... os Burlington, Cadar Bapids & Minnesol ‘mortgage, Ts gold, Millwaukea Div. 5 Central Bailrond of Towa drst mortga - 1 S , 3, gold..65 56 Chicago & Canada Southern first mortgege, T, gol 0 45 Canada 8o ) O3 Chicago, Danville & Vincennes goge, 5 ey Chicago, Danvilie & Vine P gage, Ts, Indians Division, o1 Dosolncs Valley firat mortgage, 8. 50 DeaMoines Valley land grant, 8a.... . 25 Kansas Pacific first morigage, 62, gold, 50 33 Lake Buerior & Mississ{pp! first morigage, s, gold.. 8 50 Leavenworih, graut, 10s. ... i:coieiianacad 80 New Jersey Midland firat mongl%u, Ts, gold.62) B New Yolr& & Oswego Midlsnd first tmortzage, b 8t, Jo & Derver City first mortgage, 8a, East Division iiadd 88 2@ 335 " COMMERCIAL. SaTCRDAY EVENING, April 18, The following were the receipts and shipments of tho leading articles of producs in Chicago durivg tho past Lwenty-four hours, and for tho carresponding date ono year ego: T mECEITR 1 1873, | 1873, Flour, bl 10,134 7,513 Wheat, b 82,185 14,035 1aysio) caa 62,8500 44,021 picvri i s il 4,15 61,340| 69580 Broom corn, 41,700 8,100 Cured meats; th 030 Beef, brls. - cons{deration, £600. OF CITY LTMITE, sooTH 5 Four lots in Baker's e 35 n X s X of 8 w X Sec. 4, 38, 14, dated Feb, 13 ; consideration, 81,927, Lot's] 1n Block2, Travers'nw i n 8 i of n 0 X 8ec. 8, 38, 14, dated April 1; comsideration, $230. Lota 31 and 23, in sumo block, dated April 13; con sideration, $1,090, Lot 3 {nBlock 3 of Nicholes' & McCullongn's park 80X of 86 3 Scc. 9, 38, 14, dated April 18; considera- tion, £700. BUMMALY OF THANGPERS FOR THE WEZT, The following fu the total amount of city and aubuz- ban yroperty ‘transforred during the ‘waek endivg Saturday, April 16: City property, dumber of sales 1235 consicration, £1,024,330, North of cliy limits, number of falcs §; consideration, §10,520. South of ity limitn, number of sales, 33; consideration, §123,84, T n3les, 162, Total consideration, $1,135,20, —— MONETARY, SaTURDAY EVENTNG, April 18, 1In ihe money market, 2s in those of which it is the indicator, matters remain dull. A fair amount of deposits is keptup; the demand for loans is good ; some currency 18 moving to the country for the shipment of grain and cattle ; dry goods, grocery, clothing, and other staple tradesroport buziness good; snd collections from the country aro ordinarily essy. When this is said, the favorable eide of the sitnation has boen fairly presented. Under- noath, is running a silent current of distrust. Business of all kinds makes no ventures be- youd to-morrow. There are banks in this city with thousands of dollars of their circulation locked wp in their vaults, aud with thousands of dollars of balances of country banks, which would-bo steadilyloaned,but for which there is no call. Had Congress, instead of the stultifving action it has taken, given tho peoplo an nssiirance that noth- ing should bo done to degrado our alrendy dis- honored currency, or shonld President Graot veto the bill now before him, the stete of affairs wouldbe different. Trado and industry, instead of restricting their operations to the minimum required by the daily consumption of the conne try, would embark in exteaded onterprisos, and thie monoy that now lies congosted in our finan cial centres would flow froely to their develop- ment, . Affairs in New York aro dall. ,The conserv- atism of o distrust that looks with} apprehension to fature sessions of Congress is mors apparent thera than hers, There are other reasons why trade in New York should be duller than in Chicago. Jobbers in New York are los- ing'n good doal of the Western trade that was formerly theirs. Country buyers find that thoy have an’ advantage of about 10.per cent in mak. iny meu&wfimchues inthis city., Ourjobbersare ablo to offer this advaatagey forseveral roasons, Being nearer their customers, thoy can oxerciss exercigo supervision over credits, and can afford narrower margin of profits. *Their sales aro on ghorter time—60 doys instead of six months, and if thoy aro for smaller amomnts, they are made oftener; thoir expenses for rent, eic., are much lesa; and their living expensos are yory much more reasonable thun theyican be mada in New York. t]é:ghnnge wag scarce and firm to-dsy, selling at 25 ‘A'special telogram from New York says that Mr. Emil Sauorhas ceased to be President of thio German-American Bank, bat his retiroment does not at all afect the sounds ices or capital of the bank, which is £2,000,000. cLEARTNG RoUS . The following shows the tusiness of the Chicago Clearing House for the week ending Saturdsy evening : Clearings, $18,510.094.72, against #18,604,517,16 same. week last year, Balances, $3,037,4L3.50, against $1,976,~ 353.06 same weak Jast year. NEW YORK DANK STAT EMENT. The following 18 the stateraent of the New York banks for the week Bpecic, decrense, Logal fenders, decrease, Doposits, increaso. Circulation, increasa., Beserve, increase.. DIFIDES] Tho following is a list of dividends and inter- est payments pavable after this ¢late: Coryorafion, When Payadle, RATLIOADS, Chieago, Rock Island & Pacific Apri 27 Delaware, Lackawanna & Westexm., April 20 PRl & Rezding, pref. and com, April 24 LOCAL STOCE BATES. v Preston, Kean & Co. report as foflows: QUOTATIONS AT 12 4. 3, United States 5-20s of 2 United States 5-208 0f ‘65—Janu- Tl aryandJuly. ... 9% Onitod States 5505 A s _ ary andJuly = 100 { The i 225,000 3751 140} Vithdrawn from store on Friday for city consumption: 5,345 bu corn, 1,807 bu oats | 5,852 bu barley. Withdrawn for do during the weel:: 13.987 bu wheat, 28,893 bu corn, 6,348 bu oata, 385 b ryo, 21.2G5 bu barler, The following gramn has been inspécted irito store this morning up to 10 o'clock: 50 car wheat, 863 cars corn, 40 cars oats, 8 cars rye, 9 | cars barloy. Total 465 cars, or 191,000 bii: In- spocted out, 66,745 bu wheat, 42,162 bu Garn, 1,952 bu oats, 449 bu rye, 2,287 bu barley. Tho following wero the receipts and shipments of breadstuffs and live stock ot thi point during the past week, and for the corresponding weeks onding as datéd: mzcETPTS, Apritis, dprittt, Aprits, i, ' 187 " s, Flour, brls 05,804 . c6,309 42,690 Wheat, bu . 403505 SAUAIL | 50588 Corn, bu 499,531 50030 28277 Qats, bu.. 206,959 214,440 Rye, bu.. 1418 g7 Barley, bu 16,140 19,620 Live hogs, BT917 bons8 Cattle, 18955 18585 20264 ST NTS, Flour, brls . 00 13 42188 Whea, bu L SST1I0 495,816 01,807 Corn, ‘bu. 9571 196900 BNEN Osts, b 180,680 154,750 165,970 Rye, bu, 10222 68% 420 Harley, b 168 25073 43781 Live hogs, No.. 458 4747 485 Cattle, No.. 14,276 14,30¢ 15,613 It was suggested to-dny tbat the Board of. Trade send a delegation to Mackinaw. A vigor- ous sgitation (of the water) might_expedite the disappearanca of the ice from the Straits. Tha leading prod:ico markets were leas aclive to-day, and grain was weals, with » dull feeling in regard to shipments and receipts. Tho latter seller May, @16.60; do seller June, $16.75@16.80; sellor July, £17.20@17.25. Lard, caslt .or asller April, 89.65; do seller May, 39.65 @9.67%5; do eellor June, $9.8234@9. pickled” hams, 10@1lc per 1b for 18@1G Ib avorages : dry-galted meats, loose, nt 51/ @3%50 for -shonlders, cnsh, snd 6c sellor Juna; BY@8%c for short ribs, cash, and 93ic seller Juno; 9@Yido for short clear, casl, and 9%@9%0 eeller June; 8i4c for Cumber. Iands; "8 @% for long clear. The same boxed at}{@3c per Ib aboss these prices. Bacon micaté, 7c for shouldors, 93jc for short ribd, 100 for short clear, all ~packed in hhda; the mame looss, X¢ lowor. Bacon hams, 1134@18c. Mess beef, 39.75@10.00 ; oxtra measdo, 510.75@11.00; beef hams, $23.00G23.50. City tallow, 636@7c ; grease quotablo atr S@ic. Bales were ‘reported of 130 brls mess vork at R16.65; 250 brls do at 816.50; 3,550 brls do, “geller Msy, at $16.60; 250 brls do at $16.55; 750 brls do af 216.50 ; 2,000 brls do, eellor Jume, ot $16.80; 500 brls do at 816.75; 500 tcs lard, seller June, at $0.85; 530 tos do b S0.821¢; 100,000 1bs ehort ribs, seller May. ot £8.50; 50 fes sweet pickled hams (16 is) at 103(c; 50 tes do, coun- try (19 1bs), at 934c. g The Daily Commercial Report gives tha fol- ‘3,200 bu do regular at 31378 ; 2,800 bu do lowing as the uhifimenm of provigions from this city for the weck ending April 16, 1574, sod siace Nov. 1, 1873, togethier with comparisons. | Fege T o B She e, ¥ e, Brip. j tes.”| tes.|tba | B Woek onding April I, 1574, BRaRerolT 0 4 LS el i eV S (T ot i prd e *Tacludas all eutmeats excopt shoulders and S. P. ams, o Flour was quiet, but sirong, dealers holding firmly at tho recent advanco, whila bids wore mado for Inrgo lots for shipment_at 1214@20c less, Hence no trading in this direction, and most of the eales were mado to local dealers. Bran was activo nd steady. Bales were roported of 800 brls white Winier oxtras on privato terms ; 100 brls spring exiras (patent) ab $8.50 ; 35 brls do’ (pfl‘onfl) at $7.50 ; 100 bris spring extras at $6.50; 100bris do at £6.1214 ; 100 brls do at §0.00 § 100 brls do at $5.8715; 500 brls do on private terms ¢ £0 brls rye ot 85.98. Total, 1,415 wr.ml 8,377,150 asi0! 15107631 .-.sm’ 1,840 3,200 7us! 4gl Ll brle. Also, 70 tons brsn (40 tons to arrive), on track, at 220.00 ; 20 tons middlings at 823.50, to arrive ; 20 tons do at $22.00, on track, The fol- lowing were tho quotations at the clos: Fair to good white winters, Chioice do. Tted winters.......... Cholcs spring extras. 00 @ 6.5 Hledium to good do 25 (@ 5.37% Good to choiee Minuesots. . 600 @ 7.00 Patent do. .vverresevese D B0 @109 Fair to choice apring. superiine...... 400 @ 435 Common do. L 950 @ a5 Rse flour. . 4% @515 Bran . 20000 (@20.50 Whoat was less sctive and 37c lower, though early reported firm i Liverpdol, whilo the ship- ments of yesterday were liberal, and far in ex- cess of the receipts. But the European markets seemed to have comoe to a standstill, and round- ed the turn downwards later in the day. New York was alao quoted lower, with small ship- ments from-that port during the past week, the movoment having boon retardsd by the ndvance it doan freights. Buyers on European account, both herp and in Now York, ceased to operate, citlier becanss oftered to do so, or for the resson that they were unmable to forward within tho. designated lLimits. It is also noted that ‘some who had mado arrangements o ship whest from this city, were selting for May delivery azainat those ship- ments, , which was regarded by some as s.a:;gn that Operators on thy other side of the Atlantic are expecting # radical decline. Thia mado our local shorts caralezs about buy- ing, and incrozsed the offerings for future, while those for the present were in oxcess of the ‘requirements of the market. Seller May opened ‘st 81,2737, advanced to 3128 and reccded sfowly to 8LIGK, closing ac 8L26K@1.27. Seller June g0ld at §1.283@1.29!4, closipg at United States 5-20s of '63—Janu- range of prices JMees pork, cash or gel day 3 = g 3 3. - 10-40s... : T (3 1 Weck before last, .. Week eading March 34 Total for four S1me timo 1a 1855, In Bt Following i thi ule Ghlesgonnd Exsera markels, eb, 92 of cattla Tate bet which weat into eey and Western shj sustaiuod severo losees during the week just closed, All tho prominest markea of the country have pe grentocked, and 3 greater o loss Ahrinkaga i yaes bas been wifnessed ut all pointa. In New York, poot ton, Albans, Buffalo, and FPitisburgh rices ars frny Xeto e lower than at the closs of the prees Jreek, whila in this market a decline of d5gty oy Deen suffered. A large number of buyers wers Lrly In attendance, "but thelr waats comaraingy era few, and the siock Tapidly accumulsted n (] gops uotil Thnizaday, whea tho aupply amosnied by ully 8,000, Fridsy was an xctive dax, 80d3a the fread Todcipte wers lght, thes, and 8 very giderablo portion of the stalo offerings wers cone o, but the clove of the woek finds soma 5000 wrigy for which thers were no buyers still n the yards, saq the outlook for tho ensuing week can searcely by po farded aa favoratle. Diministied supplies can slag t the market from its prascat depression, aad Wep - ¢ra droves cannot more cerlainly promote heir gug - intezests thex by acting upon the above suggestion. Toe range of ‘prices was $3.00@6.60. Thers wems hovaver, Yery few transfers at a b £5.00, while mout of the week's bus pli+hed ¢ prices mrzing downward from cattle continua In fair requeat, and for reall ale of¢rings there wore buyera ot on'y a elight reductigs £eom lant weokls quotations. Batchera' stuff wea o - exceseivé eupply and sold low. Texss e aro " beginuiug to “come formird prelty fresy - and Somne @340, but by raiing rates were §.50.35.00 for poor 10 300 qualitiss, Veal-caives 2xe moro plenty aud chesyer—quotabls * $3.50@5.50 f6z paor Lo choice, There is soma dsaang for pLringers at £25.00215.00, aa to quality, To-Cay tho merket was inactive and weak, The few - buyers in attendanca took Lold very pparingly ay $,0065,00 fcx inferior 30 mediu, and 8 5,296 5,00 for goad to choice. g qroTaTIoNs, Extra Beoves—Graded steers, S7eraging 1.4 s und over. . , fat, roced to 5 year old stecrs, averaging 4,900 to 1,450 B8, eennnnee B30G5S Good Bewves—iVell-tattened, finely uteers, averaging 1,150 1o 1,350 Lis @5 Mediam Grades—Stéers in fair flosh, aver- 2ging 1,160 10 1,250 a.... .o 449851, Butchors® Stock—Common to fair sieers, 3 2nd good t0 extra cows, for cltyalaughter, <\ averaging 850 to 1,100 Ba. g - Btock Cattle—Comizon catile, 1n~ decent flesb, averaging 750 10 1,030 ¥s. .. . . 3503185 Inferior—Lizht “snd tlin cows, heifers, atigs, bulls, and scalawag stoers. 3330 Cattle—Texas, corn-fed.. Cattle~Texas, wintered North.. Cattle~Toxza, through droves. HOGS~ onc or mora_ Topres combined demand proved qut the supply, largoas it was, X 2 rough, coasze, uneven, and mixed I at 353055, for common to mediuin, and at §5.60@8.10 for goxd o - choice. - Some litlo improvzment in quality was no- ticeable, but the nverage i3 till_estremely poor_evey for thiy ecason of the year, whem exceileuce i not s louked for. The larger part of tho offerizics wers of the inside. Seller tha month, or regular No. 2 spring, closed et 81.26, snd: strictly fresh receipis of do at 31.263¢. No. 1spring closed at S1.92. No. 3 doat 31.903¢, s0d rejected do at SL1Y@L12. Minnésois spring was in very good demand, closing st €133 for No. 1, and $123%¢ for No. 2. Northwestern wheat, not known as Minnesots, closed at about §1.27 for regular No: 2. Wo noto thut roporta from Jack- sonville, IIL, sre to the affect that the growing fall wheat in that section promises a better yield that for many years past. Cash males werd re- ported af 400 bu No. 1 spring at £1.321¢'; 400 bu do at £1.32i; 3,300 bu No. 2 spring, fresh at $1.275¢ ; 2,800 bu do at 313715 ; 5, do at $1.273¢ ;1,200 bu doat 81,27 ; 15,000 bu do regular at 127 ; 45,000 bu do at $1.564 ; 26,800 bu do ot $1.2634 ; 10,000 bu do at 31.2615 5 45,000 bu do at 81.26}(; 5,000 bu do at $1.26; 800 bu No. 8 spring; strictly fresh; st $1,21; 1,200 bu do a6 $1.203'; 400 bu rojected spring at $1.12; 400 ba by sample, mammoth, at $1.95 800 ba do white Hamburgh a .21.885%, delivereds 800 bu No. 1 Northwestern Minnesots, strictly fresh, at $1.34; 10,000 bu do. regular at 1.3 1600 ba No. 2 do_(Mino.), regular st SL285; 1,600 bu do, striotly frash, at £1.38; 2,100 bu dn at 91979 ; 23,600 bu do end regular ¢ §1.2734; at 91.27. Total, 209,800 bu. - Corn was much less active, and fully 1c lower, Liverpool was quoted stronger; but New York was weak under the fact of largo receipts; and are increasing 3 little sooner than is wanted by. Doldors of the grain now here. The shipments from the seaboard are failing off in yolume, while the recont strongth exhibited in Esstern ‘markets is subsiding, if Dot giving way to woalk- nees. Grocerles were active, s0 far as the mors staple articlea wera concerned, 4nd the distribu~ tion of side-goods also mado a vary respactable sggrogate, Not only was there a liboral repro- sentation of interior buvers hers in person, but the amount of mail orders received was large. In prices thera wero no changes worthy of men~ ton. Coffees are held with greater confidance, under favornble Eastern and European advices.. Sugars sre firm. Birups are in nnusgally light supply, and aro excoodingly Teas, rice, spices, etc., rule lbend¥. The dry-goods trade was octive. One of the h\‘dmie obbers sssorts that their salea were naver ore o 15 at this atage of tho season, and the jobbing trado genmg{ roport a satisfactorily active movemexnt. e firmnegs prevailing earlier in the weck continues, and that some lines of cot- tons will soon advancs is cntirely probable. In the market for domestio and foreign dried fruits only & moderate business was accomplished, trade Iacking the activity m-u’; characterizing it at this stago of the sosson. That prices re- main firm 18 due to the fact that stocks, especially of domestic varietics, are much re. duced. Fish wero in good demand to meet lo- cal and interior wants, and are held firmly at fall previons rates. No Important chiangos wote developed in the butter and choose markats, the former continuing dull and weak, and the latter quiet and strong. Canned goods sold to & mod- erate extent only, snd were generally easy. The coal, pig-iron, lesthar, tobacco, and wood mar— kets were without new foatures. Oila wers fairly active and firm. At the lumber ynrds a fairinterior demard was Teported at essontially unchanged prices. The receipts of cargo lumber were moderate, and the demand comparativoly good; desirsble grades ruling stesdy. There were no new featares in the irop, nail, or bardware markets. Tho two latter wero fairly active, whilo iron was moderately 80. Quotations are as a rule adhered to. Cooperage remains quiet. Dealers Teport an improved demand for salt, and quote thoe market steady with the stocks ample. " Hay was in continued good demand, and prime quali- tios wera firm under light offerings. Hops were aquiet and wool unchavJ?ud. Beeds were moder- ately active and generally steady except clover, which continues to meet with Little inquiry, and was quoted lower to-day. Peachblow potatoes were active and firm, but other vaneties wors slow sud easy. Cholce Poullry mas in_roguest, but ordinary stock, which was quite plenty, sold slowly. The demand for eggs still exceads the offerings, and a further advance occurred, Lake freights were moderately active, and stoady at yesterday's quotations, at 5i¢c for wheat aud e for corn, by eail to Buffalo, * A to- tal of 8 charters was reported, which will carry out 25000 bu wheat, 175,000 bu corn, 40,000 ba onts, and 15,000 bu barley. Advices from the Straits report the weather fair and warmer; but no changain the ice. Vessels have left Baffalo ‘harbor for this port, and two or threa havo left Chicago for Buffalo; so that, if the Straits do not open very soon, there will be waiters on both sides of the ice-field. £ ighwines wero in fair domand, and firmer, only or:e small lot being obtainablo at less thaan the asking prico of veeterdny, which was ifo above the figure at which the only sale was mads, There was no particular change in the tono of advices from other points, but very littlo was of- fered. Bales were reported ef 150 brls at 93¢ per gellon, and 50 brls at 91370 per gallon. Provisions wers quict and irr r. Mess pork was in good demand, especrally for May, and averaged fully I5c per brl higher. Saveral short operators for next month, who had held off in the hopes of a radical decline, thought it eafo to fill, seeing that tho stocks' hers are in Yery strong hands, who have Do apparent inten- tion to let [ Lard was very quiet, and 234@3¢ Per100 s Yower, in sympathy with a reportad decline of 34 per 112 fhs in Livorpool. eats were quiet, with a few orders on the market, bat generally at 3(@1/c below_the figures of yester- y. Hence we quote them o shade easior. market closed quiot 8% tha fallosiag our arnvals this moming were unexpectedly Jarge, while thosa of theweek havo cxcecded the total withdrawals by 821,427 bu, giving that much increase to our stocks, though the smount in store may not be so-great as indicated by that augment, because some has been Josded into vestals which bave mot yet clearod. A good many orders to sell werorecoived from ont- side parties, weakening tho tono of tho option department, though the party, or partics, who hove boen pickivg up tho cash corn for somo time past took hold quite freoly to-day, paying considerably more than it is worth to carry it into May. Beller noxt month openod at 63%c, declined to 63340, rose to 65%c, and receded fo 6434c, closing at 647, Selior Juno sold at 6334 @663o, closing at633¢c: Regular No. 2 closed at 643c, and strictly frosh recolpts of do 8t 643{c. Now No. 2closed at 695 (el coming in afior io- day will be regular); old rejocted closed at 633¢c. High mixed commanded 8 promiom of abont (e over No. 3. _Cash sales wera reportod 0f 1,600 bu high mized at 643{c ; 7.800 bu No. 2, staictly fresh, at G5ygc; 25,600 bu do b 65c’ 20,000 bu do, regular, 8t 6%c; 50,000 ba do i 64ig0; 1,600 bu do, nw, af 6334c; 1,600 bu do at€33fc ; 600 ba rojected at 63c; 4,800 ba do at 623(c; 5,600 bu do at 63ic; 600 bu car by samplo st G3¢, on track. Total, 117,800 ba., Oats were losa active and weak, declining 3o, in sympathy with wheat and corn, being also ro. ported dull in Now York, while there were et- ectations of liberal recipts for May doliveries, ller May opened at 45%o, and declined to 463¢c at tho close, Seller June sold nt 473 47%e. Regular No. 2 closed st 45'¢c, and strictly freci receipts of rejoctod a about 4do. Cash gales were reported of 600 bu No. 2, atrictly Tegular, at 4555¢5"1,800 bu do at 453¢¢; 4,900 ba do, white, at 463{c; 1,200 bu do at 4G3go; '600 bu rejocted at 443{c: '600 bu white, by sample, at 43¢ on track; 1,000 bu do st 53¢, free on board; 609 bu at 50}5c ; 600 bu at 43¢, delivered. Total, 33,000 bu. Rye was quiet and firm at the advance moted yesterduy, at 93 for No. 2, other grades being cntirely “mominal, ~Sales wero limited to 400 No- 2at 9%c; and 400 b by sample, on track, at 35 Barley was quiet and irreguiar. No. 3 was in fair demsnd and firm st $1.90 for soand lots of regular, to £1.42 for car-lots of fresh recsipts in s preferred house. No. 2 wasdull st 21.60 for reguler, to $1.65 in tho Nortlwextern. waa quoted at S1.25@1.30, accordi Cash salcs werp reported of 909 bu N , 3 $1.42 5,400 bu do, &t 2140 : 1,200 b rejocted, 869195 800 bu, by eample, at £1.53 ; 400 ba do, at $1.30, on track. Total, 00 by ETROPEAN MARKE: Tho following advices were rec: to-day in addition to those given in ved on'Change our tefe- common to mediuw grades of from 170 tol9 s average. To-lzy tha market was active and . The anpply, thongh liberal for tho clokiny day, was essily diaposed of, azid at quite 2s good dyurce 33 were obtainable et wither of the preveding days of the wesk, sales maiing 1 at 35.25@0.1" comnou to ctotee,—chietly at $5.48: @B.75. The foliowiug wers noted £ - 5 No. Ar. 63 150 w24 51 219 i3 107 56 1% 5 23 49 150 62 23 G 148 5 40 1% 45 31 203 .C0 39 150 535 o 168 540 2 250 .40 81 169 °5.60 63 2 20 9 18 gd0 35 485 550 1 209 650 189 L SHEEP—Hsve bsen much neglacted, sad arp 508 - . mx - Ppers hary $1.03 per 100 Ius iower than_on ths dateof our Lt _ veekly raview. A marked falling off In "‘,‘.,';‘f""* ind was spparcat, and, xs tne supply largely ex- cocded the requircments 6f local bulchess, a stesdy accumulation of etock and b stesdy depreciation &' values were tlo resuits. We now quote inferlor a) $3.75G4.75 1 poor to common at £5.00@5.75; medium, 3t $8.0@0.35 ; and good to cholca at_$5.50@7.5. 0/ Friday x bunch of show sheep arrived at the yads, Thioy aversged 109 s, znd - $5,00 per 100 Ba. DENTISTRY. BEoOSTOoNT DENTAL ASSOCTATION, Northwest cor. Dearborn aud Madisonits. O. E.SSNYDER, Manager- Full Upper or Lower Sets best Gum Teeth, the best workmanship and su- perior finish ... /4 Plain Testh, best, superior finis] 10: Artificial Teeth on Gold, Bilver, snd Con-: tinuous Gum Work at reasonable prices. “We make no charge for extrecting by the use of gas when we insert now teoth. Filling at reduced rates. vt Please bring this sdvortisoment with you. b bl Rt fobdiol i i L MEDICAL. [STHHAl s s olent paroxysm in FIVE miar tes, and cfiects a Bpuody Cure. 50 cents bot: JAPANESE HAIR STAIN W beanttiel Colors the Ilal kers, id Moustachs & LLACK or DROWS. Tt conriste of anly ONE PREPARATION Color will not fadd or wash out. 50 contsa baz. " NT TPHAXDPS CORN AND BUNION OINTHEN Curos quickly aad parmagently. It coataias FO(4D ¢ CATSTIC. Price, 40 ceats o bux. LOST MANTIOQ Sposdily and effectually by ¢ ASTHMA CUBY Tam;i?' o P, S22 bt Solo Ageat fer §TRTT01 Turkish, Bleotrh a Sulphur NG graphic columns : ArRIL 18—Mark Lané—Cargoes of wheat on pas— s3ge, 863 60@578 ; do cara, 378 6a@83, Floating cargoes of whest, upward tendency, Fivating cargods of corn quieter. E LATEST. Wheat was moderately active, declining about Xge. Seller May sold at $1.2634@1.263{. closi at the inside. Seller June quotable at &1.2755 Corn was quiet and 2§@3go lower, solling at 64/@633¢c, closing at 643¢c for May, and at 65{@053¢c for June. It ‘was rumored that a schooner was engaged to 103d wheat as Racinc. CALL BOARD. Provisions were quict. Fork and lard sore a shade essier. Mess pork, cash and eellor month, offered at 316.65 ; seller May, 1. 16.6724 ; seller Juno, $16.75@16.80 ; Reller Juiy, 817.00@17.10 bid ; seller Angust, $17.00 bid 3 seller September, $17.25 bid. Lard or seller tho month, offeed at $0.6 seller ey, $0.574@9.62}¢; seller £0.75@9.8217. Shouldors, - cash the month offered at ' Ge; or sy, 537c bid; seller June 6¢ bid. iork riba, cash or seller the month, £3.70@! 3 seller Mar, S8.75@8.85. _Saled includs pori seller May st $16.55 ———— CHICAGO LIVE-STOCK WARKET. SaTonDAY Evesara, April 18, The recetpta of live-stock during the weck have been s follows ;. Cattle, Hoss, Sheep, Mamde¥ygseeeassinsnsonenes 5838 9593 1,143 TAPUR BATES, Lt Contry. Geand Pacite ot Privice. eatianet © Jucson-at., noar LaSulle. DR. @, C, SOMERS, Proprietor. MERS wiil be L3 attandanor, for b ip.m. NO pavti DI' . Kean, 360 SOUTH CLARK-ST., COICAGD, M alted, pamornalis ar by mall, A e B oay vl o 187 Washington-st. 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