Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 28, 1878, Page 16

THE CHICAGO . TRIBUNE SUNDAY..JULY 28, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES:s SAN FRAKCISCO. Death of Isaac Friedlander, the Cali- fornia Grain King. At Times Worth Millions, He Left His Family but $20,000. Huggestion for 8t. Louis: Go to San Francisco in Summer. Triplets, end What Their Rapid Produotion May Lead To. Montagee Makes a Big Hit with His Play of Diplomacy.” ISAAC FRIEDLANDER. Bperial Correspondencs of The Tribun, 8ax Francisco, July 20.—Our vioneers. are going down like ripe grain befors the sickle. Tt is but shree years since W. C. Ralston's tragic death, yet in that short time many have gobe to bear him company. Lick, Otis, Sclby, Howard, O'Brien, Maynard, Watt, and lastly Friediapder. They were nearly all associated with him more or less,—a few of them, indeed, his prime counselors and quite familiar with those mystic rooms on Commercial street, the scene of many a midnight meeting and of many a deeply-concocted scheme. Almost the last of the powerfal group died 1sst week. This was Iszac Friedlander, better known both here and abroad by bis pseudonym, the ¢ Catifornia Grain Kioe.” He wasas abso- lutely monarch of the wheat market as Ralston ‘was prinoce of financs during his brief, mcteoric career. Scarce & blade of grass grew in California that did not bend to his power and pass through his hands at some stage between planting ana consumption. His reign lasted close upon twenty years. His enterprises- were mapnificent. So were his faflures. In eitber case he generally ran into the millions. At the time of one of his most stupendous crashes he settled with his creditors for 10 cents on the dollar. But he devoted his wonderful energy to redeeming himself, and, in an incon- ceivably short time, had paid them dollar for d"}‘]l:ir; built his credit upon arock. He was compelled to suspend twice afterward, but received every assistance, partly because he was believed in, and parzly for the more scliish rea- 'he wears a dress-coat better "preity name of Schenck, having excited but a- passing interest; aud. the agerieved: parents great deal of tronble with small. reswit. Kor- tunately they are bays,so there is room for them. B T Oue inexact statistician "observed- the other day that there were nine girls attending the ‘public schools to onc bey. “ This is an over-csti- mate, but the superabundanceof girls is enough to promise us that fn a few years we shall out- ival Massachusetts in the item of old maids. These girls will be a serious problem for Cali- fornia some day. There are no factories or larpe cstablishments of any. sort to ive employment to them in " vast® numbers 25 in England and New Englacd, and marriage is not a popular institution. The habits of both pexes are t0o extravagsnt to make the luxury general, for all California’s men and women are born spendthrifts. X = Auy one reading the marriaze notices habitu- ally will observe that seven out of ten are Jewish marriages. And, as these people always take care of themselves, however largely their nuibers increase, they Cever become a.problem to any one. They take charge of their own voor, find employment for their own children, and never divorce or murder their wives. ‘The latest wife-murder in _the too lone Iist of recent crime was of a peculiarly atrocious char- acter. The victim was an old Womwao, and had been 2 wife for forty years. g Her husband, a laboring map, came home in 8 state of beastly intoxication, bringing with him a most superfluous jug of beer. He Insist- ed upon her drinkiog with him, but she refused, a refusal whicn so angered him that he attacked uer with the furmture, the jug,—anythine which came to hand (these murderers are not _chofee in their sclection of ieapons)—and mangled and beat ber till she fell senseless and fatally njured among her children and grand- children, whose uuited efforis had been unable to restrain his drunken fary. Poor old woman, after forty years of it, she might have beeu al- lowed to pass away in pesce.. Butat.least one erime per week of this churacter seems mneces- sary to complete the calendar, and she filled her part in the graud scheme. THE THEATRES., Amusements have taken a fresh lease of life, ‘and every theatre in town which is open is doing a biz business. At Baldwin’s they are ruoning the *Octo- roon,” mounted like ** Uncle Tom’s Cabin” revivals, with ali the scenery which can make it attractive, and with plantaticnsongs and dances, aud a little genuine negro element. ‘The scenery is something really superb, and the acting sufficiently good to make it draw well. Rose Wood plays Zoe and James O’Neill Wah-no-tee. 1t looks a Jittle 0dd to see O’Neill, who has become cunsidersble of a swell sincc his first visit, as the noble red man, but he is s much more versatile actor than he was, and is almost a5 grreat a favorite as Thorne. He might not be able to satisfy In Ossip, but than Cnarles son that a crash in the house of Friedlander | Thorne, an accomplishment not to be despised affected all business as sensitively as a tumble in stocks. One of these suspensions was bronght about by the action of the Grangers, who formed a léague amainst bhimm. Both sides went to the wail, but_ Friedlander ot upon his feet again, and beld his place unchallenged forcver atter. His death will cause a revolution in the grain business in California, more particularly just when the success of one of the most bountiful seasons was holding out its promise. it will no longer be concentrated, since he leaves actually no one who can take his place, but will be scat- tered among the many who hung upon his dictum and abided by his rule. He was ex-President of the Chamber of Com- merce, and President of the Corn Exchange. 1t is poticeable in connection iwith the latter posi- tion that the Loadon Corn Exchange adjourned taree days in Tespect to his memory. an bonor which the surly Britishers never before extended 0 any American. As he is said to have sent more wheat into England than-any man in ibe world, they based their resoect on what is, to them, very solid foundation. Mr. Mriedlander was one of the remarkable meo of 8an Francisco in maoy ways. No other carried on such girantic enterprises. No man ‘was wore distinguished for liberality and largo- mness of heart, and for princely lhving. Also, he was the tailcst man in Callfornia. He stood six feet seven inches, and gertlemen somewhat vam of their stature strank almos: to insignifi- cance in & promenade up Montgomery street with him. He was an leraclite, end, consequeatly, the {father of a verv !:;'fc family. Wild stories are 10ld of the prodigality of Nis style of living. ‘The Jews are all bountiful providers in their homes, but the Fricdlander menage was called a daily Lucullian feast. When the Palace Hotel opened, and Mr. Fricdlander took an almost interminable suite of apartments, and his board bill,was reported 1o be $3,000 ver month, people said he was economizing! He has dicd at a critical turn_of his business affairs, s0 that taere is no_absolute certainty of auyihing more goinr to his widow snd family than 2 life-insurance policy for $20,000, and )‘}co?h are wondering how they are going to ve! But, a8 he was one of the big landowners, and paid taxes upon thousands of acres of the rolling, 1ertile country which figures in sume of the lawsuits as desert lands, the estate cannot be in such a desperate strait. He will be much missed in the community, since be was the figure-head ot California com- merce. 1t seems to bes fate that none of our pioneers shall live to make old bones. Thes have all died between the ages of 45 and 60, with the ex- ccption of James Lick, who was an old man -when gold was discovered in California. SUMMER IN SAN FRANCISCO. The Paris correspondents of our papers all devote at lesst one paragrabh to the heat, of which they try to convey a faint idez in a choice assortment of adjectives, all in the superlative degree. The St. Lonis dispatches are read with eager- ness, because they let it be known thav there zeally is warm weather somerwhere. We read these news sitting shivering over coal-fires. Eversthing outside is a dull Novem- ber gray. There is a thick, stiff fog creeping in the window-chinks, and the wind bowls, and roars, and whistles, till July seems like a wild March night. The very strawberries seem to shrink and shrivel into themselves, apd the peaches and plums bave a cold, soappy taste, asif they re- sented coming in-out of season. ‘The storekeepers sec fit to indulge in a mel- ancholy irony by banging linen ulsters and other summer gear in the doors. One promenades down-street amid a sea of fiapping linen, which waves wildly in the wind on the books and wirc fizures. It"has an inex- pressibiy cheerless look. Alas for the glorious <limate this year! No one buys any linen. No one ks been comfortably warm since last Sc{)\(cmber.d‘ 5 Ve arc rich in poets, but not a poet has writ- ten an Ode to Summer this year. heel it is amusing to watch the Eastern people as they come off the Qakland fcrry. “Thiose Who have been here betore at this sea- son anticipate the worst, and are prepared for t. But the new-comers meet the first pust of ind with me:gulllfied astonishment, the second with wounded disappoiniment. By the time the third bas taken their breath away and given them a choice case of bronchitis, which will Drobably lsst them throushout their stay, they arc ineffably discusted and want to turn and go bome again. i Driving, in summer, is quite out of the ques- tion. The horses are turned out to pasture, and a limited number of livery stables gencrally sigpalize the beautiful summer by going into PSR i s tha traci to that stocks ar cally 1 that Consolidated Virgiaia has ceased ite arer: dends, and is selling for $8.50 per share, that Caiifornia bas reduced its dividend 1w $1, and that there is very little faith in Bonanza ‘prom- §;lc:l’e :E;? Jm!‘ l;en ehridenr. that thereis very the 9 S: s summer of '78 in San TRIPLETS. Now that the nobs are all out of town, the #reat unwashed are taking occasion” to bring themselves into notice. Thelr chief employ- ment just now seems to consist in murdering their wives and periodically furnishing a set of triplets to the census-list. While the latter is more landable action than the former, it is yet becoming embarrassingly frequent. The fathers of the triplets are all, by some coincidence, out of work, consequently each mew set of bables is a triple appeal to the chari- “ties of the public. The reporters have hereto- Yore taken the matter in hand, and have devoted ‘columns to descriptions of thelittle dears whom Do ope caun tell apart, excepting the reporters, gzhcr than by their red, white, and blue, rib- ons. . " 7Triplets, however, are actually becomniz a ,me sensstion. The last set, a trio born to the in the days of the society drama. . ‘We hear no more of him as Lothario. He has signed an engagement for one year, and is” devoted to his wile and his art. If the hearts of our Jadics are of susceptible material the entire female population should capitulate at the present juncture. Beside the indisp utably soud-looking O'Neill, we have in town at tne present writing Mon- tague, Fred Warde, and Rignotd. Riguold has just completed an engasement at the California,. where be ran -*Heary V.” for two weeks to very poor houses. The scemery was magnificent, but the costumes were tawdry, and the support beneath criticism, Rignold has never been very fortunate in San Francisco. In fact. he is principally celebrated here for his striking photographs and bis nasty temper. He was in the audicncee with his wife on Mon- day night when Montague’s company opuned in « Diplomacy.” ‘The new play was a success from the moment the curtain rose on a pretty trizngular apart- ment furnished by some genuine arzist who had never read the trumpery books on houschold decoration. The entire play is mounted with equal care, and the acting is beyond cavil. iontague bas selected bis company very, carefully. ~ It includes Maud. Granger and’ Jeflreys-Lewis. The latter is no stranger. This is Ler fourth trip to California, and ste is bet- ter likked than ever before. Maud Granger is new to us, and one of the prettiest and_most_agrecable of disappoint- ments. Mr. Fred Warde, Mr. Shaonon, and Mr. Carroll complete the hst. The play and the company are both immense- 1y popular, and the houses grow better every pight. ** Diplomacy” will bave a good run. ‘Tnere was a tremendous row over it between the vival theatres, and it was rehearsed dili- gently at both places. It was amicably settled at_iast, and the people at Baldwin's have de- cided to procure some other novelty instead, much to the satisfaction of‘the public, who have had quite enough of sceine one play at two houses through long weeks of wrangling. “Tony Pastor is doiag au immense busitcss. JASSARTIL ——— . REAL ESTATE. The Market Remains Flat, but Holders Firm—Building in Chicago—The Loan Markot—Sales of the Weck. The real estate market is absolutely *‘flat,” and any aitempi at this scason to galvanize it forto life would prove decidedly “stale and un- profitable.” While business generaily is dull, real property is epecially so. A large amount of property ie still banging in the courts under forezlosure of mortgares and trust-deeds, and hence buyers stand aloof and will not purchase cven these oflerinze. In nearly all cases they fall into the hands of those who hold the securi- ties. Astheseareforcedsales, the pricesreaiized are nobrtaken as a correct index of the market, and hence few if any trapsactions are based upon them. While there are no sales made upon an actnal market price, no active move- ment can be expeeted. It will require a revival of - business to such an extent that a fair per- centace in rentals can be realized above taxes, iosurance, and repairs before capitalists can be induced to put their surplus coeh into real prop- erty. Before this can be doune the tax-cating gentry must be scotched, snd rigid economy wust be practiced in public expenditure as well as in the homes of wvrivate citizens. Assessors and public officers muast be taught that they have no more right 1o steal in a tax-levy than they have by the arts of the midnight burglar. When this most desirable consummation is once realized owners may expect a gradual restora- tion of profitable value Lo their real property. Holders of realty in most cascs exXpress un- bounded confidence in its future. Ail_the ex- perience of the past shows that Jand in and about a zreat city like Chicago is sure to raliy aud bring owners out, it tuey can only manage to_pay taxes and hold it. It isnow about cer- tain that capitalists cannot hoard their money and make 20to 30 per ceut every year by the relative increase of its purchasing power. Herctofore, if the value of a lot was, say, $1,000, if they drew that amount into their safes for a year they found they could buy tie sauic lot for $500. ° Within a ‘year to come they will probaoly find the owner of.-the lot can gut $1,200 for it while their money only counts $1,000. Of course, some few sates are reported every day. Maoy of them are trades, and some large holders are obliged to sell a few lots for what- ever they will bring . to pay taxes and keep up daily expemses. The prices realized are geuerally half, often a third, perhaps even less than one fourth, those rulinz 3 few years ago. But with all these,— mortgage sales, trades, and all else,—someof our largest offices report notbing doing. Market dull as possible. BUILDING. ‘Uhe very Jow price of labor and materials has oroduced in the aggregate a considerable amount of building. Tbe splendid Singer Building approackes completion. The Williains Block, corner of Wabash avenue and Adams strect. is one of the finest structures in the city. Next ‘southis the Fullerton Building, a very creditable structure, and in varous places in and about the business centre vacant spaces are covered, and more building Is really doing than a casual stroll about the city would leafi oue to suppese. C. B. Blair i puttinz up three residences ou Michigan avenue, south of Con- gress street, and Daniel Wells, of Mli- ‘waukee, three freestone fronts a block or two south. Here and there all over the city mechanics are at work on structures of every variety, rom the inest to those of no particular pretensions, and in the ageregate at the close of the seasan it will be found that very consid- crable additions have been made to our busi- ness and residence facilities. o THE LOAN MARRET. - Considering the times, business was fair the past week, and it {5 a matter of generai surprise that so much was accomplished. The new loans were not numerous, but the renewals were quite active. The low rates at which these are done shows the indisposition of capitalists to load themselves down with property if the interest is only psid prowmptly. Tt also provesthat there is but little demand for money fn the reguiar els of trade, otherwise money would not be let at 5 or 6 per cent on real-estate security. The country hasnot yet reached the turning- must feel thut they have put themselves t0°a, ‘Warren av, 81 corner of Western av, un- potit. *Indications &re favorable for @ rénewal E( confidence, and there are good prospects of & {air trade the coming fall. ) mercial activity all ‘over the world can scarcely continue much lt;n T 1;“ f";{"’"m were the iucipal losuns of the past week: N'l‘hapfi:rgiture-flctory and ground at the cor- ner of Blue Island avelgne and Sixteenth streets, $20,000, three years at § per cent. ¢ Ounc hundred and eizht lots near the intersec- tion of the Armitage road and Milwaukee ave- nue, $15,000, dve years at 9 oer cent. . Fhs biowk tron cast on Wallace street, ex cept 330 fect, between Thirty-third streot and Douglas avenue; also Hubbs street, south of Thirty-third street, west front, 252 feet runniog éhmugh to Butler street, $28,000, five years at r cent. ! ‘}\?os 200 and 202 Madison street, $33,000, five years at 7 per cen! South Park avenue, northeast_corner of Thir- ty-fourth 'street, west front, 214x1643¢ feet, $15,000, five years at 7 per cent. Michigan aveuue, northwest corner of Doug- 1as. avenue, esst front, 101x174 810 feet; also Eighteenth street, enst of State street, north front, 32x81 feet; also four lots in Hyde Park, $15,000, five years at § per cent. COMFARATIVE STATEXENT FOR THE WEEK ENDING JULY 27. % 1878, 1877, truments)— ——— —— || e e ey l No. | C'siderat’n|| No. ; C'siderat'n. Trnst-decds: g 269.980!! 1155 630,911 Mortgsges... 21 65,000 32| 44,272 Aggregato.. 147|8 675,183 Releases .. .| 321... ‘s COMPARATIVE STATEMENT FROM JULY 1 TO JULY 27. l 1878, 1877, trumends, ———— —_— o e Csideral'n|| No. | Celdgra'n. Trast-decds| 393/ 989, 415|| 534'$ 1,811,200 Mortgages.. Sg 188, 731|} 143 245,322 Aggregate.. iy 481|81,178,146|| 6773 2,056,612 TReleases. .. A7 eeeees ooi || 6180 coae vooenn SALES OF THE WEEE. Tu the Hoe of transfers of city property there was only o limited busincss the past weck, and the prices were low and not up to the expecta- tions of holders. Under the present depres- sion, no one is disposed to sell nnless compelled to do &0, hence there is actually no market, and no reliable quotations. . The following were the noteworthy transfers of the week: William Rebin_sold to Adam Gareis a lot on Rush street, northeast corner of Chestout, west {ront, 49x100 feet, improved, for $9,000. Heory T. Haskell transferred to Aona B. Oz- den'a lot on Archer avenue, northwest corner or Twenty-sccond strect, south front, 29410 fect, running to Elgin street, improved, for 15,000 Kaspar Schaffner sold to Potter Palmer lot on State street, near Thirteenth street, east front, 24x100 feet. improved, $5,400. . James J. Noble sold to Charles E. Baleer twenty-two lots in Cady’s Lot 8 of DeWolf’s west twenty-seven acres of S. E. { Sec. 15, 89, 13, for $15,000. William R. Loomis sold to 8. Q. Cochrane lot on Wzbash avenue, northeast cornerof Harmon court, west front, 27x110 fect, for £8.400. Paige Remick sold_to Charles F. Remick lot on Prairie avenue, 276 feet south of Twenty- sixth street, west front, 40 4-10x178 feet, for $5,000. . Lot on West Taylor street, sontheast corner of Throop strect, north front, 2334x1%5 fect, improved, sold for $6,000. ot on West Erie street, 141 feet west of Wood street, south front, 24x123 feet; also, West Van Buren street, northwest corner of Sceley street, south front, 8554x152 Iccka sold for 83,000. TFive lots in Brown’s Addition to Park Ridge sold for SL600. ) Lot at Winnetia, 33x187 feet, with improve- ments, sold for 51,000, The south 1-3 of Block 62, Wilmette, sold for $1,000. - SATURDAY’'S TRANSFERS. The following instruments were filed for record Satarday, July 27: CITY PROPERTY. West Monroe st, 50 ft ¢ of Lafiinst, 81, S5x125 £t, dated July 27. ..ol teenes Weat Chicago av, 2154-10 ft w of Lincoln st, n f, 48x123 ft, dated July 26....... 3,125 3,000 divided 1-5 of 50x127 ft; also Weat Jackson st, s e corner of Cicero court, undivided 15 of 3433113 1t, dated July 6. Trumbull & rias Park boulevard,’e f, 130x125 ft (with other property), datéd April Canal st, 4913; Tt n of x110% ft, dated July ¢ e Flonrnoy st, 275 ftw_of Campboll I, 25155 ft, dated Jaly 20.... Brown st, 235 {1 8 of Twvelfth &t, w1, 100 1t, improved, dated July 27.... ... Sherman st. 100, ft 8 of Jackson st, ef, undivided i of 25x100 ft, with othor property, dated Jaly 18....e: cuevese. Ashland av, 332 ft n of Van Duren s, e f. 32x180 ft, dated July 26 (Carter H. Tazrison to Mary L. Grier).. Halsted st, 174 Tt s of Centre 125 It, duted July 24 SOUTH OF CITY LIMITS, LN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Baltic st. n of aud near Fifty- 411t to alley, duted Juty WEST OF CITY LUNITS, WITHIN A RADI MILES OF TUE COURT-NOUSE. West Lake st, 300 ft W of West Forty- fizst st, 0, 25 I¢ toalley, dated July 2,000 6,000 2,200 1,500 6,500 SUMMARY FOE THE WEEE. The following is the total amount of city and suburban trausfers within a radius of seven miles of the Court-House filed for record during the week ending Saturday July 27: City sales, consideration. $185,055. Nortn of city limits: Sales, 13 consids on, $430. South of city linuts: Sales, 12; consideration, $12, West of city linits: Sales, 8: consderati $10,200. 135, “Total salcs, 55; fotal consideration, AUCTION SALE. Butters, Long & Co. advertise an auction sale of twentv-seven lots, between Lincoln and Wood streets, West Stde, Thursday afternoon, Aug. 1, at 3 o’clock. The property is in a rapidly im- proving residence section of the city. ———— A FRENCHMAN ON AMERICANS :AND WOMEN. Translated from La Presee for The Tribune. In the reception of Mr. Sardon at the Acaa- emy Francais. M. Blanc addressed the author in a very fluttering manuer, although many por- tions of the discourse were qualified with aa- vice. ‘“Your pleasantry,” he remarked, *‘ordi- narily so well dirccted, frequently loses its point. Your pencil, so fine and true, goes as- tray when you attempt to portray people in a world. which is not your own,—either in the Umted States or at Monaco. There is some- thing of a Garveni in -you; you bave too much grace in you to imitate the heavy and tragic touch of Daumicr. Public taste requires pict- ures painted with large brushesand overcharzed with colors; but caricature, no matter what ctymology calls it, is something more than ex- aggerated trath. It seems to me, in your por- traiture of American maunners,—e portraiture 50 sarcastie, £0 cutting,—that you have some- what wandered from_the truth'in representing but a siuzle phase. Iexpected tosee in * Uncle Sam’ the prodizious contrasts which character- ize the Americans of the United States,—this strange people, of whom there is no other ex- ample in the world,—this people, at the same time mystical and crafty, visionaries and accountants, who always profit by a few blank pages, even in theological books, to advertise their medicated wines or merchandise. These violent oppusitions ousht to have fur- nislicd & mind such as yours comic and irresisti- ble scenes, without doing injustice to this young, audacions, and powerful nation, filled with enthusiasm, disdainful of danger,—this na- tion which nothing astonishes, and 'to which nothing appears more easily accomplished than Impossibilities.” To the women of our times M. Blanc is less considerate, ziving no praise in Jjudzing them. He says: ‘There is nothing very durable in ons but the subject of dress. Their manner of being * precieuses’ is pot to-day in their conversation, but in their trains. Their ideas of being savants no longer consists in un- understanding Greek, * parier Vaugeas,’ but to render themselves ultra desirable io virtue of the modes bouffantes or coliantes, which are so quickly abused by exazperations,—sometimes calting attention to that which has semblance of coveriug, sometimes to show that which ought fid be conceaied, and recalling the versc of Pan- + ** * By appealing to the eve, Leaves nothing for the heart to aay.>* —————— A Strange Halluclaation, Albany Journal. A woman named Delehanty, residing on Canal street, whose husband has been sick for along time, walked into police headquarters this sfternoon, accompanied by her little daughter, and addresscd. Chief SMaloy as fol- lows: * Chief, I have come to give myself up.’? “What do you want to give yourself up fori” inguired the Chief. “I've murdered my two little children, 3 boy and a girl, ana, Chief, T cannot stand it any longer. I must give myselt up.” The Jittle girl burst into tears, and, cling- ing to her mother, said: * Why, no; you didn’t kill us; ain’t I bere. mammai? Then, turning o the Chief, the little one begged hi: not to believe her mother’s story, as she had kiiled no one. *Itell you 1did, Chief,” said the mother; ‘they came in the woodshed while I was wash- ing, and I killed them.” Yon did not,” said the Chief, rather sternly; “there’s your little The dearth of com-"' 1"now.” “That's mot my little girl, that’s cr ghost,” persisted the mother; “I did Kill them.” Tt being cvident she yas Insane, the Chief ordered her to be detained at the Sccond, Precinct until her relatives could be communi- cated with. Her manta is supposed to be caused. h): starvation. . CHANCES. What Thero Xs in Luck—Romarkable Coin- cldences—Chances in Botting and; Card Playing—The Subject Analyzed by o Man of Sclence. u -Richard A. Proctor in London Echo. In Forester’s-Life of Dickens a carious story is told of what Dickens called a * wonderful, a paralyzing coincidence,” expericnced on the Doncaster race-courge. On the St. Leger Day, in 1857, Dickens bought = card of the races: ‘facetiously wrote down throe names for the winners of the three chief races (never in bis life haviog heard or thought of any of the horses, except that the winner of the Derby, who proved to be nowbere, had been men- tioned to him), and, *¢if you can believe it,” he wrote to Forester, * It you can believe it without your hair standing om ecnd, those three races were won, one: after another, by those three horses!!!” (The notes of exclamatioa are his own). Such cases as these secm to many to afford absolutely convincing evidence of the reality of what is commonly called luck—that is, the occurrence of cvents that pure chance cannot account for. I suppose 99 men in 100 betieve in luck of this sort. Some men are lucky, others unlucky; or else on some occasions &~ maa fs lucky, or his luck is in the ascendant, while on others he, is unlucky. Men who ought to know most about such matters— that is, men who very often try their luck—bave the fullest faith in Wiese ideas. In Steinmetz’s ‘Treatise on the Gaming Table we have the axioms of a proicssional gambler (and biackleg, but that is a detal), and smong them we find the doctrine of good gud bad luck, of lucky snd unlucky scasous, sel down as a sort of first principle, which none can doubt or question. “ A prudent player,”” he says, * before under- taking anything. should put himself to tho test to discover if he 15 ‘in vein,’ or in luck; in all doubt he should abstain. There are several per- sons,”’ he says azain, ** who are constantly pur- sued by bad’luck; to such I say, * never play.’” 1 suppose it is utterly kooeless to attempt to persuade those who believe in luck that the ex- perience of gamblers fn this respect has been wholly deceptive, and that coincidences such ns the one, for exawple, which Dickans called won- derful and paralyzing, are not in_tha least won- derful, and migitt sately oe predicted. Onesuch story does more to encourage belief in Iuck than any amount of reasoning could do to show tiat the belief is unfounded and mischievous. 1t may be useful, however, to consider such stories a8 that related above (using it asan llustrative cage.) It appears, and in one sense it was a very sinzrular cowncidence, that Dickens' taking one nawme, at_random from the scts of horses names for each of thrce races, should in eacn case select the winner of therace. Idonot kuvow Low many uames there were; but the St. Leger is not a race for which many horses usu- ally run. Probably about ten may have run in 1857, and perbaps six horses for cach of the other two races. If this were so, the chance of doing what Dibkens did was cqual to that of drawing one particular ticket from nmong 36 (ten trmes six times) ina single trial. If there were ten horses in cach rece, the chance was tha same as that of drawing one ticket from among 1,000 (ten times ten times), etc., the calcalation beiog exceedingly simple, whatever the number of horses may lave been. Now, certainly, it was a curious chauce that any onc at a first trial should have had this piece of good fortune,— or what at least would have been good fortune had money depended upon the resnit,—just as it would have secined a curious chance if n vase containing some 400 tickets had been set before Dickens, and he had at a first trial drawn oue particular prize ticket. But it wust be remem- bered that {f nothing remarkable had * followed from Dickens’ little experiment we should have heard nothing ubout it. We never do hear any- thing about~ the thousands, may, we may fairly say the millions, of cases in which men try tbeir Tucic and nothing note- worthy comes of the trial. Dickens was oue of thousands who have tried some such experiment at their first race. The experiment, again, was doubtless one of thousands of cases in which Dickens was, so to speak, in the way of meeting with some stranee expericnce. We hear nothing of the cascs {n which such experi- ments fail; but every single casc in which they succeed, cither wholiy or partially, is reported, and, once reported, it is repeated over and over again_until each ‘“‘strange chance” has done duty for a thousand strange chances. But so soon as we recognize this we perceive the real interpretation of coincidences of the kind. They are no more wonderful in reality than woald be the drawing of one marked ticket out of any number of tickets in a muca greater number of trials (the drawn ticket being replaced after each trjal). 1f thereare a thousand tickets, one of which is marked, and a million drawings ure made in this way, it is to all intents aua par- poses certain that the marked ticket will be drawa a great number of times; and it isexceed- ingly probable, the probability amounting almost to certainty, taat the number of succossful draw- ings will not greatly exceed or fall short of 1,000. It is very easy to show tbat, witn a sufti- cient number of trials, the wonderful and para- Ivzing circumstance which hapoened to Dickens would be sure to happen several times. Sup- pose the number of horses in_three given races to be ten, six, and six, and that of the many thousands of persons on the race-course 10,000 try the experiment made by Dickens. It is cer- tain that of the 10,000 random selections for the first race, somewhere about 1,000 will be right, {for each of the ten names wilt be selected about the sume number of times. Say only 600 are right, which is far more unlikely thap the oc- currence of Dickens’ wouderful cvent at first trial. All the remaing 9,000 persous have failed, and.we hear no more sbout them. Of the 600 who have marked the winner, of the chief race, about one-sixth are sure to_select also the win- ner of the second,—that _is,"about 100 will have this doubtful success. But say that by a won- derful coincidence only sixty are thus success- ful. The remaining 540 have failed, and they join the 9,400 wlo failed on the first rice, and we hear no more about them. - The sixty left have each made their selection on the third race, in which there are only six horses. It is to all in- tents and purposes certain that several of them will have selected the winning Lorse. Let any one caet a die sixty times, keepinga record of the result (or it will serve equally well to cast a pair of dice thirty times), and he is certain to find that every face—ace, deuce, trey, quart, quint, and size—will have shown several times, anad most probably about ten_times, but almost certainly five or six times. So with sixty who named at random a horse out of six engaged in @ race, it is probable that about ten will select the winner, almost certain that 55 many as five or six will, and practically certain that two or three will do so. Here, then, will be certainly two or threc, and provably nine or ten, to whom the paraiyizing coincidence which so greatly as- tonished Dickens will have occurred at o first trial. When we consider that probably not 10,~ 000, but several hundred. thousand, make precisely sueh experiments about every great race, that there are many great races in the ycar, and that gambling on races has been “goiug on for very many vyears, it will be sten that ** coinei- dences ” far more surprising tban Dickens’ ex- perience must oceur many times each vear, and that more stariling * coincidences” must often have occurred since racing began. Add to these the millions of experiments yearly made in gambling transactions of other soris, and also in more or less speeulative business traneac- tions, und we see that there must of nceessity be an cnormous muss of evidence apparentiy favoring the belicl ia luck, lucky persons, hicky seasons, and so forth. ‘The marvelons stories (true stories, too,) of men who at Baden, and Homburg, in the bad old times, had wonderful runs of Juck (some of them are given in the cs- say on ‘* Gambling Superstitions” in my Bor- derland of Seience) are found, when this con- sidered, to be not marvelous atail, ‘Thewon- der rather is that among the muitiplied cxpe- riences at rouse et noir, roulette, and so forih, still morecurious cases have not oceurred,or have not been noted. At a first view, nothing scems more certainly to demoustrate the reality of Juck than the success of those who bave sev- eral times “broken the bank,” and haye amassed in a short time .enormous suwms at the gaming-table. But sp suoneas we consider. that among the millions who gamble, tens of thou- sands must be very successful for a while; that, among these, hundreas must continue to be successful yet longer; and that, among these hundreds, several must have a further spell of | suceess, we see how the stories of great zood luck, of amaziog Juck, and, lastly, of ** paralyz- ing™ luck, caonot only be explained, but are necessary cousequences of multiplied gambling experiences. - But the lesson from all this is altozether against gambling, spart from its innate un- morality. If there were such a thiug as real luck, men mizht try their luck in the way Steinmetz's blackleg taught, and by playing only when “in veln,” or abstsining altogether if they found themselves absolutely unlucky by nature, .might experience no freat loss. But when it scems - that there is no such thing s luck; that by the very nature of gambling transactions every great winner represents many losers; while in the long run all the great. widners have {nvariably become §renb losers (the only lasting succcesful men being the blacklegs, high class and low class), the utter folly of gambling is clearly seen,—that is tosay, it wonld be clearly seen If men were not, in such matters, will{uily blind. ', AN ETHIOP KING. Ex-King of Abyssinia—A- Plcture of His Court Five Years Ago. The story of King John, whom the British raised to the throne of Abyssinia after the defeat and death of Theodorus, and who has, according to report, recently abdicated fn favor of Menelek IL, is one of the most remarkable and picturesque that can be told of contempo- rary sovercigns. Neither the Shah, nor the Mikado, nor the Emperor of China, nor any of the barbarous heroes of Stanley’s books, can compare in interest with the ex-Prince Kassa of Tigre, who, equally with Theodorus, clatmed descent from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, whose 5,000,000 of subjects, walled in their mys- terious country by three great mountain ranges, resemble in their ways and faith no other African natiog. Lonz before King John's presence was reachied—so wrote Mr. De Cosson, who, in com- pany withthe late Gen, Kirkham, visited the suc- cessor of Theodorus in his camp near Gondar in 1673—the traveler hears of the monarch's strength, wisdom, and prowess. At Axum, the former Capitat of Tigre, the monolith, seventy fect in height, is shown over whicn Prince Kassa used to hur! bis heavy war-spear. A perempteory Royal order met Mr. De Cosson at the Takazze, bidding the people along the road thence to the camp make straight the path before the visitor, who otherwise would have had to toil through rocky and almost im- passable defiles. A’ Ieague from the camp 2 detachment of royal guards, stalwart men armed with long rifles decorated with jackets’ tails, under the command of a little Lieutenant wrho gave his orders in English, met him and escorted bim to the’ confines of an immense zamp, in the midst. of which, just below the aray, graggy cone of the mountain and inclosed by a stout fence, stood the King’s tent and audience-hall. Two interpreters, dressed in long silk robes of honor, conducted the En- glish envoys to their tent, which was pitched just beside the royal inclosure, and spread with rich carpets’ from the Kipg’s treas- ury. Ther¢ speedily came the mon- arch's gift of = welcome,—two jars of a dreadful drinkable called fedge, tifty loaves of bread, an antelope’s horn filled with mingled salt and red pepper, and-a live cow, which the escort at ouce slaughtered, piline up the meat befors the visitors. The King's cook and taster, oue of the greatest personages in the Kingdom, who must be a priest and a celibate of stainless life, followed with four dishes of curry. At night the. visitors went to the tent of one of the interpreters, a building of wood and branches, where the horse, a beautiful and intel- ligent animal, formed one of the family, his little thatched stall opening into the house, his neck bearing a splendid cbain, his food being the same corn ou which the family fed, served to him in a clean earthen bowl, At dawn next day came an_officer, the lika- mangua, splendidly dressed in a robe of fow- ered silk, with siiver-mounted pistols in his sash, one of the ofliciuls who have the dangerous distinction of going into battle dressed and armed preciscly like the King—one of bis *tcoats,” in Shakspearcan phrase. e came to inquire in Jobn’s name of the stranger’s health. Early in the atternoon came the interpreter, at- tended by an esquire bearing the royal sword and shield, in whose' company, amid the sounds of drums and trumpets, and a salute from a battery of brass howitzers, Mr. De Cosson pro- ceeded to the audience hall. Tt was a wooden building roofed with rushes, of oblong form and vast extent. A double colonnade of tree- trunks led to the centre, where the King sat cross-lezged on a hizh divan draped with par- ple velvet. On the cushion on_cither side rest- cd an English rifle, cocked and loaded; bis slip- pers of solid silver filizrec were on the carpet in front. The Kioz worc a robe of cloth of silver; falling in heavy foldsaround his face was 2 long veil of crimson silik, beneath:the great trinle crown of Ethiopia blazing with gold and jew- elg; by bis side was a sword in a sheath of “vel- vet'and enamel. Two xfigamic eunuchs, clad in purple and green silk, and holding drawn John, swords, stood beside the throne; bebind it was a guard of honor, as magnifi- cently dressed, also with sabres drawn; while the ourt was crowded ~ with officers and warriors in trailing robes of silk and velvet of every color, their scarlct scabbards eleaming with filigree of gold and silver, and their shoulders adorned with the skins of the lion and black paotber. There towered, gaunt, tall, almost as straizht as _the silver matchlock in his band, a warrior of 90, the oldest of the King’s attendants; bis locks, yet fufl, bound with a sitver crown, and his fowing gray beard mingling with the shaggy mane of the lion’s skin thrown over' his shoulder. There, too, was Ras Warenis, sovereizn Prince of Ambara till subauved by King Jobn; tall, stout, and handsome, clad in rieh silk, with a tippet of black pantber skip, coriched with clasps and bosses of gold; his caretully plaited hair covered with a veil of white muslin fastened by a golden pin; his arms, a splendid sword, a riflc, and a richly-ornamented shicld; on his right wrist a silver gauntlet studded with gems; his fect bare, like those of all present. " The air shook with the wild notes of tne trnmpets and the roll of the drums.” Small worder that Mr. De Cossou says that the barbaric splendor of the scene was pertect. “[he King shook handswith his Enelish guest, who bowed. The companv being seated ou the carpets, there filed in, just as they doin the Arabian Nights, a long line of slaves, each bear- ing on his head a busket covered with red cloth and filled with flat cakes of bread—tes. One of these was placed before each guest. Meanwhile,at the threshold. other attendants were slaughter- ing cows and seuding great hunks of the raw and yet smoking meat to be olaced on the bas- kets of the guests, the stranger being first served; two others made the round of the hall, oue distributinz knives from a case carried at his side, the other offering an antelope’s horn, filled with salt and red pepper. The King sent the stri his own drinking-glass, a ift, of Queen Victoria, aod painted with a head of Cupid he had taken for a portrait ot the Prince of Wales. After the mcal a band of natives came daneing to the foot of the throne, led by a man clad in a liow’s_skin, who frequently fired his gun in the air and danced to his compauions’ chanting. He had siain a Hon single-handed—a feat reckoned equal to killing six conemies in battle—and was boasting of his deed before the King. Next day Mr. De Cosson dined with the King en famiiie, when all wore the universal garment of Abysinnia—a white blanket with a crimson stripe, worn §o as to bring the stripe over the left breast, where the Savior’s neart was pierced by the Roman spear. The King’s head was bare; he wore a smail diamond pin in his braid- ed bair, bis only other ornament being a string of silver beads at each ankle. The King, “who 1s n great soidier. a just Judge, and 2 poweriul ruler, of distinguished and refined appe: a fine horseman, 2 mascer of all m.hfi cises, alike learned aud practical in his reli interested in other countries, and unquestion ably the ablest Prince who has been allotted ‘to his” own,” is thus described \Mr. De Cosson: “XKing John is about . and his stat- ure somewhat under the middle height; his fig- ure is perfectly proportioned, and indicative of great strenwein and endurance: his hauds and feet are very small and delicately shaped. His face is delicately molded, the brow shghtly re- treating; the nose is aquiliuc’ with very fnely formed nostrils; the eyes are deep-set and not very large, but singularly courazeous and pene- trating; the check-bones are bigh for an Ethi- opian; the mouth 2ud cain are sharply chi and the eurs almost as tiuy and shel woman's. e is erand to fee, mount beautiful charger, with its elegaut bossed har- ness and saddlecioth, carrying his spear aud his shield; bareheaded and barcloot- ed, the great’ toc ouly in_ the_stirrup, which is mercly a silver ring. He is 4 splendid shot, and very fond of firearms. He is entircly devoid of the boastfullness and the vanity which distingnish most savage Princes, imple in his demeanor, of a secretive turn of miud 2nd taciturn nabit, of a studious dispo- sition, well read in the laws of Ethiopia, and of remarkable sobriety and piety of life. e keeps his word when he bas put it in writing, and has made ‘by thedeath of Johanues? the most bind- ing oatlamony Lis people.” In cump, King John rose at 3 a. m. and read the Psalms of Dawid by candle-lizht for two hours, then he went to church, then usually sat, fasting, in open court to hear all cases that might be brought before him. Iie was 2 just Judse, il severe sccording to Euro- pean novions. The rest of the day was spent in tbe hopitalities of the camp, in attend- ing to the affairs of theState, and ju the martial exercises of the goaks, & zame resembling the djerecd of the Moors while, still they used the shield. Two or three hours of the evening werc given to study. The King retired at 9. ‘When Gen. Kirkham presented him with the great Abyssmian Book of the Laws, captured from Theodorus and returned by the Queen, King Jobn received it with grest courtesy nnd gratitude, and ordered a copy of the Queen’s letter in Abyssinian to be’ placed fn all the charches, that his people might &now the graciousness of *his Mother of England.” At the departure of the King’s guests there ‘was anotherscene out of the * Arabian Nizhts,” when the royal interpreter, with a retinue of pages, led to the envoy’s teot a beautiful cream- colored horse, fully caparisoned in the Akgssin- - c AUCTION SALEN, W. A, BUTTERS ; 2 Analnneers.g!l}i' 17%1%&2 c(.)" DAMAGED - DRY GOODS! AT AUCTION, We will sell by order of Messrs, (}jx;. SON, PIRIE, SC0TT & ¢p,, . _Wéflnesfl_ay, July 3, at100ka g, | AT OUR SALESR00MS, 175 & 175 Randolph-st,, All the goods placed for storage in basements of the different premises: of Messrs. Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., damaged’ by water during the late heavy rains, aj] wet in original pack- ages. = SALE PEREMPTO- RY FOR CASH. fan fashion, the headstall and breast-plate being protusely ornamented with plates and bosses of solid silver. This gift was accompanied by one of the Kine'a shiclds, richly ornamented with silver-work, a pair of light javelins, and.a mule with “the golden saddle,” a curiousiy-worked saddle of scarlet_and green leather which can only be conferred - by the ‘sovereizn and only used by the highest officers. Such Is the sovereign who conquered a peace with Eaypt thirteen months ago, in a campaign where skillful meneralship was manifested, as well as getermined valor and savage ferocity, two or three Egyptian armies being almost an- nibilated, and 8,000 of the Khedive’s picked soldiers left dead in rayines where they were hemmed in; -who, in 1871, defeated Gobazie, Prince of Amnars, in a decisive battle near Adowa, and early in 1572 placed on his head the “great triple crown of Ethiopia,” which he has just resiened in favor of the regular successor of Theodorus, Menelek II. THE GRAVES OF THE HEART. Decp in the heart, beyond the world's discerning, Arc hid the graves that Memory holds dear, Wherein are tomoed the hopos: foo early blishted, That gladdened life throngh many a vanished year. Hopes that no morecsn weave tneir wonted bright- ness. Tigh aspirations, and ambitious dreams, Deep within thoee secret graves lie buricd, O'er which no prond memorial marble gleame— Tnanmbered graves, by which, alone. we linger, Mournine in silence o'er a rapture dead; Sighing in vain for faces fair and tender: For eyes whose love-light long ugo has fled. Graves of the heart! Toa holy are ye ever To know the cold world's chill, unfeeling gaze: Too sacred the dust of fond, departed moments Ye hold, to exhame in these after-days. *¢Tug MarLes.” Owey 3. WILsoN. AMUSEMENTS. Time eannot witherhor custom stale i inffui P.T.BARNUM'S GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH! OWN AND ONLY ONE WEBK O W, 4. BUTTERS, LONG & C0.. - ON LAKE FRONT, CHICAGO, Auctionesr, Honday, July 29, Afternoon aodl Evening. Ladles’ Extra Matinees Wednesdar ana Saturdar at 10 a'cloc] reater than ever! All hrmzrx'cnm cclipsed! The seazon of 1378 has been a continucd saccession of triumphs. New features in every -department, in- cluding the famous group of THURSDAY TRADE SALE. DRY @0ODS, CLOTHING, B0OTS, SHOES, HATS, ETC,, THURSDAT. Angust 1, at 9% o'clock, acti * rooms, 173 and doioh-st. sy W.A- BUTTERS, LUSG & CO.. Auctioneers, - POSITIVE SALE CITY REAL ESTATE, (Belongiog to a non-resident.) - AT ATCTION, Thursday Afternoon, Aug. 1,at' 3 o’clock, -, On the Ground. ! 4lots, 23, 29, 30. and 31, north front on West Ty Tor-st... Decween Wood ani Lincoln-sts. o 8 12 i0fs. 53, - 59, 60, 2 65, 65 67, @, and €9, sonth frout on 11 Jots, 82, 83, 84, 85, 96, 7. north frout on Selden-3t. ' All coln-sts. -These lota arc located 1 2 _desirable nelgh. TWENTY IMPORTED STALLIONS, The most remarkable specimens of Equine Sezacity and Deautv, representing the chofcest herds of the Lioyal Stables of Germeny xnd Russin, Italy and Tar- tary. They form the Greatest Sensation of the Season whenever they apuear, under the direction of thelf trainer and exhibitor. MR. CARL ANTONY, 6, A Selden-sr. S0, 91, and s, . etn Wood and Lis. Trios. Quartettes, and Flaally borhoud. sccessible by horse-cars; two blocks frog. AVROE AR I i TG Lerminus of Twelrth-at: cart; thrge blocks: from 1) atone time. Buren-st. and Ogden-ar. cars. Tormy cush. it ance 1. % and 3 years. with fterest ac 7 T cent. cusS Fluts Bow ready’ - For any information call on DAFL nt, Roum 11, z : of over One Hundred Performe . s AN THMMENSE SENAGC EIE, WILLIAME, A 11, No. 125 Clark-s., or . . < W. A BUTTELS, LONG & CO., Auctlonser, = . Containlng the larzest and rarest c: of_wild L e, olicction Veaws ever scen out of the Zoological Gardens of En- wland and the Continen HIE, TRAVELING AMERIC REGULAR SATURDAY SALE. HOUSEHOLD EURNITURR E;},_%;E’,,,CTION % 330 o'clock, b our e Tooms, 172 and 175 Eandoiuh: W1 AL BUTTELS. LONG &CO.. Auctioneens. OL. GOSHEN, the Palestine Glant. & feet 6'inches high. ONE TICKET ADAITS TO ALL. The Exhibition Teat \ SEATS m.cfl?nk.soss. including 2,000 RESERVED ARM CHAIRS. 22~ SPECIAL NOTICE. &3 M. BARNUM will be present [n person. nnd will fn- auzurate the v;mhlllun 1o Chicago by an address to his atrons from the arena. P00 the morninz of the day of exhibition, a Grand Street Puzeont of unusual cxtent and_great magald- cence wiil pass turougls the princival streets. One of the fexiures of this ‘Scene of Processional splcador il be the appearance of ten of tlie twenty Staltlons fn Processiun, fed by their forelgn grooms, A SATGRDAY, By ELISON, POMEROY & GO, Auctioneers, 78 & 80 Randolph-st. : 2,000 BOXEN INPORTED CLAY PIPES ‘TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION, 00rs open at 1 an m. Performances one hour Iater. Admission, 50 cents. Clfidron under $, Wa\f- | For account of whom It may concero, at Emplre Wares ts, 25 cen 2 Bouse (193 to 210 Market-at. ), BMONDAY, - % ; July 29, at 3 p. . Sales include the well-known miarks H. L. Ts worthy the attencion of the Wholesale tirocery, Ciiar, and To-. bacco Tragex. Must be sold. 1o matter at what sacri- fices: 1 1 C—883 noxes Scotch I*Ipes. 2 zross each, fm- ts extra A TICKET siven fo cvery purchaser of **The Life of Barnum.” or his latess stors ** Lion Jack.” Ar. Baraur has opcned a Ticket-Oftice for the sale of Tickets and Rescrved Seats at J. FRUCHES & CO."S. Music Dealers. and BAUER'S Musle Store, PALMER HOUSE, at the ususl slight advance. ried per Lake Etie from Glaseow. 100 boxes Scoich Ladies. “chiidren, and wiahing to avold Ipet. 2 gruss eaci, tmporied Der Lake Michlcan. L crowus i the evealng are ndvised to attead the M H P boxes Homie Rule, © gross éach. imparied per IN( EXHIBITIONS on Wednesday and Saturday a Nederland. Il 1333—7x Loxes Havey Buxes, 23 gros oclock, and the Afternoou Exhibitions. each. H [12-23 buxes Peter Doraf. 2% Excursion Tralas on all Ratiroaas on the day of exhi- 232—246 boxes Clay Pipes, 24 gross cac bition. P 18 boxes tmporced per Braunshwels. 2% gros VAT exhidic fn Sonth Bend July 26: Laporte, July | each. 1152—25 kross Froncl Clay Pipes. Alsolovimi-. . 27: Donville. Aug. 5; Decatur. Ang. 6: Litcligeld, | tatlon Fipes, Souff-Boxes, Muich-Boxes. and Clgsr 7 Shebyville, "Auz.’ 8; Paris.” Aug. 93 Terre | C fistie, Aug. 10, HOOLEY’S THEATRE. ENTIRECHANGE of ENTERTATNMENT, Monday, July 59, every evaing. and Wednesdny and Saturday Matinees, REFINED MINSTRELSY. HARRY ROBINSON'S BINSTRELS, Astington, Cotton, snd Kemble, Thelr Qrstappearance tosether In five years—the ac- knowledged favorltes of the professton=forone week only. Popular prices—S1. 50¢, and 25¢. ON THE LAKE. PROF. RUSSELL will entertaln his Puplls and Triends on board the commodions Steamer Metropolis, Saturday Eveulng. Aug. 3, 1878. Music aad Dancing, 8nd Singiog by the favorite Arion Quarteite Club. Tickets. 50 cents. Boat will leave Clark-st. bridge at 7:45 p. m. NEW (RICAGO THEATRE. “this (Snnday) Afternoon and Evening. GRAND COMPLIMENTARY BENEFIT. A Host of Volunteers. LAST TWO PERFORM- ANCES and the Greatest Show of the Seuson. Fopular Prices—25. 50, and 75 cts, Cases. ELISON. PUMEROY & CO., Auctfoncert, i 73 & 80 Randolph-st. | TUESDATY SALE, Jaly 30, at 9:30 . m.. at Vur Steres, GENERAL HOUSEHOLD FURMTUBE,’ CARPETS, ETC., ETC. ELISUN, POMEROY & CO.. Auctioneers, 71 a0d 80 Liandoipa-st. REGULAR WEEKLY SALE: . Friday Morning, Aug. 2, at 9:30 o'clock. A full line of Chamber and Tarlor Sults, which must e closed out. 5 CARPETS Of all kinds, General Household Goods, LOUXGES, SOF3S. C. 8. CHARS, ETC., GENERAL MER};HHBISE, ’ ELISON. MERAI‘%&;&;‘ By H. FRIEDMAN, 200 and 202 Randolph-st. ©On WEDNESDAT, July 31, at 9:30 0'clock, 12 Crates English Crockery, assorted. 15 Crates American Crockery, assorted. 16 Casks Yellow and Rock Ware, assorted. 90 Brls Flint Glassware, assorted. Invoice of Mantel and Marine Clocks. G. . BECKFORD. Auctloneer. - By CHAS. E. RADDIN & CO, Auctloneers, 118 and 120 Wabash-av. AUCTION SALE BOOTS & SHOES TUESDAY, JULY 30. A fine line of Desiravle and Seasonable Goods, cluding a fresh lot of Slippers. Newports, &c. CHAS. E. RADDIN & CO. GALVANG-ELECTRIC PLASTERS. GALVANISM TRICITY CURATIVE POWERS. By D. D, STARK & €O, Stand §J L olpa-3t Wednesday. July 31, at 9:30 & my Our usual large assortment of FURNITURE, Carpots, and Household - At12 m. one fnc T-octave Grand Plang. -, Un Saturday, Aus. 2. '8t 0110 a. m.. 3 FeTT ne sortment of Farniinre, Carpets, Qu ware, Office Furniture, Chronlon Lounges. Sofst Si o ber Sets, etc. Tarlor Sults, Chagsh oS SFAIK & CO., Auctioneers By WM. MOOKEHOUSE & CO., ‘Auctioneers, 85 & 87 Randoloh-st. We wlil'sell on WEDNESDAT, July 31, at 100'clocks o full Hine of Housekeeping Goods, Tarlor Suits. M. Top Chamoer Sults. Pler and Mantel The only really sclentific method of application of thiese subtie mysterious elements. _Lstters of Paten: granted 1o 1. P, HALL. of Nashua, New fiampsulre, dated April 11, 1876, for latest and mo annle (mproverents fn the handiioz of these cics by meaus of plasters, 1¢ Lwo Imetalilc piates are connected by an [nsulated Jrire. and produce a mild et consiaat curren of olrc- ricity. o 2 M Rockers, Easy Chairs, Louuges, Solas Luey reficve pain quicle nv o flav. They | Nesbe ' Ashoisnds. Colinder Deske, Chalrs, TIctires are warrunted to cure iZheumatism (no matter how | Cartatus, £x. Tablcs. Ul Paintings. ' gcrere), Newralgla, Sk Headache. Splual. Bratn, | “X'large lot of No. 1 Stoves, Liverand Kiduey Complalats., Lame Back, bimnees of WAL MOUKEHOUSE, AuctioneeT. $ight Cold Peet. Roarini: ta e Tiead, Adima. Lune ses. Dyspepsia. lleart Disease. Incontinence of = = N T B 26 Grliie, WWenkiness 0f GORIEal Ornnn any Fomats weaor By M. M. SANDERS & CO», ncss. Their effects are like magle, truly wonderful. * 722 and 74 Wabash-av. o ANERICAS ExPrEss Co. ES ; Mezsrz. Bell '.u::gé"éz;:{fi't“\“ B oo} BOOTS AN D SHO : i Gty AT ATUCTION, Geatlemen: Your Hall's Galvzno Elecirlc Tlasters ” lock, Tuesday, July 30, at 12:30 o'cl . cured me of Rheumatism. 1 Lav: since recommended them to otners. and have yet to learn Df:lg.nglc in- s % Fuli ltnes of desiradle woods. Including Newpo! 16O, Buttons, Ties, ete.. of prime quality. stance where they fslled o éffect a perfect enrt: In two orthree days. AS. FAL Manager American Express Co. o m— INSECT POWDER. g S e e ernrnes FO. : R SAI'.E B,Y ALL DRUGGISTS. = g, Roaches, Jotb Fleas, Lice. ete. Warranl- od. Arend's Insect Powdet Depot. 179 E. Madison-3t. — Sent by mall. recurely put up nad postaze pate recaint of price, 5 conth €ach, and g oimp for PHOTOGRAPHY. 4 postage. BELL MANN & Cu.. Prop'rs. 163 Wabash-av., Chicago, IiL. A. POELPS MARTL » CHIROPODIST, S N s STEPIIENS, 4 HE CHIROP- Photflg rapher : g Ao N g4, 75 MADISON-ST. Right Saive for birns, bolls, o 75 MADE e B cute, bru &c. ; drug- s have 105 Zoe e bor s 85 Gt §8