Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 3, 1876, Page 8

8 THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. infamous les which were thrown out to blind as Chief of Detectives, with the title of «g,. THE CITY. GENERAL NEWS. “The arrangements for the purchase of the Ina rere finally completed yesterday, and she is 3ow a Chicago vessel. Charley Rehm, ex-chief of the detectives, has becn promised the position of bailiff in the Bheriff's office at §100 per month. Trx TRIBUNE was in error Jast Sunday mora- ing when it stated that Thomas Furlong was among the “first batch * of whiskyites. His name nowhere appears in the Court records. Mr. John McIntyre, & blacksmith by'mde. was found dead in the town of Burdick, g ;he State of Indians, on the 24th of August. He has a wife and seven children residing in this city at 575South Union strect. The Episcopal cle resume their Monda meetings at Su: Ch|’;‘:rr§:‘bzmk}smxfj '.s"mlxgs‘i,:)‘l“l‘olcs' to-orrow. The question for discussior O the Meaning of Cburch Unity?? Canon Knowles presides. The temperature yesterday, a8 obgerved l35 Manasse, optician, Madison street, TRIBUNE Building, was 2t § a. m., 59 degrees; 10 2. m., 65: 12 m., 67; 3p. m., 69; § p. m., 65. Barome- ter, § a. m., 30:12; 1 p. m., 30:54. There is on_exhibition at _the Church book- stcree:evcr; fine portrait of Bishop Whitehouse. 1t is £aid by competent critics to be not only Leautifully executed, buta most perfect like- ness. It is hoped to secure it forthe Cathedral. The Brewers' Association met Saturday, the 96th ult., and passed resolutions of sympathy regarding the death of one of their members, Mr. Francie Bing, and ordered the President and Secretary of the Association to forward a opy'to the widow of the deceased. The Woman's Aid Association during the monthof August found employment for 125 girls in families and business places in the city, and are ready to luyply all calls for help from their rooms fl the Y. M. C. A. Building, No. 10 ‘Arcade court, daily, to all that may apply. It is pleasing to note the very gemcral evi- dences of a renewal of trade. Yesterday after- noon at a State street store the clerks were kept busy without an intermission from noon till dusk, and nearly $200,000 worth of fashionable dry-goods were turned over by female custom- ers who promised to look in again. i John Christ, aged 9 years, was run over and seriously bruised about the legs while attempt- ing o Jimb upon a farmer’s wagon' nedr the corner of Wells and Eugenie streets at 2 o'clock vesterday afternoon. The bogedwu taken.to his parents’ residence, No. 551 Sedgwick street, and was attended by Dr. MciWVilliame. A clever young man who was a little long on No. 2 last winter at an inopportune time had to wear his winter clothing all summer, but in- geniously contrived to make his friends, especial- Ty those of the female sex, respect and even ad- Jhire him by giving out 3hat he was a poet and wearing a big military cloak and a sardonic suile. A fond mother on Leavitt street gave her son 5 cents yesterday and he went off and invested the suni in chewing-gum. His mother does not liketo see him chew, and, on his return, or- dered him to take the nasty stuff out of his mouth and throw it away. * Why, ma,” he said in surprise; * surely you wounldn't have me waste 5 cents, would you?” Up in Milwaukee they don’t say that a man stands so many feet and inches in his stocking- feet, but so many feet and inches with his cars down. When one of the residents throwsa somersault he at the critical moment resembles a schooner-vacht with her centre-board down and two bottom topsails,—the centre-board, of course, being represented by his ears and the topsails by liis feet. The Committee on Prices of the Coal Ex- change beld a meeting yesterday morning, but accomplisbed nothingz. Robert Law and a few others were in favor of & reduction of prices, but the preposition met with considerable oppo- sition.. c Committee then adjourned, and the subject will come up before a spevial meet- ing of the Exchange Wednesday morning. No Imceting was held yesterday afternoon. A gane of roughs, said to be strangers to the Compuny's employes, assembled at the Rock Teland shops yesterday momiu§ and tried to imidate the new men engaged in the retring firemen's places. No personal violence was at- ipted. nor will any be tolerated by the Com- puny’s employes, who are determined to resent auy such attempt in kind. The strike has uot inany way interfered with the working of the road. The following report was presented _to the Board of Maragers of the Hannemann Hospital 8t 1ts monthly meeting vesterday. The num- bier of prescriptions madé in the Dispensary for the mouth of August was: In Dr. Hawk’s de- partment (medical), 164; Dr, Hall’s (surgical and discases of children), 311; Dr. Hoyne's and venereal diseases), 90: Dr. R. Lud- (discascs of women), 240; Dr. Vilas’ (dis- eases of the cye and ear), 10. Total, 775. The Coroner yesterday concluded_the inquest upon the remains of Mies Tilly M. Mollan, who wes Zound in the lake at the joot of Harrison strect Friday morning. The evidence failed to throw the least ({):\rzide of light upon the cause of her death, and the jury were forced to bring in 2 verdict simply ststing the finding of the Ludy, adding thet she came to her death on or ahout the 25th day of August, but that how she got intu the water could not be determined. Eugenia—You say that Aleernon is a perfect duck of afellow aud always insists upon walk- ing down Adams street *‘because it i3 more se- .ciuded and he can better breathe into your ear thie langusge of passionate admiration.” Don't Ict him fool you. He is pla; g sou for a sucker, ond trving to keep you off Madison street where tbe refreshment saloons are. Try him and tell bim he can’t fool his uncle—his aunt, that is. ,\!:etuu! confidence is the real basis of love and esteem. Mr. Bernard G. Callaghan, who was appoint- ed South Town Collector after the ways that are durk which resulted in Mike Evans’ elec- tion were discovered, states that Judge McAl- lister's decision will undoubtedly be appealed to the Supreme Court. This. however, is not Lecause he cares about the office, but” because the Citizens’ Association, Who conducted the recent case, desire to defest the bummer and ballot-stufliing element by kecping Callaghan in oflice. Dr. R. Ludlam gave a very pleasant party to his colleaguc, DrON. Dorion, at his rcgldc’n'ce, 52 Wabash avenue, last. evening. Dr. Dorion leaves town Monday for Paris, where he will pend a year in bospital study. All th homeopathic physicians in the ci vresent, among whom were Drs. A. E. D. S. Smith, Henry Small, I S. P. Lord, N. F. Cuoke, Grosvenor, Hoyne, Cole, Hall, E. M. P. Luclam, Vilas, Duncan, Burt, Pomeoroy, Hawlkes, Gilman, Colton, Miessler, and several medical students. Dr. E. M. Hale sailed yesterday for Europe, Small, from New York, where lie goes i _the interests of the Chicago Homeopathic: College. While there be will procurd material to better illus- s cliair in that institution. He goes first Paris to visit the great hospitals, and to place danghiter under the best teachers of music anguages. From Paris he will go to Great Britain to visit the medical centres, and expects to return in time to fill his chair in the college the coming winter. Orders issued by the commanding officer of thic First Regiment state that the summer va- cations terminate with the present week. On and after to-morrow the several companies will assemble for drill and other duty in conformity with existing orders. The discussion of national olitice is prohibited within the Armory. This ast order is issued in order that harmony among the members may be preserved during the campaign, aud that the regiment may pre- serve its ueutral character of a State military erganization. A counterfcit §10 note on the Lafayette, Ind., National Bank has been put in circulation in this city dnrln{:hthe last week. The general ap- ELlflranuc of the note is fair, the scroll-work cing unusually well done, but the shading of tle lctters is crude aud irrezular. The engrav- iz on the back is indistinct, the figures looking rather fla, and the *‘feather” of one of the In- dians in the centre is some distance from the top of hishead. The sigmatures of the officers _arce printed on the note from the plate, and not written. Some of the notes are numbered 165,167, but there are undoubtedly other num- bers, since counterfeiters do not usually put the szne number on over three or four hundred notes. A young man on Aberdeen street is enamored of the daughter of 2well-to-do resident on Park avenue, who 18 a rabid advocate of tem- perance. So is each member of the family. The other night the young man went up to tea with lus prospective famiy-in-law and was abstract- edly stepping on his Dulcinea’s toes and steal- {pgr glances at ber, when he was surprised trom li¢ reverie by bearing the old lady say: ‘Mr. ‘Thomas, some sugar in yours 2 *‘Yes, ma’am,” ne replied rousing himself from his abstracted- ness; ‘‘but not so much Augostora as there thelast.” The family all wondered what Le meant, but he convins them that Angos- gx‘d‘? was French for milk,—at least he hopes he A niee question in bar-room law and ethics is at present being discussed fn this city. Itisas !nlrows: If A bets B the drinks for the house on any contingency and wins, how many drinks shall B be compelied to h R for, those for the persons present when the wageris made, or those forall who muy come in before all the drivks are served up? It is a very important question, for if there are, say, ten people in the house when the bet s decided, and some of them take mixed beverages, it is pretty certain that before these are all scrved otliers may come in, and if they are included still others be- fore the barkecper has done with them, and so on ad infinitum. Both sides of the question have been argued with much ability and earnest- ness, but no decision has been reached, and it is proposed to submit the subject to a conven- tion. A éurprise was tendered Miss Hattie E. Els- ton, No. 1 Cypress street, by her friends last Monday evening, it being her 15th birthday. Singing, daucing, games, and refreshments were the features of the evening, and after speudin, a very enjoyable time the company dispersed. Among those present were the Misses Mary, Maggie, and Jennie Ainslie, Misses Lizzie an Emily Pond, Miss Eilia Wilkinson, Miss_Alice Langston, Miss Nellie Hanscom, Miss Jennie Wynkoop, Misses Ida and Ella Brown, Miss Lizzie McSellen, Miss Libbie Jarvis, Miss Mary Webber, Miss Francis Kerr, Miss Sarah Pratt of Rhode Island, Mrs. Alfred Elston, Mr, Arthor Walters, Mrs. B. F. Troxell, Mrs. ynkoop, ;";X‘rs. John Hanscom, Mrs. Alfred Watte, Mrs. G. Bear, Mrs. Charles Kelley, Messrs. Thomas B. Brown, John Hanscum, Alfred Elston, John W. Langston. A sad occurrence is reported from Lemont. | Mr. Perkins A. Hollenbeach, a vererable gen- tleman of unimpeachable character, is a con- firmed Democrat 2nd a warm partisan of ‘lden and Hendricks, He reads with assiduity all the campaign docuiments of the party, and gives his adherence to them. His mind has unfortu- nately given way, and he has been removed for safekceping to one of the State institutions for the keeping of the insane. His first evidence of an unbalanced mind was given shortly after the St. Louis Conventfon, when he was observed to make strenuous efforts ‘to get his big toe into his mouth and swallow himself, muttering from time to time incoherently, ““ Hard and soft! Hardand soft!” Little attention was paid to this, as it was hoped and believed that the Letter of Acceptance would effect 3 cure. Un- happily these_snticipations were doomed not to berealized. While reading them a gleam of semi- intelligence scemed momentarily to illume Mr. Hollenbeach's features, but at their conclusion he sighed deeply and lapsed into a stupor, where he remains, taking no note of outward things, but from time to time muttering: ¢ Usufruct! Usufruct ? The physicians say that his case is hopeless. LAST MONTH'S FIRES. The following exhibits the runs responded to by the Department and_Fire Insurance Patrol, the corrected loss and that cevered by. in- surance; also, the amount of insurance involv- ed, the classification of buildings and oceupa- tion thereof, and the origin of fires asdeveloped by investigation, for the month ending Aug. 31, 1576: Alarms, 81; stills, 8; loss, $19,610; cover- ed by insurance, $16,580; insurance involved, $116,100—including $10,000 loss and $30,000 in- surance on packing-house at Union Stock- Yards; frame builkings, 2¢; brick, 8; occupied as residences, 18; barns, 8: packing-houses, 3; dry-goods _stores, 2; grocery stores, 25 and 1 each, planing-mill, varnish factory, brass foun- dry, notion store, furniture store, salocn, wood- molding factory, rosin factory, and vessel. Orig- inating from ecareless ignition of escaping gas, 15 carelessness with kerosene lamps, 65 malicious- ness, 1; spark from smoke-stack fallmg on shingle roof, 2; children playing witi matches, 1; burning out of chimney, 3; upsetting lamp, 2; paper lantern attached to kite falling on shingle roof, 1; boiling vver of kettle of tar,1; overheated iurnace, 1; ignition of wondworkin boiler recom, 1; ignition of joists penetrating chimney,2; incendiarism,3; spark fallicg among shavings, 2; smoking in Darns, 2; overheated de- fective chimney, 2; woodwork exposed, 15 spon- taneous combustion, 1; rekindling of swolder- ing fire, 1; false alarms, 5. Total, 3). DECIDEDLY TOO LAUGHABLE. Tht fallowing reached Tur TRIBUNE office yesterday: Don't people have their **lasts™ made to order when they 2o to the family shoemaker and order another pair of those 1338 ? 1f youshould by chance see a St. Louisan in the street with breeches qn that are foo short for him, thereby exposing his big feet, it might be a good idea to inform the gent from *‘the other end of the bridge™ to put some suzar 1n his shoes and see if that won't coax the pant-legs down over the instep of his No. 11'e. [Mr. Editor, if these items are not too langhahie, they might be publisied among the city newsin Sunday's TRISUNE. The name of the signer is mercifully sup- pressed. * ST. LOUIS WATER ON TAP. A gentleman from St. Louis put up at the Palmer yesterday, and rang for a pitcher of ice- water. It was conveyed to him, but a moment Jater he rang the bell for the clerk, and said: Mister, what is that?” pointing at the same time to the fiuid, clear as crystal, sparkling in the glass, the outer surfice of whish was be- dewed with semi-transparent evidence of cool- pess. *“That, sir,” replied the clerk, *is water brought by a tunnel from a point 5 miles out in Lake Michigan.”” **I guess not, mister,” replied the intcllizent guest, “for I was through the tunnel mysclf once, and it is as dry as a bope. Is it good to drink?’ = The clerk said that be couldn’t spesk from personal experience, but he had heard aman say that oncetook someafter some whisky that it wasn’t bad. **Well,” said the St. Louisas, “I'm ufeard it mayn’t be healthy. 'Tain’t like the water we have down to St. Louis.” The clerk said he would send him up some St. Louis water, which they alwavs kept on draft for visitors, and sent a_bell'boy to sweep nip the floor of the oftice. He put a shovelful of dust into o pitcher of ice-water, stirred it up well, and sent it up to the guest. Wien the guest next saw the clerk, he shook him by the hand warmly, and _invited him to take a bottle of wine. Said he: “Stranger, this is & mighty good hotel. That St. Louis water is the best thing I have tasted foraweek. After it had settled and I saw the mud in the bottom of the tumbler 2 inches thick, you can’t imagine bowit. made me think of home.” . THE ECONOMT OF MATRIMONT. Now that oysters have come in, 2 young man whose salary a8 adry goods clerkis not alto- gether in mfigrfion to the requirements of his business thinks pretty seriously of getting mar- ried. **You see,’ he said frankly toa friend the other evening, ‘it is just & question of econo- my." 4 Yes,” replied his fried, I have heard it said that married lifeis much cheaper than single existence.” ‘It stands to reason that it must_be,” replied the young man, ‘for I've been fguring 1t ulp and I'vegot it downtoa fine point. . Now 1 don’t mind much beivg en- gaged to a girl in summer time, and taking bher out to have something of evenings. You see she’s got to drink soda-water and she can’t hold more’n two glasses of that, and as she always bas plenty of sirupinit it sort of sickens her and takes away her appetite, so_that she don’t usually Eet away with more’'n 10 or 15 cents’ worth of cake. “Strawberrles ars very chesp on the whole, if you pretend when they first come in that you have to stop down at the storeat night to work, and I don’t mind much being en- gaged in hot weather. But when oysters come in, I tell you it is fearful, and my pocket-hook looks as if an clephant had sat doirn on it every time I take Corintha out to supper. Why, she can get away with a pan-roast, a dozen raw, astew, and a fry to follow, every-time, just as easy, and you can’t focl her with canned oys- ters neither. Now, you see, if we were married, T'd save all that, because a fellow hasn’t got to take his wife out to treat her,—it’s her business to stoy at home and economize, so I think there's money in it.” AREVOLUTION IN SHOPPING. A new fdca has occurred to the m er of one of the largest dry-goods houses of this city, and he will shortly procced to put it in practice. He proposes to license customers to examine the gaods in the store on payment of a small fee. When ladics enter the door they will be met by a page, who will say: * Did_you wish to buy, madam, or only to shop?” If the reply is, “To buy,” the customer will be cscorted to the de- };;\fl.menl she sclects, and the article she asks for'will be shown ler, but nothing else. If she saye, © To shop,” she will have to bay a ticket Misses Brown, Jones, Smith & Co. Good for one Shopping. The Bearer is entitled to Tirn Over all the Goods in This Store. 7~ Not Transferable. Good for This Day and Store Only. : - 1578, These tickets will be sold in packages at re- duced rates, and arrangements will also be made to accommodate people who desire to commute by the month, quarter, or year. It is belicved that there are millions in this idea, and the saving to the temper of the clerks and pru&rletors cannot be measured by, dollars and cents. THE CONTRIBUTOR’S MISTAKE. A young man came into THE TRIBUNE office last nicht and asked to see the editor. His humble prayer was granted, and, blushing bash- fully, be drew some manuscript from his pocket and s:.x.h:i ‘I should like to have this inserted in your valnable Sunday edition.” The editor glanced at it a moment and replied, * That’s all Tight, though it is rather long.” Thke young man’s eyes danced with joy as he said, **An your usual rates for such matter are—#" 0, fl) cents aline.” < Ah, and what shall I do®? 0, just take it down to the business officcand 82y you saw me and it was all right.”’ The young man went down stairs and took hie placein the long line of people who were patiently an’ opportunity tw get in ad~ vertisements for publication in the most, ctc., ete. About three hours later he reached the counter and handed in to the clerk liis precious manuscript. The clerk glanced it, and after a hurried computation *Thig'll be $25.60. One insertion?” « Well, poney up.” % Noj; you poneyup.” I guess not, sonny.” “0, yes; I've bren up stairs and she’s all 0. K. "¢ Well, you'd bet- ter go up stairs again.”? He did, and said to the editor; “ I've been down to the counting- room_and they said it would be $25.60.” Well,"” said the editor, * I guessed there .was about sixty lines in it.” ¢ But they wouldn’t give me the money; they wanted ‘me to pay THEM.” ¢ Well, and why shouldn’t they? You don’t expect us to advertise a funeral notice for you and pay you for putting it in, too, do you?? ¢ Funeral notice be jizzered ! shrieked the contributor; “ that was a comic pocm, and 1 thought you accepted it and sent me down to the cashier to get 40 cents a line for it.” After some argument and kindly expostulation, the young man was induced to recomnize the ex- ceeding crror of his position, and he departed aiter asking the way to the Evening Journal office. Y » THE KIND FATOER’S STRATAGEM. Not loug agzo, on Robey strect, near Van Buren, a kind father began to entertain sus- piclons that his first-born, & boy of 13, was play- ing him for a sucker and getting out of the back window at nights to go and play draw-poker with beans (tcn beans for a cent, two besns ante and five limit, and no straddle) in 2 barn up onHoyne street. Accordingly, the old man Inid a trap for that boy. He estimated what that boy weighed, measured the length and height of the roof of the back-extension just under the boy’s window, calculated tbe angle, and then worked out by algebra the following problem: ** If the roof o an outhouse 12 feet high at the eaves, and forming an angle of 40 degrees with the eavespout be 13 feet long, how far out from the base of that outhouse must atubof water be placed in order that a boy, weighing 103 pounds, stepping upon that roof from his bed-room window, shall fall into it?’ That was the problem. To work it out let X represent the roof and Y the boy; then whereis Z, the tub of water? This is very simple, and all that readers of Toe Sunpay TRIEUNE have ‘todo is to work it out by simple fluxionsand quadratic cquations. Anyhow, the old man found out the answer, and posted the tub on the spot indicated; then, mot to destroy the equality of the terms of the equation, he just greased the roof of the out-ouse. He asked his son to go with him “that night and spend the _evening with his Uncle Peter, but the youth declined, saying, * No, father; I would sooner stay at home and go to bed so that I can get up early to-morrow and study my Greekt because school meets mext week.” The old man went away contentedly, and when he came home with lis wife about 11:30 and saw a lot of strips, 2s of the scat of a famitiar pair of* gray trousers, waving in the night breeze from the splinters on that exten- sion roof, and beheld a wet space about 17 feet across round that tub as if something had fallen in and splashed the water all round, be simply smiled. * Next morning his son came down to breakfast in = pair of black trousers and told his mother that the mosquitoes had bitten great holes in the_seat of lis gray ones the night before, and added that, if they’d just as soon, he’d eat his meals standing off of the mantel-bicce for awhile. Many parents would haye punished that boy, but” this kind father made Lis wife rcgrcss her astonishment, said the mosquitoes had, indeed, been very troublesome, asked his sonif the sliding was good tiat summer, aud how the swimming was in the back-yard, and altogether so impressed the youth that you couldn’t get him to go out and play draw at night if you guaranteed him four aces or a straight flush every time. MAURICE STRAKOSCH AND THE NEW CHICAGO MUSIC-HALL. There is an aflinity between dry goods and music. After the entry of the silk dress comes theplano. The exquisite fabrics of the looms of Lyons are never displayed togood advantage unless at the concert or the opera. The announcement that the great dry-goods house of A.T. Stewart & Co. had coucluded to move their jobbing business to Chicago has brought forth ita musical complement, just as naturally as the icy bands of winter disappear in the spring, and are followed by tke song of the robin. The prince of impressarios, Maurice Strakosch, recognizing the etcrnal fitness of things, has come to the conclusion that Chicago is a good place tomake an investment. He is now ne- gotiating for a sit¢ whereon to build an im- Tense concert-hall, which can be used for opera, concerts, or musical festivals. Maurice is en- thusiastic and full of what the French call em- pressement. Last evening a TRIBONE reporter called on the great operatic mauager at the Pacific Hotel, where he arrived Friday from San Francisco. The Knight of the Faber found him surrounded by agroup of distinguished foreigners, whom lie afterwards learned were the French Ambas- sador to Japan and his suite. They are en route for Paris, having been recalled on account of the complications now raging in European politics. MAURICE STRAKOSCH, the brother-in-law of the ‘“divine Patti,” and the brother of Max, whose features are familiar to all opera-house habitues in every city in the United States, is a gentleman of about 50or 52 years, tall of stature and well built. -A short, thiclk, dark-colored mustache gives him & semi- military air. Iis face is round, full, and ex- ressive of 2 man whois on good terms with imse!f and 2ll the world. Iie wears a plain traveling suit cut in 2 mild English style. In manner hie possesses to a remarkable degree that savoir faire which is only attaiuable alter years of hard work in reconciling jealous prima donnas and kecping the peace between refrac- tory tenors. “ Good eveaing, Mr. Strakosch,” said the in- terrogation point, as he presented his card. “ I'am very bhappy of the honor; what can I do for you?' “Tuk TRIBUNE has heard that you contem- plate erecting here a large opera-house or con- cert-hall, and would be pleased to know if there be any foundation for the rumor.” ¢ Yes, sir, I can assure you it is a fact. Chi- cago is a great city. There are ONLY THREE CITIES IN AMZRICA,— Chicago, San Francisco, and New York. Iam going to build an opera-house in San Francisco ‘which will cost §1,000,000.” i+ How far have your negotiations proceeded for the purchase of 2 lot in this cjty?’ “I have talked with several gentlemen to- day, and have looked at several pieces of prop- erty. There is one piece, in particular, which I would like to obtamn. I shall probably dlose for it in the course of two or three days.” *¢What style of a building do you propose to putupi” - “ A large concert-hall, such as they have in Burmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and Lon- don. Ipropose to build ono which will hold about 4,000 or 5,000 people, with stage accom- modations for 500 persons, so that it can be uscd for musical festivals.”” “Do vou contemplate having the stage so arranged that you can give operatic representa- tions$” “Certainly, but that feature is a subject for after-consideration. The opera is an exoticin this country; it is very expensive, and——excuse me a moment,” as a telegraph boy handed him a yellow ecnvelope, **this may rcquire an answer.” * The operatic diplomat for a moment became immersed -in visious of wealth as he read the waiting | eir dispateh, which he stated was from Max, wish- ing to know if he could announce Belocea for an appearance in Philadelphia on the 11th. “ You have not heard BELOCCA?”! 4 continued the genial impressario. The reporter confessed that he had not en- joyed the honor. WO, she is a great artist. At her benefit in 8an Francisco she received $5,800. It wasan ovation. The people were infatuated with her. There are only three great artists in the world— Patti, Nilsson, and Belocea. But you shall hear the great Belocea. She will sing here this sca- son. Iam going to build a concert-hall here which will rival the great La Scala of Milan. Chi- cago is a fine city, & great city, and it has no concert-hall, and its theatres’zre not suitable for the production of opera.”’ ¢ What are the prospects of a season of opera this winter?”? “‘The opera is an exotic in this country and very expensive,”” and Maurice shrugzed his shoulders as he thought of the Albani season. “I intend to give a few concerts Lere early in the season, and it muy be that later I may give 2 short season of opera.’? *Wnen do you expect tions on the concert-hall ¢ “ Probably within thirty days. I expect to close negotiations in the course of three or four days. Times are going to be good in this coun- try. There will be a general war in Europe. My friend, the Count de Rochechavert, the French Minister to Japan, is now_en route for Paris, whither he was recalled on ac- count of the political complications growing out of the Eastern question. There will be higher prices here for grain. But you must come and sce me again.” ) And the maestro touched his hat as he moved off to join the French gentlemen who stood ‘Wwaiting near by. to commence opera- h e = GAS. THE SOUTH SIDE COMPANY’S PROPOSITION. The Times of yesterday ksd an editorial in which, taking to task the nmJ time-table of the Chicago Gaslight and Coke Compeny, it dis- covéred that the average number of hours per month during which tac gas is lit is 190.01 from the 8lst of August to the Slst of December. Taking this as the average per month for a year, it figures out 2,280.12 hours for the whole year, and at the rateof 3 cubic feet of gas per hour each lamp would con- sume 6,540 cubic feet of gus ina year. At the rate of ‘$21 per lamp, according to the new proposition, {t then figures up the cost at $3.07 per 1,000 cubic feet, and concludes that the new &rlopcsluou isn’t such a very. liberal one after A TRIBUNE reporter called at the office of the Chicago Gauslight and Coke Company, but Mr. ‘Watkins was out of town. He saw another oficer of the Company, however, who admitted that $3.07 would be the cost ver cubic foot, but he stated, also, that this would cover the cost of lighting and cleaning, thawing and repairing—in short, everythini. The cost for all this lubor is, under the present contract, additional to the cost of gas cou- sumed, while, under the new contract, it would all be included in the §21 per post.. Thegentle- man also stated that he could not tell exactly what it cost to clean, I'ght, and keep each lamp in repair under the present contract, without =oing over his books, but he supposed that under the new contract this cost would be in the neighborhood of $10 per lamp per year. The reporter then ascertalned, from the Cnm?lwller’s oftice, that Yhe average cost of lighting, cleaning, thawing, and rc;miring lamps during the year 1875 was $31,557.84, or onan average of ‘SG.44 per lamp, considerably less than what the gentleman estimated would be the cost of performing the same labor under the new contract. There does not appear any ade- quate reason for so great a difference. Labor is cheaper, and, as the number of lamps increases, the cost of keeping each lamp in repair.chould grow proportionally less. But, assuming that $06.44 should reoresent the actual cost of lighting, ete., the diffcrence between $21 per post and $6.44 gives the real cost of gas per lamp per year—or the cost of the 6,840 cubic feet con- sumed. This would make the price of gas $2.12.8 per thousand—which is, to say the least, several cents less than $3.07 According to these calculations, the Gas Company would be getting $2.12 per thousand for its gas, were it not for the fact that one element has hitherto been left out of the caleu- lation. Under the new time-table it is pro- vided that on certain- nights the gas shall not be lighted unless it be cloudy. Between the 1st of August and the 31st of December there are thirty such days. If they were all cloudiess no gas would be burned and the fizure $2.12would remain unchanged. If these should all be cloudy, however, the Gas Company would have to furnieh an additional amount of gas, mak- ing the consumption greater than 6,540 feet per lamp per year, and the cost price of their gas would consequently be diminished. Toere are sixty days in the year for which it is pro- vided that the gas shall not Dbe burn- ed unless it be clouéy. Assuming that it is cloudy on thirty of them, and that the gas is lowered ~ for about six hours on each of those nights, the consumption per lamp per year would be inercased by “abuut 540 cubic feet, which merease would lower the price of gas per thousand to a shadow below $2. ‘There are at present 5,131 on the North and South Sides, and the Company’s bills would amount to $105,171. Last ycar's bills for a smaller number of lamps was $260,044.86. A. T. STEWART & CO. AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ACTIVE PARTNER IN THE FIRM. The fact that Mr. William Libbey, & partner in the housc of A. T. Stewart & Co., was at the +Palmer House was suflicient. reason why a TRIBUNE reporter should make a call upon him last evening to ascertain what he might have to communicate concerning the establishment in this city of a branch of the greatest drx-goods house in this country. To Mr. Libbey, scated comfortably tn one of the Palmer parlors, the reporter said: “Do you expect, sir, to have your quarters here prepared in time for the fall trade?” “If everthing goes well, we should be ready to open about the middle of this month—in 3 to know that we are in Chicago this seuson ¢ Are your quarters such as to suit you? “ They arc admirable; we could bardly ask for better accommodations.” ‘Do you bring your employes with you, or will they be from this city??’ “ We shall bring our heads of departments, say three from each, from New York; they are men who have grown up, many of them, from boys in our cmploy; they have thoroughly' Jearned our way of doing business, aud can car- ry out our idess and plans as no other men could, however able thcj' may be, if without the drill these men have bad. Each of our depart- ments will have, say, three men now in' our em- ploy at its head. The first of these is likely to be called to Europe occasionaily when- the sec- ond will assume control, and in case of his ab- sencethe third. The remainder of the force,—the salesmen, porters, and, in fact, all the employes except those I have mentioned, will be engaged in Chicago. It is our object to make,the people of Chicago undurstand ‘that we are with them and of them; and we shall do all in our power to show them that such is the case.” ¢ Speaking of departments, how many do you propose to make,—that is, how widely does your business extend? “We have seventeen departments in our New York establishment.” *Do you intend tofollow the custom of send- ln% out druminers?’” “Not largely; it has always been our aim to do our business by the aid of Jow prices; our principle has always been to buy of the best, and generally the largest, manufacturers, in large lots and at the lowest price for cash; we thus make the goods, whatcver they may be, cost us less thun any one else, and then we sell them as low as we can afford to. That has been the rule on which our business has alwuys been carried on.” “The question of time has entered into the competition between New York and the inland cities, has it not?” “Perhaps 50; but as business is now carried on few merchants who can pay 100 cents on the dollar, and intend to do so, can afford to ask for long credits. Money can be had in the great ceutres at a very small interest, and when it is considered that the jobbing merchart invariably discounts 1 per cent per month. or 12 per cent per year, it 15 clear that it is the greatest econo- my for the merchant to save that interest, or as much as possible of it, by borrowing at afar luwslr x;;ne of interest and payng cash for his oods. = After some other inquiries of less interest the reporter withdrew. EXCITING BCENES AT WILDER'S ‘MY BLOCK.” To the Editor of The Tribune. CmicAGo, Sept. 2.—The news that the world- renowned dry goods house of the greatest mer- chant, in his line, in America, A. T. Stewart, was about opening a branch establishment in Chicago, created more than a ripple on the sea of business. The original proprietor, ‘ being dead, yet liveth in his successors and former associates in actual life, and his spirit of enter- prise and far-reaching policy will be perpetu- ated for a decade or =0 at any rate. Mr. William Libbey, who has for yvears been the active head of the New York house, and the real manager of the present great emtervrise, has shown himself as shrewd an operator as his great prototype and associate, the defunct mill- 1onaire; and particularly 5o in this establi ment ot their greativholesale business in Chi- cago. The firm is not coming here with the de- sire or expectation of running our old-estab- lished houses off the track, by any means; they only come to compete with them for their share of the great Northwestern trade. Several of the experts from the New York house have been here for the past week looking over the vast premiscs, already leased, ani making suggestions as to alterations and im- provements of the premises. Mr. John T. Rob- nson, one of the Superintendents, has made many additions to the machinery for handling {mmense quantities of goods in the shortest and easiest manner. Mr. Jobn Anderson, for ten years connected with their shipping de- partment, is_also here, and on active duty at the Wilder Block. He has had a long experi- ence in this department. Mr. Sabin K. Swmith is to be the mansger of the Chicago business, and he is admirably fitted for the post from his long experience and his Connecticut shrewdness, while he is a most pleasant and affable gentlemau. T'he scenes at_the Wilder Block for the past ten days would make the foundation for a comedy, were not some of them of a rather sol- emn character. ~The rush for ~em- ployment is truly wonderful, and if there were any skeptics as to the stringency of the times, a short stay at * My Block *’ wonld do away with the unbelief. From the hour of opening the doors to let the army of mechanies in to their reform work, crowds of the unem- ployed rush into the building, accosting every ©one they meet with the eager query: Can you tell me is Mr. Smith here? * Please point out Mr. Smith,” ctc., etc. Now and then some old-fashioned Dimmycrat, who keeps on yoting for * Andy dJackson, be jabers!” rushes up to the usher, and cricsout: ““I'd like to see Mr. Stewart. Plase, is he to be seen, sur?’ But there is 1o end to the army of applicants. Boys looldnE for clerkships; “draymen wanting to baul the goods; old, gray-heired men of fami- lies come by the score, from day to @ay, asking, | | among the property-holders was as to the re- beaging for employment, well knowing from the traditionary rccnrd of the great Louse that em- ployment with them is no sinccures that they wilf richly earn every farthing they will ever re- ceive at the paymaster’s desks. 2 One spare, melancholy-looking man with gray hair and attenuated face and limbs, called the other day and told a bystander a wolul story of his having become imypoverished by indorsing a friend’s note in New York. * He cculd not see his two little babies suffering for food ::’ml clothing, and he must have somcthing todo.’ Others stand around with a pile of recom- mendations in their hands, ready for present- ation to the “great mogul.” I heard many such remarks as' these, as Mr. Llhbey‘ Pused through this anxious, waiting crowd: Is he not afine-looking man?” “I tell you helooks like a mighty smart man!” * Any one can see that he is a born merchant ! The simple truth is that the %;m.lemm in question is a tall, Elensuno-hced individual, very neatly, yet modestly clad, and, with_more the appearance of a Presbyterian dominie than of | a millionaire _dry-goods man; but ',ll_en{ he represents 2 house with a business capftai i £30,000,000, and that would give tonme, and beauty, and majesty to any human, deformed, | disfigured though he may ‘be. If any philoso- pher would study the magic influence of wealth, would obscrve how swift mankind generally are to “ crook the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift might follow fawning," let him look at poor human nature from the standpoint of the piazza of *my block.” CAPT. SAN. HALSTED STREET. FIGURING FOR A RAILROAD TRACK. About a year ago an application was made to the Secretary of State under the State incorpo- ration law for the formation of a company to construct in this city a certain street- railway, runnning from the foot of Lake strect west to Desplaines, south on Des- plaines to Harrison, west on Harrison to Hal- sted, and south on Halsted to the Stock-Yards. The name was to be the Chicago & Southwest- ern Horse Railway Company, and upon the in- corporators presenting the necessary evidence of capital, etc., the Coinpany was incorporated with C. M. Brennan as President. At the time of the organization and since, very little has been heard of the Company for some reason or auother, but last evening & meeting of the prop- erty-holders along the southern portion of the proposed line was Dleld at the corner of = Thirty-cighth and Halsted streets which was largely attended. The object of the meeting was to further the interests of the proposed improvement. Robert Hawkins was called to the chair, aud C. F. Kel- lay acted as Secretary. The Chairman stated the object of the meet- ing tersely, and introduced R. C. KENNEY to more fully make known the %Irposes and promises of the new Company. He said it de- manded nothiog at the hands of the property- owners except their good will; that it proposed to go to work and pave the street from Archer avenue to the Stock-Yards, from curb to curb, without any cost to the citizens along the line; that it further probosed tobuild the sewers and walt the city’s convenience for reimburgement, and to guarantce the completion of the work from the Stock-Yardsto the intersection of Archer avenuc in a few months. The promises of the speaker were very favor- ably reccived, and the only question raised sponsibility of the incorporators of the road. ‘o this the reply was that the Company was backed by ample capital, and that all it wanted was the grant of the right-of-way by the City Council, ete. Upon the strength of this, most of those present signed a petition to the Coun- cil asking the granting of the right-of-way to this particular Company, to which there was no ,other oppusition than that which came from rival corporations. The line of road proposed to be bullt at, once extends from Arclier avenue on Halsted strect south to the Stocks-Yards, a distance of 13{ miles. The fare is_lmited to 8 cents by the ar- ticles of fucorporation, and of the 6,000 feet of pm;;crty along the line the Company has al- ready on its petition for a charter over 3,000 feet represented, one-third of which was secur- ed last evening. Mr. Brenuan _is the author of the combina- tion, and says be means business, and bas ob- tained ample capital to push the road to eom- lction the moment the right of way is granted him. He says, however, that he isbeing fought by rival corporations, but is satisfled that he has the public sympathy in that locality, his proposition being more fayorable than that of his yivals. . WHISKY. fESTERDAY'S DOINGS. The Government building was {7 scene of more liveliness than usual yesterday. Mr. Storrs was around with his commission as As- sistant District Attorney, or Special Govern- ment counsel, whatever the reader choosesto call it, sticking out of his pocket.- Mr. Leonard Swett - was also seen prancing about the placc in company with one Burton M. Ford, and the two had a long and carnest consultation with Judge Bangs. It is now stated that the attorneys of the first batch of distillers and rectitiers will invade Judge Blodgett’s Court-room on Monday morning and file atfidavits setting_ forth the reasons why im- muunity was granted to the first batch,” Mr. Storrs will probably bave something interesting to say in reply, and the country may look for o formal reopening of the Chicago whisky cases. Among the visitors at the Government Build- ing yesterday were the Hon. 8. K. Dow and_his dient, I, F. Hoyt. It was arranged that Hoyt should coine in to-morrow and oifer new bail in the sum of $10,000 to guarantee his turning up at the proper time. ‘There was a rumor yesterday that somethin; startling bad taken place in the pardoning busi- ness, but an inquiry at the home of the exiles last evening resulted in a denial of the truth of the rumor. Judge Bangs stated yesterday to a TRIBUNE reporter that the section of the law which provides for a dis- count inREthe way of punishment on account of good behavior applies in the case of the whisky men, and that if the three-months’ men were able to pay their fines by the 9th of September, they could once more snuff the air of freedom. “Otherwise, their stay in their present quarters will be prolonged until some time in the early part of next month. So far as is known, the ouly one who is able to pay_his tine is Panlman, who threatens to bid the "Gov- ernment oflicials a characteristically profane,and of course eminently expressive, adieu when his time is out. FERDIAND LASSALLE. A COMMUNISTIC CELEBRATION. Vorwarts' Turner Hall was gaily decorated last evening with red flags. Wherever one cast his eye the gory emblem of Communism stared one in the face. There were no decora- tions of any other kind to relieve the monotony, no wreaths, no garlands, nb mottoes, not even the Stars and Stripes or the tri-color of the Ger- man Empire. It was a great event for the Communists of this city, and they had turned out in large numbers, filling the lower hall com- pletely. Particularly conspicuous were the large number of women, about three times as numerous as the men, and about half of them carried babies on their arms. It was really as- touishing where’ all the babies came from, and it showed that the Communists, if not rich in worldly goods, are rich in offspring. They undoubtedly find it easier to raise Com- munists than to couvert the people to Com- munism. The reason there were s0 many women and children present wus because the men only were charged 25 cents admission, while women and children were free. It was Ferdinand Lassalle’s anniyersary which caused all this hubbub, and they had gathered to do bonor to his memory. Ina corner on the stage therc was posted a crayon drawing of the dead agitator, at least Lassalle’s name was be- peath the picture. But for this precaution it the workingmen and not lct them see the deplorable state of affairs from which they were suffering. The fact was the working- men_ were worse off here than they were in Europe. [Great %pplnuse.] Taey were entirely in the grasp snd at the ‘mercy of capi- talists. The politicians_were talking about guarantees of rights and liberty iu this country. ‘That was all bosh, merely to catch the unwary. When the Americans_fought for their liberty 100 years ago, they did not fight for the liberty as understood by the Socialists, but merely for that liberty which was then enjoyed by every British subject. In a land where eve public department reeked with corruption ant where the capital neld the sway there could be no talk of liberty or right. Jf they wanted liberty it must be_obtained through a party founded on the principles of Sodalism. The people wanted more than phrases, they want happiness and liberation from the thraldom of capital. They wanted to be allowed to be human beings, | and not animais. They must, in this country as ‘well as in Europe, look to Socialism to_relcase them from bondage, and the life of Lassalle should be their guiding star in the work before them. They must battle as Socialists for the free men in this Republic. Lessalle was dead but long live Socialism. [Great applause.] Then the band played. After this a doublé quartette sang in German, “{nder allen wipfeln ist ruh?” After they got through the curtain went up and revealed a tableau vivant, representing ‘* Workingmen at the Grave."” « This ended the first part of the programme. The second part was nearly a repetition of the first, only the selections were diffcrent, and Yhe specch was made by Mr. Thorsmark. This art closed with the appearance of a company of ommunist_warriors in uniform. They wore blue jean blouses, white pants, and red caps. The hall was then clearcd for dancing, and the way they twirled around to the tunes of the band was fearful to behold. They did not stop until an early hour this morning. E. F. RUNYAN. SELECTING AN ASSIGNEE. The creditors of E. F. Runyan, bankrupt, met yesterday morning at Register Hibbard's office. Among those. present were Capt. Robb, H. B. Smith, Mrs. Jane Boyd, and others, besides Col. Evans, Runyan’s attorney. It was quietly un- derstood that all the creditors were in favor of R. E. Jenkins, Esq., for Assignee, and he was accordingly elected without a dissenting voice. In a talk with the creditors, he stated that the city property should yield enough to pay the in- terest and taxes, but that, unfortunately, the taxes were behind for two years, and water- rent past due. Still he thought they could get the mortgagees to hold off and rent the property to good tenants, in which case it could be made to yield a large income. He was not so sure about the farm property. Mr. H. B. Smith, who has security on 720 acres, said the land was mostly under cultiva- tion, and the creditors should see to it that it did not get into a bad condition. Mr. Jenkins advocated a proposition toget the mortgagees to take the crops and apply the proceeds on the mortgages and interest. He thought the unsecured creditors on unimproved property had very little show, and did not hold out to auy of the credit- ors any flattering prospects of dividends for at least a year, a8 the income would be taken up in paying the interest and taxes. He thought it would be fair that r. Haines, who held a mungxfie on one of the farms, should have all he could make out of the crops for one year, provided he would stop the sale. Col. Evans stated that he was disposed to do .anything he could for the interest of the credit- ors, and he thought, to use bis own words, that Mr. Runyan would indorse that to the death. After considerable rambling talk, it was de- cided that Mr. H. B. Smith and Capt. Robb should visit the farm at Mokena to-morrow, for the purpose of looking after the crops and the general condition of “the- farm-lands, houses, Gte. It is probable that another meeting will be called at no distant day, to hear their report and take some action thereon. FLOATING HOSPITAL. END OF THE SEASON. The Executive Committeé-of the Floating Hospital Association held their last meeting this season Friday afterncon, and decided to discontinue the excursions and give up the bark Summer Cloud. Accordingly, the convalescent sick of the city who have availed themselves of the opportunity to spend a portion of the day on the water andget a few breaths of pure, air are now deprived of that luxury. Asis known, this charity was supported by voluntary contribu- tions, and babes, children, and adults were taken out to the Summer Cloud, moored off the Exposition Building, five after- noons in the week all summer. Until this year there were excursions only twice a week, boats being chartered to run into the Jake a short dis- tance and then return. The plan pursued dur- ing the past season proved so satisfactory, that it #s not unlikely that a barge will be purchased next year, and the excursions become 2 perma- nency in the future. The total number of pa- tients cared for this summer was 10,976, of these, 2,544 were babes, 4,461 children, and 3,971 adults. The cost of transportation, etc., was & fraction over 17 cents per day for a patient. A circum- stance which reflccts great credit on the man- agement, is that not a single accident happened, and no deaths occurred on the bark. The dona- tions amounted to $1,875.50, $524 of this com- ing from the Board of Trade through Mr. C. D. Hammond. So much good has been done by this means, that it is hoped the Committee wiil receive the substantial indorsement of the com- munity next year, and be enabled to out i~ their intentions of establishing a floating hos tal on a permanent basis. g ON THE RAIL. THE VAGRANT AND THE CONDUCTOR. 1t was on the night express, and the smoking- car was filled with a choice selection of emi- grants, stock-drovers, etc., all engaged in doing various and sundry chores to make the night pass comfortably. At oncendof the car & party of emigrants, consisting of father, mother, grandmother, and a dozen children more or less, were trying to make what they called coffee, by holding a tin pail over o candle which they had taken from one of the car-lamps. At the other end, four stock men were indulging in a liitle game of draw, and in the middle of the car were various parties twisting themselves into all manner of shapes preparatory to trying to slcep. Everything was sercne until ‘'Littie Dan” came in to collect the tickets. About the mid- dle of the car he struck a digunified-looking man with a red nose, who, in response to Dan’s poke in the ribs and yell of * Tickets!” remarkea: *1t’s all right, young man; I ride free.” “‘Show up your pass if jou please,” wasDan’s reply. *Young man, do you know who Iam? ¥am a member of the Centennial Commission, am a United States Serator, and am alsp a Cook County Commissioner.” s ‘Eona' imu'l carry you, but !flfle” you have icket, or money, o st the nest aration ) T il Bate fo get :Bbant doit,” was all the satisfaction Dan ot.. :: glow tm-t do you 'EM to got" lauo—to ‘see Lew rdy-Si ’ fl'ffll','l‘; g-h:’& ks!mww v ;tevm d teward’s ¥ e back fn about ten minutes. you have the change ready then you rffimggfisé at the next station,” snd Dan slid into the next, car. ‘When he returned he found the Centennial Commissioner reading one of the Bibles that ihe Bible Society places in the cars to the brake- m:i-n,LsM the same time explaining the obscure points. ¥ “Joseph, I claim, was a grand rascal. Inthe first pluce, he got up a corner on corn and run it seven years, inade his brothers come all the way fromt _where they lived, pay full price after they got there, and then lelt them to pack their might just as well have been taken for the pict- ure of Joe Gruenhut when le Las the tooth- ache, or of Karl Klings as he looked when his saloon-license was revoked. The only other conspicuous thing in the hall was aband of music of some tfteen or sixteen pieces, The proceedings were opened by the band playing Meyerbeer’s Coronation March, which was followed by a Funeral March dedicated to the memory of Lassalle. Then a man with red whiskers on_his fave, a red necktie around his neck, and red rosetie on his breast, appeared on the stage and introduced another man with spectacles on his nose, who, he said, was the celebrated Communist, ENDE, OF MIDWAUKEE. Mr. Ende sailed in at once, and lauded the character of Ferdinand Lessalle to the skics. No man like him had ever lived except Jesus Christ, whose cqual he was, Jesus Christ was dead, but Christianity stiil lived. Lassalle was dead, but Socialism _ still lived, and would live forever. With the example of the moble Lassalle before their eyes they ought to stop their little quarrels awmong themscives and work like one man to sceure liberty and freedom lor the human race. Those who loved Socialism should not lose sight of I.he, fact that Lessalle had died for their prin- ciples’ sake. Somec stupid ones claimed that there was no use for Socalism in America, as this was aland of liberty; that the workingmen had all the freocdom they could desirs, and the eame rights 24 the rick. ~ This was one of thuse corn home best way they could. Now — ‘““Are_you ready to pay now?” rudely- inter- mqt‘gd Dan. + “Young man, I have had my eye on you some time. If you are diligent and trustw you }:!-\ll.l X‘l;vs,a coné?ct rib’:—" orhy iverside,” yelled the brakeman, and went to help the Ceutennial Commissioner off, but got banged over the head with the Bible for his pains, and hats, caps, the conductor’s nice lantern, and two paper collars flew all over the car. The big brakeman had :o come up from the rear car and read the ot act before the tumult ceased. ~They st the C. C. down hard on the platform, and aranged him so that his fect came crossways of the ditch and left him gazing on the water towes and scatter- ing naughty words at the rate of 250to the square inch, so that when the night operator woke up in the morning, he telegriphed to the next office for trains to run slow unil he could Feb the section men to clear the tracs from the e Genteaaial e Centennial Commissioner rd; Chicago ou foot and had no sooner :fl?eeg b"e(3 fo;e ge 1“1“:11 tndkenxm ch:h Armory asa ‘“vag,” ‘who had ed to leave the cit; Summerfield.. 7 Aske pogisid THE CITY HALL ‘Water-rants yesterday werc $2,038, C. 8mith Storer was duly installed yesterday | geant.” The Committee on Printing i3 calleq ¢, at 3 p. m. to-morrow aftcrnoon in Clerk’s office. License receipts yesterday were ahog The saloon and peddling business are llflf? most profitable sources of revenue. & The Commercial Natfonal' Bank took $10,000 worth of time revenue e"::::rdq H.J. Windsor Invested $5,000, and $50) a7 received from somebody else. Total, $15,500" Chief Fire-Marshal Benner left for Pyjlqg phia Iast evening. He will be absen 1oLk a week, and duriag that time Marsha Syeolt assumes the reins of the Fire Department, ey The Board of Public Works yesterday a tinal estimate to Cox Bros., contruitors 1 work on the land extension of the new [y tyanel. The total of estimates shows thyy 1 work now completed has cost $478,735. . = °° Mackin & Watson, contractors, yest, thieir bonds with the Buard of Pudis jerg el the paving of North Dearborn_ street from [ nois to Indiana. The work will be paid for private subscription. . y The Board of Public Works yesterday j an estimate of $12,410 to Filui’l’non! &YC«;rs;n“ o contractors. for work on the Fullerton au:u' conduit. Up to date the total amoung in N‘l‘i mates issucd to the above firm for that work i 165,671, The boys in blue and brass buttons be pleased to leari. that regular drill will be g, newed 0-LIOMIOW, COMMENLINg With the Firgy Precinet. The Chief of Police yesterday isneq an order to that effect, and Witn it another order warning the patrolmen againat stoppil on the strect to talk with persons. Tic ey wengx}er has hcgna 't(a can;; around again, the boys might e cold. So to aave' thy heeds they must keep moving. ther The amount received for licenses during thy month of July was $76,560, and for the manth of August, $06,044, making a total of $1:335) for two months. By far the ereater part of this sum was the receipts from saloon-licenses whivh have been taken out to an extent unknown [y the time of the administration just past. The old excuse that persous had gone out ot thy business did not hold good, fur there are ngy 2,553 licensed liquor places in the city. Upio g corresponding date last year there were 1,77, showing an increase of 75 in two months. The other kinds of licenses have not been 50 lazgely invested, in, but the police are stirring up the peddlers, butchers, etc., and a larger revenne 1rom licenses than was ever known in one year before will be the result. REAL ESTATE. The Special Committee, with Ald. Collerton at the head, appointed to consider the propriety of the sale of some of the city’s unoccupicd real estate, met yesterday afternoon in tae City Clerk’s office, and decided that the Chairman should draw up an ordinance authorizing the Comptroller to advertise for bids for certain pieces of city property hercinbefore mentioned, and to sell the property should any bids worthy of consideration be received. ‘The property ‘which will be advertised is as follows: J‘ot wamo feet on Iliinois street, near Franklin streef Lot 20x82 8-10 feet on Weat Erie street, near Milwaukee avenae. Lot 44x101 fect on LaSalle street, near Madison street. - (Long-John engine-house lot.) LML 25xd5 feet on State street, mear Congress streef > Lot 66x1,264 feet (Quarantine track) between ‘Thirty-thiri and Thirty-fifth streets, and Butter- field street and the railroad tracks. Lot, lrhn;x'le, 24x57x62 feet, north of Engenie east of Lasalle, and west of North Clark street. ‘Lotut}‘lxmfl. corner of Washington and Franklin streets. ‘Lot 130x130, corner of Chicagoavenueand Sedgs wick atreet. (Reservoir fot.) Lot known as the Lake-Front. ] It will be seen that the list contains none of the school property. Mr. Goggin, attorney for the Board of Education, appeared before the Committee and satisfactorily and thoroughly explained this, and demonstrated that all the school property was now safely and advanta- geously leased, consequently the Committee decided that no school property should be in- cluded in the list. Adjourned. THE COUNTY BUILDING. The County Treasurer yesterday sent $100,000 tothe City Treasurer, being the azmountof city taxes accumulaled in his hands. The witnesses in the Sullivan-Hanford cass were yesterdad summoned to appear before the Grand Jury to-morrow. The September tefm of the Criminal Court will commence to-morrow, when the Grand aod Petit Juries will be impaneled. The County Board to-morrow will clect the successors of Messrs. Harms and Lewis in the County Board of Education. Among the can- didates suggested are Judges Lawrence and Me- Allister. Architect Eganyesterday made a_general ex- amination of the work in ‘the Court-House foundations, and found that the specifications bad becn strictly adhered. to. The work on the fdt;undnfiuns will be entirely completed in thirty ys. 0 mect the Cuy Will not ANNOUNCEMENTS. Prof. Swing preaches at McVicker's this " morning. The Diocesan Convention, the first under Bishop McLaren, will meet on the 12th. A service of song will be held in Farwell Hall this evening, followed by an address from W.B. Jacobs. ‘There will be services in Unity Church this morning, commencing at a_quarter before 11. Sermon by the pastor, the Rev. Robert Collyer. The subject is, ** After Vacation.” There will be a meeting of the Jewish young men of the South and West Sides Sunday, the 10th inst., at the Synagogue, corner of Sanga- mon and Jackson strects, for the purpose of ing a social club. All desirous of joining are requested to attend. N Emery A. Storrs will deliver an addressata rublic temperance meeting to be held under the suspices of Franklin Lodge, No. 181, I. 0. G. T., tais afternoon at 3 o’clock sharp, at Typographi- cal Hall, 79 Dearborn street, Room 29. The classes of the Chicago Athenzum will begin Sept. 18. A corps of the finest teachers in the city have been engaged, including such well-known names_as Prof. Aundrew Groh, Eu- eene Von Kleuze, Joseph Marchand, O. 8. Wes- ott, F. W. Freer, Daniel Brown, and D. L. 200k, Mrs. Spenser Sloan, and Miss Theodora Howell. Prof. Walter C. Lyman_will open day and evening elocution classes; Miss Somaren- g)‘ncnk: and Prof. Seybaum will instruct on the ———— THE STATE TREASURY. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Sept. 2.—The xecillg:s and g the disbursements at the State Treasury di maenth of August are as follows: Receipts— Revenue fond.. .. Disbursements— - Revenue fund.. ...ec........ .$ 77,249.19 Ilinois River Improvement fund. 3 492.33 Il1nots Central Kailroad fand . 44,100.24 Locat Bond fand. - 780,040.56 $905,782.32 ‘Total RENOVATOR Is recommended by eminent physie cians for the cure of Serofula, Erysipelas, Tumors, White Swellings, Heart Discase, Piles, Fever and Ague, And all diseases arising frcm Impure Blood. Fo? sale by Drugzists everrwhere. H. A. HURLBUT & CO., 7 & 77 Randolph-st., Chieago, Asents for the Froprietor:, MASC PESTRRER Ll ot TP O R LADIES! 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