Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1879, Page 11

wa.. B70 i 803 w7 R deaton wera agaln a trifle i arano! o b Al 855G, 50 for connon ot Wodneniny's quut AV 4 there Ve 10 no- sy ¥ \wiw an nctive demand on e AN it i Imniey from, packers e e Clasees o bisers the et akipn aml scalnwasa 55 baron srades ot teavy st &5 UG oo of §470 "made subiect to_a shrinkaige of 40 € en Al KU 1 For slags. e Wiy 55118 An. & rtold at ahout former prices. The nuan- BIEEr e Sond ae of Inte, thera belni fow e ks 1L £ d hont of the ealesworo at orices e de0Nets A quote poor tw medium ot 83,55 ;,J"é'o. ‘and good to extra at $4, 256,00 per 100 L WRED AALES, . Ar Pneesd An. Price,. 19. 1 NEW TORK, York, Feb, £0.—DBErvEs—No fresh re- i o eator of car-loads, Into reivale eator- Sk hgher than douday, Inclading Ghary ateers ab 82(ci medinm, Diie; fulr to i @sc: prime, 1071016; cite laucl fered beef amiel at 7@ 8c; prime sides, Bt Jeir-losda Westera dreesed from Misvoury, ? sbtpmente, 740 qra, “in'rhtimnualmmqi.m head; market dull; goanward tencencyt enics &t 4L@BiCc for ordis ciryto prime, witn n car-lond of cxtra Ohio shoop it .K\pmnms. 100 carcasses. smse—Recciuts, 5,000 hend; market quiot and wemipal for lives U car-loody offcred; no sules; toalnal fgurce, §4.10@4.20. ST. LOULS: Feb, 20,—Car7Lr—Ensler for hip- export sleers, S5 008, Dots heavy, 5.0°@LI0S paleners’ atock betturs native stecrd, 413G cowsand leifers, $275@4,005 feeding h ot SO H0; corn-ted Toxans receipts, 1,6005 shipments, foir, $; ‘Tloas—1n ood demand; lieht shipping and Yorke . em 8l SC(}F!." 5 Mnltimores, ¥3, 8062500 pack- 1, ¥4.U03,00; butchers' 1o fancy, $4.00@ 4,253 néelate, 6,700; ehipments, 2, 000, sacgr—Artlve, firm, und higher: common to £3.00@ 4,25 ctioice to fancy. $4,50@0,00: export grades, £6,1.@35. 254 recelpts, H00; shup- Deats, W00, ¥ EAST LIDERTY. Esst Lmnenty, I'n., Feb, 20,—Cattiz—Re- ceipts to-day, 470 bead through ond ne. local; fon for three dave, 1,003 through and 645 ncal il old out but fonr loade; Lood prices; runging frora §.807,5, 25 for common Lo prim e fioga—Recelnta tu-day, 2,085 head; total for three days, 0,112 orers, $1,00@4,00; Phila- deiphioe, 34,40724.50, suger—ficeelnts day, 100 head; total for thrce d?s, 4,000; muriet fuir; prices ranga from H.025.25. z PUFEALO. Tcrrato, Feb. 20,—CATTLE~Ttcceipts, 0353 Hmlfed demand both for Iustern and local trade; rilea 34 eara t penerally unchenuged prices; some ulea Tather Jowwer. 0 Launs—Receipts, .4, 200% buyers and tellereapart; warl uflum; yuotations down Wriagood, Wotern uheop, $£10G.H0; extrs, ecclpte, 5,176; fafr domand; York 1,050,457 medlum and hewvy, $4.20@ 3, 00@3.00. KANSAS CITY. Sierial Dievalch 1o The Kixaas Cirv, Mo, Tob, 20,—CATTLE—RC- eipts, 3345 snipments, U003 activos native shipe it $3.0504.75; natlve stockers and fecders, "‘&35*‘ i wintered and corn-fed 602,17 e celprn, 1,071 shigments, 30 active trat; falr 1o choico 3. 3. 7a3 judfms e tocles o packun, 83.4060.75; CINCINNATIL. ~Hous—Actlve and firm; fpanen, S35 70; llzht, $0.50504.0 pack: 3 buichers’, o 21 e H i 10 biumentd, 120, Sl BY TELEGRAPH, FORKIGN. following were recelved by the Chicago Board of Trad Livenroor, Feb. 20-11:30a. m.~Flonr, 8s 64 @108, Wheat—Winter, 8s 84@0s; spriny, O3 11d &84} white, Ba DA@Os 9d; ctub, 08 1d@U4* Gd, Corn, 407d, Pork, 40s, Lard, J4s, livzoraot, Keb, 20, pocial cablo—DNacon— Comberiands, 4833 short ribs, 26s Gd; lonz 208 ehort clear, 27¢, Deel-D'rimo mes, udts mess, 7€¢; extralndla mess, F7a, Cliceso ~Choice, 494, * Shaulders, . Tallow—Priine ;l:r: 30n. Lard, 84s, Pori—Primo meus, Lastern, t;.'};‘,‘:."c"" 405, Ilawe, long cat, 201 aver- “'Efi:hux. Frb. 20,—Livenroor—~Whoat strongi 0 ia cinb, Ds 3@06 7d, Corn qulet, Mank mm-c-rzau Ot coast—-Whent a ahade dearer, m quieter, Cargocs on m-n%:—-\\'hul—’l’ho Tribuna. “Tesan ateers, Cixerxxare, Fe Braness of hotders provents buslie Corn quict. Snectul Dispatch to The Tridune, r '-xl\&rfnguu Feb, 20-11:20 a, m,—Flovr—No. 1 B 4d, Ui =Wheat=tvinfer, ‘o8; N 81 g, o, 1 aue o, %8 B . o No, 2, 043 0, 08 1. ‘Corn—New ark, 40s. Lard, i, o Feb, 20.—Corron~-Market dull, at lus, 7,000 Lales; sueculntion and Americun, 6, u(.D,l,_ —5:::nszv PrTHoLXUN=THd, ~Connan, -{s Dd@3e, XL, Few, 10, —x'gfiuwuu—fia‘,id. NEW YORIK. New yc1al Ditwutch to The Tyiviene. thowed )n:"‘li:“ Feb, 20,~Guatn—~Winter wheat ‘mm““: adl v)m with more or less hesitancy i Wit gy, VeEnt, i mnch leas urgont ex- Ktk PVBers - Laving been wuwilling 10 Chearljcp 4 uBt purchares nL current quotutions; i e dealings prices fel) off @i per bu, et o cloke, rallled to about yesterday's o ropg SUFh Jeaving oft weak, Iufinencod torte dw'l‘h 8 marked dopresulon and heavineas nmdllux: n"w close from Chicago; apring very ) 2 Lulders continuing strung, hat trad- g """‘l?lw& Moro demand for corn, for prompt Hnnceg precers, but reduced ofteriuge and Ferletn u pypa clalmed fmpeded bushness; mixed Fttlng) "3raded old mt 4647e, Ryo offorod Bang o 108 quated strong tn prico; good do- Uty o sPorks No. o Wostern, atloat, quoted at s out hold ot @3c, Oats generally about weaker ona much Mo, R4 mlxed Western, 6,800 bu, at Poovistoxg_; DU early, Clotg on a | Hog vroducts opened with Increased bitt the advance was wholly lost at Werr; nllln:{.ol! 14 dumand: Weatern tmoss tewy a0 for Fubruary ng $10.40 410,53 for 1, e ¥10,45@10.00; April, 810.00@ ey, 19¢ate In tess dowand at about formor "0!{, hclg: Atronger, with lung clear in Weatern wtesm lard fn very fair delivery, at flrm pricos, but clos- Of furward dellvery beld higner, but me_lu a3t eveulng, and dull, ) e n fair fequest; prime quoted at 4 0-16 By 2 brces, n:l;:"“ demand noted for raw, at previons 01 tale o Cuba muscayudo quoted ot (%@6se A4 Brgey, flfml feining; setinud fu fair request g “‘nunlsmfl' cut Joaf yuoteu at De. ow 0l Lo the extent of G0 brs at 81,00, dvance, e ement o berln frelghts compara- Uen; mayy © 00 4 Laste of avout provious & whows il not 1n any sustance urgent, Lay. age mgu’w‘rn Toumn for gratn; charteriug Hues “"‘Jm...' &I 10 pretty 1air requedt st sbout %l gyt BOUY fF tho Contluent; for Liver Sdparp, " eOW by stewin of 14,000 bu srheat at e qu M Western Arsoctuged Iorezs. “f' Feb, 20.—Cnflu:&(zum at011.10 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: IRIDAY. FEBRUARY 2 1879---TWELVE PAGISS. reaactives Februney, 0! .77c; .7R¢; May, 10.07¢; June, 10,20c; July. 10. FLown—Lest activo: receipts, 10.000 hrin: anpee tern, 83,5005, 7h: commonto good 24.00; gooa to cholee, 84,024,608 Kt Louls, $3,80@%.75; Minnesota patent process, 15,0008, (naix-Wheat unsettled; recelpts, 127,000 by sngraded spring, 0060%5¢; No, 3 spring, Olc; une fir:“;“ wl‘?mr red, £1,006 X G.9.10; No, 4 X &y 2 da, 31.“‘@ Nn, 2amber, a1 white, 81,0421, 103 No, 2 do, 31,10 rale of 4,460 b nt 81,1333 oxtea do, wates of 16, - v00 b ot $1, 14, ftye Rum hnt fiemy Western, 61 @tide. Darivy quiat, dul), and nomfnal, ~ Corn in e demnnd s recetpts, 3,000 Luj ungraded, 4063 47cs No, 1, 4235480 steamer, 443644 cs No, <, w do, 410k 48ige, Outs nominnlly receipte, £i5,000 vuy No. i white, 2 do, Hilye: No. 1 do, s mixed die: white do,” SEi e and wncha d unetinfigeds Julfes qutet, and unchienged, Kn. ut steady s frir fo yood rv'flulml;). 024D #Faes—Ucmani nctive; New Urloans, Rica in fair dmnm:}{. b Ui Murkut dull; inited, ‘D0%c; crude, 83@hhc; retined, Dige, : PARLOW—Steady at 0 {h10c, RemiN—Quict at $1.41@1. 12, TunrENTING—ELeady ut H0@S0Ne, Eour—Marketdull; Western, 0. Provisions—Pork eany; mees, $0,252.0,40 for oli 810.50610.75 for new. Ileef auict but ateady, Cut meats etenay s longclear middies. Htau; nh&gl dobige, Lard «quict; prung atwitn, $7.000 20 Wurren-Firm; Western, Curese—Dull and unchang Wiiaky—Firmer; $1.10. A a1 rars quiet U%e, Mol gt PTINLADELPIIA, Pininanerriia, Feb, 20,—Frovn—Demend ncte ive; Minnesota extra family, $4.20@+4.86; Ohto, o, chalco, $5.00: fancy, $5.85; bigh grades, §0.00; 1inote fancy, $5.00; St. Louls family, 26,0000, 005 winter wheats, patont, $U,00@7.00; Minnesoin patent procesn, $8.76@8,00, itye tloar, &2 THAL. 8T, Guais—Wheat nneettied; Western rejected, $1.01; Western red, clevator, §1,10. Itye—\West- ern. i4@0he, Corn stoady and firm; Weatern re- Jeeted, on track, 4213@48c: do atramer, 4@ 43450 mixed and yellow, 44@4414¢; yellow on track, 4ie. ala firmer; wixed Western, 30c; white do, 302 c, Priovistons—Firmer, Mesapork, $10.25@11,00;5 Hums—tmoked, 88,00@0.60; pickled, $7.50% 20, Burren—Market dulls New York State and Brad- ford County, U'ennuylvanin, extea, 20@21c: Weste ern Iteserve 10@18¢, Enoa—3arket dulls Western, 17@18c, Cnrraz~Steady; Western, fullcream, B4@83(c; do good, T@8c. G’PHL Huox.n:un—nnrut dull; refined, D%ic; crude, i WC. {Vitiakv—Morket dull; Western, $1.07, Ttkeetera==Ilonr, 2,100 brls: wheat, 10,000 bnj corny 64,000 bu; onts, 4,200 bu; rye, 1,500 bu. " 8T, LOUIS, 87. Lovis, Mo., Feb, 20.—Froun—Steady and unchunged. Gnaiy—Wheat firm for cash; lower for futures; No,2 red fall, 81,022 carh: $1.034@1.03 March; $1.05@1. 0434 Aprili 81,05} May; No.3 da, $1.00. 3(@823c canhy 333 H@2 e April; 35@U43{c May ;3515 ic dune. QOats higher; No. 2, 24@242{c cash; 2434c Morch; 26c May, Ityo bigher; 46@46}c. Bartey dull and unchanged. Winsry—Steady ot 1,04, Provisioxe—Pork bigher; €0,80, Lard higlier; 26,05 bll, Bulic meatn femer; clear ribs, $4.700 4.8314: males fully cured ut outrldes clear, $1.803 4, Hacon tivmer; clear ribs, $3.374%; clear, $5,45m5,60, Sweet-pickled hams, 16 1bs avers age, 7e. ‘tecrivTa—Flour, 2,000 brls: wheat, 25,000bn: corn, 1000 Lu; oats, 11,000 buj rye, 5,000 bus barleyy 4,000 hu. . SuienENTs—~lour, 7,000 brle; wheat, none; cl‘;ru. nuunu;nuu. 1,000 bu; rye, none; batley, k1 b, * Corros—Firm and unchanzed; middling, 0tge: eales 50k bales; Tecelpts, 1,000 shipments, 2,400% stock, 8,000, NEW ORLFANSH. ' Feb, £0.--Frourn—Qulet but 255 XX, $.00@4.25; XXX, 253 New firm; saperiine, $4.60@5.12%. GuaN—Coru—Market aull at 43@43e, firm; cholce, 35¢. Ilay—Flemer; ordinary quoled §13,00@14.00; prinie, $15.00@106.00; cholce. §18.00¢218.20. Provisions—Pork excited and higher; old held at £0,75@10, 003 new, $11,00@11.25, Lard quiet but firm at $6,50@7.23; kews, $7.00@8.60, Bulk meats in good demond at full prices; looso shoul- dere, Hgcs packed, 3lcy clear rib, Glic; elear, be. Bacon quttet but stendy, Ilame, sugar- ired, In good aemand ot 8620Yie, an 14 size, 81.05@ it 1\‘\;;1 RY—Steady; Western rectiled, “(inocrmza—Colee—Cargoes Johbing ordinary to rinie, 1115103c, Bugnr—emand falrand pices itgher; common_to good common, 415@6c3 fair 1o’ fuily falr, Hlaablic; vrimo to cheice, % @UKo; o8 yollow clunifod, 44@7%¢. Molasses active sid B commion, 10 ic: eniritasal, 20t raw, Oata 51&0» i prime 1o choce, 2U@dlc. Rice, 5 NATLTIMORE, Baurisone, Ieb, 20.—Froun—Strong, active and without change, Guraty-=Wheat—Western falrly active; No, 2 Peonsylvanla red, €1,12@1.13; No, £ Western winier red, epat and ¥ebruary, $L10721.10%; March, €1.105,@1.102¢: Aprit, $1.115@1.11%, Corn—Western dull; Western mixod, spot and Febrnary, 41%@442{¢: March, unchanged: Aprl), 4514@4515¢; Moy, unchangeds stenmer, 4150, Unta atendy und fairly active; Pennsylvania, 31@ule; Western white, 32@t3c; do mixed, 30@32%, Ryo etcady; primo to cholco unchanged. 1 tondy and unchanged, Frovisioxs—Quiet und unchanged, Burren—Easy ana unchanged, Eans—Stendy and unchenged., nfil;mxmwuu—l'mn; erude unchanged; refinea, Correr—Qulet and nnchanged, Witskr—Dull and unchanzed, Fugints—To Liverpoo) ver sleam qmiet and nuchangod. Recrirrs—Floar, 9,187 bris: wheat, 34,000 bu; 110,000 bu; wats, 2,100 bu; ryv, 00 bu, runNTs—\Wheat, 116,500 bujcora, 80,200 bu. cur) 8i CINCINNATL Ciyorasaty, Fob, 20, —CorroN—8teady, with o good demand at He. Froun—8tronz and higher; family, $4. 45 Gnarx—\Wheat wcarce, #irm, und higher; No, 2 red winter, §1.0081.02 Corn—Demnud falr and market flem ut I5QB6Le, Oals fn good do- mand at fEIL pricos: 25728e. Rye—Gulet and 586, frmor, but not quot.bly higher; 52%bde, Barley —Qulet and unchanged. Provistoss—Pork qulet but flrm; rogular, $10 00, Lard—In good deinand; steam, $6,065. Bulis meats llmn%; shouldors, 83,763 short ribs, $4.10 casir; 8500 buyer Fobrnary; 66,25 huyer April; short clv;nr.fl&'..}lfigt' ucon—Demand fale and mariet iFm: LG UT, §5.03%0 it Active and 7o at §1,03. Quict and unchanied. O1L—Firm at 63 MILWAUKRER, Miwaunee, Feb, 20, —Frovn—Steady, Guar=Whent rm; opened ¢ bighery closed weak; No. 1Mlwaakeo bard, $1,02; No, 1 Mil waukee, 81,00 Nu. 2 do, B12jcq Fobruary, 01%c3 Masch, P2ze: Aoril, D3lc; Moy, 07%c; No, 3 Miwaukee, 78c; No. 4, 7lo; rejuctod, 06e. Corn NO, £ Outy firnt; In good domand; {7h4 Ttyo steady, with a good de- mand; No. 1, 4bs;e. Burloy ditll; No, 8" spring, freah, 7Uc, Puovinoxs—Qutet ond biher, Meas pork qulet; SU.00. “Prinio wten lard, €070, i witn 4 cood dotand, at $1.40, reEnTa—itonr, U, 500 brlsy whent, 20,000 bu, Hinwsuyrs—lour, 10,000 bris; whm._‘:.'u.ooo bu. dressed « BOSTON, BostoN, Feb, 20, —Froun—Firm; Western eu. vers, 88.0078,25; cummon extras, #,7H@4,25; Wisconuin oxtray, $1.0044,060; 3inunesats do, $4.26@5.00; winter whosts, OhMo and Michigan, £4,70@5,23; Nlinols and Ipdiana, §3,0008.00; Kt Loufs, $3.26@0.25; Widconsin and Mimnesnta patont process spring whoats, $U.502 8, 25; winter wheats, 86,0037, 60, uain—Corn firm; - mixed and yellow, EOZhlc, Oate scarco and it No. 1 and extrawhite, 1760 N ! e Do, 3 whito and No.2 mixed, v, 00c, rre—Rlour, 3,000 brls; corn, 52,000 buj 430,000 b, s—I'lour, 4,200 brls; corn, 43,000 bu, KANSAS CITY. Sueelat Disvateh (o The Tridun “KANean Cirv, Mo, Fob. 20.~Gusin—The Price Gurrent yovorts: Wheat—Ilecelpts for tho past weak, 200,057 bus slipments, 62,005 ba; eas No, 2 cash, 50¢; Fobruary, 80c; No, 8 cash, 56 February, 8c; No. 4 cosh, 80c, Corn—Ieceluts for the poat Ln; stoady} No. 2 A lfl({.o‘t’)‘lm‘ shipments, 87,708 ¢ Fobruary, 274c, % LOUISVILLE, & LouvisviiLe, Fob, 20, —Covron—8toady at 930, Frovn—-Qulet aud unclisuged. Gnais—Whest frmer; “ted and smber, 08c@ 81,00 Corn fnner; white, 35350 tizod, Bdke Uats nighor; whito mized, 25%3¢. Rye higher, ProvisioNs—Pork frm and hlshor ab $10.80, Lard steady; cholco leat, tierco, Tiici do, kew, ucon highers @ae: cleat, 0)ih!] Nigqriige, INDIANAPOLIN, INmANAPOLEs, Ind,, Feb, 20, —Hlous—Flrm Rt £3.2564.00; recetpta, 2,100; ellpments, 4U0, GraNn—\Whnent steady; Noo 2 red, HAc@31.00, Corn qniet at 32%@dHle; May, HIG@d6e. Outn nnSullare, G%et ctenr b 1 kTONS—Shouldare, D2je} g e, Lari, Gxe, " Tiame, 7ige; o) Clenr mby Avie . TOLENO, Toteho, Feb, 20.—Guain—\Wheat weaks amber Michigan, March, $1,0115; Aorll oftered at $1.0:3:4 No. 2 red winter, March, $1.01%: Apri), 1,005 May, $1.063 Westurn amber, §104%5. Corn dull} No. 2 apot, nominally i#51¢i May, Uuts fu- aetive, BUTEFALD, Burrato, Feb. (narx—Wheat=Fair de. mand sl steady; sales $#,000 bn No. 1 Duluth, 81,105 U0 bu No. L hard Duluth, $1.11. Corn uamet ond firm; 4 car-lots of new at 40c, 'Onts firm and inactive, Nye uezlecied, Darloy—Sales 1 car Canuda, Uie. - DETIROY Dernoir, Feb, 20, —FrLoun-Flrm, G Wheat dem; estra, $1,025 $1.01; Murch, $1.01; April, 81, Juae, 81, 12,484 oy, No. 1 white, 2243 May, §1.05; Leceipls, 15,018 bus shipments, MEMPIHS, Monrais, Tenn.,, Feb, %0,—Corrox—Steady; goud demands recelpty, 1,405 balew; shipments, 4, 4144 sturk, 11,0105 aales, 1,000; export, 1,000 rpintiers, 2, cutation, 100; mdding, Ve, Q3W GO, Onweao, Feb, 20, —Gnaix- Wheat In fair dee 1hared Duluth epting, S1.103 No, 2 3 No. 2 ored Wabash, $1.10. Cutn ateady; No, 2 Waonsl, 4 TRORIA. Prowms, Feb, 20.—Hiwnwines—Firmn; eales 160 briaat 81,0814, PETROLEUM, Prrrsnuna, Pa., Feb, 20.—PrrnoLrux—Dull; cende, 811745 at Parker's for immedisto shilp- ment; refined, D%c, Phtladelpnia delivery. CLrvrtaxn, 0., Feb. 20,—Pernoneum—Very firm; ntandard white, 110 test, fic, O Crrx, Pa., Feb, 20.—IzrnoLguvyi—Market opened very dull, with sales at $0%5c; advanced to 0754, at which pricoit ciowed; shinmenta, 2,000 Uria; gyeragiug 20,000; transactiols, b, o DRY GOODS. New Yonx, Feb, 20.—Cotton goods market falr- Iy active and firm; brown sheetings tn good de- mand, and stocks light{ wide sheetings are sold aheads prints slugglsh; ginghams in steady re- quest, and dress gouds dolug fairly: men's wear of woolens quiot; Kentucky jeaus eluggisn: hosery nand underwear in ateady request; forelgu goods in. active, - 'COTTON. Nnw Onvzane, Feb, 20.—Corrox~Steady s mid- dilags, - Di4c, low do, BXc; net rocolpts, 0,782 bales; gross, 11.570: exports to Grest Britain, 4,833; to the Coutinont, 1,001} sales, 5,000; stock, 381,084 HINNESOTA. Its Menlth, Fert)lity, nud Benyty~distnken Impressluns Corrected, To the Editor of The Tribune. Cu1eago, Feb, 20,.—About the year 1850, when Gen, Sihley appealed to Congress to aid the then 5,330 population of tlie recently ndmitied ‘Territory of Minnesola, n member of that Con- gress declared it to be " A hyperborean region unfit for scttlement”! Lad Btbley been in- spired to miereo the vell of the tuture, and to uame 675,000 as the census of 1877, I doubt not that he would have been regarded a fit subject. for thg tender mercica of a keeper. Tt requires no serfous tax upon the memory of those yot on the sunny eide of 46 to recall the days when our maps of it read, * Unknown recion fnhablted by Indians and buffatoes.” It {s not my purpose n this briet letter to treat of the early history of the * Lund of the akotas,” but rather to correct afew of the mistaken linpresstons srhich prevatl in the more easterly States regarding this® Young Glant of the Uolon. With mercury below zero {u the more easterly States a man gathers his wraps about him, und, sufferivg from a plereing frost, thonks his stars that le does not Mye bere fn the Northwest, of which 40kl Prob* often pives the record 10, 20, nnd, ocenslonally 30 derees velow rero. Come to Mmnesota und talk with the native, and he will pratse winter as the delight of the year. Re- cently 1 walked a mile, taclyg 2 north wind, in 8t. Paul, with my overcont thrown open, exbil- arated Uy the bracing air. 1 reckoned Fanren- lieit at full 80 degrees sbove, and what was my surprise when I reached my destination to finil mereury tn o sheltersd nook, 20 degrees Jower than wuy estimate, 103 Eastern man, wenius though be be at guessine, wants to know how {nllible 13 buman judgment, let him take a stroll fuihe crisp stmosphiere of Minnesota winter, and reckon where mercury stunds, The philos- ophy of the facc s that the dryness of the at- mmahern prevents the abstraction of hieat from thé body, ~‘Fhe fact itself s that the people of Minnesota suffer farlesa witn tha cold at 20 degrees below than u:‘e New Yurker dues at Zero. Another mistaken mpression ls, that Minne- sotn 18 fit for Hetle elge than to prow wheat, So mueh hus been safd und written of the Northern Pacific Raflway that tho want of diversitied pro- duction in the more northerly latitude is often npplied to the Btate in goneral by the hasty reader. In a State almost as large os the great commonwealths of New York aud Pennsylyi- nia comblued thers ds abundant latitude for varlety, and what I now bave to eay applies to thu southwestern portion of the “State, than which In extended tours over our own sl for- elgn Tunda I have ucver seen & more favored loality for health, fertllity, aml beauty, I refer inoro espuelly to the counties of Watons wan, Murtin, Cottunwood, dackson, Murray, Pipestone, nid 1tock, on tha lne of 1he 8t, Pau & Bloux City Ratiway. As regards bealth, it {s absohitely free from fever and ngiee nnd those malarious dlscases which arw the bans of Tife i Kansas, Nebrasta, und ‘Texus, toward which the tido of emizration hos sct 0 strong of luta yeurs, Figurea are stubhorn things to got over, nd licre {4 the death-rate: Ono to 74 4o Kausne, 1 to 64 In Texas, 1 to 75 in Nebrusks, 1 to 57 i Massachusetts, 110 155 m Minnesota, Of course, wheat i8 the pgreat staple, but farmers were taught by the erasshoppers a few years awo that *“man cannot lve by b aloney’ und perhaps it was the good thar {)i-wind blew "to tench the farmers of Southwesteru Minnesota the wondrous resources of their hignly-fuvored reelous. Bome ono hns sakl: From the soll of Minuncsota are taken as great a varlety of productions us from any other portion of the carth, and all reach tho highest perfoctfon. With a soll and a climate pecudlar- Iy udapted to onta, they are not only of yery auperior quuhity, bue welgh from threo Lo eliht pounds per bushiol more than thoss of the Mid- dlo States, Itye, barloy, und buckwhent the climatle fufluonces assist tho sull In producing toa rare degres of perfection, T Minucsota was too far north to grow corn was expluded several years ago, but If any vesths of It Hugered, thy record of 1678 disjelled 11, Potatues grow of superior flavor, und rieh, furl- naccous quality, 230 to 800 bushels o the acre, @ 1ot uncommon vield, while over 400 hushels huve been recorded, llly 18 wade from tim- othy, white clover, blua grass, snd red top, native to the soil, Bo luxutiant and nutritious aro the natural grasses thnt Lame varicties are but itle cuttivated. Flax und liemp are of 8 growth gual to the famous productlung of Norihern Kurope. There nre alsu grown unfons, turnips, parsuips, curvots, beets, ull the salad plunts, iwelons, pumpking, squash, uns, puas, hops, und the uiiver sugar-cane, ol which lust un experionced Sarmor writes: © An gere of properly cultivated land will yield from 175 to 200 gnllons of syrup, und fa more profit- able ralaing than the wheat crop.” | have not referred to the fruits, of which apples, Eflmu— bernies, strawbaryies, currants, and raspburries are cultivated, 4 buve hml{f' referrud to these productions os represonting the diversity n the countles wontloned, I need speak bu briefly of beauty when I say that \he country 13 neliber flat nor Lilly, bug undulating prairle abounding in beautiul fukes, the paradise of the hunter und the tlsherman, ‘Ihe reat surpriso to e {a that the swamps of the north fing buyers oy even lty cents un acre while the rien, warm loam of the south- western counties, owned by the 8t Nuul & Sloux Clty Read, fres from surface water and of un atmost inexnoustable fertility, may be had at $5 to 38, with a chiniato more hospitable by ‘wea- son of shorter wihters,—favorublo to stocs rals- fug,—1n short, the Ut and sure to riso In value as yearly their advan: tages become bottor known,” ‘They are fust be- connug the homes of o prosperottd, o contented nid bappy people, and ho whe lln zlous the cold of KHIINIINA the foo of hior future, or that wheas runing must be the chlet product of ber future industry, crrs egreiously, as aud the Cuongresstuuts whu said ib 1830 that it wes hy- perborean and untit for scttloment. IEYEIEH TORRORN OF THE PLAGUE, Ravages of tho Pest in the Foure taenth Century. Seventy (o Se five Milllons of PPeople Perish, Symptoms, Progress, and Charaoteris- tics of the Diszraz Froventfon Practicable---Cure Im. possible, o Aem York Times, Many Amerfeans are inchned to regarl the plague which devastated the Ol Warld n the fourteenth, iHteenth, sixteenth, nud aeven- teenth conttrdes as a distinet disease; (o fnae- inu that it coutd nov now prevall b any pust of civillzatlon, owing to the total absenze of such conditions as produced and fostered it, Siuce they huve begun o read of 1ts ruvages in Nus- sia, they hnve hardly thouglt it to be the old plague, butavariation of it with the same name, a deudly distemper, thouzh nothing ke so ter- rible ns the ancient pestilence, ntil very ditler- ent o fts mmptoms and coneequences, The plaguo fu Russin to-day I8, essentlally, I not exactly, the same plague 8o horribl @conspicu- ous In,every history of the Middle Apes, numd which hns wever teased fo oexe fat In certain reglons of the East, Sines 1720, when It destroyed nearly half the cutire population of Morscilles, 'rance, ad 1770, when 1t visited Russin und Pokand, it lins antfl the present been almost unkoown in Western Burope, - During the loet hundred years it has been Ntted maluly o Bgypt, Syrin, Anatolls, Greeee, wnd ‘Turkey, "oceasionally rpreadliyz northivard toward Rusaln and west- ward toward Malta, Its true und permanent Tote seems to be in the teerttory borderhys on the enstern extremity of the Mediterranean, where the condition nud npabits of the people stimulate i, But the mass of Amer- so lttle knowledze of, umd go small conern for, what I8 ol ov Inihat quarter of the globe that, never thinking ot the plague, they nacurally presume its ghastly engageent tloded Jong niro und forey: Plague (Latin, p'aya; Greek, p'aye, a blow or stroke) was used by the uiictent writers ns the worda pestes il pecte entie, wnl the correspo ing Greek terms were, veey loosely, tn o thitt meaut nothlng more than ¢ fdemie 1o Btill, the plazue mentioned by spme olg autliors was unquestionably the feariu! medieval and contearpurancous placue, as those will admit who reeall the terrible scourge of Athens so vivtdly nud horribly-pleturesqueiy deseribed in the *'History of the Peloponnesian War," ny Thucydides, hiimsclf a eutlTerer from Its fury, SYMITOMS AND COCHSE OF THE BCOUNGE. The genuine plaguo 8 a very maliznant kind of contagious fosver, marked by buboes or swell- ng of 1he lymipbatic glands, by curtun-les, and vetticehie, und without auy apparent securlty azalugt recurrence to the ‘snne person, It commonly begins with o fecluy of fntense fa- tiaue, slight chilliness, much nausen, middiness, mental contusion, aud lumbar palua, ‘These symotoms are sorcdlly followed by fuereased disturbance of unnd, with ocea- sfonat stupor and delirunn, by alternate patlor and fusbing of facessuffusion ot the eye, nixl n eenwo 0f extreme restrletion fn or about the heart, 8harp, darting pains are exverieuced fn the grolns, armpite, und other parts of the Dbody, goon euececded by enlargeinent of il Ivmphatle glande, whlch oceurs sometiines the first or seco..d day, sometimes not untll neor the cluse of the disease, and ot others not at all; und, atgo, the formatlon of carhuncles in various places, As the disremper advanees the tougue Lrows dry nud brown, while the cums, teeth, and Hps are covered wilth a durk fur; the bowelsnt first constipated, relax, and the evacuations are dusky, offensive, nnd sanguineous, ‘The pattent loses inuch power of will over his muscles, and presents the spuearunice ol futoxfeation. e 1u more 01 leas falnt throuenout the sttuck, and usually the revonud or third duy petecchio (purple sputs), livid patches, like Brulsee, and dark stripes (v bces) nro vielble on the skin, especially fn severe cases—in consequence of extravasation of blood, and are, often ace- companted with hemorriagie diecharges from the mucous nembranes. In fatal cases, the putse gradually sinks; the suiferer'a hody grows cold nndd elaminy; blood flows (rom the mucous membranes; elther coma or low delirium sets In, aml death takes place, elther without a strueizle or preceded by convulsions, The perfod ot Inenbstion in plague would seem fnno case to extend beyond elght davy Sometlmes the local symptoma first show them- selves, amd the fever that follows 15 comnaru- tively mild, At other times the dlsorder I3 raphl and violent, mnd enuses death withiont (he appearance of buboves or carbuncles, Between thege extremes, tendlng to the mild or virulent furm, the diseaso presents every phase of varle- ty, Inmildc cunll red spots resembiing tlea-bites, are acon, especially on parts where the bady 13 exposed to the alr, “gradually enlarge, et dusky, and are covered by vesivles fllled with wdark-hued fluld, The bise of the spots {3 hard, grows bluck, forming a gangrenons eschar an neh or an (el and a balf - dlameter, do- velaping into carbuncles, This process i3 ut- tended with more or less fever, which subslkies gradually as the eschar 8 detachod, Olt consequent upon the earbuncles, the bubees form In the grolus or armpits oceaslopally go away withous suppuration, thouzh (encrally alter forming 'pus—sometimes healthy, soine- thines toln nud ssnlous. Buboes are genernlly attented witn hieher fever and greater depres- sion of vital loree, severy headache, great rest- lersness, nind vertizo. AL the commencets of malignant epidemies patients bave died with in twenty-fonr hours, Lie generatly b continues from one to twa weeks; the avernis aurntion 18 slx to etchit doys, uinl when convalescence takues place it {3 apt 1o be slow and tedious, When the di=easo 18 vivalent, the majority of persons at- tacked by 1L die within o week, THE PIRST AFPEARANCE OF THE PLAGUR, As hers deseribed, fn later times the plazue firAc anpeared during the fourteenth contury, when Jbuctially desolated thy world, One of the numes 1 tien bore was the Mack Death, from the black spots denoting puteld decompo- sition, which, ut ona ol fts stugres, marked t sulleror, Flio sceannts then 1nrolshod aro fn- complete amd inexact, as they necessarlly would bo at such nn epuch of semb-civilizution; but they are sufllelent to ehow a statvof horrors and arony hund to exceed. ‘The course awd symp- 10t of the drendful malady varied st different times nid fn diftecent connitties, and preatly clged toward the close (1315-51) of ita ravaies In Europe, Among the coucemltauts of the postilence wers pudsy of the tonwue, which be- cana black a8 it suiTused with blood: butrid in- flammmtlon of the lungsy fetld, pestiferous breath and expectorution” of blood, When it sbroad to Kurope, fever, evacuation of bload, nnd palmonary carbunelea praved mortal Lefore ather syniptoms had been declared, In wells nigh all lnstances deatl ensied # two or threo days ufter attack, Spots wind tumors were thy £eals of dovu whicl medicut skill had no power to ayert, and muany suflerers antielpated by sul2lde, ‘The rise nml progress of the ‘plague in the Fourteenth Century nve not heen clearly or consistently related; but theve scuins to be no doubt that it orfzluated in Ciina. ‘Chere fs also conawrrent testimony that “the co-onerating causes existed nnd acted at least fliteen yeara befare an “outhreak fn Euarope, and aro to b sought us far back ns 15K, 10 o serics of mizhty convulslons of uuture, Which continued for twenty-slg years 1o affect ol derange the normal conditions of nutmal and vegotable Nfe, "Plie proviss dute of the begimlng of the plaras in Cibina is unknown; hut from 1883 to 1810 that country sulfered earfully irom droughts, faming, louds, swirms of locsts, wil carthe quakes that ovebttirew cities und teveled moun- tains, and these catastrovhes were tollowed by the scourge. At the sume thiny thy order of things seemed to be jeversed in Europe. ‘Thander-stormn oceurved I midwlnter, fee | formed [ stmmer, trondocs swept 008 that hind npever felt them befores volcanovs, long thought extincl, tlazed with fury, and water-spouts rose i placld scas, The mortality wias hsteous iu tho Fast nml West, unct it {8 believed that the great actlvit, of ‘the globe, aecompanted by decompoution of vast organiy musses, myriuds of tocusts, bodies of brutes and men, produced soms change in the atmosphere hostile to lifo. It is said that, in the proeress of the plurtio westward, the fine pure wind polsonea alr was traceanle a3 it moyed on Jaden with pestilence and death, A writer of the thne remurka: ** A dense, nwliul fug was aeen fn the heavens rlstug 1o the Eust, aud de- scending upon lul{..“ The Inhabitants of Eu- ropo_are aleo thousht to have been predispoesd to the pest partly from scarclty, and partly drom tho then inadequate modes of Jivine, ‘I'he theory {8 veey plausibio that it sprang di- roetly from atmosvheric polson, actiog on the ruspiratosy organs, whid were fHret to bo attucked, " 8ully while tmpure air and defective tiysical conditlons wav huve ted tho pestitence uruely, it doubtless owed its extension almost entlrely to infuction und costagion, It scomed that b hwed appoared [n Europe fu ualder forin 1§ but i1 bad come to an end, wned there falittle reason to Livld, us Lus been belds hat {e had fu e dntereal tiew causes had requickens! b six yea The fnvaston of 1405 mus be distinetly trckes fu dts advance from Ghtoa along the caravan routes toward the West, “Ihe yorihern coast of thee Black Hea sent, the plagie by contagion to Constantinople; thence i the same way it reached the poria of Italy, nd was sh difTased thronghont the remainder of Enrape. It urou- gres may be followed through Germany and France to Englaul, whence 1t was transmitted tu Hweden, “Thro yeara elapacd frotn its ap- prearanee fn Constanimgule until it crept by a trevat elrele to the Jtusslnn territorieas and [t faeL ol ite contagions communication hasstaried the sreeutation whe i nuarantine it mieht ot have been excladed allogeiher from Europe, Suen ies have uow long heen cn- forced ot many polnts to prevent Introduction fn the West of 1he alagaes of the Orient, but they have been fosuflivient. In the present e stunce to keep it ons of Russia. APFALLING MORBOHS, mortality, 1hoirh no proner estimaie can 10 thie ubsence of wtatietive, was prodic- remely ferrdving. i Cling wlone ietsonis are wald to have dieds and i parta of e Bast nearly 400030 more, In Burape detalla were more exacl, In London TU000 souls perfsiied, s fofifteen Continental iy ab WO Liermrny loat, it 18 enleus Batend, BUH, I3y aud Daly one-imdf lier whole woonlation, TUis within hotuds to say that fn alt Europe not less Usan 25,060,000 peoplo w. re dlatn by the seonege, Afelen suffercd terribiy Tikewlse, und It I8 heiloyed that. the globe ssue devrived durime tat century of fully from i U0 to T5,0K,00 hamat belnce “from rav- nues of the pl ‘The mere’ fuets are o valline to the hwnutmnations the scencs of sufl- fering ulaunruvl\- credible, Death was every- t whey ned to hinve usurped the lace of Al anfinad dite wae menaced; Dirds, beasis, men, women, riml children, hosts of members of “ever, natlonality, savazes, reholars, pearants, pr Princes, Kingn, of were swent lrom Rivers were consperited yhich none daved to Ler- of burlaly bedies were cast by Iuto huze mes dage for the purpose. ki T ur well us over land. Is were kiiled by the b that Infested the globe, Ships every creed, chime, and e the ine uf the polson-bre: treiehted with puteetyins bodiea drifted alm- Tessly Brack, and ideously on the Mediterrancan, il Norty Seas,—not @ hutian creature nl kpread contagton on the e winds or tides had driven age, content, law, order, ul Tmmanity secued never 1o Anclent custows und the need of have begn, companfonship were tor the thne obliterated ; all was death, agony, sid despair, and by i the mfected world ‘sppeared to be exclusived: and shudderingly possessed, g The maral eiléets of the plague were not lecs dreadful than ita physieal destractions Thon- eamds pertehied trom W which dissolved ansonse the Hvitg all ties of Kindred, all bonds of fellow. abifn, ult llnks of sympathy. Children led from thetr polluted prrents; mothers deserted thair lelpless intantss husbands and lovers et thety wives nid nstresses 1o die howling winl alone, ‘Terror generated superatition: the virtuous nnd viclous alike mude aiateaet g and thsi d an~ peals to n Gud who, they tmagined, bad sent tie vestiicuee to punish theme for manifold sfns, Crowde rushed to sacritlee their worldly poods to the Chtreh; funaticism swelled on every hand; women sureamed to heaven for merevy men tore out thelr hair and scourged themselves until they bad fatsted from loss of blood thut they mizht propitiate o deity, whom they aciusily believed they bl enraged. " e world was with fright, suffering, and saperstition, nnd thousands who bud tried to stay the pestilence with prayer declared that God was dead and hel) | Ll besrun on earch. The horrers of the time were further helgh ened by ermel perrectitions ogolnst the Jew: who had been necused of poisoning the public wells, this being fn - populur belief the eanse of the pestifence. 'The peopls rose 1 mug fury to terminate the unfortunate Hebrew face, mul taughtered them by tens of thousands, Inthe inconslderablo City of Mentz (Germany) - alone, 5000 telt vietims to- the public wrath. They were kilied with steel and elub, Langed, drowned, burned, and often barbarausly pus, to death by'every kindof torture. In putnberiess fustanees thy took “thelr own lives i masacsto avoid crueltles of the mob, und_ fn- muny com- wnnitles every mat, woman, und ehitld wos sue- ritfeed to Insensate rage. Ta aggravaie the seourze, the panic abuut polson caused the wells to be closed. 'Flie peuple were nfraid to touch water, wnd thoss whe csenped the plague perlshied of thirst wnd terror, Socl rude at best in that duy, was totally disorgane tzed, und such meons’ s mdght have been adopted {o prevent or mitlgate the stu- pendous evil were elther negleeted or unthouwin of, In the dernngement and frenzy that poasessed everybody, Jrom e high fo the lowest, I ¢ ol the plaguo wnd tts The nflue desolution were 8o overwhelminye that it fre- auently destroyed all honesty aml nrlnetple among {18 survivora. Many were rendered eal- lous, nud many took advantitge of the univeresl horzor to indulge telr worst passlons, to plun- der, murder, and perpetrate the must rovoltine erimes. OVINIONS AS TO ITS CAUSE, The plague has agaln and again visited West- crn Burope sinea the fourteenth contury, but never has it been so baletul as then, continred #0 lung, ur been attended with sauch incidentat horrors. Previous to s Just ousbre: 1t fuvaded Enclonl, aceording to th plyslclan, Svdenham, cvery third years, Although its symptoms and virolence have varied ot dilferent thies, its general fea- titres have been sulliviently ulike to prove that it _Is always the same terriblo disease. -Great difference ™ of opinton sl cexists ns to {ts cange. Some authorities main- min that it 15 exclusively propagated by o peeuliar vontagion; others contend, while admiteing ta coutagiousir= that it may al:o be engendered spontaticol rm endeniie or eoldemic¢ lufluences; othiers agaliy deny fis contagiousness altogether, nud assert that it arises from local wr epldemie causcs, Tutelh- gent opinfon favors the sccund of these views, amd there 18 0 muss of sound evidence 1o sustutin it. Whatever the cause, temperance secms to affect It fu\'uruhl{. 1u the troplea it {s unknown, nud the cotd of Northern climates has been ob- served to check its ravages. In Europe ft has been most fatnl durlug summer snd autumy, es- pectalty in September, Thus, in Loudon, fn 2665, the deaths from the pestllence were, {n June, 5905 1o July, 4,1205 in Angust, 20,0465 tn Sepe tember, 26,2305 1n October, HLiIT3; in Novem- Ler, 8419, while in December t el helow 1,000, The preelso nature of the distemper fs ullll unknown, A polson whose bropertivs cvade all chemleal and microscopte detection (8 ab- sorbud futo the system, und alters ut ouce, or after o brief perlod of Incubation, the quality ot the blood nnd the contitlon of the tis: A report made In Farls, 1840, to the Academy of Mediclne, suys: 1, Al present the countrics whera the plague still oviginates are, flrst, Exynt, alterward Syrla utid the two Turkeya. 1t {s probable, however, thut it muy b devéloped without importation in ‘Tripol, Tauls, snd Morocco, 3, In those countries the condition that de- terasine nad foster the disesseare the habltation of alluvial or warshy crounds, s hot, molst atmusphere, low, ill-ventilated, crowded houses, the aceutnulatlon of vezetable and anlmal niate ter fn astate of patretaction, scauty, unwhole- sume diet, greut phyeical and morat destitution, ;m._v:lv_- co of the laws of publicund private iyuiene. ynu. Sporadic plarue docs nol seem to be transnissibles but epldemie is plalnly adintssi- ble both ha te localliies where it 13 raging and Luyand such localithe 4, 1t 1 transmitted by mcans of miasmats, given ont by the bodics of thie sullerers, thiese nlgsmata betug tapablo of ercatine in close, - ventiinted places, centera of pestilentisl fufees tion, 'The must rlzorous observatlon lns failed to shiow the transmissivility of the plagu contuct with the nteeted; but new experln are needed to deterimivg that it s not transinls- aiblu by Rzoous uud wearlng apoarel of pa- tients,” The result of observalions mude at the huizayettos for more thau o year ingieates thut mercbandlao does not transmit the plagne, o cuRn prossiny, . In regard to treatment littls can be dous to arrest the progress of the discase In any indl- vidual case, The sufferer sbould, I puasibl bu removed as soun us attucked, from the sour of the distemuer; he should be froely exposed 1o fresl alrs secrotlons vhould bo duly rezul ed, und his strongth, 80 fur s gy be, carefully supported. Friction, with ulive-oll, has been strongly vecomtiended; bug later experlonco has uot continmed ‘the frae fuvorable reports, Like diher contagious oxauthemata it prubably runs u preseribied course, wisleh cunnot be mate- rally shortened, and §§. has gonerally been decmned wisest to Tt exertlon tu the Jocul treatment of buboes and earbunvles, sl pive the sufferer the best hygienie surroundings at- tajuable. Uuneral treatmant appears Lo be well- nigh valuelvas, but wi may be accomplishe by euurding oealnst attacks of the scouree, Uhere can Lo little doubt thut Europeans, nnd Amerieans particulasly, owe much of their coms purative exciption from the pestilence In iue ected cities of tha Levant to thelr personul cJeunlimess, regular batbing jo cold water, supe- rlor ventilatlon, und aioderate hubits of Hving, ‘I'he plague fn Russhs this year bus come, us befare, fram Turkey, but tie Russlan authorl- s seem st present most active nnd euergetd in moasurcs to prevent ita spread, Slll, so dreadful is the pest, so luconcelvable are 1ts bor rors tu thoso who hayo not wittcssed thew, that it s pot atrauge Austrla, Getmany, and other vonntrivs of Eurove shouwdd b stortied, White 4t s unllkuly to make much advaucs toward the Weat, too great cudtion cuubot e exeiises reach and, whatever moy li; of know in teenth eentury the heet part of Europe and Amerleals free from pers! of panle and snpee- Rtithan, il e mect avy danger u‘d(mlnn any form with calimuesys wnd renson, refence nml | philnsophy, o ‘ Allan’s Antl-Fat will positively reduce corpu- eney at the rate of from two to five bounds a week, 1t acta on the foord In the stomach, nre- \l-uulmz ita belng converted futo fat. 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A aingle planter cuta Lyt 23 rents, snd In many in- stancer, esveeially when Jutended for chifldren, it ca bacut I two s th bago, Affootions of the ITeart, Famale Goms plaints, Stubborn and Negleoted Colds and Qough and Colda, and Cpoup (when used in its early stage: a Looal Ach: s of Old or Young, thnss 1t {4 warranted (o he supa~ Fur quch silment rlur e miy known ASK ANY PHYSICIAN. ‘The remarkahte merit af Tienson's Capeine Tlastur has bees recounized by yhiysdelans und chieminia avery. i, A W TLCOmINCRI Uogo Wi iave GuIbIR CORe BENSON’S CAPCINE POROUS PLASTER Can'bo_ohialned of alinost any druggist 1o the United Hiuies o Canmitu {8 2% cenla. Hurchasera should bes of worthicss hilluilons, st plasiers Laviog & iliar soundiig st e FINANUIAL, YERMILYE - & C0., BANKERS, Nos. 16 and 18 Nassauest., NEW YORK, itsaton for Huy aod sell on Co h oron mlrflll atl securltles duatg fiy 8t tha New Yurk b Excha Alluw {nterest on Gepnita lnfye&l’" «l ‘st alglit, and make sdvRuces us RIpIOYE ateral OYPre HieY. States Cltv, snd County lSonua o awie aud juis Biediate deilverr it okt ST S S SIS THEAMY DEFARTMENT, Orrics or THE CuMy THOLLKR OF TUK GUKEENOY, WaAvNOTY " o Dec. 24, 18T, Notlee fs herehy wiven peTsouy who Iusy have el sininsi shis ‘German Nadone enor thitae EUsL the salie inust he prokentod W Jamice M. Flawer, iver, at Chicugy, IUinola with the iewal wrool Hiereuf, Wil igee’ monthe from ib)s da will pe dtaatiovied. JNO. JAY Comutinlicr ot the £ Our for th | Lapies L T HRAILROAD TIME TADL: steadily inoreasing Tea Trade enables us to give the best Tea sold o prico in the city. . HONG KONG TEA CO. ing ex) e B O hic S Hes 0 Dearhorn and eut Mol o 107 North Gitie o ARD GE e JRRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRATS, fhally, t"wrlnt.:‘mflnw oF Rerrrxnce MaAnxs.—f Satards *5unday excepted. 3 Monday excepted, i CBICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY, - Ticket Oflices, 02 Clark-st. (Shermun louse) and at fhie depota, aPactc Feat Lina astonx City & ¥ athl At cago und Pullman_ Hotel Cereare riun 8LI0:304, 1. No othel liote) cars wes® of Chicax a—Depot carner of Wells b—Depot corner ul Canal CHICAGO, BUBLINGTON & QUINOY RAILROAD. Deputs foot o2 Lake-st., Indlana-av. and Sixteenth-st., and vanal nnd #t. and st de 22333 g333 33 Couneil Blut o7 road yune Puliting or any otfier farm et 0. 4 Kinzineata, d Kinzlo-sta, Txieeativae. Tieket Oiices, 50 Clarke ubuous Bleenin; Y } Unton Depot, West 5| Twi third: * Miwankee Expres, Wwisconsln & Stnt Tiny, 8l on, Draiie” “din Cliivn ndl Towa & Mitwauxee Fag Winconai on, Pearta, Dubunuz Dubtiyuy & Bloux Cliy Gtiman Paaienger, Taom's: d0n & MICHIGAN OERTRAL RATLROAD, - Dgpat. fuat of Lakast, and foutaf Tuent i Ciaris-a ot dolph. Atisntle Expros ght Express, PITTSEURG, Depat, corner 8 Clarke Mendota & Galesburz Qriawa & Streator Lxpr tocktord & T Yacino Fast kxpres Kareas & Calorado I i Gro 7 & Denvor Fast ¥ X 1t Hay, stevens nngd A nneapeiinpge eport fxn & ixn‘(tyh'.xpn-n ! cn i s and P e ‘ary arc run between Chicagy and Ontia o S tho Pacifc Exroas, CHICAGQ, ALTCN & BT, LOUIN, AUD CTCAQE, EANEAB CTZY & [ ENVER SHORT LINES, near Madivon-st. ., et Utice, 122 1latd priucricl v Oriean | : CRICAGD, MILWAURER & 8T, PAUL RATLWAY ! tinta Deoat. camer Madiwn and Uitier, 0 Atl-o: Soudi Clarkest., opposite Blsarman 1luns L Avrive, am* i pn 1 J Menasdis Uirouigh Day ‘00 am e mam 5200 0 m o) DI p 0 xpress, n & ' ‘ol Madivoand Lral v, wind W L o vhs W ILLINOIR GP’TIIILAL E.A}I.I’.',\ L Expres. Fut Line. Kook Burlligton & Keoky & nlouk Gty Expre Otive, 67 Clar Gi 1 L. WAYNE & CHI0AGO nal and Maalsan-sis. 1 l'll\ll!fl.’! House, und um Leav Trains lesve from Fxuosition Hull Tleket Ofife y a Paclfic, Moming Fast Lin et Oftices, K1 Clarkat,, ¥ and Depot (Exposition Butidinie) BALTIORE & OHIO, g, foot af Monros. ‘almor House, tirand * Tsave, 0 Arrive * A:A0 &1 § B0 8 m [KIET) m,!_':_,_u v Exprow. LAKT BHOEE & MICTIGAN SOUTEERN, Yorulug Mall-Old Line. Xe Aflaail Nignt Express, . Teava, | Amive, caesree |* & Dostun Bl . K& S T BURG, OIN « Depot. carner of Cliutol wnd Carrol Clocinnstt, Tndisaspalts, Louts: Vit it y CINOINNATI & BT, LOUIS R, I Inclunat! Afr-Line aud Koktomo Line.) 1 st Bide, “Ariy & Last Dsy 40 a1 00 pin 4 5100 p s § 7300 510 OII0AGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFI0 RAILEOAD, 3 i 1 Sherman-sia, Tickat Depot, corner of Van furen an! man s Ottice, 84 Clark-st., blierini avo. | ATHIYD, , 2 X %0 mml® 723 pm Db F DL et & A LG i3s10i0 & B 3640 b Jm Peru Accomuodation, 100 & m Night Exp 0 pinlt 413 a tn AN mens on VLo Onlinbs Bxpress ara servod 1u dining cars, A% 75 Ceuts uch, p OHIOAGO & EASTERN TLLINOIS RATLROAD, Tieket Oftcas, I, Day M Rliviie GRAY'S SPECIFIC MEDI TRADE MARK, The AR it ren !ex used for over H‘ll!( years with ure £ Full pariicul Medietne 3% packaxes [or 8, celpror il * Danvillo Route." 77 Clurk Dearbora oruer Cllu Y & Fidrida Exprie. CINE, firoat En-TRADE MATK, Rumed wll promptly s radleally cirs any apd every case of Deuliity sl Weukness, rv- wuit of Indiscratiai, Gtxeees OF OVErWOr of the brati suduer- youssystemns s per- o088, 8CLE il i Aftor Taking, . Sucoows, our paunshlol. which we de e Siwclta por pagkade, or scuttreq by nall Ot witl o LY whlreniiad THE GIEAY MEDIOINE CO 10 flechunicy onk, Detroit ilch, o T MASCELLAYEU US, 1 DR.KEAN, 173 Bouth Olavk-st., Chiosgo, Consult personally or by utalh, fre Sl of charze. an uil eryous, o sbevial discases, Drul. Kean ly inn 1o the city whe warranls curcs or o oex, )