Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 10, 1878, Page 13

L THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 19, 1878¥-SIXTEEN PAGES™ REAL ESTATE. sing Views of the Brokers— conflmemfiws from the Sil- ver Bill mod”“e Tmprovement in Loans _.pemand Light, but Pay- ments Good. T and Sales of the ‘Week—Opinions " Begarding Rents This Spring, very little, if any, improvement in ,::::usic gukct last week over the weck e nd there has been no marked increase ""’“-';,,:s since the st of January, though a o ":Z;e}s of 8 £anguIne temperament are try- s themsclves into_the belieftha £10 | v become 8 trifie livelier dunng the B eekortwo. The most of the broiers are » ing despondent, and say tuat they canuot k‘:my sec what change there can be for the e e of two or three years, at best, and :;‘, yarkas hard 8s they may, they cunnot pisg 2boUL3 wrade, and they bave become so eed to talking and showing plats to disinterest~ o purchasers without result that they doit me- snically, without much bope of cffecting a “f;fl trom the two deals made by A. J. sverell with Field, Leiter & Co. and Marshall Tield, yeported in Friday's TRIBUNE, there T o tramsactions of note last weck. In the srmer instance, megotistions were made for ‘¢ rental to Field, Leiter & Co., for occupa- +on by their retail department, of 200 feet on 2 AT aveaue, just souch of “Madison street, pd oczupied by the five stores numbered 133 2] Sindusisc, belonging to Michael Buriso 1o Haskell & Barker, of Ghicago, and John . B0 ien, of Foughkeevsic, N. Y. Messrs. i Leiter & Co. will remove thelr retail B iment into tnese spacious quarters on or sout the Tst of April, or 28 soon asthechanges enbemade. The reat for these stores will smount to about $25,000 the first vear, but Zerehave becn bouuses gaaranteed to the S esent ocrupaats to induce them to vacate. L3 -, Averellaiso £old to Marshall Field, as a ryate jovestment, the four-story marble-iront Eu.n' Nos. 63 and 65 Washington street, be- jougin 10 Edwin Lee Brown, and occupicd by Hadley Bros. & Co. 25 2 book-store, for 70,000 u%:m ‘have also been A FEW NEGOTIATIONS coteredinto which ave not beenclosed, though ftwoor ¢hree instanccs moncy has Leen paid over, Opcof these teansactions, which is still peading, is for outside property to the value of soont $40,000, but, as the papers ol transfer Javenot been made out, the broker desired 20 mention_ of it made this week. It i g that Mr. Razet closed a couple of Trades last week, the larrer beinz for $17,000, enmably for North Side property, but, as the Em&crmnld uot be seen, the particulars were rtained. » B pears to be a considerable inquiry faripproved farm property this month, a few for ca¢h. but the greater number for trades. Tpere are plenty of men in the field having eidence property upon Which there is more or ja meombrance, and these desite to % for “farms in 1llinols, isconsin, o Iove, with the proviso that the lia blities upon their property shall Dbe sscmed. But then, the man who has a farm pose of is almost invariably one who has raniitics also upon his property, and wishes to Jder bimsell in some way_from tle burden. Acarule, farms that are clear of all incum- trns arc not for eale, the owners preferring 10 keep them and work them for themseives. Inthis way the greater portion of the transac- tions in this line are simply swaps, that do not Ifoeoee The real-estate tradein any degree. There are & few purchasers. however, for cash, erat Toast the ;ar.iu would purchase, pro- tided they could find a bargain that suited them, There has been considerable inquiry during 1he past two weeks for RESIDENCES, worth from §3,000 to $10,000, for actual use. Parties who bave been in the habit of renting, 0% seem disposed to purchase homes, but they meonthe lookout for barmains, aud will not Tookat piece of property for which anything ke its real valueis asked. The buyer and the seller are widely npart, ana the broker is nearly distracted by his efforts to bring them together. Ope real-cstate dealer stated to the reporter tkat be never worked s0 hard and accomplished &0 little in hislife. Asa rule, the buyer and seller wre sbout 25 per cent apart, and there they bang. Unless acctually pressed by necessity, the latter ill not, purchase uatil he has beaten the owner lown sbout 25 per cent below his botrom izures, and then he will do it reluctantly. This zass of men are waiting for the *bottom’ to te reached in_prices of real cstate, and the fealers appear to be unanimons in their belief that ft has been reactied. There {s an abundance of capital waiting for krestment, both Eastern and local. The affics of the brokers ate flooded with letters Moz money for a certain kind of brestment, but this class has all been aken up. The property mostly desired for ipeculation is inside improved, and that which iwell-rented, bringlng a return of from 10 to Bper cent. W. D. Kerfoot reccived a letter Loman Eastern man stating that he would tke to make loaus upon real estate in gold in «ms of §10,000, §15,000, $25,000, and $50,000, weven greater amounts, but his chances upon ttesc conditions are cunsidered few. Itisex- Iemely hard to find borrowers at o greater rate sintcrest than 7 per cent, and but few are siliog to pay even that. Inside im- proved. property appears fo be in the test demand by purchasers, but kind of property, in desirable locations and unincumbered is hard to get hold of. The owner of such, if at all hard-pressed. has bis property morteaged, and if the mort~ gage is forecloscd, it falls iuto bands that can fford to keep it untilJit will realize eomething like the firures GemaZded. These mortgages, too, were mostly made when real estate was wach bigher than it is now, and owing to the Qepreciation the smount is equal to, if not greater, than the market value of the property. FrOM 6 TO 8 PER CENT Eeems to be the popular rate of intercst which berrowers are willing to pay, according to amount sod time. The Connecticut Mutual Insurance Company fs making all the loans possible 7 per cent, even in smail amouunts, uoon good Tk Aloan of $4,000 was made in this city Iast week by this Company. It is the opinion of some of the real-estate dealers that the num- ber of foreclosures of mortgages is gradually g smaller as time progresses, and that wrncr'. is becoming more setticd. e demand for residence property does not Shpear to be confined to_any particular portion of the city, thoush, in order to purchase at the figures above stated, the buyer is compeiled to Iook within certain limits. 1f there is any dis- Uuction, the North Side is probably the most favorable just at present. There alfo gome demand for houses on Michi- & avenve, south of Van Buren street. C. Morey had an offer last weeks of §75,000 0 & certain picce of business property which the oxner wants $50,000 for, and this illustrates 2 e Gifference between buyersand sellers. There pleaty of capital secking investment both permanently aud upon loans, but the figures of the contracting parties are generally wide apart. i0s¢ who have cash are seeking to take advan- taze of the situation, while those Wwho can pos- £l afford to Liold their property are doing 50, Walting for an appreciation of the same. And & for making loans, it is a great_deal casier to Fel money 1o lend than to find borrowers mon security. Asa broker remarked, 1t is sctually against 2 man to try to borrow Toney now, for the partics makini the losns 0w that e canot turn it €0 as to make any- thing on it. Those who nave money to invest n‘feg;numny pretty close men; they pibble at Nt it held out to them, and will eventually “!:,“Rl‘c’n they think they are getting it cheap There scems to bea prevailing idea smong Beslers that D 2 THE FINANCIAL QUESTION IS SETTLED, times will be better, and especially if the Siiver becomes a law, they think that the real- #state market will rapidly become casier. With- unsettled state of affairs, with cotbing for I‘ basis, it is uard for any man 10 form bis catculations in making permanent iwestments. - Some are Liopeful of beiter times the spring, while others are not expectitg ay improvement for three or four, yeats. th ateide Droperty is comparatively dead, al- ough some of the prominent_dealers in this Hticle claim to be doing a little Something. ose who havo this kind of property, and have n fucome from some other source, S0 that they e not oblized to Jook in this direction for im- Dediate returns, will probably reap returns at Jome time in the future; but those who are de- Pendent upon turning it over right away iperience considerable hardship. With the ‘fi:’::an of the stance mentioned in L-of this article, there has not been a gflfler in outside property of any considerable Seunt for two or three months, at Jeast. Misanticipated by many that. RENTS "Ube firm in the spring, with perbaps a slight increase, as tkere have not been nearly as man: houses erected durine the past year -:s in tb{ year before. Desirabie business offices vonsti- tite the best renting proverty, and for this class rents are firm. ~ Several offices of . this de- scrition have been regted at advanced rates, though banking oflices have been iu some in- stances greatly reduced in rents, owing, no doubt, to the many fallures and the surplus of room. As an finstance, the Bank of Montreal, which has just finished a lease of five years of the office at the corner of Madison and Salle streets, at $7,0)0 a year, closed a new lease with Mead & Coe the other day for one year at $5,000, Several other banks have closed Ieases for onc’year at greatly reduced rates. The Fifth National pays a rent of $5,000 this year. where it has beex paying $5,000 or over.. The same may be said of the Union National, But generally the prospect for desirable oflices is better. “This is also true to a certain extent with regard to residences in desirable locali- ties, though there is probably no incrcase in the rents of last year. Mead & Coe haye rented several houses within the past two weeks at good figures, as for jnstance_the three-story and basement marble-front on Park avenue, the other side of Lincoln street, which they have rented for $40 2 month, the parties going in to make all repairs_necessary, which, it s calea- Iatud, will bring the reat uj tonearly $50. The two-story and basement house on Calumet ave- nue, corner of Thirty-third strect, has been reated for £60. These are perhaps samples of the best rents procured, and both houses are in desirable locations in the South and West Di- visions, The prospeetive removal of Ficld, Leiter & Co.’ retail store to the corner of Wabash ave- nue and Madison street has thrown a little life into that locality, as reported by R. W. Hyman, Jr., who has rented the first_gnd second floors of the Miller Building, Nos. 185 and 187 Wabash avenue, to different portfes, for $1,800 and 31,000, Tuisstated that pezotiations for the rental of these places were pending before the action of the dry-zoods firm was made known, or a greater amount might have been received. But there are still some upper floors in this buildiog, and in others in the neighborhood, which will doubtless bring a higher price than lias been asked heretofore. itis the prevalling opinion among real-cstate brokers that rents will remain firm in the spring. IN THE LOAN MARKET loans were a littie better than nt the date of last report, but the improvement was not very remarkable. The demand fs very limited, and , rates of interest are steady at the old fizures that have been current for £o inany months. Unless in exceptional cases, there is no _disposi- tion to fall below 7 percent. This steadiness of the market is a favorabie feature, and shows that capital can find re:suncrative employment, in other ¢epartments of business, if not in real estate investments. The facility with which pavments arc being met, and morteages cleared off, is un indication that the borrowingz class haye been making mones, certainly not on real estate, but in other industrious avocations, It may, therefore, be reasonably claimed that wen- eral business is improving, and the fact points to a more _diversified cmployment for idle funds. If tnis be the case, the rates of interest will certainly rlse. Payments are still larzely in cxcess of newly- contracted indebtedness,—this is true as regards pumbers,—and the awlount thus cleared oft must be in the proporiion of two to one. Small as the business has been since the commence- ment of the vear, we are inclined to regard the situatiga favorably. 1nafew words it may be summed up thus: the people are making a little money, payments are good, and indebtedness is decreasing. There are but few transactions to note; the following are the most important: Ellis avenue, 267 fect south of Thirty-fifth street, southwest front, 44x156 feet, $12,000; two years at S per cent. Adams street, 100 feet west of Wabash ave- nue, south front. 85x77 feet, §17,500; five years at 7 per cent. Wabash avenue, cast front, between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, 25x180 fect, $6,000; five years ay 7 per cent. COMPARATIVE STATENENT Pgfl“ THE WEEK ENDING rEB. 9. 1878. Znstruments — No.| C'siderat'n. Trast.deeds| | §7.5 107,886 1505 379,038 Nongages.o| 81" “ofisl ST 1%ai0w Aggregate..| 1183 260,001, Releases ... i COMPARNTIE STATENENT Frox FED. 170 FED. 0. ] 1878. 1877 Instruments e 25, No. | Csiderat’n N Trust-decds| 106:5 202,883 100ls 473,251 Mortgazes. 31 09, 5/ 20, | C'slderatn. e 22, Agsregate.| 1405 301,957 2453 683,708 213, e, SALES OF THE WEEK. There were were several important transfers of inside property the past weck, amounting in the aggremate to over $250,000. These sales and purchases were confined to our own citizens, and no Eastern capitalist was concerned in the transactions. _There are other negotiations in progress, which will probably be brought to a happy conclusion in a short time. In fact there is some improvement, slight it may be, Dbutitis better than staznation. The com- mercial depression has weeded out many weak Yhouses, but nes and strong ones ure comiog in 1o take their places, and hence business prop- erty is likely to be in demand. The following arc the important transfers of the weel Edwin Lee Brown sold to Marshall Field 40x 190 feet on Washington street, store building occupied by Hadley Bros., for $70,000. Jacob Rehm sold to Charles Hitcheock lot on Fitih avenue, 1153 feet north of Polk street, Yest front, 661x106 fect, improved, for $18,000. Charles Hitcticock sold to Jacob Rebm lot on North Clark street, southwest corner of Dewey Court, east front, 400x250 feet, for $30,000 Daviel H. Hale sold to Conrad Stipp, lot on Groveland Park avenue, northwest corner of Thirty-Brst street, cast front, G feet to alley, with building, for §5,250. Albro E. Bishop sold to M. C. Dean, lot on West Adnins strect, northwest corner of Mor- gan street, south front, 50x150 feet, improved, 1or, §20,000. Samuel A. Kean sold to John Q. Adams, num- bers 120 and 122 Franklin street, $4x30 feet, for §54.000. Stephen IL. Ladd sold to Clarinda Elliott lot on West Congress strott, northeast corner of Campbell avenue, south Iront, 125575 fect, with Suildings, for 310,500, 1. B. Bovd sold for William Post, housc and Jot on Wabash avenue, between Thirty-first and Thirty-second streets, for §4,700: 80 acre farm, 7 miles west of Chicago, for 32,000 cash; 160 acre farm half mile trom Stone, Voodbury County, Towsa, for 32,000 cgsh; farm of 20 acres, adjoining Richview, Washington County, 1., for Thomas & Co., for 52,000, S. W. Kroff sold eight brick houses on_the southeast corner of Hermitageavenue and Polk strect for §4,500 cach; brick house on Leavitt Btroct, north of Taylor street, for $3,500; thir- ty-ninc lots in Harding’s Subdivision, in Blocks 2 10, and 15, just east of Northwestern Cai shops, at §500 each; twenty-seven lots in Blocks 1and '8 in Maplewood at $300 each; 50 feet in Block 10 in Irving Park for $1,000; brick_house on Walnut street, north front, just cast of Sac- ramento avenue, Tor 53,000, Part ot the above were cxchanged for Illinois and Missourl farms. 3 E. S. Dreyer & Co. have suld 400x250 feet, cast front, on North Clark street near Diversey, for 52,0003 40<100 feet, with brick _buil Nos. 409, 411, and 413 Filth avenue, near Pol street, for $15,000; 1005120 feet on Sedzwick street, near Centre, for S7,500—to be improved at once; 24x125 feet, brick house and lot, on Orchard strect, near Sophia, for $5,000; cottage and lot on North Franklin street, near North avenue, for $1,300; lot_on Milwaukee avenu, near Wood street, for $2,250; cottaze and lot on Dixon street, near Division, for $1,100. “This is not the time of year when subarban property is much in demand, and heuce it is not surprising that there arc not many sales to note in this department. Almost all the suburbs have o few sales torecord, but they seldom ex- ceed onc or two in each locality. Four lots in Ira Brown's addition to Park Ridge sold for 31.200; one lot at Washington Heights, $400 one lot in the vicinity of Humboldt Park, $+: onc lot_at Wilmette, $300: two lots at Lakc Grove, $500; four lots at Bartlett, $200; onelot at Palatine, $450. SATURDAY’S TRANSFERS. “The following Instruments were filed for record Saturday, Feb. 9. Gty rrorenTr. Dashiellst, 69, 3-10t of Trventy-cighth, Releases. .. et. cf, £1x12% It, dated Feb. 9. _ Southport av, 8 w cor of C st, ¢ f. 25312 1t, improved, dated Dec. 5, 1577-..... 750 North Wells st, 47 5-101t o of Carl 6t _ w f, 243100 'ZL gnled ‘Ffa)_. (;.!.. hd 2,500 ismarck et, 135 ft w of Washtenaw av, nl::“&%xlfl"{ Yt.aflalcd July 3L 187 600 Bismarck st, 133 ft w of Washtegaw av, o 1, 25x12% ft, dated Jan. 23. NOWIE OF CITTLINITS, WITIIN A TADICS OF SEVES SULES OF THE COUNTJIOUSE. Nortn Clark st, near Wrightiwood av, w1, 3 o o aor, dated Teb. S 2,500 SOUTIE OF CITY LINITS, WITHIX A FADICS OF SEVEN MILES OF THE COCTET-TIOUSE. Buarroughs av, 123ftn of Filty-second Et, w1, 125125 1t, dated Feb, 7......5 SUMMARY ¥OR THE WEEK. The followine is the total amount of city and suburban _transfers witoin a radius of seven sniles of the Court-House filedfor recordduring tlic week cnding Saturday, Feb. 9: Gity 2,000 sales, 54; consideration, $292,151 North of city limits, sales. 7; consideration, 313,300. South of ety limits, sales. 5: consideration, $8.550. Total sales, 66. Total consideration, $344,50L REAL ESTATE TN 84X FRANCISCO. The San_t'rancisco Jéeal Estate Civcular gives the following as the condition of the real estate market in San Francisco in January : The run on the Odd Feliows' and Clay-Street Sovinzs Banks last moutn, and the intemoerate haranzucs of lavor aziiators did much 13 restr.ct real-estate transactions. ‘The welcome rains, too, bad ¢ simfler eflect, teaiporarily, as they haveren- dered walking and land examination didicult ana unpleasant. -~ Notwithstanding these drawbdacka, however, 195 city real-cstate sales were made in. January, of the value of 1,403,350, This is a very good showing. indced. under the circum- stances. Much of the money witbdrawn fromn the -banks will zo into real estate, for the ma- of those who have money saved now appre- cinto Fafety more than anything clse, und they cannot, of conrse, find anything more safe than city vruperty. Al foars of a fall in prices from another dry feason_have passed away, tnd whiie we think, ns we enid_a_ month ngo, that 1578 may verbaps not be a lively year mi real csiate, even with the abundant rainfail, we may jartl suticipate a ood, if not an active, busincss at fuil prices. W. N. STURGES. His Reply to tho Recent Communication Sent to the Directors of the Board of Trade. CmnicaGo, Feb. 9.—To J. . Preston, W .T. Buker and others—GeNTLEMEN: Your state- ment or protest of the Tth inst., being the only commumeation in relation to differences be- tween myself and certain members of the Board of Trade whose authorship is avowed, is the only one in my judgment deserving an answer. In that you enter futo the general details of transactions which I do not deem to be open questions, for the following reasons: Twenty- four members of the Board preferred five dis- tinet charzes azainst me, which covered all the points taken by you. Those twenty-four mem- bers acted as prosecutors, the Directors as jurors, and I as defendant. Five or six hundred pages of evidence were taken, and a large aumbCr of members of the Board np- peared as witnesses and were examived upon the various charges. The prosccution was conducted in the most diligent manner, and the Directors, atter full deliberation, decided that the charges made were not sustained by the evidence. This, according to all rules of equity and justice, decided all the points in question. The orixinal and only eause of the charges be ing preferred against me arose from the fact. that the Cook County National Bank issued 305,000 of margin certifinates which it was not able to pay. This bank, in 1874, was declared o depository for margins. A bond for the pay- ment of $300,000 fo seeare mariin certiticates issued by the bank was filed with and accepted by the Directors. An oflicisl announce- ment was made by the Directors to the members of the Association that the certifl- cates of the Cook County National Bank must be taken as margins on trades. Toe Cook Coun- ty National Bauk on B. F. Allen’s order issued to me, as mareids for the seeurity of the trades made for him, 3365,000 of certiticates, which I in return zave 1o the members of the Associa- tion on trades I had with them for Alien. On Dee. 1 the amount of certificates outstanding Tiad been reduced to abont S€6,000, when an agreement was made between the owners of these certiticates and mysell by which the certifi- cates were placed in the hands of Asa Dow, as trustec, to be held for sixty days, and, if not paid _before the expiration of that time, to be delivered to the owners in y- ment of the indebtedness. These certill- eates at the expiration of the time were delivered to the owuers, who brought suit against the Cook County Natioual Bauk aud ob- tained juogment tbercon, surrendering the original certificates for the certificates of the Receiver, and collected the dividend. The Re- ceiver then brought suit aginst me on these identical certificates. The suit was tried before Judge Gary, of the Suoerior Couri. The trial occupied several days. Three bundred pages of testimony were taken; all the facts relating to the transaction were carciully examined. The books of the bank were exhibited, Allenand every one clse havivr any kuowledge of the tran3action were exawined and cross-cxamined, and the following is the statiement made by the Chicao press of the decision of Judze Gary in the case, which is the best answer [ can make to many of the statements contained in your re- pors: On Monday Judge Gary decided a case of im- ‘portance to the parties and of interest to the mem- bers of trade as developing the ** true inwarduess ™ of the traneactions known as the --Sturzes corn denl ™ of September and October, 1874. The suit was by A. 1I. Burley, Receiver of the Cook County National Bank, azafnst William N. Sturges, ond was brought to recover from Sturges shout S150,000 for mariin certificates ivsued by the bank, ‘and which were used by Sturges in ‘margining his deals. It appeared o evidence that in making all these deals Sturges acted only ee broker for I ¥. Allen, who furnishied 21l the maruins, cansing the certifi- cates for that purpose to be isaucd by the bank. In this manner the b: {ssued about $630,000 of marzin certificates, On Sept. 26, 1874, there were outstanding of these margin certificates §1165, - 000, all of which at the then price of corn were lost in the deal. On that day Allen informed Sturges that the bank was without funds and coald not_pay any, of the certificates; that if as much as $10,000 were presented for payment the bank wonld close its, doors. At thesame time he answered Sturges that,af slxty days’ time conld be oblained, he coulda Vya loan place the bank in funds and then take care of the certificates, Itwas swornto as the opinion of the Board of Trade members that, ifat that tume it had been known -that the bank "could not pay the $365,000 outstanding (all of which ¥as owing to members of the Board of Trade), a panic on the Board which would have wrecked a majority of its dealers woald hiave been fnevitable. Sturges, on cousltation with s friends and under the advice of his attorncy, decided to default on his deols, and to fight for time for the bank. ~For this ho was prosccnted by the Board, and, but for an injunction, wonld have been 'summarily expelled. ' After the - defuuit Sturges with his own mouey took up about $102,- 000 of the oatstanding cernficates, for which he has never received a dollar, while his default Jessened the balance to about $105,000, which are euill outstanding, and for which in part this snit wzs brought. “The testimony showed, according to the Judge, that Sturges, to save others, had of- fered himself ns 8 sacrifice, and, keeping his reasons sccret, has suifered the misiudgment and accueations of the very men who weré saved by his act. 1t n{:nflnrcfl that Starces never had oy in- terest in the deals, but only acted as broker for Allen, and that, in bis coursc afterwards, he had acted under the advico of his attarney, who was substantially assured by Allen that, by zetting sixty days’ time, the bank would pay all its certifi- cates. The Court decided all these points In favor of Starges, and gave judgment for him. The $102,000 was paid by me to brokers for the reasou that they acted on my orders and lookod to me for Emmcunn, while the members having trades with me direct accepted the cer- tificates as protection, The Committee of which you are members assume to have been appointed by my creditors, Noclaim s or has been made against me for any indebtedness to any member of the Board of Trade except that “growing out of these margin certificates. I was never suspended for non-compliance with the rules of the Board or for non-payment of any indebtedness due from me. _You, in fact] seek to induce tne Directory to refuse to reinstate me urtil I shall have paid the amount claimed by you upon these margin certificates, aud hence seck to_take advantage of your position to induce the Directors to act as ‘your coliecting agency through which you ‘would force me to purchase my reinstatement. In your statcment or protest” you accuse me of misrepresenting the facts in my statement of Jan. 27. This I deny. All the facts therein stated are true. I haye the sworn testimony of witnesses to substantiate them, and challenge proof to the contrary. About two years ago I presented substantially the same statement to the Director, containing the real facts of the case, and asked that legal proceedings be aban- doned and 1 be reinstated. They answered that, inasmuch as the matter was before the Courts, they would await that decision and then take such action as might be deemed right. As I have not yet asked to be re- jnstated, vour protest seems premature. I am, however, informed that a petition asking my reinstatement has been circalated aad signed by nearly &wo-thirds of the most active and best, members of tne Association. W. N. StunGEs. 5 —_——— ROMAN CEMENT AND CASTOR BEANS. To the Editor of The Tridune. BerrooLy HoxE, Near Dwight, I, Feb, 8.— The working of the present system of tariff was never more beautifully illustrated than in an item of news in Tue Cmicaco TRIBUNE of Thursday, which rcads as follows: Phil Wadsworth has arrived here [Washington! 10 ook after the intercsts of Roman cement, whicl Das been omitted from the Wood Tariff bill. ‘The proposition of Wood is that all articles omitted from the bill are to enter duty free. Wadsworth will be joined to-morrow by represeatatives of this industry from ali parts of the couniry. The man- ufactare of this cement has galy becn undertaken within the last two years, and ihe managess claim that it caunot be successfully conducted witawut the present 20 per cent ad-valorem tax, which is ©qual to about 30 cents a barrel. In other words, évery consumer in the United States must pay AMr. Wadsworth zund **the representatives of this fudurtry * 40 cents a barrel in order that they may make cement. We say to 3r. Wadsworth et al,, if you cannot make cement withont 2 boufty of 40 cents o barrel paid to you by every énsumer, let your cement works ‘“bust!” ‘T Mr. Editor, we may issue ol the silver dollars the mints can turn out for the next Alty years, and yet we shall be no better off if every * fn- dustzy ” in this country continues to run to \Vashington affer bounty, to be stolen from te hard earninzy of the people “John Oberly. of Cairo, tells a zood story of the man down in Egypt. Hewas raising castor- beans, and, hearing that castor oil was going to b admitted frec of duty. wrote to Washington begrrine Morrison not to do such a foolish thing, as it would ruin kim ! - Cement and castor-beans no doubt will carry the day. PLOWHOLDER. “WOMAN'S RIGHTS.” Matilda Gage vs. June Swisshelm—Some- thing About Fomalo Sulfrage, Vic Wood- Jull, Sara Spencer, Judas, Sapphira, and Lady Jane Grey. o the Editor of The Tribune, FaxrrreviiLe, Onandaga Co., N. Y., Jan. 81.—My attention has been talled to & letter uuder the titlc of *Woman's Rights,” in your issuc of Jan. 23, from the pen of Jane Grey Swisshelm. One year ago the present winter, Mrs, Swiss- helm sat upon the platform of the National Womar-Suffrage Couvention in Washington, os part and parcel of those whom she now styles * Frec-Love mobocrats ”’ aud the worst of * fe- male lobbyists.” She pot only sat upon the platform {ashionably attired in @ black-silk, trafling Princess dress (whispered, made in Paris), but she also made a long speech,—*talked, talked, talked,” with such “indifference to printed programme,”—* talk- ed fn time previously assizned to other sneak- ers” to such an cxtent that at least one lady “gdvertised vo lecture” for that evening, ana whom it was supposable the audience came to hear, was obliged to forego speaking altogether. More than this, Mrs. Swisshelm offered the Committee on Resolutions s series of six or cight resolutions prepared by herself, which were 50 weak 2sto compel their entire rejee- tion. Can it possibly be that revense for this rejection inspired Alrs. Swissheln’s letter,—n letter alilke showing the traits of a Judasand a Sapphira? It certainty looks like it, and the more especially 23 the Indy most furiously as- sailed by her was Chairman of that Committee. Did Jane’s presence at this Convention make 2 row upon the platform ™t Was it a * bur- lesque Convention * because of the part Jane took in it} Does Jane relate her persoaal ex- nerience when sbe speaks of “all the glory of elegant toilettes and winning smiles, backed by flattery,” the “artful appeals to_personal van- ity,” and “display of personal charms? Was it” through these instrumentalities that, after two winters' ** lobbying.”” Janc at last obtained a worthless patent, which, we have her own e knowledgment, ‘‘no architect will adopt 1 Docs Jaug.* represent the feminine delicac of America " when she writes such “very b:'\zi English " as, “ Il every Senator lind broken into a guffaw, rolled over and laughed, thrown up his lieels, held his sides and roared,” ete., ete., cte.? Shade of Martha Washington, forbid ! Mrs. Swissbelm’s letter presents Ler in one of two characters.—that of a traitor to thoso with whom she worked only one short year ago, orthat of a base calumniator who has sold her- self to these tales of misrepresentation and falschood for the money they will- bring her. Either one marks her as a person unfit to be heard by the American press. Let us run lightly through her succession of calumnies. First, she starts with reference to * the re- cent aunual preseatation of petitions througn the Woman's Rights Conventlon.” The peui- tions to which she thns refers, some 12,000 names. were sent to Washingtou from thirty- five different States, and presented to Congress one month bafore the Womaun's Rights Conven- tion assembled. Next, she enters into what she terms an “ex- planation,” in which she says the Woman-Suf-~ frage compalen in Weshington was opened some eight years azo *‘by a coterie of women rushing. to _Washingion, and * thrust- ing Victoria Woodbull torward as the Com- ing Weman,” and, “through their combined efforts, won this represen{ative of thefr causca Senatorial recozuition.” This statement is an untrue one. Two successive Conyentions had been held in Wasbington before Mrs. Wood~ hull’s name was ever mentioned In connection with suffrage. The third Conveation had been appointed. its hal hired, s programmes out, and the ladies to conduct it assembled, when, to their astonishment, influential Republican Senators came {0 them, requesting their coalition with Mrs. Woodhull, on the ground that she made claim to woman’s right to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment, and bad sccured a hearine for the presentation of her argument, which was looked upon with favor by many of thosc Scnators and Members who "had taken part in the manipulation of thls amendment, and who were supposed to know its real siguifi- cation. This proposal of high members of the Repub- lican party,—Senators,—men, too, Who were well-known Woman-Suflragists,~was at first pointedly refused. ** But,” said the Senators, *if you ignore Mrs. Woodhtll, you ignore your- selves and your cause. She has'the ear of Con- eress; her demand is likely to meet with fa- vory? ete, The discussion, trials, and court-decisfons which followed this bearing, the country well koows; but there are two points not equally as well remembered. One is, that this demand and argument_were made by Mrs. Woodbull several years before she promulzated her social theories. At tiat time she neitber Iectured nor conducted a paper, but was simply known as a broker in Wall strcet. Another voiut: The claims of woman’s right to vote under the Four- tecnth Amendment Wwas not an original idea witn Mrs. Woodhull, but was one of the princi- ples of the National Woman-Suffrage Associa- tion, had been so announced in the Revolution one year before, and under it Mrs. Virginia L. Minor, of St. Louis, had demaaded the right to vote, It was on ier case that final decision by the Supreme Court was rendered in 1876, Mrs, Swisshelm has made a strange medley of *“Sara Spencer,” the “Girls’ Reform School,” *¢ the Convention of two years ago,” * Congressional hearing,” etc. By what proc- ess of garbled ideas could she speak of Sara Spencer ns in * a jaunty hat and fashiouable toilette,”"—a woman who denies hersell proper clothing that she may aid the outcasts of her own sext Although earncst has been Mrs. Spencer’s effort to estadlish a ““ Reform School for Girls,” vt the time she and ** that Presi- dent ™ were for awhile absent from the Cou- ventioa of two years ago was not, as Mrs. Swisshelm avers, on any business of “ meeting a Congressional Committee to urge an appro- Prinflun for that School,” ther were they “ closeted with a set of men tb confer on the Social Evil.” Those two ladies were simply secated by themselves in the ladies’ gallery of the Senate to listen to the presentation b Senator Sargent of a Centennial Womau’s Suf- trage Memerial, prepared by the officers of the National Woman-Suffrage Association, and of the District of Columbia Franchise Association, asking that the right of suffraze should be sc- cured equally to the men and women of the District of Columbia—a memorial which met with the very kind and unusual reception of bemng read in full before the Senate. This me- worial was_afterward introguced in the House by the Hon. 8. §. Cox, a Democrat, and_drew {orth a fine speech in its favor from Gen. Banks, a Republican. Mrs. Swisshelm’s “face” may well “barn,” her “blood " may well “tingle’ forevermorc, as she recalls her base insinuations and degrading innuendoes in refercnce to those ladies, one of whom—a gray-haired, pale-faced woman of 50, in a dress that had secn a dozen years of service —she represented ag o ** yellow-baired,” “rec- cheeked,’ very-much-dressed woman of half that age. Neither Is Mrs. Swisshelm truthlul in her in- sinuations that the President of that Conven- tion strove to evade the colicction of a leziti~ mate municipal fee. No law demanding such feefor lectures or conventions has ever been extant in Washington. But policcmen, caleu- lating npon the presumable ignorance of strang- ers, have sometimes made attempts, contrary tolaw, to collect such fee for their own pock- ets. Knowing the law, the President refused to pay the fllegral fee demanded, aud the impo-~ sition was bronght so fully before the notice of Washington suthoritics, and the police so se- serely threatened by the District-Attorney, that no subsequent attempt of the kind hasever becn made, 5 ‘But personal misrepresentations are of very little moment by the side of those which belie a great reform, _ ‘I'he question of woman’s right to the ballot is one rapidiy advancing in general regard. Congress as a body has this winter recelyed the demauds of the Woman-Suflragists with distin- quished _consideration. Not only have their thousands of petitions been handsomely received, but resoiutions to secure & hearingupon them be- for the bars of both the Senate and House were prepared and jutroduced by~ prominent mem- bers of each body,~Vice-President Wheeler aud Senator Sargent, of the Senate, Speaker Ran- dall and the Hon. Mr. Kelley, of the Housc,— the honors of party being thus equally divided. In the House this resolution received the large aflirmative vote of 107. 7 Jan. 10, Senator Sargent, by unavimous cou- sent, introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to_the Coustitution of the United States which should prohibit States from dis- *inch screw cuuting lathe: aito, one shaj Iol;a:gising United States citizens on the ground In addition to this, a hearing of Woman-Saf- fraze representatives beforo the Commitice on Privileges and Elections (the Committce to which these petitions had been -referred) was granted for two hours each, upon two succes- sive days, Jan. 11 and 12. At the conclusion of the specches, Judze Hoar offered the following resolution, which was adopted: i That the arguments presented to this Committes by the representatives of the petitioners {or a Sixteenth Amendment, protecting the rights of women citizens, have 'been characterized by dig- mity, ability. fairness, and eloguence; and that this’ (Scnatorial] Commitice will meet for & con- sideration of the proposed amendment on Monday nest, af haif-past 20 2. m, A resolution was also passed to' print these speeches fu full, at the expense of Congress—a Senate stenographer hufiu% taken them down as they fell trom the ladics' livs. When I left Washington, they were already heine clectro- typed, and thousands of copies will soon be in ulation over the country. These facts arc in themselves suflicient an- swer to Mrs. Swisshelm’s assertion of Senatorial ridicule,—showing, on the rontrary, not only the appreciation by Congress of the fact that in ‘Woman-Sulirage lies the nest great political question the country will be called upon to meet. but also that 113 hour is uear at kand. We understand Mrs. Swisshelm once boasted in ogcu convention that she was a lincal de- scendant from the family of Lady Jane Grev. Bat, if this is the case, she bears a very far-off resemblance to thac noble lady, so famous for her learning, her uncommon sweetness of dispo- sition,” her trutbfulness, and her unsullied bhonor. Mrs. Swisshelm’s blood must have be- come sadly changed in its infiltration through intermediate chunuels from the true lady down to the common defamer. For the honor of that noble lady, who so calmly laid ber bead down upon the block rather than save her life through falschood, we trust Mrs. Swisshelm will Dere- aiter remove the * Grey” from her name, sub- stituting Sapphira in its place. MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE. —— | MISS THEE, Tmiss thee, datling, in familiar places, ‘Where we were wont to be: My neck I barcen of thy dear embraces— ‘Ever I long for thee. Tmiss thee when the sunsct's benediction Talls from a crimson sky, Remembering bours whose Iustre was as golden As ever burned on I miss thee when the trvilight cometh sadly, With veiled and dewy eyes— So like thy presence s the cvening's slence. And calm, star-lighted skies. Timiss thee when the rare, moonmade mosaics Steep in leaf-guarded uisles; And every moonbeawm hath a sorrow in it, Without iy voico and smiles. No dreams of mine which reach the farthy But find thee always ther Sl Some vagae avalogy to thee s nidden In all things syveet end fafr. To me, carth's brightness is but empty darkness Whero sitine not ¢ycs of thine; And al the music of the splheres is discord ‘Without thy voice divine. Tuzo, M. CARPENTER. THE TRIZUNE BRANCIH OFFICES. T ORDERTO ACCOMNMODATE OUR NUMEEODS patrons throughout the eity we have established iracch Utlices in the different Divislons. as Aesignated below. where agvertisemends will be taken forthe same price o8 charged at che Maln Ofice, and will be recelved until 8 o'clock p. m. durlug the Week, and Tnt 5 b. . C. L. WILCOX, Doogseller and &tatiozer, 170 Tyent-weond-st. ear Wabash-ay. o arALl tatloner, cc., 1000 A KOBERT TULUMSTON. Woest-Side N Bive Teland-av. Ot iimigeica o Depot 1 GEORGE 111 Books, Stationery, ete., 320 DI- . C. HERRICK, Jeweler, News-Dealer, and Fancy . 220 Lake-st., corner Lincoln, PERSONAL, NFORMATION WANTED OF RO T JAMES Alexander, who Jeft Chicago In 1867 for St. Louls, and fo March, 1543, went Lo Kaasas. Should any one know of his whereahouts, they would do a great favor by scndinz his address to an old friend, who has not heard or #éen him fur ten ddress’ for 3 daya, M. B. WEI Chicago, Il St. paperr please copy. NFORMATION WANTED~IMMEDIATELY OF Mrs. Helen 31, or Ilenry 8. 0d and sox to claim aroyalty in mspufacturing an improve: . Ad- dress HOPKINS BROS.. actorneys, Pliladelphla. Pa., Jort FFER AND NO QUESTIONS asked for Loots and shaes siolen on ‘Madison-st. Baturday murning. _Address Bv6. Tribunc office. F.:" LOOKED FOR YOU. SIL Al WIDOW, LATELY FROM New York, would lile to form the acquainzauee of amiddie-azed fentof IEeans who would assist licr; 1o triders necd answor. _Address ¥ 79, ‘i ribune orfice. WAS THES TRY AGAIS. ALTRED RICHARDS, TO ‘erly of the St. Louls Life-Insurance Comipany, of s city, pleaso call at 906 Sichigan-av. when con- vealent & MADISON AND sts.., ahout 6 o'cl v ing Mag S TWwo geatlenicn pass returned. acrceable, an acqualntance 1s desired. Address D 79, Tribune ofice : PrEsoNar_Io § enized Alr Treatment for Catarrh#” 74, Tribunc odlce. PERSONAL-A GOOD-EOGKING, RESPECTABLE Joung iady, fulf of life und piéwsure, can mectu entienian of aame descripton. Address, {u contidence, E31, Fribune otlice. LOST AND ¥OUNB. FOUSD AN IRISK SETTER - OWNER SEND perfect description to G. E. FELTON, Msyor'e office, or Ifouse of Correction. [ETE PRESON w10 TOOR POCKETBOOK FRON ‘me ot Tabernacie last Monday nizht Teturns antinue apers. and certificates 60 of East Calfforain LS DI BLOOD'S “OXY: Address © Stinie roward will be given: no questiona ng Comy ! ven: no Ques! 2ked: DB 169 South Halated-st. OST—_LAST TH AT EVENING, REDSATIZ and Turiey morocco fan, golng north on Ciybourn- av. car to Che: ... thence 1o Crace M. E. Church. Finder piease 2 Ohio-St., aad récelve reward: NEAR PACIFIC NMOTEL OFF CLALK-ST. car, a stone bracclee, old-fashioned, and” oaly of Yalueto owner. Leave at 159 State-st., and rocelve reward, OST—ON THIRTY-FIFTI-ST.. DETWEEN BUT- terfield and Dearborn. an embroldered piliow-sham. Tie inder will please relurn to 524 Vernon-av., and re- celve reward. T O§i-FRIDAT, TETWERY LEAVITEST. ASD Michigan _Southern depot. on Landolph or La- Snllewsts.. ' Toll of monvy wrapped In newspaver. Finder witt_be foernlly rewarded b leaving same 513 Fulton-st., up- % SEDGWICK-ST. AND COR- wer of Archer-av. and Twents-second-st. 18 osts: tickots marked O.. A. & Co.. Lot 207. Liberal reward will be pald to any one recurnlog the same to 93 Sedgylck-at. 55 () TUILL PAT 510 FOR THE RETURY OF DU the ciothing 2nd jewelry taken froin my resi- nizht last. and make Toernian Bank. denee, 122 Rush-+t.. on_ Mon no tnquiry. J. V. CL:\!!hF., 13 HOUSEHOLD GOORS, AT, A REDUCTION — FURNITURE, CARPETS, ok Jloves, aa crociery, on terms to uft the pur- Shaser. e carry the largest, most reliable, best fin- fshed, end selected stook of fvods to be found in any jouse-farnishing establishment In the clty. Our goodd clng largely of our own manufacture, wa can make Qur customers 3 lower ficure 02 better £oods thah most gther-dealers. ' Wo hase nlarge line of the latest de- $igns 1n Brussels and lngrain carpets that we offer at ¢ lowest cash prices on ensy payments. In our furnl- fure department we base cveryihlar, from the fnest- inlshed marble-top dressing-case stft to the lowest- priced bureau: also patior suits and lonnges In every style and_ color in aa endless variety. Our stock of 4toves contains some of the bestand most-favorshiy 90Wn parlor-stovcs, cooking-stoves, nad Kitchen: ranges ever offercd I this city. Wo sell all our goods o casy cerms, and are the only house In the city that sell exclusively I that way. We {nvite ail bayers to ot themselves by learning our brices And oxamining our £0ods before completing purchases elsew:here. JOIN M. SUYTIL, 13§ West Madison-st. CARD-THE UNION FURNITURE COMPAN 803 West Vadison-si-. sefl 81l Eio(s of honsshod £00d3 on **monthly payments,” Jow prices, easy terms, xencrous treatment: Black walout chamber sets, 35 10 $40; m:rhl!-lgfl burcan_sets, $45 1o $55; dressing- case fels, $45, $35, S5, 575, §85, 21107 patent rock- ers in terry, plush, and brocade, with or without silk stripe or patiing, from $15 to $35, an clegant lne; lounges, single'or double, in great varicty. Thelf Champton ¥ bed lounge. doublé head, extra lenath, $15, cheap. Porlor sultaln terry. hair cioth, and pin $45. £65. $75, $35, £110. Centre tabies, in wood and marbie-top. from $4 t0 $25; elegant iibrary-tables. with cover to sult. They have carpets, SlOYCs, Crockery, glaasware, tinware, cutlery, &c., &. Everything sold 8t bottom prices and oc. easy payments. Examination St o ot o metty SR nd ho ade comfortable by furnishing from the UNION FURNITDx:E CO., 503 West M. n-8t. Open Tuesdsy and Saturday evenings. AN WANTING FURNITORE OF ASY Kind chea for cash or on easy monthiv payments, shiouldnot fall to exainine our atock before purchusin, We nave uperior and medtum patlor, chamber, and dining-room furnfture. carpets, stoves, crockery. and d of all kinds, which we are selilng at ! Houses and Hi¥inz rooma furnished et A R S S e adison-st., ear the bridge. iy EOE SALE. 'OR SALE—CIEAP—AT 80 AND 52 WEST RAN: dofph- “Four pool-tables with Iyos TR0 Uiian b, o Pl Two dormast scales. One hay-press. ‘Two sets grocery fixtures. One sex butchers’ fixtares snd tools, ‘Two saloon outfits, One Targe black walnut efreular connter. One grain wazon and two sets harness, Que seroll saw (Jeromo §. Mosiey, Syracuse, N. Y., patent ¢ ‘Three burglar and fire-proot safez. One top bUgRy. FPOR SALE-THE FISEST AND TARGEST As- sortment of 4-ply 2300 llnen coliars and cuffs ever hown In this market. Collars 20cents exch, or $3 per dozen; cufls, 35 cents a palr, o 3 Dalr for $1. re Versibie styles. 'These are the 'very finest £oods and e e il oy vou. - - Lone. Star™ Shire Can cre; 1t wi ly you. **Lone Star™ - pany, 188 Dearborn-st ?nem-?oss-omm. ot T SALE—OR EXCHANGE—1 LALGE ALMOST new stoves. sultabie for store cr factary. Address 173, Tribuge oitice. 2htiy dama sold very cheap. Callac SLATE FACTOY, 5o Canabist. 7 oo 70T SALE—A FIRST-CLASS ABBEY GUN, USED but a few times: Is es good as and looks 1! news C0at $400; Will be sold very low for cash, owner having o use for It Apply at Koom 5. Lakeside Building. f 70 Tec raw e comice, gus fxtares, etc. Apply oc 151 Twenty-sce- 'OR . SALE —CYLINDER DESKS, STANDING i T SR S0 i S extension tables. ER" Factory, Lake and Jeflenn‘:l'fiu-.clinmm me 'OR: SALE—DUE BILLS (TAK| IN TRADE) ON, one of the 5. Gl of fe best dentists 1a the cliy. Adlress D 3. 'OR SALE—CHEAP—BOARD OF TRAD! [EM~ bership. - Adirassd R, Trbane ofice - - OB, SALE—OR TRADE —STANDING DESK.. chairs, gl s Wushairs, lass, partltion, etc.” Rdom §, 161 ksst LARGE LOT OF CHATTEL-SIOGT For it daning (ho WeCk At GuF BOmas whs rgoumn Eithets oo stoves, e IO ELIFY AR 78 800 80 Van Bareast. RIVIAGRGO OF SALE—CHEAP, 1 POOL-TABLE, F and7tables, inquira Y LAPLE B0 GHATES. ‘OR SALE—A FINE DIAMOND RING. 3 STONES, L' cost$75, price 530, 183 Dearborn-at.. shirt store., LARGE LOT OF CHATTEL - MORTGA A oo o Sartn e oy e Rorse pave: AGE CO.. 78 ind 80 Van Burea-st s A LL AREPLENSED WHO BUYTHEIR XEW AXD SR et S A SR RS A s rurnlshed for ol X evenings. RUSSELL, 159 West indtoonar e v BARGAIN IS OFFERED IN A SECOND-HAND £L range, with all modern {mprovements: warranted £00d 04 liew. 1USSELL, 120 West Madlson-at. N ELEG. BLACK-WALNUT DEDSTEAD, €0t §45, price $15: 318 Siate-st., third foor front, ASH FAID FOIE LALGE OF, SWALL LOTS OF iouseniold goods: furnltiire of mrivate rusldences pirchased. Audress A F W, 74834 80 Van Buren-st. 0T, SALE — SEVERAL _OIL-STOVES, VE ‘heap, which have beeh used 2 Hitle (o8 sampca eall eariy, before tnoy ore all gont. - Florence Mand Tactaring Company, 50 State-st.. socond 0o URNITURE—WE ARE SELLING OUT: SAMPLE aiock of parlor farniture at cost to make room tor 6pring atsles: you wlll ind bargains (n Kuits from S30 (o $300.” MoDONOUGH, WILSEY & CO., 200 Soush Canal-ar. URNITURE, CARPETS, BEDDING, 70 iE change for clear {mproved land and cash. D’ Tribune ollice. 'OR SALE—-CIEADP—THR FURNITURE OF FOUR nestly-furnished roome, sultable for housekeepina: rare chance for yonog marrizd coupies cause. for sol iz, am leaving'the clzy. Appiy 1560 South State-s v upper belt. FDR SALE-THE 14-room housc, at XXXX, Tribune oifice LETHE FORSITCRE COMPLETE IN & of 14 rooms: will be sold at a barzaln and ted at 0w rate; location very desitable on South Stde. FARRINGTON & ACKNET, 105 Wash- ALUE-CHEAP—ONE EACH NO. 8 A rst-clns “cook-s(oves, With reservoir: also, two toves without reservolrs ail In good order. outs, 49 State-st. gant diamond eacrinzs for o Thlnd the valug: "D S Tribune otice. - OR SALE~; PRICE, A FINE DAW minksacque: worn but once. E 70, 'Kx;l!nme.A‘l iz JFOR SALE-SIXSECONDTAND SAFES; DIFFER e 3 mtei pasies sad prices " Avaly” st Toom” 12 ieCor- O SSLE=AN EXTRA FINE SOLITAIRE DIA- mnond riag, cost S175: so R \\;ni_mn;zwnvnl. COSL. 5: price $92. Room ¥, 7L [OF SALECHEAP—A GOOD GOLD WATCH: IT. E 7 T i Tcannot redeem It. Address 1 48, OR SALE—CHEAT—A VERY FINE MOCKING- *Obird, 3 years Ol 11t Ladt Modlsu-sts in stares 'OR ALE — TWO — FIRST-CLASS S AMPLI u:mg‘:nrm. e saltable for Joweley. Sartrsee o ereis Vel N "« H. 2 s geher merciaadide, very cicap T FORBES, 152 0% SALE_L CONPLETE SET OF . 5 FRACS: T Eah, lbungiflfim. Sues; some yery rare. Aded 1D LADT'S GOLD WATCIE, S Slegari. Chain. cot SEans - Wiy Sull 101 S0 1E sold to-day; must have money. re 61 West Buren-st. ttom prices. T. A, 152 JeOR_SALE-X FINE DRESSCOAT, GIEAT, nearly pew: will h T . = Uross € 11: Tellune ofice. o FoF Duslaess-coat. Ak EXCIIANGE FOR ANY KIND OF 4 goods—s firit-class Chickertng pianos ayney” Brothers plane, New York. 1. F. 501 State-st. OF SALE—TITE BEST SHIRT THE WORLD PRO- duces mado to 1t you at 2.5 each, o six for $13: 8 £ood shirt for $1.50, We use only rlfable £oods, and” Euarantee every shirt to gfse entire satisfaction or re~ Tund tne money. AL Shire Face tory. 188 Dearoorn-st., near Posé-Otice. THIED IT5 VALUE, A crvior and warming eloset. Agents, 49 State-st. 3 A _LOT OF NEW and_ Liouse-farnfshing £oods: we_lizve 1o oer before buylne Ageuts, 49 stovs & C Stat 07O WilTT) S ST, 1F you waut to get uew or second-hand_stoves ot ranges clicap; thred €0od second-hand ranges, good as news heating-stoves soid Iess than cost 1o close them ken In exchange; il Kinds of stove 00DS AT PRIVATE SALE THIS WEEK. IF You have hiousehold goods to dizpase of. and want the Tull value of them, apply. or address HODGES & CO., 662 West Lake-st. [JIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID FOI: SEGOND- Eonehand househiold goods i Tarze or smalflots. "L, 51 Sout Y PATMENTS—FURNITULE, CARPE, toves, and liousturnishine 60ds; T A-LOWELL & CO., N EAS: Y T PRICES—ALL kfncs ot furniture, Brussels and g carpets, €50k stoves. rauged, crockery. and o fng_in_tnd Jine of houskliold cods by ULICK BOURKE, 02 West Madts OR_SALE—A LOT OF_FINE braces, “worth ratchet braces, $ Luke-st. 7OF SALE=100 DOZ WATCHETS AT 83.25 AXD .25 per woz. : 10 doz. axca at STFEr doz. A. W. 141 Lake-st. E—i LOT OF FLUTING MACHINE; ER 3 cach, sadtons ic per Be A, W: 11 Lakctst., JFORSALE-A LOT OF TIE LATEST DIFROVED clothes-wringers, $3. dust-pana and fire shovels at a bargain. * A. LEIL, 141 Lake-st. JPOESALE-A LOT OF PAINT ASD FINE WHITE- wash brashes clicap; glaziers' knives, SLG0. As . WHEBLELR, 191 Laké-st NG-PANS AT 000N the dollar: alot of d thy N . \jnar;’i‘.‘xn: gllar: alot of presied tawary cncap. A W, 70T SALE—A LOT OF BUCK-SAWS 50C EACI n aws 85¢, '?!ll'llnl\' axes heand $1. A. W YiOr BALE— AOWARD FRANE PRESSES. 3@ 7 chairs, 13 counters. 40 feet 07 a-fost partition. 3 large heating-stove, with pipe; very cheap.” 143 State- —CATAWDA WINE. PURE, Iy EEGY c soxa piy gallod. LUPIN- -stalny. Pi‘ 1ES GOING TO0 HOUSEREEPING PL leave y orders with HODG! = CO. Lake-at.. and thes whall te flled 50 por cent fess than By othér houst I the city. ARTIES DISPO:! G OF THEIR HOUS! furniture, carpets, cte., will find it to theirin- terest to tirst call or address 1, 695 Lake-st. FOR STOVES MANUPACITHED AT ouls, West Lant cired equal to new. at 208 West Vel esplalne: SELLISG ORF AT COST ¥R THREE DAYS. previous 1o removal, all Kinds of fus ure, mar- Dle-fop amil other chamber sets: Parior sults In Lalr cloth and terry, stoves, crockery, glisvware, carpets, av 378 West™ Madlsun-at.; will rcmove to 24 West Madison- QTOVES—GREAT FARGAINS 1N STOVES: A O largelot t must be closed out at ones; $23 stoves reduced o $107 700d stoTes for SG: an ciegant ravg, cost_$125. for $40, st MAUZY'S, 120 Soutn Halsted-s 0 YOUNG MARRIED FOLKS, AND ALL CON- tewploting “marriages Lead ud your ear.* Now is sour opportunits to bexln housekeeninz. - We can offer yun unparalleled Inducements In_pricvs and terms of pavinent on all housenold guods. e will furnish you compiete a slngle room or & whole house, ail ready to ritn, ataday's notice. Somecash down, and the balancs weekly or mongiiy, to sult you. We have a complete and_exteasive ‘Stock of furniture, carnets, stuves, crockers, heddinz, aad i household goods. * We offer ou the jowest prices and most equitable terms in the Vest, Chamber ser: and up: parior suits, $35 and up. The celebrated Empire Parior Bedstead in ten styles. $18, §23. 535 and up. ~N. B.~0[d married folks can furnish up their house3 on_ejualiy advantazeons terms. EMBIRE PARLOR BEDSTEAD COMPANY, 383 Weat, Madizon hnig AT O; A LAKGE SECO: ‘montel-mirror. ~Address, stating dimensfons, price, etc., E 18, Tribune. O 15%22. N 3 8 WV s & 1iooin 5 Morshanes: Datlaing, WANTED=A GOOD X0, § COORING IANGE, with reservoirand warming closet: aisos mediu sized cylinder desk with book-case: and 2 good hiano. Give location and lowest price for cas. . Trib- une oflice. TOLD | <o F F'OA- SALE=A BL3 F btcen.” Appiy o & AL rice. Bostun Store, 120 Stat 1 Ine, sery farzo stose aa mrner gas dxtures. wi Cill t long, 1 store-truck. sitting desk. n nice coudition, 5o 51 Staie-st. Caliand examfne for three days, O SALE=Y FINE LOT OF §10 with' fine wainuz oftice, ats 220 Chieap. _Call early Monday. SOCKET FIRMER CHISEL &) per £ct; a fot of revolvers § ch. A LEE, 141 Lak T7OR EALE—A LOT OF WIRE PICTURE COBI £ "cheap: pleture uafls cheap. A. W. WHEELEL, 41 Lake: LOT OF CLOCKS 75C EAGH:_A LOT For SALE= of vise: ER, 141 Laze-s TOOK SALE—X LOT OF TEA SCALESSI EACIL, & scales $2.50, 240-D scales SGeack. A. W. WHERLEE. 141 LaKe-st, FOESALE-A LOTOF WIlITE IANDLE CARVERS, forks, stecls In sctd at the very 10w price of $1. A. V. WHENLEE, 141 Lake-st. 'OR SALE—A LOT OF JACK TLANES 50C FACI short folnters platies Sc each, hand axeste. 4. W, 141 Lake: ORSAL X WELE houses, hores, ‘etc. 1 1f you woi B¢, or reat anythinzat abargain. call at Doty galn Agen ¥ ot FOE SALE OND STUD FOI: $400; COST $600: 8 perfect gem. AddresaD 93, Tribunc. TOR SALE—JOB LOT OF AX HANDLES ‘cach or &0c per dozen atthe Falr, corner State and Adams-sts. QOT: SALE_BANKEUPT STOCK AND JOL LOTS 3t tho Fatr, corner State and Adamna-ats., Chicagos send for clrsul AW, WHEEL- NTER, NALF MARBLE 0p, cosL S50, foos” oval-front show- cage (Dew), cost $16, price $30: 3 amall-size oll palnt- ings, $10and S15 cach. All these ‘are decided bar- gaipa. 138 Dearborn-st. (shirt store). JrOL SALEZBUTCHERS, AND EXAMINE our ortable fixtures and feu liouses_ hefore Hiting VWASTED_PANIOR BEDSTEAD FOR CASH- K Address B 55, Tribune ofiice. up; tools and machinery of all kinds. MATHESON & CO., 78 Weat Van Buren-st. PARTNERS WANTEDo NE 6-TEAR-OLD COW WITH e young caif; or exchange for £0od Carriagu-harnessp ARTNER WANTED-BUSINESS LIGHT AND pleassnt. requires iwo to rus it euccesstully; €350 Cash for haif (terest. Adiross D 11, Tribune otice. Clarence earrlaze cheap or excliange. 22 {wenty-secr ohd-t. 0, FEWARD FoI ATION 1IN LE: ard 10,0 for retura of.an of) paluting of Joseol and Potfpher's wife, with leopard skin in “the fore- und; size ahout 23536 Inches; stolen from the L: ront during the great ire of 1571, CUAPIN & GORE, 73 and 75 Mol 5500 LEVALD FOR INFORMATION WHICT ol will enable s to Aind and fccure, by execu- tion, property to the amount of $1,000, hidden by Abraham Pollock, formerly dolng business curner of Fourth-av. and Jiartison-gi.. at present doinz business under the name of Libby Pollock, 105 West Madlson-st. All communications strictiy confidential. CHAPIN & GOIE. 73 and 75 Monroe-st. MACIHKINEEY, 0Tt SALE—12 HORSE-POWER DOILE! d two No. 1 stesm-pumps R & CO., 80 West Van Buren-st. SALE-O! TATIONARY ENGINE 1IN first-cluss order, size 14x22, cheap for cash. 57 FOT‘- SALE—A NEW 30-HORSE POWER BOILER; rare chaoce. Address I3 39, Tribunc otfice { SALE~A NEW HAVEN LATHE, 6-FOOT bed, 20-inch swing. _Address 1 00, Tribunc o PARENER, WAXTED_WITH $5,000 TO, S10,000 canital 1o take the financlal management of o Inanu- factory in Chicago. Profits large. Sale sure. Inveat- ‘ment zuaranteed. * Reference réquired and given.. Call at Room 7, 188 Fast Madlson, berween ARTNER WANTED—$10,000 OX $15.000 CASH TO engage n o cash business, has been 10 suceessful op- eration for 12 years, and will bear the strictes: inves- tigation. Address D 36, Tribune otiicc. PAITIERWANTED_WITHLSA,®0TO 10000, I a light manufactaring business, trade establishediat wholesale, profits 160 per cent. Casnot fll_orders 'as Tastas comefo. Orders 1,000 aliead. A man 1o fake charge of office and {money” mattery preferrd. Addres £21, Tribunc ofiice: PAETSERFANTED 1% AN EXTRS PROFTADLE 'business. Monopoly. Lezltimate, permanent andsafe ¥t Bea: thorough nvestizurlon. " Aduress £ 4, Trib- une otfice. NSTRUCTION, A GESTLENAN ESTADLISHED 1IN, CICAGC 88 toacher of muslc of the rat order wianes to Tmake the acqualatance of a lady stmilarly sicuated witk the view of zuing Into partaersuip. Address D 40, Tribune ottice. TOUNG GERMAN LADY DESIKES A FEW 41 more puplls 7~ 0 crms reasanadle. Ad- dress R 511, Wee Room 41, or call on Wednestuy. ANIO TAUGH: A_NEW AND SIMPLE ‘method. _Ladiea taught. * Satisfaction guaranteed. JOUN M. TORNER, of Coitscura Theatre, 87 Clark- (ICAGO SCHOOE, OF SUSIC AND SODE \ Lansuages. Room 38 _Dore Block, 3irs. E. . Free class for laitesind centicimen 1 (onday after~ il clementary French and conversation ) noon, Feb. 11, at 3 o'clock. ARTNER WANTED—IN A LEGITIMATE MER- P business, imeiog &t present & pasiog trade ith £00a prospectss 3830 to 51,000 required. ~ Address SYSTEM_OF SHOET-HAND lege of Phonography, finom FA 0t at West End & overCarson & Plrie's. Gomplete course {n i5e les sous. Day and evening clase D87, Tribune otlic ARTSER WANTED —IN A WELL-PAVING Pitadss businces, with s caplial of 500, Address 81, Tribune office. VWASIED-ERON 12 T0 18 FRET OF (SECOND. hand) cold rolled 13¢-inch shafting; must be chieap. _Address MEGILL, 83 North Curtis-st. ARTNER WANTED—WITH S1.000. TO MANU- PRt s tapte articie used (o all ta-shops; large profits. _adaress E 35, Tribune ofice. J7OR SALE~12-TIORSE PORTABLE STEAM-EN- ine s halt-price. F. G. WELCH, Room 2, 142 Lasalje-st. VW ANIED-A SEW OR SECOND-TAND FONCI ‘and shicars combined, large size: also. one 'fi;’s‘g stroke of more. Send particulars, with lowest cash price, D 47, Tribunc otllce. WA :D~GOOD SITAPING-MACIINE, SECOND- VA i Addreas At ANDREWS & CO., 130 Mather-st. ARTSER WANTED—AN ACTIVE MAN WITH P ivess stunding and som cash capltal to Join me Inthe manufacture and sale of 8 monopoly in Rouse; ‘furniture: demand and sal i 3 B s busiess earablisied. GEO. HOLT, 6 Wash- [ngston-at., Room 3. NET: WANTED-IN THE GROCEGY BUSL ‘ness, lready established. with S800 cash” Address D8s, Tribune ofice. THE RTNEI. WANTED—$000 CAPITAL. 1N A akion bhsimeas, Addross s £ Tribuge. NTED — MACHINERY OF SECOND-HAND W ASTERIT, with OF without sneie aad boilerss first-cinss and cheap; capacity 30 to 4U'm per day. Ad- dress, stating terms, etc,; C ic0, Tribune office. SEORAGE, A COMPLETE STORAGE-HOUSE FOR FIRNI- 4 other goods, 200 to 200 l:andolph-tt. 0 chiarige for smail advazce ADTSER WANTED—TO MANUFACTURE MfT P eciiete faf wiris and boys. Address S. C. ME- GILL, 83 North Curt(s-st. ARTNER WANTEDZWITH €300 OR MORE TO ‘Sart 5 butter purl(ying busiacsa by o paseat pro- Cess; over 100 per cent urofit; £O competition; can Taake S10,0008 year, Address D 6, Tribuoe oflice. ABTNER WANTED—WITIT $10,000 OF MORE BY house In grain, eic.; long establlsh: DA Snniston howe i ot s oo ot IDELITY STORAGE COMPANY, 78 AND 80 VAN IDELXII‘I-YSInc]l'EI:.?:d {tacilitfes for storage of furni- ture and geaeral merchandise at lowest rates: buseivs $1 per month; advances 2t curreat rates; gafery vaulis. CLAIRVOYANTS, TASTIAN & TATLOR, 180 E. ADAMS-ST.MATER- B v ds ovory night. excep T acsdar 200 Savurday. CIMrvogaat slttings dally trom 11 t03. SASTIAN & TALLOK, 180 E. ADAMS-ST., MATER- B s fo i ceauces cvery fiht. except Tuesiay and Saturday. Clairroyant sitfinzy dajly from 11 to 3. AGENES WANTED, PSP > ~ NTS WANTED—TO CANVASS EVERY TO' A OB Y i\t nlon for 3 new and useful louse T101d artleles sells rapidly ac sizhz: lberat faduccmen Sondfor terins. _Doflar Washing Machine Company, 162 it Halsted-st., Chicago. N R S SURINTING HATE 7y, Tribune otfce. : STNER WANTED—I WANT A MAN WITH §700 Plg‘lnvuz ina paying railroad eaterprise., Address 68, Tribuneoffice. N WANTED-TWO PARTIES WIT= P A E o are engazvd In o very afe and proft: avle business, wish s partner to Joln them with $15 000 16525000 [n'en_addiclonal cnterprise which they are Just starting, Where very hanasome profits are assured, :llh \!‘nnanu:l‘l]l)' small l’h".h ’l"’he hm{:fi“ will bxihl:w;i pmally sl e e e L i S5 SpPOISHER A3 nderTiew, 1 0, Tribine: P WANTED—BY A COMPETE: ness man assiated by his wife as miiliner. a partner With $1,000 0 start 3 general store In & good, prosper- ous town, where I can assure $5,060 can be made first year. Those meaning business answer immediately fn. order Mlopt‘.fl £rstof Aprll. Address U fl “Trivune. Fn NCH _SYSTEM SHORT-ILAND-SIMPLEST IN he world. I'roofs on hand of Ita {mmense papu~ inrlty fn Europe, Asla. and i tion aad instractions by Prof. 543 G GIVEN BY PROF. GI]],‘TUI L] Hl’éguci-{lm’mfll‘ scientific performes nod feacher in the world. Studlo, 180 NOFt Clark-st. FNDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION BY A PEACTICAL I nSieurex at the Chicao Comnercial fnstitate and Eelect Schoul, &8 Lasalle-st. A good place for prac tical bookkeepers to enhance thelr knowledge of sclens tific bookkeeping. Thorouzh instruction In Eunchsh Dbranchbes. Conversational German by Dr. Zur Brucke, of the Hyde Park public schools. LA\CE—LAIHES WISHING TO LEARN THE AR’ ‘of making point lace (needle la the bLest " leave. call on Miss MOHSE, 153 Johnson- Disces finast material and patterns for sale. TVJETEOTOLITAN MUSICAT, COLLEGE-TOWEST terms for thorough [nstructlon fn clty. Vocal cul- furd aspeclalty. Studies dsy Or evening. ~ Van Buren- sL, near Wabash-av. IANO aND GUITAR MADE EASY—-A NEW method of teachlng hr which a complete knowi- tdge can be obtained of elther instrument in twenty lestons: terms very low. 57 East Washington-st. sad 260 West Lake-st. Misies GREER. PIASO, AND_¥OCAL LESSONS. 2 W NONTH ‘each by compeient Iady teachers. Practice reason- able.. 1i00ms 7 and 8 Farwell Hail. SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION AND DEAMATIC ART: ‘matiaees every week: puplls introcuced to the pUbilc as #oon as competeat: stags eccaery and all the accessorics of a finii-class theatre. Addresa L 12, Tribune otce. [HOROUGH TNSTRECCTION GIVES I FIO0G- raphy (short-hand writing) each week-day evealng. N. L LITTEN, 66 West Svaroe-st. imann: BUILDING MATERILAL. LL KINDS OF PLASTERERS' AND MASON3' A fRaeiie kent cozsiantiy on hand and sold o an: Quactitity,at KERSEY'S fobbing shop, 194 LaSalle-st., near Adams, Best hand-made hair morzsr, 1 per bar- rel. Beat Wisconsin Hine patey, $1.30 perbarrel. PAITSEE WASTED-TITH §1,000, Y A COMPE- ‘tent business man, assisted By bls wife s 8 mil- liner, to start & general store {o 3 £ood. prusperous town. where I can assure $5,000 can be made first year. ‘Those meaning business suswer Immediately, In order % open 1at of April._D 24, Trihunc otfice. ARTSEE WANTED—AT ONCE, BY A RELTA- ble party, in & money-making manufaciaring busl: ‘ess of atavie goods of merit; good salesman prefes ™ require $5,000 10 $15,000. At B 48, T une, FOR —AN_TMMENSE STOCE OF LOCES, O oba LT Al Kiagh of waidcra: bardware. Great Darzainsoffered. A. W. WHEELER, 141 Lake-st. 3 ) LADIES' FHYSICIAN, M2, OB o ar. becween Ciack aud Dearborn; patleats can obialn 7ooms avd treas e OB SALE-VESSELS—A SNUG FLEET OF STEML