Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 2, 1874, Page 5

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1874. REAL ESTATE. geview of About the Quietest Week of the Year. Loan Market for July—Decrease w a3 Compared with 1873, {me Sales—Mostly Trades—-that 1" Have Been Made This Week. g in the Burnt District and i pldin Elsewhere. | gl B state Valuations in New York City. n of A. T. Stewart’s Town at : ptio 5 Dt Hempstead Plains. | { i THE LOAN MARKET. ez the past week has been marked with s choractoristi of thia scason of tho ge There 1§ plenty of money offering, but s light, and littlo improvemout is et st least & month to como. Tho aterest continues about the same, and, B ent dullucss s regaiged a2 beiog oly » \here i8 no disposition to lend at & . The eame foreign insurance com- e :flm Iast Sunday’s iesue as doing a fair B s done still bottor tho week just past, b‘,fig.\iagdnp loans amounting to $158,000. Bt e mpertant instruments recordod dar- 4208wk sre 3 mortgago for 25,000, and Er e eods for £24,000 and §29,000 respec- ¢ the two latter being given to sccure the ! ce money of property. DBelow is a com- O atement of the business dono iu tho Ehot July 2 7 soLY, 18, ||_JULT, 168, Consider~ ation. lso.719,1 | 285,570 == 1,szu{$,m 691 oing statement ehows that the con- :—:nfg:!& Arost-deeds is about the ssme in tho , Bt while the consideration of morteages, * s noted last week, ghons a marked differ- 5% toal Joans effected hers by the four lead- e foreizn losn-agencies, viz: the Comuecticut unal Life Insurarco Company, Northwestern Ystoal Life Iusurance Company, Charter Oak 15t Tosusance Compan, and the’ Urited States Iertgage Company, in July., 1873, wero $734,213; inJuly, 1674, %336,000. The decrease is very Jlf:lfl is a summary of the business done since ie commencement of the precent year : Consmder- atior 3 No of trust deeds and mortqages. 1,573 Total for 7 montha 10,149 5OME EALES OF THE WEEK. Jwobs & Barchell have sold 50 acres or 500 Yisintbe University Subdivision, in the W 2¢ uf Sec. 7, Town 38, Range 13, for £100,000. ! fhere wa8 an incumbrauce on tue property of £i600,—815,000 of that amount was due, and Basteen paid by the puzcheser, and the balance w3 paid 1n 20 acres of land in Rees' Subdivision st§150per acre, on which there was an in- cumbreee of §6.000. This property was owned by the Baptist Theological Seminary, and the sile xas made to an Eastern capitalisc the day belore the fire. He started for the East on the &r of the fire, and, having been eomewhat slimed, returned, but was eatistied with his wsde. This property was purchased to hold for improvement J Lstkin & Jenks have sold 934 acres at Lake Toress for $11,000. L H. Btover has sold a two-story frame house, 123 Lot No. 22 Harvard street, between Camp- ieisnd Western aveouee, north front., 25x125 ‘ot for £3,000; also, two lots in Irving Parl, 5% 9ad 10, Block 8, in Race’s Subdivision, f i) each. - L Lshley Mears reports a sale at Highwood, #follows: Jobn Churchill to Ralph Miller, 60 fut fronting on Wankegan aveaue for $900, on viith be i to erect a building for a peint and dsiors, to cost, 0. o . LA Gilbert & Co. have sold Block 6,in Odel's Hidirision_of Englewood, for §12,000: also, & Iflgt‘ on B\m!mefi street, near Thirtieth street, 283,000, .. Boyd has sold s five-story sod basement toefront block, with lot 50x70, fronting on Trborn strect and Third avenue, between Van Een and Harrison sireets, for £60.000; also, & Sstory stone-front dwelling and lot 25x125, 5ating weat, on Sheldon street, between Lake « Falton streets, for §16,000; aleo. s two- oy and basement brick dwelling and lot 50x % porth front, on Monroe street, between I £nd Leavitt streets, for $14,000. i s Jowa Railrosd Land Compuny’s sales in were 126, comprising 13,455 37-1C0 acres, ung t0 £90,919.53. Of theso sales, 10,418 wo of the grant to the Towa Division of s Chicsgo & Northwestorn Railway, and 3,087 i of 1he grant to the Sioux City lino of the : TovaCeatral. Y. T.Eumwealt has s01d 21 lots in Moore's Ad- difim woSonth Chicago, Sec. 86, 35, 14, for £.00; also 3114 acres, adjoimng depot at South Englewood, Sec. 82, 83,1 14, on_private terms to jpaties iving near Columbus, Ohio. George 8, Sh=w has sold 32 lots, 25x150, at Fflhmt, for £8,000; also1 lot, 50x200, st irih Evangton, for 1,000 ; aleo 1 Tot at Evans- im, 505159, for §900 ¢ also 3 cottagas and 6 lots £2050, 3¢ Conell, for £7,600 ; also house and ktat Hyde Park, for 25,000, - EC.Cole & Co. have sold in Stewart’s Subdi- viim, near Brighton, ono lot to H. W. Wray, for Efimdmmflu lots on corers for $176 Coamons & Teaver have sold one block of 31 ks, in Evarston, for 811,500, Ceanbell Brothors Lave sold = cottage and lot a street, poar Campbell avenue, to by, for £2,900. The Clarendor Hills Company have sold four ~ b 21180 feet ench, for $1,675. 1. Goodman & Co. have soid 307ect offPack- memnd Addition to Ryder & Haverly, for Tbe Weat Chicago Land Company has sold to ‘F:A.Sults one lot on Lake streot, west of For- .{eumd&far 2900. Yoror & Magnli Bave sold threo-story and bace- "’Fr brick dwelling No. 24 Sixteenth street for 650 ; 202 feet front by 160 fest deep on In- Avenue, at the southwest corner of Sixty- Badetrect, for §11,100 3 127 feet on Prairie e, st the sonthwest corner of Sixty-second for §6,350. Culver has old Lota 6, 7, 8, 9, and 14, fia L Cuiver's Addition to Glencoe, for ;;;;: four Jots near Maplewood, for £2.000; g, acres, 1 mile southwest from Glencos, for Ooar Newman has £0ld 100 feot on Wabash 3¢, Dortheast corner of Fortieth, street, at foot, £15,000. 0. Cole has' s0ld two houses andlots on mnd street, near Rhodes avenue, &t ‘ayne has sold lot in Block 5, Payne’s to Evenston, for $918; one lot in for £910: four iots in Block 6, for elot in Block 6, and one in Block 7, R. Clarke has gold two houses and on Progpect avenue. near Raymond '8‘,’,‘ for £5,800, and the other near the t Charch, on Fast Crescent street, for i both at Washington Heights. Laston & Co. have sold 75 feet on “le avenue, between Forty-fourth and -tth swreets for $5,050. s hag gold foar lots in Desplaines, 25 each ; 37 ots in Park Ridge, 25x125, one block in Thornton, £200. ld & Co. have sold tnreo lots at Irv- 00 each, at $1,000, for Forsvth & they g0ld 80 acres in Lake County Btover 80ld two-story house and lot, No. Mrvin streat, ot $,000; two lots ab Irving mm"-’xm,. t $400 each. 3 Figh & Co., two lots, 25x150, at Park ST%0n & Frear have sold house and lot wfyuanns Bt §8,5004 two stores abd Y %F“m Groya avenve, s¢ 632,000 b Aveans & S4,H09) lois E’gfi' ] é",: FoR SR 8 88 P [ ] 7 [ EE g i g8 ghags 5. gé;: £ s 3 2 Er i £ 1 1 £ Maywood, §2,000; lots st Hinedale, $10,000; property at Gilman, 16,500 ; property at Hock- ford, £15,000; house on Thirty-ninth street at £15,000. This firm has purchased for £15,000 five ncres on Stony Ixland boulevard, and will pr%baA_bly lx}mpmve dll: same. . A. Bragg, with Josiah Buber, of Unios Stock Yards, s sold 50 feet with building, west front on Wabash avenue, north of Fortieth street, at £8,000; 197 feet, cnst front, Wabash avenne, north of Thirty-ninth street,” $20,685 ; 93 feet, weet front, on Prairie_avonue, 153 feet south of Fifuy-third street, 58,820; 93 feet, east front, on Calumet avenue, in rear of ahove, $8,620 ; farm of 240 acres, with improvements, near DesMoines, Ia., #12.000; 135 acres in Pick- away County, Onio, $13,500. 5. W. Kroff & Co. have sold 27 lots in Block 77 Blue Island Lond & Building Company’s tract ;B \Vghi?xwu dflei_gh'-s for £7,000; 8 ots in Block . Maplowood, just westof depot, v §GU each’; 61,800, £%5,cA% S0 W. A Travis bas sold 48 lots in Sect. 14,37, 13, at 500 eech; 27 lots in Sec. 12, 37, 14, at $300 onch; total, 516,700, _W.'D, Kerfoot & Co. havo sold 5 scres on Van Buren etrect, west of California avesuo, for 25,0005 sold to 2 Roman Catholic Society, who will erect this fall a vory fine seminary building upon tho property ; also, the Louso and lot 493 West Mouroo strect, 25x183, for $11,000. Tho dvelling is a three-story marble-front houso. _ By W. H. Condon, 4lorsin Coudon's Subdiv- igion at Irving Lark for $1,000. By F. A. Stevens, et al., 26534 feot running to Juckeou street on Van Buren, northwest corner of Albany_street; nlso, 300' feet on opposite corner for $25,000 total. By Thomas Fisher—21 feet front by 876 feot deep op_Prairio avemue, north of Thurtieth sireot; also, 50 fect on Irdiaua ayenne, south of Sixtcenth street, improved, to William Gar- uett for $23,000. BUILDING, 1n the burnt district the following are some of the new structures to be erected: A brick house, one-story and basomont, on State street, on Block 136, by J. G. Geusen. A two-story and basement brick businoss and residence block, 98 feot front on Clark sireet, covering Nos. 487, 489, and 491, by C. L. Jenks. A brick house, 45x25 feet, three stories and a basement in height, on Polk street, near Fourth avenuc, by Junus Ardereigh. A two-story brick dwelling, 20540 feet, at No. 193 Tiurd avenue, by P. Egan, The tteal Estate and Building Journal makes the following aunouncemeuts of bulding else- where* Thomas Byrne will goon erect on Canalport avenue, near Jefferson street, a two-story and bucement brick building, 60x38 feet 1 dimen- sions. Mr. J. W. Farwell will immediately commence a two-and-a-half-story brick dwelling on Thirty- first strect, near Bultertieid stecet. At No. 139 Thirty-seventh street, Mrs. F. E. Dean is crecting a two-story dwelling in brick. At No. 433 aud 410 West Lake street, Fraok Grundies bas projected a brick busuess block, 56x90 feet, three-stories and basement. On West Indiana, near North Market street, Robert Corilet is about buiidiog & business block in brick, having a frontage of 5 fect and carried to 8 height of two Etories, besides a basemeut, Ou West Monroe stroet, near Sceley avenue, G. B. Short is building a block of six two-siory and basement brick residences. Flemiug & Nelscn will erect on Park avenue, a two-story and basement row of residences in brick, having a frontage of 60 feet in total, and situated pear the corner of Oakloy avenue. C. P. cKay is commenciog & row of brick residences on Campbell avenue nt the southwest corner of Adams street. The block will front 46 feet on the avenue and be 34 fect deep. Thos. O’Conncll is_buildging on Llue Island avenue, noar West Fourteenth street, a three- story and basement stone front building, 25 fect front. . VanGlahn will erect at the nortnenet corner of North Clark and Illinois street, a business building 25 feet wide and foar-stories and base- ment bigh in brick, with marblo front. At No. 252 Ohia street, Mr. swartchild is build- ing a residence three storics and busement high, marble front, in brick. On the gountheast corner of State and Illinois strect s residence blcck is projected by R.B. Johneon, Exq. Tt will front 102 feet, and con- tain five residences, three stories and basement high. - Bn the southwest corner of ITzmilton avenuo and West Adamws street, Mrs. Kenuen is about to build a row of five brick two-story residences with basemonts. On Wabash avenue, at No. 1452, Mr.S. W. Morse will soon ercct a residence in brick. It will bo three stories and a baseinent in height. On Adams street, pear State, F. A. Wick] man will immediately build a two-story and base- ment brick businesa block, 40 feet front by 80 feet deep. On West Van Buren street, mear Honore, a fine residence district, & double residoence will be tuilt by Isaac Boyd. 1t will be two stories lugh. On Calumet avenuo, near Twonty-sixth stroet, D. 8. Garlick is about beginuing the orection of 2 two-story and basement dwelling in brick. ‘The Church of the Immacilate Conception (Roman Catholic) have just taken outa permit for their church edifice, to be located on North Trankhn street, near Schiller etreet; dimensions will be 54x130 teot. The material will be brick. with dressings of stone. 1t will be u first-class building, arruged on tho most convement modern plan, and will cost a cousiderable outlay of money. ATCTION. Next Thursday, C. C. Thayer & Co. will sell at the Reai-Estate Exchauge 16 acres of land in 8.1 of E. 35 of N. W.J¢ of Sec. 36, T. 38, R. 14,in the Town of Hyde Perk. WASHINGTON HEIGITS. An association has becn formed at this place under the mame of the Weshington Heights Ridge Improvement Association. Among’ its members are O. H. Bogue, Heurs Waller, A.J. Cooper, Col. Hinckley, E. W. Hagerty, nnd others owning land on the ridge, and their ob~ ject is to have houses built this fall by desirablo parties. They will donate choice lots to accepta- ble parties who will build. Thoy will also fur- nish free railroad-passes for three years to and from the city. The Dauville & Vincennes Rail- road is finished to Blue Islaud avanue, west of the ridge. NEW YORE CITY BEAL ESTATE. The New York Tribuneof July 28inan ab- stract which it publishcs of the report of the Commissioners of Taxes and Assessments for the last quarter, makes this statemen: abont tho value of real estate, a8 shown by these ofticial Sgures: i “ The incresse in the valuation of the real es- tate in 1874 over that of 1873, in the twenty-two old wards of the city, is §21,815.700. This is & Jess percentage of ncresso thun for many pre- vious years. The cause i8_obvious, and bas already been referred to. The reaponse oxhib- ited in tho aassessments upon real estate to the fluctustions in the market is, sud properly should be, tardy. The market is subject to spasmodic advances or *spurts,” not alvays evidence of actusl permancnt increase in value. The practice of the department is to defer action for & remsonsble period until values gcem to be seitled. The incrense in the value of real ostate does mot arise from any widely diffused advance in valuations, but, for the most part, from the completion’ of very costly edifices commenced in 1873, and which now for the first find a place upon the assessment-rolls. The assessments in the Twelfth Werd has been, for somo of the more accessible and improvable portions, bronght into closer proportion to the Intio prevailing b those parts of the city more favorsbly situated. The addition of the West- chester County towns of Morrisania, West Farms, and Kingebridgo to the territory of the city, conatituting the Twenty-third and Twenty- fourth Wards, has very nearly doubled tho ares of the city, and imposed & largo amount of ad- ditional labor upon the Department. The means for making proper assessments 1n these new wards ere extremely defective, owing to the want of proper maps and records.” It appears by the same report that the value of res? estate in New York hus increased from $379,037,550, in 1839, to an asseaced valuation of $797.148,665, in 1872, 80 incrense of 318,111,115, or 110 3-10 per cent. A table ofielnti\'e values of the realand per- sonal estate in the City and County of New Yorlt, 25 assessed for 1873 and 1874, shows that the to- tal for real catato for this year is $SSL. an increase over. last year of 844,755,065 3 that the total for personal estate i £272.481,181 for this year, o decrease of £19,966,462 ; that tho total valaation for 1674 of both real and personal ostate is £1,154,029.176, an increase overthe pre- ceding year of 324,788,603 The New York Bulletin g8y8 : ‘The Baltimore Gazette of Saturday saya: * Henry 7. Rogers, real cstate_Lroker, sold” sesterdsy to New York parties, eight and s half acres of land Iying in Buitimore_County, adjacent to the property of the Blind Asylom and ' the city limits, for the sum of 50,000, We hear of otheér New Yoris partics {nvest- ing largely in Philadelphis”and suburban property. This 48 & new feature of the Lusiuess. Can the ex- ‘planation be that proverty here ot home is o extrava~ gantly high that buyers, rather than touch it, prefer taking the chances elsewhere ? I, A. T. STEWART'S TOWS. The New York World of Thuryday last de- seribes * Garden City,” the name of the town hich Mr. A. . Stewart bas laid out on Hemp- stead Plains, Loog Island. This tract is 12 miles Joog and 1 mile wide, snd tho western end is whout 16 miles from Hupter's Point. For years aud fay generstiony the lrack belonged to the Rown of Hempatead, she title having been goasly 5 ;d. itis sud, by Queen Anno. Being nothing ut o eandy plain, bearing but litle grass and Do timber, nobody cared to settlo on it, snd 80 it was beld by the town as common. It.was free to ;\ erybody. The farmers who lived in tho neigh- b l:mmorl of 1t let their cattle run over it to grazo t e sickly grass. Four years sgo Mr. A.T. hw"ng‘t purchased the whole tract, and under is direction the scene has boen transformed into a garden. A largo hotel, built by Mr. Stewart, i to be opened totho public ' tho very’ midet 3 this © grnden.” ‘This hotel s about the size of four ordinary city resi- deuces, i four stories high, and is intended to acoom~ modate peventy-five gueste, As aleady stated, It stands in the middle of a garden, and 3_beautifal gar- dex it is. ~Allaround it for nearly as far as the cye can see the land surface is s level as afloor, and for soveral hundred yards in every directlon the ground is most tastefully Laid out, broad avenues crossing at intervals sud winding carrlage-ways and foot-walks encircling lawns covered with a luxuriant growth of planis and evergreen trees. Tho hotel is about three minutes’ walk from the depot, a small brick bullding which Jooks like the gate- kecpur’s lodge at the entranco of Tiron's possessions, Scattered about at eome distance from tho hotel grounds are u large number of cottuges, which have all been erectod by Mr. Slewart at n cost ranging from 5,000 o $15,000 each. These zre to bo leased fo people desiring a chesp and vet elegant suburban resi- Qence, The highrat priced houses, which e to be let for $300 & year, including stables, ars fitted up with all modern imiprovemcnts, and it is xaid that famlies can live in thom with aa much ease and comfort as thoy would find in a Fifth avenue residence. The nest cluss of cottzgea will Lo let for 600 a year, and in every iustance the lssce is given a freo puis over tho rail- road for oue year. Just befora leaving on his Earopean trip Mr, Stew- 2rt pald a visit 10 Garden City, aud took a look at what was gomg on. He expressed himself as woll pleased, and accordingly the wori is to bo pushed with vigor during his sbsence. One hundred new cottages ure to be erected during the present season, and o vast number of large shade troes have been ordered to be planted during the coming full und spring. No less thun 27,000 smull treea have been piunted on the grounds during tne past scason. The hotel is 3 miles from the western border, and 9 miles from tho castern border. It will for the present bo under the superintendance of & gentle— man who wus formeriy connected with the Revera Housc, in Boston, and Wwho hus been in AMr, Stewart’s employ und contidence for severul years, Mr, Stewart means to keep 2 first—claza Lotel and the prices will be moderate. He positively declines to sell any of the property outright, but adopusthe plan of giving leases for thrce years at's tiwe, Tho lots surrounding the ges sre 200 feet square, and thua far about four square wiles have been luid out in streets aud build- ing lot, TBANSFERS. The following iustruments were filed for rec- ord on Saturday, Aug. 1: CITY PROPERTT. " Consideration. axwell st,nw corncr of Union st, 81, 60! 102 5-10 £1, dated July 30 ...$ 500 Bismark court, 600 £t € of Noble st x110 ft, dated Jun. 50, 187 600 Elston raad, opposite B ad, w £, 151 1t toriver, with 16C: fopposite with all bnildings, dated 1 ames A, Clybourn 1o Mary Clybourn, 40,000 Duyion st, 19 ft 8 uf Webster a e 1i, dzted July 3 £ . 9,500 Greenwich sf, st, 81, 2 X100 t, dafed July 23. . 250 Shoter sf, 260 ft 1 of Division t, w1, 25x124 9-10 1, " dated July 30, 500 2,700 Moltke et, 1533; f1 w of Roclwell av, n f, 60x 120 ft, dated July 31, iteees 1,000 st. Loulaav, 295 frn of Twenty-fourth st, w 1, 6031245; 1t dated Juiy 1. eesisars 800 Peoriu st, 100 £t n of Kundoljh st, w £, 25x115 1t, dated 20g. 1...... .. 4,000 Generee av, 205 1t 1 of Twent 252124 ft, dated July 13... 200 ‘West Indiana st, 8 w cor of Robey st, 100 ft, dated July 31.. 3,200 SOUTI OF OITY LIMITS AND WITHIN A RADIUS Q¥ T MILES OF COU; Lot 49, in Tngram's n e 5 acr 8w i Sec 4, 33, 14, dated Jul Lot 50, in same, dated July 7, 1874..... WEST OF CITY LIMITS AND WITHIX MILES OF GOUBT-HOUSE, Dingliam v, 6 w f, Lows 110 and 113, Block 1, Liof Staves’ 1 ¢ X Sec 46, 40, 13, dated Auy SUMMARY OF TRANNFERS YOI TILE WEEK, The following is the total wmount of city and subur- bou property within a radius of 7 miles of the Court-House trausferred during tho week ending Sat~ urdsy, Aug. 13 XNo. sales. Considerati 104 7. 9,470 115,448 15,700 1,001,137 '991,518 967,580 1,434,723 TENDENCIES CF THE TIMES. Thereis s great deal written snd said about 4 the sigus of tho times,” and the phrase has an inspiring riug and & bravado cadence about it which takes with the public ear. It is supposed tobo a verbal condensation of all the modern trinmphs. It is understood to mean evangeliza- tion, scientific discoverics, mochanical inven- tions, social reforms, political progress. and practical picty. Now, the exponents of tho day are THE NEWSPAPERS. With what are their columns filled? Sean- dals, Fircs, Floods, Crimes, and Casualties. These, then, are the topics of the day. How has it como about that the Public has such an insa- tisble maw for ecandal? It is enid that even the flesh of that most omniverous animal, the pig, will bo ehanged in color and texture by what it feeds upon ; it is asserted that tho lion and the savage, when ouce they have caten Lumen flesh, will disdain commoner eatwg. Aost Sovereign Public! I wounld not dare to compare you to swino and cannibals, but——. Ceriaiuly you must allow that you do patronize Charles Iteade, and that, of all his books, you paid him best for ‘A Terriblo Temptation.” Confess, Great Public, that you went night after night to hear *Mon- sieur Alphonse,” and gave it a * brilliant run.” Acknowledgo that the magazine-extracts which went floating round the newspapers each montn, and found lodgment inall your fumilics, were “For the King” by Bret Harte, and another sketch by the same author,—a story about that fascinating gambler, Oakhurst; whick story everybody rond in the hopo that it was the end of bim, but which, instead of being his obituary, was a recital of one of his ‘“amours,” and bore on that same old topic from which there is no escape whether we read our periodicals and dailies by our fireside, whether we saunter out to tho theatro of an evening, or whether, from idlo curiosity, we go, on & warm off- Sunday, to hear somo popular preacher. Horri- blo as the assertion may sound, i has become a relief to have our minds diverted, even if 1tis only to other lesser crimes. And yet, in trath, newspaper-readers aro 8o accustomed to have all crimes of such magnitude that it sccms almost impossible to decide as to the comparative tur- pitude of any. Noboay etops to read little four or five-line items, or_even short parsgraphs, wherein Jones killed his wife; or Smith shot his neighbor ; or Brown embezzled a fow thousands from the Government ; or Robinson's new build- ing fell, killing one man and wounding three others. ' Jones and Smith may possibly be hung if thoy kill one man or womau, and Brown may go to the Penitentiary if he stole a fow hundred thousands; but the murderer who wihes to be read about must slaughter a whole family, and wind up_with 2 fulile attempt to cut bis own throat. How strange it is that these wholesalo murderers_scarcely ever encceed in bocoming suicides. They make sure work of their victims, but almost invariably fuil in their own case. The commaunity s thrilled with horror over the bloody tale. The murderer slowly convalesces, is tried, found to have s homicidal mania, and either set free, or incarcerated for a year or so, till tho public shall have forgotten him. It is only lately that tho man who couid steal half & million or more stood in the lcast dnger. Society said to the embezzler, *Whilo you're getting, geta plenty.” Dat tho fashion has chauged, and the man who would rob a city witn impunity must steal less than Tweed and more than a mere com- mon thief can lay his handson. There 1s & hap- ps medium in these things. A GESUINE SLIPSHODNESS characterizes this ngo aund country. The con- pection between cause and effect is ignored. A public building fails byits own weicht, and bundreds are killed or maimed for lifo. The papers bristlowith head-lines, and every detail of the calamity is laid before the public. The il- lustrated weeklies portray the scene of ruin and all the incidents of the hour. Where is the pic- turo of the builder of that slaughter-houte ? What is his name? What becomes of him oven if the matter goes so exceptionably far that he isarrested? What aro the Legislatures doing that there is no law to_prevent tho_erection of these human traps? In France it is impossible for & man to build & hecatomb for a community, such as was that Syracuse cburch. The strong hand of the law isupon him, and he must build safely or not at all. When a_reserveir burst up amosg the hills of Mawanchuactts, destroying life and property, one sty garrespandent cxsu- ally remerks, that * Great indignation was felt by tko sufferers at the fimsy consiriction of the rosorvoir, which its keeper Lad always con- sidered unsafe. nnd much alarm prevailed among the inhabitants of neigiboring valleys above which were located other reservoirs.” Not much more was heard on the subject. Some- body is walking around with tho fow hundreds in his pockes which should -have put an nua- movable barner betwoen those terrible waters and the helpless dwellers iu the valley. He knew in his inmost soul, when that reservoir as done, that it was t0o weak for its work ; but * A penny suved is o peony gamed.” It is a curious state of things when manufacturers can pen a flood np in a flimsy lank amoug the Dills overhanging buman habitations, and not Ve held respousible for the proper coustruction of the reservoir. One might as well build on Vesuvius as among the peaceful hills of Massachusetts. It's ouly a choice be- tween fire and water. That brings us to the motice of the scourge of fire. Our TFire Department has been properly anathema- tized, our incendiarics bave beon arrestod— and that is probably as far as matters will zo in either direction, But that occult cause that hies back of it all—what of that? The insurance comipanies threaton to withdraw from Chicago. Would thoy had withdrawn before they took Tsnacson’s risk, The moro incurance agents they send to. Chicago, tho zreator our chances of burning in ourbeds, Thoee impecunious agents whose commisgions are their ouly subsistonce, dog the footsteps of shaniv-owners. and msure rookeries for whatever amount the insared will poy premium on. Tho ngent bockets his per cent, Tho company advertsc their immense usiness, tho number of policies issued, oic. The policy-holder Jays ina stock of kerosene, old rags, paper, kindling. £mumrder, and can- dles, and goes put for tho day. Then' there is o big fire, which burns up a few millions, and clears off & fow miles, and throws hundreds on the Rolief Socisty. How did it all Lappon? Spontaneous combustion. Where's the com- pany that employed the agent that insured the rag-man whoe stock spontaneonsly combusted, and sot fire to Chieago ? Ita n great thing to get back to a al cause "—especially in fires. Give Chicago an insurance company whoso agents a0 felaried, 2nd whore the intercsts of employer and eolicitor are identieal, and spontancous combustions aud carnivals of flame will be known ne more. We will then have on laad, to turn over cheap to the patrons of tho present insurance system, o large assortment of fire-rhetoric. THE SPIRIT OF EXAGGEBATION has been npon us, and “ Our youug men havo dreamed dreams, and our old 1en have seen visions.” Wa have declared that our fires were good things, congratulated ourselves that we had Greated ruins in one meht greator than Englond Lad secured by hundreds of years, and compared Chicago to that mythical fowl, the Phewuix, What Chicugo would Lave done without that lezend of the Pleenix is a vast problem. ‘The ravening huunger of the Public for the sensational hus worked its legitimate result. All writing and sll conversation are exaggerated. If we guess ot the result of an ap- palling accident, _we ook to make the loss of hfe and property a8 harrowing as possible. Isaman onirial for his lfe or character, we demund, every night and morning, somothinz more stactling than has yet been furnishedus. We want to know everybody's private opinion, If somebody won't give it, we publish one, and call it his, ‘Beforo Lo gets a chance to disprove its authorsbip, everybody hins lost all iicrest in tho mmatter. 1f tho mccused won't ba _interviewed, we want to know what he would ' have said. or what his intimate friend, who consests to be interviewed, thinks he would have said. Is there a lander publisned about eomebody, we must have a new development every day. Hunc up tho victim's Tm life, and put » peg of doubt in every avaiiable spot, aud bang &' rag of vile conjecture on every doubt. It is vain for ihe poor wretch to explain. He might as well sit down und sing tho nursery-song : Riddle me, riddle me, Ttiddle me through. Baut this bubble of linguistic inflation, with all its high coloring, swelling roundness, and sudsy Dbasis, must burst. Chicagoans must moder- ate their specch to tbo bebef of (ho American peoplo ; and even then tuey will out- brag tbe civilized world. This natione] Com- munism of morals aleo must be checked. The new generation, which i3 just beginning to take a gileut interest in tho morning-chat over the news of the day, should be taugnt by the utter- ances of its elders some of tie lessous we have Dbeen g0 slow in learning. Listening to our talk of to-day, they might grow to believe that o Great Firs was a good thing for o city,—that it svas the quickest way to raiso roal estate ; thata certain per-cent of all public buildings must necersarily fall because of defective construc- tion ; that human life wes of no value com pared to the interests of manufacturing com- panies sud railroad corporatious ; and that a good reputation was only 2 conventional phrase 1o designate a character which bad not 2s yet bean chased to its hidiog-piaco by & yelging pack of sensational scandal-nanters. Wirca-Hazern. “HONOR TO \VHOM HONOR IS DUE.” To the Editor of The Chicago Tribunc: Sm: Tae TamosE of this moring contains a very interesting communication on Dr. Priestley. who died not far from the sources of tho Sus- quebanna, in 1804, Tho heading of that commu- nication crodits Priestley with being both the dis- coverer of Oxygen and founderof modern Chem- istry. Therewill be no diesenting voice about tne first point; but, on theother hand, your own article itself shows that Pricstley, far from being the founder of it, always opposed that which is called modern- Chemistry. Tho years which elapscd between 1770 and 1794 were a period of remarkable activity among tho chemists. Black, Cavendish, and Priastloy, in England; Scbeole in Sweden; sod Lavisier, in France, sccumulated an immonse amount of facts nnd observations about those mysterious bodies called tio gases (geists, ghosts), and the phevomensa of combustion. - Up to the first-giv- en date thero was no satisfactory explanation of theso facts; the link conpecting them was un- known ; in & word, Chemistrs, as a science, did not exist yet. Truly, inthe early part of tho eightecuth century, the German chemist Stahl skotched the to-us-queer phlogistic theory. All combustible bodies contnin some Phlogiston,—a certam oxceedingly volatile principle. Whentbe fuel is burning, it loses its Phlogiston; and the residuum, the ashes, are the dophlogisticated body, which, of course, is unable to burn any more. Such is, In brief, the Stahl theory. It reigned supreme for abont fifty vears, for it bappily explained combustion. 8till it failed to account for two facts: the ze- ceusity of the presonce of air in ordinary com- bustion, and the increase in weight of the burned substance. The Jatter objectiou was ingenuous- Iy disposed of by sunposing that the Phiogiston, baving no weight itself, would, by combining with other substances, make them more buoy- aut, lighter ; and consequently the expulsion of that principio would give body more weight. Thero were still the fow who were not satisfied with tne explanation; besides its orthodox crowd,—and Priestley was one of them,—Chem- istry had also its heretics. Frominent among the latter was Lavoisicr, of Paris. He is tho man who_knocked into pieces the prevailing theory, and substituted for the samo new vioss which bave immensely contrib- uted to the capital discoverics of tho present century. S Tuo chemists, his contemporaties, satisfied themselves by looking at tho qualitativo chauges which occar when two substances act upon each othor. Armed wito the balance, Lavoisier fol- lowed closely tho changes in weight occiuring at the same time. After an immeuse amount of Inbor, ho came boldly. to the front, stating t— First—There aro certain snbstances made of only one kind of matter. We call them clements. Oxygen is one of them. Second—Two or more elements may umite together and form a new substance, tho weight of which equals the sum of the component. Third — Combustion is such 2n union, attended with & production of heatand light ; ete., ote. * The straggle w2s a protracted ome. I don't Lnow which to adnure most: the preciso and logical way in which Lavoisier used to meet hus opponents, or the ingenuity of tho latter in mod- itying and reconstructing tho phlogistic theory whenover au unavswerable objection was raised by the Parision chiomist. ) The result was tuis: Scheelo died before the end ; Berthollet and Fourcroy were converted to the now theory; Cavendizh'guve up all opposi- tion snd remained silont the rest of his lifa; as for Priestloy, the most promineut of the phalenx, he never yiolded. When, in 1794, Lavoisier ascended the steps of the scaffold, he nad ths satisfaction of knowing that his doctrines wero as uwiversally taugat and received as the theory of Phlogiston was twenty years before. ‘Hotor to whom honor is due, Mr, Editor; and, whilst I fully acknowledge that Priestiey was an wcute observar, and the sutbor of many impor- tonb disgoveries, Inone the lesa belloys thas, but for Lavoisier, Chemistry would be in tho samo muddle as ever, and many of the great achieve- menty of modern Science would remain to be made. I am, sir, respectfuily, M. DELAFONTAINE. CaICsG0, Aug. 1, 1674 ARRIVALS AT SUMMER-RESORTS. NMiadison, Wis. The following are smong rocent arrivals at Madison, Wis. : PARK HOTEL. Mrs. T. H. Patterson, Miss arle Patterson, ) Eita Fatterson, St, Lonis - Mo, Ohschia . Farnog, child, and nurss, do; Mrs, W. F. Enders, Miss E. Euders, Chicago; Mrs, Charles Brego, ckild, and nurwe, do; the Hon. Bamuel Heys and wifo, Miss 1iays, St. Touis; O. F. Grrison and wife, Muster Frederick Garrieon, do ; Col. F. A, Hinman, U. &, Waahington ; Mrs, Theophile apin, Miss Julia Papi Ar. F. Papin, cuild, and nurse, Bt Louis: Mrs. Dr. T. L. Papin, Miss Loisel Papin, Miss Lidi Papin, Master Harry Papin, and maid, do;_Mre. Col. John 'G. Prather, Miss Mggie Prather, Miss Lulis Prather, Miss Muy Prather, Master Taylor Prather, do; Mre, John G, Priest, Miss Virginia Priest, 3in} Maud Priest, do; Mrs. Elfzabetn Chapin, Miss Mary Chapin, diss Adele Chapin, Chicago; Albért Smith, wife, cald, and nurse, do} H. 3, Mondeville und’ wife, Miss Cors Mondeviile, Miss Annfe Mondeviile, §t. Louts: Maj. M. H. don” deville, do; slra. F. Butterfield snd rmsid, Miss Katle Butterfield, New York City; George W. Seamon and wife, do ; T. F, Salmard and wife, Miss Salmard, Milwaukee; D. C. Thatcher and wife, 5¢. Louis: James B. Clements and servant, Dr. 3f, Yormall, do ; Samuel Bowman, do; L. C. Ifory, Datavia, N, Y.: J. D. Evans, Chicago; the Hon. A. R, Bushnell, Luncaster, Wis,: the ifon. W. E, Cartcr, Platteville, Wis.: the Hon, B. J. Stevens, Washington ; Gen. W. Abed] Denison, Tex, ; A, E. ' Burpee, Junessille ; Lieut, J. W, Sale, do; Walter Clark, Batile Creck, Mich. P Glbbs, CMVXLA! IIOUSE. orop! , Chicago ; P. Salalue, 30 ; the Hom. A1, A, Cothern, Mineral Yoiut ; P. B, Mertin, New York ; J. E, Newell, Virginia ; Mre. 8. W. Smith ; 0. J. Moore, Taraboo; M. A, Louls, Cincinnati; J. J. Daw, Chi- cago; Jemes B, Porter, Hadley, Mas.; C. B, Loop, Beividers; M. R._Suthell, Cui’sgo; 3L 3L Eenna, Yond du Tac; C. E. Johnion, Chicago; M. F. Mills, do; W.J. Perkins, Cedar Falls ; J. Dimond, do. Geneva Lake, Wis, TRecent arrivals at the St. Deais Hotel, Genava Lake, Wis., are as follows: S, P. Bladden and wife, Miss Fannie Sladden, Miss Libbie Stadden, Chicago: Miss ‘Minuie Muayo, New York; Heary Towne and wile, J. B, Dolturd snd wife, Charles W, Young, Chicwgd; W. C. Poor and wife, Cineionsti; W. J. 3ashon and famiy, Cuicago; R. W.' Pierco and family, Milwaukee; R. Burrows und son, Misses Burrows, %, A. Barton and wife, Mirses Barton, G. G, Lussell and wife, N. Luncaster, Edgar ¥, Farley and wifo, Mre. W. A Forbes, Mrs. Ira Tomblin and dsughter, J, B. Southc wick, H, 8. Wilcox, Chicago; Miss Dell ‘Nole, Miss Tattic Fussell, St. Louis; Georgo W. English and wife, L. . Brown and wife, E. C. Abdill 3od wife:, Daaville, Til.: Jenkins Brothers, Down Brothers, Steel Brothers, Modoc Club, Chicago’ (camping out) ; Walter Rogers and wife, Bloomington, Iil. ; J. Lafe Curtiss and wife, Chicago ; R. W. Chubbuck, Utica, N, Y. A. Gilleit and family, Valparalso, Ind.; Thomas Tarxer, Jr,, and wife, Chicago; Dr. J. hess_nnd wite, do;” 0. W. Norton zud 'wife, New York; Inaat T, Wiee, St. Louis ; C. B. and F. B, Cooke, Chi- cag 0, Willlams and_family, do; John Whit- comb and ron, Clinton, Ind,; Alexander Young; Henry H. Young, Chicags; C. N. Paine, Ostiosh, AN OLD-TIME DUEL. ne Hon, H. To the Editor of The Chicaqo Tribune : Sim: The article which appearedin your izsuo of Sunday last, on ** The Field of Honor,” recails to my mind a meeting in that line which took place in the chivalric city of New Orleans, aboat half a contary ago, o brief account of which—as I presumo very fow of your readors have ever heard of the affsir—may not be unintercsting to them. There roided at that time in the Crescent City a Scotch gentleman by the name of John :Iecmillas, quite a young man, and not loug out, 1 believe, from the “ Land o’ Cakes.” Dueling, as is well known, was then in its zenith in the “Sunny Somth,” and any gentleman who hap- pened to be called ont bad to toe tho mark, oth- erwiso he would lose castein society. Thero had for some time existed in the city an associa- tion of *gentlemeu”-duelists, bearing the rather unattractive, but not inappropriste, name of the * Hell-Fire Club.” If my memory serves me right, one of the rules of this Club was, that no gentleman could become a member naless he hnd killed bis man ; the qualitication for Presi- dent being not less than two men, and the mem- ber who had ‘laid out” the greatest number always occupied that exalted position, and, in the case of a tie of two or more, the election was decided by ballot, The incumbent, at the time of which I am writing, had ** disnosed'’ of three. At o dinner at oneof the 'stels, Macmillan aud tho Hell-Fire President ciisnced to occupy soats opposite aach other. For some cause or othor,—or perhaps no cansa at all, but promptod probably by the aesiro of Hell-Firo to give tho world some naw proof of hug valor, fearing that bis fame might bo on the wane,—he had unot killed aman for several months,—and thiaking no doubt there was a prospect of working up a caso with the Scotchman,—he uncercmoniously thres the contents of his wine-glass across the table into that gentleman’s face. Macmillanim- mediately returned the comp'iment by baptizivg Hell-Fire with a tumbler of water. ‘The laster shereuvon left the table, elated undoubtedly at the success of his plan in securing a victim. In a very short time Macmillan was honored with a clalléuge, which he at once accepted. Having bad no experience with the pistol, tne weapon chosen for tho cambat, Macmillaw’s friends were grently alarmed for hir safety, knowing tbat fell-Fire was a dead shot. The remainder of the day was occupied by Macmillan in practice- firing under instructions, and by night the hopes of his fiiends had greatly rovived, as their pupil, in that brief epace of timo, had arrived at great proficiency, and it was declared that he could *tgnoot etraight.” The meeting took placo carly the following morning. Result: The Club was minus its President on the firat round. Ilis ad- versary's ball had passed throuch his heart. Tho top of Macmillan's cap waa perforated, and he 10 doubt saved his own bacon by being too quick for Holl-Fire. I think the Club was broken up immediately after. G. H. —_————— Sonthern Women During Dbellion. The Allantic for August has George Cary Eggleston's third paper on *'A Rebel's ltccol- lections,” which is dovoted to the conduct of the Southern women during aud after the War. He strengthens the general testimony as to the passionate and unyielding devotion of the women to “the canse,” and the heroism with which they bave borno poverty and deprivations since it became * lost.” A few incidents illustrato the temper of the daughters of the South : AN OLD FEMALE REDEL. I remember a conversation between two of them,—one a young wife whose husbaud was in the atmy, and the other an elderly lady, with no Liusband or son, but with many friends and near relatives in marching regiments. The younger lady remorked ; “I'm sure I donpot hate our enemies. I eamnestly hope their souls may go to heaven, but I would liice ta blow all their mortal bodies sway, ng fast as “’"fi come upon our xoil." “ Why, you shock me, my doar,” replied the other ; * fdon'l seo why you want the Yankees to go foliesven! ILopo to get thers mysoll somo duy, and I'm sure I shouldu't want to go if 1 thought I should find any of them there.” ‘This old lsdy was convinced from tho firat that the South would fail, and she based this bo- lief on tbe fact that we had permitted Yankees to build railroads thrcugh the Southern States. 7 tell you,” she would say, ** that's what they built the roads for. They knew the war was coming, end they got ready for it. The railroada will whip us, you may depend. What elte were they made for ? We got on well enough with- out theta, and we oughtn't to have let anybody build them.” And bo amount of ressonwug would serve to shake her conyiction that the peo- ple of the North had built all our railroads with treacherous intent, though tho stock of the ouly road she had ever seen was held very farge- Iy by people along its line, many of wiom were ber own [riends. A TOUNG BEBEL IN PETTICOATS. X A young girl, ordinarily of a very gentlo dis- osition, astonished a Federal Colonel one day v an outburst of temper which served at least 6 show the carsestnéss of her purpose to up- hold her side of the argament. She lived in 2 part of the country then for the first time held by the Federal army, and a Coloncl, with some members of bis stall, made her {amily the uo- slling recipients of & call one morping. See- ing the piauo open, the Colonel asked the young Jady to play, but ehe deciined. He then went to the ipstrument bimseif, but he h: begnn to play when tho damsel, raising the pisno top, eevered nearly all the strings with 2 hatchet, saying to the astonished performer, as ehe did ko, s “That's my piano, ‘minute's pleasure.” gized, and replied,— “If all your people are 2s ready as you to make coetly eacrilices, wo might as well go ome.” ER n \nd most of them were ready and willing to mako similar sacnifices. One lady of my ac- guamtance knocsed in the heads of a dozea cag’ss of choice wine rather than aliow some Fed- erai officers to &ip A8 many plasses of it. An- other dentroyed hor own Jibrasy, which was very the Re= and it shall not givo you s The Colonel bowed, 3polo- precious to her, whon that seemed the only way 1n which she could prevent the stafl of a general officer, camped near her, from onjoying a few hoars reading in her parlor every miorning. There is 3 . STORY OF GEY. FORREST, which will serve toshorw his opinion of the pluck and devotion of the Southern womea. Ho was drawing his mon up In line of battle one day, and it was ovident that a sharp encounter was sbout to tako place. Some ladies ran from a houge, which happened to stand just in front of his aud asked Lim afixionyl; a ‘; '\" at shall we do, General, what shall we 02 Strong in his faith that they only wished to help in some wav, Lo replied: I renlly don't eco that you can do much, ax- cept to stand on stumps, wave your bonnets, and sbout ¢ Hurrah, boys!*" . LITERARY NOTES. PERIODICALS RECSIVED. The Penn Monthly for Angust (Philadelphis) has articles as follows: ** The Teutonie Mark:" ** Why Hannibal Did Not Xarch on Rome;” “The Perils of Modern Quakerism;” *H Bolzac;" ¢ Perton’s Life of Jefferson.’ Blackwood's Magazine for July (Leonard Scott Publishing Company, New York) has contents as follows: ‘The Story of Valentine, and His Brother "—Part VIL ; ¢ FamilyJewels ;" “Alice Lorraine "—Part V.; “TwoCities—Two Books " “ Quod 8it Orandum ;" * Blackenborg’s Narrative of the Ashanti War." Strahan’s Saturday Journal—Monthly part for August (A. Straban, London; biilner & Roge rs News Compeny. Now York). Iltinois Schoolmaster for August (Aaron Gove and Edwin C. He wett, Normal, IiL.). Sanitarian for Augzust (A. N. Bell, New York). Pnrenological Journal for August (Samuel R. Wells, New Yori). Medcal Investigator for Tuly (Chicago). Current numbers of Lilell's Living Agé, Every Saturday, and Appleton’s Journal. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. William Black's noew storv, to appear in the Corahill Magazine, llustrated by Du Maurier, is entitled ** Those Feathers.” —A now volumo by Willinm Cullen Bryant, entitled *‘Among the Trees,” is aunounced for publication. —The latest book of fairv-tales is r. John T. Nnake's ** Slayonic Fairy Tales, ‘I'rantlated from the Itussian, Polish, Servien, tud Bobeminn.” —Victor lingo’s paper, Le Rappel, has a larger circulation than any oher in France, Its regn- lar issue is stated at 80,000 copies. —Mr. A. Hislop has edited **The DBook of Scottish Anecdotes” by way of proviug that, Lowever much of a surgical operation it may be 10 got a joke into the bhead of a Scotchnian, thousands of excelient jokes have been gotten out without any as all. —An enterprising American publisher some time ago anwounced sa edition of the Biblo, & with photographic portraitaof Abrabam, Moses, David, Jesus Chrisz, and tho Apostler parently there is po difficuity in procuring them, for the London Spiritualist of June 19 furaishes a portrait of the medium and *“ the spirit,” taken from an instantaneous photograph. —Gen, Francis A. Walker, recently Commis- gioner of Indian Affairs, has nearly ready for publication, through Messrs. James L. O2good & Co., a book entitled *‘The Indian Question,” givg the results of his oxperienco sad ob- servation. —Somebody has been finding fault with the natural philosophyin Poe’s ** Raven.” He asks : “ How could tbe raven, ‘sitting lopely on that placid bust’ of Pallus,—not ooly on the door, but above it, and, of course, richt against the wall,—by any law of illumination, ‘throw bis shadow on the tloor’ for the poet’s soul to float in and be lifted never more? " —Mr. Leslie Stephens’ ** Hours in a Library” zre eketches of half a dozen English and Ameri- can_authors. Hawthorne, he tells us, was a kind of Edgar Poe, without the delirium tre- mene. “ If our cousins raise more Hawthornes we may possibly feel moro gateful than for some of their other produciions. —Prof. J. E. Cairnes is to writo a reply in Macmilian’s Magazine to Mr. Goldwin Suwith’s article on * Women's Suffrage,” which recently appeared in that periodical. ‘—A Paris correspondent writes of Jules Janin, who, it seems, died of fatty degeneration of tho heart, and that he had grown enor- monsly large in his later years, and some enemy onco described lum as * having his chin faliing upon bis cravat, his cravat upon his ‘waist-coat, his waisi-coat upon his_stomach, his stomach upon his writings, and his writings upon evervbody.” —Madame Schwarz, who is Lknown by her novel, *The Man of Bitth and the Woman of tho People,” has wntten a new book, **Elvira Lady Casterton,” in which the union of sa Eng- lish Lord with a Swedish lady forms the ground- work of the story, which brings into play the singularty facile Swedish Inw of divorce. —* Dogography ” is the titlo of one book among others written by tho late Mr. Francis Bailer, who died of bydrophobis. It records the life and adventures of an English bull-ter- rier which Mr. Batler bad owned for more than sisteen years, and is written in a humorous vein, professing to tell the dog’s story in his own canive language. I had supposed that W. Harrison Ainsworth was dead long ago, but Lere he turns up as fresh as evor, andin * Merrie England” gives us in three volumes a story almost 28 good, and quito as true, as *The Tower of London" and “QOld St. Paul's.” Tno themo of the story is Wat Tyler's rebeilion; his dsughter—who is not his daughter, but the child of a nobleman—is the heroms.—London Lelter. —Marmion Herbert, in Disracli’s * Venetia,” bas been supposed to mean Shelley. But the Iato Countess Guiccioli, in her ** Recollections,” thinks otherwise. Shesays: * He (Disraeli)has given Byron two individualities. Lord Cadurcis ropresents Byron fiom his infauncy to the time of his marriage, aud Mr. Herbert equally repre~ sents Lord Byron from that fatal cpoch till his deaib. The selection of Lwo persons to repre- sent the sama characier, and to allow of Byron's simple yet complex nature being better under- stood, was a very happy philosophical notion.” —It's an ill wind, etc. This social tragedy now in its fifth act at Brooklyn, with the whole English-speaking world for audience, will prob- ably create o new and brisk demand on both sides of tho water for & very remarkable but hitherto not very ealable poem. Wa refer to “Tho Ring sud the Book,” by Robert Browning. Ilere, too, we bave the samie complication of busband, wite, and clcx::lymn.). Only the Italian busbend of 1698, instead of giving his runaway wife a frec dead of the home, finished with a thrust or two with his poniard,—which illustrates the difference between then and now.—Spring- Jield (3ass.) Republican. — & paragroph bas been in circulation to the effect that Miss Anna E. Dickingon has given ap her plan of going to Etrope, meaning_to spend tho summer at Srampscott ; that sho is writing a historv of her life and experiences for publica- ti We have anthority for the statement that Miss Dickinson has not given up her intenton of going abroad, but is delayed by the neceasity of finishing & boolk for which ehe 1s under a con- tract, Tlus book is in no sense * a story of ber life,” but & chronicle of certain experiences and adventures in_her lecturing tours, amnsing and otherwise, with a record of one summer spent in California and another in Colorado.—ANew York Herald. —My late old and intimate friend Lewis Gay- lord Clark many years ago reluted to me the fol- lowing anecdote of his bro.ber, Willis G, who, when visiting an old scquaintance, 3 farmer, ot a time when albums were all the rage, was band- ed by the daughter 8 superannuated account- book. ruled for pounds, slnllings, and pence, in which he was requested to write something pretty for her, with which request ho compliedin the following manuer : l-cl L'd. Flate This world's a scene oa dar’s as Styx, Where hope 1 rcarce worth Our joys are borne so flceting hence That they are dear at And yet to stay Lere many are willing Although they may not have laryer for Aunitat. — ——— A Riowa Belle. A correspondent of the Springfield (Mass.) Re- publican bas this to say about a Kiowa belle, the daughter of Kicking Bird: “She ia a lively, piquant, little thing, with arch, soulful eyes. Her name is ‘Topin," meaning woman. She is bud 13 years oid. Sball I describe ber ward- robe? First, ond most rare, her buck- skin cloak, fringed and spotied all over with clis’ teeth, said to bo only found now and then in the elki—tis kind of teeth—and the elis be- ing gone, too, they aro very raro and costly. Two of them are valued at a mule. Thero were 509 on her cloak. Think of wearing 20 mules on one’s backl Pans and New York aro outdomo bhere. A skirt, sometimes of buckskin, Bometimes It is 3 plain ehawl, bought from tha trade completes her toilet. Lopin is not all frivol Some horses had beon stolen from the Texans, and wero traced to Kickirg Bud's band, The Agent demanded their return ; the horees were fone ; tke affair was Lkely to cause trouble, Shen' Topin, of her own accord, came formard firet and offered ten horses out of her own berd, 0 holp zepair the dsmage OCEAN NAVIGATION. AMERICAN LINE. Tye uly Lie Carryingthe Ut States Flag, Cabin, Intermediate, and Steerage ACCOMMODATIONS UNSURPASSED. RATES GREATLY REDUCED Lower than New York Lines. Exearsfos Tickets at roducod rates. Grost Brizata, Ireland 3ad the Coatinent, at low rates Otice, 13¥ LaSallo-st., S. W. cor, Madison, Chicago: J. H. MILNE. Western Agant. FOR EUROPE. CUNARD MAIL LINE. ESTABLISIETED 1840- Four Sailings Every Week, From New York every Wednesday and Saturday. TFrom Boston every Tucsday aad Satarday. Cabin Passage, 3%, 3100, aad $130in gold. Rouad-trip Tickets at reduced ratas. Steernge Passaga at lowest rates. H. DU VERNET, X. W. cor. Glark and Randolohsta. - National Line of Steamships. INOTICE. Te most southerly ronto has alw opted 1hls Compiny, 6 34918, 160 Aad heamanagy, 2dopted by rect) every fortnight. "Cabih rastags, S0, $40; Corroncy : sieersEey & eratly roduced rates. “Heturn tickets at lowest rates. Drafts for £1 .‘m?’ ul?-l’.ml.lso P . 18, LARSON, Westorn Aront, Northeast corner Clark and Ra -588. e ey Chic.lum. andolpb-sis. (opposite nsw GUION LINE. FIRST-OLASS TRON STEAMSHIPS, Beiween NEW YORK and LIVERPOOL, calling ot Queenstown, Carrying the United States Blail SAFETY AND COMFORT. £~ Passengers booked to aud from the principal Eov ropean porta wt lowest rates. rafts ind Lotters of Credit issned on leading Backs and Bankers throughont Earope. HENRY GREENEBAUM & CO., FIFTEI-AV. NEW YORK TO CARDIET. Tho South Walos Atlantic Steamship Uompany's Now First-cinss, Full-powered, Clyde-oolls Stcamships will sail from_Ponusylvania Rallroad Wharf, Jersoy Cits: GLAMORGADN......July 18| PEMBROKE . Augl Carzying goods and passengers at through rates from all pacts of tho United States and Canada to ports in the Eristol Chaunel, and all otker pointa in England. “These asteamaniips, built exprassly for the trade, arepm. vided with all tho litest improvementa for the comfortand coavenience of CABIN AND STEERAGR PASSENGERS. TFirst Cabin, $75 and 820 curroncy, Second Cabis, 85 curroncy, Stoerage, 3% currency. Propaic Steerago certincatos from Cardiffve. Drafts for £1 znd upwi Y. For further particulars, apply In e Com- pans's Officen. No. 1 Dock Cnamborsy and t6 New York to ARCHIBALD BAXTER 0., Agents, No. 17 Broadinay. CARRYING THE UNTTED STATES MAIL. The manificent now and fall-powerod Steam-hips Re~ public, Haltic, Adriatic, Britannic, Oceanic, Celtic, oto., eail from New York on Saturdigs and ‘Liverpool on ALLAN LINE MAIL §TE AMERS i, 0. . 8. C0. Different clssses of prasage between all pacts of Earopy and Amorica. EMIGRANT AND BTEERAGE TRAK FiG ARPEUIALTY, Thro weoldy sailiows. Sopecics ships. Trofzit ronte. - Apply to Beat accommodations, Lowest rates. Shorte. ALLAN £ CO,, Ohf 7 and'7¢ LaSallaat, S W S— RAILROAD TIME TABLE. _ RERIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRATNS, [FXPLARATION OF KEPERENCE MARKS.—1 Satardayse cepted. *Sunday exeepted. : Slonday excepted. | Aze Tive Buadayat840a. m. § Dail. NMICHIGAN CENTRAL & EREAT Deyot, yovt of . Lake st., and Teke ofice, 67 Ciark at., ol WESTERN RAILROADY oot of Tweniypdecond-st. corner of Randolph, and 75 Cavalet., corner of Halison. Leare. | Arrize. Mail (via maip and alr lino), Day Expic Jackson Acc Night Expreas,. C. WENTWORTIL, eral Passenger Agent. CHICATO & ALTON RAILROAN. (Chicago, Kansas City and Denver Shori Line, wia Loulsi anx, MHo., and iga, Springfleld, Altom and SI. Louis Through Line. Depot, West Side, near Hadison.st. bridye. Ticket Ofices - AL Depot, and 123 Nandolphat Kansas City and Denvor Fast Ex. Kusas City Expess t St Loais nd 1 ¢ Louis Fast I Jehersen City £y Feoris, 2, ro Keoxuk & Burlinzton. & Paducah Railroad £ - Lacon, Washiagton I Diwizht Aceommodation, CHIPATD, MILWAUKEE & Sf. PAUL RAILWAY. Cron Lieyot, corner Nadison und Canaiests,” Jicket Offe 6 Soutl, Claricstuy opposite Sherman House, and at Depsb. Arrue, L |*1 W8 Milwaukee, Point, 5i. Paul & Minoeapolis, Dar Expres: * iy, & du. “Chi *4:00p. o Milwaukee, Greon 2 Pont, Praino Sorthera leas Mail. * 7:50p. m. Milwaukee, St, Paul & Sfigheap. alis, Night Expross... .1t 9:300.m.[¢ 6:45 2. m. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAT. Depot footaf Lakest. and.Joot o] Ticntysecmdst. Tioket ace, 121 Fandolpist., near Ciark, Arrize, £t. Louls Exp D. m. St. Vouis Fast Ligc,.. 3. Crirok Now Urleans i 20 p, ma Cairo& New Orleans E 7:30 &, . Peorts & Ke kux K 8:30p. m. Dubuquo & Sioux Gity i $30p. me Dubuase & Stouz Cky Kz.. 7:00 5. m. (a) Giliman Patzenger. Y20, m. ") Htuns to Coampalgn on Saturdars. CHICAGD. BURLINGTON & UUINCY RATLRANY. Deputs—iont o Luke st.. indiann-ae., and S.otomth-oh, ‘and Canal and Slzteenth-ats, Iicket ofices, No. 53 Clark at., Evand Pacific Hotel, and at depots. Zean Arrice, p. m. Dubugae & Sivaz Gity Exp..en Line, fof UnABa, Pacinc £, Kansas City, Leavonwo ‘chison & St. Joseph p.mn Texas Express. am Aurora Pasies; 5D, 2 & m. Mendote, Ottawa & Sireator Pas|s 420 p. m. Zm Auryra Basscager., # : L ‘Aurora Passeager (Sagday) alml Dubuqae & SiouxCity Exp. alm Pacitic-Night Fxp, for Om am Kansas City, Loavenworth, AL| Cliison & St Joseph Ezp...... 040 p. ra. a.m. Accomnindation| 11:00a. m. p.m. ccommodation|® 1:45 3. ia. pLmo ccommodation|® 6:1 p. am “Ex. Suadays. 1Ex. Saturday. 3Ex. donday CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD. n:sengor.. a=Depot comer of Wells and Kials st S t Canal K -At. O O . STENNETT Gen. Pass. Adfat. CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILROAD. Devot, corner of VanLiuren and Sherisn.ats, 2icke! ofica,’ rand Hiotel | Lease, Omabs, Lesvenw'th&Atchison Exi Peru Accommodation... 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