Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 9, 1877, Page 7

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1877. $v 282, And 283, 13- fe, o trial. TEXA there are openings on everv hand where the | Tionorable Secratary of War, and anked that the i man with money even in terate ntnount may | present Inspector be directed to make a thor- a ratherrouzh voyage. He took over a cargo of P ot dhiste Qe feet of witen Tt il s | o P I & thera matton, wnd Lo s take hold and In n_ few years realizs a compe- | ough survey of the Gulf lottom o trout of the |~ Jeair Maonr— 16, Terrand | Been decerasdog latele at the tate of 0 foot % | carrring expacity of 1,000 b3 of grain. tence, tic poor man wili only reach tuccess by | jottien and report the result. T immediately an- | % Ferrick 08080 0 o0 ooy o gug gne | 107212 fret of water on hand: yesterday e The Journsy from Houston to | vatlent industry, frugality, " and sell-deaal. | piied to the Superintandent for an official €opY | chaive. No case an trial, morning {t was 10 6-12 feet, showing that MARQUETTE. With these quallitles he can'be sura to succerd, and need never fear cold or bunger inihls country. T have written thus plainiy hecanse I know how any people thera are who have never ar- curulated a dollar in thelr lives, who epend their earnings before they get them, who in- dulge In any desired gratiflcation, whether at their own or somebedy elsc's expense, who will of the results of the survey, but they were re- fureid for the reaton that the suryey was un- autborized by lasw,as the jetty act provided that such sneveys should be made by the War De- partment. The resuit of Capt. Brown's examinations will ‘be found on pegr:s 2} and 30 and on chart No. 4 of his report. A complete tabulated statement of the uomparative results of his surveysis Spertal Diwpateh do The (hiirago Trikune, ManqrrrTs, Mich., Uet. 8.—Arrived —Props 8. Chsmnerlsin, Fred Kelly, R. J. Rackett; rchre Escanaba. Exile, John Martin, M. R. Warner, Willtam Mctiregor, . P. Cord Cleared—Prop Fred Kelly; schrs 3. R. Warner, Eslie Passed np—Props Atlantic, Missour. Wind northeast; light. Weather clondy, Jenox Boorw—1:31 to 150, Inclnsive. No. 120, | the excess of the conanmption over the sapply Dingman ve. Chicago. lack Irland & Pacific Rail- | had decrea-ed from twelve inches a day to two lompsny, on trial. Inches. The rainfall this year at Boyd's Corners duner MeAnLisrzn—Passed ca hasa ticen up to this thine nearly five inches less Jouoz Wm.un'—gi';:‘.xl;lil:; ¥e Mescham, than the fall during the same period last year. Usrren Stares Cinrurr Count—Jdupar Brop. | 1ne dificulties with the farmers in the neighbor- hood of Lake Mahopac will probadiy be ended Jamen Iolgate va, Menry Il Curtlsa, £4, - by T . 5 o ¥ this rain, which will renaer [t unnecessary to :}..Df;l. Sl Belesan, U pIOL "l tap the lakes thereanouts aoy further. The Sherman. Trice of Unimproved Land—The In- habitants of the State, ntry for th allow their imagination to beconie inflamed by | printed on page 30, The ares Investigated con- | #0000 o o Distrier Cotar—Junne Bron- | zates of the new reservotr will be closed on the e i Tho Best Cou ‘Bz A h" BT BT 0 | e loret Actainta told And. Ibiheil of | Taing Aot ond and s quarter aquara imtles, and | oo B e T | e amiars wert o e oo o oo MILWAUKEE. s Texnn, Florida, or whatever country fs for the time being the rage, aud fmagine that If they were once there fortunes would flow into ther pockets, Lut without a rational Idea how for- in subdivided ontne chart intotwenty-one parta, Raventeen of the twenk‘y-mm sulmdivistons, con- taining an area of about 510 scres, or elghty-four Steln & (0., va, Joseph P. Katz, $81.07. allons Lo the storage factlitics, and & survey SUPERIOR CoURT—~CoNPEIMION —l(lnd\ McNally | will be made of the Bronx River, with a view of & Co. va. Samuol L. Brown, $:49.40. - -Ggfllel adding it to the present supply. —fame va. Same, MiLwackze, Oct. S.—Charters—=To Baffalo, #chre Lone Star, 18,000 bo wheat. J, B, Merrfll, 40.000 ba wheat, 81 dc: City of Toiedo, The Wator-Supply, Crops, School-System, hundredths of a square mile, are embraced be- | & Son ve. P'at Niley, 300, IR, ik 1000 e el M uer s i tuncs are won. And Iam determined that If | tween twolines radlating from the sea cads of S —Sume v, faoe s (45 W, ARG MARINE NEWS b wheat ot 45c. rich, echr Northm Taxation, Eto, nuy oneinectawithdlsappofntmentin emigrating | the two jettics and extending reawardly to two | o Funom GanroCharics Sheee ve. I, & Woife, MARINE NEWS, ——lt ' 10°Texas, lie sbnll nover be able to axy © did Rt | poiots Aboit onc aud a half ifles apart, each of | $105:7 2c Marks va. Onwell A. Bogno and ERIE. Syeclat Corverpandence of The T, tell him the truth about the country. I rather { ihe two lines being abont one and a quarter | J ant, $119,80. —J. W, Drezel va. Asa NAUTICAL MISIHAPS, Specval Dirpatch to The Chicann Tridune. '8, Oct. 8, —Arrivaie—~Prop Philadelphis, sche D, H. Keys, Toledo; schr Mary, rne. Departurea—Scenr E, P. Besls, Bufalo. desira that thore who go shal) be lirapnointed in their expectations In finding things better than they expected than otherwise. To show 10W MUCTL CAN BE DONE In the way of getting n start, the following statement will sliow what 8 man who lands in the country with his houschold effects and $1,000 in money ean do. Buppose ho buys 00 niles long, The fan-shapcd area within these Iines contains all, and more, than the area which s usually covered by the current of the river beyond Lfie jettles, out to the limit of the sur- ved. l‘upt. Drown states that within thisentiro fan. shaoed area there bas been nn averaze deepening durfng the year equal to une foot and three and WD rmatonaD, K. Tenmey | 1 NI lo8 diaputch roceivei Aaturday even. Nnr—CoNPRS =, W h: Ingy, the Canadlan wrecking tug Prince Alfred left b T, Warren aad flenry J. Caswoll 821,~ | \winaeor Saturlay eventng togu o the rescue of Ponar Moorns—Fdward Wright et al, ve. Fred | Use sche IT. P, Murray, reported ashore near Rond. W, Frhy andF. G, Lnrnes, S197.18 Eau, Lake Erie. No particalarn an 1o the scnoon- JrnoE Bonry =P, Stein va. Emti Borner, $10.45. | er's condition or when she went on were m . 811 @ven, EHenty ¥rinkve ChiarlemMasnsingat, $100, 4k The Captaln of the sehr Jessie Drummond, which 8nervAN, Tex,, Oct, 4.~Leaving Houston for he north over the Houston & Tezas Central Railrond, the country traversed for some sisty miles Is of the same level charncter as that de- scribed 1n iny last as passed over in approaching Houston from the west, Lut jith a gradual NAVIGATION NOTES, CH1cAGO. —The schr Reciprotity was dry.docked . ] | t Egater's yesterday for calking....Only five ver- f Janl—eighty of pralrie and twenty of | acven-tenths Inches. o o arrived in port Yatnrday night, reports passing the | * ly ascent U] tho hieh, rolling prairie conntey s | ST 08 D2 aetes terms one-foarth cash, | - Scetlons 1, 7 anit 13 1lo to the east and scetfon THE COUNTY BOARD. Star ot Port Stantes, wih nes maluastl Toty, | 1618 81 the lomber market yertcrday.... The fnding reachied, interspersed with belts nud, fslands of | yyjaneg in nfic?:wn.lnn:l three years: ' | at'to the w the fan-shaped area referrcd ichrraoll e;,m.;:.:a'g:"‘.-, nesll badiy | o' donter in the river at the foot of Franklin timuer, and extending from thence north through {lie entiroState. This is so slmilar in character to the upland prairie country in Texas herctofore described as forequire no separate description. The towns along the }ine of the ronid are os a rule neat and thriviog, @iving cvidences of s prosperous trade, and congequent prosperous condition of {he farming country. Though passlng through the heart of the beat ngricultural portions of the State, there arc great stretchea of country where scarcely a sizn of improvement can be seen, but nidles upon miles of aa rich land ns ever was seen are waiting for the haad of the thusbandman to make them productive, TR PRICES OF UNIMPROVED LANDS along the ling of this road uutll tho more thick- Iy settled northern countles are reached, rango from 82 to 810 per acre, accoriing to distance from rallroad and towns, Thosc from five to fifteen mlles from g rallroad rango from $2 to H ! to, and are wholly outside of the river dis- charge. ’l‘lfi: prevailing westerly sen current has a ten. dency to sweep the deposits brought down by the river to the west, and it (s not probable that suy shnuling, sofar cast of the jettics as section 1, {n really occurred. By including and aye eraging this scction with areas that have recet: edfrom ten to twenty thines as much fuvestiga- tion, the real value of Capt. Brown's carcful work s liable to be undercstimated. By throw- ing out this section no sverage fill, but a scour ol cight-tenths of & foot Is shown over the romaining twenty sectious, From the district on which the anticipated shosliniz war Lo scer, there have leen actuglly tuken away from It under the effect of the ‘rxp ties, fn the twelve months, according to Capt. Brown's surveys, 1,145,870 cubic yards of de- poslt,—a quantity auflicient to fill 8 street or canal ity feet wide and ten miles long to an average depth of eleven and a half feet, and this, too, oceurred while the river current took up from the Jetty-channel an additiunal amount uull“rlem. to il1] to tho samo depth o canal twice as large, First payment on 1and. ..., Tamber and materials fur log-h Cost ol well, he helping to dij One apan maren, Warzon, harness, ‘en caws al $15.. One hundred shee Totalivsreassenes san . Leaving him $20 for ovrovisions, and to meet incidental expeuses, till he can grow a crop. He van fence and break twenty acres in time for his crop next year, and the wool from his shcep will meet bls payment on his land, In five years' thme he cun it he chiooses to do so nave hiswhole elghty acres under caltivation,and In the meantime the natural increase will have swollen his stock of catile to m'nrlf' 100 head, aud his sheep Lo over 1,000, and his horae stock Lo ten or twelve, giving hin o foundation for a comfortable independence, With — smaller 8 hic would have to curtail outtit in some ons, A rreat mistake made by most [moplu 1 going to a new ::unnlrf is In"buying oo much land at the ontset, and having little or nothing left to buy atock. Five hundred dol- ' - | ¥he schr Uerrit Smnith arrived st Detroft Satnr- Regninr w““{,::l"‘n';';':“','_' Holden's Tax- | (080 Orwego, with her foremast nd main 2 ol topmact gona, the result of enconntering a squalt ‘The regnlar weckly meeting of the County | wn Lake Erie. %he aleo loat considerable canvas. Board was held yesterday aftcrnoun. Al the | Sie hsda C"YX‘ af conl, members were present except Measra, McCal- | gob sk Felipre was fowed Into Manitowoc Frl- frey and Carroll, who were In the Criminal hfifi xche lugeer, tecently ashora near Holiand, Court, under trial for defrauding the county | haz heen released A three-mnster is raported 8¢ having been se ‘while acting as public servants, Sunday, off I'oint Au Sable, minns Siher Jibn, Sy A commnunieation was rem! from the War- | The schie IHartford, Capt. McCarthy, coal, for den of the Insann Asylum, stating that he had | (hicsas pot it Milwaokes, Sunday, witt her asurplus of onfons om the farm, and asking The bar hosite Hrodley's Mill, In Bay City, that 200 bushels be trausferred to wome otber | has occasione _:Mx:'::,od iy ‘::rla ;r%:'lal]—n o ';e:::_: Institution. Referred. " . “Tie County Treasurer submitted his semf- | XFpRLIRets Thussay lost, o e, Out,e filglnggL{"rluux;l-ihgt '('!'.";::-"rfix t'k',:.t" ‘ihfi vus to | on Long Point, during the atorm Wadncedsy night. & 3 1] ¥ 615 | Name unknown. Court-H&se Fund, $20,786.57; Interest Fund, One of (). B. Gircan’s sand scows opened up its old indebtedness, $111,484.87; Interest Fund, | reama yesterday and quietly eank to the bottom of new indebtedness, 39,617,900 Sinking Fund, | the river, near Indlans street bridge. $103,307.77; and Publle Butiding Fuond, $LI7. Referted. 5 A CANADIAN OFFICIAL OUTWIT- An eatimate from Architect Egan was read in TED. street was the only excitement on the dacks yes- terday....Only eighteen arrivals of aoraft yeater- day, and only one foreigher among them, —the Ca- nadian prop Tecumaeb., .. The new schr Rutherford B. Hayes, owned by W. T. Baker, of this cily, and now recelning her fintehing tuuches at Gib. raltar, will he rud, for service on the U0th inst, «++. The Goodrich Company has arranced with the stmr Messenger to take the freight of thelr patrons ot Chicago and FL Joe for the remainder wf the season, and that Fieamer now uses the Corons’s dock at the latter port..., Aun exsmination of the prop Colorsdo Sunday rhowed that she had theee or fone of her lwitom planka lp;:nfi—cfllde:ltehul her n;unl waltz on o gypeom boulder al Alabaster. Sho was repaired und floatert off the dock yerteniay, H Ornen Porrs.-~The recent necidant ta tha peap Hertachy will cost no less than §1, 000, aturday 725,000 hu of grain arrived at Buffalo ‘The shipments of lamber from Ray Uit month of September azgregate 67 442,550 fert. ....The Etle canslers are cxpecting 19+ er bn on whest from Buflalo to New York. he rate han beea as low as fic this season.,.. ‘The schr. Tul??’rlph. of Tuledo, hiur been rebuiit at Blie naw clasaes A 2 *The schr 8 76 B oitse, L T ACTe, favor of alluwinge the granite contractor on the Priday afternoon the iu’.‘ Gladistor, Capt. | Kensanhec tas Hitieled at Chl Thi s 18 right in the helght of tho cotton-pick. | 1are invested in stock inthiscountry where thers | “yo'ronort shows that the amount of mate- | Court-Uouse $25,001, and one in- fusor of the | jugucs, went to the roli : ! at Clleago Thuraday br tie mfimun‘,‘nml \t Is cattnn every where npicks | 4" “good rango for it - will, by matural | o, Ane feportshows that the amount of mate- | oL e artor, ahonntiug to 655,800, fe | Huches. went fo the rollef of tue schr Magale. | Mercanule Insurance Company for $170,- in the plles of colton whita with the open bulbs” and Increase, lncrease in valus many tines more period of 107 days was cqual to 1,545,017 cubic | ferred, lunded with railroad ties and ashore sbove Malden " the Canadinn skle of theriver. Aftor several | Yorel's namo in Kenrsx ne Inz for plckers, piles of cotton plcked In | than the samo amount tn tand, and coable the | yoiye “Burely if the reformation of the bar s | = The usual number of bills were read and re- | °% Tates, which went aahore doting {0 3 of bales belng hauled to the towns, tralns fouded Bouzhl. 1t for ot the time of his first purchase, show anme rigns of it during the perlod when e iclary Comm y In matter of "rfi naded with graln. lay over the channel between the jetties 18 belng washed out and formed. Alrcady about 5,000,000 cublc yanls have been removed from between them, and a8 very large addivfonal amount has bean removed by the effect of our works at the hend of the piss, where o channel has been scourcd out with 8 minimum depth through 1t of nearly, or quite, twenty-three feet, and vet wa find a continnal decpening of the sea imme- dlately in advance of the discharge frum the jettics, 3 Although the river has been extremely low for suveral mouths and {ts crosive forces preatly reduced, the solidiileation of the jotties by scdimertary deposit in them aod by the com- pressing effects of the larze quantity of stone emploging a watchmun for the Court-llouse | rsther than underyo the sirain the tug would give ‘work, reported recommzending that If the con- | her ingewting herod, Following the temporary tructors peeded a watchinan that they emnploy | abandonment of the Maggfe, the Gladrator steamed and pay such u person, Not couneurred In. down to Malden, where she made fast to o wharf. The Finance Committee reported. asking ou- | The Canadian Collector st that port at once thority to borrow $H,UN fur uie {cnr to take | #tepped troit Friday night on uccount of the low stage of water at the Lime-Kiln Crossinz that night.... During the rough weather on Lake Erie, 1ast Fri- day, the new prop Avon was compelled to put into FErla Jlarbor for shielter. ... The Captain of the prop Wissahickon denles that his vesre] Lursted her arches, or anythlug clre, on her last dawn tzip, as reported here. IN MAKINO A SETTLEMENT the proximity tu large tracts of open land likely to remain open for years as a stock range 1s an object even at tho expense of soclal privileges, and these can be found almost anywhere In the central or southern countieaol the State, which, as 1 linve before said, are not being setticd up as the naethern counties arc, from the, as I think, miataken {den that they are too far south for porthern men to Wve, “There are some mntters of information relating to sehools, taxes, home- steed exemptlons, cte. which 1 have nat yet given, though comlie more properly in connec- tion with some matters alrcady treated of thau here. TheConstitutionot thoState has provided for g system of free publicschools, aa well as fur with cotton, darrn platforms piled with it, and cotton yards full of bales. The averago yield of cropa throngh the central portlon of the Stato {8 ahout as followa:: Cot- ton, one-hall bala (230 pounds); corn, thirty busbiels; wheat, cighteen; oats, forty. Few other crops ure ralsea, It Is reasousbly well- timbered, and as well watered as any portion [ have passed over excepting the southwestern portion from Austin to 8an Antunio, I huve pow_traversed nearly all parts of the State reached by rullroads, studying ench nartleular rection as'thoroughly as the limited time ot my disporal would permit, This will complete my trvels in the State, unlcss L should tuke u trip from this puint west to the frontier; which Is s yet uncertaln, e board ~ and . {nformed ~ Capt. lughes up a note of the couuty comlng due Weduceday. }::t :;3“;:-' ux'h fun;‘lie‘r lbn’m-grl“m’dger l;"v:;:'- Adopted. R AL nadian waters, At that instant & sudden logz- Mr. Cleary calied up the Watter of turning | In2Js reported {o have reized Capt. Hughes io tho old huwpital over Lo the clty, the county’s | wonioesst o the e i Sat 1o oy o ble Icass hiaving cxplred, and asked for authority to | ahead at ful ed, al the same time puttiog his gell the properts there helonging to the county. | wheel hant siatboard, The representstive of He was Interrunted in his remnarks by laughter, | Canada looked first at the Captain and then at the which induced him to turo and snccringly euse | shore,and inally, as the bow of the tuz swang oal, bimaelf by reminding those that were' # grin- | L ran (o the stern and jumped sshore. —Letrout nitg? that they were showing thelr “ill-breed- | £7es Lreas M. —— PORT OF CIIICAGO. The following were the arrivals and clearances for the twenty-four hours ending at 10 o'clock Inst. ALa—£tmrs Sheboygan, Manitawor, sandries: oit, MUAKESUD, S0GITIrSs Drouk Niatucew, DBuf- {l sundries; St.Albana, Ogdensburs, sundrie ingfalo, suiidricsi Mersonger, Benton Hurhor, Hiverside, Pouth Hsveu, sundri ol ut on them, hoa teodered to give us more i Toneth ot TAKE A MAP OF TEXAS, igheed uatiutionsollemflin and nroRidellur Peceft from the river current and from tidal | g, and hie would not stand it. More lauzh- o i R g A e and, commencing at 8an Antonlo ns a starting- :fl",L’m “"’l;:"‘;‘.":;"“"l‘"t‘lfl'; (s L gunuw sction than we could otherwiso have had, so | ter followed his remarks, but he stood It plucid- BUFFALO. (a3l humber. Tecumaet, | roint, run a lue a little north of cast to [l~m- stead, at the junction of the Texas Central and ihe road to Austing thence north to the north ling of the State (this will sbout separate the pralrle from the thnber country on the cast, excepting in tho northeast portion; thenee west on the north line of the State to Montague County, and theneo routh to the place of beginning, and you that & continual linprovewment fa the cliannel has been uoticeablo over since the low-water senson began. ‘Tho {mprovement of tho chaonel has heen such that Yhe Government haa ccasedits dredg- ing operations at Southwest Pass, and the jeuty chinnuel Is now the recognized highway for the deep-draft vessels trading to New Orleans. Capt. l.h»mmI in his August report, gives twenty 1y, and finally bis mution prevalled. The sula- Berrato, Oct. 8. —Cbarters—Schra Richard ble ;;:;u{:‘cnry :‘ifi ba sold on the grounds Natur- | Winelow, coal to Chicagoat 20c; Acuntiss, cement oful da 3 to Detrolt at Uc per brl; H. M. Scovel. coal to Mil- “Fe epecial order—the matter of cgnlmcrhm wankes BEA006T Ay M, Luorionin cunl (0 Grech the report of Mr. Senne looking to reducing the Day at0c, wheat back at Milwaankee ratee; Ked salary of county piaploges, already twice Doste | Wing, wail to Chicago at 4c ver brl: Fleetwing, ! Mr. Cleary inoyed that the matter be deforred | #2}t to Sandusky at 4¢ per brl, coal thence to Chi- v caizo at bOe per fon; Lrightie, coal from Cleveland ona week, und Mr. Schmidt seconded the mo- | 333 81 50 pet tons i tles for the support of publis schools, one-half of all the public domain, or unsold State lands, 1s sct apart for thy general achool fund of the State. [n lucating Stute lands, by either Stato scrlp or as a homestead, the locstor must in all cases locate two tracts of equal nmount and nd- Joining, one for himsell and the other for the hool tnnd. This process of loeatlng or buying State lands I will explain {n another article, schrs mber: eventh Olilo, Muskegon,_lumiber; G, e.iicn, White Lake. limber Wignle W71 1 fumher, Htelén oo, y. Lin Da i, temier: Tumbez s texalator, White Leeter, S kegun, lumber. = e Melviaa, Port Sher Murkegon, lumber: 2wk, . v ton, Tumber: 4., Tracy, Tatiher: Jemiy Lin ln ers Jeniy Lind, Sus: . Madlsons Flers wood: lumber: G, W. Wescott, Foir Druthers, Grana Iavew, Muskegag, lumber: Ella Eilint unmber: Tupsy, Muskegon, ium- uin iame Co wood. Whit: River, beri Alica M. ferr. Muskegon. lomber: Jalia b %l fuclose o country which for fertility of soll, o feet and six-tenths aa the least depth of channel | tlon, Clearances—Props W. Il. Barnum. Dulath; Dea; Merrfll. Muskegoo, lumbers Clara Musi lumber; Tra. percentag ot arable kind, mildines and Tine! E;’,‘l’;‘{‘,‘}":{fl{’_m",{"e"v';’:h Tt foupbart | throngh the joitles. lteceut advices givoa wido | M. Fitagorald moved that the motion to de- | michmond, 1 00 brls sait: vanderbilt, 316 brig fror bawaon, Suskoon, Tumber: scow Sarthn. Gros healthfuiness of ctimate, and the great varlety | 9 B8 SO TEL R THOF IR0 separata | thauncl over twenty-one fect deep, fer be latd un the Jald, and the motin prevailed. | eement: Wiershickeon, 4,600 brla salt;’ Oneld R va=Prop ira 1L, Owis, Do of agrieultural products of which it is capable, hoots shall be maintained for white and colur- Jamzs B. EAps. Mr, Fltzgeral then moved the adoption of the | Java, aud Nebrasks, l:hlm:nj . Dallontine, 312 | whieat; ac or Mitchell, Osweyo, 2 Tdonot think has its equal on the American | Bchuois shall be —e report. tons conl, Milwaukee: schra Jamen Platt, 400'tous | prop Clty of Traverse, Travérse Cily, wd children, each recelving equal benefits. Te- slde tho funds arising from the sale of scheol landa (the interest only of which can be used), the Conatitution provides that there shall also be annually set apart. “not more than one- fourth of the annual rovenue of the State and a THE COURTS. New Balts, Confeasions, Judgments, Bank- ruptcles Etc. Tho motlon to euter up judgment agalust continent. 1 donot say-that just as good lands and as desirable ennuot bu found outside these Hinite, but within themn one ean hardly go amias who exervises & reasonabla judgment {n select- ing o locatlon, taking into account the quality of soll, timber, and water, aud the locul sur- T, 50 bris pork, 50 b + Mr. Lenzen moved that it be divided and ye- | Cosl; H. M. Scare, A0 to ferred to the comulitees having supervision of | Musten, DOO tone conls 3, W e, C. K. Nins, 00 tons coal; Marengu, 500 g':‘:k'g;:m‘n;f’““" tastitutions, to be roported | {000 cont, Milwaukeos d. d. Cave, 600 fons cos Mr. Snne thought. 1t was about time that the | 5™\ Bosue. and it Walon Lo toas coa 4 o Board bad gotten down to work. There was a | 1. A, Kent, Red Wing, 8,000 brl Ton as 84 A, berf, and rundr! schr Vea. nfialo, 10,200 by wheat schr \ A Croal te, Buffale, 30,402 bu barls r Ella Ellinwood, White itiver, 4 tons b, rinl, Buffaln, 25, 0%1 b corn; prop St Al O Genabiare, 100 bris flaur, 100 casee sl trilt to. Detrovy: schr J. Kelderiou ultalo, 43, 4%) bt corn1 schr . ) 8. Austin, Buffalo, 23, bu stinr Suskego: X ¢ inbabitants of the ' B TOW ipQueen | S miegun, 110 s 20 Wrls. i d Touniligs ne havini an influsnce on health. IRt O 61 Al mald dnby Herbert Nelson, the boudsman of the notorious | nocessity for reducing county expenses, and If | City, Chlcago; 8, Durt, T. W, ‘Datuth: . Far, 0 bl Ind suadries; * miu vavown oF Tux arere axf‘él:}:'ff;m'i.’} e mfif&‘.fiffi.‘é‘vp yoars [0F | § ek Mnahes, was ealled up yesterday - after- | e Feport wagndopted It would eave to ths tax- | Canfon, leiroli; Atmosphere, 120 tond coal: M. | BB Civorzin: araios -0 o wh st b b Cora: will in point of morals and intelligence compare favarably with those of ony country. Churches and schouls abound wherever there fs populas tion to sustaln them, In the month that [ have been traveling over the State from north to d cast to west 1 have ndt come In chn- ashigle person In o state of Intoxiens ¢ State has enacted the *Local Op- o and several lrl:\m in which 1 have bren have voted “no lcense,” and there Is no 3lyuor suld openly, On the first night [ was in Texas ut this place | heard powe dls- turnance ou the street, ond learned thut 3 party from the country. had potten In too much bad whisky, and were ar- ested by the police. With this exception, every town whicre I have been haa been as qulot aud orderly a8 uny Murthern country village, I Lave hardly heard the subject ol politics men- tluned in the Stute, On tiio fruntler there ara A good iuny desperadoes and luwless charac- ters, hut tho present. Ntate Administration s uelug energetle measures to hunt them down and bring them to fusties, usiug a portion of the State juilitta to arid the local authoritics in sodoing, » THE DRAWUACKS AND DISADVANTAGRS of this conntry, wra: First, a labillty to droughts; sccond, grasshoppe rop Coloradn, Biffalo, 31,00 bu wheat, R.OK) by TS B Gatt 173 bris oy, 44 bas thty seede ™ et — payers about 870,000 a year, without Interfering | I Harkely, J. Dewey, Telegraph, Wabash, By provislon of tha Constitution with any of the county machinery, Corslcan, Toledo; Deriin, 1,000 tonw mdsy TUR RATK OF TAXATION for State purposes cun never oxcecd i) centa on the £100 valuation, nor for county rurnn-u (ex- cept for the erection of county bulldings) to ex- ceed 95 cents ou tho 8100 of valuation. The provision for homestend exemption s na follows: **The homestead, not In & townor clty, #hall conslst of not moro than 200 acres, which may bo {n one or separate parcels, with all the improvements thercon, Ina village or eity It elnll consist of lots not to exceed $6,000 in value at the time of designation as a homestend, together with all Improvements thercon,” The homestead is protoctod from forced sale for tha payiment of all debta cxcept for the purchass menuy. or uny part_thereof, taxes, ur work or materin) used In inprovanents. There are also exempted all houschold goods, lbrary, tools, and Jmplements of trade ad hushandry, and fnthe country teams and stock enough fo set ooy one up ln farming in good style. 0. C. Ginya, ——— EADS’ JETTIES. noon agaln before Joseph Blodgett, Hughes, it will be remewnbered, 18 now serving out o term in the Penitentiary for taking past In the rob- bery of Prosident Lincoln’s tomb. lie was also wanted here, ond as he could not be present, tho District Attorney nsked that tho 2,000 de- posited by Nelsun, the surety, be forfelted. Only one witacss, Lowls C. 8wiegles, was exam- ined, and his ovldence tended to show that Nel- sun waa (n complicity with Ilughes, and that $1,600 of tho $2,000 in court belonged to Hlughes, The case was then postponed to next Saturday morning, when some legul arguments will be licard. €. L. WOODMAN & €O, An ngreement has been made by A, M. Wright & Co., the princlpal sceured creditors of C, L. Woulinan & Co., as follows: Wright & Co. are 1o give up al! clalins they may lave to the notes, accounts, chioses n action, and books of account and stationery mentioned In the chattel mort- guge belonging to the baukrupt bakers, as well as Lo the proceeds arising from the samg sluco they took posscesion under their mortgages, whether collected by themselves or by the As- a Mr. Guonther was 1y favor ot the adoption of Loudon, Cloveland. he report, and, fromn the opposition manifested 10 it adoption, o Interred that soino. of th PORT: HURON, Commissloners had » direct futercst in pay- Svectal Disyatch 1o The Chicage Teibuns. ing lurge salarics, Inasmuch as they had | Pomt Morow, Mich., Oct. 8.—Down—Props the oflices filled with their fricnds, e bad | Benton, J. Bertechy, Cubs, Philadelphia, Portage, men etnployed on his farm that he was not pay- | Japan, Empirs State. St Paul, Mary Pringle and ing as much us he did a few years ago, because | barges, Cormorant and consort, Goshawk, Havaus Do could not afford to, whichwas the coudition | sud consort, Inter-Occan and consort, M. F. of tho county. He Knew of men In the county | Merrick, Emma E. Thompsou aud barges; schr offices who were getting :},mu 8 year Who Wera | Camben, Pensaukee, J. B, Milbin, ¥ Do e et e Totarork B 1u, | " Cp—propa Willlam Cowle, Runoke, Vanderbit, aupugh. | onetds, Hershaw and A. T. Moore, V. Swam Mr. Fitzzerald was Yn favor of immediate |-8ud consort, Superior and consort, Falrbanks aod action on the report, and moved that the mo- | tow, Tempest and barges, Gordon Campbell and tion :fl ‘Lih. Lenzon be tabled, and the motion ::vfl:l.. nshcsl"',l?‘"{ ~.‘J§§"‘§f§m‘a’& Cfi“ .y.m{-‘ revailed, , 8. T, N L 1% the question, aud Mr. Ayars moved to tabls bis | yje Drummond, David Wagstafl, Chariotto Rtasb, ) 3 s o er, D. T. Vobbins, 3 » Trumpfl, Ar| Mr. Mulloy moved that the Board adfourn, to | Scott E. Nicholson, Annfe M, l'rx n, Bn:": cut off the furthar consideration of the subject, | Epry, David Stowart, Myosotls, ¥, C. Laighton, and the motlou prevalled by the following vute; | Acontias, Acorn, Jsmew Vlatts, Sopbia Minch, Yeas—Bradley, Cleary, Conly, Leasen, Mulloy, | M¢ivin. 8. Becon, Happy tidings for nervous sufferers, and thoee who have been dosed, dragged, and quacked. acher's Electrie elts offectualty cnre prematare debility, weaknees, and deeay. Dook and Journal, with Information worth thonsands, mailed free. ' Address Pulvermacher Galvanic Co., Cinclupau, 0. ATMUSEMENTA. M'CORMICK'S HALL. FIRST GRAND CONCERT GIVEN BY TUE UNTTED SINGINGSOCIETIES OF CHICAGO. No Iar Forming=Clilms s Complete Soc- 3 ' Wind sonthwesl, brisk, Weathor cloudy, with sume sectfons poor water for dr‘h'nl?fllnlx‘:;' ;h‘:x’;‘&ng hiicnd slinee, G, W, Kretzlnger. Tiicy are “EIJD to re- SCR”:;:EI{;T!":“PZQRUMQ Guenther, Hoffmann, | ™0 e : 350 V Ol C E S ' and u dilicuity fu_ ohtatnn any by digdug, | [Wegive tho follawiug extracts from Capt, | Iiuquish all clalme to the mavufactured or Ui | gonno—5. PROSPEROUS LINES 4 < he dry suasuy v.})‘lllll;p:ll:fieulfll;ht: r'xfl-“;’z:x m“l?lll Eads® letter to the President of the South ass | pRa"REEIE BOCK L B0 00 Q8 and” tho | _ Tho voto shiows who representa the people 3 e WITIL THE who vay thoeir taxes, and who represents those Al the steamers of the Goodrich lines bave ran who devour the tuzes: and if Mr, Guenther was | With great regularity this season, only one laving right In his charge that certain Comnrissioners | been delayed # trip, and that was the Shevuygan, shared in the salarics of tha employes, It also | whose carefnl Captain remsined over oue ulght shows very plaluly wbo theso Commissiouers | in Milwaukea rather than ciak his vessel out fn a are. drnsa fog. With the esception of the Corona, e now laid ap sor the season, all the steamers of the Impaired Capltal of the Arctle Insurance | Company sre still plylog with thelr usual regalar- Company, Ay, The season haa been properous, and an unu- New Tork Ecening Tust, Oct. & L one #0 fur as weather is concerned. Theulnaurnnw S}xptt‘xilnux{(lelnt,Awh? h:‘s ]IIIII qun ':' Ty !'l‘u'lr:lell_enrxu. In:x;-‘u::.‘ l..nlum!\“:;.: completed an examination of the Arctic Fireslo- 2t .umln“ Cormpuny of this city, hus found thag its | freiht business hias boen uncommonly large. cavitsl §s finpaired, and has” mude a requisition . upon the Comipany for $30,000, 15 porrentu of TITE CANAL, its ¢apital, the amouut to be mude up in cash Bamarrony, Oct. B.—~Arrived—Midrie, Ottawa, witlnn sixty days. 0,850 bu cora; First National, Kapkakee Yeeder, The capita), which was 8250,000 when tho | 6,400 bu corn; Cayugw, Lockport, 5,600 bu corn; Cowpany was organized in 1855, was fucrcased | Thowaa Scott, Marsellies, 6.200 bu corn; Elira. to 850,000 fu 1864 but was redtced agelt W | jotp, Jokiet, 10,000 bu osts; Rarriet, Hencca, $250,00) and In 1873 to $30,000. Itfs not % a1 Dannbe, Ottaws, 5,800 bu corn, churged that the preacnt trouble is dua to auy Get, B-0 p. m.—Arrived elle dishouesty of managemeut, the chief cause of | prance, Morris, 4,600 bu corn, 1.600 bu osta, the impairment teing the stirinkage in vilue of | 10,605 ms seod; Giracie Griswold, Minooka, 6, W0 securities held by the Company, bu corn; Mople Christo, Seneca, 6,000 ba corn; The last annuil statement made to the Insur- | G. 8. Booth, Ltiea, 4, 000 ba corn. . ance Departinent gives the total availuble as [ Cleared—industry, Morris, 120.080 fi lumber; seta of the Compaoy at $243,855.04. Of this, | proj Montauk, Lockpurt, 4.511 bu wheat; Lock- s!«‘mzom npmeu%l llxy real uulnh:l nwsa-l by | bort Lockport, 4,852 bu wheat, the Company; 4 uans on bond and mor- 5 oot BITGL tntoress, mccruids 130 ALLFGED UEAVY STEAL. %Jnltcll States bonds; $8,739.24, preminms in Taledo Commercial, 4th: Yesterday a vessel coures of collection $5,800.31 cash; $14,550.07, | lying at Peter's dock was boarded by the fhenf, all uther property, total habilities, inclid- | who onsted the Captain thereof a8 tha lnstigation Lng; capital stock, are stated at $282,805 L% leav- | or Mr. Smith, of Bufialo, who owns the ship. I‘l'mnncl. surplus, over all Habillties, of 810, | on tnvestigating mattors # was found that the l’;g"-“r’ wanmade to-day at the oftice of the | CAMtaln bad carried off cansklepuble of the schoun~ Aretie Fire-Insurance Company, No. 104 iroad. | 66 guods Iu his bagusge. The owner did mot Jotty Company in regard to his jotties:| ‘The following extracts from an official letter dated Jau. 22, 1574, to the Hom. Ulmrfiu.wv McCrary, written by Gon, Ao Ao Humphreys, Chief o Enciucers,” U, 8, A, and read tn the House of Ropresentatives when the Jotty bill was defeated, during the (irst scsslonof thoe Forty-third Congres, Iliustrate smne of the opinlona that were lield by tho professional or techinieal opposcrs of the menstire at that thne: The jestice cannot bo exteuded Indeultely; the effect ‘of thelr extension will be (o reducu tho yolumo of diacharge of tho irity pass snd divert 111 waters to tho other posece. Under the terma of the il you navo sent ma. I 1t In lrpllml to the Bouthwest Fasa, this cxtenvion of fottlos wauld amount 1o six or seven miles in 1birty yearsy whiereas the advance of the bar in fin oatural stato during that period would be abont two miles, ‘The carthy matter pushe Jong the battom of the river will nut be pushed out sny farther by deepening the channel and accelerating the current by means of Jutlics than It wax befora; but instead of tha bar of the Soutwest Pass growing shont 40 fecl every yenr, it will, with Jetties and with the depth of channel ‘reqnired fn tho bill, grow about 1,200 foct every year, Againat this charge Capt, Eads replies: In view of the prophesied fallure of the fet~ tles, it seems curious that the most remarkablo phenomenon developed by thelr eonstruction, uamely, the deepening of ihe sca-bottom in the precise Joculity where tho new shoal was to stionld not vnly pruve the absurdity of thess predictions, but that ft should likewiso provae the existeuce of a littoral or shore cur- rent fn . the sea Howing almost constantly from the cast, and passing transversely under tho river discharge, by which the aéa-botlom s dcv‘x cil 88 tho depth of the river volumo n proceeds of the sume are to be settled on tho bassa that Wright & Co. and the Assiznce are to divide therm oqually. Wright & Co. are to bave all the property covered by thelr mort- guges, except as above mentioned, and are to ‘waive all further clolims against the estate, My, Kretzinger, the gencral Assigneo, consents, and relinquisLes all lia rights except for compensa~ tion for his disbursemonts and scrvices, Yester- day, therefore, an application was made to Judize Bludgeit for a dissolutiun of the injune tion hercrofore Issued to prevent a sale of the mortgaged premises, sud it was dissolved and the wortgagees allowed to go on and sell under thelr mort guge: TUB AUREKA COAL COMPANY, Judge Blodgett yesterday outered an order allowlug the Recolver of thie Furcka Coal Com- pany ta pay the 100 miners of the Company the balancoe, $300, duo _on’ the pay-roll account for August, and the wholo account for September. ‘Ihe Eureka Coal Compuny belongs to the Wil miugton Coal Assoctation formed to pool the product of the Braidwood mines, and its inter est thereln is iLa chie! asset, and the Receiver thinks ought to be kept allve by paying the miners the 20th of each wonth for the previous wonth, seconding to the Assoclation’s rules, ITRMS, Judge Drummond yesterdsy entered a docree in favorof the plaiutlil in tha case of Janet Smith, administratrix of the estate of the lata David Bmith, va, Obadlal Jackson aud Edwin and Josenls Smith, The case fuvolved ahout $30,000 worth of real estale on Dearborn street, south ot the Post-Otiice. No formal opiniun was rendered. An appeal was taken to tho United States Supreme Court, The United States Grand Jury yesterday re- UOctober. In some portions of the State I tave been In there has been no rain for over three months, though thls 15 clamed w8 an unusually dry eeuson, Bmnll graln and cornt are not affectod by droughts, vs they mnture bofore the dry scason setd’ {n, Wheat, vats, and burley are hurvested {n Muy, aud corn {8 ripe early in duly, heine uaually planted fi the last of Febe ruary or early in March, It is fmportant hers to get crops in in rood senfun, 0 as Lo muture early, Cotton, which 18 plusted tn April, and requires tho wiole scas sun to muture, suflers most from drought,—far nore than it would if a system of deep and thorourh culture were adonted. Urasshoppers, When thoy du couie, put In thelr appearancs in the last of October, and frequently I||{|u'n tho sl wheat, then the greenest aud fresh- oot vegetuitlon to be found, making a resuwing necessary, They deposit thelr egps ond leave In the courss of two or threo weeks, The youn huleh out in the spring und Ilu]um the yuing cory, cotton, and oats. Whicat i “'";“"y too fur advanced to recelve fujury; it !:‘ ie corn, cotton, und cats sometimes lave to bo replanted. But, us the eowing of the fiunhum«:n 18 by no means certain and relia- e, It I8 clotmed thut inuch greater loss fs real- ized by furmors delaying to plant ani sow in proper tino for fear of thom ‘than from tho depredations they couunit, Bat, wiih ail these draw biacke, it Wil b seen that the uverage yleld of crops fs good for auy country, with tlie ex- vaptlou of vorn, which falls below that of our Nliinols aud lowa farms. In giving average crops 1 bnve fu all cases taken Intg wecount the injury from thc above causes, nstead of taking FULL CHICAGO ORCIHESTRS, ‘Wodnosday, Oct. 10, 1877, Admission, 60c. Reserved Seats, 7he, Teserved Scate can be secared i the Musle SHALENR & CU, TEK, 10k} Madison. a EXPOSITION BUILDING, CHICAGO INTER-STATE EXPOSITION. ONLY ROR HORE DAYS, BON'T FAIL TO SER GREAT EX- HIBITION, Admission—Adults, 25¢c; Children under 12 years, 15, Xxcanslon Rates on all transportation llaes, HOOLEY'S THEATRE, Last week of THE LINGARDS v in: ALICE DUN - 3 Yo'vn, owd quulity I easily obtainable from weils, . Monday, i h others §6 I8 poor, and dillicalt to ge veople rely largely upon rain-water ltnk:l"ulflz clswerns, These, when properly constructed,~— dug deepin the earth und eeriiented,—furnjeh brubably as wholesome water for drinking snd culinary NPY'M' us can_ be obtalned; but where stored In woollen tanks, above ground, or suuk just below the surfaco, as is frequontly the case here, tho water is not only unj g‘l‘numn, but unwholesome aud promotive of discase, robbing a passenger ou the ateamer City of Coucord. Ono othor true bill was also fouud, bul the victhn was not disclosed. BANKRUFICK MATTERS, Discharges wern liaued to 8. (1. Wilkins, Eumerv 8. Bond, and Elisha R, Wheelock, Tha composition meetiug of the Brown & Van Arsdale Manufacturivg Company was yesterday continued te Oct. 10. The first dividend mecting fn the case of Crezier, Clarke & Co. was continued to Oct, 12, N A thio y1eld whero theso causel gairits ¥ Way, I regard to the fmparment of fis capital, | $iate what thinge wore aken away, and, notknow: | and shels oacclivut New York Cowpany. A week of TUB WATEN-SUFFLY the fetties, and thele prodicted faflure | SHATKE Of opening aud dmru{im:u Jetter il | yecouary to call o spectal ieetlug of the Direct- | wicked Captada's trunk the fallowltig articlea, to- i R ALl BUsy 18 an important polut, and abouid be earefull Hecmed additionally cortatn ey | treesed to Besiro Prouls, in bfs (Sauve's) care. | yrg “an tho regular mouthly meetiog would take | wit: One snchor, una tpiusst, one bawsprity ona TEad O VAIDES T studied by any ono making & nermanent loca | eauso of 1ts supposcd absece, The uon-exss. | Dilictments wero also returned agaluit WHIAID | jatg next week. flo thotght (& firobabls that | sall, ono hold, and one quar-deck. (NACK: ALICK DUSNING tlon, In ‘some parts of tho Blate watcr of & | ence of snch s current could not, howover, cause | CArier for counterfolting, and Lewis Walker for | il,ey wuuld comply with thio “requisition of the 150, LN Insurauce Superintendent to make up 15 per SHORTAGES AT DETROIT, centun of the capital, or $50,000, uud cout| ‘The schir Oak-Leaf, on her last trip from Detroit the business of the Compuny, The Impulrment | 40 pufalo with whess, ran short 77 ba when of the capital, which was, technlcully, inora than | oy eqout, The cargo of the sche Samans, ou $5,000, s due chiclly Loins austixaa of o | yor just trip to the same part, when welgbed out ompany’s sccuritles, ulthough lml)v tu de- £l short 40 bu. When & reduction of §1.4% prosaion of buslness, “The securitivs which had | fe1} short it i o Heclined were mostly Unitgd Statcs bonds, | PeFba (or the smoust short bad heen wada from e would not- I any caee bs auy lows 1 the PR o e iy '{-:i-‘m'.'.“fi’f he pollcy-hotders. B formuer vesvelvaya be never agatu will load grain i at Detroit, This on tho authorlty of the papere of thelr fallure, nor iuvolve an extension of the {ettios within the next half-century, o my opin- fou; but the existence of it must postpone the queation of their prolongstion far beyond the uext Centonnial . About a year after the jettica were begun, survey thai was made by iny ussistant cugineers of the sea-bottom fn an area of Aifty-one acres fiamediately In advance of the jetties revealed the fact that, fnstead of the predicted reforina- tion of the bar, there had beets au actual aver- et 1A, RRET & s fits orf it eneryreaens sad Urase Bals hross BOSTITS THRATIE, Now Yore. Urasd Daled ruim 77 MCVICKER'S THEATRE, FOR ONE WEEK ONLY, DION BOUCICAULT, #a **CONN " ls his tnlmitaiie play. the T i 1l A compusition incet(ng In the matter of Wii- Petrol. % SIEHAUGHERATIINV. e fi'.'{-l.;'gl"',u,fi ake jucrasy ofmourly two ol Attt o [ i E, Ahoncet ls st for 10 2. m. to-duy. IR, sl gy o S shal port e E¥ it ali e Magulnceut secucty. blardiug efferis were at a temperuturg of about 60 dearees, and | we had Steasercs thts fact. stal: Howell, United | (. 1ns first dividend meetfug in the case of the | Eyrope ls getting [uatructive reports from the LAKE FREIGITS. sdpriilant cas MeatdCin b ecred Ur ey ol though aweer, lucked the relish of water at u | States Hogineers, published statomont to the | Srystal Lake Pickliog & Freserving Works will | yery capably wen who wero scut_over it W | Cnican, Oct, 8, —Vesscls wero chartered at higo g bo'held a1 9 p. . SUPKNIOR COUNT IN DRIEP. Elizabeth 1. Norwood begun u suft yesterday for $2,500 agaiust Charles 8. Crane. Ell Gollleld tiled » bill against Henry Whipple, Benuls 4. Niliman, Eaith 3, Dillon, Edwiu Ddlon, G. 8, Dillon, Hauvali M, Ditlon, J. C. Ditlon, W. F. 8. Dillon, Asahel Dillon, Anug £, Dillon, R, D. Morzan, Margaret 'blibee, and Huch A. White, to foreclose s trust deed for #17,247 on the E. 3 of the N, E. I{ of the N.W, 15 of Bev. 18, 41, 14 CIKCUIT COUBT. Williaw Richardsvu, furmerly of the firm of Rallo, Nughten & Co,, commenced s suit_ yos- terday sgulust Jobn _Naghten and the Roval Cunadisu [nsurauce Company of Montreal, Can- ads, torecover $25,000. This grows out of an old partuersbip in which Richardson and Nagh- ten were enguged as ageuts of the Royal Cuna- dian Jusurance Company. Tue foruier claims wic Philadelphia Exhibitiou, err Hoeder, ube | gor com and e fur wheat Lo Buflalo, snd 04¢ for of the Austrlan Comumissioners, has produced a the latter to Kingston, Room was taken for about valuable pamphlet on the petroleum productlon and tradd of the United Statcs. Tho mvet ine | 200,000 bu wbeat, 00,000 bu cora, aud 10,000 bu teresting thing sbout it 1o us 19, that Huefer's | Brley. Charters: ‘o Bofalo—Darges Owen and fivestizations fead hitn. direetly to the conchus Wit schev Lo Haniah wudiSlay slons which the Kepulticun bay been diiven to, naely: that wo uro rapidly extaustiug the Pennavlvania reservolrs of petroleuns. The Lu northern ol dstrict was pumped dry, says | rales sdvanced s, Hoefer, fu ten years, aud wells generally ceass | scason's average rates are now oblained. toyleld after three’ years. Tho timu may not be Tar distaut when, {natead of expertivg 3i,- CARGO INSURANCE, 000,000 gullons of Hluminating oll, us we did st Aneffort will bo made to-day by the underwsls. year, we shall bave to fmport ity perbaps from t t0es (0 eago the Black-Sea reglou, whers Mukhtar aud Meli- :;‘n?::;:pm:s:,:l' ::,?’:go. 8::::-1‘::; the koll are haviug their tussle. 5 % agenis anpoonce thelr inunllanb:! d:lumg oot entirely unless such sdvance Is obtained, Most of Toa Lraton Faulic. the shippers hero bave contracts coverlng about Tno water famine which Lus tureatencd New | $23:000 ou each curgo st rates shaut 25 per cent effoct that an exainination of the bur wade by him showed that n uew bar was forming imme- distely In sdvance of the jettics. lower temperature, Though kunerull{ healthy, tliere {s more or lees of chills und fever and other billous dlsondors, which, huwever, can wainly be guarded oeaingt by vroper observance L the laws of health, Takeu all I ull, | bhink it TUE BEST COUNTRY YOU TUN POOR MAX I BVEN BAW. Land, teams, and stock are cheap. Tho cllmate 13 so mild that o very cheap bouso will answer Uil 2 better can bo buflt, For nine moutbs In the year ono can live i a tent, under a shed, or Tive'uk,—anytbivg to keep off th ruln,~wlth comfort, und be all the b the out-door Lif Peoplo fu fact live outdvors bere,—sit, eat, and slecp In the open alr ;uulu thelr porches, aud never take cold. leye that the country‘ Lius real, substantial merits, and will not dlsappoint any r?llouu expectation. Bul those who swallow all thy exaggeruted storles ot Texas laud sharps, soud®iithon | FRISKS, NEW CHICAGO THEATR 0 Clark-st., opposite Sharuisa Houso, MONDAY,, Ocs. & Sisthand week and unsbated duccess of (e reaowned HAVERLY'S MINSTRELS, st The statement made by the Superintendent fo compitance with the resolution of the House was, in effect, Lhat, lnanarea of 700 yards square iuboutlw acres) finmedlately In front of the etties, there been an average scour detweon l% 1875, and May, 1878, of 64,400 cubic yards, 0 _comparative chart of tho (wo surveys showed that the average depth of the 159 soundlugs made fn tbls arca, n 1575, was 33und -1 Lect, while the averuge of the 157 soundings made 1 it 1o 1575 was /35 aud 0-10 feet, the average increase n depth being 1 and 7-10 feet. Butsuch refereuco was made to thoe fucompleto- ness of the lust survey (u the statement of the Buperinteudent that its testimony was much finpateed sud the public were left still o doubt o the question at fysue. b pow pegratnme, | Mod P Hox oftive upen dadly, 04 Baturdey a3 2.90. WOO0D’S MUSEUM AND OPERA-NHOUSE Every avening and Wednesday and Baturday Natloces. B. T. GOODRICIH, In the Sensatioual Bonder Yrung, cusiiied GRIZZLY ADAMS. DD, SUENCKIL wowon ealibliion o the Huseam Devarimeiit, 0ped from ¥ s 1a, £14 8 p. m. ¥ ;. Chicago tazid, and it is only on sur- — X Who expect tu buy the best of lands in tug | A scconid survey, mado by my assistants last | bis purtoer broke his contract, snd sues him atd | York und Brooklyn has been arrested tempora- | (5281580 the Chicago it SRC I8 ORIy 05 sur D . > M sctticd countics at 60 ‘cents per acre, aud | May, showed that,in the 8fty-one acres previ | the Company for conspirini agalust him. xily, at least, bfl the coplous rainfall. At Boyd's | Bl G54 Serinely sih. =l nn Angj(L&LP“I T!!.l;;fi!‘.!f:m,m.., aucy that these lauds will produce crops and | ously investizated by them, there had been an TUB CALL. Curuers tha full was sbout thres luches. At i fitonbisd, ezt M A TN make them rlck fn u few vears with little or no | additional average increaso of nearly two and | Jupax Drusxono—In chambers. the dam ftself about six luches of water fell, HOME AGAIN. LEVEBE NIGHT TiIS WEEK. Grandest of Spos- abor while they Jio arouid 1n the sbade, will | & balf fect from May, 1870, to May, m¥7 makl) JUpus BLODUETT—Set cass G600, chancery, Dull | gnd yesterday moruiug the water rose ln the H i Ninlo's tisrgen, New Y va. Stcrling Pump Company, snd exceptions to 1B, Master’s report in the Aunie Laurie cascs. Juuus Gauy—o0 1o 74, 70, 77, 78, 81 to 80, aud Ol 1ad v, luclusive. o, 07, ‘Pepies ve. Doyle, ou trial. JULUK JANRSON—R5S, 250, 530, 263 19 208 70, - o i ‘i The sche T. C. MSrect, Cupt. Phiops, has re- ngr}f"'xflffl'\’c;‘, b eoheias Prokiot | turued to Toronto from England, sad s suchored e dam, where It sbould properly staud, apd | futhe bay. Bhe had been three weeks at Moo. yosterday {t was only tilty inchus below, The | treal, discharglog s cargo of whitiog, a portlos of Feservolr at the Ceutral Park sbould propesly | which sbo took to Toronto, The Captaln reported @ total deepenlis of nearly Gvo fect slove the survey of Mr. Marindeu lu 1535 As the late Unitcd States Jnspector, Gen. Comatock, bad falled to report any deepeniug fu frout of the Jettles, I complained of thy fack by letter to the Le wotully dhnu%ululcd. ‘The curse pronounced vu Adaw—4 Tu thy sweat of thy face shalt thou tat bread *—has followed bis progeny 10 Tezas, :ml isfo full force here to-dav. Thero s no wiud road 1o wealth oves fu Texas, aud while Magalfceni Sccver). s Drililaucles, Weaith O Siout Celbbrated Frommieren Mtica: Goat st 0L P o Alvai reinleres. = ReBiclabery. . 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