Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 24, 1874, Page 12

THE CHICAGO DATLY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MAY 24, 1874, REAL ESTATE. An Improvement in the Tone of the Market. piore Inquiries for Property, but No Increase in Sales The Sales of the Week, Auctions, and Trades, New Buildings---Plans for Cheap Brick Houses. Review of the Real Estate Mar- ket in New York. Rents--Suburban Property---Miccella- neous. Heal estate dealers very generally report more inquiry for property this week than last, end they exhibit in consequeaco an improved fecl. ing. Tho number of sales made, however, can- 1ot be said to bave incrensed. There is a bettor tone, but no greater activity. Chicago men who have reconily roturm?d rmr'n visits to the East have found a dullness in busi- ness and in real estato perhaps greater than, but certainly equal to, that in Chicago. In Loston the number of stores thatare vacant 8 very large. As in Chicago, the sudden rebuilding of, the barned district is the cause of the dullness. 1o Now York the number of unoccupied stores is reported by » gentloman of this city, who dovot- ed ranch of his time during & recent visit to that citx to & personal inspection of tho real estate parket, to be surprisingly lacge. It is, of course, ot g0 large as in Chicego, but is sufficiont to show e great dullness in general business 28 well 28 in real estate. A very much larger proportion of dwelling houses is vacant. Whole rows of houses stand unoccupied in tho upper part of the island. The last attompt at real estale auc- tion, at which the Witthaus estate was put up, was a great failure. The New York Heraid of & recent date reporis sn improved tonein respect to values in real eslate, but no activiiy. The late sale of the Mott estate was tho cause of a suddea develop- raont of animation which proved exccptional, and was followed by languor very like that which prevails here. ~The specuiative interest in real estate has been Iauguishing for a couple of years, reuderiug dealiugs peculiarly didicult Jarticalorly aftera panic which had paralyzed every industrial znd comuuercial activity in the couutry. A § Besides, in the face of the serious dangers ex- cted from Congressional action ontbe finances, nvestors became timid, and their capital shrunk from employment everswkers, not even daring to trust itself in real estate any more confidently thap in railroad shares. The values of proverty in New York have un- dergone some change einco tho veto. Example of this may be scen in the eale of the Corrigan estate, March 12, aud thsc of the Witthans prop- erty, offered April 16, the latter not more than four weelis.ago, The relative result of tho Mott estate sale and that of the Corrigan estate would seem to indicete an improvement in valus within 1o months too great to bs oiher than the result of the eudden romoval during that jaterval of some depressing influence that had previously deterred investment. Thus r. Andrew Cor- rigao's lots on Riverside avenuo averaged 28,700 erch, while lots on ti:o seme avenue of the Mott estate averaged 9,83% each. Mr. Corrigan’s lots on the Boulovard brought £6,331 esch, while the Mott Boulevard lot averaged over £10,000 each. Mr. Corngan's street lots averaged $3,513 aach, the Mott estate street lots averaged $3,690 each. Of the Witlbaas property but one lot was sold, situated on Seventy-seveath street, nearly smile below the bdott estate, which brought only §4,000, whercupon the eule was stopped, while the avernge of twelve lots of tha Mott estato on Ninety-sixth streot was §4,453. Much activity is not expected in New York juring the coming eummer. There is noinduce- ment to men who are not obliged to sell to put their property in the market, hence the offeriugs are manly contined to property to be gold under legal direction. Should Comptroller Green carry out his scheme now broadly hiuted at, of baving the valuation of proverty increased for the next tax levy, the number of these eeles would no doubt be largely increased, os thers is much val- able city realty, especiclly up town, now unduly burdened with charges for taxes aud assess- ‘ments, which, if those be increased by the meas- ure of an increased valuation the latter is likely to prove, in the case of soms operators, the lust straw that will break the cunel's back. The Herald concludes : As Las been said more than once before in this columu, the real estate market has now touched bot- tom. It may continue dul for mouths yet, with only Tow speculative sxles, but, unless another pauic should overtake us, Jower prices than thoso already reached 2o not likely to be made, Hence, with the revival of confidence elsewhere in business, will come 3 new in- vestment demend in this dircction. Let the idie capital now offering i‘self on Wall at 3 and 4 per cent on call, because it §s afraid to lock itzelf up for any time, once discover {hat rovival in business which insures fresh sccumulations at the end of the year, snd mitlions of 3t will seek here profitablo employment. Present Prices, ns shown in the sales compared above, offer every temptation to copital to come in promply, once the o confidence is restored, in the asaurance that trado is reviving aud again bears promiso of profit 1n tho year's businces, . This state of affairaiscalleda real estate gmc in New York, but with all tho duliness ero is no panicky fceling hero. A panic is a collapee, it followa infisted speculation, expand- ed operations. Now there is no bubblo to buret. Real estaiefrenched its highest fizur. fvo years ago, and hos been_ sciting ever since. The panic that is expected never comes. . The own- ers of ;property have been hedging, and most, if not all. have placed thcmeelves in positions whero they will be eafe. For weeks past a closo observer of the real estale market would have moticed that although the volume of transfers Teparted esch dny remnined about the same, very fow of them were for cash. Trades have been the order of the day. The real significance of this movement is that property heavily in- cambered has been passing from bands that could not hold it to bands that counld. Large ioces ily morigaged havo been traded off or smaller pieces umincumbered. Speculators wWho have contracted to take large amounts of properiy in the hope of Hoating off in & rise have waited for the rise in vain. They are compelled to submit either to foroclosare, and sacrifice of the property, or else £ its transfer to stronger hands. Very fow of the transactions now made are for cash ; moat of them aro trodes. and the most of these are 1mads to escapa tho entire los of tne property. Whiete atopat, &' [a% a18e8 An Whish property sold long_ngo to speculators is returning in this way to the onginsl proprietors. It has been handed up from speculator to speculator, always at an advance, each iguro in a serics lapking to 8 successor for money with_which to pay him from whom hoe parchased. The preeont stagna- tion loaves the tast purchaser without a markot. He csauot eell, he cannot borrow, his tailure in- volvea lus predecessors. Asan instance of this sort, tho sale of 160_acres in a southera suburb may be mentioned. In February, 1873, the property was eold £t 200 per acro; in fifteen dsys it was eold again for €300 per acre; in thirty days for 2500, sand smoon after for €600 an acre. This showed a profit on paper cf 964,000 in sixty days; 83 a matter of fact, but one-third of the purchsse- money has ever been paid, and notbing but tho Lorbaarance of tho gnginal owner mow delays & osure, in which case the property wol 50 Aothe b baraEie b e, Fropesty Would, I is a fact, and'as such Tug TamuxE is bound to report it, the leading real-cstate- losn-ngents report a decline of the value of property, as sLown by their appraisals. The largest deciino i8 In property on the borders of the city. Of in- side property, Wabnsh avenuo has suffred mogt, Perbaps tho firmest residenco property is that oa the North Side, castof Clark stonet, sad that on streets like Blue Island avenue, Mil- waukee avenue, and South Halsted streot, whero there is & busy populstion, whero the stores that have becn built are of moderate dimensions, and moderate rent ; aud the dwellings have been rented for the samo rezsons. A parallel hassome- times been drawnbetveen the presentstato of the real estate market and that which followed 1857, but the resemblance does not sppear. From 1851 to 1857 there was a great and growing spec- alation in Chicago reel estate. The faver cul- minated in 1857, and then came a crash. There has not been of late any specalation that could end mn such disaster, and there are no evidences that there is Whiloreporting this de- eline in the p which property1s appraised Jor loans, . seport thab intoresh was never better paid than - now. Interest that hos been in arresrs for many months is now forlhcomiog. This shows that people are ridding thcmselves of debt, before asauming now obligations. — The spplica- tious for loans have not decressed in quantity, but dre from inferior sources. Thoy como af present mainly from parties who wish to remove prior incumbrances, or to extend o loan ma- turity. Ono of the quarters in which a greater activity shows itself 15 west of the Stock-Yards, whero the packing-houses are establishing them- selves. The city will grant no more liconses to slaughter within the city limits. Thero aro sixty slaughtor-housea in_tho city, ard twonty-one have already ostablished themselves in this quarter. Land is beld here at $80 to $125 afoot for lots 800 feet doep. i R BUILDING- CREAP BRICK BUILDINGS. A fow wooks ago wa called attention to the great want in this city of comfortable brick dwellings which might be rented to one or tvo families at a rent of §400 or$500 a yoar. We called attention to the fact that 80 per cnulA of the new baildings erccted in St. Lonis dum}g 1872-'78, and under contract for '7¢ were of this Class. In that city there are no-frame buildings allowed to bo erected. Tho demand for dwoll~ ings there necessitated the construction of & class of two-story brick buildings at a moderste cost. In Chicago whon wo putup brick dwell- ings we rarely stop at less than three stories and and a basement, or a Mansard finish at the top. The cost of theso with the lot rarely falls short of $9,000 to 11,000, 2nd often reaches £13,000. The necessary rental for buildings of this cost pats them beyond Lhe reach of all persons of moderate means and jucome. The cousequonce is that full one-hulf tho population live in weoden tenements—tinder-boxes, which caunot be inenred for less than 50 percent of their valne, snd which in many cases are neithor healthful nor comfortable, They are cold in winter, and cloge and hot in sumuuer, and, bemg temporary., are but ono degreo better than tents. The article in question ¢alled forth' a number of responses, and especially one from s gentle- man who had brought from London a pian largely followed there of brick dwellings of rea- sonable dimeneions, and which may be built at & comparatively moderate cost. ‘Ihis plan con- templates the ercction of a block at the same time; if the block cousist of ten Louses, tho 81X juner buildiugs are to_be two-story aud two at each ond to bave the nddition of amensard roof. This provision admits of the reating of the iurger houses by those having need for them. The firat tloor has a parlor 1244x13%(; o commu- picating sitting-room, 11x14 : & kitchen, 11x143¢. In the sitting-room there ara closets, sod in the kitcken is & pantry, and all the conveniences for washing, etc. ‘The snirs to the upper story rise from the ball, and the second floor contains one chamber, 10}5x13}4, with an alcovo room 6x10; another ehamber, 11x11; and a third, over tho Titchen, 11x13. On this oo, i addition, arothe bath-room, _closets, ~ clothes-presses, etc. ete. In tho buldings baving & facd, thero aro in the hird story thres bod-rooms,—1014x18%f, 6x10, and 1ix1i. The front elovation is handsome and attractive. Each house has a bay window, or * swell front.’, All these houses are farnizhed with all the Tmodern improvements and conveniences. These houses have a front_of 18 feet; and their cost is from £2,100 to #2,500. Putting the prica of tho lot at £500, the whole represents an investment of from $2,600 to £3,000. A block of eix houses to be constructed on this plan, under the direction of Mr. J. Austin, the archi- tect, has been coutracted for, and will be Luilt right away, on Bissell street, and west of Lincolu Park. Houses thus constructed cau be rented at a liberal profit for from §$400 to £450 a year, or for less money than thousunds of families now pay for o few rooms in old, aud_shaky, and dis- agreeatlo tenement-houses. They aro easily Eept in repair, end in a etato of perfoct cleanli- ness. Five hundred such houses—neat, comfort- oble, sapplied with water, sswerage and gas, with ‘bath-rooms cnd {aundry-rooms, with comfort- able bed-rooms,capablo of thorough ventilation— can find tenants amoog the workingmen and other persous of this city who have bat a limited income,and_cannot afford to rent higher-priced buildmys. Now that there is a lull in specu- letive transactions in’ real estats, it wonld per- haps ba good polics for the ovners of many unimproved scres in all parts of the cityto turls their atteution to building this so much nsedad’ class of dwellings. It is folly to build any more two-story or three-story wooden buildings, These have no permanent value. Iusurance and repairs add annoally to their cost. Ve must at some time begin to put up permanent dwell- ings, and there 13 no more desirable opportunity thin novw, pot _ouly to begin this work, bat to meet a profitable demand for these coziiortablo brick dwellings, costing not over 2,500, and renting for about 400 a year. TOUSES AND STORES. On the southeast corner of Sophia aud Orch- ard streots, Mr. Waller has_built fiva vo-story brick houses. Opposite on tho southw i3 a block of five marble-front houses. Between Centre and Sophia streets, eight or ten brick and frame houses are incourso of erec- tion; on tho corner of Sophis and Bissell, two swell-front houses have been built. Om Belden avenue, between Hurlbut and Larrabee streets, Mr. D. Bushis putting up three swell-front brick houses ; snd oo Larraboe street, between Grant place and Belden avenue, Afr. Eldred it putting up two houses. ! On_Burling street, botwoen Belden avenno, and Webster avenue, four {rame, and one brick houss, havo been finished sinco last fall. Mr. Potter, Superintendent of the Rolling- Mills, and AIr.J. C. Parks, tho Assistant-Super- infendent, have built houses near the corner of Webster avenuo und Fabius strect. Mr. John Macaulay has built four brick houses on Wobster avenue, betweon Centre ard Wis- consin streets. Corner of Sedgwick and Sophia streets, Mr. Leight is building a private residence, throo stories in height, to cost $15,000. North of Mr. Leight's honse, Mr. Thomas is building two two- story houses. On_the southwestern corner of Webster ave- nue, Mr. Pick is building three marble-front bouses. On Barling street, between Belden and Webster avenues, Mr. Hooker is to build threo two-story housep, and on the corner opposite Mr. Smith is to baild two. Alr. Sthafer is building & four-story store on Clark strect, betwcen Indiana and Ohio, to cost §11,000. On Huron street, between Dearborn and State, Mrs. Fitzgerald is building two bouses to cost $8,500 each. y : u the corner of Superior and State streets Mr. Brown is builling for the Edson estatea Qoublo store, three storica high, and two dwell- ings on Baperior street. ; Near the corner of Rush and Buperior strects, Mr. C. King is hwildiog s three-story house, ‘brown stono front, for £15,000 ; nnd Mr. Wilkin- son & brick house for 812,000 ; Mr. McChesney two marble-front houses for $8,000. Mr. Weichmezer is building thres marble-front houses, costing 8,000 each, at thoe corner of Pine and Superior streets. At the corner of Cass and Ohio Mr. James MacKay is building & two-story and basement brick house. v TENEMENT-NOUSES. - Meszsrs. Bartlett & Chamberlain are preparing plans for sn _immerse row of tonement-honses, which are to be built on the squara bounded b ‘Washington snd Madison, Ada sid Elizabetl streets. The building, which is to be called the People's Block, is a_project of Ar. Wingrave's, who calenlates its whole coet to be in tho neigh- borhood of $250,000. -1t will contain, whea finished, abont ninety tenoments, besides some twenty-two stores fronting on Madison strect. The main height of the building will bo three stories, oach ficor subdivided into suites of threa apartments, witn modern conveniences attached. The centre of tho equare will be laid off for a B promenade park, with fountains, walks, etc. A thorough system of ventilation will be in- troduced, end, when the whole building is com- leted, it is eslculated that it will accommodate ,000 people at & very low rate of rent, and give them the agdvantage of every improvement in domestic economy to bo devised. The plans are not yet far enough advanced to give any certain prgmxsa of carryiug the project toa successful end. ——— SALES OF THE WEER. C. C. Tuayer & Co. offered at anction Wednes- day, at the rooms of tho Real Estate Exchange, five lots on Iilinois and Indiana streets, in Block 2, Kinzie's Addition, numbered 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10, in Sub-Block 2 of Block 19, and six resi- dence lots on North Hoyme street and Wilmot avenue, near Milwankee avenue. Tho latter were : Lots 33, 89, 43, and 44, in Block 2, fronting routh on Wilmot avenue, betweon Hoyne and Robey strects, and Lots 3 snd 4, Block 4, front- ing ecast on North Hoyne street, south of Churchill street, all in Bradwell's Addition to Chicago. Lots each 25x125 feet. Lot 2 in tho Kinzie Addition was sold to Mr. H. . Baldwin for $75 per foot. Lot 4 was sold to the same purchaser for $65 a foot. Lots 6, 8, and 10 were withdrawn, as no bids were made. Lots 8 and 4 on North Hoyne street, as above, were knocked down to Mr. A. C. Prout for $15 & fool. The xfpaindes of the six residenge lots in that vicinity were sold to him for $14.50 a foot. Lot 80, in W. ML Hitt's Subdivision, Washing- ton Heights, was not offered for sale. C. C. Thayer & Co. £old at auction lagt Mon- day, on the grounds, s lot 40380 on Canal strect, between Pollt and Ewing, east front, for $120 & foot. v F. C. Vierling has sold house and lot No. 248 Fourth avenue (5. ¥ of Lot 5 in Block 129, School Scction Addition) for £5,000. DL Arcnsberg has sold 48 feot southeast corner. Thirty-eighth street and Indiana avenue with drelling, for $16,000. Chace & Abell have sold 10 acres corner Stony lsland boulevard and Seventy-fifth street, at 92,500 per scro—g25,000; 10 acres south froot on Soventy-first street, near Railroad avenus, at $2,000—240,000; undivided ope- Tourth of 65 acres in the Ingraham tract, corner of Soventieth strcot aud Stony Island avenuo, for ©48,000; undivided one-third of 20 acres cornor of Sixty-third strect and Stony Island aveune, for £50,000. Of the eatiro considera~ tion [;i\'c::flfar“gm above tracts, about $85,000 was ia boulevard property. T Chauncoy T. Bowen bas sold the undivided half of south 20 of south 25 scres, east of rail- road, of tho southeast quartor of Sec. 14, 88, 14, €50,000; undivided one-fourth part of 65 screa in the the north half of the northesst quarter of |. Sac. 26, 88, 14, £48,000; undivided one-third of Lots 11 to 16, Scipp's Subdivision of the west half of the northwest t\uulcr of See. 25, 93, 14, ©25000; end undivided bolf of the eouth Lslf of the sonthwoet quarter of the southeast fiumur of Sec. 24, 88, 14, $20,000—sold to H. H. unore. R. R.Sloan Los sold the undivided balf of 663451183 feet on the southeast corner of Indiana avonue and Tweaty-thurd streot, also lot 494X 213.feet on Clark strect, north of Jackson atreet ; also, lot on Madison streot, west of Centre ave- nue, 46x189 foot—total considoration, $85,000. T B. Boyd has sold house and lot'on Thirty- fifthstroot, between Sburtliff and Wentworth avenues, for 316,000. Day & Swuborn, and M. F. Hale Lave sold to Robort 8. Baboock Nos. 75, 77, 79, 81, 83, aud 83 Morgan street, being a block of 6 marblo front dwellings, for $83,000 ; also, the large block of buildings’ on_Clinton etreot, near Randolph stroet, for E. R. Gard, at $100,000. W. H. Condon has sold 50 feet on the corner of Michigan street end Irving Park boulevard, 2650 ; 3 lots in samo lccality, $900 ; 40 lots in Block 7, Irving Park, for 312,000 ; and 30 lots at Irving Park, for 9,000, T. T, Daldwin hasold block of 12.61 scren bounded by Lincoln, Wood, Harrison, and Polk streets, for $130,000—3116,000 cush and balanco in other property, Goo. S.Shaw bas sold No. 747 Washington street for £9,000. Campbell Bros. havosold 3 lots on Idaho street, S9x125, 83,60 : One lot on css strect and Campbell avenue, 50x125, £3,500. Oue lot on Jackson street, near Western av- enuo, 835125, $2,000. One lot on Madison street, east or Westarn avenuo, 24x125, £3,600. One lot on Polk street and Western avonue, 295123, $1,400. A One lot on Campbsll avenue near Harrison streot, 24x106, 81,350. . Two lots on Van Buren strect and California avenue, 24x116. £2,500. E. C, Cole & Oo. have scld No, 14 Iope street for 21,500, No. 117 Walnat street for $2,200. - Oo Clmk, north of Goothe street, Enauor Broz. have sold a lot 25x150, with east front, for $114 per foot. : They have also sold s lot at the corner of Huron and Dearborn sireets, 20x110, for $225. Mr. E. C. Cole has sold a lot, 25x125, on Wal- nat street, for £2,200. * Blumenthal, Miller & Co. have sold 58 foct on North Clark, noar Gostha streat, 100 fect deep ; also, 40583 feot on Geothe, near North Clark street. ‘The total consideration was $7,500. §iCommous & Travers have sold 2 lote, 23x124, 12 Block 1, Commons & Travens' Subdivision, to Charles O, Wentz, for €12 a foot. Linn & Huwkivsonand O. T. SBouthworth com- fileted & sale_of 137 acres lyiug on both sides.of ock Island Bailrosd and adjoining Washington Heights on the sonth, for $137,000, also 105 acres west-and adjoining the above for $150,~ 000. A sobdivision of the two tracts will be made immediately, and soveral first~clzas houses will be built upon them this season. The terms weore ono-fifth cesh, balance in 1, 2, 3, and 4 years at 8 per cent. The parties were Denjamin P. Hinman; of Cincinnzti to Granvillo W. Alex- der. of Chicago. i’ g = §&Lion & Hawkioson have aleo sold 24 acres in N 34 of Sec. 80,37, 14 Consideration not men- tioned. . 8. E. Wolls has sold 15 acres, near Norwood Park, Scc. 81, for £9,000; also, Block 49 in Nor- wood Park, for $3,000, and Blocks 15 and 17 and 1¢ of Block 16, in Elmhurst, for $15,000: lso, A two-story frame house, with 100 feet of ground, for £5,000. _ In Park Ridgs he haa sold $6,500 worih of iots at 33 fo 210 per foot, and 5 Louses and lots, on Thirty-seventh streef, near Ellis avenue, for 25,000, Warren, Keeney & Co. have sold, at Sonth Evanston, Block 2, in their Oakland Subdivision, to J. H. B. Henderson and others, for im- mediate Improvement, for §23,333. They have also sold 100 foot on Wheeler avenue fer £5,000, and 200 feet on Lincoln avenuo, for 26,000. P At the Iron Workers' Addition, One Hundred and Third street, tho following sales have been made : four lots, each £300; two lots, each g;gg; twelvo lots, each ¥225; four lots, each £250. Mr. C. M. Hartwick hes sold a house and 50. feet at Oak Park for $2,600. J. H. Avery & Co. havo sold fourteen lots in Miliar's Addition to Irving Park at $20 per foot. B. F. Clarke & Co. have sold 40 feet at Irving Park for £3,500. % Ira Brown eold at Evanston 100 feet front at g,ggg. Algo, house and lot at Deeplaines for $1,500. J. C. Caldwell has sold 600 feot front opposite Morgan Park, at Washington Heights, for £6,000. George S. Shaw has sold south one-third of Block 84, Evanston, for $21,000. MISCELLANEOUS. Tho executors’ sale of the G0 acres of land belonging to the estate of the late James L. Starke, avd lying X mile south of tho 0., B. & Q. R. R, fronting west on Hyman avenus and Hawthorn, which was advertised to come off yes- terday morning, did not take place. Thirtydays ago & bid wes made on the eamo property of 234,000, but as this was not raised vesterday, the eale was adjourned until the 29th of June. NEW BUBDIVISION. Ira Brown has comploted the subdivision of 120 acros lately purchased at Park Hidge, and will put it on the market in lots of 25x125 feet, at §100 apiece. . TAWLEY BLOCK. The Havwley Block, which was offered soms time ago at £200,000, yesterdsy had a bid of $225,000, which was not accepted.’ - BENTS. The’ inquiry for houscs still remains good, brokers reportiog that customers are not scarce for ‘dweltings ranging in prica from 830 to 875 er month. A number of such houses have een rented during the week. Tenants, how- ever, assnme that they have the advantage when £0 many remain vacant and insist on low rentals, aud especially upon. mg:in, such as painting, etc. For this reagon dflnfi ted dwellings are putting on abetter foce. There have been few notable contracts made during the week. William H. Bampson & Co. have ieased the storo 164 East Madison street to John Laurie for $6,500 a year. Tho building is to bo used for & first-class res- taurant and hotel, Pmblb]y under the nams of tho Cslifornia Hotel and Restaurant. _ TEZ IRON-WORKERS' ADDITION. - The Michigan Southern Railroad begins a now ‘bridge across the Calumet River, to cost about £60,000, noxt weck. The material is mostly on the ground; the rolling mills are in progress: one wing. is mostly inclosed, and. Work on the main building is under way. BUILDING PCRMITS. The following building pormits have been is- sued during the past Nons hig Nicholas Weber, two story and basement, "’hngk, éu by 50 feet, Doarborn street, near Twen- y-first, Charles Schober, two story and basement; brick, 70 by 42 1éot, No. 502 North Dearborn street. J. Sosoucek, two story and basement, bricl, 21.by 80 foct, No, 185 Bl stroots o Drcky . Witkowsky, {wo story and basement, ston 50 by 42 faot, No. 141 nd 143 Pooria strest Babeock Manufacturing Company, two-story b‘nck, 4oéwo foet, corner Alather and Desplaincs streot. Bame company, at ame Iocality, siory hhriz}lic, tz:;m Foval R ol lutchineon, two-story and base: utgufi:n Zfib}{xsolleat.,‘l{o. 1435 fidfim !lme:‘ ‘-n‘ ohn Spangler, two-Btory brick, 25x50 1 W;st Fot;‘rtointh street, near Mud.kn'aon. i ames Rankin, two-story and bazement bri 2414x50 feet, No. 846 West Adams street. ek B. L. Crumb, two-story and basement brick, 85x34 feet, corner West Adams and Irwin streets. —— < Sivite TRANSFERS. 0 following instruments were ord Batardy, May 231 e trtss, CITY PROPERTT. West Taylor st, 153 ££ w of Western _1UX p Rty ihadl e ! Texss & Pacifio firsb-mortgage 7, land- Twenty-second 1, 2530436 ft, dafed Aluy 22... ¥Flournoy &t, 98 4-10 {t wof I 100 t, dated Feb. 16.. 5 North Dearborn st, 8 W corner of Huron st, © £, 205100 £t, doted Moy 15....eaeee e - Augusta st, 163 {t w of Central Park Boulo- 4,200 vard, n f, 50x131 t, dated April £... 90,000 Fulton st, 223 1t w of 8t. John's place,s 118 1t, dated May 16. 4,000 ‘Washingion st, 50 ft W of T dabed My 41 10,000 Caltmet a, 651 it 0 X160 1t, dated Alsy 22 Thirty third st, 355 W of “ 14413 1t, dafed Moy 22 ; Gongress Park, 100 {t 8 of Van Buren 8t, W {, 24312134 ft, Qated MY 2vveniesnoooneasios 3,500 Fulton st, 225 1t w of Wood Bt, 1 f, STYX100 £t Shurtle av, ty-Dfith st, w1, 253125 ft, 23,00 ... BOO Vernon av, 60 £t 8 of Thirty-third st, W f, 20 90 ft, dated Feb, 23.... sirasasavase. OO0 BORTHI OF GITY LIMITS. Lot 1, Block 3, Rawson ct al Subdivislon of n Tirodsn e X o of railroad, Seo. 4, 38, 14 dated May 18.... - 1,800 Lota 22 and 23, Hiock 1, Rareyls n 3§ Block 30, Bec. 16, 33, 14, dated Moy 22.... 1,000 Lt 42, Block 29, ‘Kimbark's addition to Hydo Park, dated Feb, EYE R Lot 1,3, 3, 11, 13, "Whitn Ain's Bubdi- viston of Lot 2, Asscasor's Subdivision of & X 8w % Sec. 4, 33, 14, dated Alay 2. . 1,500 Linden av, 100 ft'w of Cottage Grovo av, S f, 3735241 ft, with bmprovements, dated 3fay 11, 8,500 ‘Block 4, Phare’s Subdivision in Nec. 12, 39, 13, dated BaY 20.....0ereusenssoizenss 5,000 Lot 39, Block 1, 0fn % n w i of 8 W X it 38, 14, dated May 23.... SUMMARY OF THANSFELS FOR T The following ia tho total amount of city and suburban property transferred during tho week end- ing Batarday, May 23 1 No.of Consid- - B8 sl City pro ¥.veen 2! 3 Sorel of clty limita 1 * 6,500 Bouth of city lmita 185,594 West of clty lmits, /600 Total ... $1,269,098 BLONETARY, . BATURDAY EVENING, May 23. The shipment of currency continues largo, and i8 the only activity in the money markets. Mil- waukee is taking a larger proportion than sny other single point. Most of the money is for tho shipment of whoat from Northern Iowa aud Minnesota, Exchange has been thrown on the market in large quantities, particularly in Milwaukee. Sales were made to-day at par, and exchange waa offerod at 250 off. Purchasers were few, in aaticipation of a still greater decline next week. Heonry Greenobaum & Co. report foreign ex- change as follows: Pans, 515@510 ; Frankfort, £14@413¢ ; Berlin, 72@72% ; Hamburg and Bremen, 36@I63{ : Sterling, 4331K@49134. As usnal on baturday, counter business at the banks was brisk, but the demand for losus re- mains dall, and very far below the supply, An unurual number of cases are known in’ which merchants are discounting thoir own paper to gave interest. Real ecstato loan sgents report that the demand for loas has largely decrensed, but still that interest is better paid than ever betore. This fact tallies with the othor symp- toms of our financial condition, which is’ dull but healthy. Rates of discount are 8 to 10 per cent. R 2 Tho olearings for the week ara $19,621,548.27 ; the balances. £2,321,678.87. 'L'ho figures for the correspouding week of last year ure £20,803,- 072.80 and 1,951,181.48. - 'DEFAULTING BATLWAY BOKDS. - The following lntest New York quotations for defaulting railwsy bonds are reported by A. O. Blaughter : < Did. Asked Burlington, Cedar Rupids & Minnosots - frat-morlgage 75, goid, Minnesota Di Burlington, Cedar Hapids & Minnesota first-morigage 78, gold, Milwaukee Di- Canads Southern first-mortgnga 78, gold. 23 Chicago. & Canada Southern first-mort- goge T Chieago, Danvilie & Vin rt- gage T5... | 50y Central (of Towa) first-morigage DesMotnes Valley first-mortgrge Dea MoinesValley lond-grant 89 Lesvenworth, Lawrence & Galve grant 108, cesvssesnaees .25 Miesouri, Kansas & Texas first-mortgage 78, gold........ R Noriern Facific” first-morlgago 7 31 gold. Rockford, ‘mortgage 76, gold.......... s5s 90 Bouth Side (of Long Taiand) first-mori~ £3g8 T6. ... ... . 60 8t.J0e & Denver City ( mortgage &, gold........ . 8t Joo & Denver City first-mortgago 8s, gold. 19 grant....... LATEST. NEW York, May 23.—Money closed easy at 2@ 3 per ceut on call. oreign exchange quiet and firm at R4.87K@ 4.89 for bankors' sixty days sterling, and $4.60%§ @4.91 for demand. . Gold oponed st 112} and closed at 11257, these having boen the only prices all day. ~ The market closed firm. Rates_paid for carrying, 2, 13¢, 8 per cent, and flat. Clearings £25,000,000. Tho Assistant Trensurer disbursed during the week 81,767,000, and recoipts from oustoms near- Iy £2,000,000. Imports for the week : Dry goods, 1,634,687 ; merchandiss, 29,741,516, _Bpecio shipments, §2,050,841 in gold, and 2545,036 in gold bars, §38,219 in silver coin, and 28,515 in silver bars. Total, 887,966. Governments strong and considerable doing. State bonds quiet and stendy. The stock market was quiet at tho opening, but in the main firm, with the advance ranging from X{ to 3( per cent. Thia improvement was continned, and in the final dealings prices showed an advance of { to 17¢ por cent from the lowest point, the improvement being most marked in 8t. Paul, Northwestern, Union Pacific, Western Union, Pacific Mail. Wabash, Lako Shore, and ‘Rock Island. The sales includod 36,000 Western Union, 15,000 Lake Shore, 19,000 Union Pacific, 12,000 Toledo & Wabash, 7,000 St. Paul, 8,000 Northweatern common, and 6,000 Pacific Mail. The weekly benk Btatement is ns follows: Loans, decresse, 81,773,100; specie, decreaso, $1,279,000; legal-tenders, increase, 32,753,100 ; deposits, decrease, £2.151,700; circulation, de- crease, $123,000; reservo, iucrease, 82,042,475, GOVERSUENTS. p ‘Coupons, 7. Coupons, %8, Coupons, 1. Coupons, 3. Coupons, '64. Cougons, 63, Cougous, 65 (new) Missouris ... Tonuessces, old Tenncesees, new. Virginias, new. Chicage 102; Chicago & Aifon véd 1o Ohio & Mississippi,. 24% Cleve,, Cin. & Col... 63 Cbi,, Bur. & Quincy.102 Lako Shoto, 6% Indiana Cent Tllinois Centra Umon Pacific Union Pacific stock. . 28%; Central Pacific stack, 89 Boston, Hart. & Erie, 1§ Del.,Lack.& Western, 108’ New Jersoy Central. 1053 8t BY COMMERCIAL, SATURDAY EVESING, May 25, The following were the receipts and shipments of the leading articles of produce in Chicago during the past twenty-four hours, and for the corresponding date one year ago : 565 X 11,400 14,408 lg,:‘!'l; 2,705] 4 Sheep, T 165 Hides, ... .| 131,920; 78,074 106,498 110,335 Highwines, bris..| 159 MZS' 261 211 ool s 00l 16250 oes, .., ‘Bu1; 94 Tumber, No. fect \12,603,705/9,785,000 Shingles, No. '§73,0001,601,600 Tath, N 61,700] 308,000 Balt, brl 1,458 1,454 ‘Withdrawn from store on Fridsy for city con- | ‘sumation : 8.525 bu corn. 1.907 bu qats, 2.048 bu Wi 17,463 bu wheat, 26,081 bu corn, 13,066 bu oats, 3,463 bu rye, 28,733 bu barley, The following grain has been inspected into storo this morning, up to 10 o'clock: 220 cars wheat, 887 cars corn, 64 cats oats, 2 cars Iye. Total, 673 cars, or 207,000 bu. Inspected out:. 102,859 bu wheat, 272,957 bucorn, 25,218 bu oats, 1,277 bu barloy. . The following were the receipts and sbipments of breadstufls and live stock at this point during tho past weok, and for tho corresponding weeks | ending as dated : The exports from New York during the past week inclnde 25,600 brls flour, 1,870,600 bu ‘wheat, and 348,000 bu corn. : A dispatch from Montreal, received this morn- ing by William Young & Co., states that the shipments of wheat from that port since the oponing of the season are about 400,000 bu, sud the stock there now is about 1,000,000 bu, with large stocks at' points in Western Canada. The Larvest in the south of France com- monces about June 10; in the north a month later. No opinion is given ss to the contin- uance of the Continental demand for wheat, Our words of a week azo in referonce to * the masterly way in which the figuxes are handled in tho oftice of the Becretary” of the Board of Trade seem to have been understood by some in & different sense to what was intended. e do not believe that they are *manipnlated” for any purpose. But we do believe that the figures furnished to the Board havo often been incor- rectly added, and the proper care in obtaining figures and in handling them would give much more-satisfactory statistics than we have at present. A resolution was offered on 'Change to-day, 2nd will be acted upon on Monday, asking the Dircctors of tho Board of Trads to appoint a committes to make a count of the stock of pork now bere. Thisis all right and proper ; but the necessity for making a count is not 80 urgent now a8 1t was a week ago, Most of the pork shorts have now filled in. Neverthelees, it will ‘be well to count_up, especiglly if the result of the count should bo a correction in the present slipshod way of reporting the produce move- ment in this city. s B padti THE MARKETS. rEARETS The leading prodnce markets were fnnsrflly weak to-dey, with more activity in graln, New York was dull and the weather was fine. The principal reason for the weakness was, however, that the receipts were larger, and the prospect was good for big receipts the coming week, Re- go_ru from country poifits state that grain is now eing frecely marketed, and more money than nsual hos gone out to the gran-growing dis- tricts within tho past few days. ’I‘he farmers have nearly done plowing and eowing, and the dry weather this spring has not fostered the growth of weeds. Hence the farmers have littlo to do in the flelds, and are turning their attention to the marketing of the grain oo hand, which they are all the moro ready to part with as overything points to abundant crops this year. This increaged the volume of offerings from owners, and brought out the short sellers in force, the result being & rather exteusive break in prices. The shipf:ing ‘movement was loss active, but that is nsual on Saturday, 80 that the fact excited little comment. Tho dry goods is more active both on lo- cal and interjor account than is usually witness- ed at this stage of the season, and whatever of weakness the market may have ehown a fort- night 2go hag entirely disappeared. There is no doubt that many lines of standard cotton pro- ductions are now. and have l'oon for gome time past, selling at a leas price than it costs to pro- duce them and that prices will very scon take a higher range is entirely probable.” In' the gro- cery mmket thero were only slight changes—none Smworthy of epecial men- tion. " Coffecs continue mnscttled and declining, but for other articles the market pre- gents & firm, healthy tone. Sugars, sirups, Tice, and teas aro reasonably active, and a very fair movement in starch, s0aps, ete.,is also wit- nessed. The eoap manufacturers have'issued & circular, in which they announce that ou June 1, thoy will advance the price. This step they claim is made necessary by the enhanced cost of theraw materiale. Dried fruits ara being freely distnibuted, and, under depleted stocks, the market is very strong, both for domestic and foreign. The fish trade shows improvement, orders from - the country being noticeably on the increase. Prices wore withont change, but the fee!in%:gxon jobbers seemed firm, ex- cept_for white! aod trout.. Nothing new was doveloped in connection with the bagging, coal, pifi-iron, and leather markets, those articles ruling dull ot nominally unchanged prices. The oil market was reported moderately active with but little varistion from previously quoted prices. An unsettled feeling still characterizes the market for catbon oil, but aside from this the prices current yesterday are steadily held. Lumber was quiet and unchanged. The offer- ings at the wholesale mariet were light, and the domand moderate. Motals and bardware were i reasonably fair demand for this time of the season, with prices for most articles steady. Tin-plate is very firm, being_rolatively lower in this markot than at New Yark. Iron continues dnll and weak. Nails aro aclling to a fair oxtent at 38714 rates, with 123¢c off for largolots, Sincs the micreased supply of new brick and tho docline to $6.00@6.50 perm. The domand for building materiale has improved, and is now called fair, thongh not particulecly.active. Salt ia active, especially on_interior account, and steady at $1.60@1.80 for fine, and £1.90@32.00 for coarse. Broom-corn was in fair order demand and steady. Wool and hops remain quiet. Itis thoughe that a considerable amount of new wool will be received next week; as yet the receipts have been very emall, and not enough to engage the attention of buyers and estnblish a market. Hay whs dull and lower, and hides uochanged. Hungarian seed was active at the recent decline, and other seeds quiet, except timotby, which met with a modorats inquiry. Potatoes were again dull and weak, common lota selling lowor. Ponltry was in fair local request. Lggs sold at 12L@13c. Highwines were quiet and firm at the improv- ed quotation of yesterday, though coru wns lower. New York was a ehede firmer, and . thers was not much offering here, as a considerable proportion of the wines made hore.are now shipped direct to Lastern consumers. Sales were reported of 150 brls at 84l¢<e per gallon. Lako freights were quiet, but a shade firmer, being in good demand, with a diminished supply, There aro not many vessels here. Wo note that the inquiry was much better for Lower Canads ports. Ratea were 4c for corn, and 4%@440 for whéat by eail to Buffalo, To Kingston, whoat was quoted at 8@814o, and to Oswego at 74@Sc. 'Through rates io. New York weie quoted at 19 on corn aad 20c on_ wheat. Do to uaatonafi 2}’:’@33}51".' A ta!llac‘))ffi charters was reported, which wi out 50,000 bu wheat, and 60,000 bu corn. oy £ 5 Provisions were dull and weak. Mess pork openod about 10c per brl higher, but soon foll off under heavy offerings, and- closed s shade lower than yesterdsy. New York was quoted weals, and thero werc- geveral country orders to eell, while the.bulk of the shorts have been filled, leaving but little derand. Lard was guito weak, declining 20c per 100 Ibs, " though Liver- pool was quoted unchanged at 513, Meats were unchange The offerings were er, but holders womld not sccept a fraction less than former quotations. The receipts of hogs - continuo large, and grain i8 on the decline, which tends to cause an easier fecling in provisions, though stocks are small except here end in New York. Thero has been an unusual quantity of country product on salo during the past week. Themarkot closed steady at the following rangeof prices: Mess pork, cash or soller May, #17.40@17.45; do seller June, 817.3714@17.40; do eeller July, $17.60@17.65; do seiler ‘August, $17.873¢@18.00. Lard. -cash or eeller June, £10.70@10.75; do seller July $10.90@ 10.923¢: sumamor lard, 1014@10%c. Sweet-pickled hams, 103{@11}c per 1o for 18@16 1b nverages; dry-salted meats, loose, at 61{@635¢ for shounlders, cash, and 634c seller July: 9¢ for short ribs, casli, and 97c seller July; 93¢ for short clear, cash, and igc seller. Jaly; 84 for Cam~ berlands; 9@9%c for long clear. The same boxed at’ }/@335c per 1b above these prices. Bacon meats, 7c for shoulders, 10c for short Tibs, 10}c for short clear, all packed in hhda; the samo loose, 3c lower. ' Bacon bams, 12%@ 133¢c. Mess beef, $10.75@11.00; exira mess do, SIL75@12.00; beef hams, 922.30@93.00. City tallow, TX@1%c; groase quotable at GI{@SC. Sales were reported of 250 bris mess pork. seller May, at :817.50; 500 brls do, seller June, at €17.55; 500 brlsdoat 817.50; 250 brlsdo st £17.40 3 250 brlsdo, seller July, st £17.82¢; 500 brls do at 817.80 ; 250 brls do at 817.7735 ; 500 brls do at 817.75 ; 250 tes lard, soller June, &t £10.75 : 230 brls do at $10.70: 50 tcs do. sell- er July, at €11.00 ; 750 tea _do, seller July, at 810, 51 o at S 00 ths sho 0 tes 3 60, ders, seller July, at 65¢c ; 20,000 Ibs short nbs at e 3 100,000 1be short clear, buyer to June 15, at 9e. o Daily Commercial Report gives the fol- lowing as the shipments of provisions from this city for the woek anding ay 21, 1874, and sinco Nov. 1, 1873, with comparisons ¢ Tork, | Lard, | Hams, Should's, |* Middles, Weck ending| Moy 21, 1. 8,80 3,88 1,18 ny { 8 %80 P Bamo week LN 2 Sinoe Nov, 152, 8331123, 012 58, 434/25, e T A T R “Tncludes all cut-moats excopt shonldors and S. P. hams. Flour was dull snd weak, in sympathy with whéat, New York being also reported flat. There waa no shipping demand, except from one or two parties, who offered (75c@31.00 por brl less than quotatious. Local dealers took hold spar- ingly. Bran was easicr, though not in very large supply. Cash sales wero reported of 200 bris while winter extras (Esgle) at $7.30; 100 brls spring extras (patent) at $8.75; 100 brls do at £6.25; 550 brls do on private terms; 100 brls superfines at $4.00; 50 brls Fye at 85.40. Total, 1,100 brls. Also 60 tons bran at 16.00, on track ; 20 tona do at $16.50; 20 tons at $16.00, free on board cars. The following were the asking quo- tations at thé close : Fair to good white winters. $675 @8.00 . Choice do 800 @ 9.00 Red winte 550 @ 7.00 Chojce sprin| EETK® 6.25 Medium to good do. 5.3T%@ 5.13 Geod to choice Minnesota 575 @ 7.00 800 @10.00 100 @ 487 830 @ 313K 500 @ 525 16.00° @16.50 Whest was quite active, but 114@20 lower, though Liverpool was quoted & improving,! with an urgent demand from the Continent of Europe. But the receipts wore largo, and re- ports were received from the country to the affect that the farmers are actively engaged in delivering wheat to the country stations, indicat~ ing that bafore many days our reccipts will ba limtted only by the abilities of the rail- road compasies to furpish the rolling stock reqaired to bring in tho grain. New York was dull, probably for tbe samé reason, though the exports from that city during the past week havo been quite large, and there 18 still a good domand for freight room. The prospect of a material decline hers caused tho calling of a good many margins this morn- ing, and theso brought a good deal of wheat on tho market from parties who did not wish to make deposits, This caunsed weakness, which incifed the short sellers to activity, and the market was very woak, but steadier up towards the close. There was only & light demsnd for shipment, the bulk of ~the cash wheat being taken by speculators. Seller Juoe opened at $1.21,and declined irregalarly to £1.20, closing at $1.203¢. Soller July sold and closed at _about the same range, the offerings being chiefly for June, which made the next month's option relatively weaker than on Fri- day. No. 2 spring closed at €1.20 for regular, and $1.20{@1.20%5 for strictly fresh receipts. No. 1 spring closed at £1.23%¢, No.3 do at §1.14%, and rejected do at:$1.07. Minnesota wheat was in fair demand, closing at 91.26@ 1.263¢ for No.1, and $1.23@1.23% for No. 2. Cash sales were reported of 2,000bu No. 1 spring at 81233 ; 7,200 bu do at S1.231¢; 20,000 bu No. 2epring 8t £1.20%¢ ; 13.200 budo at $1.20(; 86,800 bu do &t 21.20% ; 59,400 bu do at 31.20% ; 7,400 bu do at $1.20; 490 bu No. 8 spring at €1.15; 23,000 bu do at $1.143{; 800 bu doat $1147¢; 5,000 bu do n¢ $1.14%'; 2,000 bu re- jected spring st 81.06; 10,000 bu' No. 1 North- estern Minnesota at £1.27; 2.000 bu do at 21.963(; 10,000 bu No. 2 do (Central A) at £1.287¢; 81.400 bu doat SL23%; 1,600 bu by samplo, Minnesota, at $1.25 on track. Total. 212,600 bu. Corn was more active, and very weak, averag- ing 134c lower, being a decline of 21§ per cont. The causes wero much the same as noted in the case of wheat, the market being heavy, though the bullelin of xeceifits and shipments shows a decrease in our stocks during the weck of about 920,000 bn, leaving less than 1,300,000 bz on hand. The receipts were relatively large, and tho ad- ~ices ndicated that they will be larger tho com- ing week. Oferings for future delivery were very liberal, Luth on the part of country holders and city speculators, options being thrown with = especial crity, 23 & great many margins wero called on the longs. The short intorest fitled in, however, with mnuoeual alacrity, though many of them wero loud in their predictions that corn will tonch B5¢c before many days are gone. Liverpool was unchanged. _Seller Juno opencd at 6le, declined to 5934c, and closed at 603¢c. Seller July sold at 6034@61%e, closing at 60)5c. Cash corn was re- Iafively firm. It sold early at a cuscount of S¢c from June prices, and afterwards commanded & elight promiam; it clesed at 6034@G0}7c. High mized closed at 6lic, and rejected et 573c. Cash_sales wero reported of 29,000 bu high mixed at 62¢; 2,000 ba do at 613{c ; 13,200 bu do at 613¢c; 1,200 ba do at 6ic; 10,000 ba No. 2 at 6034¢ 3 9,000 bu do a'605¢c ; 42,400 bu do at 6034c; 25,000 bu_do at 603¢c; 44,000 bu do at 60%c: 1800 bu do at 60c; 5,000 bu do et 59%c; 1,608 ba rejected at 58c; 800 budoat 573{c; 4,500 bu do 8t 5734c; 80,000 bu No. 2at 623{c, free on board; 400 bu by sample (ear) at 63c, on track. Total, 247.200bu. Oata were quite active, thongh less go than on Fridey, and quite wezk 2t & decline of 12{@2¢ on cash Iots, and 1c on deliveriea for next mooth. This, in spite of the fact that New York was quoted firm. Tho receipts were large, and near- 1y doubla tbo shipments, while thera was a pros- pect of increased arrivals, 8s in corn and wheat, whilo the shipping demand was nil. Seller Juno opened at 453, and declined to 44l at tho ofose. Seller July sold at 423§@43%c; seller August sold at 34c for regular, and was quoted at 8l¢ forold or new; seller the year was offered at 8le; No. 2 cash closed ot 45c. Cash sales were reported of 4,800 bu No. 2 at 46c; 2,400 bu do st 45%c; 2,400 bu do at 4534e ; '5,400 bu do at 460 ; 1,200 bu No. 2 whito at 47c ; 3,000 bu by eample free on board at 50c; 1,200 bu do at 4%; 600 bu do at 5lc; 8,000 bu white at b5lc; 6000 bu do at50c’; 1,200 budo at49c; 6.600 budoat 4T24c, delivered ; 600 ba white at 50c ; 1,200 bu do at49¢c; 600 bumixed at 48c; 600 Ludo at 47340 ; 609 budo at47c; 1,200 bu doat 46}c; 600 bu do at 45}4c, on track. Total, 43.200 bu. TRye was quiet and steady st 101 for No. 2, with scarcely anything offered, and almost noth- ing here tosell. The demand wasvery light. Sales were restricted to 200 bu No. 2at £1.01; and 1,400 bu by sample on track nt $1.03. Barley was very quiet—almost inactive—but nomiuaily firmer. ere was no demand, ap- parently becaase tho parties who bold the barley now here wero not cifering it for sale. Tho scatement of Tuesday noxt will probably show that our stock is reduced to about 40,000 bu. No. 2 was nominal at 31.60@1.65; snd No. 8 at 21.25. Rejected was q at 21.05 in tho Rock Island to nominally $1.10 eleowhere, Cash sales were reported of 400 bu rejected at 31.05: 400 bu by sample at $1.30; 100 bu do at $1.25, on track. - Total, 960 bu. LATEST. Wheat and corn wero active_in the afternoon, both declining abont 3c. Wheat seller June gold st L2034, down to $L20X, closing at £1.20@1.20%. Corn sold at 535$@60c, nnd afterwards at 593{c, closing late at 393{@50§ for June. Lake froights wore reported quict, owing partly to the light supply of freight room. ¥ e CHICAGO LIVE-STOCK MARKET. SaroRDAT EVENING, May 23, - The recelpts of livo siock during the woek have ‘Docn 28 follows : - i b attle, . 5,631 Hozs. 4,341 15,048 Cattle to Baltimore, Per Car. Cattls to Bafialo, per car, Gttle to Pittaburgh, por Hogs to Baitimore, per 100 3. Hogs to Pittsburgh, per 100 1. GATTLE—The firat half of tho week under res: was characterized by a0 absenco of sctivity in tho de- mand from any quarter, and up to thecloss of trads o radnesday tho extreme depression 80 long pervading tho market showed no slgns of disappearing. Under the materially diminished receipts of Thursdsg, bow- over, and cncouraged by the reassuring tone of ad- vices from the leading Eastern marketa, & most_eatis- Tsclory change was experlenccd. Shippers took hold energy, and during the closing days of the week their operafions were on a more than ord- Rarily lberal scale. -Up to Wednesday. caltls to s mumber of 4,000 bead had accumnlatad been worked o, oy me 28 the prices current o weelk 3 qual dally receipta was mzinly weil satren o e menta of the trade. Inforior and comucy | prised only 2 small proportion of the off review of the week's sales shows the bulk of Dess to have been nccompliched at prices £5,00 upward to $6.00. Thero were setery] at $6.10@6.25, but in two or three fnstancey bigher figures pald. While choice to extr. heavy welght have done Letter than durin, fat, pony-bullt steers are still given thd, and they contlamo to command relstiy prices. Smooth, well fatted steers of to 1,150 s were salable at “.2‘)@5:9 cholco droves, sversging from - { sy ™ 1400 were slow af over §5.00@%ey stecrs have met with 5 steadily good nlr maintained rates, sales making at $3.73@4 55 1 mon to fair lots, and at $1.7565.00 for goc b0 Thero 15 » falr demand for new mileh pomofidh former quotations, or at §20.00@30.00, as o with salesmostly af $20.00340.00 for ordinasy Calves sell readily at $3.00@5.00—the outeids bk gm' c!ml‘o; l.lghet-,k Alany stili-fed cattls 'm% uring the #eek—among the number some e et . the market was sctive to the supply, and firm. the yords being cleared p puit 2 terday's ratee. The quality n3n 007, nd s on chiefly at $5.25@0.00. H.'E. Mallory & Bro, pay ! o droves, for which they obtained $4.55 suq g Bitra Booves—Graded steers, averagin 5 raded steers, av e and over ehpdeincnt ) Chioice Beeves —Fine af, well iriaed 3 vz 0 5 year old steers, averag o 1,400 s ...l el Good Beevas— sters, sveraging 1,100 t0 1,230 2s ..., Pony Bteers—Tat steers, 1 1,000 t0 1,150 lta. & 7 |3 i |4 fii‘ X Pirc ool ot Tt i) i Sieey Eotts ell faitened, finely fomed " HN - 508t aging 1,050 to 1,250 Ds. Butehers? Stock—Common and good to extra cows, {or city ela d Sreraging 820 to 1100 fa..... porr Stock Cattle—Common cattle, i~ decent flesh, averaging 700 to 1,050 ... siags, Cattle—Texas, corn-fed.. Cattle_Texas, wintered Norih, H HOGE—The past woek has boen s faisly setre ¥ in this department of the live-stock marke, 4z pg have raled firm throughout, while at the ‘ot are sppreciably Ligier. An increses in the sy E o 50116 18,060 Licad is noted, the arrivals amonatag 79,187, against 61,065 last week, but the supy R0 materially ezcoded legitimte sty iy y “gkippers 7 an wrag mized lots remabatny sold 41 tho close. % T g Whils the offerings wery of lut F what better than thoss ey the quailty Was by Do mews gul factory, and Philadulphia Duyera found it extre: @ifficu't to ill thelr orders, Thero were sl 18 £6.10@6.%5, but, with rare exceptions, th of the week waa accomplished at Tangicg ward from $5.60—chiely at $5.00@5.60. Tody prices s ‘moderate, and by noon all decently well amar: picked up. Sales wera at $4.004%) & scallawags, at $5.00@5.30 for poor lo % it was an active demand st firm Fatee. The sy had_been pick . $5.3535.45 for medium, and st $5.0028.00 for cisoico. A fow ear-loads of extra fetchad $4,15g¢ The market cloged Arm, 100 eaLEs, ®ER ka ] sastaeies 62 5.151 40 535 T4 No. Av. Price.|No. Av. Price)No. As. Pro 57 239 #5055 211 $5.70 W 13 g @ 12 20 5653 2 iy 5 2d 10 5554 18 @ 7 a5k s.?slu m oG 2 19 seoles m iy 59 W ASN4T o4y 43 29 53018 M Iy =3t 13 ¢o|43 2 5 8 540'0 %W m |9 s B By 919w @ 18 g 23 X i3 81 B v & o oo o enon e o1 Kbuns 5.107 68 5341 18 198 6.50] 62 “ 2 1 50| SHEEP—There has been a ve: uiet feeling fs by market. Ouly & moderate demand has casi cde o to supply local or outeide wante, and lighh aa werotts receipts. prices have barely been snstaiued. Woqua poor to cholce shorn at $4.0035.73, 2nd poct o wooled at $4.50@7.25. 2 WMEDICAL. DSTHMA s s tes, and effocts a spoody cure. W conts a bax. JAPANESE HAIR STAIN ! Calors the Hair, Whiskers, and Moustacho s b ELACK or DROWN. It consicts of only OXZ FRERAIGL Colos will rot fade or wash oul. 50 ceats a boz. ’ CPIAIDS CORN AND BUNION OINTMEY Curea quickly and permaneatly. It coatalas o sme CAUSTIC. Price, 50 cents a boxr. 8 UPHAIDS TAPE-WORM SPECIFIC Never falls to remova Tape Worm in TWO E0TRS ¥ HEAD COMPLETE. Price, $. THOMAS SALTHOP, No, 18 Lake-st., Chicsm, &4 N 1d by all d : Agont for the Northu ABRIVAL AND DEPARTURE (F TRAR & EXPLANATION OF rYCE MARKS.— 1 Sifurtrrs 25 REFERI eepted. *Sunday excepted. 3 Mondayexcoptel |4 rive Sundar at8:00a. m. § Daily. RICHIGAN CENTRAL & GREAT WESYERV RAILANY Degat, oot of Lake at., and foot of Deentysecm Ticller ofice, 61 Clark s, southeart corner and 75 Canalat., cormer of dadioz. Mefl (via mata and alr 1 Day Expross... Jackson At CHICASN & ALTON RAILR0AD. Ghicago, Kansas City and_Denver Short Link cla ‘anay Wo., and Chicago, Sprix Through Line. LUaion Depats Uridge, Ticket Ofices : A1 Depo e Kansas City and Denser Fast Ex. |* Kasas Clty Expres: 0450, MILWAUKEE & Sf. PAUL RALYAL A i it Canala ik 2 €3 Souih € opposite Sherman Howse, “and ot Ds Leave. A, | = Miwaukee, Madison & Prarie dn Chien, 3> Milwauk Puint, St. 8:00 2, m.[ VP Gregn By, Siai ; .. it 9:0 8 m.* 41R2 Point, Nortbern Iow Milwaukae, St, olis, Night Paw & Espress... JLLINOIS CENTRAL BAILROAD- - Depot fook af Lakers. und joot of Ticentysecoadt.. 034 oficéy 121 Randolplvat., near Clark. 3 e | St. Lonls Exprest.. St. Lonis Fast Lin "airo & New Ocleans Cairo& New Otleans Paoria & Kokuk I} Sigux C s el * 420D, 1" Yy "(a) Runsto Champalgn on Satardays. CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & UUINCY AALANDY b at.. Iudiana-av., aad ., Grand Facic lotel, and a¢ depols. - . i T drris Zear Pacitic Fast Lins, for Omaia. Kansas City, Leavonworta, At chison & 5t. Jusoph i Anrora Passenzer. Uttaws & Aarora Passenger. ‘Aurora Passenger (Sundsy Dubuque & sicaxCity £3i Pacific Night Exp, for O Kansas City, Downer's Groro Accommadsiing|? Downer's Grove Accommodatioal® § Tezas lixpresn. .. i “Ex. Saadajs. WEST - CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RULAIIL ., g r, 82 Clark-st. (&hermensLomez), o i aPacifcFast L « Dabuguo Lia: ‘a—Depot cormer of Wolls and Kinziests.’ 5 Dopot corsyr of Canal and Kinzin-sts- ypeste 2 b srs ¥ 2 E b ilwa 0p. ] Green Bay Eam : > gor. 5 .t 4 Volls sod K \W.IL STENNETT, Gea. T 913 CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILE e o ok tugen g eranass SEAH 1l Teawe, |V (Omats, Lezvenw'th&Atchison Peru Accommodation. Night Express. I3AN S LRAD" SOUTHERN l;T‘:l‘ oy Doty Vian Duren-it., 700t of LaSalli-th. eomer Clarl and Randolphaisiy 553 D ‘worthwcert comer Clark ‘corner Canal and Hadison-sts S % Leare. Maileooesae EBpectal New Yar Mnichizan_Accoiumodaiion.